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Medicine ’ s struggle for inclusivity
Medicine, with its somewhat tarred history in the matter, has woken to the cause of inclusivity. Not too long ago, in the early twentieth century, the American Medical Association (AMA) orchestrated reforms requiring immigrant European doctors to pass rigorous qualification exams, which most American doctors themselves were highly unlikely to clear. Rather than concern about Read more… Medicine’s struggle for inclusivity originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 22, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Physician Surgery Source Type: blogs

What could we do if GLP-1 weight loss drugs were free? Would our obesity epidemic be solved for good?
By CECI CONNOLY and SAMI INKINEN Unless you have been living under a rock, you likely have heard the names Ozempic, Wegovy or Mounjaro. Or perhaps been humming the jingle. Rarely has a class of drugs (in this case, GLP-1s) achieved such widespread attention in popular culture and the media, which has people clamoring for them in every doctor’s office in the nation. And for good reason. What we know is that the efficacy and safety profile of these medications is substantially better than any weight loss drug in the past, while our obesity epidemic has only ballooned. As organizations committed to sound science and h...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 13, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy ACHP Ceci Connoly GLP-1s Obesity Sami Inkinen virta Source Type: blogs

Why you (and your patients) should have a mindfulness practice
Nobody can question the fact that the world has a mental health problem. Nowhere is this more pronounced than in the medical health profession. American Medical Association statistics show that in 2021, physician burnout rates were 63 percent, which was almost double the rates in 2020. The CDC reports that 1 out of every five Read more… Why you (and your patients) should have a mindfulness practice originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 5, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Conditions Psychiatry Source Type: blogs

Did you know that colder weather can complicate blood pressure control rates and treatment?
Next time you hear “cuffing season,” think of blood pressure cuffs. As winter has properly set in with shorter, darker, colder days, you might see the impact on blood pressure control rates. A new study examined the health records of more than 68,000 adults being treated for hypertension and found that on a population level, BP Read more… Did you know that colder weather can complicate blood pressure control rates and treatment? originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 4, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Conditions Cardiology Source Type: blogs

Health2047 Portfolio Company HEAL Security Launches from Stealth with $4.6 Million Raised
The Platform Offers Comprehensive, Tailored Threat Intelligence and Risk Assessment, Empowering Hospitals and Health Systems to Protect Patient Data with Precision Health2047, a Silicon Valley-based venture studio founded by the American Medical Association (AMA), today announced its investment in and launch from stealth of portfolio company HEAL Security, a cognitive cybersecurity intelligence platform custom-designed for the healthcare sector. To date, Health2047 has invested $2.3 million in HEAL Security, with additional co-investor funding bringing its total pre-seed investment to $4.6 million. In the first quarter ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 13, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT AMA American Medical Association Charles Aunger Evidium HEAL Security Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Health2047 HOPPR Lawrence K. Cohen Medcurio Phenomix Sciences Sch Source Type: blogs

The Evolution of Patient Communication: Trends and Technologies
The following is a guest article by Stephanie Maharjan, Director of Operations at WellReceived. While COVID-19 sparked many challenges for healthcare providers across the USA, it highlighted technology’s essential role in patient communication and engagement. In fact, in 2020, research found that just under half of the US population used tech to communicate with their healthcare providers. And this statistic is set to rise as more and more healthcare providers invest in new technology to support, monitor, and diagnose their patients.  So, what does the future of patient communication look like, and what role can we exp...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 30, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Administration Ambulatory Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Security and Privacy Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Healthcare IoT Healthcare Scene Featured HIPAA Medical An Source Type: blogs

Navigating the Prior Auth Landscape in 2024: 3 Things to Know Before Implementing Automation
The following is a guest article by Dr. Steve Kim, Co-Founder and CEO at Valer Prior authorization automation is an essential consideration for healthcare organizations seeking to streamline their processes in the coming year. Automating prior authorization workflow offers several operational, financial, and clinical benefits, including fewer avoidable denials, procedure cancellations, and delays in care, better patient outcomes, improved staff productivity, and more. If you’re considering adopting prior authorization automation technology for the first time, or you’re potentially switching from an existing provider th...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 18, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Administration AI/Machine Learning Health IT Company Healthcare IT IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Automation Dr. Steve Kim Prior Auth Prior Auth Automation Prior Authorization Prior Authorization Automation Valer Voluware Source Type: blogs

Claims Software Can Ease Manual Processes Related to Treating Medical Tourists from Outside the U.S.
The following is a guest article by Rob Stuart, Founder and President at Claim.MD Medical tourism is big business for leading hospitals and health centers around the world. In the United States, the overwhelming perception is that American patients seek treatment in Mexico, Turkey, Singapore, and other places to save money over what they’d pay for the same treatments. But the U.S. has been named the top worldwide medical tourism destination. Because many people don’t proclaim themselves as medical tourists on travel documents, reliable statistics on the prevalence of medical travel are scarce. However, a 2017 survey li...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 15, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Administration Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Revenue Cycle Management Claim.MD Claims Software CPT Codes DRG Codes Healthcare Claims International Healthcare Claims Interoperability Medical Tourism Source Type: blogs

The Future of Healthcare: Integrated Data for Integrated Care
The following is a guest article by Venki Subramanian, SVP Product Management at Reltio When data is missing, inaccurate, incomplete, or misdirected, it can have severe, sometimes life-altering impacts. For example, in a survey by the Journal of the American Medical Association, approximately 1 in 5 patients who reviewed their electronic health record (EHR) ambulatory notes found an error–and 40% of these patients perceived the mistakes as serious, including mistakes in diagnoses, medical history, medications, test results, notes on the wrong patient, and sidedness. Healthcare organizations are grappling with the challen...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 20, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Analytics/Big Data EMR-EHR Healthcare IT Data Management Healthcare Data Integrated Data Patient Care Regulations Reltio Security Threats Venki Subramanian Source Type: blogs

5 Recommendations for Strengthening Radiology Cybersecurity
The following is a guest article by Jatin (JT) Thakkar, General Manager for Global Services and Solutions at Carestream Every day patients trust their health to the care of medical providers. They also place their personal health information (PHI) in their care. Sadly, ransomware attacks on healthcare delivery organizations are increasing in frequency and sophistication. The annual number of ransomware attacks on healthcare delivery organizations more than doubled from 2016 to 2021, exposing the PHI of nearly 42 million patients, according to research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. In the fir...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 8, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Security and Privacy Carestream Cyberattacks Cybersecurity Healthcare Cybersecurity Healthcare Ransomware Jatin (JT) Thakkar PACS PACS Security Personal Health Information Source Type: blogs

HOPPR Launches Groundbreaking Foundation Model for Medical Imaging
Health2047’s Newest Portfolio Company Unveils First-of-its-Kind Medical Imaging AI Platform Powered by Amazon Web Services; Early Partners Include RadNet and Rad AI Today, HOPPR announces the launch of Grace, a multi-modal foundation model for medical imaging, powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and available via private beta to developers, radiology PACS, and AI companies for fine-tuning and application development. Together with a milestone investment from Health2047, a venture studio founded by the American Medical Association (AMA), this launch marks a significant step forward in HOPPR’s quest to unlock the potent...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 8, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT AMA Amazon Web Services American Medical Association AWS Dan Sheeran Dr. Khan M. Siddiqui Evidium Grace Gradient Health Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Health2047 HOPP Source Type: blogs

Turnarounds are Talent Magnets: University of Chicago Medical Center
By JEFF GOLDSMITH Like birds of a feather, talent in healthcare management often gathers in flocks. The University of Minnesota, University of Michigan and University of Iowa healthcare management programs are all justly famous for graduating, over many decades, an exceptional number of future transformative healthcare leaders. But sometimes, talent comes from the “street”- challenging healthcare turnarounds that attract risk-taking leaders who, in turn, gather young talent around them. The University of Chicago’s urban academic health center has been one of these places. The U of C was (and remains) the la...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Jeff Goldsmith talent University of Chicago Source Type: blogs

Prior Authorization Takes a Leap Forward in CMS Regulation
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have taken a bold step by mandating a standard for prior authorization. I talked to Nikki Henck, Senior Director of Utilization Management at Sagility, about the implementation and potential impact of this proposed requirement, which, if finalized, will be enacted in January 2026. The Dilemma of Prior Authorization Prior authorization, also known as a pre-approval, strikes fear into both patients and providers. In a 2022 American Medical Association physician survey, 88% of providers said that the burden of doing prior authorization was high or extremely high. Anothe...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 12, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Administration Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability Regulations AMA CMS Electronic Prior Authorization FHIR Nikki Henck Prior Authorizations Sagility Source Type: blogs

Follow me on Meta Threads Under User-Name " sstrumello1 " !
I was kind of hoping it wouldn ' t come to this, but it now seems inevitable. Twitter/X has become unsustainable as a viable social platform, so I will (eventually) be migrating to the newer rival run by Meta (fka Facebook). Recall that in August 2023, sensing that Twitter under Elon Musk ' s ownership was would die as a social platform because the owner was clueless about running a social platform, rival Meta stepped in to fill the void with a new application it calls Threadshttps://www.threads.net/. I know about Jack Dorsey ' s BlueSky, but that new social platform still has some serious accessibility issues right n...
Source: Scott's Web Log - October 10, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2023 Diabetes Instagram Meta Threads Twitter Source Type: blogs

Future Proofing Healthcare Automation
The following is a guest article by Niall O’Connor, Chief Technology Officer at Cohere Health Constructing a Responsible AI Framework for Prior Authorization The American healthcare system is on the precipice of a critically necessary digital transformation. Anyone who has experience with healthcare, even just as a consumer, knows technology and change are needed. A recent report found that 89% of healthcare organizations are still using fax machines and 39% are using pagers. It’s time to future-proof healthcare automation, and I’m not the only one suggesting that now is the time for a digital transformation in hea...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 27, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Administration AI/Machine Learning Health IT Company Healthcare IT Revenue Cycle Management AI Accountability Cohere Health Healthcare Automation Niall O’Connor Prior Authorization responsible AI Source Type: blogs