Monday Morning Update 2/5/24 – HIStalk
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The National Institutes of Health seeks $200 million in funding to replace its Altera Digital Health Sunrise system that it calls CRIS.
NIH Clinical Center CIO Jon McKeeby says that 40 of his…
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News 2/2/24 – HIStalk
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A Stat review says that digital therapeutics is stagnating in the US, as evidenced by vendor bankruptcies and lack of Medicare coverage for their products.
The authors note that Pear Therapeutics shut down…
EPtalk by Dr. Jayne 2/1/24 – HIStalk
Physicians who care for children — including pediatricians, family medicine physicians, and psychiatrists — have been sounding the alarm for years with regard to the negative impacts of social media on the health of…
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Healthcare AI News 1/31/24 – HIStalk
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Oracle announces a generative AI service that supports text generation, text summarization, and LLM-contextualized search results. The company says it will release search, aggregation tools, and prebuilt agent actions across its SaaS applications, including…
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An HIT Moment With … Steve Shihadeh – HIStalk
An HIT Moment With … is a quick interview with someone we find interesting. Steve Shihadeh is founder of Get-to-Market Health of Malvern, PA.
Startups have been forced to adjust their strategies, execution, or…
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News 1/31/24 – HIStalk
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A district attorney in New York charges a 21 year-old Florida man with stealing the prescribing credentials of hundreds of doctors, which he used to fill and sell tens of thousands of prescriptions…
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Curbside Consult with Dr. Jayne 1/29/24 – HIStalk
I’m a big fan of virtual care. It has the potential to revolutionize healthcare if we can get patients, providers, payers, and state regulators all on the same page.
Unfortunately, there’s still a lot…
Program Integrity Systems – HIStalk
Reducing Medicaid’s Fraud & Waste: Program Integrity SystemsBy Gerald Maccioli, MD
Gerald Maccioli, MD, MBA is chief medical officer of HHS Technology Group of Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Medicaid, a cornerstone of healthcare support…
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Monday Morning Update 1/29/24 – HIStalk
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UK doctors warn that patient care will suffer under new laws that would limit their use of messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Signal for clinical use.
A journalist’s BMJ article says that…
News 1/26/24 – HIStalk
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Humana shares dropped 16% on Thursday as the health insurer issued full-year earnings guidance that was half of Wall Street’s expectations.
The company, which primarily sells Medicare Advantage insurance, said that its medical expenses…
