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Are You Ready for HIMSS23? | |
 | Be part of the most exciting week in healthcare at #HIMSS23 in Chicago!HIMSS23 is the can’t-miss health information and technology event of the year, where professionals connect for education, innovation and collaboration.Are you ready?Join us April 17-21, 2023: https://bit.ly/3ke9rip...
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Decline of Telehealth During the Pandemic and AfterMedCity News - (Saturday February 18, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ MedCity News | |
 | The pandemic has forced healthcare organizations to rely heavily on telehealth services. In 2020, virtual visits accounted for more than a quarter of all outpatient visits in the U.S., and they’ve been steadily increasing since then. But there is a flip side to this trend. Recent data shows that telehealth is declining in healthcare, which could create a burden for both healthcare systems and patients. Let’s take a look at why this is happening and what can be done about it. Reasons behind the decline There are several factors driving the decline in telehealth utilization in healthcare settings. One reason is cost...
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Fatty Liver Disease in Children: Prevalence, Evaluation, & Essential ToolseHealth Radio Network - (Friday February 17, 2023) - eHealth Radio Network/ Podcasts | |
 | Dr. Alisha Mavis, a Pediatric Hepatologist at Duke University where she cares for pediatric patients with liver disease joins eHealth Radio and the Children's Health & Health News Channels. Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Dr. Alisha Mavis discuss the following: What is the prevalence of fatty liver disease in children, and who should we be screening? When screening a child for fatty liver disease, what are some of the tools used to evaluate for the disease, and how is the diagnosis of pediatric fatty liver disease made? What is the natural history of pediatric liver disease, and how does this...
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Q&A: Thrive Center’s CEO Makes Staffing Shortage Concerns a Top PriorityHealthTech Magazine - (Friday February 17, 2023) - AI/ Frequent Updates/ HealthTech Magazine | |
 | HEALTHTECH: What are the highest-priority issues for senior care organizations in 2023?ROSE: I think it would be workforce and staffing issues, especially in the post-acute area. Unfortunately, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw so many people leave healthcare. Staffing has always been an issue, but it reached critical status during the pandemic. Now, organizations are really trying to recover, so they’re looking for solutions that can augment their workforce and make workflows seamless — not a lot of logins, not a lot of devices, more cloud-based solutions that will really drive efficiency and mobility, because that’s going to be key to a...
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Chiesi Wins FDA Approval for First Drug to Treat Ultra-Rare Enzyme DeficiencyMedCity News - (Friday February 17, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ MedCity News | |
 | A Chiesi Farmaceutici drug for a rare enzyme deficiency is now approved by the FDA, making it the first U.S. treatment for a disorder that leads to a range of cognitive and muscle problems. The regulatory decision announced late Thursday covers the treatment of children and adults who have alpha-mannosidosis (AM), a disease caused by a genetic mutation that leads to defective or inactive forms of an enzyme called alpha-D-mannosidase. Chiesi’s drug, velmanase alfa, is an engineered version of that enzyme. The privately held Italian company will market its new FDA-approved drug as Lamzede, the same name for the product in Europe,...
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The Importance of Improving Healthcare’s Cyber ResilienceHealthTech Magazine - (Friday February 17, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ HealthTech Magazine | |
 | Listen Pause Healthcare organizations have always needed to be prepared for unexpected events, from natural disasters to pandemic surges. Increasingly, cyberattacks must factor into their response plans, especially as threats grow more sophisticated and coordinated. Ninety-six percent of executives across industries consider cyber resilience to be highly important to their businesses, according to a 2022 Cisco report. Nearly two-thirds of respondents said they experienced a security incident that affected their resilience, with a majority happening over the past two years. As cyberattacks continue to make headlines, organizations should think in terms of...
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Exclusive Look at HandX Robotic-Assisted Surgical Device from Human XtensionsMedgadget - (Friday February 17, 2023) - Daily Reads/ Medgadget | |
 | Surgical robotics is dominated by various versions of the da Vinci system from Intuitive Surgical, a competent but expensive tool that’s become a standard in modern advanced hospitals. It took Intuitive about 30 years to achieve this status, but there are systems from J&J, Medtronic, CMR Surgical, and others that are chipping away at the company’s dominance. All of these systems operate under the “master-slave” concept, which involves a surgeon sitting behind a console, away from the patient, who manipulates the mechanical arms of the robot via some kind of joystick-like device. Thanks to kind support from Biomed Israel, the leading...
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Health benefits platform Collective Health announces layoffsMobiHealthNews - (Friday February 17, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ MobiHealthNews | |
 | Collective Health, a health benefits management platform, has laid off 54 employees as it arranges its workforce to better align with customer needs. The company's CEO, Ali Diab, announced the layoffs on LinkedIn, saying the employees were being let go due to a "workforce reduction," while urging companies that may encounter those employees during the hiring process to provide them with "strong consideration." Collective Health acts as a third-party health benefits administrator, bringing companies' various benefits into one platform to let employers manage their offerings while assisting employees with navigating their healthcare. "We can confirm that as part of a restructuring of our workforce,...
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Retrieving Billions in Overpayments by CMSHealthcare IT Today - (Friday February 17, 2023) - AI/ Daily Reads/ Healthcare IT Today | |
 | Amid swirling accusations that Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs) are overbilling the U.S. government and calls for better oversight, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced in early February that it would investigate overbilling by those plans. They expect to recoup 4.7 billion dollars through this program. This article focuses on the relatively young technologies that enable CMS to uncover overbillings, whether they be errors or fraud. The article is based on an interview with Kel Pults, chief clinical officer and vice president of MediQuant. A future article will explain how Medicare Advantage plans are trying to improving data collection and reporting,...
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Community Health Systems reports GoAnywhere hackedHealthcare IT news - (Friday February 17, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ Healthcare IT News | |
 | Community Health Systems filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it was notified by a third-party vendor for secure file transfer of an incident that resulted in unauthorized disclosure of its patient data.WHY IT MATTERS The GoAnywhere managed file transfer platform first warned about a zero-day remote code injection exploit on February 1, according to the technical bulletin posted by noted security researcher Brian Krebs on Infosec.exchange. "The attack vector of this exploit requires access to the administrative console of the application, which in most cases is accessible only from within a private company network, through [virtual private network] or by allow-listed IP...
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