While the United States is generally viewed as one of the great nations with a bill of rights, views differ considerably regarding whether the country has an enlightened approach to healthcare; especially contentious is the ability to provide universal, cost-effective access. I believe all patients in the United States should have basic inalienable rights regarding their personal health information. Therefore, I propose this Patient Data Bill of Rights, and believe it should be mandated by
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Desert Oasis Healthcare Partners with Rimidi, Teva to Improve Asthma Management
What You Should Know: - Rimidi, a clinical management platform today announced that Desert Oasis Healthcare (DOHC), a regional medical group has implemented Rimidi’s new Respiratory Module. - Designed to give providers a more complete view of the patient in order to guide treatment decisions for those with respiratory diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or asthma, the Respiratory Module is enhanced by a collaboration with Teva Pharmaceuticals. - Data from
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How Hospitals Can Safely & Effectively Continue Patient Care Amid Rising Cybersecurity Risks
The world we live in is becoming increasingly integrated, and as it does, the amount of data also increases. It is estimated that 2.5 quintillion bytes – that’s 2,500,00,00,000 million, for perspective – are created, captured, and shared every day, and experts predict that number will grow exponentially in the coming years. Estimates show that the healthcare industry generates about 30% of the world’s data volume. That number is expected to reach a compound annual growth rate of 36% within the
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Generative AI Enters Healthcare with First Major Rollout that will Support 140+ Hospitals and 15,000+ Physicians
What You Should Know: - Abridge, the leader in AI-powered medical documentation, announced a partnership with The University of Kansas Health System that will mark the most significant rollout to date of generative AI in healthcare. - Abridge has already helped more than 2,000 clinicians and served more than 200,000 patients. By delivering a solution that optimizes patient-provider communication, the new partnership has the potential to serve and support more than 1,500 practicing
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Walmart Health Center to Add 28 New Locations in 2024
What You Should Know: - Today, Walmart announced it will add 28 new Walmart Health centers, with 75+ total locations by the end of the year. This continues our commitment to making quality healthcare more convenient, accessible and affordable for customers in the communities we serve. - The expansion will increase Walmart Health’s footprint into two new states including Missouri and Arizona, deepening our presence in Texas in the Dallas metro area and growing into Houston.
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Veradigm and HealthVerity Partner to Advance Real-World Evidence for Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes
What You Should Know: - Today, Veradigm and HealthVerity announced a collaboration to advance research and improve patient care for those with cardiovascular disease and diabetes. The collaboration makes Veradigm’s data from their Cardiovascular and Metabolic Registries fully interoperable with de-identified patient data from HealthVerity Marketplace, the nation’s largest healthcare and consumer data ecosystem. - The HealthVerity IPGE platform is an integrated technology and
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Why It’s Time for Intelligent Prior Authorization
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently proposed a new rule to advance interoperability and improve the prior authorization (PA) process for Medicare and Medicaid patients. Specifically, the rule stipulates that health plans adopt electronic prior authorization processes, adhere to shorter turnaround times, clearly communicate denial reasons, publish key metrics annually, and implement the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) Application Programming Interface
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Biden Admin Builds on Cancer Moonshot with 13 More Initiatives
What You Should Know: - One year ago, President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden reignited the Cancer Moonshot, setting an ambitious, achievable goal: to reduce the death rate from cancer by at least 50 percent over the next 25 years, and improve the experience of people and families living with and surviving cancer, ultimately ending cancer as we know it today. - The Cancer Moonshot has spurred tremendous action across the federal government and from the public and private
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Edifecs and VirtualHealth Partner to Automate Prior Authorization
What You Should Know: - Today, Edifecs and VirtualHealth, a medical management company, announced a new partnership automated prior authorization to VirtualHealth’s HELIOS® platform for healthcare payer and provider clients. - The Edifecs solution will automate and optimize the prior authorization process across HELIOS to significantly reduce the administrative burden, alleviate friction between payers and providers, and ultimately expedite patient care. Growing Need for Automated Prior
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Health Gorilla Launches Pharmacy Data, Powered by DrFirst
What You Should Know: - Health Gorilla, a Health Information Network (HIN) and leading interoperability platform launches Pharmacy Data, a new product enabling seamless access to complete medication history data from most major pharmacies. - Pharmacy Data is powered by a new partnership with DrFirst and its MedHx Population Risk Management (PRM) solution to provide deduplicated medication history from local and national data sources, including prescribing data, pharmacy
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