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 Open letter in response to Frank Hester’s racist comments
Digital Health - (Thursday March 14, 2024) People working in digital health are being urged to sign an open letter condemning racism and discrimination and pledging commitment to develop an ‘equity charter’ for the industry. The letter states: “We the undersigned…  From HIMSS with Dr. Jayne 3/13/24 – HIStalk
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 UnityAI Secures $4 Million in Seed Funding to Revolutionize Hospital Flow | Healthcare IT Today
Healthcare IT Today - (Thursday March 14, 2024) Company will Apply AI Technologies Including Reinforcement Learning and LLMs to Optimize how Patients Flow through Hospitals  AKASA Unveils Gen AI Assistant, Cuts Prior Authorization Time by 50%
HIT Consultant - (Thursday March 14, 2024) What You Should Know: – AKASA, a leader in generative AI (GenAI) solutions for the revenue cycle, today announced the launch of Authorization Advisor™. – Authorization Advisor tackles the time-consuming and error-prone process of prior authorization,… |
 What’s the ‘concept car’ for what digital health should be?
Healthcare IT news - (Thursday March 14, 2024) ORLANDO – It’s going to take more than tech-first approaches to achieve the quadruple aim, and despite intense focus on how to leverage and safeguard artificial intelligence to enhance care delivery – the topic…  HiLabs Secures $39M to Tackle Dirty Healthcare Data with AI
HIT Consultant - (Thursday March 14, 2024) What You Should Know: HiLabs, a leading provider of AI-powered solutions to manage dirty data, unlocking its hidden potential for healthcare transformation, today announced a $39 million Series B financing.The round was led by Denali… |
 Racial minority IBD patients find mental health apps ‘acceptable’
mHealth Intelligence - (Thursday March 14, 2024) By Anuja Vaidya March 14, 2024 – New research shows that Black and Hispanic people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and elevated symptoms of anxiety and depression engaged in digital behavioral health applications, indicating that these…  Healthcare data breaches are piling up 3 months into the year
Health IT Security - (Thursday March 14, 2024) By Victoria Bailey March 14, 2024 – As of the first week of March, 116 healthcare data breaches have been reported to the HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR) in 2024, impacting over 13 million individuals…. |
 Predictive tool use has little effect on knee surgery decision-making
Health IT Analytics - (Thursday March 14, 2024) By Shania Kennedy March 14, 2024 – Researchers demonstrated that the use of a tool to predict total knee arthroplasty (TKA) in patients with knee osteoarthritis had little impact on patient-reported willingness to undergo the procedure,…  DHSC outlines plans to tackle ethnic and other biases in medical devices
Digital Health - (Thursday March 14, 2024) Earlier this week, the government announced its plan to tackle ethnic and other biases in medical devices, in a bid to position the UK as a world leader on the topic. The plan follows… |
