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Color Health uses OpenAI to develop cancer screening copilot for doctors

Healthcare It News

Color Health, a genetic testing company, is using OpenAI's newest, less expensive, large language model to equip doctors with pretreatment workup expertise that could speed up prior authorization requests for cancer screening diagnostics and get patients into treatment faster.

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Patient concerns in healthcare digitalisation: Rising inequalities

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Digitalisation in healthcare holds the promise of optimising processes and expanding access to care. In the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland, individual healthcare providers offer their own patient portals. Will I lose the connection with my doctor? Time saved by opting for telemedicine over an in-person visit.

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Desert Oasis Healthcare gains 4x ROI with pop health patient engagement tech

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Desert Oasis Healthcare provides medical care and wellness services to communities in California's Coachella Valley, as well as in Riverside and San Bernardino. THE PROBLEM Desert Oasis was facing a challenge many healthcare organizations must contend with: getting patients to follow their care plans.

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A guide to healthcare digital transformation and the digital-first model

Healthcare It News

It aligns healthcare organizations with its customers – highly digital patients. This is one of the most important topics healthcare CIOs and other C-suite and health IT leaders can be talking about today. Data integration and interoperability are critical components of successful digital transformation in healthcare.

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53% of Doctors Face Negative Social Media Encounters

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Over half of doctors have had a negative encounter with another user, according to Software Advice’s Social Media for Doctors Survey. The survey finds that attracting new patients is the number one benefit to using social media, according to 66% of US practitioners.

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Asking Your Healthcare Provider the Hard Questions

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When I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2000, I never anticipated that going to the doctor for treatment of one life-threatening disease would result in getting another. Healthcare providers reused syringes during administration of my chemotherapy, which led to 99 people, including me, contracting hepatitis C. I wish I.

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Why healthcare leaders should embrace home-based technologies

Healthcare It News

Home health technologies will have an increasingly larger role to play in healthcare delivery as the silver tsunami of the aging population strain the system. " Healthcare IT News sat down with Rush for a discussion of these home health issues and technologies. We need to reframe our collective mindset around preventive care.