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AI Transforms Prior Authorization Process

DistilINFO Hospital IT - (Wednesday August 13, 2025)
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What is Prior Authorization?
Prior authorization represents one of healthcare’s most entrenched administrative processes—an insurer approval protocol that has become synonymous with delays, red tape, and complicated relationships between patients, providers, and payers. This healthcare…

Humana and DrFirst Integrate Prescription Alerts into Clinical Workflows

HIT Consultant - (Wednesday August 13, 2025)
Frequent Updates/ HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: 

– Humana Inc. and health technology company DrFirst have announced a new program designed to close gaps in care for patients with chronic conditions like diabetes and cardiovascular disease. 

– The program…

Health AI Revolutionizes Stroke Treatment Success

DistilINFO Hospital IT - (Wednesday August 13, 2025)
AI/ Daily Reads/ DistilINFO Hospital IT

Revolutionary AI Technology Transforms Emergency Care
Detroit-based Henry Ford Health has revolutionized stroke treatment by implementing cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology that dramatically reduces treatment times and saves lives. The healthcare system’s adoption of RapidAI, an…

HTI-4 Final Rule Information Session

Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT - (Wednesday August 13, 2025)
Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT/ Videos

ASTP/ONC’s HTI-4 final rule finalizes certain proposals from the HTI-2 Patient Engagement, Information Sharing, and Public Health Interoperability proposed rule, including new and updated health IT certification criteria for electronic prior authorization, electronic prescribing,…

App launches to prevent distressed behaviours in dementia patients

Digital Health - (Wednesday August 13, 2025)
Digital Health/ Frequent Updates

A support app, which helps identify and prevent distressed behaviours in dementia patients, will launch in care homes as part of the Alzheimer’s Society business growth programme.
Up to 90% of people living with dementia,…

How to turn NHS data into ‘gold’

Digital Health - (Wednesday August 13, 2025)
Digital Health/ Frequent Updates

The NHS holds vast stores of data it cannot use or sell.  The “sidestep” of synthesised data is the answer, write NHS trust colleagues Martin Farrier and David Chapman
Remember Care.data? Or perhaps like much…

Ergéa and Newton’s Tree partner to provide integrated AI solution

Digital Health - (Wednesday August 13, 2025)
AI/ Digital Health/ Frequent Updates

(L to R) Haris Shuaib, chief executive at Newton’s Tree, Frazer Smythe, digital solution architect and integration lead at Ergéa, David Rolfe, chief executive at Ergéa UK and Ireland, Nish Afsar, UK clinical affairs…

Leveraging large language models for the deidentification and temporal normalization of sensitive health information in electronic health records

npj Digital Medicine - (Wednesday August 13, 2025)
Frequent Updates/ npj Digital Medicine

Secondary use of electronic health record notes enhances clinical outcomes and personalized medicine, but risks sensitive health information (SHI) exposure. Inconsistent time formats hinder interpretation, necessitating deidentification and temporal normalization. The SREDH/AI CUP 2023…

The End of POTS: What Healthcare Organizations Need to Know About the Copper Sunset

HIT Consultant - (Wednesday August 13, 2025)
Frequent Updates/ HIT Consultant

Max Silber, VP of Mobility & IoT at MetTel

For decades, Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) lines have quietly underpinned some of the most critical functions in healthcare facilities—from faxing patient records to enabling elevator…

Avo and MEDITECH Partner to Integrate AI Scribe into Expanse EHR

HIT Consultant - (Wednesday August 13, 2025)
AI/ Frequent Updates/ HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: 

– Avo, an AI platform designed to improve clinical and operational workflows and combat provider burnout, has announced a partnership with MEDITECH. 

– The collaboration will enable Avo’s AI Scribe product to…


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