MediFormatica Daily Digest – Friday, March 31, 2023 – (37 posts)
In todays fast-paced world, it is easy to miss out on important information, especially if you are trying to keep up with a lot of different sources. That is where the daily digest comes in – it is a tool that compiles all the posts created on the previous day, providing you with a convenient summary of everything that happened so you can stay informed, educated, and engaged with the Digital Health world around you.
 | At ViVE, How Did VCs Respond to Criticism of Their Industry?From left to right: Lee Shapiro, Emily Melton, Richard Mulry, Ambar Bhattacharyya and Arundhati Parmar — MedCity News |
 | South Korea clears Sky Labs’ cuffless blood pressure monitoring featureSouth Korean health tech startup Sky Labs has recently obtained the approval of the South Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety for the latest blood pressure monitoring feature on its ring-type health monitoring… — MobiHealthNews |
 | BCBSA Offers Health Equity Guide to Standardized SDOH Data CollectionBy Sarai Rodriguez March 30, 2023 – Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA), in partnership with the National Minority Quality Forum (NMQF), has urged the healthcare industry to adopt a health equity-focused set of recommendations… — EHR Intelligence |
 | 5 Ways Nursing Technology is Revolutionizing Patient CareNurses are the backbone of the medical industry. Without their presence, patient care would suffer greatly, but being that we live in an ever evolving, technological world, the way that nurses are equipped to… — The Healthcare Guys |
 | High night-to-night variability in sleep apnea severity is associated with uncontrolled hypertensionObstructive sleep apnea (OSA) severity can vary markedly from night-to-night. However, the impact of night-to-night variability in OSA severity on key cardiovascular outcomes such as hypertension is unknown. Thus, the primary aim of this… — npj Digital Medicine |
 | Digital Health Advertorial: Robust infrastructure is key to delivering digital change for the NHSProfessor Sultan Mahmud, Director of Healthcare, BTAt its core, the NHS is made by the people who work within it, helping to keep things going just like a beating heart. Today, technology is the… — Digital Health |
 | Streamlining Patient Portal Message Delivery to Enhance Patient ActivationPatient portal messages may not be an effective tool to encourage preventive care, according to a study by the University of California, Los Angeles. Researchers analysed more than 200,000 patients divided into three groups… — DistilINFO Hospital IT |
 | Continuous cuffless blood pressure monitoring with a wearable ring bioimpedance deviceSmart rings provide unique opportunities for continuous physiological measurement. They are easy to wear, provide little burden in comparison to other smart wearables, are suitable for nocturnal settings, and can be sized to provide… — npj Digital Medicine |
 | Personify Care’s digital patient pathway project to go SA-wideHealth IT company Personify Care has bagged a A$5.6 million ($3.7 million) contract from SA Health to extend its digital patient pathways project across the entire state over the next two years. THE LARGER CONTEXT — Healthcare IT news |
 | Can Cost-Sharing for Screenings Lead to Missed Cancer Diagnoses?Patients with high out-of-pocket healthcare costs for breast cancer screening may miss important follow-up tests, leading to missed cancer diagnoses, according to research in JAMA Network Open. The Affordable Care Act requires preventive screening… — DistilINFO Hospital IT |
 | AI Shows Potential for Automating Hip Fractures DiagnosisBy Mark Melchionna March 30, 2023 – A recent study published in JAMA Network Open found that machine-learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms could use radiographs to diagnose hip fractures with comparable accuracy to… — Health IT Analytics |
 | GA Bill Seeks Better Patient-Provider Communication About Medical ErrorsBy Sara Heath March 30, 2023 – A new bill in Georgia aims to improve patient-provider communication about medical errors and patient safety. The CANDOR (Communication and Optimal Resolution) Act, based on the CANDOR program… — Patient Engagement HIT |
 | A standardized framework for risk-based assessment of treatment effect heterogeneity in observational healthcare databasesTreatment effects are often anticipated to vary across groups of patients with different baseline risk. The Predictive Approaches to Treatment Effect Heterogeneity (PATH) statement focused on baseline risk as a robust predictor of treatment… — npj Digital Medicine |
 | NHS Lanarkshire upgrades Multitone Electronics critical messaging systemNHS Lanarkshire has upgraded the critical messaging system supplied by Multitone Electronics at The University Hospital Hairmyres in East Kilbride, a hospital it manages.The organisation has built on its long-term partnership with Multitone Electronics,… — Digital Health |
 | Solve.Care Launches Decentralized Layer-2 Healthcare Blockchain InfrastructureWhat You Should Know:Solve.Care, a healthcare platform company that leverages blockchain technology to deliver better care, has announced the launch of Care.Chain, a decentralized Layer-2 network infrastructure.Care.Chain is a significant step towards Solve.Care’s mission… — HIT Consultant |
 | Clinical workflow platform Florence launches with $20MNew York-based health technology company Florence, which focuses on clinical capacity management, launched with $20 million seed funding. GV (Google Ventures), Thrive Capital and Salesforce Ventures led the round, with participation from Atento Capital, BoxGroup… — MobiHealthNews |
 | Fortra GoAnywhere MFT Vulnerability Impacts Blue Shield of CABy Jill McKeon March 30, 2023 – Blue Shield of California notified 63,341 individuals of a healthcare data breach that stemmed from the Fortra GoAnywhere vulnerability. One of Blue Shield’s providers, Brightline Medical Associates, notified… — Health IT Security |
 | FDA to Refuse Medical Device Submissions For Cybersecurity Reasons Beginning in OctoberBy Jill McKeon March 30, 2023 – Effective immediately, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will require medical device manufacturers to provide cybersecurity information in their premarket device submissions. Additionally, beginning October 1, the… — Health IT Security |
 | Senate Democrats Plan to Introduce Legislation for VA EHRM Program OverhaulBy Hannah Nelson March 30, 2023 – Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), a senior member of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, Chairman Jon Tester (D-MT), and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) are leading a legislative push for an… — EHR Intelligence |
 | Healthcare transformation is about to experience a quantum shiftAI is poised to revolutionise the healthcare industry, providing numerous opportunities to streamline processes, improve patient outcomes, and enhance efficiency in healthcare delivery. The technology provides a vast and complex network of algorithms, machine… — Omnia Health Insights |
 | ViVE 2023: Maintaining Security and Privacy as Patient Data GrowsFrom left: Accenture Global Managing Director Salwa Rafee, Health-ISAC Chief Security Officer Errol Weiss, Health Sector Coordinating Council Cybersecurity Working Group Executive Director Greg Garcia, and Armis CTO and Co-Founder Nadir Izrael discuss how… — HealthTech Magazine |
 | Why a Data Exchange Platform Is Vital to Healthcare InteroperabilitySponsored by Consensus Cloud Solutions March 30, 2023 – Today’s healthcare system touts high levels of EHR adoption among hospitals and physician practices thanks to billions of dollars in incentives made available by the Centers… — EHR Intelligence |
 | Hybrid Healthcare and The New Normal: Biggest Adjustments for Healthcare OrganizationsEric Bacon, President at AMD Global Telemedicine, IncThe adoption of virtual health has increased dramatically since March 2020, with 150 million telehealth claims in less than two years. Like other revolutionary innovations throughout history,… — HIT Consultant |
 | Study: Telehealth for opioid use disorder linked to lower risk of fatal overdoseReceiving telehealth services for opioid use disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with reduced odds for fatal overdose among Medicare beneficiaries, according to a study published in JAMA Psychiatry. Researchers from the Centers for… — MobiHealthNews |
 | MedCity Pivot: Blue Shield of California CEO Says Value of HealthTech Has Been Mixed So FarThis is the final episode in Season 1 of the MedCity Pivot Podcast, which focused on chronic disease management. In our final episode, we speak to Paul Markovich, CEO of BlueShield of California, which… — MedCity News |
 | Atropos Health Launches Evidence Network to Back Its Physician Consult ServiceWhen caring for patients with rare and/or complex conditions, physicians often don’t know exactly what to do. During appointments, they’re often left scrambling to gather clinical research and information on how to best form… — MedCity News |
 | Everyone is Waiting for Something at ViVE2023The top story ViVE2023 wasn’t a major product launch, new legislation, or a mega-merger. Instead, the entire industry seems to be waiting for better times to arrive. Vendors are waiting for the economy to… — Healthcare IT Today |
 | Enhanced Healthcare Partners Announces Growth Investment In Healthcare RCM Technology Platform JanusEnhanced Healthcare Partners (EHP), a leading private equity firm specializing in transformative, middle-market healthcare businesses, announced today a strategic growth investment in Janus, a leading provider of healthcare revenue cycle management (RCM) technology. The… — Healthcare IT Today |
 | Uber Health Embeds Same-Day Prescription Delivery Into Its Care Platform What You Should Know:Uber Health, Uber’s healthcare arm, today announced same-day prescription delivery on its HIPAA-supported, centralized platform.For the first time, those using Uber Health—including healthcare providers and health plans—will be able to manage prescription… — HIT Consultant |
 | Digital Health Academy adds new CPD-accredited moduleThe Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Apps (ORCHA)’s Digital Health Academy has added a new foundation-level module that aims to bridge the engagement gap between health innovators and patients.The Patient and… — Digital Health |
 | EIT Health helps accelerate AI bipolar diagnostic test launchThe launch of a new pioneering bipolar diagnostic test from the EDIT-B Consortium that uses artificial intelligence has been accelerated, thanks to the support of EIT Health.The new blood diagnostic test uses RNA editing… — Digital Health |
 | Human visual explanations mitigate bias in AI-based assessment of surgeon skillsArtificial intelligence (AI) systems can now reliably assess surgeon skills through videos of intraoperative surgical activity. With such systems informing future high-stakes decisions such as whether to credential surgeons and grant them the privilege… — npj Digital Medicine |
 | Artificial Intelligence Aids Psoriasis Severity AssessmentBy Shania Kennedy March 30, 2023 – Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-based tool for the assessment of psoriasis severity in an effort to facilitate long-term chronic disease self-management for patients, according to a… — Health IT Analytics |
 | At MainStreet, many patients pay via text before the provider can mail a billMainStreet Family Care serves patients in primarily rural areas throughout Alabama, Georgia, Florida and North Carolina. For many of these patients, MainStreet is their only local option for care.THE PROBLEM — Healthcare IT news |
 | Standardise digital social care records to help people live well for longerAs social care services embark on massive digitisation, now is the time to embrace standards and interoperability to join up care, says Claire Sutton from the Professional Record Standards Body and the Royal College… — Digital Health |
 | Robust infrastructure is key to delivering digital change for the NHSProfessor Sultan Mahmud, Director of Healthcare, BTAt its core, the NHS is made by the people who work within it, helping to keep things going just like a beating heart. Today, technology is the… — Digital Health |
 | No registry for telemedicine providers is a missed opportunity, says ATAFollowing up on its February 27 statement opposing the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s proposed permanent changes to the e-prescribing of controlled medications, the American Telemedicine Association and its ATA Action sent its final comments this week… — Healthcare IT news |
