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The Levels of Content & Why Healthcare Can’t Settle for Lower Tiers

Healthcare Success

Content comes in levels or tiers, and your healthcare website requires the highest level. Why? Writing high-quality content for healthcare that ranks high on Google and drives consumer action is hard. What’s more, it requires the ability to make the right judgment call when faced with conflicting objectives and deep knowledge of several disciplines, including: Up-to-date medical facts and research Specialized industry sectors Dynamic Google algorithms and SEO requirements Unique brand tone, voic

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DocsGPT in beta targets physician burnout

Healthcare It News

Developed using OpenAI's ChatGPT and trained on healthcare-specific prose, the online DocsGPT offers doctors a chance to test and weigh in on AI-powered product development. Testing AI for workflow 'scut' OpenAI developed ChatGPT, which launched in November as a prototype, using multiple learning methodologies. Human trainers, in collaboration with Microsoft on Azure's supercomputing infrastructure, created reward models to improve its performance.

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60% of patients uncomfortable with AI in healthcare settings, survey finds

Health Care Dive

One key concern is that the technology will diminish personal connections between patients and providers, a survey from the Pew Research Center found.

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Program promises to take a team approach to tackling severe kidney disease

Fierce Healthcare

Program promises to take a team approach to tackling severe kidney disease fdiamond Tue, 02/21/2023 - 09:48

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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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Hospitals That Ditch Masks Risk Exposure

Bill Of Health

By Nina Kohn and Irina D. Manta This month, New York became the latest to join the growing list of states that have ended their requirements for routine masking in hospitals and other healthcare settings. In response, at least one of the state’s largest hospital systems is throwing off the mask despite the continued high level of virus transmission in New York City and most of the rest of the state.

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Chang Gung Memorial Hospital ranks second globally in 2022 HIMSS Digital Health Indicator

Healthcare It News

Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Taoyuan City, Taiwan has become the second-highest-ranking organisation in the latest HIMSS Digital Health Indicator. Based on the assessment, it scored 349/400 overall, achieving strong scores in each DHI dimension. In the area of interoperability, CGMH was commended for its "highly structured documentation and medical records" that have enabled "advanced and effective" clinical decision support and data collection for research.

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Major coalition of health groups aims to combat health misinformation

Fierce Healthcare

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One Year After Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: Experts React

The Rand Blog

We asked nearly 30 RAND experts to highlight takeaways from the first year of Russia's all-out war—and share what they're watching as the conflict in Ukraine grinds on. Here's what they said.

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South Australia starts 24/7 remote rural health monitoring

Healthcare It News

SA Health has started a 24/7 remote health monitoring service in rural and regional South Australia. Funded by Country SA Primary Health Network, the service is being provided by the Integrated Cardiovascular Clinical Network of the Rural Support Service. HOW IT WORKS The free service, which is available to individuals aged 15 and over with a GP referral, provides patients with a monitoring kit that will allow them to measure their vital signs, including blood pressure, oxygen levels, pulse rate

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HIPAA complaints, breaches increased from 2017 to 2021 as HHS urges more funding

Health Care Dive

The HHS Office for Civil Rights is facing a “severe strain” on its staff and budget amid rising breaches and complaints, according to the agency’s annual report to Congress.

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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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Costly discharge delays highlight need for more downstream care options, New York group's analysis shows

Fierce Healthcare

Costly discharge delays highlight need for more downstream care options, New York group's analysis shows dmuoio Wed, 02/22/2023 - 12:48

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Accelerating Our Security Cloud Vision: Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Valtix 

CiscoHealth

When we think about today’s enterprise infrastructures, at their core, they comprise a few elements: multiple public clouds (primarily, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle C… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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Zoom is helping MaineGeneral Health boost its telehealth success

Healthcare It News

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020 and everything shut down, it became imperative for healthcare provider organizations to adopt telemedicine to deliver care. But so many organizations had no telemedicine programs, and thus technology, in place. So, many provider organizations scrambled and turned to what they could. And in so many cases, this was Zoom – a video conferencing technology that today practically everyone is familiar with.

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Medicaid enrollees largely unaware of upcoming redeterminations, survey finds

Health Care Dive

About 64% of adults in a Medicaid-enrolled family said they did not know they may lose coverage once pandemic-era policy ends and eligibility checks resume on April 1, a survey from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found.

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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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Hospital lobby urges FTC to withdraw or add healthcare exceptions to sweeping noncompete ban

Fierce Healthcare

Hospital lobby urges FTC to withdraw or add healthcare exceptions to sweeping noncompete ban dmuoio Wed, 02/22/2023 - 15:55

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Further FTC Education Needed On Non-Compete Ban’s Potential Effects, Legal Insiders Suggest

Home Health Care

Because the home care industry is so large and fragmented, consensus is often hard to come by. That is the likely outcome for the debate around banning non-compete agreements , too. For instance, there are plenty within the industry who believe that would be a step in the right direction. But then there are the providers. And many of their leaders recognize how much the ban could hurt their businesses – in more ways than one.

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Latest digital hospital in Thailand taps Ascom for clinical comms

Healthcare It News

Ascom has been chosen to provide its clinical communications and collaboration solutions to a new medical facility run by the Chulabhorn Hospital in Thailand. Through its Thai partner Xovic, Ascom will deliver an IT ecosystem at the 449-bed Bhadra Maha Rajanusorn Medical Centre, including its mobility devices, a software suite, the Telligence nurse call system, and integration with third-party vendors.

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Could Medicaid redeterminations cause short-term health plan signups to spike?

Health Care Dive

Short-term plan operators will likely ramp up their marketing in April to nab new consumers from the Medicaid churn, but health policy experts largely aren't concerned.

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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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Google, Microsoft execs share how racial bias can hinder expansion of health AI

Fierce Healthcare

Google, Microsoft execs share how racial bias can hinder expansion of health AI rking Thu, 02/23/2023 - 12:36

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Optimizing the Wealth Management Onboarding Process

CiscoHealth

As our lives have become more digital and our preference for digital services increased, banks have responded by focusing a significant amount of time and attention on the digital customer… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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BroadbandOhio selects OCHIN as state telehealth administrator

Healthcare It News

BroadbandOhio, a division of the Ohio Department of Development, selected OCHIN as its statewide telehealth administrator to help expand healthcare services for Ohio’s K-12 students. WHY IT MATTERS The new initiative aims to help administrators in at least 10 districts implement school telehealth programs. BroadbandOhio plans to establish a steering committee with other state agencies to oversee OCHIN’s efforts, according to the announcement.

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Teladoc reports historic net loss of $13.7B in 2022

Health Care Dive

The loss was mainly due to an impairment charge from the shrinking value of an earlier acquisition, but analysts said that the earnings provide a reset for Teladoc's financial expectations heading into 2023.

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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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Butterfly takes flight: Hand-held ultrasound pushed to the limits to test its use for space missions

Fierce Healthcare

Butterfly takes flight: Hand-held ultrasound pushed to the limits to test its use for space missions agliadkovskaya Fri, 02/24/2023 - 15:22

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KLAS Report: SAP in Healthcare 2023

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – A new report from KLAS finds that several midsize and large healthcare customers have broadly adopted SAP’s platform and appreciate how robust the tools can be. – Customer feedback around the tools’ usability, however, is mixed; some report high satisfaction and praise the systems’ configurability, while others report frustration with complex interfaces and the number of clicks.

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Axena Health raises $25M to support pelvic floor digital therapeutic

Healthcare It News

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Amazon closes $3.9B buy of One Medical

Health Care Dive

The acquisition, which closed without a challenge from regulators, gives Amazon a footprint in primary care and reinvigorates the company’s long-held plans to sell healthcare services to employers.

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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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Google Cloud, Redox team up to accelerate data interoperability for health plans, providers and digital health startups

Fierce Healthcare

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ObvioHealth Launches Digital Therapeutics API for Clinical Trials

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – ObvioHealth launches proprietary application programming interface (API) tailored specifically for digital therapeutics (DTx) clinical trials. – ObvioHealth’s API ensures tight integration between the digital therapeutic and the ObvioGo platform, providing sponsors with accurate data to correlate efficacy with adherence to the DTx.

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Transparency is a must-have for effective data collection

Healthcare It News

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UnitedHealth closes $5.4B buy of home health business LHC

Health Care Dive

LHC will become part of UnitedHealth’s health services arm Optum to help deliver integrated care, as demand for home and community care increases.

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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.