Wed.Mar 13, 2024

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HIMSS24: How Epic is building out AI, ambient technology for clinicians

Fierce Healthcare

ORLANDO — A year ago, at HIMSS23 in Las Vegas, Epic announced it was working with Microsoft to integrate large language model tools and AI into its electronic health record software. | AI technology in healthcare is rapidly evolving, and the potential for generative AI to free up time to focus more on patients is getting clinicians excited about technology, said Jacqueline Gerhart, M.D., Epic clinician and vice president of clinical informatics.

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Biden’s proposed budget for 2025 boosts cybersecurity funds, extends ACA subsidies

Health Care Dive

The budget request includes proposals for “Medicaid-like” coverage in non-expansion states and future penalties for hospitals that don’t implement cybersecurity standards.

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Eli Lilly partners with Amazon Pharmacy for home delivery of its weight loss, diabetes and migraine drugs

Fierce Healthcare

Eli Lilly is partnering with Amazon's pharmacy unit to offer home delivery for diabetes, migraine and obesity medications, including GLP-1 weight loss drug Zepbound. | Eli Lilly is partnering with Amazon's pharmacy unit to offer home delivery for diabetes, migraine and obesity medications, including GLP-1 weight loss drug Zepbound.

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White House meets with UnitedHealth, industry groups on Change cyberattack fallout

Health Care Dive

Officials called on payers to cut red tape and offer financial support to providers, including advanced payments.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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HiLabs closes $39M funding round as company enters 'next phase of growth'

Fierce Healthcare

HiLabs, an AI-powered health tech company helping plans improve member experience, raised $39 million in a series B financing round, led by growth equity firm Denali Growth Partners and VC firm Eig | An AI-powered health tech company helping drive down operational costs for healthcare organizations and improving member experience for payers pocketed $39 million in fresh funding.

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Planned community Lake Nona collects residents' data for longitudinal health study

Healthcare It News

Juan Santos, SVP of brand experience and innovation at the Tavistock Group, opened the Venture Connect Forum by discussing the community's collection of resident data to improve healthcare outcomes.

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Telehealth equity key to addressing digital gaps

Healthcare It News

ORLANDO – Telehealth technology has advanced rapidly over the past few years, and while it's both popular and promising, it has also shined a light on the contrast between patient populations with and without adequate access and digital health literacy, the latter of which are less likely to engage in this type of medical care. That's where a digital equity strategy comes in.

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Clover Health trends upwards after fourth quarter earnings, posts adjusted EBITDA loss of $19M

Fierce Healthcare

Insurtech Clover Health execs are reiterating their path to profitability is headed in the right direction. | Supported by a much-improved medical cost ratio, Clover Health execs expect to hit adjusted EBITDA profitability this year.

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South Dakota facility bringing cultural compassion to addiction treatment

Healthcare It News

ORLANDO – In a world of high addiction rates, mental healthcare crises and increasing suicide rates, one healthcare organization in South Dakota is trying something a little different.

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Boston's largest academic medical centers taking another step closer under multiyear integration plan

Fierce Healthcare

Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the two flagship hospitals of nonprofit integrated system Mass General Brigham (MGB), will be consolidating their clinical and acade | Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital have been under the same umbrella for 30 years but largely kept their operations separate.

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5 Essentials for Healthcare CIOs: A Provider Data Management Checklist

Complete and accurate provider data is essential for health organizations to operate effectively. A better understanding of your provider network helps to understand patients and consumers, identify gaps in care, and make the best possible decisions for your businesses. A modern provider data management solution should power a complete and accurate view of each of your providers, make this data easily accessible across functional groups, and be flexible and agile enough to scale. with your needs

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Virtual agents, chatbots can improve care delivery, but trust is critical

Healthcare It News

Experts emphasized the value of proactive approaches, meaningful interactions and seamless connections to human support while using AI-enabled chatbots in healthcare.

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Continuous Medicaid enrollment linked to less postpartum coverage loss, study finds

Health Care Dive

States that have expanded Medicaid for a year after pregnancy might see similar coverage gains, researchers wrote.

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Feds Launches Investigation of Change Healthcare Cybersecurity Attack

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has announced an investigation into the recent cyberattack on Change Healthcare , a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group (UHG). – The cybersecurity attack has significantly disrupted healthcare billing and information systems nationwide, potentially impacting patient care.

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AI: Patients Included

Health Populi

“Clinical transformation with AI is easier without patients.” When Dr. Grace Cordovano heard this statement on a panel of physicians convening to share perspectives on the future of AI in health care held in early March 2024, the board-certified patient advocate felt, in her words, “insulted on behalf of the patient communities I know that are working tirelessly to advance AI that works for them.” “The healthcare ecosystem and policy landscape must formally recognize patients as end-

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Once a week, culture & leadership expert Galen Emanuele gives free, actionable EQ training in 5 minutes or less. Subscribe to the #CultureDrop and access free resources & content.

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Availity Processes More Than $5B in Claims Stuck with Change Healthcare

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – The Change Healthcare cybersecurity breach continues to disrupt the healthcare industry three weeks after the initial incident. Hospitals, physicians, pharmacists, and health plans are struggling to maintain operations amidst logistical and financial challenges. Patients nationwide face uncertainty regarding their ability to receive necessary care. – Availity , the nation’s largest real-time health information network, has emerged as a key resource in he

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A New Approach for the U.S. Armed Forces: Q&A with David Ochmanek

The Rand Blog

The United States and its allies have a window of opportunity to bolster their security and prepare for the global challenges to come. But it's closing fast as China and other adversaries build up their own militaries. Business as usual is no longer sufficient.

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Private healthcare the ‘ new normal’ in the UK?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Perhaps so according to the health policy editor at the Guardian. He writes that as NHS has grown weaker, private medical insurance is becoming a more attractive option. The long delays for NHS care that are now endemic – and cause so much worry, risk and harm to those left waiting – are not going to get better anytime soon, as the Institute for Fiscal Studies said last week.

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How The Continuum Wins With Home-Based Primary Care

Home Health Care

By breaking down barriers between patients and at-home primary care, the whole continuum wins. Case in point, Patina Health has a specific strategy when it comes to delivering at-home primary care. Targeting and taking care of adults 65 and older is at the core of Patina Health’s mission as they try to take advantage of the opportunities in the post-acute space as traditional health care systems struggle to meet the needs of this population.

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A Guide to Improved Sepsis Detection & Compliance: 6 Areas You Should Address

This guide highlights key areas that your sepsis detection platform should address to minimize the impact of this leading, entirely preventable cause of in-hospital deaths, as well as how to increase compliance by 20% in 30 days. Download to learn more!

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Northwell Health Achieves $1M in Savings with Laudio’s AI Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Laudio , an innovator in frontline leader solutions that drive efficiency and engagement for health systems, today announced a system-wide expansion with Northwell Health, New York State’s largest healthcare provider. The expansion follows Northwell Health’s successful initial implementation of Laudio’s AI-enhanced platform for frontline leaders at the Peconic Bay Medical Center last year.

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Congressional Hearing: Home Health Care A ‘Lifesaver’ for Rural, Underserved Communities

Home Health Care

The House of Representatives’ Ways and Means Committee held a hearing Tuesday focused on enhancing access to care-at-home in rural and underserved communities. The topic of the hearing is especially pressing because individuals living in rural communities often face barriers that prevent them from receiving adequate care. “For patients in rural and underserved communities, bringing health care home is a lifesaver,” House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.), said during the hear

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Healthcare Hiring Crisis: AI and Automation Emerge as Lifelines in 2024

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – A new report by GoodTime sheds light on how the industry is leveraging technology to combat this critical challenge. The U.S. healthcare system faces a looming workforce shortage, with a projected deficit of nearly 200,000 nurses by 2031. – The 2024 GoodTime Hiring report offers a valuable glimpse into the current state of healthcare hiring.

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Is OI the New AI? Questions Surrounding “Brainoware”

Bill Of Health

By Adithi Iyer The idea of artificial intelligence is just seeping into our collective consciousness, but as we watch new developments in the space, the true “new kid on the block” may be a new type of infused human-technology intelligence — one derived from a blob of cells no larger than a grain of rice. These new units of computational prowess are brain organoids, grown in-lab and capable of producing very basic, but real-time, neurological activity.

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The New Tech Experience: Innovation, Optimization, and Collaboration

Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator

Learn how to streamline productivity and efficiency across your organization with machine learning and artificial intelligence! No matter what industry you're in - healthcare, customer service, sales, and more - it’s easier than you think to reduce wait times, monitor sentiment, and provide enhanced self-service options for all of your users. This means that you can achieve a more consistent and engaging customer experience while reducing sources of friction.

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AI Assistant Reduces Clinician Burnout at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Nabla, the company developing Nabla Copilot, the leading ambient AI assistant for clinicians, today announced it has partnered with Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) to roll out Nabla Copilot to their pediatric specialists after a successful four-week pilot program. Nabla closely collaborated with CHLA’s clinical team to tailor specific capabilities, ensuring that Copilot effectively met the unique requirements of pediatrics in a hospital setting.

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Deep learning tool predicts brain metastasis in lung cancer patients

Health IT Analytics

A new deep learning approach utilizes histopathology images to forecast whether a patient’s lung cancer will eventually spread to the brain.

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Zetaris Unveils AI Studio for Disease Detection and Diagnosis

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Zetaris, the provider of the AI-Powered Lakehouse, today unveils its game changing AI studio designed specifically for healthcare and life science professionals at the HIMSS Global Conference in Orlando on March 11-15, 2024. The Zetaris platform enables healthcare and life science professionals to develop life-saving patient outcomes enabled by data-driven AI clinical applications.

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Many High Schools Across the United States Offer Limited Civics-Focused Extracurricular Activities

The Rand Blog

Students cannot participate in civics-focused extracurricular activities if they do not have access to them. Schools can and should do more to support students' civic development, and increasing students' access to civics-focused extracurricular activities might just be one place to start.

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Strategies to Deal with Collaborative Healthcare Communication

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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Lilly Partners with Amazon Pharmacy to Deliver GLP-1 Medications Directly to Patients

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly) and Amazon Pharmacy today announced a strategic collaboration to improve patient access to GLP-1 medications for diabetes, obesity, and migraines. – The partnership aims to improve access to these treatments and empower patients with the support they need to manage their chronic conditions.

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Healthcare AI News 3/13/24

HIStalk

News Sixteen large health systems and Microsoft form the Trustworthy.

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Demystifying Billing and Coding Guidelines for Facet Joint Interventions: A Comprehensive Overview

Advanced Data Systems

Billing and coding for medical procedures can be a complex maze to navigate, especially when it comes to complying with specific coverage determinations.

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Clearwave Named a Killer Content Award Winner

Clearwave Inc

Reading Time: 2 minutes Patient Revenue Platform Provider Recognized in the Sales Enablement Content Category for its clearwaveCARE Brand Initiative ATLANTA – March 13, 2024 – Clearwave today announced it has been named a 2024 Killer Content Award winner in the Sales Enablement Content category. The patient revenue platform provider was recognized for its campaign that was designed to reinforce, through branding, the long-term partnership Clearwave provides to customers via their client succes

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Top 12 Telehealth KPIs Every Health Tech Leader Should Know

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.