Bonus Features – July 23, 2023 – Number of people impacted by data breaches up 56% compared to last year, CMS keeps temporary telehealth expansion in 2024 Medicare fee schedule, and more
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
News and Studies
The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule from CMS would continue many of the public health emergency telehealth flexibilities, such as an expanded definition of telehealth practitioners, continued...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 23, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Regulations AliveCor American Telemedicine Association Amwell ATA AVIA Black Book Research Bren Webster CenTrak Cerner CMS eClinicalWorks eCW Force Therapeutics Fortified Health Security He Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – July 22, 2023
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
Bridging the Trust Gap Is Key to AI Success. AI needs guidelines, parameters and transparency, Dr. Stephen Kearney at SAS told Colin Hung. Algorithms should be evaluated with the same rigor as a clinical trial so clinicians know they can trust them before putting them to use. Read more…
Cloud EHR Helped Suncoast Community Health Centers Save Money ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 22, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Unraveling Its Impact On Heart And Lungs
Conclusion
Navigating the complexities of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) might seem daunting. However, with the right knowledge and proactive approach, it’s possible to manage the condition and maintain a good quality of life.
PAH, a unique type of high blood pressure affecting the arteries in the lungs, can put extra strain on the heart. Over time, this can lead to heart failure. The condition’s root cause may vary, from genetic factors to other health issues like heart defects, liver disease, or autoimmune diseases. Remember, sometimes the cause remains unknown, resulting in idiopathic pulmonary ...
Source: The EMT Spot - July 19, 2023 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Michael Rotman, MD, FRCPC, PhD Tags: Blood Pressure Source Type: blogs
Striving to Make Culturally Safe Care The Norm
Healthcare currently places a significant burden on patients and clinicians. Patients must explain their situation repeatedly to strangers who only have a few minutes for them and hope that they believe them enough to help them navigate the healthcare system. Clinicians are working under extreme pressure, and without sufficient infrastructure support. Dr. Alika Lafontaine, the President of the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) is looking to change that and make culturally safe care the norm for all.
Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity to catch up with Dr. Lafontaine at the 2023 Collision Conference held in Toronto. We...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 17, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Administration Ambulatory Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Canadian Medical Association Clinician Burnout Collision 2023 Collision Conference Cult Source Type: blogs
Altis Labs Raises US $6 Million in Seed Funding Co-Led by Debiopharm and Benchstrength to Advance AI Platform for Clinical Trials
Debiopharm Innovation Fund and Benchstrength Co-Lead Seed Funding Round Supporting Altis’ AI-Powered Imaging Biomarker Platform
Altis Labs, Inc. (Altis), the computational imaging company accelerating clinical trials with artificial intelligence, today announces the closing of its US $6 million seed financing. Benchstrength and Debiopharm Innovation Fund co-led the round with participation from strategic angels including Doug Foster, the former CEO at digital health company Verana Health, and Richard Gliklich, MD, the Founder and CEO at real-world data company OM1.
“We are thrilled to partner with Benchstrength and Deb...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Altis Labs Bayer Pharmaceuticals Benchstrength Carolina Haefliger MD Debiopharm Debiopharm Innovation Fund Doug Foster Felix Baldauf-Lenschen Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Source Type: blogs
HHS Again Suspends Disbelief: The Medicaid Program Will Ignore the Greatest Health Threat to Medicaid Beneficiaries
BY DAVID INTROCASO
In May the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) simultaneously published two proposed Medicaid rules (here and here) intended to improve moreover access and quality. Both discussed at length the agency’s commitment to “addressing health equity.” The first sentence in both identified health equity as a Medicaid program priority. The proposed “ensuring access” rule stated CMS “takes a comprehensive approach to . . . better addressing health equity issues in the Medicaid program.” CMS went on to state “we are working to advance health equity by designing, implementing,...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Biden Administration Centers for Medicare and Social Services Climate Change David Introcaso Source Type: blogs
I Reckon This Is A Little Hard To Prove And Is Really Just A Troll!
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Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 12, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
The Heat is On
BY KIM BELLARD
Attention must be paid: the world is now hotter than it has been in 125,000 years.
A week ago, we broke the record for average global temperature. That record was broken the next day. Later in the week it was broken yet again. Yeah, I know; weather records are broken all the time, so what’s the big deal?
Well, it is a big deal, and we should all be worried. “It’s not a record to celebrate and it won’t be a record for long,” Friederike Otto, senior lecturer in climate science at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment, told CNN.
Bill Maguire, a professor a...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Psychedelic Science 2023 – Full Conference Review
In June I attended the Psychedelic Science 2023 conference at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. We were told this was the largest psychedelic-related gathering in the history of the planet, attracting about 12,000 attendees and 500 speakers. In this post I’ll share about my experiences and insights from the conference.
Here’s a pic from inside the Bellco Theater where the main keynotes were held.
The Colorado Convention Center is sizable, and sessions were spread across many different rooms. Even though I didn’t do extra exercise on this trip, I was typically hitting about 1000 calories ...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - July 7, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Creating Reality Health Lifestyle Source Type: blogs
Case of the Week 721
Happy American Independence day (July 4th) and a belated Canada day (July 1st)! As an American, this weeks case very appropriately has a lot of red, white, and (purple-ish)blue. The following round objects were seen in a stool specimen on modified acid fast. The patient has had more than 1 week of profuse watery diarrhea and abdominal discomfort.These objects were also highlighted with using calcofluor white fluorescence staining (arrow) along with stool flora.What are these objects? Are they fungus or parasite? (Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites)
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - July 5, 2023 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – July 2, 2023 – Nuance and Epic integrate, 5 in 6 physicians say telemedicine improves continuity of care, news from HFMA, and more
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
News and Research
HHS and the Office of Inspector General released the final rule implementing information blocking penalties, with fines of up to $1 million per violation for vendors and HIE entities. Penalties for providers h...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 2, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Revenue Cycle Management Adam Boehler Asimily Avalon Healthcare Solutions Black Book Cotiviti DAX Express Dennis E. Dahlen DexCare Double Black Imaging Doximity eClinicalWorks eCW Epic Evelyn Source Type: blogs
Psychedelic Science 2023 – Film Festival Day
I love how friendly and open the vibe is here at Psychedelic Science 2023 in Denver.
As we were heading down the elevator in our hotel yesterday, we got to chatting with an enthusiastic attendee on the way out. She told us they had to cap registrations at 11,500 and turn away 70 interested vendors. That doesn’t surprise me. We’re clearly in a wave of surging interest in psychedelics. I’m here because I’m keenly interested to learn more about the potential for using psychedelics for self-development. I’ve only done a few psychedelic journeys so far, and I’d say there’s a 99% chan...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - June 21, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Creating Reality Lifestyle Source Type: blogs
Holy Crap
CNN is trying, really trying, to break through the wall of complacency and denialism. Yep, the global average atmospheric surface temperature is now the hottest it has been since record keeping began. What worries me more, as it should you, is that sea surface temperatures are even farther off the charts. Aside from the decimation of marine life, which maybe you don ' t care about, this means ever more powerful storms. In fact, a very unusual tropical cyclone has just formed from a tropical wave coming off the African coast, which normally does not happen until August. (Early season storms tend ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 19, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Air, Air, Everywhere, and Not a Breath Safe to Take
BY KIM BELLARD
If you live, as I do, anywhere in the Eastern half of the country, for the past week you’ve probably been thinking about something you’re not used to: wildfires. Sure, we’ve all been aware of how wildfires routinely plague the West Coast, particularly Oregon and Washington, but it’s novel for the East. So when the smoke from Canadian wildfires deluged cities through the East and Midwest, it came as kind of a shock.
For a day last week, New York City supposedly had the worst air quality in the world. The next day Philadelphia had that dubious distinction. The air quality index ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Non-Health Climate Change East Coast Kim Bellard West Coast Wildfires Source Type: blogs
Trade in Real Life: Sorry Charlie (and Senator Warner) for Terrible Tuna Tariffs
Gabriella Beaumont-SmithDuring the pandemic, Senator Mark Warner (D ‑VA) released a video showcasing his tuna melt recipe —complete with a surprising amount of mayonnaise and heated in a microwave (no judgement). The “unhinged” recipe video went viral and three years later,Washingtonian sat down with Senator Warner to have him taste ‐test seven tuna melt sandwiches from DC and Virginia restaurants.Senator Warner ’s tuna‐melt obsession reminded me of a tariff reclassificationcase I read about last year. Starkist Co. is well‐known for its single‐serve pouches of tuna and argued to the Fede...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 12, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Gabriella Beaumont-Smith Source Type: blogs
