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AI in Digital Health: Autonomy, Governance, and Privacy

Bill Of Health

The following post is adapted from the edited volume AI in eHealth: Human Autonomy, Data Governance and Privacy in Healthcare. By Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci and Mark Fenwick. The emergence of digital platforms and related technologies are transforming healthcare and creating new opportunities and challenges for all stakeholders in the medical space.

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Emergency rooms are at ‘breaking point,’ physicians say

Health Care Dive

Medical groups are urging the Biden administration to prioritize finding solutions to patient overcrowding.

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Google Cloud to power virtual care delivery at Manipal Hospitals

Healthcare It News

Manipal Hospitals has tapped Google Cloud to improve its virtual and remote care capabilities while leveraging AI to enhance patient experience. The partnership involves the deployment of the Amwell telehealth platform to enable virtual visits. Since 2020, Amwell has been Google's preferred telehealth partner to expand access to virtual care delivery worldwide.

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UnitedHealth continues to lead the way on insurer profits in Q3. Here's how its competitors fared

Fierce Healthcare

UnitedHealth continues to lead the way on insurer profits in Q3. Here's how its competitors fared. pminemyer. Mon, 11/07/2022 - 15:36.

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From Diagnosis to Delivery: How AI is Revolutionizing the Patient Experience

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven

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Planning for 2023: 10 Advanced Strategies for Marketing & Advertising 

Healthcare Success

Best-in-class healthcare marketers are already planning for next year. They’re researching key trends that will attract new high-intent audiences, increase engagement, drive revenue, and reinforce patient loyalty in 2023. If you’ve been revamping the same marketing plan for a few years, now is the perfect time to reevaluate everything through the lens of market innovations and advancements in digital marketing technologies.

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Senator outlines potential cybersecurity mandates for health systems

Health Care Dive

Cybersecurity can no longer be treated as a secondary concern and must become incorporated into every organization’s core business model, according to the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

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Fierce Healthcare Fundraising Tracker—DispatchHealth rakes in $330M; Care.ai banks $27M for ambient intelligence

Fierce Healthcare

Fierce Healthcare Fundraising Tracker—DispatchHealth rakes in $330M; Care.ai banks $27M for ambient intelligence. hlandi. Mon, 11/07/2022 - 17:36.

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What is Metformin? Foods To Avoid While Taking During Diabetes

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Metformin is a medication that is prescribed to patients by their doctors if they have type 2 diabetes. It should be taken with the proper diet plan. Below, you will get to know about this medication more deeply and also about some foods that you need to avoid while taking it. Metformin: What Is It? Metformin is made especially for patients with diabetes.

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Half of nurses consider leaving the profession, survey finds

Health Care Dive

Staffing shortages were the top reason nurses cited for planning to leave their jobs, followed by the need for better work-life balance, according to staffing agency ConnectRN.

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St. Luke's Health reports data breach

Healthcare It News

A hack into a third-party vendor's email reportedly led to the exposure of patient and clinical data, resulting in care delays and clinical workflow disruptions across the health system. St. Luke's Health learned that a data breach affecting consultant Adelanto Healthcare Ventures had compromised protected health information. The data breach affecting the Texas-based system of 16 hospitals is unrelated to the massive ransomware attack on its parent company, CommonSpirit Health.

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How to Make The Best Benefits Decisions for 2025's Workforce: An HR and Total Rewards Guide

Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll

Retaining top talent in 2025 means rethinking benefits. In a competitive job market, fertility benefits are more than just offerings - they are a commitment to your team’s well-being. Gain critical insights into the latest fertility benefits strategies that can help position your organization as an industry leader. Our expert will explore the unique advantages and challenges of each model, share success stories from top organizations, and offer practical strategies to make benefits decisions tha

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Walgreens' VillageMD inks $9B deal to buy Summit Health, marking largest physician deal of the year

Fierce Healthcare

Walgreens' VillageMD inks $9B deal to buy Summit Health, marking largest physician deal of the year. hlandi. Mon, 11/07/2022 - 11:57.

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Massage Therapist Insurance Billing Under CPT Code 97124

p3care

One of the essential parts of optimized practice management is accurate billing. In the medical industry, one of the coding and billing sides deals with the service of massage therapy. There is a huge range of CPT codes when it comes to insurance billing for massage therapists. Importance of CPT codes. The importance of using standard CPT codes cannot be underestimated.

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Profits continue to climb for payers as possible recession looms

Health Care Dive

Despite talk of a recession, all major insurers expect a rosier end to 2022 than earlier predictions. On the other hand, profits fell for large hospital operators faced with pricier labor and lower volumes.

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Personalizing the patient care experience through data

Healthcare It News

Patients interact with different organizations in the patient care continuum, from when they discover they are ill to when they receive care and follow-up. Only through positive, personalized experiences across these touchpoints can an otherwise emotional and overwhelming experience be made easier. Health data within these touchpoints is siloed, locked across members of the healthcare value chain.

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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Experts urge polio vaccination to ward off any major resurgence

Fierce Healthcare

Experts urge polio vaccination to ward off any major resurgence. fdiamond. Wed, 11/09/2022 - 15:06.

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How To Find Out The Effectivity of RCM in HealthCare

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It is always a challenging task for any business growth and promotion to make a profitable balance between the inputs and outputs. We always face the outcomes of what we have seeded earlier. For healthcare facilities, the inputs are providing services for patient care and treatment. On the other hand, the outputs are the financial stability for the system and hence the provider via effective revenue cycle management.

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CommonSpirit continues to wrangle with cyberattack

Health Care Dive

A majority of the providers affected by the attack last month have regained access to electronic health records, but the system said it is still working to return to normal operations.

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Rural NY health system working with Silicon Valley to expand access, digital transformation

Healthcare It News

The Andreessen Horowitz Bio + Health fund this week announced a new strategic partnership that aims to give an upstate New York health system access to digital health technologies that can help it address access challenges for its patient population. WHY IT MATTERS. The partnership aims to advance the patient experience, assure financial sustainability and position Bassett Healthcare for long-term growth.

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

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.

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Telehealth took off during COVID. Here's how companies like Sprinter Health and TytoCare are trying to close the loop on remote care

Fierce Healthcare

Telehealth took off during COVID. Here's how companies like Sprinter Health and TytoCare are trying to close the loop on remote care. agliadkovskaya. Thu, 11/10/2022 - 12:33.

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What Happened to the COVID-19 Vaccine Patent Waiver?

Bill Of Health

By Sarah Gabriele. In June 2022, after almost two years of debate over a potential COVID-19 vaccine patent waiver, the World Trade Organization adopted the Ministerial Decision on the TRIPS Agreement (“WTO Decision”), which provided for a partial waiver of intellectual property rights. More specifically, the WTO Decision waived patent rights on vaccines and allowed for the use of protected clinical trial data for regulatory approval of vaccines.

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Bright Health ceases MA operations in Florida in latest business cut

Health Care Dive

The newest reduction for the insurtech comes less than a month after Bright announced it was leaving the Affordable Care Act exchanges and slashing its Medicare Advantage footprint to just Florida and California.

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VA, Healthy Together collaborate on mobile access to health records

Healthcare It News

The initial offering enables veterans to view and store immunization records all in one place. WHY IT MATTERS. Healthy Together uses the Department of Veterans Affairs Lighthouse program to securely access relevant VA data when veterans connect their VA accounts. The collaboration is part of the VA's efforts to provide more ways for veterans to securely access and utilize their health records and data through the agency's API.

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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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CMS looking at quality metrics to get ACA exchange plans into value-based care

Fierce Healthcare

CMS looking at quality metrics to get ACA exchange plans into value-based care. rking. Thu, 11/10/2022 - 16:00.

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What is P4P? How It Is Affecting Healthcare Overall?

p3care

The US government has shown its concerns about healthcare delivery since the beginning. They want to make quality care accessible for every individual. That’s why they have expanded the Medicaid program. Now it covers all those individuals having income not more than 138% of the federal poverty level (FPL). Moreover, the government has supported every single effort to minimize the healthcare cost for all.

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5 takeaways from the FDA’s list of AI-enabled medical devices

Health Care Dive

As the number of devices increases, the agency is looking to adapt its regulatory framework to the new technology, including faster approval of algorithm updates.

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Orlando Health to launch Hospital Care at Home program

Healthcare It News

Orlando Health on Monday announced that it's been approved by Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration to start delivering hospital-level acute care in adult patients’ homes. WHY IT MATTERS. The health system is planning to launch its Hospital Care at Home initiative in February, and make it available to specific patients who meet certain clinical criteria determined by emergency department and hospital staff.

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How To Empower Your Workforce With Modern Fertility Benefits

Speaker: Andrea Wuchiski

In an era where a workforce spans multiple generations, HR managers and Total Rewards leaders face the unique challenge of designing benefits packages that cater to diverse employee needs. This session will delve into how comprehensive fertility benefits can bridge generational gaps, support employees’ health, and enhance workplace satisfaction. Join us for an insightful session that highlights the strategic importance of fertility benefits in today’s competitive job market.

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Providers urge Biden to tackle 'gridlocked' hospital EDs and life-threatening care delays

Fierce Healthcare

Providers urge Biden to tackle 'gridlocked' hospital EDs and life-threatening care delays. dmuoio. Wed, 11/09/2022 - 13:55.

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What Dangers Are Associated with Upper Cervical Chiropractic?

p3care

You need to understand that, to some extent, Upper Cervical Chiropractic is Dangerous. Most people get scared when the media highlights the severe injuries and dangerous things that appeared from cervical adjustments, which makes the chiropractic practice unsafe. Let’s read about it in detail. Cervical Chiropractic Care and its Fear. Physicians are worried about how their reputations, profits, and practices get affected by faulty medical billing services.

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Walgreens-backed VillageMD buys Summit Health for $9B

Health Care Dive

Cigna’s health services division Evernorth is also taking a stake in the deal, and will become a minority owner in VillageMD.

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Health equity gets a boost from digital clinical communication tools

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Enhance Healthcare Efficiency With Top Payroll & HCM Services

Running a healthcare facility requires precision and care, not just for patients but also for your staff. Our guide, "A Buyer’s Guide to Payroll & HCM Services," helps healthcare providers choose the best provider. Efficient payroll management ensures timely, accurate payments, critical for maintaining staff morale and trust. Compliance support helps navigate complex healthcare regulations and avoid costly fines.