How Adopting a Hybrid Model with a Virtual Interpreter Call Center Can Make Your In-House Interpreters More Efficient
The following is a guest article by Kristin Quinlan, CEO at Certified Languages International (CLI)
With 1 in 5 residents speaking a language other than English at home and an expanding diversity of languages spoken in the U.S., language access services are only increasing in importance for healthcare organizations. Many large hospital systems have a team of in-house interpreters, but it can be challenging to manage those resources—hospitals often expend a lot of time and money as interpreters travel from one facility to another or make house calls with traveling nurses.
That’s why a small but growing number of leadi...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 3, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Regulations Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Certified Languages International CLI Healthcare Costs Healthcare Efficiency Healthcare IT Burden Hybrid Model In-Hou Source Type: blogs
Pioneering community primary care [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! We join family physicians Michael Fine and Scott Conard. In this episode, we delve into how Michael’s visionary leadership propelled the creation of America’s inaugural community health alliance in response to rising health care costs and diminishing insurance options. Through collaborative
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Pioneering community primary care [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 2, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Primary Care Source Type: blogs
How Adopting a Hybrid Model with a Virtual Interpreter Call Center Can Make Your In-House Interpreters More Efficient
The following is a guest article by Kristin Quinlan, CEO at Certified Languages International (CLI)
With 1 in 5 residents speaking a language other than English at home and an expanding diversity of languages spoken in the U.S., language access services are only increasing in importance for healthcare organizations. Many large hospital systems have a team of in-house interpreters, but it can be challenging to manage those resources—hospitals often expend a lot of time and money as interpreters travel from one facility to another or make house calls with traveling nurses.
That’s why a small but growing number of leadi...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 2, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Regulations Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Certified Languages International CLI Healthcare Costs Healthcare Efficiency Healthcare IT Burden Hybrid Model In-Hou Source Type: blogs
Lean Digital: How Tracking Feeds Into Behavior Change for Weight Loss
This article is part of a series on today’s philosophies regarding weight change and how digital interventions can help. In this article, we’ll look at the contribution of tracking. The article looks at standards, making sure data meets a useful need, and some particular applications of tracking to metabolic control and diet.
Finding Meaning in Data
Device manufacturers are finding more and more things to track. While some people love measurements such as steps taken through the day, and there’s even a site called Quantified Self exploiting this fad, most people don’t care about data unless they s...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 2, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Behavior Management Behavioral Change Candice Source Type: blogs
Pelago Announces $58 Million Series C Funding to Strengthen Leadership in Substance Use Management
Investment Follows Strong Employer and Health Plan Demand as Substance Use Management Moves from Niche Solution to Essential Benefit Resulting in 287% Revenue Growth in 2023 and 100% Client Retention
Growth Follows 500% Increase in Substance Use Disorder-Specific RFPs from Employers and Payers in the Past Twelve Months
Platform Covers More than 3.4 Million Eligible Lives
Pelago, the leading digital clinic partner to U.S. businesses and health plans for substance use management, today announced $58 million in new funding on the strength of customer growth and validated ROI, bringing total funding to $151 million.
The additi...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 2, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Atomico Eight Roads Emily Munroe Greymatter Capital Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Kinnevik AB Laura Connell Live Nation Entertainment Octopus Ventures Pelago Y Combina Source Type: blogs
This Is A Really Useful Discussion Of The Vagaries Of The Private Hospital Sector
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Source: Australian Health Information Technology - May 2, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Tennr Raises $18M in Series A Funding
Tennr, a NYC-based startup that automates manual work for healthcare organizations, raised $18M in Series A funding.
The round was led by a16z with participation from Foundation Capital and The New Normal Fund. Other investors (from the seed round) included YCombinator, Zaza Pachulia, Jennifer Kaehms, and other health and AI-focused investors.
The company, which has now raised over $25M, intends to use the funds to grow its team and scale its operations.
Co-founded by Trey Holterman, Diego Baugh, and Tyler Johnson, Tennr enables healthcare organizations to automate referral processing, payment posting, claims auditing, med...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 30, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT a16z Diego Baugh Foundation Capital Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Jennifer Kaehms Tennr The New Normal Fund Trey Holterman Tyler Johnson Ycombinator Zaza Pachulia Source Type: blogs
NVIDIA In Healthcare: From Gaming To Medicine
Mostly renowned for its powerful graphics processing unit (GPU) used in the video game industry, NVIDIA is no stranger to healthcare. In fact, it has a dedicated branch to offer solutions that its computing platform can deliver in medicine and was among the first players significantly investing in AI.
These initiatives might have been seen with some confusion five or seven years ago but certainly gave NVIDIA an edge in the past two years. For example when almost a year ago this study was published. The authors trained a large language model for medical language and fine-tuned it across a wide range of clinical and ope...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 30, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Forecast Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research Future of Medicine Healthcare Design privacy Kimberly Powell microsoft Clara telemedicine AI amazon A.I. apple NVIDIA google IBM tech giants Source Type: blogs
Brightside Health Raises Strategic Series C, Welcomes Trip Hofer to Board of Directors
With Over $100M in Total Funding, the Telemental Health Company is Poised for its Next Phase of Growth
Telemental health company Brightside Health today announced a strategic Series C raise led by S32, as well as the appointment of industry titan Trip Hofer to the Board of Directors to advise on go-to-market strategy and execution. This news builds on the company’s recent momentum, including new and expanded payer partnerships to support Medicaid and Medicare lives and notable results for its award-winning Crisis Care program for individuals with elevated suicide risk.
Brightside Health serves people with mild to seve...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 29, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT ACME Anne Wojcicki Brad Kittredge Brightside Health Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Kennedy Lewis Mike Pellini Mousse Partners Redwood Pacific S32 Time BioVentures Tri Source Type: blogs
Guide to a Proactive Healthcare Cybersecurity Stance
The following is a guest article by Troy Hawes, Managing Director at Moss Adams
The recent cybersecurity attack against Change Healthcare caused dramatic disruptions to one of the nation’s largest prescription processors.
On the morning of February 21, 2024, a ransom group, BlackCat, directed a cyberattack at Change Healthcare, owned by healthcare conglomerate UnitedHealth. The attack kept Change Healthcare’s systems down for three weeks, even prompting the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to deploy accelerated payments and loan programs for healthcare organizations affected by the attack, akin to the su...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 25, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Security and Privacy AI Cybersecurity AI-Based Cyberattacks Data Breach Healthcare Cybersecurity Healthcare Ransomware Attacks Moss Adams Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – April 21, 2024 – 89% of physicians said generative AI vendors need to be transparent about where info comes from, 73% of consumers expect a 4-star rating before they ’ ll engage with a provider, plus 21 more stories
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.
Studies
According to a Wolters Kluwer survey, 68% of physicians think generative AI will benefit healthcare – but to trust the technology, 89% said vendors need to be transparent about where information was sourced and wh...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 21, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Brand Engagement Network Butterfly Network CharmHealth CHG Healthcare Clarify Health Cured Databricks Donna Boyer eClinicalWorks Epic Research Google Cloud Harvard Medical School HCTec Healthcare IT Today Bonus Fe Source Type: blogs
Will Artificial Intelligence (AI) Trigger Universal Health Care in America? What do expert Academics say?
By MIKE MAGEE
In his book, “The Age of Diminished Expectations” (MIT Press/1994), Nobel Prize winner, Paul Krugman, famously wrote, “Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything.”
A year earlier, psychologist Karl E. Weich from the University of Michigan penned the term “sensemaking” based on his belief that the human mind was in fact the engine of productivity, and functioned like a biological computer which “receives input, processes the information, and delivers an output.”
But comparing the human brain to a computer was not exactly a complemen...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Bob Wachter Erik Brynjolfsson Karl E. Weich Medical AI Mike Magee Paul Krugman productivity 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
Navigating self-judgment with compassion
Earlier this week, I made a stupid mistake, and that mistake cost us our dental and vision insurance for the year 2024. You see, I had my COBRA from my old job that I had planned to keep, as the kids still had braces, and switching midway apparently resulted in non-coverage. So, I spent a
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Navigating self-judgment with compassion originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 15, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Caissa Troutman, MD Tags: Physician Psychiatry 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...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Health Tech The Business of Health Care 21st Century Cures Act Carequality Data Epic HIPAA Integritort Joe Biden Judy Faulkner MDPortals Novellia Particle Health Reveleer TEFCA Source Type: blogs
