Insurer Cigna’s health services subsidiary Evernorth announced it acquired asynchronous platform Bright.md, which it will use to enhance the virtual care offerings of its portfolio company MDLIVE. Portland-based Bright.md offers an automated patient intake and…
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Racial disparities in hospice care are well documented for patients with cancer, but the existence, direction, and extent of disparity findings are contradictory across the literature. Current methods to identify racial disparities aggregate data…
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What You Should Know:
– More than one-third of hospital and health system transactions announced in Q3 2023 involved a party that cited financial distress as a transaction driver, according to Kaufman Hall’s latest mergers…
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday announced the creation of a new Digital Health Advisory Committee, which will gather “experts throughout the field who can help ensure our regulation of these exciting…
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Dichotomy of Healthcare
Dr. Zeev Neuwirth opened the 2023 American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA23) conference and spoke about the dichotomy of healthcare. He shared with the audience that is simultaneously frustrated at and excited…
Musculoskeletal care is a critical service line in healthcare. More than 50% of the adult population in the U.S. has some form of MSK condition, and the impact on people’s lives is significant.THE PROBLEM
Pain…
HITRUST has introduced the pioneering HITRUST AI Assurance Program, a game-changing initiative designed to guide healthcare organizations in the secure and sustainable use of artificial intelligence (AI) models. This groundbreaking program, integrated into the…
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The NHS’ ambition to roll out 10,000 virtual ward beds by the end of September has been achieved, according to the latest figures from NHS England.At the start of the year, the NHS announced…
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By Shania Kennedy
October 12, 2023 – Researchers from the Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine and the University of Michigan have found that the deployment of predictive analytics tools may influence the predictive capabilities of…
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By Anuja Vaidya
October 12, 2023 – Cedars-Sinai has launched a new artificial intelligence-driven mHealth application for patients in California that provides virtual care options for various clinical conditions.
The Cedars-Sinai Connect app provides 24/7 virtual access…
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