Here Is What Even Healthcare AI Companies Do With Your Data
Pictures, text prompts, documents and health metrics are just a few examples of data we’re giving away to different AI applications and thus, to different companies/organizations. While it’s always good to know what happens to your data, it is especially relevant in healthcare settings and regarding health data.
The rise of social media platforms signifies the beginning of a new era, one where individuals become valuable resources: providing tons of personal data that can be utilised for commercial purposes. But as the plethora of AI applications begins to enter our lives, we have to level up our games and become mu...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine digital health privacy AI data privacy digital health data Source Type: blogs
The Secret Ways Healthcare AI Companies Might Use Your Personal Data
Pictures, text prompts, documents and health metrics are just a few examples of data we’re giving away to different AI applications and thus, to different companies/organizations. While it’s always good to know what happens to your data, it is especially relevant in healthcare settings and regarding health data.
The rise of social media platforms signifies the beginning of a new era, one where individuals become valuable resources: providing tons of personal data that can be utilised for commercial purposes. But as the plethora of AI applications begins to enter our lives, we have to level up our games and become mu...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine AI data privacy digital health data digital health privacy Source Type: blogs
Regulating healthcare professionals, protecting the public: consultation response
Department of Health and Social Care - Between 24 March and 16 June 2021, the government sought views on proposals to reform the regulation of healthcare professionals and to introduce statutory regulation for anaesthesia associates (AAs) and physician associates (PAs). In response to the feedback received and following an extended period of stakeholder engagement and policy development, the government has set out their finalised policy positions. These positions underpin the draft legislation that will give the General Medical Council the power to effectively regulate AAs and PAs and provide a template for subsequen...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 20, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
What are the Actions and Inactions of Liberia ’s Banking Sector in the Employment and Accessibility of Persons with Disabilities in their Business Strategies
Sahr Nouwah (Independent), What are the Actions and Inactions of Liberia ’s Banking Sector in the Employment and Accessibility of Persons with Disabilities in their Business Strategies (2023): The main goal of this research is to investigate actions and inactions within... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - February 18, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
All Three Legs of the Obamacare Stool Are Working Well – Part 2
BY GEORGE HALVORSON
2022 Medicare Advantage data gathering process change made last year just made upcoding for plans irrelevant and impossible, but the critics do not accept that it happened.
CMS just ended that upcoding debate for 2022 by completely killing the coding system for the plans, effective immediately. The plans can’t code risk levels up because the coding system was eliminated entirely for 2022.
RAPS is dead.
The payment approach for Medicare Advantage now has no upcoding components and the government just used their new and more accurate numbers to create the 2023 payment level for the pla...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Affordable Care Act Medicaid Medicare Medicare Advantage Obamacare Source Type: blogs
“Long COVID,” Bodily Systems as ADAAA Major Life Activities, and the Social Model of Disability
Leslie P. Francis (University of Utah), Michael Ashley Stein (Harvard Law School), “Long COVID,” Bodily Systems as ADAAA Major Life Activities, and the Social Model of Disability, 2022 U. Chicago Legal F. 159 (2022): Long COVID claims for disability-related employment... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - February 17, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
LGBTQ+ staff and patients deserve better from the NHS
The King's Fund - Kelly Ameneshoa, Emergency Medicine Doctor at Ashford and St Peter ’s hospital and Population Health Fellow at The King’s Fund, looks at recent data on the experience of LGBTQ+ staff and patients, and outlines how the NHS can make steps towards becoming more inclusive.Read the blog (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 16, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Equality and diversity Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Higher Minimum Wages Reduce Employer ‐Sponsored Health Insurance Provision
Ryan BourneThe debate around raising a minimum wage typically centers on how it impacts both pay and employment. The higher hourly pay for beneficiaries is measured against any reduction seen in employment due to the higher labor costs for businesses (termed “disemployment”). In theory, policymakers then evaluate if the trade‐off is worth it.Theoverwhelming majority of academic studies still find that raising minimum wages costs jobs, particularly for young, black, and low ‐skilled workers. But in recent decadesa large minority of studies have found no significant job loss effects, suggesting t...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 15, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Ryan Bourne Source Type: blogs
Patterns of employment amongst nursing associates: evidence from the electronic staff record
This report draws upon the electronic staff record (ESR), the monthly payroll of all staff directly employed by NHS trusts, to describe the personal and employment characteristics of all trainee nursing associates (TNAs) and nursing associates (NAs) (T/NAs) employed by NHS trusts in England over time and how they compare to other staff groups.ReportMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 15, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Improving staff experience and staff engagement at QEH
NHS Employers - The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) King ’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust is a rural district general hospital in West Norfolk. In 2019, QEH had the worst NHS Staff Survey results in the country. This case study explores what the organisation did and how it applied staff engagement methods to improve its NHS Staff Survey scores.Case study (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 15, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Expanding volunteer support in the allied health professions to start an NHS career
NHS Employers - Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust used volunteers to support their allied health professionals, offering a first step into an NHS career.Case study (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 14, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Long Covid & employment
This report calls on government to introduce guidance for employers on long Covid alongside a compensation scheme for frontline workers.ReportMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 13, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Covid-19 Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
International recruitment fund for the adult social care sector: guidance for local authorities
Department of Health and Social Care - In February 2022 care workers were added to the Health and Care Worker visa shortage occupation list, enabling these roles to be recruited from overseas. Government can confirm that it is making £15 million available over 2023 to 2024 to help support international recruitment within the adult social care sector. The aim of this fund is to promote collaborative arrangements which reduce administrative complexity and burden, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) provider s.GuidanceMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 13, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Social care Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Only physicians can find the balance between tradition and active disruption
It is clear to most of us who practice medicine that the medical system is at a crossroads unlike any other in recent history, between competing crises of uncontrolled medical costs, escalating administrative burdens, consolidation and employment of physician practices, burnout, and the rapid development and entrance of new, largely untested technologies. I am sure
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Only physicians can find the balance between tradition and active disruption originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 10, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Jay Shah, MD Tags: Physician Health IT Practice Management Source Type: blogs
