News 10/20/23 – HIStalk
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OptumInsight CEO Neil de Crescenzo leaves the company a year after it acquired Change Healthcare in a $13 billion deal, according to a LinkedIn post. He had been CEO of Change since 2013.
OptumInsight’s…
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EPtalk by Dr. Jayne 10/19/23 – HIStalk
Clinical informaticists are often asked to help their organizations with strategies to combat health misinformation, whether it’s through implementing patient education solutions, providing input for patient-facing websites, consulting on social media campaigns, or creating…
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Healthcare AI News 10/18/23 – HIStalk
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OpenAI adds voice capabilities to the ChatGPT mobile app, which can carry on a conversation with the user through one of several available natural-sounding voices. Existing voice assistants such as Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant,…
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News 10/18/23 – HIStalk
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Waystar announces that it filed IPO documents in August that reportedly value the company at up to $8 billion.
Waystar says it booked $196 million in sales for the quarter ending June 30…
Curbside Consult with Dr. Jayne 10/16/23 – HIStalk
Generative AI continues to be a hot topic around the virtual physician water cooler. My colleagues have come to expect me to have my finger on the pulse of innovation, even though interacting with…
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Easing HCC Coding Adoption by Using Insights and Assessment for More Accurate Data – HIStalk
Easing HCC Coding Adoption by Using Insights and Assessment for More Accurate DataBy Shahyan Currimbhoy
Shahyan Currimbhoy, MS is vice president of product of Edifecs of Bellevue, WA.
Healthcare provider organizations that are participating in Medicare…
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Monday Morning Update 10/16/23 – HIStalk
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Walgreens will close 60 of its drugstore-attached VillageMD clinics as it pursues $1 billion in cost reductions following a Q4 loss that is the first in its 122-year history.
Walgreens paid $5.2 billion in…
News 10/13/23 – HIStalk
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FDA creates a nine-member Digital Health Advisory Committee that will advise it on topics such as AI, augmented and virtual reality, digital therapeutics, wearables, and remote patient monitoring technology.
Nominations will be accepted…
EPtalk by Dr. Jayne 10/12/23 – HIStalk
The theme of this week’s edition of “Where in the world is Dr. Jayne” seems to involve cities that have either “falls” or “rapids” in the name. We just left the fifth iteration,…
Healthcare AI News 10/11/23 – HIStalk
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Microsoft introduces new healthcare-related tools to its Fabric analytics platform that can assemble and standardize data from multiple sources – such as EHRs, imaging systems, lab systems, medical devices, and claims data – and…
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