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Microsoft, Epic partner to integrate Azure OpenAI into EHRs

Health Care Dive

One of the integration’s tools, which helps automatically draft message responses, is being implemented at UC San Diego Health, UW Health and Stanford Health Care, according to the companies.

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Generative AI as healthcare's co-pilot

Healthcare It News

Generative artificial intelligence presents opportunities across provider functions and changing patient experiences, says Erik Barnett, North America advisory health and life sciences lead and digital advisory practice leader with Avanade, a digital, cloud and advisory service provider to healthcare and other industries. "It's hyper-personalized, and so this makes it interesting," he said today at the HIMSS23.

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Larger hospital mergers expected in post-pandemic market, Kaufman Hall says

Health Care Dive

Mergers and acquisitions are trending toward cross-regional partnerships, and the size of the smaller party in mergers is increasing to between $250 million and $750 million in annual revenue, according to the report.

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HIMSS23: Philips, Intermountain executives call for tech partnerships focused on thoughtful innovation to address burnout

Fierce Healthcare

HIMSS23: Philips, Intermountain executives call for tech partnerships focused on thoughtful innovation to address burnout aburky Mon, 04/17/2023 - 18:20

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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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The simple change hospitals are making to enhance patient care

Health Care Dive

Discover the transformative power of virtual rounding in healthcare, enabling real-time collaboration between practitioners and enhancing patient experience and outcomes.

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14M people could lose dental coverage as Medicaid redeterminations restart: report

Fierce Healthcare

14M people could lose dental coverage as Medicaid redeterminations restart: report pminemyer Mon, 04/17/2023 - 15:58

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HHS releases free online cybersecurity training, best practice reports for healthcare

Fierce Healthcare

HHS releases free online cybersecurity training, best practice reports for healthcare dmuoio Mon, 04/17/2023 - 15:49

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5 ways to offer modern health benefits

Health Care Dive

Benefits can be excellent incentives and tools for acquisition and retention — when they’re understood. Learn more about how to build better health benefits.

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Digital whiteboards are transforming the patient experience

Healthcare It News

Rebecca Stametz will offer more detail in the HIMSS23 session "Geisinger's Journey with Digital Whiteboards: Measuring the Impact." It is scheduled for Thursday, April 20, at 10:15 a.m. - 10:35 a.m. CT at the North Building, Level 3, Hall B, Booth 8300-8313, Patient Engagement 365.

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HIMSS23: Epic taps Microsoft to integrate generative AI into EHRs with Stanford, UC San Diego as early adopters

Fierce Healthcare

HIMSS23: Epic taps Microsoft to integrate generative AI into EHRs with Stanford, UC San Diego as early adopters hlandi Mon, 04/17/2023 - 10:13

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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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Can Medical Billing Services Boost Practice’s Growth Potential

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The introduction of virtual technologies in healthcare has reshaped the system as a whole. One of these relatable examples is the implementation of telemedicine. This advancement has helped mankind in every possible way. Especially in COVID days, the vast utility of telemedicine for reaching the patient is quite evident. Here, we must admit the significant role of medical billing services.

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HIMSS23 News Flash: Philips, AWS partner to bring imaging tech to the cloud; Orion Health launches scalable 'intelligent' data platform

Fierce Healthcare

HIMSS23 News Flash: Philips, AWS partner to bring imaging tech to the cloud; Orion Health launches scalable 'intelligent' data platform hlandi Mon, 04/17/2023 - 07:38

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Q&A: How BayCare Health System uses Amazon's Alexa in patient rooms

Healthcare It News

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CVS taps former Humana exec Brian Kane to lead Aetna

Fierce Healthcare

CVS taps former Humana exec Brian Kane to lead Aetna pminemyer Mon, 04/17/2023 - 16:57

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Level up Culture & EQ | Sign up for the #CultureDrop

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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Why patient burnout is a 'silent public health crisis'

Healthcare It News

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Autism care provider Cortica raises $75M, acquires 2 provider groups in New England, Arizona

Fierce Healthcare

Autism care provider Cortica raises $75M, acquires 2 provider groups in New England, Arizona agliadkovskaya Mon, 04/17/2023 - 23:11

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Stalled in Ukraine, Kremlin Increasingly Turns to Political Theater

The Rand Blog

Stymied in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has amped up the political theater to achieve his objectives. How do we interpret Putin's statements? While no nuclear threat should be ignored, Putin's pronouncements remain in the realm of propaganda.

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Clover Health culls 10% of workforce as it marches toward profitability

Fierce Healthcare

Clover Health culls 10% of workforce as it marches toward profitability pminemyer Mon, 04/17/2023 - 15:08

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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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How to use technology to listen and understand patients' needs

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Industry Voices—FTC health breach notification rule finally gets a target

Fierce Healthcare

Industry Voices—FTC health breach notification rule finally gets a target hlandi Mon, 04/17/2023 - 18:11

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Technology can reduce providers' mental healthcare challenges

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Rimidi Announces Integration with MEDITECH Greenfield

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Rimidi , a leading clinical management platform designed to optimize clinical workflows, enhance patient experiences and achieve quality objectives, today announced the company is now integrated with MEDITECH Greenfield. MEDITECH customers will now able to utilize Rimidi’s cloud-based software platform within their existing workflow, further enhancing efforts to support efficient models of care for chronic disease management through Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource

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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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CMS raises cap on nonstandard plans in final ACA exchange rule

Fierce Healthcare

CMS raises cap on nonstandard plans in final ACA exchange rule pminemyer Mon, 04/17/2023 - 17:22

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Amazon Rolls Out New Alexa Healthcare Features

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Today at HIMSS23, Amazon announced a new suite of Alexa Smart Properties (ASP) for Healthcare capabilities designed to improve the patient and medical staff experience at hospitals. – With these new capabilities, healthcare and solution providers have even more ways to enable device fleet management and build Alexa capabilities at scale for patient care.

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Nearly 800,000 More Nurses Are Expected To Leave Field Within 5 Years

Home Health Care

Nearly 100,000 registered nurses left the field during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an analysis conducted by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN). Worse yet, the analysis suggested that nearly 800,000 more nurses could leave the field by 2027. For home health providers already short on staffing, that could mean significant headwinds over the next five to ten years.

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The Rural Behavioral Health Crisis Continuum: Considerations and Emerging State Strategies

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Behavioral health crisis care consists of a range of interventions for people at risk for acute behavioral health issues, experiencing crisis, and engaged in recovery. Federal guidelines for behavioral health crisis care provide specific guidance on core elements of care and considerations for the unique implementation challenges in rural and frontier areas.

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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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Why Home Health Providers Are Strategically Hyper-Focused On Localized MA Contracts

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership As Medicare Advantage (MA) penetration continues, home health providers are leaning on regional MA contracts to shore up their bottom lines. These types of contracts are proving beneficial to mid-sized providers, as well as some of the largest providers in the country. Sign up for HHCN+ to read this exclusive content.

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My Health, My Data – Thinking Consumers, Privacy and Self-Care at HIMSS 2023

Health Populi

The Washington State legislature passed House Bill 1155, aka the My Health, My Data Act , last week. Governor Jay Inslee is expected to sign this into State law later this year. The bill expands privacy protections for Washington State’s health citizens beyond HIPAA’s provisions. The My Health, My Data Act defines “consumer health data” as “personal information that is linked or reasonably linkable to a consumer and that identifies a consumer’s past, present, or future physical or me

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In Its Collaboration With Chamberlain University, BrightStar Care Is Creating Its Own Talent Pipeline

Home Health Care

There are a handful of home-based care providers that aren’t just waiting around for new nursing talent. Instead, they are proactively creating their own talent pool. BrightStar Care is one of these companies, and is doing so by partnering with Chamberlain University. Together, the two have launched a home health care didactic course under Chamberlain University’s Practice-Ready, Specialty-Focused model.

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Cancer survival rates have significantly improved. Now we must pay attention to rehabilitation

Healthy Debate

The post Cancer survival rates have significantly improved. Now we must pay attention to rehabilitation appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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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.