Is It Worth Buying Dexcom CGM Sensors from Best Buy Health? The only way to know with certainty is to do the math!
Last autumn, on October 9, 2023, the electronics retailer Best Buy announced (seehttps://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231009526652/en/Best-Buy-to-Sell-Continuous-Glucose-Monitoring-Systems/ for the press release) that it had started a mail order business called "Best Buy Health"https://wellness.bestbuyhealth.com/ which it said would sell CGM sensors among other products. Best Buy Health aims to sell more than just CGM sensors. Its LinkedIn page https://www.linkedin.com/company/best-buy-health/ describes the business this way:" Best Buy Health aims to enrich and save lives through technology and meaningful connections. ...
Source: Scott's Web Log - March 9, 2024 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2023 2024 Best Buy Best Buy Health Costco Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – March 9, 2024
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.
Diving Into Epic’s Partnerships with Microsoft and Nuance. John Lynn spoke to Peter Durlach, at Microsoft via Nuance, about Epic’s integration with Nuance DAX Copilot and how it reduces documentation by 50% per clinical episode. They also touched on Epic’s work with Microsoft Azure. Read more…
Devoting AI to Process Improvement in the...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 9, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Health benefits under the microscope: What employers aren ’ t telling you [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! Join ophthalmologist Paul Pender delves into the results of the annual KFF survey, focusing on employer attitudes towards employee satisfaction, the increasing costs of healthcare, and the emerging trends reshaping the landscape of health care benefits. Join us as we examine
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Health benefits under the microscope: What employers aren’t telling you [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 9, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Putting patients first: Safeguarding health care from AI risks [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! In this thought-provoking panel discussion, orthopedic surgeon Yoshihiro Katsuura and premedical students Kie Shidara, Maria Llose, and James Schmidt come together to examine the growing influence of artificial intelligence in the health care industry. From the potential benefits of AI-driven efficiency
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Putting patients first: Safeguarding health care from AI risks [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 8, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Health IT Source Type: blogs
From intern to witness: Working in a resource-limited health care system
A little anecdote The year was 2022, and it marked the first month of my initial rotation at one of the largest tertiary care hospitals in Punjab, Pakistan. After having assisted with several procedures in the ENT operating room one morning, I found myself on call for the next 18 hours in the emergency department
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From intern to witness: Working in a resource-limited health care system originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 7, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Dr. Muhammad Usama Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Source Type: blogs
A Deep Dive Into Epic ’ s Partnership with Microsoft and Nuance Including Integration with DAX Copilot
We’ve written a number of articles on the Nuance DAX (now called Nuance DAX Copilot aligning with Microsoft’s Copilot) ambient clinical voice solution. Nuance and Microsoft recently announced that DAX Copilot was going to be fully embedded in Epic’s Haiku and Hyperdrive to provide Epic users easy access to the DAX copilot solution. Peter Durlach, who was with Nuance a long time and is now CVP, chief strategy officer, Microsoft Health and Life Sciences, describes the benefits of the integration in this video, with a focus on their integration and partnership with Epic.
Durlach says that Nuance “pio...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 7, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Ambient Clinical Voice DAX Copilot Epic Epic Cloud Healthcare Azure Healt Source Type: blogs
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The number of patients receiving behavioral health care at community health centers (CHCs) tripled from 2010 to 2020.
(Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog)
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - March 7, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Celli Horstman Source Type: blogs
Apella Devotes AI to Process Improvement in Operating Rooms
Artificial Intelligence can exploit fairly simple technologies to create significant efficiencies. For operating rooms, Apella Technology uses four cameras, placed around the walls, to collect data that saves precious time.
I recently talked to David Schummers, founder and CEO of Apella, about their new AI-based service for hospitals. He discussed the kinds of problems they are trying to solve.
Time Is of the Essence
In ORs as in many other areas of health care, too many tasks that could be done well by computers are being assigned instead to people, with resulting errors and inefficiencies. Schummers estimates that half...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 6, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Apella Technology Cameras David Schummers Healthcare AI Healthcare Monitoring Healthcare OR Healthcare Video Cameras Operati Source Type: blogs
What Scares Healthcare Like EVs Scare Detroit
By KMI BELLARD
I’m thinking about electric vehicles (EVs)…and healthcare.
Now, mind you, I don’t own an EV. I’m not seriously thinking about getting one (although if I’m still driving in the 2030’s I expect it will be in one). To be honest, I’m not really all that interested in EVs. But I am interested in disruption, so when Robinson Meyer warned in The New York Times “China’s Electric Vehicles Are Going to Hit Detroit Like a Wrecking Ball,” he had my attention. And when on the same day I also read that Apple was cancelling its decade-long effort to build an EV, I was definitely paying attention.
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Source: The Health Care Blog - March 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Health Tech Biden Detroit EVs Hospitals Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
Claiming and managing doctor listings: Avoid patient loss after job change [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! We sit down with Marita McCahill, founder of a consulting firm specializing in health care growth strategy. We delve into the importance of managing your online presence as a health care provider, particularly in the context of transitions between practices. Marita
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Claiming and managing doctor listings: Avoid patient loss after job change [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 6, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Practice Management Source Type: blogs
Policy Ingredients for Real-Time Improvements in Health Care, Prior Auth, and Claims
Many of us look forward to digital interactions in health care that work as simply as a retail sale or airline reservation. Don Rucker, MD, chief strategy officer at 1upHealth, shows us in this video how current regulations and FHIR standards will actually make that happen.
In a fast-paced exchanged with John Lynn of Healthcare IT Today, Rucker covers regulations and evolving data exchange standards that foster interoperability and data analytics. “The real point of interoperability is continuous, real-time computing,” according to Rucker. He points out that not just payers, but some employers, are demanding ac...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 5, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability Regulations 1upHealth Don Rucker FHIR FHIR APIs Health Data Exchange Healthcare APIs Healthcare Interoperability Source Type: blogs
Home Health AI: Predicting Illness and Preventing Hospitalizations
The following is a guest article by Shveta Mangal, CEO at VitaWerks
In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare environment, the concept of home as an “extension of care” is gaining traction, ushering in a new era of patient-centered support. Traditionally, healthcare was confined to clinical settings, but with advancements in technology, particularly artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, the paradigm is shifting.
These cutting-edge technologies are now being harnessed to predict health issues before they escalate, revolutionizing home health care and paving the way for proactive interventions tha...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 5, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Healthcare at Home Home Health AI Home Health Care Home Healthcare Hospitalization Prevention Illness Prediction Source Type: blogs
What do you know?
The next assumption on our list, on which the theory of the (non-existent) Free Market ™ depends, is the assumption of perfect information. Okay, it doesn ' t have to be absolutely perfect, but it has to at least be pretty good. In order for a transaction to really benefit both parties, they both have to know what they ' re getting and what they ' re giving for it. Once we ' re off the island of Bob and Alice, of course, what ' s normally happening is that one person is exchanging money for a good or service, so the transaction is asymmetrical pretty much by definition -- there ' s a seller and a buyer.Most people don ' ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 5, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
2024 technology trends to revolutionize the field of oncology
Between interest rates reaching their highest levels in 15 years and the explosion of artificial intelligence (AI), 2023 was a year filled with both challenges and opportunities for those of us in the health care technology industry. For better or worse, many of those same trends are following us into 2024. Obstacles such as the
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2024 technology trends to revolutionize the field of oncology originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 5, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Andrew Norden, MD, MPH, MBA Tags: Tech Oncology/Hematology Source Type: blogs
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The Inflation Reduction Act invests $369 billion in sustainability efforts and creates new financial incentives for health care organizations to reduce emissions.
(Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog)
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - March 5, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Lovisa Gustafsson, Elizabeth Baca, Christine Brynaert Source Type: blogs
