April, 2023

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The AI-Infused Healthcare Technology in Medical Billing Services

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Currently, we can see significant adaptations in healthcare systems. All above, the adaptations have a prominent impact on medical billing services the most. All the proceedings are eventually aimed at attaining a higher patient care standard in healthcare. So, the incorporation of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) proved to be very effective.

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When will the ER catch up with value-based care?

Health Care Dive

Amid transformation, innovation and buzzwords in value-based care, one crucial area absent is the emergency department, argues Troy Williams, vice president of healthcare systems partnership for First Choice Health.

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The future of human care: Why family doctors are more relevant than ever

Healthy Debate

The post The future of human care: Why family doctors are more relevant than ever appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Avoid losing 55% of your patients to poor digital communication

Healthcare It News

If you aren’t already, pretend you’re the owner of a successful specialty healthcare practice. Or maybe you’re an administrator for a large regional healthcare system. How would you keep your organization afloat if more than half of your patients suddenly walked out the door and never returned? Improbable as it seems, a recent survey indicates otherwise.

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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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Preparing for digital transformation in healthcare

Health Care Dive

John Glaser, an executive in residence at Harvard Medical School, and Ranil Herath, president at Emeritus Healthcare, address healthcare’s digital transformation and how to successfully adapt to change.

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HIMSS23: Epic analytics leader details efforts to bring GPT-4 into healthcare and growing work in genomics, life sciences

Fierce Healthcare

HIMSS23: Epic analytics leader details efforts to bring GPT-4 into healthcare and growing work in genomics, life sciences hlandi Thu, 04/20/2023 - 08:09

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As China Ascends, Concerns Grow It Might Be Tempted into a 'Splendid Little War'

The Rand Blog

When a nation newly ascends or returns to the status of a leading international power, it often feels the need to publicly demonstrate its rise through a brief, victorious war. Today, China's increasing strength may tempt it to pursue such a conflict, and not necessarily with Taiwan, if it anticipates that victory will be swift, decisive, and demonstrative.

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Bolstering Health Literacy in a Little Book: Burn Prevention and Care With “The Family Oops”

Health Populi

About 180,000 deaths are attributable to burns each year, according to the World Health Organization. Non-fatal burns are a leading cause of morbidity. The good news is that burns are preventable, and we learn several terrific strategies for doing so from The Family Oops and Burns First Aid. This mighty little book, all of 28 pages and measuring 5.5 x 5.5″ square, packs a huge amount of self-care knowledge about burn prevention and treatment for home and workplace — the two sites whe

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HIMSS23: DHA is developing a virtual-first health ecosystem

Healthcare It News

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.

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Climate groups call on health systems to divest fossil fuel holdings

Health Care Dive

Although more than 1,550 organizations representing more than $40 trillion in assets have divested fossil fuel investments, the healthcare industry lags behind, according to the report.

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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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6 megadeals made up 40% of digital health funding in Q1 as smaller startups face rough waters: Rock Health

Fierce Healthcare

6 megadeals made up 40% of digital health funding in Q1 as smaller startups face rough waters: Rock Health hlandi Tue, 04/04/2023 - 14:40

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Public Health Product Hops

Bill Of Health

By Michael S. Sinha, Edna Besic, and Melissa Mann Members of Congress have been focused on drug pricing for the last several years, culminating recently in new drug pricing provisions within the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. One reason for our drug pricing problem is that we allow manufacturers to charge whatever the market will bear for a new therapeutic.

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Why Blockading Rather Than Retaking Crimea Might Be Kyiv's Best Option

The Rand Blog

Ukraine may lack the military capability to retake Crimea from Russia. But Kyiv might still achieve some of its key objectives by blockading the peninsula. New technology may ease this task.

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Should Patients and Physicians use ChatGPT to Improve Care?

Healthcare Leadership

ChatGPT has captured world-wide attention. Entrepreneurs are using it to build businesses. Developers are using it to help write code. Even TV reporters are using it to help craft their on-air stories. The question is not whether ChatGPT will be used in healthcare, but how and where it will be used. It is only a matter of time. On the next HCLDR Tweetchat on Tuesday April 4 th at 8:30pm ET, I thought it would be interesting to discuss how generative AI and ChatGPT in particular could be used to

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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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NFL's Damar Hamlin at HIMSS23: 'We have to keep doing the work'

Healthcare It News

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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Without vehicle or viable public transit, 1 in 5 miss needed healthcare: report

Health Care Dive

Adults with a disability, Black adults, people with low incomes and those on public insurance were more likely to report going without needed healthcare because of transportation issues, the Urban Institute found.

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VA pauses $16B Oracle Cerner EHR deployments indefinitely to address error-ridden early rollout

Fierce Healthcare

VA pauses $16B Oracle Cerner EHR deployments indefinitely to address error-ridden early rollout dmuoio Fri, 04/21/2023 - 11:36

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Thoughtful collaboration the prevailing theme at HIMSS23

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Anyone else still reeling from HIMSS? Wow, it’s amazing to be surrounded by so many impassioned HIT people! But with the week behind us, there is much to reflect on with clarity. Think back to the booths and sessions and people you met at lunch and networking events. What impressed you?

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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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The Four-Day School Week: Are the Pros Worth the Cons?

The Rand Blog

The past two decades have seen an explosion in the adoption of the four-day school week. Against this growing trend, however, there is increasing evidence that, by and large, a four-day school week causes student achievement to suffer.

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HHS Committee Pushes For Further PACE Expansion

Home Health Care

A new report from the National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services could be the first step in further expanding the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) model nationwide. Specifically, the committee believes that expanding PACE to more rural parts of the U.S. will help close gaps in long-term care. “[We] believe that PACE exemplifies integrated care and that expansion of the model in rural America would improve the fragmented state of long-term services and supp

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3M to partner with AWS to leverage AI for clinical documentation

Healthcare It News

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

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Lawmakers show bipartisan support for site-neutral payments

Health Care Dive

Political will appears to be rising to equalize Medicare payments to hospitals and doctor’s offices for certain low-acuity services, according to lawmaker comments during a Wednesday hearing.

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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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New AI-driven long COVID app coming soon to individual, enterprise customers

Fierce Healthcare

New AI-driven long COVID app coming soon to individual, enterprise customers agliadkovskaya Wed, 04/26/2023 - 14:04

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How to Prevent Kidney Failure

Healthcare Associates

How to Prevent Kidney Failure Kidney disease is a common condition in the United States. The CDC estimates that over 37 million people have chronic kidney disease, and many do not know that they have it. While it is not curable, chronic kidney disease can be treated to slow the progression of the disease. If you are at higher risk for chronic kidney disease, you can take steps now to prevent developing kidney failure.

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Finland Joins NATO, Sweden's Accession Remains Uncertain

The Rand Blog

Finland is at long last joining NATO, having applied together with Sweden last year in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Finland's accession represents a boon to NATO, a radical change in Finnish foreign and security policy, and another unplanned setback for Russia.

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On Its Way To Becoming National Brand, In-Home Care Provider Innovive Health Expands

Home Health Care

Innovive Health has entered a new state. The in-home care provider, which specifically serves complex behavioral health patients, has opened up shop in Colorado. The company already completes more than 20,000 patient visits per week in Massachusetts. And while it sees Colorado – and Colorado Springs, specifically – as an area with a high need for its services, Innovive CEO Joe McDonough believes the need is high nearly everywhere in the U.S.

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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.

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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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’Fair share’ deficits at nonprofit hospitals reached $14.2B in 2020

Health Care Dive

The amount nonprofit hospitals receive in tax breaks over what they spend on charity care in several states could cover all medical debt for residents, according to the Lown Institute.

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Home care industry touts bipartisan bill to expand Medicare in-home benefits, reimbursement

Fierce Healthcare

Home care industry touts bipartisan bill to expand Medicare in-home benefits, reimbursement dmuoio Mon, 04/24/2023 - 14:08

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Strategic Community Partnerships: Participatory Budgeting and Equity in Rhode Island

NASHP

Participatory budgeting is a strategy used by over 600 state and local governments * across the country to encourage community engagement by involving citizens directly in deciding how a portion of a public budget is allocated. In Rhode Island, community partnerships are a tool to empower communities to make budgeting decisions based on self-identified needs and are part of a broader suite of state investments (link downloads a PDF) to address health-related social needs and social drivers of h

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