The Evolution Of Clinical Documentation: From Paper To AI  
Documentation is an essential heartbeat of clinical care. Like an EKG tracing illustrating the rhythm and health of a heart, clinical documentation captures the intricate narrative of a patient’s health journey. However crucial, documenting clinical care is a cumbersome task, contributing significantly to the burnout of healthcare professionals.  As we are witnessing global shortages in the numbers of medical professionals, streamlining and/or automating unpopular documentation tasks seems a very logical next step. It doesn’t really require the qualification of a trained nurse or doctor, so it is a great wa...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 12, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Healthcare Design clinical documentation AI in clinical documentation Source Type: blogs

Five Things Hospitals Should Do Immediately to Improve their Cybersecurity Posture
The following is a guest article by Jonathan Goldberger, Senior Vice President, Security Practices & Strategic Sales at TPx Hospitals face the threat of cyberattacks daily and each attack threatens the hospital’s public brand and, worst of all, public health. Because nearly every function at hospitals today is electronic, a cyberattack is crippling to the point where a provider can’t do anything. Even tasks such as sending a prescription to the pharmacy and ordering or reviewing X-rays are challenging amid a cyberattack. It’s no secret that threat actors are targeting companies and organizations regardless of the...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 9, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Security and Privacy Cyberattacks Cybersecurity Cybersecurity Training Healthcare Cybersecurity Healthcare R Source Type: blogs

Out of Control Health Costs or a Broken Society
Flawed Accounting for the US Health Spending Problem By Jeff Goldsmith Source: OECD, Our World in Data Late last year, I saw this chart which made my heart sink. It compared US life expectancy to its health spending since 1970 vs. other countries. As you can see,  the US began peeling off from the rest of the civilized world in the mid-1980’s. Then US life expectancy began falling around 2015, even as health spending continued to rise. We lost two more full years of life expectancy to COVID. By  the end of 2022, the US had given up 26 years-worth of progress in life expectancy gains. Adding four more ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy COVID Drug Overdoses gun violence Hospitals Jeff Goldsmith Maternal mortality Mental Health Obesity Poverty Regional Economy Society Source Type: blogs

Out of Control Health Costs or a Broken Society
Flawed Accounting for the US Health Spending Problem By Jeff Goldsmith Source: OECD, Our World in Data Late last year, I saw this chart which made my heart sink. It compared US life expectancy to its health spending since 1970 vs. other countries. As you can see,  the US began peeling off from the rest of the civilized world in the mid-1980’s. Then US life expectancy began falling around 2015, even as health spending continued to rise. We lost two more full years of life expectancy to COVID. By  the end of 2022, the US had given up 26 years-worth of progress in life expecta...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy COVID Drug Overdoses gun violence Hospitals Jeff Goldsmith Maternal mortality Mental Health Obesity Poverty Regional Economy Society Source Type: blogs

What are the Cost Implications of Implementing Cloud Technology in Healthcare?
We have talked about implementing cloud technology in healthcare a lot, but there are still a lot of gray areas, such as the cost implications. Will it increase or reduce healthcare costs? More importantly, if we are looking to switch from the traditional on-premises infrastructure, how do the costs compare? Both in where we are today and in the long run? In search of some answers to these questions, we reached out to our incredibly talented Healthcare IT Today Community. The following are their thoughts on this pressing topic. Zach Evans, Chief Technology Officer at XSOLIS The largest change for organizations implementing...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 6, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Security and Privacy 4medica Annmarie Ison AT&T Cybersecurity Charlie Clarke Chris Lance Cloud Cloud in Source Type: blogs

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Tightening rules for short-term health insurance plans will likely strengthen the marketplaces that offer reliable, comprehensive nongroup coverage.        (Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog)
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - October 5, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Dong Ding, Sherry A. Glied Source Type: blogs

Amenities Health Closes Series A, Raising a Total of $10M to Modernize Health System Digital Front Doors
The New Financing will Accelerate Adoption of Amenities’ Groundbreaking Digital Front Door Platform Designed to Help Health Systems Improve Patient Loyalty Amenities Health, a leading Digital Front Door platform, today announced the final closing of its Series A financing round. The company secured an additional $6.25 million, putting Amenities’ total amount raised to date at $10 million. The latest fundraising round was led by MemorialCare Innovation Fund, a strategic healthcare investment fund wholly owned by MemorialCare Health System. Epic Ventures, a venture capital firm which led Amenities’ seed round, also ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 2, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Amenities Amenities Health Blake Marggraff Brant Heise Buzz White Chris Gibson Dr. Aasim Saeed Epic Ventures Harjinder Sandhu Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Kulmeet Sin Source Type: blogs

Bonus Features – October 1, 2023 – 45 Percent of patients prefer telehealth for minor but urgent issues and much 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. Surveys and Research Nearly 30% of telehealth visits result in an in-person follow-up within three weeks, and nearly half of patients who used telehealth only did it once, according to Trilliant Health’s latest report on t...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 1, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Aaron Tendler Accelecom AccYouRate AdvancedMD Affirm Aiberry Akasa Amwell Apollo MD AvaSure Cedar Christine Davis Costco DAX Copilot Evidium Foresite Capital Google Cloud Gozio Health GrayMatters Health Source Type: blogs

Resolving the Paradox of Payroll-Tax-Based Social Insurance for Disability: Lessons from the Canadian Disability Benefit Act
Mark C. Weber (DePaul University), Resolving the Paradox of Payroll-Tax-Based Social Insurance for Disability: Lessons from the Canadian Disability Benefit Act, (Osgoode L. Stud. Research Paper) (forthcoming 2023): This paper discusses contributory social insurance for disability —a social scheme in which... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - October 1, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs

Another Three Biosimilar Insulins Planned from Meitheal Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
On September 21, 2023, Chicago-basedMeitheal Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (which is a subsidiary of a Chinese parent company named Nanjing King-Friend Biochemical Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.) announced an exclusive commercial licensing agreement with a different Chinese company known asTonghua Dongbao Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. with intent to sell three insulin biosimilars in the U.S. market.     The company press release can be seen athttps://www.meithealpharma.com/news/61 while the pharmaceutical industry trade press covered the story athttps://www.thepharmaletter.com/article/licensing-deal-to-bring-three-new...
Source: Scott's Web Log - September 30, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2023 Biosimilar insulin Meitheal Pharmaceuticals Source Type: blogs

Language Barriers: Protecting Your Organization From A Hidden HIPAA Threat
The following is a guest article by Bill Young, Director of Healthcare & Life Sciences at SYSTRAN Keeping patient data confidential and secure remains a major healthcare challenge today, more than 25 years after the introduction of the 1996 Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act or HIPAA. HIPAA is regulatory guidance to ensure Patient Health Information (PHI) is protected in specific entities, mainly healthcare facilities, and healthcare admin support institutions, for the transfer and flow of health information. How has the HIPPA management challenge increased? To review, in 2021, the US Department of H...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 28, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Administration AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Regulations Security and Privacy Bill Young Data Breaches Health Data Translation Healthcare Translation HIPAA HIPAA B Source Type: blogs

Doctors and disability insurance: Protecting your income
What is disability insurance? Disability insurance, sometimes referred to as income protection or disability income insurance, is a financial safety net designed to replace a portion of your income if you become unable to work due to illness or injury. It ensures that you can continue to meet your financial obligations, even when your medical Read more… Doctors and disability insurance: Protecting your income originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 27, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Finance Practice Management Source Type: blogs

War — and Health Care — on the Cheap
By KIM BELLARD Like many of you, I’m watching the war in Ukraine with great interest and much support. For all the fuss about expensive weapons — like F-16 fighters, Abrams tanks, Stryker and Bradley armored fighting vehicles, Patriot missile defense systems, Javelin anti-tank missiles, Himars long range missiles, and various types of high tech drones — what I’m most fascinated with is how Ukraine is using inexpensive, practically homemade drones as a key weapon. It’s a new way of waging war. And when I say “waging war,” I can’t help but also think “providing health care.” It’s not s...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Drones health care Kim Bellard Ukraine Warfare Source Type: blogs

Bonus Features – September 24, 2023 – 72 percent of patients say affordability is the biggest challenge for paying medical bills
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 American Telemedicine Association released three tools aimed at addressing disparity and inequity in care: Digital Infrastructure Disparities Score and Map, Economic and Social Value-Added Calculator, and a...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 24, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT ABOUT Accelecom Accenture Adriana Day AHA AMA Amazon Bedrock Angie Franks Arcadia ATA AVIA Babyscripts Biofourmis Cadence Cedar Censinet CirrusMD CliniComp ClosedLoop Collette Health CrowdStrike Da Source Type: blogs