What You Should Know:
- Hackensack Meridian Health, New Jersey's largest health network, and One Medical, a prominent national virtual and in-office primary care organization, are joining forces to provide a new primary care option in New Jersey.
- The partnership will provide more primary care providers in New Jersey and will ensure that residents and employers have seamless coordinated care.
Addressing Primary Care Gaps
With one in four U.S. adults and half of those under 30
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Providence Pioneers Data Sharing for Value-Based Care with HL7® Da Vinci Clinical Data Exchange
What You Should Know:
- Providence has become the first health system in the United States to develop a data-as-a-service (DaaS) product driven by HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR).
- This product facilitates the exchange of clinical data between providers and payers, aiming to standardize clinical data across the system.
Barriers to Data Exchange
Traditionally, one of the most significant barriers to seamless clinical data exchange has been the lack of
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Bamboo Health Launches Discharge Summaries to Streamline Follow-Up Care
What You Should Know:
- Bamboo Health has announced a new solution called Discharge Summaries, which is an enhancement to its existing Pings platform.
- Discharge Summaries is designed to address the challenges of patient discharge communication by providing care coordinators with easy access to real-time discharge information, including medication lists, follow-up appointments, and other vital details. This information is critical for ensuring that patients receive the appropriate care
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IHS Awards $2.5B Contract to GDIT for Oracle EHR Implementation
What You Should Know:
- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has selected General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) to build and maintain a new electronic health record (EHR) system utilizing Oracle Cerner technology. for the Indian Health Service (IHS). The new EHR system will replace the current Resource and Patient Management System, which is over 40 years old.
- The new EHR system will modernize IHS healthcare delivery and operations, making it easier for
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Resisting M&As: 5 Steps to Retain Ownership for Mid-Size Healthcare Organizations
The healthcare landscape is continually evolving, and for mid-sized healthcare organizations, this evolution presents both challenges and opportunities. While larger healthcare systems may have more resources to tackle growth, smaller entities like medical groups, community hospitals, and rural hospitals often find it difficult to develop and implement growth strategies that can make a significant impact.
For that reason, headlines are replete with news of medical group buyouts, acquisitions,
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Better Data for Better Health Among Medicaid Recipients
During the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, over 10 million Americans enrolled in Medicaid – nearly a 14% increase from the beginning of 2020. A month before the public health emergency ended on May 11, 2023, 87 million individuals were enrolled in Medicaid. The increase was driven by multiple factors, including the pause of all periodic eligibility reviews during the public health emergency. Now, all Medicaid enrollees face the return of the redetermination process by state agencies – the process
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What it Will Take To Trust Healthcare AI Models?
As ChatGPT and similar Large Language Model (LLM) tools gather and organize data in responses, it’s important to understand how the data they use has been curated. Medical science is constantly evolving, with previously accepted conclusions and standards being supplanted by newer information. Yet the outdated and sometimes disproven body of literature is often still quite large.
For example, external carotid to internal carotid (EC/IC) bypass for cerebral ischemia due to cerebrovascular
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How AI Can Help with Patient Self-Scheduling
As every patient knows, scheduling a doctor’s appointment can be a real nightmare. Patients are exasperated with irritating phone menus, endless wait times, and cumbersome scheduling procedures. Meanwhile, healthcare staff are drowning in relentless scheduling calls and laborious booking procedures that leave them exhausted and burnt out.
Clearly, the current system isn’t working for anybody. Healthcare facilities are aware of the problem, but many struggle to do anything about it.
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56% of Americans Concerned About Contracting an Infectious Disease from a Hospital
What You Should Know:
New survey findings released today by Kinnos show that the risk of becoming infected by visiting or staying in a hospital weighs heavily on the minds of Americans.The findings, which arrive on the heels of the pandemic and amidst an escalating infectious disease crisis, reflect consumer sentiment and concerns when seeking medical care.
Survey Insights Reveal Heightened Post-Pandemic Worries Regarding Infectivity
Results from the “2023 Consumer Concerns:
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Hospitals at Risk: Cybersecurity Vulnerability Discovered in EEG Medical Device NeuroWorks Natus
What You Should Know:
- A new critical vulnerability was discovered in NeuroWorks Natus Electroencephalogram (EEG) Software that could allow cybercriminals to take control of affected devices and steal medical data. NeuroWorks Natus Electroencephalogram (EEG) software solution is widely used across clinics, hospitals, large teaching facilities and medical device providers for EEG, LTM, ICU, sleep, and research studies.
- Trustwave SpiderLabs discovered the vulnerability affects the
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