Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 11, 2024

ORLANDO — Generative AI continues to be a big buzzword in 2024 as tech companies see the potential to use the technology to alleviate administrative drudgery for healthcare workers. | Google Cloud is using its tech muscle to build out generative AI capabilities for healthcare and life sciences companies to help offload administrative burden and support assistive technology for clinicians.

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 11, 2024

In the wake of the pandemic, Healthcare organizations are evaluating the future of telehealth and working to craft a more deliberate, strategic approach to virtual care.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 11, 2024

ORLANDO, Florida—HIMSS24 just kicked off today, and there's already a stream of AI innovation news. | ORLANDO, Florida—Symplr is working with Amazon Web Services to develop AI assistants to help automate complex workflows and mundane tasks for healthcare workers and also power chatbots to help patients find and schedule the right care.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 11, 2024

HIMSS president and CEO Hal Wolf discusses healthcare trends, including patient engagement, AI advancements and cybersecurity challenges, and how HIMSS24 offers attendees a chance to learn from each other and collaborate in responding to those trends.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 11, 2024

President Biden unveiled a proposed $7.3 trillion budget for fiscal year 2025 on Monday, which continued upon and expanded key health items from previous years. | Drug price negotiations and Medicare solvency were just two areas HHS officials hit upon while unveiling President Biden's 2025 fiscal year proposed budget.

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 11, 2024

Larger providers, however, aren’t immune from cash flow challenges, especially if UnitedHealth Group is unable to restore systems by mid-March.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 11, 2024

Patient engagement is high on the list of important trends that healthcare CIOs and other health IT leaders at provider organizations are working on. Intelichart, in Booth 3920 at HIMSS24, is a vendor of patient engagement technologies for provider organizations. It is showcasing its Healthy Outcomes platform, which offers technologies tailored to each stage of the patient journey designed to simplify patient engagement, improve health outcomes and increase profitability.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 11, 2024

The federal government is pressing UnitedHealth Group and other payers to provide financial relief to providers as they continue to feel the financial disruption caused by the Change Healthcare cyb | The federal government is pressing UnitedHealth Group and other payers to provide financial relief to providers as they continue to feel the financial disruption caused by the Change Healthcare cyberattack.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 11, 2024

ORLANDO – As HIMSS24 kicks off this week, with preconference forums buzzing all-day Monday and the show floor set to open at 10 a.m. after the opening keynote on Tuesday, more than 1,100 exhibitors, large and small, are getting their booths in shape to showcase their newest health IT products and strategies. Among them is one company that's been coming to the global conference about as long as any other in the exhibit hall: athenahealth.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 11, 2024

Onboarding new graduates into healthcare has become more difficult following pandemic disruptions and will require greater attention and investment from the industry in order to stem preventable pa | Clinicians-in-training had fewer opportunities for hands-on learning and practice due to the pandemic, which has also driven away many of the experienced healthcare workers who would share their knowledge on the job, the healthcare quality and safety group wrote in a new report.

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MARCH 11, 2024

Not-for-profit organisation Salveo Healthcare has recently introduced a remote patient monitoring technology from the United Kingdom to support its delivery of preventative care in Tasmania. In February, it started piloting Spirit Health's Clinitouch technology as part of its in-home nursing care service, Advanced Preventative Care (APC). Delivered by registered and enrolled nurses, the service is offered to eligible Tasmanians with chronic diseases.

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 11, 2024

The infusion services and drug therapy company will operate under CarelonRx, Elevance’s pharmacy benefit manager.

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Cloud Blogs

MARCH 11, 2024

We are living in the era of AI in healthcare , where data and algorithms augment human capabilities and enable new possibilities for improving health and well-being. AI can help us understand complex patterns, generate insights, and provide recommendations that can enhance clinical decision making, personalize care, and empower patients as well as automate tasks to improve productivity.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

MARCH 11, 2024

Patient preferences should be the most important part of health care decisionmaking. However, third parties often make decisions for patients. Physicians make decisions for patients due to asymmetric information (i.e., physicians are experts; patients typically are not). Payers make decisions for patients since–in most developed countries–third-party payment cover most of the cost.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 11, 2024

What You Should Know: – The ECRI Institute , a leader in patient safety research, has released its annual report highlighting the top ten patient safety concerns for 2024. – This year’s Patient Safety Concerns report sheds light on a critical issue: the challenges faced by newly trained clinicians transitioning from academic settings to professional practice.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 11, 2024

It takes a village to build and maintain a successful at-home care program for seniors aging in place. As more care expands into the home, a pharmacist’s role in that village is only going to get more necessary. “Hospitals typically provide patients with a medication reconciliation sheet upon discharge, but there’s often a discrepancy between the medications listed on this sheet and what the patient is actually taking,” Mary McPherson, professor and executive director of the advanced

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 11, 2024

What You Should Know: – Sunoh.ai, a leading provider of AI-powered ambient listening technology for healthcare, announced today its successful integration with Epic’s open interoperability platform, fhir.epic.com. – The integration enables doctors using Epic EHR to leverage Sunoh’s capabilities to streamline clinical documentation and improve patient care.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 11, 2024

While the environment surrounding home care continues to evolve, the services being delivered largely remain the same. That’s why Tribute Home Care’s CEO, John Sneath, has largely focused on perfecting the wheel rather than reinventing it. Tribute was founded in 2012, as the brainchild of Sneath, who served as president and COO of HouseWorks for nearly a decade.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 11, 2024

What You Should Know: – Sheba Medical Center , a leading Israeli hospital, is collaborating with ARC Innovation Center and KPMG to develop a generative AI platform named “Liv” aimed at transforming mental healthcare accessibility. Mental Health Crisis The project is driven by the urgent need to address the global mental health crisis, significantly worsened by COVID-19 and other recent events.

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The Rand Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

The Czech Republic's new defence strategy emphasises its commitment to its allies and Ukraine at a time when the cohesion of the Western Alliance is being challenged by both domestic and external factors.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 11, 2024

What You Should Know: – Velatura , a health information exchange (HIE), and DocuSign , the e-signature giant, have joined forces to launch a pilot project aimed at simplifying the way patients consent to share their medical information. The pilot project will begin rolling out to select Velatura network providers this spring, focusing initially on specific Michigan State behavioral health consent forms and general patient consent forms.

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Health IT Analytics

MARCH 11, 2024

A $3 million NIH grant will help researchers develop and study machine learning models to predict risk for cardiovascular disease in sleep apnea patients.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 11, 2024

What You Should Know: – Stanford Health Care, a leader in medical innovation, is deploying Nuance Dragon® Ambient eXperience™ (DAX™) Copilot to streamline clinical documentation and improve patient care. – The AI-powered clinical documentation solution automates the creation of clinical summaries during patient exams, freeing up physicians’ time and reducing administrative burdens.

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The Rand Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

The seabed hosts a large number of subsea cables and pipelines that provide communications services and oil, gas, and electricity to our societies. But this critical undersea infrastructure is vulnerable, and much of it has no specific defence mechanisms. What steps can be taken to protect it?

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 11, 2024

What You Should Know: – Foundation Health , a healthcare technology company empowering clients in building and launching modern, digital-first pharmacy and telehealth solutions at scale secures $6M in seed funding. – The seed round included participation from Garry Tan (CEO, Y Combinator), Transpose Platform, Tuesday VC, and prominent venture capital firms like Alt Capital, Box Group, and Liquid Ventures.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 11, 2024

The largest hospital-at-home players are again pleading with lawmakers in Washington, D.C., to extend the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver. The waiver – which is largely responsible for hospital at home’s considerable growth over the last three or so years – is set to expire on Dec. 31. In a letter to the Senate majority leader and Senate minority leader – Sens.

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Speaker: Dr. Ugo Uwaoma, MD, MBA

Due to the impact of COVID-19, integrating telehealth software into practices and organizations has become the new normal. In turn, this has increased the effectiveness of collaborative healthcare by strengthening communication amongst healthcare workers and helping combat the woes of burnout. Communication between patients and healthcare providers has also improved, allowing patients to reach their providers easily and decreasing turnaround time.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 11, 2024

What You Should Know: – A new study by Sonde Health reveals vocal biomarkers can be a reliable indicator of mental health. The research, published in Frontiers in Psychiatry , highlights the potential of Sonde’s mental fitness vocal biomarker (MFVB) platform to complement traditional mental health assessments and improve self-monitoring. – Sonde’s MFVB technology has already been integrated into consumer health monitoring apps, life insurance health apps, consumer audio wearabl

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Sequence Health

MARCH 11, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, the demand for seamless and efficient patient support is more pressing than ever. Healthcare organizations are constantly seeking innovative solutions to enhance the performance of their call centers, ensuring that patients receive timely, personalized care. Enter Artificial Intelligence (AI)—a transformative technology poised to revolutionize healthcare call center operations.

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HKLaw

MARCH 11, 2024

Holland & Knight Health Dose is an in-depth weekly dose of legislative and regulatory insights to keep stakeholders abreast of happenings in Washington, D.C., impacting the health sector.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 11, 2024

What You Should Know: – Virtual healthcare platform hellocare announced a groundbreaking integration with Alexa for Healthcare at the HIMSS 2024 conference. – The integration partnership allows hospitals and clinics using hellocare’s platform to offer patients voice-controlled access to a variety of features through Alexa-enabled Hello 2 devices.

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Speaker: Matt McBride, CEO and Co-Founder of Mend

Patient engagement happens before, during, and after interactions. Consumer research has found that in 2021, 64% of US households reported using Telehealth services. In addition 34% of patients would prefer Telehealth visits to in-office visits. Accessible patient engagement technology can help you improve your relationships with your patients while also improving your KPIs.