Health Care Dive
JANUARY 12, 2024
Finely tuned models showed success in consistently extracting information like housing or employment status that often isn’t systematically organized in clinical notes.
Healthcare It News
JANUARY 8, 2024
Many neurotypical and most neurodivergent children struggle with feeding difficulties. This does not just affect the child – it impacts the whole family. Focused Approach is a startup that helps children aged six months to 16 years old with feeding disorders. Its program Focused on Feeding has helped families go from hospital bed (with malnutrition) to the dinner table – entirely via telemedicine.
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Health Care Dive
JANUARY 18, 2024
Though the number of data breaches declined slightly from 2022, more than 116 million records were exposed last year, according to a new report from a cybersecurity firm.
HIT Consultant
JANUARY 22, 2024
David Sides, CEO at NextGen Healthcare Doctors do so much to keep our communities thriving. Unfortunately, according to the American Medical Association, about 63 percent of physicians report experiencing emotional exhaustion at least once weekly. Exacerbated by the volume of clinical notes required at the end of the day, physician burnout can adversely affect patient care, leading to errors and reduced care quality.
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Health Care Dive
JANUARY 29, 2024
Discover how AI-driven platforms are revolutionizing health IT, alleviating the critical shortage of medical coders and significantly boosting efficiency and revenue in healthcare systems.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 12, 2024
Industry giant UnitedHealth Group kicked off fourth-quarter earnings for major payers on Friday morning, where it reported $5.5 billion in profit. | Industry giant UnitedHealth Group kicked off fourth-quarter earnings for major payers on Friday morning, where it reported $5.5 billion in profit.
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Healthcare It News
JANUARY 30, 2024
In the rapidly evolving landscape of healthcare, the sharing of health information is a delicate balance, especially when it comes to teenagers. THE PROBLEM Patient portals facilitate efficient sharing of health information between patients, their families and healthcare providers. However, a unique challenge arises when it comes to teenagers. Certain state laws may allow minors to consent to specific types of sensitive care and give them the right to keep this information confidential from thei
Bill Of Health
JANUARY 29, 2024
By Neşe Devenot Since the 2022 publication of “ Preparing for the Bursting of the Psychedelic Hype Bubble ,” a JAMA Psychiatry Viewpoint by David Yaden and colleagues, a wave of scholarship and commentaries has emphasized the ethical importance of nuanced science communication about the still-nascent field of psychedelic medicine. As the journalist Katie MacBride recently described in The Daily Beast , there is now a “growing minority” of scholars and activists in the psychedelics field who are
Healthy Debate
JANUARY 8, 2024
The post Canadian women are waiting longer than ever for gynecologic surgery: Patients and providers are calling for action. appeared first on Healthy Debate.
Health Care Dive
JANUARY 29, 2024
AHIP and BCBSA also took aim at providers for allegedly abusing the billing dispute resolution process set up by No Surprises in the latest salvo over the polarizing law.
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Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 6, 2024
SAN FRANCISCO—Amazon plans to collaborate with digital health companies to connect customers with virtual care benefits for managing conditions like diabetes and hypertension. | Amazon plans to collaborate with digital health companies to connect customers with virtual care benefits for managing conditions like diabetes and hypertension. The online retail giant tapped virtual-first chronic care provider Omada Health as its first partner.
Home Health Care
JANUARY 31, 2024
The Medicare enrollment process undergoes annual changes at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to ensure it remains up to date with evolving regulations, policies and health care practices. A number of changes went into effect on Jan. 1, and several of them will affect home health agencies. Here’s what home health agencies should know about those changes.
Healthcare It News
JANUARY 19, 2024
Nuance Communications, part of Microsoft, announced the general availability of Nuance Dragon Ambient eXperience Copilot for documentation assistance in Epic electronic health records. WHY IT MATTERS Generative artificial intelligence has the potential to free clinicians from administrative tasks and increase clinical efficiencies. After months of collaboration, Nuance's DAX Copilot is available for full Epic EHR integration, the company said Thursday.
HIT Consultant
JANUARY 4, 2024
Chaim Linhart, Chaim, Co-founder and CTO at Ibex Medical Analytics Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is set to transform the field of diagnostics, similar to how X-rays and genetic tests revolutionized healthcare in the past. Reshaping routine diagnostic procedures and treatment decisions and propelling pharmaceutical and research domains into new realms, AI offers significant benefits to clinicians, healthcare systems, researchers, and, most importantly, patients.
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NCQA
JANUARY 31, 2024
The course of the Digitalization of Health doesn’t always run smooth. But for every set of pain points a provider might experience, there are companies developing technological solutions – platforms and tools – that not only guide us through digital transformation but identify crucial patient and population data along the way. In this episode, we talk with two health tech leaders, interviewed during NCQA’s 2023 Health Innovation Summit in Orlando, Florida, about their strategies and successes in
Health Care Dive
JANUARY 8, 2024
Experts discuss their predictions for healthcare industry trends, including investment and consolidation in digital health, adoption of artificial intelligence and improving cybersecurity in healthcare in 2024.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 25, 2024
Humana primed the pump last week for a disappointing fourth quarter call, and its stock again dropped Thursday morning as the company posted a $541 million loss. | Humana primed the pump last week for a disappointing fourth quarter call, and its stock again dropped Thursday morning as the company posted a $541 million loss.
Home Health Care
JANUARY 10, 2024
This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Home care companies have always had to deal with a gray market in senior care, or an “underground” caregiver workforce. But as the cost of providing care continues to rise, providers may find themselves in more of a bind than before. Broadly, caregivers that are part of the underground workforce are individuals who are unaffiliated with a home care agency.
Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator
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Healthcare It News
JANUARY 16, 2024
Banner Health, based in Phoenix, is one of the largest non-profit health systems in the U.S., serving more than eight million patients across six states in the Southwest. Like many hospitals and health systems, it has been facing many challenges with behavioral health. THE PROBLEM Behavioral health is an interesting story for several reasons, said Jeff Johnson, vice president of innovation and digital business at Banner Health.
HIT Consultant
JANUARY 11, 2024
Nick Magnuson, Head of AI at Qlik With many economic hurdles this year including rising costs and inflation, the healthcare industry has had a challenging backdrop in which to operate. In a sector dedicated to improving and saving lives, healthcare has so much to gain by adopting new AI and machine learning (ML) technologies. The World Economic Forum sums up the transformative potential of AI and ML in this setting: from propelling the development of drugs and vaccines to improving medical diagn
Healthy Debate
JANUARY 17, 2024
The provincial government's actions make it clear that they plan to move towards health-care privatization. Why aren't we angrier about it?
Health Care Dive
JANUARY 16, 2024
The uninsured rate will rise. Medicare Advantage enrollment will swell, with fewer sweeping regulatory changes. Major pharmacy benefit managers will launch more transparent products. Here’s what experts see coming down the pike for 2024.
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.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 12, 2024
LAS VEGAS — With all the buzz and headlines about artificial intelligence, there is one demographic that is quietly embracing the technology and even building long-term relationships with it. | With all the buzz and headlines about artificial intelligence, there is one demographic that is quietly embracing the technology and even building long-term relationships with it.
Home Health Care
JANUARY 29, 2024
Home care leaders are not just operating in their own individual bubbles. These leaders are part of a larger ecosystem of organizations that make up the home-based care space. In a sea of providers, the best leaders are the ones who are able to recognize which of their home-based care peers are standouts. The ability to identify what works, and why, is evidence of a keen understanding of the business.
Healthcare It News
JANUARY 31, 2024
The Deloitte 2024 Healthcare Generative AI Outlook study released this week takes a closer look at potential blind spots leaders may have as they implement generative artificial intelligence. WHY IT MATTERS In the new report, Deloitte researchers said 70% of the executives surveyed were highly focused on data availability, quality, compliance, security and privacy during implementation, but they "may miss the imperative.
HIT Consultant
JANUARY 11, 2024
What You Should Know: – The healthcare industry is poised for a seismic shift, powered by a disruptive technology: blockchain, according to the market.us, the Blockchain Technology in Healthcare Market report. – This transformative ledger system is projected to propel the global Blockchain Technology in Healthcare Market to a staggering $750B by 2033, a 69.2% annual growth rate compared to its $3.9B valuation in 2023.
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.
NASHP
JANUARY 9, 2024
As states administer opioid settlement funds, they are seeking ways to engage people who have been affected by the opioid epidemic in decision-making, policy development, and program implementation. In many states, legislation or memoranda of agreement creating administrative structures for distributing settlement funds require representation of people with lived experience* on advisory boards and other decision-making bodies.
Health Care Dive
JANUARY 10, 2024
Kentucky-based Baptist Health has gone out of network with UnitedHealthcare and Centene’s WellCare Medicare Advantage plans after failing to agree to contract terms.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 24, 2024
The Department for Health and Human Services (HHS) has published voluntary cybersecurity performance goals tailored for healthcare organizations, the first move in the administration’s
Home Health Care
JANUARY 5, 2024
In recent years, due to factors like the pandemic and the reinvention of hospitals, home health agencies are having to take care of much more complicated patients. As the demand for home-based care continues to rise, so does the need for more intensive care plans as patients continue to be sicker and more complex. Home health agencies are feeling this “acuity creep,” and they’re adjusting.
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