FLORENCE 2.0: A.I. Advice for a A Healthier Lifestyle And Mental Health

WHO

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By 2030, the WHO projects that 15 million healthcare workers will be missing globally. 

Introducing Florence, the “world’s most extensive freely accessible AI health worker” is one way of tackling this issue. 
Florence is knowledgeable in key health topics, including mental health, nutrition and tobacco cessation, and provides information on COVID-19 vaccines. So, have a chat with her.

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PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY: Ends May 11th, 2023

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On January 30th, 2023, President Joseph Biden announced that the public health emergency (PHE) and national emergency declaration related to the COVID-19 pandemic will finally end on May 11, 2023, after being in place for over three years.

And so, this Health Capital Topics article will discuss the changes that will take place after both declarations cease, and the implications for stakeholders.  (Read more…)

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CRYPTO WINTER: A Triad Devastating to Miners?

Tim Berners-Lee of the WWW

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* Profits are down, and they’re set to plummet even further. (Wired $)
* A hedge fund that invested heavily in FTX is shutting down. (FT $)
* Tim Berners-Lee thinks crypto is comparable to gambling. (CNBC)

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Cyber-Risks in Banking

By Ibrahim Jaafaru

This is a review of a white paper by Longitude Research that talks about Cyber-Risks in Banking.

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Cyberrisk in Banking

Cyber security is a complex and multifaceted challenge that is growing in importance.

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Digital Health Insurance Tracking Devices

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Blue Cross Blue Shield has deployed several trackers on its website, according to the web extension Ghostery, a tool that can tell you what kind of technology web pages are using.

  • Ghostery returned a list of trackers from Twitter, Google, and LinkedIn.

Though we don’t know specifically what kind of data is being transferred, these pixels are usually installed to help marketing departments. Tracking pixels, for the uninitiated, are hidden or embedded graphics that can give a more complete picture of a customer’s journey: what they’ve clicked on, if they’ve searched for something specific, if they’ve put something in a shopping cart, or whether an advertisement drove them to, say, Blue Cross Blue Shield’s homepage. For example, if an insurer wants to show that its ads are working, it can use a pixel to determine that it was their ad that got someone to finally sign up for health insurance, not Susan in HR.

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Trackers are ubiquitous, but experts and consumers have raised serious questions about the data that’s shared between companies. For example, investigative reporting outlet The Markup found that hospitals shared sensitive information with Facebook through the Meta pixel. And just this month, Indianapolis-based Community Health Network reported that pixels may have affected 1.5 million of its patients.

For more, read Marketing Brew’s interview with sociologist Mary F.E. Ebeling, who wrote a book about the collection of sensitive health data.

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DIGITAL HEALTH: 8 Ways to Impress Your Doctor

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Three BOTS of Artificial Intelligence

A.I.

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  • Google revealed its answer to ChatGPT: an “experimental conversational AI service” called Bard that’s currently in testing mode.
  • Microsoft (which invested in ChatGPT) announced its own surprise event scheduled for later today in order to “share some progress on a few exciting projects.”
  • Chinese tech giant Baidu confirmed it’s on track to introduce its AI chatbot, known as “Ernie Bot” in English, in March.

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Artificial Intelligence Passes U.S. Medical Licensing Exam

ChatGPT

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Two papers show that large language models, including ChatGPT, can pass the USMLE. The papers highlighted different approaches to using large language models to take the USMLE, which is comprised of three exams: Step 1, Step 2 CK, and Step 3. ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence (AI) search tool that mimics long-form writing based on prompts from human users. It was developed by OpenAI, and became popular after several social media posts showed potential uses for the tool in clinical practice, often with mixed results.

According to Victor Tseng, MD, of Ansible Health in Mountain View, California, and colleagues, the results showed “new and surprising evidence” that this AI tool was up to the challenge. Tseng and team noted that ChatGPT was able to perform at >50% accuracy across all of the exams, and even achieved 60% in most of their analyses. While the USMLE passing threshold does vary between years, the authors said that passing is approximately 60% most years.

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ChatGPT: A Microsoft Start-Up Venture!

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Microsoft is reportedly preparing for its largest startup investment in history: a $10 billion stake in OpenAI that could value the research lab at $29 billion. OpenAI is the creator of potentially groundbreaking AI tools like ChatGPT, the multitalented chatbot that can code in Python and help high schoolers cheat on English essays.

MSFT has already invested $1 billion in OpenAI, but thinks an even tighter relationship would help it better compete with Big Tech rivals like Google (which reportedly declared a “code red” over ChatGPT’s threat to its search dominance).

But Microsoft’s AI ambitions go beyond just integrating ChatGPT know-how into its own search engine, Bing. The company wants to use OpenAI’s tools in its Office suite—and it’s already experimenting with algorithms to help users craft emails in Outlook.

OpenAI was founded in 2015 as a mission-based AI research organization by a roster from Silicon Valley’s A-list, including Elon Musk. Its stated goal is to develop safe AI for the benefit of humanity. But OpenAI has plenty of critics who have called it out for ethical concerns, a lack of transparency, and abandoning its mission for profits.

According to MorningBrew, a slew of buzzy AI product releases in 2022 has startup investors forgetting they ever heard the word “metaverse.” Languishing in the prolonged crypto winter and facing an uncertain economic environment, many venture capitalists see the field as the next big thing to shovel money into their coffers.

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UPDATE: Bill Gates just hinted that he may be working on Open AI’s large language chatbot ChatGPT in collaboration with Microsoft if the reported $10 billion investment in the start-up goes through. Gates also admitted that he’s still involved with the company’s research and product plans, and said he’s watching the developments in ChatGPT “very closely.”

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PODCASTS: Digital Health + Health I.T.

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GENERAL ELECTRIC: Intelligent Healthcare Technologies

Limitless possibilities – Compassionate care

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DEFINITION: GE HealthCare is a subsidiary of American multinational conglomerate General Electric incorporated in New York and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. As of 2017, it is a manufacturer and distributor of diagnostic imaging agents and radio-pharmaceuticals for imaging modalities used in medical imaging procedures

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DIGITAL SECURITY and the American Dental Association [ADA]

By Darrell K. Pruitt DDS

Digital security and the ADA

I wrote the following letter four years ago today. Neither The Digital Dental Record nor its sponsor, The American Dental Association, responded. In fact, a few years later, The Digital Dental Record was predictably hacked and more than 500 dentists, including many ADA members, were victims of a breach of the ADA’s favored digital record system. The ADA is still silent, but they did however, terminate their business relationship with The Digital Dental Record.

Dear The Digital Dental Record,

Thanks for your response on Linkedin to my concerns about the security of EHRs compared to paper. To be honest with you, I’m pleasantly surprised. Contrary to the norm of what I consider an open and free market, very few vendors in the dental IT industry seem willing to openly discuss the dangers or cost of software they hope to sell to dentists – who obviously don’t ask the right questions. That is why I respectfully decline your offer of a private telephone conversation.

You know my name is Darrell Pruitt because it heads my post. I never hide it. Whoever you are, you should probably show potential customers the respect of accountability through transparency. After all, The Digital Dental Record is the only EHR system endorsed by the ADA. I hope that still stands for something of value.    

If you have any non-anecdotal evidence on which you base your bold claim that DDS Safe R2 is more secure than paper dental records, please share it. I’ll be transparent:  Nobody believes you. Then again, maybe “Luddites” who question the security of digital records are simply wrong. Here’s your chance to show the nation why the ADA chose to endorse The Digital Dental Record above all other electronic dental record systems.

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HEALTH GORILLA: A New Health Data Interoperability Start-Up

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Health Gorilla is in the business of health data interoperability and the double-backflip this startup is doing to both make clinical data an easily accessible commodity – while also making sure that access to that data adheres to the privacy rules established by the US government – takes a minute to understand, but is critically important for the future of many health tech businesses.

LINK http://www.HealthGorilla.com

And, it’s not often that 10,000-plus like-minded individuals come together for a common cause. Luckily in the healthcare space, we have HLTH – bringing together the entire health ecosystem to focus on innovation and transformation.

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7 PREDICTIONS: Health Information Technology in 2022

Seven predictions for healthcare technology trends in 2022

In the wake of a pandemic, shifting care delivery models, and a surge of clinical content, Wolters Kluwer healthcare experts have identified seven healthcare technology trends for 2022.

 1. Building trust in an age of digital information overload
 2. Telemedicine becomes a fixture of the healthcare landscape
 3. Resilience is key to retaining the nursing workforce
 4. Unstructured health data helps researchers build health equity
 5. AI reduces healthcare-associated infections (HAIs)
 6. Quality improvement accelerates evidence to implementation
 7. Virtual simulation and technology transforms nursing education

Source: Wolters Kluwer. November 8, 2021

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PODCAST: EMRs are a MESS!

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Dictionary of Health Information Technology and Security

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What is a CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK, Doctor?

CDNs and What They Mean to Physicians

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[Anonymous IT Expert]

DOCTOR – Do you like the internet? Do you use EMRs/EHRs? Do you like fast internet? Of course you do.

But, without a strong infrastructure of content delivery networks (CDNs), website loading times would be too slow to stream tele-health/tele-medicine visits or tela-radiology services; not to mention Netflix, or argue with Reddit strangers or your patients; etc.

CDNs are geographically distributed networks of servers that handle processing and speed up internet delivery. In practice, CDNs make website content like HTML pages, JavaScript files, style-sheets, images, and videos load faster. They also reduce bandwidth costs, handle more traffic, and provide a little security protection. 

  • CDNs don’t actually host web content, but instead keep cached versions of it at the ready in edge servers. 

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Fastly is one of a number of significant CDN providers that help form the infrastructure of the internet. And while the outage shows the breadth of its reach, it’s far from the biggest player—Akami, Cloudflare, and Amazon CloudFront take up 75% of revenue in CDN space, per Intricately.

But Fastly, one of the world’s largest cloud computing companies itself, just had an outage that shut down its CDN service, affecting major websites including the New York Times, HBO Max, and the British government’s homepage. 

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PODCAST: HEALTHCARE NFTs [How to Monitize Health Data?]

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NFTs IN HEALTHCARE: HOW PATIENTS COULD MONETISE THEIR HEALTH DATA


Personal health sensors and apps equip patients with personalised data so that they can become more proactive in managing their health. But what is still mostly the norm is that these sensitive data are governed by the companies providing these services; and they often profit out of it, oblivious to patients.

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But even though NFTs are still in their infancy, the technology might evolve in the future to become more compelling for patients to favor the agency it provides over their data.

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PODCAST: Machine Learning For Population Health

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PODCAST: An EHR State of Mind

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Q1 2022 – The Entrepreneurial Digital Health Financing Boom Chills

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US digital health company investment financing experienced a dip in Q1 of 2022, dropping to $6 billion from the $6.7 billion invested in Q1 2021. In addition, the average size of each investment deal dropped from $46 million last year to just shy of $33 million. These declines come after a boom in investments in recent years. The Rock Health Digital health securities index also reflected this year’s trend, including special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) listings.

According to Phil Taylor of PharmaPhorum, “SPACs have been a popular route to public listing for digital health as well as many other sectors, but the deals have underperformed, with steep declines in share prices after they closed that has “exerted downwards pressure” on the Rock Health Digital Health Index (RHDHI).”

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REPORT: Digital Health Technology

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Digital Health Tech Report – 5 Key Findings

 •  48% of hospitals don’t have a strong digital health strategy.
 •  90% believe a strong digital health strategy is critical to improving outcomes, increasing productivity, and enhancing clinician satisfaction.
 •  55% receive more than 11 vendor calls and emails from digital health solution vendors per week.
 •  95% say it’s challenging to narrow down the list of digital health solutions to evaluate.
 •  25% are “very confident” that, after selecting a new digital health solution, it’s truly the best one for their unique needs.

Source: Panda Health, April 2022

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SURVEY: Medical Imaging A.I. Adoption?

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Medical Imaging A.I. Adoption Survey [3 Takeaways]

 •  When it comes to specific activities, 88% of respondents trust or are neutral about AI’s role in making appointments.
 •  Only 19% of respondents believed they received care supported by AI, while 24% did not know, and 58% believed they had not.
 •  60% think that AI will perform over half of radiology services in five years, with that number increasing to 75% of respondents in the next 20 years.

Source: Intelerad via HIT Consultant, “Patient Trust Not a Barrier to AI Medical Imaging Adoption,” May 31, 2022

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PODCAST: Health Tech Faves & Investment Trends from Entrepreneurs

START-UPS AND INNOVATIONS

Health tech investment raced ahead in 2020. Join innovation insiders for a discussion on new health technologies, health-care’s digital transformation timeline, and what to expect for mid- to long-term health tech investment.

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SURVEY: Resources Offered by Health Insurance Plan Transparency Tool

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Percentage of Resources

 •  Finding in-network providers: 72%
 •  Telehealth: 55%
 •  Ability to select PCP online: 53%
 •  Help navigating benefits and healthcare options: 50%
 •  Cost estimates for healthcare services: 50%
 •  Status of deductible: 49%
 •  Reviews of doctors and facilities: 46%
 •  Online appointment scheduling: 41%
 •  Financial incentives/rewards for choosing cost-effective care: 25%

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PODCAST: Ten Largest Medical Device Companies

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HIMSS REPORT: The State of Healthcare IT in 2022

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4 Takeaways from HIMSS

 •  84% of respondents say their organizations require them to use digital health tools and most clinicians see the value in digital transformation.
 •  99% of leaders in U.S.-based health systems say it is important for their organizations to invest in digital transformation and 95% of international health system leaders agree.
 •  93% of international payer respondents and 74% of U.S. payers say their organizations have a team focused on digital transformation.
 •  80% of health system leader respondents in the U.S. think that a physician visit deserves to be reimbursed at the same or higher levels than an in-person visit.

Source: HIMSS via Healthcare Innovation, March 18, 2022

NOTE: The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society is an American not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving health care in quality, safety, cost-effectiveness and access through the best use of information technology and management systems.

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Healthcare A.I. and Financial Outcomes Survey

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17% of Healthcare Execs Said AI Would Affect Financial Outcomes

 •  60% of respondents expect AI to impact clinical outcomes.
 •  17% said AI would affect financial outcomes.
 •  13% said AI would impact their operation outcomes.
 •  9% said AI would impact administrative outcomes.
 •  61% of executives hope to bring about a complete digital transformation in their organizations within three to five years.

Source: Morning Consult via HealthIT Analytics, April 14, 2022

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By Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA CMP

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Recent advances in biomedical and health sciences—from immunotherapy to treat cancer, to the highly effective COVID-19 vaccines—demonstrate the strengths and successes of the U.S. biomedical enterprise. Such advances present an opportunity to revolutionize how to prevent, treat, and even cure a range of diseases including cancer, infectious diseases, Alzheimer’s disease, and many others that together affect a significant number of Americans.

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To improve the U.S. government’s capabilities to speed research that can improve the health of all Americans, President Biden is proposing the establishment of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). Included in the President’s FY2022 budget as a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with a requested funding level of $6.5B available for three years, ARPA-H will be tasked with building high-risk, high-reward capabilities (or platforms) to drive biomedical breakthroughs—ranging from molecular to societal—that would provide transformative solutions for all patients.

MORE: https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2022/03/22/arpha-h-needs-to-think-bigger/

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ANNOUNCING: A New Course In Digital Health

The Medical Futurist

By Dr. Bertalan Meskó MD PhD

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I’m so happy and proud that I can finally share with you the biggest project The Medical Futurist has ever worked on: The Digital Health Course.

Today, we publicly launch the digital platform where you can learn about everything we and I personally find important about digital health. I mean EVERYTHING!

In this course I break down everything I’ve learned over the last 15 years about the future of healthcare and digital health, what changes are taking place now and over the next 5+ years, what impact they’ll have on you as a healthcare decision-maker, and exactly what you should be doing today to best position yourself or your company for this inevitable reality.

We designed this course to provide you with a complete overview of digital health, guide you through the technological aspects, and equip you to be able to predict and forecast what’s coming next.

From the basics and its definition, to why it’s a cultural transformation that is happening now, how it is a paradigm shift of care, how you can spot trends in it and forecast the near future.

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As I guide you personally through the course, I have put my heart, brain and soul into the whole curriculum.

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METAVERSE: Healthcare Transformation -OR- Not?

By Bertalan Meskó, MD PhD
The Medical Futurist

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HOW THE METAVERSE COULD (OR COULD NOT) TRANSFORM HEALTHCARE


If you’ve browsed the internet in the last couple of months, the term ‘metaverse’ is likely to have been thrown at you at least once. Facebook rebranded itself after the concept and other companies are adopting the metaverse with their own spin; betting heavily that it will be the next iteration of the internet where we will work and play alike.

It was time to dive into what the metaverse could mean to delivering healthcare.

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H2 Healthcare Data Breach Report

MCOL Cyber Attacks

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Critical Insight: 2021 with 5 Findings

 •  In 2021, 45 million individuals were affected by healthcare cyber-attacks, up from 34 million in 2020.
 •  The total number of affected increased 32% over 2020, meaning that more records are exposed per breach each year.
 •  Breaches only rose 2.4% from 663 in 2020 to 679 in 2021 but still hit historic highs.
 •  Hacking/IT incidents continue as the most common cause of breaches with an increase of 10% in 2021.
 •  Hacking incidents at outpatient/specialty clinics saw a 41% increase in these types of breaches in 2021.

Source: Critical Insight via Fierce Healthcare, February 1, 2022

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Guide to Telehealth

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Guide to Telehealth – Then, Now, Tomorrow?
By Rebecca Chi

Healthcare providers have employed various forms of telehealth since long before the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Telehealth delivers knowledge and expertise to people and places that need it. A movement that largely began as a way to improve access to healthcare in rural communities saw explosive growth in 2020. Today, telehealth is in wide use and here to stay.

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Advancing Value-Based Care Through Telehealth

What is telehealth?
The US Health Resources and Services Administration defines telehealth as any electronic information and telecommunications technology that is used to support and promote long-distance clinical healthcare, patient and professional health-related education, public health and health administration. Telehealth technologies benefit providers, healthcare organizations and patients.

The importance of telehealth
The key to maintaining population health and lowering expenditures is delivering timely access to high-quality care.

The US is struggling to improve the quality of healthcare and make the needed shift to value-based models. Innovative telehealth solutions that addressed our country’s worsening healthcare access problem reached the point of widespread adoption in 2020, when the pandemic pushed the healthcare system to its limits.

Telehealth increases convenience of care and access while decreasing costs and maximizing physician time. Providers, payers and employers are increasingly adopting various and connected types of telehealth solutions to improve healthcare operations and patient outcomes. Patients embrace the convenience, safety, accessibility and flexibility of telehealth options.

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ORACLE Buys CERNER Electronic Medical Records

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According to reporter Neal Freyman, Tech giant Oracle said it’s paying $28.3 billion to buy electronic medical records company Cerner, because anything that makes paperwork less excruciating seems like a savvy business play.

Oracle is known for being aggressive with acquisitions (it even rallied a group to try and buy TikTok last year), but Cerner is Oracle’s biggest purchase in its history. The deal is further evidence that health care is “on par with banking in terms of the importance to our future,” as cofounder Larry Ellison told analysts earlier this month.

  • In Cerner, Oracle will get the Klay Thompson of the electronic medical records market—a very influential player, but in second place behind Epic, which owns a 31% market share.

Bottom line: Big tech companies see a golden opportunity in bringing the health care industry to the cloud, given its size (health care spending accounts for almost 20% of US GDP), and its old-school record-keeping process. A Mayo Clinic study cited by Oracle showed that doctors and nurses spend an average of 1–2 hours on desk work for every hour they take to see patients.

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PODCAST: Dr. Watson Says Good-Bye to IBM?

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Dr. Watson Unsafe and Incorrect? - Authentic Medicine

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IBM has reportedly placed its Watson Health division on the auction block again

Watson is a question-answering computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language, developed in IBM’s DeepQA project by a research team led by principal investigator David Ferrucci. Watson was named after IBM’s founder and first CEO, industrialist Thomas J. Watson.

READ: https://www.axios.com/ibm-tries-to-sell-watson-health-again-82f691a4-ab81-4b2b-a5bb-13a7556c8ef1.html?utm_campaign=etb&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=morning_brew

PODCAST: https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/21/tech/ibm-selling-watson-health/index.html

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Healthcare Consumers Want Personalized Experiences

By Staff Reporters

A survey that Redpoint Global conducted with Dynata of more than 1,000 US healthcare consumers found:

 •  57% of healthcare consumers think retailers and/or financial services are better at providing personalized omnichannel experiences than healthcare
 •  29% said they expect frictionless check-in experiences across apps/phone calls/in-office
 •  34% expect data inputs in a healthcare portal (health history, surveys, insurance information, etc.) to
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 •  24% of respondents said they did not utilize any sort of digital communication with providers during
    the pandemic
 •  14% said they had no contact with any healthcare provider during the same timeframe

Source: Redpoint Global, December 7, 2021

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66% of Nurses Expressed Consideration to Leave The Profession

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66% of Nurses Expressed Consideration to Leave The Profession

A survey of 570 nurses between May and June 2021 found:

 •  66% of nurses expressed some level of consideration to leave the profession.
 •  97% of polled participants agree, that increases to pay rates and other incentives would attract and retain nurses.
 •  58% agree that tele-health should be a cornerstone of care delivery.
 •  85% believe that we must improve cross training to adapt to crisis events.
 •  85% strongly believe national licensure would have greatly benefited the country during the pandemic.

Source: Cross Country Healthcare via Businesswire, December 1, 2021

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PODCAST: The Future of Pharma

THE MEDICAL FUTURIST

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Dodging an Embarrassing Question about Electronic Dental Records

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The Secrets of AmeriPlan® Corporation's Discount Dentistry ...

By Darrell K. Pruitt, DDS

Dental Care Alliance Data Breach Impacts More Than 1 Million Patients

NEWS FLASH!

Sarasota, FL-based Dental Care Alliance, LLC, a dental support organization with more than 320 affiliated dental practices across 20 states, has been hacked and the protected health information of more than a million individuals has potentially been compromised. The breach occurred on September 18, 2020, was detected on October 11, and was contained on October 13.”

Steve Alder

[HIPAA Journal – December 10, 2020]

LINK: https://www.hipaajournal.com/dental-care-alliance-data-breach-impacts-more-than-1-million-patients/

Currently I am in conversation on LinkedIn with a Chief Information Officer for an IT firm. He assures me that the cloud is more secure than paper dental records stored in heavy and loud metal filing cabinets, but cannot say why.

Meanwhile, I have never heard of a million paper dental records being stolen in one heist. Wouldn’t that require a truck or two? What’s more, once the thieves escape to their hideout, someone will have to enter the data onto computers – while struggling to interpret bad handwriting.

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PODCAST: Augmenting Physicians with Artificial Intelligence

BY ENTREPRENEUR MD

Well-Ai: Augmenting Physicians with AI

Artificial intelligence is all around us. From self-driving cars to shopping suggestions and everything in between.

In this episode of The Entrepreneur MD, we sit down with Sergei and Daniel from Well-Ai who share with us how their platform uses Artificial Intelligence to augment physicians and improve patient outcomes.

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AI FOR GOOD - AI and Medicine - YouTube

PODCAST: https://cdn.transistor.fm/file/transistor/m/shows/18272/c1ab340b1747ec2fc5f5315b476e026b.mp3

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PODCAST: Healthcare, the Digital Eco-System and the Stock Market?

By Rajeev Ronanki

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Investment guru Jim Cramer says buy stocks along the digitization of everything”.

But – Even Healthcare?

CITE: https://www.r2library.com/Resource/Title/0826102549

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PODCAST: Radiology and Healthcare Mis-Communication

BY ERIC BRICKER MD

$128 Billion of Radiology Imaging Studies Are Performed Each Year in America and Unfortunately They Exemplify Healthcare Miscommunication.

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PODCAST: Lessons for [physician] Investors: The Trial of Theranos Founder ELIZABETH HOLMES

By Bertalan Meskó, MD PhD

Wofür R&D Jahre benötigt, braucht künstliche Intelligenz wenige Minuten“

Elizabeth Holmes has no idea how much damage she has done with Theranos. As I often wrote, for digital technologies to gain ground and become part of our everyday lives, we need not only technological solutions but a cultural paradigm shift. Holmes rolled a massive rock in front of it.

Similarly, Facebook’s data privacy practices do not increase people’s confidence in the company’s products. All the scandals that have surrounded the social network could backfire when Facebook wants to step into healthcare – and this is exactly what we wrote about in our latest article, Is There A Place For Facebook In Healthcare? In it, we looked at what Facebook currently does in medicine and evaluated whether those are viable ways to follow in the future.

Take care,
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Bertalan Meskó, MD PhD
The Medical Futurist

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PODCAST: The Growing Tele-Medicine Adoption

By First Stop Health

What is Telemedicine?

Even Through the Waxing and Waning of the Pandemic Over the Subsequent Months, Consumers Are Still 4X More Likely to Use Telemedicine Than They Were Previously.

PODCAST: https://tinyurl.com/druhseb5

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DICTIONARY: Health Information Technology and Security

Review

This is a handy, word-packed reference book with health information technology terminology of the past, present, and future. The paperback book is small and compact in size but amazingly full of words, abbreviations, and even names of leaders in the health information technology industry. While any book like this will require updating on a periodic basis, many of the terms will remain relevant for a good period of time. I found the dictionary very useful and recommend it as a good addition to the reference shelf in the office or library.

Doody’s Book Review

From the Back Cover

Over 10,000 Detailed Entries!

“”There is a myth that all stakeholders in the healthcare space understand the meaning of basic information technology jargon. In truth, the vernacular of contemporary medical information systems is unique, and often misused or misunderstood? Moreover, an emerging national Heath Information Technology (HIT) architecture; in the guise of terms, definitions, acronyms, abbreviations and standards; often puts the non-expert medical, nursing, public policy administrator or paraprofessional in a position of maximum uncertainty and minimum productivity ?The Dictionary of Health Information Technology and Security will therefore help define, clarify and explain…You will refer to it daily.””


– Richard J. Mata, MD, MS, MS-CIS, Certified Medical Planner? (Hon), Chief Medical Information Officer [CMIO], Ricktelmed Information Systems, Assistant Professor Texas State University, San Marcos

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