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21st Century Pregnancy Care: Unleashing The Power of RNA

HIT Consultant

Dr. Alison Cowan, Practicing OB/GYN & Head of Medical Affairs at Mirvie. While maternal mortality is on the rise in the U.S., pregnancy health has seen little innovation in understanding the underlying biology of disease and is ripe for change. Nowhere is this more evident than in the realm of the prediction of preeclampsia. Fortunately, with new technology on the horizon, doctors will finally be able to predict preeclampsia and other pregnancy complications before they arise by evaluating t

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Mayo Clinic Uses Artificial Intelligence to Diagnose Heart Failure

Health IT Analytics

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Amazon's latest push into digital health—a virtual clinic for common conditions like allergies and hair loss

Fierce Healthcare

Amazon's latest push into digital health—a virtual clinic for common conditions like allergies and hair loss. hlandi. Tue, 11/15/2022 - 09:18.

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‘Not in la la land’: As digital health funding ebbs, VCs urge startups to be conservative

Health Care Dive

The explosion of funding during the pandemic was a good thing, but the ongoing market correction is a good thing too as only the best business models will survive, prominent investors argued at HLTH.

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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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New AMA blueprint seeks to tap the full potential of digital health

Healthcare It News

The American Medical Association's had offered a blueprint as a call to action to address the divide between the unprecedented levels of digital health funding, partnerships, mergers and acquisitions – and their underwhelming impact, thus far, on healthcare quality improvement. WHY IT MATTERS. The report, Closing the digital health disconnect: Blueprint for optimizing digitally enabled care is composed of six foundational actions recommended by the AMA: Build for patients and clinician

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The Drifting Menace

The Rand Blog

The drifting mine threat is not going away: they are simple, effective weapons that are easily made and deployed even by actors with limited naval capabilities. A holistic approach to tactics, enforcement, and technology development could help counter the threat and maintain future freedom of the seas.

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Google hasn’t given up on personal health records

Health Care Dive

The tech giant, despite past setbacks, is continuing user testing around a consumer-facing health record. “It’s an ongoing curiosity,” Chief Health Officer Karen DeSalvo told Healthcare Dive at the HLTH conference.

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New healthcare privacy challenges as online data tracking, sharing methods evolve

Healthcare It News

This past June, a John Doe plaintiff who was a patient at Baltimore-based Medstar Health System filed a class action complaint against Meta Platforms in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiff alleged that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, was using its Pixel tracking technology to access patient information from websites and portals of hospitals and health systems for targeted marketing.

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What is ERA in Medical Billing & Why it Should be Integrated?

p3care

Medical Healthcare Providers wish to have the claim accepted in the first go, and the providers need to reduce the errors in their claims. Medical billing experts believe that there’s always an error in medical billing claims which can be the reason behind denial claims. Get to know how ERA and EOB can efficiently improve reimbursements and collection rates.

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HLTH22: Google, Epic ink deal to migrate hospital EHRs to the cloud to ramp up use of AI, analytics

Fierce Healthcare

HLTH22: Google, Epic ink deal to migrate hospital EHRs to the cloud to ramp up use of AI, analytics. hlandi. Wed, 11/16/2022 - 02:42.

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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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HHS cybersecurity center warns of new ransomware threat

Health Care Dive

The ransomware has attacked targets worldwide, including at least one U.S. health group, since it was first identified in mid-August.

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Taking a patient-centric approach to value-based care

Healthcare It News

The value-based care model is gaining momentum in the healthcare industry, and it is not hard to see why. After all, value-based care – which rewards healthcare providers with incentives based on the quality of care they provide to patients – has been shown to improve healthcare outcomes and reduces costs for patients. On paper, value-based care should be an easy sell for hospitals.

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At-Home Care Provider DispatchHealth Raises Over $330 Million In Latest Funding Round

Home Health Care

The in-home medical company DispatchHealth has raised more than $330 million in yet another funding round, according to the company. Overall, that brings its funding total to well over $700 million since it was founded in 2013. The equity raise was led by Optum Ventures, with support from current investors such as Humana (NYSE: HUM), Oak HC/FT, Echo Health Ventures and Questa Capital.

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Northwell Health's research arm studied 35,000 COVID patients for years. Using basic data, it built an AI tool to predict outcomes

Fierce Healthcare

Northwell Health's research arm studied 35,000 COVID patients for years. Using basic data, it built an AI tool to predict outcomes. agliadkovskaya. Tue, 11/15/2022 - 16:23.

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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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Google Cloud to launch healthcare data capabilities in bid to improve health equity, patient management

Health Care Dive

The accelerators, announced Monday at the HLTH conference, were developed in tandem with several Google customers, including LifePoint Health and Hackensack Meridian Health.

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Microsoft, Wolters Kluwer partner to improve patient engagement

Healthcare It News

Virtual care companies and payer care management also have access to Wolters Kluwer, Health content on Azure. WHY IT MATTERS. The first phase of the partnership focuses on leveraging Wolters Kluwer’s healthcare information products – UpToDate, Lexicomp and Emmi, a personalized education tool – into new applications, like Digital Health Architect.

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Book Review: ‘The Truth Pill: The Myth of Drug Regulation in India’

Bill Of Health

By Aparajita Lath. The Truth Pill , authored by Dinesh Thakur and Prashant Reddy , is a monumental work that convincingly shows that drug regulation is but a myth in India. In their investigative style, the authors explain drug regulation in India through the lens of history, both Indian and global. The book’s combination of history and contemporary issues makes for an immersive and compelling read.

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Repeat COVID-19 infection deadlier than the first go-round, says study

Fierce Healthcare

Repeat COVID-19 infection deadlier than the first go-round, says study. fdiamond. Thu, 11/17/2022 - 10:38.

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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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One Medical’s innovation chief on Amazon, Medicaid and more

Health Care Dive

Rushika Fernandopulle discussed how remote work trends are affecting the business, One Medical’s ongoing shift toward risk and its interest in Medicaid.

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Salesforce launches Patient 360 for Health

Healthcare It News

Salesforce this past week announced the launch of a new customer relationship management product that works with existing electronic health records. WHY IT MATTERS. The Patient 360 for Health CRM platform is designed for cost efficiency and productivity, according to Salesforce. The company boasts of several of its features: Behavioral Health, which it says gives clinicians and case managers tools like interactive health timelines populated with patient health milestones and behavioral events, c

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What are we waiting for? Nurse Practitioners can fill gaps in our ailing health-care system

Healthy Debate

The post What are we waiting for? Nurse Practitioners can fill gaps in our ailing health-care system appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Primary care physician burnout raging across the US and other high-income countries, Commonwealth Fund finds

Fierce Healthcare

Primary care physician burnout raging across the US and other high-income countries, Commonwealth Fund finds. dmuoio. Thu, 11/17/2022 - 13:03.

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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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Amazon launches virtual doctor marketplace in newest healthcare play

Health Care Dive

The company is doubling down on virtual care with its latest health business: a marketplace allowing customers to choose from a network of telehealth providers for a variety of common medical needs.

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Roundup: EpiSoft's online IFC, payments process goes live in St John of God Health Care and more briefs

Healthcare It News

St John of God Health Care adopts online IFC, payments process by EpiSoft. St John of God Health Care has implemented EpiSoft's online Informed Financial Consent and payments process for patients. These features are the latest addition to its epi-me online patient admissions portal, also by EpiSoft. It has also been integrated with the hospital group's web-based PAS.

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Pros & Cons of Electronic Health Records (EHRs)

p3care

Electronic health records are real-time medical records in digital form. It manages patient information from medication management to advanced analytics. Electronic health records (EHRs) are now widely used in American healthcare institutions. As of 2015 , 8% of non-federal acute care hospitals were using basic EHR systems , up from 9.4% in 2008 , according to the ONC for health IT.

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Midwest nonprofits Sanford Health, Fairview Health Services target a 58-hospital merger for 2023

Fierce Healthcare

Midwest nonprofits Sanford Health, Fairview Health Services target a 58-hospital merger for 2023. dmuoio. Tue, 11/15/2022 - 13:05.

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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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Cleveland Clinic billing for certain messaging on MyChart

Health Care Dive

The amount of messages Cleveland Clinic providers are answering on the portal has doubled since 2019, prompting the system to start billing for those that require more time and expertise.

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Tasmania transforming outpatient services with online booking, eReferral system

Healthcare It News

The Tasmanian government has recently released a four-year strategy to transform outpatient services across its public health system. Tasmania's Transforming Outpatient Services Strategy seeks to shorten wait times, improve communication, and modernise processes. One focus of the strategy is ICT and virtual care capability under which a Digital Outpatient Management System and eReferral system will be delivered to "modernise and streamline service delivery processes.

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Life Expectancy with Asymptomatic Carotid Artery Disease (ACAD)

p3care

The healthcare system is established to increase a patient’s life expectancy. The attending physicians when interacting with their patients, use every possible approach to cure the ailments. But life expectancy for a patient with threatening conditions, like cardiac issues, is lower. Here, a physician focuses on the survival chances the most and does the appropriate treatment accordingly.

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HLTH22: Private equity rebuffs critics, says it brings rigor, scale and necessary change to healthcare

Fierce Healthcare

HLTH22: Private equity rebuffs critics, says it brings rigor, scale and necessary change to healthcare. dmuoio. Thu, 11/17/2022 - 17:57.

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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.