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AI in Digital Health: Autonomy, Governance, and Privacy

Bill Of Health

The following post is adapted from the edited volume AI in eHealth: Human Autonomy, Data Governance and Privacy in Healthcare. By Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci and Mark Fenwick. The emergence of digital platforms and related technologies are transforming healthcare and creating new opportunities and challenges for all stakeholders in the medical space.

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Emergency rooms are at ‘breaking point,’ physicians say

Health Care Dive

Medical groups are urging the Biden administration to prioritize finding solutions to patient overcrowding.

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UnitedHealth continues to lead the way on insurer profits in Q3. Here's how its competitors fared

Fierce Healthcare

UnitedHealth continues to lead the way on insurer profits in Q3. Here's how its competitors fared. pminemyer. Mon, 11/07/2022 - 15:36.

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Google Cloud to power virtual care delivery at Manipal Hospitals

Healthcare It News

Manipal Hospitals has tapped Google Cloud to improve its virtual and remote care capabilities while leveraging AI to enhance patient experience. The partnership involves the deployment of the Amwell telehealth platform to enable virtual visits. Since 2020, Amwell has been Google's preferred telehealth partner to expand access to virtual care delivery worldwide.

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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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What is Metformin? Foods To Avoid While Taking During Diabetes

p3care

Metformin is a medication that is prescribed to patients by their doctors if they have type 2 diabetes. It should be taken with the proper diet plan. Below, you will get to know about this medication more deeply and also about some foods that you need to avoid while taking it. Metformin: What Is It? Metformin is made especially for patients with diabetes.

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Senator outlines potential cybersecurity mandates for health systems

Health Care Dive

Cybersecurity can no longer be treated as a secondary concern and must become incorporated into every organization’s core business model, according to the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

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Changi General Hospital developing AI algorithms to predict patient deterioration

Healthcare It News

Changi General Hospital in Singapore is now developing and validating AI algorithms to predict the likelihood of patient deterioration as part of its smart remote health monitoring system. WHAT IT'S ABOUT. The hospital has been collaborating with A*STAR medtech spinoff Respiree to develop a remote patient monitoring (RPM) system. It is one of the projects that CGH, Respiree and A*STAR are working on, backed with SG$1.35 million (over $950,000) in funding from the National Research Foundation

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Massage Therapist Insurance Billing Under CPT Code 97124

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One of the essential parts of optimized practice management is accurate billing. In the medical industry, one of the coding and billing sides deals with the service of massage therapy. There is a huge range of CPT codes when it comes to insurance billing for massage therapists. Importance of CPT codes. The importance of using standard CPT codes cannot be underestimated.

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Half of nurses consider leaving the profession, survey finds

Health Care Dive

Staffing shortages were the top reason nurses cited for planning to leave their jobs, followed by the need for better work-life balance, according to staffing agency ConnectRN.

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Walgreens' VillageMD inks $9B deal to buy Summit Health, marking largest physician deal of the year

Fierce Healthcare

Walgreens' VillageMD inks $9B deal to buy Summit Health, marking largest physician deal of the year. hlandi. Mon, 11/07/2022 - 11:57.

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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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Personalizing the patient care experience through data

Healthcare It News

Patients interact with different organizations in the patient care continuum, from when they discover they are ill to when they receive care and follow-up. Only through positive, personalized experiences across these touchpoints can an otherwise emotional and overwhelming experience be made easier. Health data within these touchpoints is siloed, locked across members of the healthcare value chain.

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How To Find Out The Effectivity of RCM in HealthCare

p3care

It is always a challenging task for any business growth and promotion to make a profitable balance between the inputs and outputs. We always face the outcomes of what we have seeded earlier. For healthcare facilities, the inputs are providing services for patient care and treatment. On the other hand, the outputs are the financial stability for the system and hence the provider via effective revenue cycle management.

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Profits continue to climb for payers as possible recession looms

Health Care Dive

Despite talk of a recession, all major insurers expect a rosier end to 2022 than earlier predictions. On the other hand, profits fell for large hospital operators faced with pricier labor and lower volumes.

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Experts urge polio vaccination to ward off any major resurgence

Fierce Healthcare

Experts urge polio vaccination to ward off any major resurgence. fdiamond. Wed, 11/09/2022 - 15:06.

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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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St. Luke's Health reports data breach

Healthcare It News

A hack into a third-party vendor's email reportedly led to the exposure of patient and clinical data, resulting in care delays and clinical workflow disruptions across the health system. St. Luke's Health learned that a data breach affecting consultant Adelanto Healthcare Ventures had compromised protected health information. The data breach affecting the Texas-based system of 16 hospitals is unrelated to the massive ransomware attack on its parent company, CommonSpirit Health.

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What Dangers Are Associated with Upper Cervical Chiropractic?

p3care

You need to understand that, to some extent, Upper Cervical Chiropractic is Dangerous. Most people get scared when the media highlights the severe injuries and dangerous things that appeared from cervical adjustments, which makes the chiropractic practice unsafe. Let’s read about it in detail. Cervical Chiropractic Care and its Fear. Physicians are worried about how their reputations, profits, and practices get affected by faulty medical billing services.

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CommonSpirit continues to wrangle with cyberattack

Health Care Dive

A majority of the providers affected by the attack last month have regained access to electronic health records, but the system said it is still working to return to normal operations.

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CMS looking at quality metrics to get ACA exchange plans into value-based care

Fierce Healthcare

CMS looking at quality metrics to get ACA exchange plans into value-based care. rking. Thu, 11/10/2022 - 16:00.

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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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Rural NY health system working with Silicon Valley to expand access, digital transformation

Healthcare It News

The Andreessen Horowitz Bio + Health fund this week announced a new strategic partnership that aims to give an upstate New York health system access to digital health technologies that can help it address access challenges for its patient population. WHY IT MATTERS. The partnership aims to advance the patient experience, assure financial sustainability and position Bassett Healthcare for long-term growth.

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What Does HIPAA Compliance and Implementation Cost?

p3care

What is HIPAA & What Does It Stands For? HIPAA is an abbreviation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. This legislation was passed in 1996 in the United States and provides data privacy and security provisions for shielding medical information. There are two major purposes of HIPAA. The first is to provide continuous health insurance to workers, the ones who change jobs or lose it; and the second is to reduce the administrative burdens and costs of healthcare by standa

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Bright Health ceases MA operations in Florida in latest business cut

Health Care Dive

The newest reduction for the insurtech comes less than a month after Bright announced it was leaving the Affordable Care Act exchanges and slashing its Medicare Advantage footprint to just Florida and California.

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Telehealth took off during COVID. Here's how companies like Sprinter Health and TytoCare are trying to close the loop on remote care

Fierce Healthcare

Telehealth took off during COVID. Here's how companies like Sprinter Health and TytoCare are trying to close the loop on remote care. agliadkovskaya. Thu, 11/10/2022 - 12:33.

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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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Orlando Health to launch Hospital Care at Home program

Healthcare It News

Orlando Health on Monday announced that it's been approved by Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration to start delivering hospital-level acute care in adult patients’ homes. WHY IT MATTERS. The health system is planning to launch its Hospital Care at Home initiative in February, and make it available to specific patients who meet certain clinical criteria determined by emergency department and hospital staff.

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What Happened to the COVID-19 Vaccine Patent Waiver?

Bill Of Health

By Sarah Gabriele. In June 2022, after almost two years of debate over a potential COVID-19 vaccine patent waiver, the World Trade Organization adopted the Ministerial Decision on the TRIPS Agreement (“WTO Decision”), which provided for a partial waiver of intellectual property rights. More specifically, the WTO Decision waived patent rights on vaccines and allowed for the use of protected clinical trial data for regulatory approval of vaccines.

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5 takeaways from the FDA’s list of AI-enabled medical devices

Health Care Dive

As the number of devices increases, the agency is looking to adapt its regulatory framework to the new technology, including faster approval of algorithm updates.

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Providers urge Biden to tackle 'gridlocked' hospital EDs and life-threatening care delays

Fierce Healthcare

Providers urge Biden to tackle 'gridlocked' hospital EDs and life-threatening care delays. dmuoio. Wed, 11/09/2022 - 13:55.

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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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VA, Healthy Together collaborate on mobile access to health records

Healthcare It News

The initial offering enables veterans to view and store immunization records all in one place. WHY IT MATTERS. Healthy Together uses the Department of Veterans Affairs Lighthouse program to securely access relevant VA data when veterans connect their VA accounts. The collaboration is part of the VA's efforts to provide more ways for veterans to securely access and utilize their health records and data through the agency's API.

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America May Not Be Ready for the Looming Tsunami of 'Deep Fakes'

The Rand Blog

Images and videos have been falsified since the first photographs were taken. But deep fakes are fundamentally different. Their realism, and the scale and ease with which they can be produced, make them incredibly potent disinformation tools.

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Walgreens-backed VillageMD buys Summit Health for $9B

Health Care Dive

Cigna’s health services division Evernorth is also taking a stake in the deal, and will become a minority owner in VillageMD.

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CMS seeks to close gaps in health equity data collection as new measures roll out

Fierce Healthcare

CMS seeks to close gaps in health equity data collection as new measures roll out. rking. Fri, 11/11/2022 - 15:32.

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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.