University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL) has signed an Innovation Partnership agreement with Accurx, a software company joining up healthcare communication around each patient. Like all NHS Trusts, UHL is aiming to bring down…
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NHS England has awarded a new 12-month contract worth £25 million to US data analytics giant Palantir to “transition” its current projects with the health service to the new Federated Data Platform (FDP) supplier,…
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A bipartisan group of legislators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies for Health Act – first introduced in 2016 – to expand opportunities and coverage for telehealth through…
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What You Should Know:
The global healthcare ERP market is expected to reach $9.6 billion by 2031, expanding at a CAGR of 6.5% between 2021 and 2031, according to a recent report by Transparency Market…
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By Mark Melchionna
June 19, 2023 – Published in the American Journal of Accountable Care (AJMC), new research enabled researchers to identify three themes surrounding patient and provider opinions on telehealth costs and reimbursement that influenced…
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Background: A total of 75% of people with mental health disorders have an onset of illness between the ages of 12 and 24 years. Many in this age group report substantial obstacles to receiving…
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Hospitals’ telehealth adoption erupted during the pandemic, but usage rates are nowhere near as high as they were during 2020 and 2021. Now that Covid-19 infections have markedly decreased and the public health emergency…
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By Mark Melchionna
June 15, 2023 – Using data from a Chinese hospital, researchers from the University of California, Riverside (UCR), found that a mchine learning (ML) approach could assess patient age, weight, and other illnesses…
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Two rural Catholic hospitals in Illinois, St. Margaret’s Health in Peru and Spring Valley are closing due to a 2021 cyberattack, staffing shortages, and the COVID-19 pandemic. The closure is the first to be…
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By Mark Melchionna
June 13, 2023 – Pandemic-era flexibilities expanded access to telemental healthcare services, but a new RAND Corporation study, obtained via email, showed that racial health disparities still persisted.
Particularly, the study showed that counties…
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