Cybersecurity Investment in Fundamental Tools and Training Is Key to Securing Your Healthcare Organization
According to Ryan Witt, Vice President, Industry Solutions at Proofpoint, Inc., phishing emails are still the most prevalent and dangerous sources for security breaches. In this video, Witt and Joshua Roth, Chief Information Security Officer at Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC), discuss how they protect against breaches through fundamental investments in tools and training.
This interview with Healthcare IT Today took place in the shadow of the recent cyberattack on Change Healthcare, which is still preventing thousands of health care providers from receiving payments.
Witt says that training, processes, and t...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 16, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Security and Privacy Children's Hospital of Orange County CHOC Healthcare Breaches Healthcare Credentials Breach Healt Source Type: blogs
From Patent To Product: The Speed Of The Digital Health Evolution
We’re bombarded with mindblowing headlines of new medical miracles every day. BCI helps paralysed patients talk again! Robots in the stomach! Micro-organs on organ-on-chip technologies! But it is almost impossible to see through the hype and know if and when these will yield actual, patient-ready solutions. So let’s get into this maze and decipher how a new, revolutionary medical technology develops from an ingenious idea to a market-ready product with two real-life examples: the artificial pancreas and wireless ECG.
In early April, the UK’s NHS rolled out an artificial pancreas (APS) for Type 1 diabetes patients,...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 16, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF artificial intelligence digital health Innovation patent analysis Medicine Source Type: blogs
And Now For Something Completely Different
By KIM BELLARD
The most interesting story I read in the past week doesn’t come from the more usual worlds of health and/or technology, but from sports. It’s not even really news, since it was announced last fall; it’s just that it wasn’t until last week that a U.S. publication (The New York Times) reported on it. In a nutshell, a Paris football (a.k.a. soccer) club is not charging its fans admission during the current season.
Since last week I wrote about medical debt in the U.S. healthcare system, you might guess where this is going. The club is Paris FC. Last November it announced:
For the first time in ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 16, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy co-pays Kim Bellard Out of pocket costs Sports User Fees Source Type: blogs
The CSIRO Looks At AI And Health Care – A Useful Review.
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a little while ago.
AI trends for healthcare
27 Mar 2024
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Commonwealth
Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
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AI trends for healthcare Description
In 2023 artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have started to move into
mainstream use. Tools such as ChatGPT
have provided a way that almost everyone (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - April 16, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
A Competition Perspective on Physician Non-compete Agreements
Daniel J. Gilman (International Center for Law& Economics), A Competition Perspective on Physician Non-compete Agreements (Inquiry: J. of Health Care Org., Provision, and Fin. (forthcoming 2024): Physician non-compete agreements may have significant competitive implications, but they are treated variously... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - April 16, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
The essential human element in AI integration
This article explores the
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The essential human element in AI integration originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 15, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Harvey Castro, MD, MBA Tags: Tech Health IT Source Type: blogs
If data is the new oil, there ’ s going to be war over it
By MATTHEW HOLT
I am dipping into two rumbling controversies that probably only data nerds and chronic care management nerds care about, but as ever they reveal quite a bit about who has power and how the truth can get obfuscated in American health care.
This piece is about the data nerds but hopefully will help non-nerds understand why this matters. (You’ll have to wait for the one about diabetes & chronic care).
Think about data as a precious resource that drives economies, and then you’ll understand why there’s conflict.
A little history. Back in 1996 a law was passed that was supposed to ma...
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Finding joy beyond medicine: a tale of pet companionship
My question to all the health care workers is, “Have you ever kept pets or tried to keep them?” If the answer is “yes,” then you are indeed very lucky. I think there are only two sources that can bring utter joy to humans in this life. One of them is children, and the other
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Finding joy beyond medicine: a tale of pet companionship originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 13, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Dr. Damane Zehra Tags: Physician Oncology/Hematology Source Type: blogs
Tim O ’ Connell, CEO, emtelligent
Tim O’Connell discusses emtelligent’s capability to take unstructured clinical data and using NLP, match it to clinical ontologies and figure out what disease patients have, and enable payers and providers to do something about it–rather than payment coding which is what NLP has usually been used for. I spoke to him at HIMSS in March where he was launching emtelligent own new large language model (LLM). Anyone with a health data set is a potential client, but Tim thinks we can use all this data and his company’s technology to radically improve our understanding of clinical care, and improve it–...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 12, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech THCB Quickbites Coding emtelligent LLMs NLP Tim O'Connell Source Type: blogs
Navigating crucial conversations in health care [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! We sit down with Kim Downey, a physical therapist, and Frances Mei Hardin, an otolaryngologist, to dive into the nuances of navigating difficult discussions in the medical field. From delivering challenging diagnoses to addressing patient concerns, we’ll uncover strategies for preparing,
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Navigating crucial conversations in health care [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 10, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Oncology/Hematology Source Type: blogs
Health Care ’s Debt Problem
By KIM BELLARD
Among the many things that infuriate me about the U.S. healthcare system, health systems sending their patients to collections – or even suing them – is pretty high on the list (especially when they are “non-profit” and./or faith-based organizations, which we should expect to behave better).
There’s no doubt medical debt in the U.S. is a huge problem. Studies have found that more than 100 million people have medical debt, many of whom don’t think they’ll ever be able to pay it off. Kaiser Family Foundation estimates Americans owe some $220b in medical debt, with 3 million people owing mor...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Bankruptcy Kim Bellard medical debt Medical Debt RIP Source Type: blogs
David Lareau, CEO, Medicomp
Medicomp provides a medical database within an EMR and which delivers all the diagnoses and other information directly to the clinician. It represents the note to the physician as a SMART on FHIR app so that they can quickly find the information they need within their workflow. I had a quick catch up with CEO Dave Lareau, and asked him not only what Medicomp does but how all that generative AI has started to change this. He thinks that the output of LLMs and ambient AI will actually make a greater demand for their tools–from a company that’s coming up on its 50th birthday! (Well 46th….)–Matthew Holt...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Dave Lareau Generative AI MEDICOMP Source Type: blogs
A specialist ’ s journey in health care advocacy
As an allergy, immunology, and autoimmune disease specialist, I frequently see patients whose stories are a harsh indictment of our medical system. They’ve been dismissed, misdiagnosed, and forced to navigate a maze designed for quick fixes, not the complexities they endure. These unseen patients fight multi-system illnesses that defy textbooks. Their journeys highlight just how
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A specialist’s journey in health care advocacy originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 9, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Kara Wada, MD Tags: Physician Allergies & Immunology Source Type: blogs
Transparency and Data Sharing Can Also Ease Patient Burn-Out
Grace Cordovano, PhD, Founder of Enlightening Results, co-Founder of Unblock Health, and a devoted patient advocate, says that administrative burdens and failures at data sharing affect more than clinicians and administrators: These glitches in the healthcare systems also contribute to burn-out among patients and their families.
Cordovano and Colin Banas, MD, MHA, Chief Medical Officer at DrFirst, talk in this video about recent regulatory advances in data sharing and how both clinicians and patients are helped by transparency in bureaucratic areas such as prior authorization.
Cordovano says that patient access to data has...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 9, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability Regulations Colin Banas DrFirst Grace Cordovano Health Data Sharing Healthcare AI Healthca Source Type: blogs
Availity Fills in Staff Knowledge at the Point of Engagement with Patients
Health care is not one single system, but multiple systems offering a bewildering variety of diagnostic and treatment options, backed by a plethora of payment systems that vary from patient. According to Krisi Hutson, Senior Director of Solutions at Availity, AI can help administrative staff from the front desk to the billing office negotiate the maze.
Hutson points out that the average turnover of clinical administrative staff is 12-18 months. In this video, she lays out a typical scenario where a patient arrives for treatment and wants to know what the likely payment is. How can you expect an administrator to collect and...
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