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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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Readers Write: The Myth of the Golden Health Record

HIStalk

The Myth of the Golden Health RecordBy Peter Bonis, MD.

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12 Epic Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Benefits

Etactics

EDI stands for Electronic Data Interchange. It's used in a variety of industries from healthcare to supply chain and logistics. In the healthcare industry, EDI helps doctors communicate with insurance companies, government entities like Medicare, and the patients themselves. EDI first started in the 1960s because there were more than 400 different types of standards.

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Automation is enabling big changes in care delivery and access

Healthcare It News

Dr. Anobel Odisho will offer more detail in the HIMSS23 session "The Power of Automated Care Programs in Improving Outcomes." It scheduled for Tuesday, April 18 at noon – 1 p.m. CT at the South Building, Level 1, room S105 C.

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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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How AI is Transforming Rare Disease Diagnosis

HIT Consultant

Chris Tackaberry, founder and CEO of Clinithink Collectively rare diseases are anything but rare – they impact 30 million people in the US and ten times that amount globally. And 1 in 3 children suffering from a rare disease will not survive beyond the age of five. One of the biggest challenges facing clinicians is making a quick, accurate diagnosis – on average patients visit eight physicians and receive two to three misdiagnoses before being correctly diagnosed, a process that takes US patient

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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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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 Attending the HIMSS Conference is Helpful for Healthcare Providers?

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Healthcare IT is leading health providers to make a smart shift to a value-based patient care model. So, the providers are now more focused on improving patient outcomes. Thereby, healthcare IT is accompanying them to find willing ways to get the desired results. Here, HIMSS (the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) makes a significant contribution.

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Medicare go-broke date pushed back to 2031

Health Care Dive

The date Medicare’s hospital trust fund is expected to run dry has been extended by three years, but stakeholders continue to urge action from Washington to address Medicare’s long-term solvency.

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From 'transformative' to 'tremendous fear': Takes on ChatGPT in healthcare at ViVE 2023

Fierce Healthcare

From 'transformative' to 'tremendous fear': Takes on ChatGPT in healthcare at ViVE 2023 hlandi Tue, 04/04/2023 - 06:25

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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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Cognizant and Microsoft collaborate on new cloud offerings

Healthcare It News

The partners announced that they are building an integration roadmap so Cognizant can run current and future healthcare platforms on Microsoft Azure – and migrate new and existing clients from on-premise environments to Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. WHY IT MATTERS Cognizant collaborates with Microsoft on various healthcare provider and payer solutions, including interoperability and cost estimation suites in a SaaS environment.

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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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New York judge denies UnitedHealth’s request for summary judgment in TeamHealth lawsuit

Health Care Dive

U.S. District Judge John Koeltl rejected UnitedHealth’s argument that New York’s surprise billing law prevents providers from taking legal action against payers for alleged underpayments.

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Providers, payers press CMS to get rid of Medicare Advantage risk adjustment changes entirely

Fierce Healthcare

Providers, payers press CMS to get rid of Medicare Advantage risk adjustment changes entirely rking Tue, 04/04/2023 - 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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HIMSS23: Machine learning innovations created in-house

Healthcare It News

David Higginson will offer more detail in the HIMSS23 session "Leveraging In-House Machine Learning Innovations for a More Human Touch." It is scheduled for Tuesday, April 18 at 1:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. CT at the South Building, Level 1, room S104.

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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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CMS cracks down on MA coverage denials and misleading ads in final rule

Health Care Dive

Both hospital and payer groups came out in support of the rule finalized Wednesday, finding common ground in the need to streamline prior authorization.

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Communication failures, policy noncompliance fuel jump in reported patient safety events, Joint Commission finds

Fierce Healthcare

Communication failures, policy noncompliance fuel jump in reported patient safety events, Joint Commission finds dmuoio Wed, 04/05/2023 - 16:35

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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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Alcidion's Miya Precision goes live at Alfred Health

Healthcare It News

Alfred Health, the main healthcare provider in the inner southeast of Melbourne, is now live with Alcidion's Miya Precision modules for improving patient flow and bed management. WHAT IT'S ABOUT Alcidion was initially contracted to implement electronic patient journey boards at Alfred Health in May 2022. Its Miya Flow solution, which is integrated with Alfred's EMR, consolidates and presents an intuitive view of real-time data from various systems, enabling proactive referral managem

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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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Study finds ‘ubiquitous’ third-party tracking on hospital websites, compromising user data

Health Care Dive

Almost 99% of hospital websites include tracking software that transfer data to third parties, including technology and social media companies, data brokers, advertisers and even private equity firms, a new study found.

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Medicaid payment for mental health services shortchanges psychiatrists in many states: study

Fierce Healthcare

Medicaid payment for mental health services shortchanges psychiatrists in many states: study fdiamond Wed, 04/05/2023 - 15:21

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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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Complementing traditional experience surveys with AI

Healthcare It News

Jennifer Gaudet Hefele will offer more detail in the HIMSS23 session "Leveraging the Wisdom of Crowds to Measure Healthcare Quality." It is scheduled for Tuesday, April 18 at 3 p.m. – 4 p.m. CT at the South Building, Level 5, room S505.

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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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‘Turbulent waters’: The rocky digital health funding market post SVB collapse

Health Care Dive

If funding in the next three quarters matches the average funding in the prior three, 2023 is on pace to see the lowest level of digital health funding since 2019, a new report from Rock Health found.

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Digital pathology experts say that human-centered augmented intelligence will remain the standard for pathology, radiology

Fierce Healthcare

Digital pathology experts say that human-centered augmented intelligence will remain the standard for pathology, radiology aburky Fri, 04/07/2023 - 16:13

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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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Maximizing the Potential of American Irregular Warfare in Strategic Competition

The Rand Blog

It is time that the United States develop the concepts and associated doctrine, commands, field operating agencies, and personnel to maximize the potential of American irregular warfare in strategic competition.

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Common Causes and Ways to Treat Insomnia for Older Adults

Healthcare Associates

Common Causes and Ways to Treat Insomnia for Older Adults Many people find that, as they grow older, sleep becomes a challenge. The Sleep Foundation estimates that 10 to 30% of adults struggle with insomnia, and people over 60 may be more prone to sleep problems. According to a 2018 study, as many as 50% of older adults report problems sleeping. Insomnia can take several forms, such as difficulty falling asleep, difficulty staying asleep, and difficulty going back to sleep after waking up at nig

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Some patients still pay for ACA-mandated free preventive care, study finds

Health Care Dive

Researchers in the study found that more than a third of patients incurred out-of-pocket expenses on the day of their ACA-mandated free preventative medical care service.

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CMS finalizes changes to Medicare Advantage star ratings, prior authorization reforms

Fierce Healthcare

CMS finalizes changes to Medicare Advantage star ratings, prior authorization reforms rking Wed, 04/05/2023 - 16:14

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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.