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Private healthcare the ‘ new normal’ in the UK?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Common procedures that patients are getting through private health insurance include blood tests, knee replacements, peripheral nerve blocks, eardrum surgery and tonsil removal. Moreover, private hospitals in England are providing more care for NHS patients–similar to how the VA may outsource some care to private providers.

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Fortis Healthcare gets AI boost for mental health vertical

Healthcare It News

Fortis Healthcare, a publicly listed private hospital network from India, has introduced a new mental health service enabled by artificial intelligence. United We Care announced its contracts with three undisclosed major healthcare systems in the United States. Dubbed Stella 2.0,

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IHH Healthcare migrates Malaysia, S'pore database systems to cloud

Healthcare It News

Private healthcare group IHH Healthcare has moved several on-premise database systems of its hospitals across Malaysia and Singapore to the cloud. Consolidating its disparate on-premise systems in the cloud is part of IHH's efforts to modernise hospital operations in its home markets.

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AHA says OCR's online tracking tool rules need to go

Healthcare It News

In a letter to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, the American Hospital Association said the U.S. The association said the rule has resulted in consequences that contravene OCR's efforts to encourage hospitals to share non-private healthcare information with the public.

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ONC launches SDOH interoperability pilot

Healthcare It News

" Since HL7 pledged to share the standards free of charge under licensing terms, many partnerships and collaborations with both public and private healthcare entities have bloomed. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. Email: afox@himss.org.

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60% of Ground Ambulance Rides Were Out of Network in 2022

HIT Consultant

of the distribution, according to other findings reported in a FAIR Health brief released today, A Window into Utilization and Cost of Ground Ambulance Services: A National Study of Private Healthcare Claims. of female patients in that age group were admitted to a hospital after ground ambulance transport. percent in 2018 to 30.6

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Why Family Caregivers Need Help from the Healthcare Establishment

HIT Consultant

For this woman, the issue is not simply a matter of not having received what, in her view, was adequate training, but also the anxiety she feels about potentially causing harm to her husband each time she carries out a skilled level of care that she believes would be better left to a qualified healthcare professional. Bad News, Good News.