A new healthcare cybersecurity study this week offered some interesting findings in its assessment benchmarking best practices and key performance indicators, such as use of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and 405(d) Health Industry Cybersecurity…
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A study conducted by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center recommends intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) as the preferred treatment for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). IMRT significantly reduces lung and…
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– Out-of-network ground ambulance rides accounted for a larger percentage of ground ambulance claim lines1 than in-network rides from 2018 to 2022. In 2022, out-of-network transport accounted for 59.4% of all ground ambulance…
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Inefficiently designed Electronic Health Records (EHRs) pose significant patient safety risks, as University of Utah Health research reveals. Poor EHR usability contributes to alert fatigue and failure to identify critical errors. Hospitals must conduct…
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Japanese pharmaceutical company Eisai has established a new digital health business targeting dementia. WHY IT MATTERS
Eisai’s newly formed wholly-owned subsidiary, Theoria Technologies Co., seeks to “accelerate the development of a dementia ecosystem.” This ecosystem, according to…
Guy Friedman, Co-Founder and CEO of SteadyMD
The crisis of clinician burnout is worsening.
Clinicians are feeling stressed, overworked and underappreciated. Some are responding by leaving healthcare or cutting back on hours. Nearly 334,000 healthcare providers,…
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For every patient consultation, physicians spend nearly two additional hours on Electronic Health Record (EHR) and related admin tasks during their shift. As a result, primary care providers are burdened with paperwork and unable…
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Background: There is growing interest in mobile health applications (apps); however, not all of them have been successful. The most common issue has been users’ non-adoption or abandonment of health apps because the app…
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By Shania Kennedy
September 13, 2023 – Researchers have developed and externally validated a prediction model to detect early-stage pancreatic cancer using routinely collected blood biomarkers, according to a recent study published in JAMA Network Open.
The…
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A new study from Bain & Company and KLAS Research shows US healthcare providers are accelerating spending on IT and software. The research shows nearly 80% of healthcare executives say they…
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