Fierce Healthcare

JULY 18, 2023

Teladoc is ramping up its investment in AI to infuse innovation into its telehealth solution for hospitals. | Teladoc is ramping up its investment in AI to infuse innovation into its telehealth solution for hospitals. The largest telehealth company is tapping into its two-year partnership with tech giant Microsoft to integrate AI and speech recognition tech into its Solo virtual care platform.

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Health Care Dive

JULY 18, 2023

The telehealth company plans to integrate Microsoft’s AI-enabled notetaking tools in its hospital platform, allowing physicians to automatically transcribe clinical notes during virtual patient exams.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 18, 2023

Emergency visits and inpatient admissions for conditions related or adjacent to extreme heat events are costing the U.S. | A recent extrapolation of Virginia weather trends and care utilization data suggests that about 234,000 excess emergency department visits and 56,000 hospital admissions occur nationwide due to heat event days.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 18, 2023

Changi General Hospital has deployed a trio of autonomous mobile robots in and around the emergency department to complement nursing care. HOW THEY WORK These meter-high robots, equipped with sensors, speakers and a touchscreen display, are capable of moving around crowds on their own without bumping into people and other moving objects, according to CGH.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 18, 2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) could remove PET scan restrictions to better determine whether patients qualify for new drugs and to shine light on whether a drug is slowing | CMS could remove PET scan restrictions that limit just one brain scan per clinical trial to better determine whether new Alzheimer's drugs are slowing cognitive decline.

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Health Care Dive

JULY 18, 2023

State regulators had initially hoped the insurtech could operate for the rest of the year, but Colorado’s insurance division became concerned about Friday’s longevity after placing the insurer into rehabilitation.

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Healthcare Success

JULY 18, 2023

People often confuse marketing and public relations (PR), but they are not synonymous. They do, however, work best together. In fact, we often include healthcare PR services in our marketing plans along with other key strategies, including branding, digital marketing, traditional advertising, internal marketing, and professional referral building. So, What Exactly Is PR?

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 18, 2023

Two Florida brothers are staring down lengthy prison sentences after pleading guilty to playing a role in a fraud scheme that raked in $67 million from Medicare. | Two brothers pleaded guilty last week to defrauding Medicare of $67 million by selling beneficiaries genetic tests and durable medical equipment that they didn’t need.

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Health Care Dive

JULY 18, 2023

Hospital groups said they were deeply disappointed with the decision, which removes a guidepost for those looking to consolidate without attracting the ire of regulators.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 18, 2023

This week on "Podnosis," we talk with Daniel Vukelich, the president at the Association of Medical Device Reprocessors, about how reprocessing can reduce waste. We also talk with Dr. | This week on "Podnosis," we talk about how reprocessing medical devices can reduce waste. Also under discussion is the role of choice architecture in value-based care.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 18, 2023

Kelly Peng, CEO and CTO of Kura Technologies Not long ago, augmented reality (AR) sounded like something straight out of a sci-fi novel. Today, the rapidly-evolving technology is beginning to change the way many industries function, and healthcare is one of the very promising areas. A doctor’s office a decade in the future could look very different from a doctor’s office of the present; as AR and virtual reality tools develop, they will fundamentally elevate the quality and convenience of heal

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 18, 2023

A novel $50 million nonprofit initiative, dubbed the Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI), launched Tuesday to evaluate emerging health technology solutions to cut through the hype and ident | A novel $50 million nonprofit initiative, dubbed the Peterson Health Technology Institute, launched Tuesday to evaluate emerging health technology solutions in order to separate the wheat from the overhyped chaff.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 18, 2023

What You Should Know: – Teladoc Health today announced an integration expansion with Microsoft , leveraging AI to help minimize administrative burden and identify potential hazards. – The integrated solutions will enhance the power of our Solo platform for hospitals and health systems to better support the clinical workforce. These innovations powered by Microsoft AI tools will minimize administrative burden by automating clinical documentation during virtual and in-patient care. 

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 18, 2023

In the past 10 years, there has been a dramatic shift in physician practice ownership as less than half of doctors now work in private practices, according to a new analysis. | In the past 10 years, there has been a dramatic shift in physician practice ownership as less than half of doctors now work in private practices, according to a new analysis.

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Home Health Care

JULY 18, 2023

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership The past few years have been a time of transformation for the hospital-at-home model. As it cements its popularity, new players have begun to rise with it. While hospital at home has long been embraced across the globe — in Australia, Canada and across Europe, for example — the model popped up in the U.S. in the 1990s.

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Meditech

JULY 18, 2023

Today’s healthcare leaders are faced with constant change and numerous challenges, such as managing staffing shortages and reducing costs while increasing patient satisfaction. At MEDITECH, we believe strong revenue cycle management that is agile and resilient can help organizations keep up with healthcare's financial evolution. That’s why we created an eBook focused on “supporting your frontline and strengthening your bottom line with strategic revenue cycle management.

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Home Health Care

JULY 18, 2023

At the start of 2023, Reimagine Care had teased two new partnerships that were in the works as the company continued its mission to deliver home-centered, value-based cancer care. One of those partnerships was officially announced this week. Reimagine Care is partnering with DispatchHealth, the Denver-based in-home medical care provider, to offer cancer care beyond the traditional facility setting and hopefully lower the total costs of care for patients.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

JULY 18, 2023

An NBER paper by Dettling and Kearney (2023) finds that unemployment rate impacts both fertility rates and birth outcomes. Using data on birth outcomes from National Center for Health Statistics, data on local unemployment from BLS’s Local Area Unemployment Statistics, data on the share of families who are liquidity-constrained from the Survey of Consumer Finances.

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Home Health Care

JULY 18, 2023

Following a record-low start to 2023 and a relatively flat fourth quarter in 2022 , home-based care M&A volume ticked up significantly in the second quarter this year. Overall, the quarter saw at least 29 transactions across all home-based care sub-sectors, according to a recent report from M&A advisory firm Mertz Taggart. All three sectors of home-based care — home health, home care and hospice — were all represented well in the quarter.

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Bookzurman

JULY 18, 2023

Healthcare IT Standards play a crucial role in modern healthcare communication. These standards establish a common language and framework for the exchange of health information, ensuring that data can be seamlessly shared and understood by different systems and healthcare providers. Adhering to these standards can facilitate effective communication among healthcare professionals, leading to improved patient care and outcomes.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 18, 2023

Dr. Vikram K. Kanmukhla, VP of Technical Product Management for AvantGuard, Inc. Keeping surfaces pathogen-free is crucial in preventing the transmission of diseases and infections. Pathogens are microorganisms that can cause illness, and they can easily spread from contaminated surfaces to people who come into contact with those surfaces. This is a major concern in healthcare settings such as hospitals, where pathogens can spread easily and cause infections in vulnerable patients.

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The Rand Blog

JULY 18, 2023

To ensure equal access to high-quality early years provision in England, it is crucial to learn from successful systems worldwide and implement key recommendations. Prioritizing highly qualified staff, maintaining appropriate staff-to-child ratios, and removing barriers for disadvantaged families are essential steps toward achieving this goal.

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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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Briggs Healthcare

JULY 18, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Recent severe weather events have highlighted the need for and importance of emergency power systems for nursing homes. Nursing homes are required to provide an alternate source of energy (usually a generator) to maintain temperatures to protect residents’ health and safety, as well as for food storage, emergency lighting, fire protection, and sewage disposal (if applicable), or to evacuate the residents.

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Home Health Care

JULY 18, 2023

Aging Media Network, Inc., a WTWH Media Company, (“Aging Media”) is pleased to announce the Future Leaders Class of 2023, showcasing the most promising talent in the behavioral health, home health and home care, hospice and palliative care, senior housing, and skilled nursing industries. These exemplary individuals represent strength, intuition and perseverance under some of the most challenging circumstances the senior care and behavioral health industries have ever seen.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 18, 2023

What You Should Know: NeuroFlow, the leading provider of behavioral health technology infrastructure, today announced that it has acquired Capital Solution Design (CSD), parent company to Behavioral Health Lab (BHL) and BHL Touch, a leading provider of measurement-based care solutions for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and other healthcare organizations.

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Cloud Blogs

JULY 18, 2023

Throughout my time at Microsoft one of the things that has remained constant is the pivotal role our partners play in helping guide and support customers as the technological landscape evolves. This has never felt truer. Our customers are eager to innovate. They’re seeing the promise that industry-specific solutions and cloud platforms offer with regards to evolving their capabilities in areas like AI and accelerating time to value.

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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

JULY 18, 2023

What You Should Know: – Ventra Health , a business solutions provider for hospital-based clinicians, announced today the acquisition of ArcMed , an India-based billing and automation services organization. This acquisition will strengthen Ventra Health’s service performance and quality, optimize operational efficiencies, and provide added scale for automation and growth. – Ventra Health’s new operating model, predictive analytics platform, and intelligent process automation wil

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Bill Of Health

JULY 18, 2023

By Divya Goyal Growing interest in recognizing and promoting migration as a form of climate adaptation risks exacerbating existing inequalities and generating new ones for disabled people. Scholars, policymakers, and advocates in this field need to pay greater attention to the impact of climate-induced migration on disabled people, document the experiences of disabled people with climate-induced migration and displacement — with a particular focus on their vulnerabilities and capabilities — and

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HIT Consultant

JULY 18, 2023

What You Should Know: – The Peterson Center on Healthcare today launched the Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI) , an independent non-profit that provides rigorous, evidence-based assessments of digital health technologies. – Launched with a commitment of $50M, PHTI will analyze clinical benefits and economic impact, as well as the technologies’ effects on health equity, privacy, and security. – PHTI will monitor the evolving pipeline of emerging digital health technolo

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Nordic

JULY 18, 2023

With generative AIs like ChatGPT, Dall-E, and Bard crossing the line into practical utility in recent months, every industry is closely watching to see how what changes AI will bring. Healthcare is no exception. For some, the influx of news promises a revolutionary new way of obtaining and utilizing clinical and operational data. Others are more skeptical.

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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.