Fri.May 17, 2024

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Report: The generative AI roadmap, its hurdles and strategies to mitigate

Fierce Healthcare

The panel that worked on the report was made up of Big Tech players like Amazon, Google and Microsoft, as well as leaders such as Harvard Medical School, the Leapfrog Group and Kaiser Permanente.

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Epic continued to outstrip EHR competitors in 2023: report

Health Care Dive

Epic was the only vendor to see a net increase in acute care market share last year, while Oracle Health saw its largest net hospital loss on record, according to Klas Research.

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Mental health inequities will cost U.S. $478B in 'unnecessary' expenses in 2024

Fierce Healthcare

Inequities in mental health across the U.S. | ED overutilization, exacerbated comorbidities and lost productivity will drive trillions in "avoidable and unnecessary expenses" should inequities in mental health access and outcomes remain unchecked.

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Tracking the impact of Ascension’s cyberattack by state

Health Care Dive

Healthcare Dive is tracking pharmacy operations, emergency rooms statuses and potential care delays across Ascension’s hospitals.

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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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Industry Voices—Truly inclusive EHR design is within reach

Fierce Healthcare

One in 4 adults in the U.S. | Challenges to inclusive design often stem from viewing disability as a binary status. However, disabilities vary widely in severity and permanency, with symptoms existing on a spectrum.

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Cleveland Clinic names new CIO

Health Care Dive

Sarah Hatchett, who has been serving as interim CIO, assumed the role on Thursday.

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Building a Prevention Infrastructure to Address Substance Use: Connecticut’s Approach

NASHP

As the opioid crisis continues to evolve, efforts to educate communities on the dangers of substance use and resources on overdose prevention are needed to curb rising rates of drug-related overdoses. Driven by the increased lethality of fentanyl in the drug supply , adolescent overdose deaths more than doubled between 2019 and 2021, even as the rate of adolescent drug use remained steady.

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Hinge Health integrates movement-based menopause support into digital MSK clinic

Fierce Healthcare

For women who experience musculoskeletal (MSK) and pelvic health issues, the decline in estrogen during menopause can not only worsen existing symptoms but also trigger new joint, muscle and pelvic | Digital health company Hinge Health expanded its movement- and behavior-based care to help women alleviate common menopause symptoms such as hot flashes and joint and muscle pain.

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Digital Front Door 101: The Gateway to Healthcare’s Future

Medbridge Education

What Is a Digital Front Door in Healthcare? The digital front door is a layer of technology that helps healthcare providers manage a patient’s healthcare journey to drive better access, engagement, and experiences across the service continuum. More than just an entryway, the digital front door helps improve the patient experience from beginning to end, […] The post Digital Front Door 101: The Gateway to Healthcare’s Future appeared first on MedBridge Blog.

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Rep. Buddy Carter optimistic House committees will come to agreement on telehealth extension negotiations

Fierce Healthcare

The House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on health voted to pass a two-year Medicare telehealth extension on Thursday along with other legislation that expands reimbursement for health tech.&nbsp | On Thursday, a subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted to pass a two-year Medicare telehealth extension along with other bills that improve health tech reimbursement.

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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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Breaking Down Walls: The Other Care Models Marking Their Territory In Home-Based Care

Home Health Care

Traditional home-based care companies aren’t the only ones serving seniors, while helping shift care away from brick-and-mortar settings. Adult day, PACE and continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) without walls are a few of the care models working to meet the needs of seniors that want to age in place. In many ways, these care models are natural allies to home-based care providers.

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Chutes & Ladders—Providence CEO exits; New CIO at DaVita

Fierce Healthcare

Welcome to this week's Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry.

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LG Unveils Primefocus Health: Personalized Care & Remote Monitoring From Home

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Global innovator LG Electronics has unveiled “Primefocus Health,” a new venture that aims to leverage innovative technologies and new healthcare therapies to enable providers to deliver a personalized, complete care experience and empower individuals to take control of their health at home. – Primefocus Health is the first new venture launched by LG NOVA , LG Electronics’ North America Innovation Center.

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Seven Takeaways on How Teachers Are Reacting to Restrictions on Discussing Race and Gender

The Rand Blog

U.S. teachers say they are experiencing limitations on a variety of topics many people consider to be controversial or sensitive, above and beyond race and gender. So how are teachers in the United States reacting?

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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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Pennant Announces 2 New Home Health, Hospice Acquisitions; Family Resource Home Care Expands Footprint

Home Health Care

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership The Pennant Group secures 2 more acquisitions The Pennant Group has completed two acquisitions thus far in May. Announced first was its acquisition of the Davis County, Utah-based South Davis Home Health and South Davis Hospice. “This acquisition provides us with an opportunity to further expand in the state of Utah, and will complement our agencies throughout central and northern Utah,” Pennant CEO Brent Guerisoli said in a statement.

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Inflation, Health, and the American Consumer – “The Devil Wears Kirkland”

Health Populi

The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that surging hospital prices are helping to keep inflation high. Hospital costs rose 7.7% last month, the highest increase in 13 years. This chart from WSJ’s reporting illustrates the >2x change in the CPI for hospitals vs the overall rate of price increases. Hospitals are not alone in price cliffs, with health insurance premiums spiking last year at the fastest rate in a decade, the Labor Statistics data showed. “For patients and their

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An Updated Look at State Opioid Settlement Spending Decisions  

NASHP

Where Are States Now in the Opioid Settlement Spending Process? States are currently in the process of distributing settlements from various opioid-related lawsuits, with each state at a different stage in the process of receiving funding, setting up decision-making processes, allocating funding, and reporting on spending and investment outcomes. Previously, in June of 2023, NASHP published a brief of publicly reported information on state opioid settlement plans and appropriations made to date,

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Effective Strategies Healthcare Organizations Can Employ to Sidestep SEO Keyword Stuffing

Sequence Health

Keyword stuffing, a common pitfall in search engine optimization (SEO), occurs when specific keywords are overused in content to manipulate rankings. This practice not only hinders the user experience but can also lead to penalties from search engines, significantly affecting your search ranking. Healthcare organizations must optimize content effectively to connect with their audience authentically.

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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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State Opioid Settlement Spending Decisions

NASHP

States are in the process of implementing structures and plans to distribute at least $50 billion awarded to states and localities from opioid-related lawsuits. Through each state’s unique settlement process, states are working to identify priorities for reducing opioid-related deaths and investing in SUD prevention, treatment, and recovery infrastructure.

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Implicity Launches FDA-approved Heart Failure Prediction Algorithm, SignalHF

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Implicity , a leader in remote patient monitoring and cardiac data management, has received FDA 510(k) clearance for SignalHF1 , a groundbreaking new algorithm within their remote monitoring solution. – SignalHF1 algorithm empowers early detection and intervention, paving the way for improved patient outcomes and a brighter future for cardiac care.

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The Future of Virtual Care and Remote Patient Monitoring: 4 Key Themes from ATA Nexus 2024

Health Recovery

I had the privilege this year of attending the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) Nexus conference for the very first time. This event, held in the heart of Phoenix, AZ, was a testament to the burgeoning field of virtual care—a domain we at Health Recovery Solutions are deeply invested in as we strive to enhance patient outcomes, alleviate staff shortages, and improve clinical efficiency.

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Trinity Biotech & PulseAI Partner for Smarter CGM with AI-Powered Analytics

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Trinity Biotech plc (Nasdaq: TRIB) a commercial stage biotechnology company focused on human diagnostics and diabetes management solutions, including wearable biosensors, today announced a strategic collaboration with medical artificial intelligence (“AI”) company PulseAI to enhance the Company’s recently acquired continuous glucose monitor (CGM) biosensor technology. – Under this collaboration, Trinity Biotech will provide a pool of unique multi-parameter CGM

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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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The Ultimate Guide to Healthcare Revenue Cycle Analytics

Etactics

In 2022, U.S. healthcare spending grew a whopping 4.1 percent. This resulted in the healthcare system worth about 4.5 trillion USD ! Wildly enough, when it came to calculating the nation’s Gross Domestic Product, health spending made up just over 17%. So needless to say, the healthcare industry is not only important when it comes to providing care, but is a lucrative industry as well.

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CharmHealth EHR Integrates With VitaminLab to Offer Personalized Supplements for Patients

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – CharmHealth, a leader in healthcare technology solutions for providers, today announced that it has partnered with VitaminLab , a leader in truly personalized supplements designed to meet individual health needs. – Through this seamless integration, healthcare providers from any size practice can formulate one-of-a-kind personalized supplements for patients in the same place patient health data is stored — the CharmHealth EHR.

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Stephanie Tabashneck: An “Interpreter” Between Two Fields

Bill Of Health

Stephanie Tabashneck , PsyD, JD, is a Senior Fellow in Law and Applied Neuroscience at the Petrie-Flom Center and Center for Law, Brain and Behavior (CLBB) at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. A forensic psychologist and an attorney, she focuses her research, practice, and teaching on neural development in children and adolescents, substance use issues, and providing forensic evaluations and expert testimony.

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Enable Injections & Serina Partner to Develop Novel Parkinson’s Treatment

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Enable Injections, Inc. (“Enable”) , a healthcare innovation company developing and manufacturing the enFuse® wearable drug delivery platform and Serina Therapeutics (“Serina”) (NYSE American: SER), a clinical-stage biotechnology company advancing its POZ Platform™ to develop and improve efficacy and safety across multiple modalities including small molecules, RNA-based therapeutics and antibody-based drug conjugates (ADCs), today announced a partnership to develop

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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.