MediFormatica Daily Digest – Wednesday, March 22, 2023 – (26 posts)

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LGBTQIA+ mental wellness app, Voda, releases “Coping with Gender Dysphoria” programmes thumbnail

LGBTQIA+ mental wellness app, Voda, releases “Coping with Gender Dysphoria” programmes

Jaron Soh (he/him), Co-founder and CEO of Voda, the LGBTQIA+ mental wellness app, shares why they are launching “Coping with Gender Dysphoria”, a series of digital mental health support resources for the trans and…

— DigitalHealth.London

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Maven Clinic buys fellow virtual women’s health company Naytal

Maven Clinic, which offers virtual care geared toward women and families, announced Tuesday it had purchased London-based Naytal to speed its expansion in the UK and other European markets. The company did not disclose financial…

— MobiHealthNews

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Korean researchers develop AI to predict adverse drug reactions with Pfizer’s Paxlovid

A research team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has developed an AI model to predict adverse reactions between oral anti-COVID-19 medication and prescription drugs.Researchers from KAIST’s Department of Biochemical Engineering…

— MobiHealthNews

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Morning Headlines 3/21/23

March 20, 2023 Headlines No Comments Washington prepares for war with Amazon
Politico reports that the FTC decided not to sue to block Amazon’s $4 billion acquisition of One Medical due to the…

— HIStalk

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Zus Health Snags $40M, Strikes Partnership with Elation Health

Healthcare technology veteran Jonathan Bush describes the industry’s endless repetition of medical information as “a lethal game of telephone.” That persistent problem is why he founded Zus Health in 2020, he said in a…

— MedCity News

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News 3/22/23

Top News Microsoft-owned Nuance will launch Dragon Ambient EXperience Express, which uses ChatGPT-4 to automatically generate clinical notes, this summer. DAX Express will be included in DAX. It will also be offered as an…

— HIStalk

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Shedding light on the search for an HIV cure

Professor Sharon Lewin, Director, Doherty Institute, Melbourne, Australia, was recently a part of The Healthcare Transformation Talks at Arab Health, where she put the spotlight on the search for an HIV cure and why it’s needed….

— Omnia Health Insights

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Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires and Layoffs

This roundup will be published monthly. It is meant to highlight some of healthcare’s recent hiring news and is not intended to be comprehensive. If you have news about an executive appointment, resignation or…

— MedCity News

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Understanding Healthcare Interoperability Testing

“Interoperability is not something you can buy, and not something you can sell,” according to Mario G. Hyland, founder and senior vice president of Aegis. With this commentary on IT companies trying to promise…

— Healthcare IT Today

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Allermi Raises $3.5M in Seed Funding To Grow DTC Allergy Relief Platform

Shani Bocian, co-founder and CEO of allergy telehealth company Allermi, is a “lifelong allergy sufferer.”
“I’ve had allergies since I was a little baby … I’ve always had nasal issues and nasal congestion and eczema…

— MedCity News

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Pharmacists Are Essential to Rural Access to Healthcare

The state of healthcare in America may be best described as uncertain. Nearly every news report points to burnout as a significant factor causing healthcare professionals to leave their field. According to a 2021…

— MedCity News

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Bardavon Health Innovations Offering First-of-its-Kind Safety Intelligence Suite to Protect the Labor Workforce

Bardavon has acquired the injury prevention company, Preventure, to expand its service line focused on personalized solutions that protect against musculoskeletal injuries
Bardavon Health Innovations is furthering their mission of supporting the health and mobility…

— Healthcare IT Today

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Healthcare in Denial: The State of Claims in 2023

Clarissa Riggins, Chief Product Officer, Experian HealthHow do you solve a persistent and growing problem like claims denials?It’s been a hot topic for revenue cycle management professionals for years that’s only getting hotter with…

— HIT Consultant

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EJADAH enhances healthcare management with AI

Dubai Health Authority highlighted during Arab Health 2023 that it will introduce a value-based healthcare model across 30 disease areas for the emirate by 2025.
The model known as EJADAH, which means proficiency in Arabic, was…

— Omnia Health Insights

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How a Telehealth Partnership is Expanding Critical Care for Newborns

Amid a maternal and infant care crisis brewing in rural America, some hospitals are banding together to ensure vital access to care is not disrupted. One of the key tools being used to enhance…

— DistilINFO Hospital IT

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NHS’ supply chain security 15-20 years behind other sectors says Huggins

Following the Advanced cyber attack in August 2022, Phil Huggins has revealed to a Digital Health Rewired audience that in its current state the NHS supply chain’s “state of security is 15 to 20…

— Digital Health

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MA Pharmacy Falls Victim to Email Phishing Attack, Results in PHI Exposure

By Sarai Rodriguez March 21, 2023 – After an email phishing attack, AllCare Plus Pharmacy reported to the Maine Attorney General that 5,971 patients potentially had their protected health information (PHI) exposed. AllCare became aware…

— Health IT Security

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OSU Researchers Create Wearable Sensor to Monitor Muscle Atrophy

By Mark Melchionna March 21, 2023 – Published in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, a recent study from Ohio State University (OSU) found that an electromagnetic, wearable sensor developed by OSU researchers was a reliable…

— mHealth Intelligence

Sana, Little Otter Partner to Give Adolescent Members and Their Families Access to Mental Healthcare thumbnail

Sana, Little Otter Partner to Give Adolescent Members and Their Families Access to Mental Healthcare

What You Should Know:– Sana, a healthcare company that provides Fortune 500-level health benefits to small businesses at affordable prices, today announced a partnership with Little Otter, a digital mental health solution for children…

— HIT Consultant

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Turning Health Data Sharing Into Meaningful Outcomes

In a recent video interview, Therasa Bell, President and CTO at Kno2, revives the term “meaningful” in health care technology.  However, in this case she is talking about establishing meaningful connectivity to drive individual…

— Healthcare IT Today

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AppliedVR Becomes First Virtual Reality Provider to Receive HCPCS Level II Code

What You Should Know:–AppliedVR, an immersive therapeutics (ITx) pioneer advancing a novel approach to medicine, today announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) established a unique Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System…

— HIT Consultant

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eClinicalWorks to showcase EHR and patient engagement innovations at HIMSS23

One of the biggest exhibitors at the HIMSS23 Conference & Exhibition in April in Chicago will be longtime cloud-based IT vendor eClinicalWorks.The Westborough, Massachusetts-based company was founded in 1999 to help digitize paper charts…

— Healthcare IT news

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Microsoft’s Nuance reveals clinician note-taking tool with GPT-4

Microsoft’s Nuance Communications announced a new clinical documentation tool that uses the latest version of OpenAI’s artificial intelligence language model, GPT-4.The company said Dragon Ambient eXperience (DAX) Express drafts clinical notes within seconds from…

— MobiHealthNews

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Biomimetic Construct Models Burn Injuries

Researchers at Harvard University have developed a model of burn injuries that will allow them to investigate the mechanisms underlying healing in such injuries and test out new approaches to enhance this process. Burns…

— Medgadget

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Artificial Intelligence System Predicts Postoperative Complications

By Mark Melchionna March 21, 2023 – Recent research published in JAMA Network Open found that an artificial intelligence (AI) system known as MySurgeryRisk used EHR data and input features to predict postoperative complications successfully.
Predicting…

— Health IT Analytics

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Nvidia, Medtronic Partner to Create AI Platform for Medical Devices

On Tuesday, Nvidia and Medtronic announced a collaboration focused on embedding AI into medical devices.
Nvidia, an AI development powerhouse, and Medtronic, a world leader in medical technology,  came together because they share a vision…

— MedCity News

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