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 How Policy Changes Can Fix Market Distortions in Healthcare and Improve the Country’s Debt | Healthcare IT Today
Healthcare IT Today - (Tuesday September 12, 2023) The following is a guest article by Zach Markin, Co-Founder and CEO at HTD Health  Considerations for addressing bias in artificial intelligence for health equity
npj Digital Medicine - (Tuesday September 12, 2023) Health equity is a primary goal of healthcare stakeholders: patients and their advocacy groups, clinicians, other providers and their professional societies, bioethicists, payors and value based care organizations, regulatory agencies, legislators, and creators of… |
 Flo, MyFitnessPal and BetterMe most downloaded wellness apps – study
Digital Health - (Tuesday September 12, 2023) Flo Period Tracker, MyFitnessPal and BetterMe were the three most downloaded wellness apps in April 2023, according to a study from Tipalti.Flo Period Tracker was officially the most downloaded wellness app in April, with…  NextGen Healthcare Enters into Definitive Agreement to Be Acquired by Thoma Bravo | Healthcare IT Today
Healthcare IT Today - (Tuesday September 12, 2023) NextGen Healthcare Shareholders to Receive $23.95 Per Share in Cash, a 46.4% Premium to Unaffected Stock Price |
 Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA): Why More Is Not Always Better
HIT Consultant - (Tuesday September 12, 2023) Dana D’Ambrosio, M.S., BCBA, LBA, Director, Clinical Development at RethinkFutures In a society where so many want more—more money, more time off, more adventure—few stop to question the logic of insatiably wanting “more.” Perhaps, no…  High Drug Costs Threatening the Affordability of Employer-Sponsored Healthcare
HIT Consultant - (Tuesday September 12, 2023) Constance Sjoquist, Senior Healthcare Analyst with RazorMetrics Large employers report that the biggest threat to self-funding medical coverage is the increasingly high cost of pharmacy claims. In their annual Health Benefits Priorities survey, MBGH found… |
 A deep learning-based electrocardiogram risk score for long term cardiovascular death and disease
npj Digital Medicine - (Tuesday September 12, 2023) The electrocardiogram (ECG) is the most frequently performed cardiovascular diagnostic test, but it is unclear how much information resting ECGs contain about long term cardiovascular risk. Here we report that a deep convolutional neural…  NIST releases draft algorithms for quantum-resistant cryptography
Healthcare IT news - (Tuesday September 12, 2023) The National Institute of Standards and Technology is accepting feedback on the Federal Information Processing Standards 203, 204 and 205 draft standards until November 22, according to its announcement in the Federal Register.Following the… |
 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly ICB launch Strata Health Platform
Digital Health - (Tuesday September 12, 2023) Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board (ICB) has launched Strata Health’s referral platform, a unified electronic system to help streamline patient referrals across the primary, secondary, community and social services sectors within…  North West Ambulance Service pilots hypertension initiative
Digital Health - (Tuesday September 12, 2023) North West Ambulance Service has piloted a scheme in Greater Manchester which is helping to identify previously unrecognised cases of hypertension, with the initiative set to be rolled out region-wide in the future.The pilot… |
