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Physician venture investor talks telehealth, digital therapeutics, Medicaid tech

Healthcare It News

As a computer scientist going through medical training, I felt trapped doing repeatable tasks that could be automated instead of delivering compassionate care to every person who needed it. In the coming years, I expect to see many more companies working to solve this problem.

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Future Of Wound Care: Home Health Providers Step Up To Meet Rising Demand

Home Health Care

Amedisys, headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, provides home health care, hospice, palliative care and high-acuity care services across 38 states. Delivering care in patient homes eliminates barriers that hinder proper healing by ensuring accessibility.

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HEDIS® Public Comment Period Is Now Open

NCQA

HEDIS measures do not constitute clinical practice guidelines and should not be used to determine insurance or coverage. Proposed New HEDIS Measures Follow-Up After Acute Care Visits for Asthma. An important part of developing and updating HEDIS is hearing from the public.

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Unleashing the Power of Protocols in Critical Care

HIT Consultant

Many clinical practice groups have developed consensus-based enteral feeding protocols for nutrition management to provide evidence-based care with less variability. The starting point of every improvement journey is good, quality data.

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Despite Current Concerns, AI in Healthcare Has A Long History

HIT Consultant

It was developed in 1972 and widely adopted in clinical practice in the 1980s and 1990s. Examples of this technology in motion include: The pulse oximeter , also called a plethysmograph or pleth, uses AI to calculate blood oxygen saturation based on the difference in transmission of red and infrared light in pulsating blood.

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MUSC Hollings Cancer Center and Flatiron Health Partner to Deliver Advanced Cancer Care

HIT Consultant

Gain real-time access to open clinical trials – Patients can be efficiently matched to potentially life-saving research opportunities. said James Hamrick, MD, Vice President of Clinical Oncology at Flatiron Health.

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Virginia Advances Maternal Health Equity Policy

NASHP

The state also explicitly identifies opportunities to encourage the adoption of evidence-based clinical practices to support positive birth outcomes including expanding the state’s Maternal Health Learning Collaborative.