Senior Gynaecologist fined for doing Anomaly Scan as it missed the Anomaly, Important Judgment
According to https://advrohiterande.blogspot.com/2023/01/a-senior-gynaecologist-fined-for-doing.html it appears to be a case of medical malpractice where Dr. Usha Mukhi, a gynaecologist, is being held liable for not detecting a congenital abdominal wall defect during an ultrasound examination of a patient ' s pregnancy. The patient, Seema Deswal, argues that the Dr. Mukhi should have referred her to a qualified radiologist and that the anomaly could have been detected earlier and the baby could have been aborted within 20 weeks of pregnancy. The case was initially dismissed by the District Forum, but was later allowed...
Source: Sumer's Radiology Site - January 15, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Sumer Sethi Source Type: blogs
Activating Transparency in Health Care Pricing
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have taken up the campaign for price transparency over the past few years. The need for this is obvious and pressing. Unlike any other industry, health care institutions have historically been totally free to charge what they want and not even tell you in advance. Most of us have had lived the horror movie that follows a hospital stay, receiving a bill in the mail…and then another bill…and another…
Hospitals have trouble predicting how much a procedure will cost for many reasons. They have a welter of agreements with different insurance companies and ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 13, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Administration Analytics/Big Data Health IT Company Healthcare IT Revenue Cycle Management CMS Costs Healthcare Cost Transparency Healthcare Price Transparency Healthcare Prices Healthcare Pricing Marcus Dorstel Turquoise Health Source Type: blogs
Caught in the middle: How health insurance companies influence cancer drug selection
Patients may find themselves caught in the middle between their health insurance company and their oncologist when it comes to selecting the drugs used to treat their cancer. Why is this? The American Cancer Society explains biologic drugs (derived from living organisms such as yeast, bacteria, or animal cells) and biosimilar drugs, which behave similarly
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Caught in the middle: How health insurance companies influence cancer drug selection originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 12, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Paul Pender, MD Tags: Meds Oncology/Hematology Source Type: blogs
The CHIPHIT complex and the future of health care: Can we create a low-cost, high-quality system?
The high cost, low quality, and systemic inequities of the U.S. health care system have prompted its redesign. The current health care system is now controlled by consolidated health care institutions, insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and health information technology companies (CHIPHIT complex). The CHIPHIT complex, along with the federal government, will shape the future health
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The CHIPHIT complex and the future of health care: Can we create a low-cost, high-quality system? originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 11, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Hayward Zwerling, MD Tags: Policy Health IT Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
Blockchain Could Save Healthcare Billions Every Year
The following is a guest article by Michael Kim, Senior Vice President/CIO at MultiPlan.
In recent years, blockchain has been one of the most-hyped technologies: A public ledger that lives on a network of computers, each validating any changes in real-time. Unlike traditional distributed databases with centralized management, blockchain offers a shared database, providing security, transparency, traceability, and speed. While the shared ledger idea can be traced back to the 80s, blockchain technology emerged in 2008 as the foundation for decentralized currency, namely Bitcoin.
While it is true the cryptocurrency mark...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 10, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Revenue Cycle Management Blockchain Blockchain Technology Data Sharing Database Errors Health IT Interoperability Humana Improve Patient Outcomes Improv Source Type: blogs
Onc.AI Raises $25 Million Series A Financing Co-Led by MassMutual and Action Potential Venture Capital
Financing will support commercialization of a novel digital clinical management solution focused on immuno-oncology therapies
Onc.AI, a medical technology company developing a novel digital clinical management solution focused on immuno-oncology, announced today it has closed a $25 million Series A financing co-led by MassMutual and Action Potential Venture Capital (a GSK venture fund). Also participating were Life Extension Ventures and all existing investors including Blue Venture Fund, Accomplice, Digitalis Ventures, and KdT Ventures.
“Having first learned about Onc.AI through a leading precision-oncology expert, we a...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 10, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Genomics-Precision Medicine Health IT Company Healthcare IT Accomplice Action Potential Venture Capital Akshay Nanduri APVC Blue Venture Fund David Diaz-Casariego Digitalis Ventures Dr. Emir Sandhu Dr. Julie Hambleton GlaxoSmithKli Source Type: blogs
Business of Healthcare and Value Based Care – 2023 Health IT Predictions
As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Check out our communities predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media.
Check out our community’s healthcare business and value based care predictions.
Jon Kimerle, Epic Alliance Manager at Pure Storage
It’s time to clean out the garage: simplification and...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 4, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Administration C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT 2023 Health IT Predictions Amy Campbell AristaMD Bamboo Health BJ Schaknowski Capital One Carenet Health Carlene MacMillan Chris Sullivan CipherHealth Clint Draw Source Type: blogs
6 Potential Medical Use Cases for ChatGPT
The internet is buzzing with news on ChatGPT, and how everyone uses it to write love poems, homework, summaries of articles, or python codes. ChatGPT is the latest generation of a large language model, designed to generate text upon user input. There is a lot of discussion regarding its potential use in medicine, so let’s see, what you can expect from it and what you should not use it for – at least in its current form.
Unlike the text-to-image tool Midjourney, which we introduced earlier, and which is a GAN (generative adversarial network, explained here) algorithm, ChatGPT is a different kind of algorithm R...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 19, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Artificial Intelligence in Medicine AI chatbot AI text generator AI in heaalthcare ChatGPT Conversationlal_AI Source Type: blogs
Bad Backs & Deductibles
It’s time again for me to use my bad back as a case study in why American health care has such crazy incentives.
About a month ago at the HLTH conference in Vegas, over the course of a few hours I developed debilitating leg pain. To quote from my earlier twitter thread on my time in Vegas, “After 3 days of excruciating pain, my wife insisted I went to the ER. The public policy person in me was horrified but we had already spent our deductible, so the cost was actually lower than paying cash for an MRI”
What actually happened was that after 3 days of dreadful pain & inability to wal...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 19, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Matthew Holt Chronic Back Pain health deductible health plans (HDHP) Insurers Surgery Source Type: blogs
My Trial of the New Abbott Freestyle Libre 3
There are many compelling features on the new Abbott Freestyle Libre 3 and I may decide to switch; but I may wish to first try the new Dexcom G7 once it ' s FDA-approved. But I won ' t wait forever...In my 15 years of writing this blog, one thing I have never done is something I occasionally see some younger, less-discerning members of the blogging community do: which is to pimp their blogs (and themselves) out to receive free so-called " blog-ola " . I ' ve been blogging since 2005, and I have never endorsed a product in order to get free things, nor have I ever used my blog to even solicit free stuff from companies which...
Source: Scott's Web Log - December 7, 2022 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2022 Abbott Abbott Freestyle Libre 3 CGM CGMS Dexcom Source Type: blogs
You Don ’ t Have to be Mega-Conglomerate to Benefit from Health IT: A CareCognitics Deployment
When we hear about streamlined workflows, mobile phone services, and other benefits of a well-planned IT upgrade, it’s usually at some enormous, well-endowed, urban chain. But ambulatory health care providers can also tap IT to improve their patient experience, work loads, and revenues. Cookeville Medical Clinic, a provider with four clinics in central Tennessee, proves this.
Cookeville has all the worries and pressures of rural practices: lots of Medicare and Medicaid patients, reimbursements that don’t keep up with inflation, and the looming threat of competition from high-tech companies and big insurers.
In ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 7, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Administration Ambulatory Communication and Patient Experience EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT athenahealth athenahealth Marketplace CareCognitics Cookeville Medical Clinic Digital Front Door Digital Waiting Room FQHC Hea Source Type: blogs
Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall: Has Healthcare Become a Consumer Industry? – #HITsm Chat Topic
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this month’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 12/2 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This month’s chat will be hosted by Erica Olenski Johansen (@thegr8chalupa) on the topic “Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall: Has Healthcare Become a Consumer Industry?“
It seems as if every day there is an announcement from a once front-and-center consumer brand announcing healthcare services. Similarly, traditional healthcare providers and payers are playing with new, innovative concepts to engage with patients in their care better and more meaningfully. Things are changing – there is no d...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 30, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Erica Olenski Johansen Tags: #HITsm Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT Revenue Cycle Management #HITsm Chat #HITsm Topics Consumer Healthcare Experiences Consumer Industry Erica Olenski Johansen Patients vs Consumers Source Type: blogs
Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Physicians Creating the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: An Epilogue
by Chad D. Kollas, MD, Beverly Schechtman and Carrie JudySeveral important developments have occurred since the publication of our article, “Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Physicians Creating the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: Bad Faith or Incompetence? ” in Pallimed on September 12, 2022 (1). Most notably, this includes the publication of the 2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain (2), which updated the guidance previously provided by the 2016 CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain (3). In this epilogue, we will describe those important developments and examine ...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - November 29, 2022 Category: Palliative Care Tags: CDC judy kollas opioids schechtman Source Type: blogs
On Preventive Care Coverage, Let the People Choose
Michael F. CannonA federal judge in Texas is weighing whether to free consumers nationwide from an unconstitutional ObamaCare requirement that they purchase coverage they do not want, theWall Street Journalreports. He should do so.In September, Judge Reed O ’Connor of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled that ObamaCare violates the Constitution by giving the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) the power to dictate particular types of coverage consumers must purchase. O’Connor ruled that provision unconstitutiona l because USPSTF members would have to receive Senate confirmation to w...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 28, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Michael F. Cannon Source Type: blogs
Cigna-Express Scripts by InsideRx Strategy Modification, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Insulin Trial
Two years ago, I made a very well-informed decision to simply bypass our own healthcare insurance for a number of prescriptions used in my household because we were paying out-of-pocket until the deductible was satisfied anyway (which was about half the year), and our new insurance carrier Aetna and its PBM Caremark was obviously ripping us off by a fairly wide margin. In fact, the financial gamesmanship (or as the PBM ' s call it, " Price Arbitrage " ) was so overt, that it would have been financially foolish to stick with insurance under the presumption that it contributed toward satisfying the deductible (a falsehood; t...
Source: Scott's Web Log - November 21, 2022 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2022 CIGNA coupon-generating websites apps coupons Express Scripts InsideRx PBM Source Type: blogs
