Healthcare It News
APRIL 21, 2023
CHICAGO – In a vast, integrated health ecosystem, the future is high-tech and high-touch, "right in line with this year's HIMSS23 theme, "Health that connects, tech that cares," said. Dr. Telita Crosland, Lieutenant General, director of the Defense Health Agency. Crosland described the agency's virtual-first, data-driven focus for the next three years as a "fundamental shift" on Wednesday.
Health Care Dive
APRIL 21, 2023
Generative AI has roared onto the tech scene through the large language model backing ChatGPT. Companies are already deploying the algorithms in hospitals. Should healthcare be taking a pause?
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Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 21, 2023
VA pauses $16B Oracle Cerner EHR deployments indefinitely to address error-ridden early rollout dmuoio Fri, 04/21/2023 - 11:36
Healthcare It News
APRIL 21, 2023
CHICAGO – On January 2nd, 2023, during a Monday Night Football broadcast watched by 23.8 million people, Buffalo Bills Safety Damar Hamlin, completed an apparently routine tackle – before collapsing on the field, having suffered a cardiac arrest. Medical personnel worked for nearly 20 minutes on the field to resuscitate him before eventually restoring his heartbeat and transferring him to University of Cincinnati Medical Center, where he spent days in critical condition in the ICU, a
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Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 21, 2023
Industry Voices—Financial reserves are critical to fulfill not-for-profit hospitals' missions of caring for all in their communities hlandi Fri, 04/21/2023 - 06:54
Healthcare It News
APRIL 21, 2023
3M Health Information Systems has announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services to accelerate the innovation and advancement of its M*Modal ambient intelligence machine learning and generative AI services, including Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Comprehend Medical and Amazon Transcribe Medical. WHY IT MATTERS Compatible with more than 250 electronic health records, more than 300,000 clinicians use M*Modal for real-time speech recognition compatible amd ambient clinical documentation, according to
Health Care Quality Digest brings together the best content for healthcare quality professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Health Care Dive
APRIL 21, 2023
The findings come as medical device makers face upcoming FDA requirements for providing cybersecurity information as part of their pre-market submissions.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 21, 2023
Senators unveil bipartisan framework to reform PBMs pminemyer Fri, 04/21/2023 - 12:18
Health Care Dive
APRIL 21, 2023
The stay suspends an order by a Texas judge that had invalidated the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, allowing access to continue while a circuit court hears the case.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 21, 2023
HIMSS23: Microsoft, Wolters Kluwer collaborate on 'big picture insights' analytics offering for hospitals hlandi Fri, 04/21/2023 - 07:28
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Health Care Dive
APRIL 21, 2023
Oracle Health Chairman David Feinberg sat down with Healthcare Dive at HIMSS to give an update on the Cerner-Oracle integration.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 21, 2023
HCA Healthcare raises FY2023 guidance following strong volume, labor momentum through Q1 dmuoio Fri, 04/21/2023 - 14:06
Icanotes
APRIL 21, 2023
You probably didn't start a career in mental health because you love charting, but unfortunately, it's a significant part of the medical field. In your work as a behavioral health professional, you'll almost certainly use ICD-10 codes, which are a staple in medical environments worldwide and a requirement for most insurance claims. This classification system contains tens of thousands of codes.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 21, 2023
New 3-year study will evaluate diverse populations' responses to different patient education tactics agliadkovskaya Fri, 04/21/2023 - 16:42
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Home Health Care
APRIL 21, 2023
This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership This past winter didn’t have the COVID-19 surge that the previous one did. And yet, the referral rejection rate reached an all-time high in home health care – all the way up to 76%. All the while, patients being referred to home health have a higher acuity level on average. Nursing home referrals are also up compared to 2019, a fact that would surprise some health care experts during the peak of the pandemic.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 21, 2023
Supreme Courts orders mifepristone to remain available pending lower court appeals dmuoio Fri, 04/21/2023 - 19:10
Home Health Care
APRIL 21, 2023
A new bill that would remove certain barriers to home-based care will soon be introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Expanding Care in the Home Act (ECHA) would, among other things, create a personal care services benefit in Medicare to give aid to beneficiaries who are unable to afford out-of-pocket payments but don’t qualify for home care services by Medicaid.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
APRIL 21, 2023
That is the topic of a Health Affairs Forefront article ( Sullivan et al. 2021 ) out today which is addresses the topic. The issue is particularly relevant as the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)’s has a de facto ban on QALYs for use in setting a drug’s maximum fair price (MFP). The authors discuss some alternatives: The equal value of Life Years Gained ( evLYG ), Healthy Years in Total ( HYT ) and the Generalized Risk-Adjusted QALY ( GRA-QALY ) methods are important advances in the fie
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Bill Of Health
APRIL 21, 2023
By Ameet Sarpatwari , Alexander Egilman , and Aaron S. Kesselheim Each month, members of the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) review the peer-reviewed medical literature to identify interesting empirical studies, policy analyses, and editorials on health law and policy issues. Below are the citations for papers identified from the month of March.
Health IT Analytics
APRIL 21, 2023
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Sequence Health
APRIL 21, 2023
In today’s day and age, social media has really taken the world by storm. With billions of users across the globe, social media is obviously an important part of several businesses. But when it comes to health care services, you can also gain a lot of advantages by using social media. In this article, let’s talk about various reasons why social media should be used along with your medical call center operations.
NCQA
APRIL 21, 2023
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Etactics
APRIL 21, 2023
According to the American Heart Association , there are more than 356,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests annually in the U.S. Nearly 90% of them are fatal. A medical emergency can happen anywhere and at any time, so it’s important for us as a society to be able to react to these situations. For example, the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration reports that about 10,000 cardiac arrests happen each year in the United States.
Health Recovery
APRIL 21, 2023
We’re sure you’ve heard of telemonitoring by now, but do you know how it improves the lives of patients? A rising number of healthcare providers are taking advantage of remote patient monitoring (RPM) to better monitor their patients chronic health conditions. If you’re looking for ways to improve clinical outcomes and quality of life for your patients, telemonitoring is a solution you can’t afford to overlook.
The Rand Blog
APRIL 21, 2023
This weekly recap focuses on environmental justice, access to mental health care, why America should stick with Europe. and more.
Health IT Analytics
APRIL 21, 2023
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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.
Home Health Care
APRIL 21, 2023
The home care franchise company Right at Home is doubling down on expanding its corporate-owned footprint. That initiative began in 2019 for Right at Home, and is part of a much larger trend for home care franchisors in general. Brady Schwab, Right at Home’s new chief growth officer, believes being in business alongside its franchisees creates more understanding and opens the door for further innovation.
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