Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 11, 2024
This story was reported in partnership with Uncloseted Media, a nonpartisan, investigative, LGBTQ | Ending the HIV epidemic hinges on both treatment and prevention, particularly through access to PrEP. For at-risk individuals living in the U.S. South—where HIV is a daunting reality—PrEP use is very low compared to the number of new HIV cases.
Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 10, 2024
The products include a service that helps healthcare organizations build their own AI agents that could be used for appointment scheduling, clinical trial matching and patient triage.
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Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 2, 2024
Remote surgeries, holographic medical imaging, mixed reality, and patient tracking are some of the emerging 5G-powered healthcare innovations in the Asia-Pacific region. Dr Gao Yujia, Assistant Group CTO, National University Health System; William Chan, CIO, CUHK Medical Centre; Chien-Chang (Paul) Lee, Chief Medical Information Officer, Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW), Taiwan; and Terence Wong, Head of APAC 5G Industry, GSM Association, Hong Kong sat together to discuss these innovations d
HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 8, 2024
What You Should Know: – Ubie Inc. , a Japanese health tech company, has announced a significant investment from Google in its latest funding round. – The investment aims to leverage digital innovations, including generative AI, to drive the digital transformation of Japan’s healthcare system. Ubie’s Mission and Impact Ubie is dedicated to utilizing technology to guide individuals to appropriate medical care.
Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll
Fertility benefits have become a crucial component of employee well-being and retention strategies. In today’s competitive landscape, creating a fertility benefits program that aligns with both employee needs and organizational goals can be more complex than it seems. From cycle-based to flat-dollar and telehealth models, each solution offers unique advantages and challenges that directly affect employee satisfaction and financial well-being.
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Cloud Blogs
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Learn more about how Microsoft is enhancing healthcare with data and responsible AI. Read the latest Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare announcements. Existing language models have revolutionized how we interact and use powerful AI models for text-based use cases in healthcare. But the practice of modern medicine is chiefly multimodal. Effectively assessing the complete picture of patient health requires moving beyond medical text comprehension to sophisticated AI models capable of integrating and a
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Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 11, 2024
Wolters Kluwer Health, a big player in clinical decision support solutions, is teaming up with Abridge to integrate UpToDate into its AI-based medical note-taking tool. | Wolters Kluwer Health, a big player in clinical decision support solutions, is teaming up with Abridge to integrate UpToDate into its AI-based medical note-taking tool.
Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 18, 2024
Vertex AI Search for Healthcare is designed to quickly query a patient’s medical record. Google says the tool will reduce the administrative burden for payers and providers.
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 15, 2024
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HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 16, 2024
As HLTH 2024 prepares to convene in Las Vegas, the anticipation for groundbreaking insights and transformative discussions is palpable. To get a glimpse into the key themes and predictions shaping this year’s event, we reached out to 21 digital health executives for their expert perspectives. From the rise of generative AI and the evolving role of virtual care to the increasing focus on health equity and value-based care, these industry leaders offer a diverse range of perspectives on the
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CDC
OCTOBER 15, 2024
The Journey to an Infection Prevention and Control Career In the complex world of health care, infection prevention and control (IPC) is crucial to keeping everyone safe. IPC helps protect healthcare professionals and reduces patients’ risk for healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), which they can get while or soon after receiving care. HAIs can lead to prolonged hospital stays, increased healthcare costs, and even death, but implementing effective IPC measures can significantly reduce these r
Home Health Care
OCTOBER 17, 2024
As home health organizations fight for a margin in tough labor and payment environments, they are increasingly seeking ways to help employees practice at the top of their licenses. By applying top-of-license assignments in organizations, less complex work is handed off to the level below. This allows organizations to see more patients, bill for more services, reduce burnout and provide better care.
Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 15, 2024
The Drug Enforcement Administration is poised to extend pandemic-era telehealth prescribi | The third temporary extension is rumored to be for just one year, punting the deadline for the next administration to negotiate permanent rules to December 2025. Telemedicine companies, including those that prescribe Adderall, will be able to continue prescribing as they have since 2020.
Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Attorneys argue Khan and two other commissioners are biased against pharmacy benefit managers and should recuse themselves from an ongoing lawsuit against the middlemen.
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Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 2, 2024
The Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy within the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has published its final 2024-2030 Federal Health IT Strategy, which seeks to enhance care delivery and experiences for patients, caregivers, healthcare providers, public health professionals and others in the healthcare continuum.
HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 18, 2024
What You Should Know: – A new research report from Google Cloud sheds light on the significant administrative burden faced by healthcare professionals and the potential for generative AI (gen AI) to alleviate these challenges. – The report, “ Measuring the administrative burden on U.S. healthcare workers—and how generative AI can help, ” reveals that clinicians spend a substantial amount of time on administrative tasks, contributing to burnout, staff shortages, and reduce
Healthcare ECONOMIST
OCTOBER 11, 2024
This year, the Nobel Prize in medicine went to Victor Ambros, currently a Professor of Natural Science at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and Gary Ruvkun , a Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School. The two men won the award for their discovery of microRNA. One of the key questions of science is figuring how how can we have such differentiated cells–brain cells, muscle, bone, nerve–when all cells have the same DNA.
Home Health Care
OCTOBER 16, 2024
The rise of in-home alternatives to traditional hospital care is raising concerns about the potential strain these models may place on family caregivers. Under the hospital-at-home (HaH) model, it is essential to ensure that caregivers are not inadvertently overwhelmed with additional tasks and responsibilities that exceed their capacity and resources.
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Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 16, 2024
Microsoft recently unveiled several new artificial intelligence capabilities for healthcare organizations designed to help analyze diverse medical data, streamline nursing documentation and enable | Microsoft recently unveiled several new AI capabilities for healthcare organizations designed to help analyze diverse medical data, streamline nursing documentation and enable companies to build their own healthcare AI agents.
Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 21, 2024
UnitedHealth, CVS and Humana used technology to increase MA prior authorization denials for post-acute services, boosting profits, according to a report from a Senate subcommittee.
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 18, 2024
Sunway partners with Medtronic to test surgical robotics Sunway Healthcare Group in Malaysia recently announced its partnership with Medtronic. According to a social media announcement, they signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to improve the centres of excellence at its flagship hospital, Sunway Medical Centre, which specialises in spine, neuroscience, and cardiovascular medicine.
HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 18, 2024
Natalie Schibell, MPH, our VP of Marketing, Strategy, Intelligence, and Insights at Zyter|TruCare In today’s intricate healthcare landscape, seamless data exchange across diverse systems has shifted from a convenience to a critical ethical and business imperative. Interoperability has become the foundational element that enables healthcare IT systems to communicate effectively and exchange real-time data across the continuum of care.
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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
CDC
OCTOBER 8, 2024
In late September 2024, global leaders gathered in New York City for the second United Nations General Assembly High-level Meeting (UNGA HLM) on Antimicrobial Resistance. Since the first UNGA HLM on Antimicrobial Resistance in 2016, the United States (U.S.) has made tremendous progress toward the goals in the U.S. National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic-resistant Bacteria.
Home Health Care
OCTOBER 11, 2024
“Opposed.” That was the one-word response a home health provider left for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) during the comment period on the 2025 home health proposed payment rule. This comment was an anomaly, in terms of its brevity. While most respondents expressed similar sentiments, they chose to utilize more words to do so.
Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 17, 2024
The country’s three largest Medicare Advantage (MA) insurers obstruct seniors’ ability to receive post-acute care, a scathing report from the U.S. | A report from Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut, found that the country's biggest Medicare Advantage insurers use artificial intelligence to control costs and deny prior auth claims.
Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 10, 2024
As hospitals around the U.S. report IV fluid shortages, Baxter has increased supply allocations for direct customers and distributors. It plans to return to 90% to 100% allocation of certain supplies by the end of 2024.
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Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 12, 2024
In a world where consumers can order dog food, schedule a haircut or buy a plane ticket with just a few keystrokes, patients often are left wondering why healthcare has to be so complicated – and why so many processes seem stuck in the past. Today, as consumers grow more dependent on convenient and efficient online tools across retail, banking and grocers, patients are becoming increasingly aware of – and dissatisfied with – healthcare's digital deficiencies, which often cr
HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 18, 2024
What You Should Know: – As more people search for solutions to help manage their mental health, the interest and usage of smartphone apps and digital tools continues to grow. But when it comes to starting a journey with a digital health app, it may be overwhelming when there are many to choose from. – That’s why UnitedHealthcare is bringing Calm Health to more than 13 million commercial members as part of its offerings.
Meditech
OCTOBER 3, 2024
With our largest in-person turnout since 2020, this year’s MEDITECH LIVE crowd was buzzing with discussions on AI, interoperability, the power of data, and other opportunities for innovation in the health IT space.
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