HOPPR launches beta medical imaging AI platform powered by Amazon Web Services
HOPPR, a Health2047 company, is using the RSNA venue to launch Grace, a multimodal foundation model developed for image-to-image and text-to-image learning across all imaging modalities. This beta model is targeted to radiology PACS vendors, AI companies, and other medical imaging-related developers for fine-tuning and application development. Dubbed Grace, the B2B foundation model enables image-to-image and text-to-image learning across all medical imaging modalities. It enables application developers to more quickly build meaningful AI solutions designed for radiologists, technologists, and radiology support staff to e...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - November 26, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News 2023 Source Type: news

The New Economics of Buying or Renting Audiobooks
Audiobooks have long been a luxury digital good. That’s slowly starting to change. A new entrant, Spotify, is changing the economics of the listenable reads. It used to cost up to $40 a pop or a $15 monthly subscription to access one audiobook each billing cycle. Now, audio titles can come bundled…#spotify (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

PeaceHealth agrees to refund $13.4M to Washington patients
The move comes after the state attorney general's office accused the health system of billing low-income patients who likely qualified for financial assistance. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - November 21, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Joey Thompson Source Type: news

Rosalynn Carter Dies: Former First Lady ’s Life in Photos
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Source: Reuters: Health - November 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Palo Alto Networks shares drop as billings guidance falls short; Seen as a'minor speed bump '
Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: ) shares fell 6% in pre-open Thursday after posting solid first-quarter results but issuing second-quarter and full-year billing guidance below estimates. The company reported that total revenue for the first quarter grew 20% year-over-year to $1.9 billion, beating the…#paloaltonetworks #nikesharora #arr #dipakgolechha #q1nongaap #fcf #oppenheimer #paloalto (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Fashioned by Sargent
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Source: Reuters: Health - November 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

To Minimize Patient 'Note Bloat,' Cut to the Chase
(MedPage Today) -- Isn't it time we began embracing the simplified documentation guidelines that finally came about to ease our billing and coding woes? These pared-down Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services guidelines, put into place now... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - November 13, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news

A major student-loan company is giving millions of borrowers'inadequate' information as it works to solve billing inaccuracies, 4 Democratic lawmakers say
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). Drew Angerer/Getty Images The Education Department withheld pay from student-loan company MOHELA over repayment errors. A group of Democrats said MOHELA is not properly communicating with borrowers since the announcement. They requested MOHELA's CEO provide…#elizabethwarren #educationdepartment #democrats #edmarkey #chrisvanhollen #richardblumenthal #scottgiles #mohela #federalstudentaid #save (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Algorithm hunts for unreported osteoporosis markers on chest x-rays
Thursday, November 30 | 8:50 a.m.-9:00 a.m. | R1-SSCH09-5 | Room E352An AI algorithm can find radiographic markers for osteoporosis that are common but often not reported on radiology reports, according to this scientific paper.To date, AI models in medical imaging have often commonly focused on radiological finding detection to provide direct diagnostic assistance to radiologists, according to presenter Jonathan Stephan Luchs, MD. This recent study, however, investigated a use case to enhance osteoporosis risk characterization.The presence of osteopenia and spine wedge fracture are strong indicators of osteoporosis. Detec...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - November 8, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Liz Carey Tags: 2023 AI Preview Source Type: news

Dietitian explains why there is no such thing as 'good' and 'bad' foods
Nutrition has increasingly become a moral issue as diet culture and the pressure to be thin and fit has engulfed the US, with people falsely billing certain foods as 'good' and 'bad'. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Gun Injuries to Children Have Soared. So Have Their Impacts
Firearms have accounted for the deaths of more American children than any other cause since 2020. The true damage guns inflict on children is larger still, as demonstrated by a new study showing that emergency-room visits for children injured by firearms nearly doubled during the pandemic. In a survey of nine U.S. hospitals, a team led by Dr. Jennifer Hoffmann, a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, found that pediatric emergency room visits due to gun shots increased from 694 in the years before the pandemic to 1,210 during the pandemic, a 74% increase, according to dat...
Source: TIME: Health - November 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Haley Weiss Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

Daye now offers tampon-based STI screening -- starting in the UK
UK femcare-turned-gynaecological-health startup, Daye, has expanded its tampon-based home screening service to add STI testing. The startup is billing this “non-invasive screening” service for sexually transmitted infections as a “world first”. The “STI Diagnostic Tampon” service uses Polymerase…#sti #stidiagnostictampon #pcr #chlamydia #valentinamilanova #milanova #hpv #gbs #ivf #hrt (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

AWS console: Understanding the central hub for managing Amazon Web Services resources
Getty Images The AWS Management Console lets you access all your cloud services. Billing and security features are also found on the AWS console. For hands-on support, you can open a case with AWS Support and chat one-on-one in Slack. The AWS Management Console is a web app that gives AWS users…#awsmanagementconsole #aws #slack #android #console #awsconsole #css #amazon (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

OPM, IRS, EBSA, CMS: Federal Independent Dispute Resolution Operations
Notice of proposed rules from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) related provisions of the No Surprises Act regarding the Federal independent dispute resolution (IDR) process. Among other things, these proposed rules would establish new requirements relating to the disclosure of information that group health plans and health insurance issuers offering group or individual health insurance coverage must include along with the initial payment or notice of denial of payment for certain items and services subject to the surprise...
Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center - November 3, 2023 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news