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London-Based Phare Health Raises €2.8 Million Seed to Bring Invisible AI to Healthcare Back Offices
Phare Health, a startup working on developing cutting-edge AI products to help hospitals better understand the state of their finances and track cashflows, announced today the closing of a €2.8 million seed round led by General Catalyst. Strategic backers, KHP Ventures and Bertelsmann Investments also invested in this funding round, bringing with them profound industry insights, expansive networks throughout Europe, and substantial healthcare resources. The funding will be used to drive AI innovation and development while building partnerships in the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) and abroad. In the las...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Bertelsmann Investments Chris Bischoff Dr Martin Seneviratne General Catalyst Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment KHP Ventures Phare Phare Health Thorsten Wirkes Source Type: blogs

Virtual cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) accounts for over 30% of NHS mental health treatments — up from 10% in 2017
Concern as a third of NHS mental health treatments shift online (The Guardian): An Observer analysis of data from private providers, cross-checked against NHS figures, reveals around one in three mental health treatments in England are delivered online, up from one in five in 2019, and one in 10 in 2017. Patients with mild to moderate depression or anxiety can be referred to app- or web-based, self-guided cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) courses, instead of traditional face-to-face talking therapies. The health watchdog Nice has approved three online CBT courses for NHS patients with depression: Beating the Blues, by 36...
Source: SharpBrains - July 12, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation 365 Health Solutions Amwell Beating the Blues cognitive behavioural therapy Deprexis Ethypharm Digital Therapy mental health treatments mild to moderate anxiety mild to moderate depression Source Type: blogs

Should doctors prescribe Leqembi (lecanemab) to women with early Alzheimer ’s Disease? The evidence-based answer is probably No
Welcome to a new edition of SharpBrains e‑newsletter, featuring this time a range of interventions for brain/ cognitive/ mental health plus a few brain teasers to test our perception and cognitive skills. #1. Should doctors prescribe lecanemab (Leqembi) to women? The answer, given available evidence, is probably No Huge (and mostly overlooked) red flag regarding newly approved “anti-Alzheimer’s” drugs: “To put it bluntly, if lecanemab doesn’t work in women it would be unethical to supply it to women. Recall this costly immunotherapy comes with substantive risks, including high incidence of ARIA and even death....
Source: SharpBrains - June 28, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health SharpBrains Monthly eNewsletter Technology & Innovation ADHD-symptoms Alzheimers-disease Anti-Alzheimer’s Drugs anti-amyloid drugs ARIA Brain Teasers brain teasers for adults cognitive-behavioral-therapy cognit Source Type: blogs

The National Health Service (NHS) in England to roll-out nine online cognitive-behavioural therapies (CBT) for adults with anxiety or depression
Online depression therapy given go-ahead in England (BBC News): Nine online talking-therapy treatments for anxiety or depression have been given the green light to be used by the NHS in England. … The new digital therapies are delivered via a website or an app and use cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT). They provide an alternative way of accessing support, which may be more convenient for some, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) says. They could also free up resources and help reduce the wait for care.… Mark Chapman from NICE said: “One of our priorities is to get the best care to peop...
Source: SharpBrains - June 14, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation anxiety-disorders Beating the Blues CBT methods cognitive behavioural therapy Deprexis iCT-PTSD iCT-SAD National Institute for Health and Care Excellence NHS NHS Talking Therapies online Source Type: blogs

The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Member Contributions) (Amendment) Regulations 2023
This report details the enhanced consultation process which set out proposals to uplift the member contribution tier thresholds in the NHS Pension Scheme in line with the Agenda for Change pay award for England.ReportDepartment of Health and Social Care - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - May 26, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs

Secure Your Hospital ’ s Future: The Critical Need for Robust Telemedicine Security
The following is a guest article by Narinder Singh, Co-Founder and CEO at LookDeep Health In 2016, attackers gained unauthorized access to Banner Health’s systems through the payment processing system used in the organization’s food and beverage outlets and used it as a gateway to access patient information. The risk of security breaches through indirect access to other systems, like telemedicine solutions, can expose the entire health system. As inpatient telemedicine experiences rapid growth within hospitals, it presents unique challenges to Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and Chief Security Officers (CSOs)...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 12, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Security and Privacy Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Hospital Security Isolate Networks LookDeep Health Medical Device Security Medical Devices Microsoft Source Type: blogs

HIMSS Takeaways: Size Doesn ’t (Always) Count, Johnny Appleseed and MomGPT
By MICHAEL L. MILLENSON Live and in-person once again, HIMSS 2023 attracted more than 30,000 attendees to the exhibit halls and meeting rooms of Chicago’s sprawling McCormick Place. Although no one person could possibly absorb it all, below are some harbingers of the health care future that stayed with me. Size Doesn’t Count. Exploring the remote byways of the cavernous exhibition areas, it became clear that it’s not the size of the booth, but the impact of the product that counts. At a pavilion highlighting Turkish companies, for instance, R. Serdar Gemici stood in front of a kiosk that might fit into a walk-i...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Best Buy Clarify Health Solutions Dedalus Epic Systems Eyal Zimlichman HealthPartners HIMSS HIMSS2023 Intermountain Healthcare Medeanalytics Michael Millenson NCQA Pangea Tim Barry VillageMD Source Type: blogs

Productivity of the English National Health Service: 2020/21 update
Centre for Health Economics - This paper measures NHS England's productivity in 2020/21, covering the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. This presented some challenges to how CHE calculated and interpreted their measure of productivity growth. The problems of accurately capturing the impact of the pandemic on both NHS inputs and outputs means that they would expect to find a negative growth in NHS productivity between 2019/20 and 2020/21 and this was found to be the case. It found that NHS productivity fell by around 24 per cent, on account of both a substantial decrease in outputs (16.05 per cent) and an incre...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 13, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS performance and productivity Source Type: blogs

Productivity of the English National Health Service: 2020/21 update
Centre for Health Economics -NHS productivity compares growth in health care outputs and inputs: the more outputs produced with a given amount of inputs, the higher the productivity growth. This assumes that more health care – such as operations in hospitals – generates more health for society. However this report finds that this assumption did not necessarily apply during the pandemic because hospitals were told to cancel as much non-emergency care as possible to free up acute beds and reduce the risk of Covid-19 i nfection. It also describes how, at the same time, the overall cost of the health care inputs – such a...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 9, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS performance and productivity Source Type: blogs

Semaglutide – the “ skinny jab ”
TL:DR – Semaglutide is known to US celebrities as the “skinny jab” and has apparently been the subject of a weight-loss craze. It has now been approved in the UK for weight-loss in the clinically obese. Semaglutide is a pharmaceutical that can help control the symptoms of Type 2 diabetes for which it was first used. The nickname, the “skinny jab” comes from the drug’s activity as an appetite suppressant used in helping overweight people and the obese reduce their body weight. It is sold under the brand names Ozempic, Wegovy and Rybelsus and was originally developed by Novo Nordisk in 20...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - March 8, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Health and Medicine Obesity Source Type: blogs

Trial By Error: After Maeve Boothby O ’ Neill ’ s Death, More Concerns About Severe ME Patients at NHS Hospitals
By David Tuller, DrPH I recently wrote an article for Codastory.com about Maeve Boothby O’Neill, who died from complications of severe ME in October, 2021, after three separate admissions to her local National Health Service hospital in Exeter, England. During her hospital stays, she and her family fought with the hospital over the need for […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - February 28, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized alice barrett maeve O'neill malnutrition severe ME tube-feeding Source Type: blogs

Trial By Error: After Maeve Boothby O ’ Neill ’ s Death, More Concerns About Severe ME Patients at NHS Hospitals
By David Tuller, DrPH I recently wrote an article for Codastory.com about Maeve Boothby O’Neill, who died from complications of severe ME in October, 2021, after three separate admissions to her local National Health Service hospital in Exeter, England. During her hospital stays, she and her family fought with the hospital over the need for … Trial By Error: After Maeve Boothby O’Neill’s Death, More Concerns About Severe ME Patients at NHS Hospitals Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - February 28, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Source Type: blogs

Last in Line: Hospitals Brace for a Chilly 2023
BY JEFF GOLDSMITH As they emerge from the COVID pandemic, US hospitals have a terrible case of Long COVID. They experienced the worst financial performance in 2022 in this analyst’s 47 year memory. As the nation recovers from the worst inflation in forty years, hospitals will find themselves locked in conflict with health insurers over contract renewals that would reset their rates to the actual delivered cost of care. “Last in line” in the US battle with inflation, hospitals will be exposed to public criticism when they attempt to recover from pandemic-induced financial losses. Hospital payment rates f...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy The Business of Health Care Clinician Shortage COVID-19 Inflation Jeff Goldsmith Long Covid National Health Service Source Type: blogs

Healthcare Chatbot Explosion on The Way?
While healthcare providers have been relatively slow to put chatbots to work, the time may have come for a chatbot explosion. With ChatGPT generating frenzied global interest, we may be at the tipping point for using chatbots in our daily lives, and providers will have good reason to meet consumers where they are. Over the last few years, there has been a slowly growing movement toward using chatbots in clinical care. One of the highest-profile projects involves the deployment of a chatbot created by Babylon Health to triage patients seen in several hospitals within the UK’s National Health Service. Providers have al...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 3, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Anne Zieger Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Babylon Health ChatGPT Colin Hung Generative AI Healthcare Chatbot National Health Service Pie Source Type: blogs