Data is a crucial pillar of healthcare. But more than just the data itself, the flow of data between all stakeholders is what enables everything from care coordination to quality measurement, payment efficiencies, risk management, and other key goals. Yet, the healthcare industry has historically struggled with data exchange due to the lack of aligned interests caused by a third-party payer system and the predominance of proprietary technology. Additionally, data privacy, which all would
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Care Guidance: The Human-Enabled Tech Solution for Clinical Staff
Hospitals, health systems and group practices nationwide are finding value and effectiveness by partnering with an outsourced care guidance resource to extend clinical staff and strengthen care management support. The addition of a structured and highly scalable care guidance program that goes beyond mere navigation efforts provides a unique solution as a service proposition to comprehensively address many of the operational and financial challenges that directly affect the entire provider
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Healthcare Fraud Shield Brings AI to Healthcare Fraud Detection
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Healthcare Fraud Shield (HCFS), a leading provider of fraud, waste, abuse, and error (FWAE) protection solutions for the healthcare insurance market, today launched FWA360Leads, a new product that automatically identifies and prioritizes FWA leads based on order of importance and impact severity.The HCFS PlatformTM is the backbone of many top healthcare insurance companies’ FWA & payment integrity strategies – delivering millions of dollars in savings,
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HHS Unveils Data Strategy to Fuel Cancer Moonshot & Health Outcomes
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- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released its comprehensive Data Strategy, outlining a vision for leveraging data as a powerful tool to improve health outcomes and advance the Biden Cancer Moonshot.
- The strategy expands the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)'s role to encompass human services interoperability in addition to its existing focus on healthcare interoperability. This ensures seamless
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Children’s Health Deploys Generative AI-Powered Clinical Summaries
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- Children's Health, a pediatric health system announced it has deployed Pieces, a clinically-oriented generative AI solution, across its inpatient care.
- Pieces seamlessly integrates with the hospital's Epic EMR and has quickly become a daily tool for doctors, nurses, and case managers, facilitating clinical handoffs, managing length of stay, tackling discharge barriers, enhancing team communication, and supporting multidisciplinary rounds.
Real-Time
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Pair Team Expands in California, Empowering Underserved Communities
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Pair Team, a virtual and community-based primary care solution connecting Medicaid’s highest-risk patients to high-quality care, today announced its expansion into seven new California markets: Fresno, Merced, Monterey, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, San Joaquin, and Stanislaus counties.This move enables the company to further improve access to California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) care benefits by reaching a larger number of patients, providers
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CodaMetrix Appoints Lisa Morella as VP of Data and Analytics
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- CodaMetrix, the AI-powered medical coding platform, has appointed Lisa Morella as its new Vice President of Data and Analytics. Morella joins the company as they celebrate a 50% increase in automated coding transactions compared to 2022, marking a significant milestone in their mission to revolutionize healthcare coding.
- Morella brings a wealth of experience from her 15-year tenure at Mass General Brigham, where she played a key role in developing the innovative
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What Patients Want: Zocdoc’s Report Reveals Patient Preferences
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- Zocdoc, the healthcare marketplace, has released its inaugural What Patients Want Report, offering valuable insights into what patients seek from their healthcare experience and providers.
- Based on millions of bookings and patient interactions, the report paints a picture of how patients are navigating the healthcare landscape today, and what they expect from their providers and the industry at large.
Key findings of the report include:
Women driving
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The Crucial Role of Dual Incident Response Playbooks in Healthcare Cybersecurity
As the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of a large hospital system, it is my responsibility to lead the charge in cybersecurity preparedness, and I have done this through a nuanced approach to incident response planning. In an era where healthcare organizations heavily rely on digital systems and sensitive patient data, the threat of cybersecurity incidents looms large; the importance of incident response procedures cannot be overstated. These procedures provide a structured approach to identify,
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1 in 3 Primary Care Physicians Have Already Tried AI Scribe Tools
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Elation Health, the clinical-first technology company powering innovation in primary care, today announced the results of a survey of 229 primary care physicians focused on the benefits, desired features, and hurdles to adoption of artificial intelligence–powered (AI) medical scribe tools in the EHR.AI scribe tools use speech recognition and natural language processing to capture and transcribe conversations between a physician and a patient during clinical
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