Here are a few
I came across last week.
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https://healthitanalytics.com/news/nih-grant-supports-creation-of-non-biased-machine-learning-algorithm
NIH Grant Supports Creation of Non-Biased Machine-Learning Algorithm
Following
the reception of a grant from the National Institutes of Health, Dascena will
work to create an unbiased algorithm to help diagnose and treat acute coronary
syndrome.
By Mark Melchionna
March 10,
2022 - The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
has extended
a grant to Dascena to support the development of a non-biased
machine-learning algorithm that can enhance treatment for acute coronary
syndrome.
Dascena is an
organization that develops machine-learning algorithms to help improve patient
outcomes.
According to
the American Heart Association, ACS is a significant cause of morbidity and
mortality in the US, and about 805,000 Americans suffer from ACS annually. But,
research
has shown that ACS treatment and diagnosis are targeted to White men,
leading to a lack of evidence in how to assist other populations.
With the new
grant, Dascena plans to develop an unbiased prediction tool for diagnosing and
treating ACS. The prediction tool will utilize EHR data to create the impartial
algorithm.
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https://patientengagementhit.com/news/ncqa-launches-website-offering-insight-into-health-equity
NCQA Launches Website Offering Insight into Health Equity
The launch
of the Health Equity Resource Center aims to provide healthcare organizations
with best practices for reducing health disparities and improving health
equity.
By Sarai Rodriguez
March 11,
2022 - The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has officially launched
the Health Equity Resource Center, a public website intending to enable better
health equity practices among healthcare organizations.
By providing
access to NCQA research and white papers, the Health Equity Resource Center
will offer readers insight into the implications of health inequities and best
practices to improve health disparities impacting patients.
The website
will also include detailed information regarding health plans, health systems,
government, and employers, to assist organizations in making quality
improvements that advance health equity, NCQA stated.
“The Health
Equity Resource Center is another step in the journey NCQA started a decade ago
to help organizations measure and deliver equitable, high-quality care,” NCQA
President Margaret E. O’Kane said in a press release. “These tools enable
organizations to assess and improve the care they provide so that quality care
can become the norm for everyone in America.”
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https://www.digitalhealth.net/2022/03/sajid-javid-nhs-reform-speech/
Sajid Javid to unveil his new vision for NHS reform
The
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care is due to announce a new vision
for NHS reform, including an increased role for the NHS App and electronic
patient record (EPR) targets.
Jordan Sollof
8 March, 2022
Building on
the Health and Care Bill that was formally introduced to
parliament in July last year, Sajid Javid is expected to lay out plans which
put patient choice and expansion of personalised care at the front and centre.
From April
the Health and Social Care Levy will come into action, raising almost
£36billion over the next three years for health and social care services, which
the government ensures will be used as efficiently as possible as adult social
care is reformed and the Covid backlog is tackled.
The next
steps for reform are expected to include new policies to modernise the NHS,
benefit patients and build on lessons learned during the pandemic focused on
avoiding ill-health, enhancing performance and increasing patient choice.
Javid is
expected to say: “Those are the long-term challenges the NHS must adapt to:
changing demographics and disease; changing technology and expectations; and
unsustainable finances.
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https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/ehrs/hhs-working-with-health-systems-to-launch-single-patient-login-for-health-portals.html
HHS working with health systems to launch single patient login for health
portals
Katie Adams - Wednesday, March
9th, 2022
HHS
is working with healthcare organizations to roll out a single login for
patients to access their medical records across multiple systems, Politico reported March 8.
The
department is working with 20 healthcare organizations, including CVS Health,
Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente and Renton, Wash.-based Providence.
Before
March ends, the effort will launch a test environment for integrating the
technology, Ryan Howells, principal at Leavitt Partners and program manager at
the CARIN Alliance, which is leading the effort, told Politico.
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https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/597494-former-cdc-directors-coordinating-our-nations-health-data-will-save-lives
Former CDC directors: Coordinating our nation's health data will save
lives
By Tom Frieden, Julie Gerberding, Jeffrey Koplan, William L
Roper and David Satcher, opinion contributors — 03/10/22 08:31 AM EST 42
The views
expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill
As
the SARS-CoV-2 surge recedes, we need to apply the lessons we’ve learned during
this pandemic to improve our response to the next health emergency. One major
obstacle has been the lack of health data needed to track the pandemic and
assess its impact across the complex U.S. healthcare and public health
ecosystem. This lack of timely, standardized data hampered our ability to
respond rapidly and effectively to the pandemic.
For
too long, we have neglected our nation’s public health data infrastructure,
much of which is aging, obsolete and insufficient to meet our needs. We need to
modernize our entire approach to data, from its collection and reporting to
stewardship and management, to how we share it among public health agencies and
health systems so that we have the information we need to protect health and
save lives.
During
our tenure as Centers of Disease Control and Prevention directors over a
quarter of a century, each of us recognized the need for more accurate, timely
and comprehensive data and each of us made progress toward that goal. But
progress was limited because of both lack of funds and lack of legal
authority.
As
Congress considers the Prepare for and Respond to Existing Viruses, Emerging
New Threats, and Pandemics Act (PREVENT Pandemics Act) we urge
lawmakers to include specific authorities needed to standardize and coordinate
public health data across jurisdictions. This is critical to managing health
threats in local communities as well as to provide local, state and federal
policymakers with timely, accurate information to inform guidance and policy
decisions to protect Americans.
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https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/biden-has-big-plans-mental-health-will-they-work
Biden has big plans for mental health, but will they work?
President Joe
Biden's strategy to address the country's psychological crisis relies on
telehealth as a key component – but that may not be enough to bridge the
provider gap.
By Kat Jercich
March 11,
2022 03:22 PM
Earlier
this month, President Joe Biden announced a strategy to
address the country's mental health crisis, which has reached staggering levels amidst the
COVID-19 pandemic.
The
multi-pronged plan proposed several approaches, including strengthening system
capacity, connecting Americans to care and creating healthy environments for
the population.
Telehealth
also plays a major role in the path forward, with the president noting the safety and efficacy
of virtual care in behavioral services.
"To
maintain continuity of access, the administration will work with Congress to
ensure coverage of tele-behavioral health across health plans, and support
appropriate delivery of telemedicine across state lines," said the president's
office in a fact sheet.
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https://mhealthintelligence.com/news/home-based-remote-patient-monitoring-yields-highly-accurate-bp-readings
Home-Based Remote Patient Monitoring Yields Highly Accurate BP Readings
A new
study shows that home-based blood pressure measurement is highly reliable with
a mean difference of -0.1 mmHg compared with ambulatory monitoring.
By Mark Melchionna
March 10,
2022 - Home-based blood pressure (BP) measurements were more reliable and
accurate than those taken in clinics or kiosks, a study published
in the Journal of General Internal Medicine found.
The study
included 510 participants between 18 and 85 years old from 12 Washington
State-based primary care centers. These participants were divided equally into
one of three groups: clinic, home, or kiosk-based methods of BP measurement.
The clinic
group had their BP measured during follow-up care, while the home group had
their BP measured twice a day for five days, and the kiosk group three times a
day for three days. All participants also completed 24-hour ambulatory
monitoring (ABPM) at three weeks follow-up.
Researchers
defined the study's primary objective as examining the potential difference
between ABPM systolic BP results and those of the three groups.
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https://healthitsecurity.com/news/healthcare-practices-cyber-incident-response-less-than-most-sectors
Healthcare Practices Cyber Incident Response Less Than Most Sectors
Research
revealed that healthcare and other critical infrastructure sectors conducted
cyber incident response exercises far less often than other industries.
By Jill McKeon
March 10,
2022 - Although cyberattacks and data breaches have bombarded the
healthcare sector in recent years, recent research from Immersive Labs found
that healthcare conducts cyber incident response exercises far less than other
industries.
Immersive
Labs analyzed 35,000 members of the cybersecurity workforce from a variety of
industries and found that the healthcare sector conducted only two cyber crisis
exercises per year on average. The technology and financial services sectors
conducted nine and seven crisis exercises per year on average, respectively.
It makes
sense that highly targeted industries like technology and finance would prepare
accordingly. But healthcare is an equally high-profile and highly regulated
cyberattack target, making the lack of crisis response exercises troubling.
“The modern
cyber crisis is an all-encompassing organizational trauma. Stopping incidents
bringing operations to a halt and destroying reputation, corporate value and
stakeholder relationships requires a holistic response from the entire
workforce,” the report stated.
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https://www.healthdatamanagement.com/articles/cios-step-into-new-roles-to-assess-a-slew-of-digital-tech?id=129519
CIOs step into new roles to assess a slew of digital tech
With thousands of startups emerging, UC Davis hopes its CoLab will
better enable information sharing and research on new solutions.
Mar 10
2022
Fred
Bazzoli
Editor-in-Chief, HDM
Chief information officers are
increasingly taking on new responsibilities for wading through myriad digital
health solutions to achieve a patient-friendly, clinician-helpful digital
strategy.
Ashish Atreja,
MD, CIO and digital health officer for UC Davis Health:
Now,
with digital health, the conversation has gone from ‘Why?’ to ‘How fast can you
get it?’
It’s no easy task, notes Ashish
Atreja, MD, CIO and digital health officer for UC Davis Health. Rapid
development, jump-started by the pandemic and the rush to empower patients, has
produced an alarming array of solutions from which to choose.
Speaking at a CIO and CDO Summit
at the VIVE event in Miami Beach, Atreja noted there are an estimated 5,000
digital health startups for CIOs to assess, with senior leadership now
pressuring IT executives to carve out a digital approach to care.
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https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=65bf7485-6e36-4e3b-904b-461be5d7bf58
Enter the Metaverse: a buzzword-busting primer
Gilbert + Tobin Lesley Sutton, Simon Burns, Michael Caplan, Melissa Fai, Tim Gole, Andrew Hii and Sheila McGregor
Australia March 8 2022
In
the past 6 months the term ‘metaverse’ has catapulted from relative obscurity
to the very top of the zeitgeist. Despite this recent spike in interest, work
on ‘the metaverse’ has been underway for years. Its future will now be shaped
by a wide range of industry players and potentially regulators and legislators.
What
is the metaverse?
The
term “metaverse” still has a somewhat contested definition. As a concept, the
metaverse has been positioned as the next step-change for the internet, part of
the broader shift between web 2.0 to web 3.0.
Practically,
the metaverse has been described as a network of shared,
three-dimensional interoperable virtual spaces accessed over the internet in
real time by effectively an unlimited number of users. But virtual spaces have
existed since the likes of There and Second Life, along with a wealth of
other online role-playing games and virtual experiences released since. So,
what differentiates these from the “metaverse” we hear about today?
- User immersion and interactivity are hallmarks
of a fully-fledged metaverse. Experiencing virtual spaces through a
desktop or mobile interface is one thing, but accessing them through
immersive augmented reality (AR),
virtual reality (VR)
or mixed reality (MR)
technology better embodies the metaverse of today.
- An expanding scope is key to how we need to be
thinking about the metaverse. Virtual worlds have had a social, gaming,
entertainment and educational use case for decades. While the metaverse
will undoubtedly enhance experiences in these sectors, the commercial
world is now being brought into the virtual fold. The application of
metaverse technology for the workplace is already live and is expected to
be pivotal to mainstreaming the technology. We are increasingly seeing
ecommerce, telehealth and real estate (among other sectors) enter the
metaverse.
- Finally, what some commentators
describe as the “full-fat” metaverse of tomorrow is poised to attract a
level of mass-market uptake and social ubiquity. Metaverse-experiences
available today are decidedly niche in terms of market penetration. But
just as a majority of the global population now access the World Wide Web
as part of normal life, some see a fully-realised metaverse attracting similar
popularisation over time.
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https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/nih-funded-study-offers-recommendations-measuring-gender-sexual-orientation
NIH-funded study offers recommendations for measuring gender, sexual
orientation
A committee
from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine examined
current practices for data collection regarding LGBTQ communities and issued
guiding principles for the future.
By Kat Jercich
March 10,
2022 02:22 PM
A
consensus study report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and
Medicine issued guiding principles for data collection efforts regarding sex,
gender identity and sexual orientation.
The
report – which was produced at the request of the National
Institutes of Health and supported by contracts between NIH and the National
Academy of Sciences – examined the ways in which this information is currently
collected and made recommendations for future measurements that fully reflect
community experiences.
"Sex,
gender, and sexual orientation are core aspects of identity that shape
opportunities, experiences with discrimination, and outcomes through the life
course; therefore, it is crucial that measures of these concepts accurately
capture their complexity," said report authors.
WHY IT
MATTERS
As
the authors of the report noted, better measurements of LGBTQ populations will
help to better understand the health challenges they face.
"LGBTQI+
people continue to experience disparate and inequitable treatment, including
harassment, discrimination and violence, which in turn affects outcomes in many
areas of everyday life, including health and access to healthcare services,
economic and educational attainment, and family and social support," read
the report.
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https://ehrintelligence.com/news/top-10-most-popular-hospital-inpatient-ehr-systems-in-us
Top 10 Most Popular Hospital Inpatient EHR Systems in US
Enterprise
EHR systems such as Epic and Cerner dominate the inpatient industry, but
specialty vendors hold their own, especially among CAHs.
By Editorial Staff
March 09,
2022 - The wide range of hospitals and clinics across the care continuum
investing in EHR technology has fostered a healthy amount of diversity in the
inpatient EHR system market.
Enterprise
EHR vendors such as Epic and Cerner continue to dominate the industry year over
year, but small and specialty vendors can still hold their own.
The gradual
increase in EHR adoption among critical access hospitals (CAHs) and specialty
care facilities, including behavioral and mental health, have carved out a
niche for health IT companies willing to focus on the unique needs of
particular organizations.
Larger
hospitals are more likely to implement advanced EHR systems like those offered
by Epic and Cerner, but 80 percent of CAHs and rural hospitals reported using
at least a basic EHR system.
The following
are the top 10 inpatient EHR systems based on data
from Definitive Healthcare:
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https://mhealthintelligence.com/news/patient-comfort-with-virtual-mental-healthcare-is-high
Patient Comfort With Virtual Mental Healthcare is High
Healthcare
consumers are becoming increasingly comfortable with receiving mental health
services virtually, and plan sponsors — both payers and human resources
directors — are paying attention.
By Anuja Vaidya
March 09,
2022 - A majority of healthcare consumers across all age groups are as or
more comfortable with app-based virtual therapy than in-person services,
according to
a new report.
For the
report, Evernorth, Cigna's health services portfolio, partnered with Ipsos to
conduct a nationwide survey of more than 3,000 healthcare consumers with
employer-sponsored health insurance, 575 human resources leaders, and 58 health
plan leaders. The survey was conducted in the fourth quarter of 2021.
Over the
course of the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual behavioral healthcare shot up. About
17 percent of respondents said they used virtual mental health services in
2021, compared with 11 percent in 2020.
"As the
importance of behavioral health is increasingly recognized, few dispute its
strong connection to overall health, both in the medical community and the
general public," wrote Urvashi Patel, PhD, managing director, Evernorth
Research Institute, in
an online post. "It remains top of mind and a top concern."
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https://mhealthintelligence.com/news/national-telehealth-use-skyrocketed-amid-omicron-surge
National Telehealth Use Skyrocketed Amid Omicron Surge
In
December, national telehealth use rose by 11.4 percent, increasing its
prevalence in all medical claim lines by 0.5 percent, new data shows.
By Mark Melchionna
March 09,
2022 - Telehealth utilization increased nationally by 11.4 percent between
November and December 2021 and rose from 4.4 to 4.9 percent of all medical
claim lines, according to FAIR
Health’s Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker.
The tracker
is a complimentary service that researches and analyzes how telehealth usage
changes month to month, tracking various statistics such as claim lines,
procedure codes, and diagnostic categories. The service began in May 2020 and
reports data on the US as a whole and four separate US regions.
Primarily due
to the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth utilization has experienced an upward trend
in the last several years. Though there were some dips in use in the second
half of 2021, the tracker reported a significant increase in telehealth
utilization between November and December. Researchers believe this increase
relates to the first detection of the Omicron variant, which took place around
this time.
The 11.4
percent increase is a large margin compared to previous months. Though December
was the second month in a row that national telehealth use grew, the
November tracker revealed only a 7.3 percent increase.
https://healthitsecurity.com/news/hscc-focuses-on-medical-device-security-in-new-contract-language-template
HSCC Focuses On Medical Device Security in New Contract Language Template
HSCC
released a contract language template for healthcare organizations to use to
ensure medical device security when working with device manufacturers.
By Jill McKeon
March 09,
2022 - The Healthcare & Public Health Sector Coordinating Councils
(HSCC) published
model contract language to help healthcare organizations ensure medical device
security when crafting contracts with device manufacturers.
Mayo Clinic,
Premier Inc., and Siemens Healthineers led the drafting process intending to
deliver a template to help healthcare organizations and medical technology
companies navigate and create cybersecurity contractual terms and conditions.
The need for
a contract template stemmed from ongoing complications between healthcare
organizations and medical device manufacturers (MDMs) regarding responsibility,
accountability, and varying cybersecurity expectations.
“These
factors have introduced and sustained ambiguities in cybersecurity and
accountability between MDM’s and [healthcare organizations] that historically
have been reconciled at best inconsistently in the purchase contract
negotiation process, leading to downstream disputes and potential patient
safety implications,” an accompanying press
release explained.
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https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/969880
When Disclosing Sensitive Info, Patients Prefer App vs Staff: Study
Aine Cryts
March 08, 2022
Patients
using a tablet-based app were more than twice as likely to disclose depression,
intimate partner violence, and fall risk compared with verbal screenings,
according to a new study.
The
study, published
online today in JAMA Network Open, includes the use of mPath, a
tablet-based app created by a team of researchers at Wake Forest School of
Medicine.
Researchers
studied the use of the app at six primary care practices among patients age 18
years or older. The app, which exists on a tablet that's given to patients at
check-in, includes screening questions for depression, intimate partner
violence, and fall risk that would otherwise be asked verbally by nurses. The
results of the questionnaires are transmitted to a practice's EHR.
"We
were surprised to find that the app detected so many more people with
depression or safety concerns compared to when nursing staff were asking the
same questions verbally," lead author David Miller Jr, MD, a professor of
internal medicine and public health sciences at Wake Forest School of Medicine,
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, told Medscape Medical News. "To put [the study results] in
context, for every 10 patients who walked in the door, our app found one
additional person with concerns that would have been missed."
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https://www.healthcareittoday.com/2022/03/09/himss-2022-announcements-and-solutions/
HIMSS 2022 Announcements and Solutions
March 9, 2022
John Lynn
Next
week is the HIMSS 2022
conference happening in Orlando, FL. We’ll be covering the event here at
Healthcare IT Today and sharing all the interesting insights and perspectives
we find. Plus, you can expect some great Healthcare
IT Today interviews from the conference as well.
Healthcare
IT Today will be setup at HIMSS this year at booth #4983. Feel free to
drop by watch our live interview recordings, say hello, or have a quick chat.
We would love to see you! See our full lineup of HIMSS22 interviews and events here.
With
so many companies at the event, we wanted to collect
a kind of cliff notes version of some of the important announcements and
solutions companies are making and offering at the event. Hopefully, this
will give people a feel for what’s being shared at the event along with
discovering some new products and solutions they may not have heard about
previously.
We’ll
keep adding to the list as we hear of new news and announcements from companies
that are of interest to the Healthcare IT Today Community. Bookmark this
page and come back to see what’s new throughout the next week.
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https://ehrintelligence.com/news/health-information-exchanges-may-grow-digital-divide-in-referrals
Health Information Exchanges May Grow Digital Divide in Referrals
Health
information exchanges can create a digital divide in the referral market as
participating physicians benefit from the increased patient referrals at the
expense of non-participating physicians.
By Sarai Rodriguez
March 08,
2022 - By participating in health information exchanges (HIEs), physicians
can increase their rate of referrals from and to other members by 44 percent to
46 percent. However, researchers
suggest these benefits can grow the digital divide as they are at the
expense of non-participating physicians.
More than a
third of all patients are referred to a specialist each year, underscoring the
significance of referrals on the healthcare system.
The study by
researchers from the University at Buffalo School of Management looked at the
impact HIE adoption can have on patient referral patterns.
Researchers
used publicly available datasets of 22,000 Medicare beneficiaries in the
Western New York region between 2009 and 2012 to analyze patient referral data
over time
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https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/how-remote-patient-monitoring-moving-mainstream
How remote patient monitoring is moving into the mainstream
RPM can
greatly aid providers treating chronic conditions, and ease overburdened
hospitals. The future of wearables is also looking bright.
By Bill Siwicki
March 08,
2022 01:35 PM
The
COVID-19 pandemic most certainly has driven telehealth into the mainstream of
healthcare. And one area of telehealth that has seen particularly big gains in
the past two years is remote patient monitoring.
RPM
benefits healthcare during the pandemic by helping with hospitals already
packed to the gills, enabling patients to be monitored and treated at home.
Further, RPM has reduced the amount of time patients must spend in situations
where the COVID-19 virus can be transmitted.
Beyond
the pandemic, RPM can keep patients out of the high-cost setting of a hospital
and at home, where, further, the patients will be happier, thus improving the
patient experience while reducing those costs.
It's
clear RPM will be playing a bigger role in healthcare than it ever has before.
On this note, Healthcare
IT News spoked with Dr. Waqaas Al-Siddiq, chairman, CEO and founder
of Biotricity, a medical diagnostic and healthcare technology company that
offers both physician- and consumer-facing RPM devices.
He
explained how RPM can help manage chronic conditions and ease the burden on
hospitals, described the future of wearables and shared some lessons learned
during the pandemic.
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https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/some-important-questions-ai-ethics-and-safety
Some important questions for AI ethics and safety
Whether it's
predictive analytics, RPA, NLP or other use cases, health systems should be
thinking seriously about context and workflows, says a UC Berkeley expert who
will offer examples during HIMSS22 Digital.
By Nathan Eddy
March 08,
2022 12:22 PM
The
healthcare industry faces a series of pressing challenges concerning the
implementation of safe and ethical artificial intelligence.
But
there are resources available for health care teams to help support safe and ethical
AI to start them off and set a common foundation for the discussion.
As
Jessica Newman, director of the AI Security Initiative at the Center for Long
Term Cybersecurity at the University of California, Berkeley, explained there
are four common types of AI technologies being implemented in healthcare today.
·
The first is predictive and prescriptive
analytics, used in healthcare applications like precision medicine, where a
system might be used to predict the most successful treatment based upon particular
attributes and context.
·
The second type of AI is robotic process
automation, or RPA, which is designed to automate and replicate relatively
simple, rule based administrative processes and health care. This is used for
things like updating patient records or billing.
·
A third is natural language processing, which
enables language applications like speech recognition, text analysis and
translation, and can be used to analyze clinical notes or transcribe patient
interactions.
·
The fourth type of AI technology is computer
vision, where machine learning-enabled image analysis can help recognize
potentially cancerous lesions in radiology images, support retinal scanning or
help detect a brain hemorrhage.
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https://ehrintelligence.com/news/health-it-developers-take-strides-toward-onc-cures-update-criteria
Health IT Developers Take Strides Toward ONC Cures Update Criteria
Health IT
developers must meet ONC Cures Update certification criteria for health data
security and interoperability by December 31, 2022.
By Hannah Nelson
March 07,
2022 - Health IT developers are making steady progress in fulfilling the
new privacy and security certification criteria for the 2015 Edition Cures
Update, according to a HealthITBuzz
blog post written by ONC officials Jeff Smith, Tony Myers, and Papia Paul.
Approximately
50 percent of certified health IT modules currently support the 2015 Edition
Cures Update criterion for encrypting authentication credentials and
multi-factor authentication. Additionally, ONC has observed promising growth in
the use of more granular security tags to restrict the redisclosure of
sensitive information at the data entry level.
However, ONC
officials noted that health
IT developers must make considerable interoperability advances in the
coming months to meet the 2015 Edition Cures Update deadline.
“There are
several other important Cures Update certification criteria where considerable
progress will need to occur throughout the year to meet the December 31, 2022
deadline, including the new standardized FHIR application programming interface
(API) for patient and population services,” Smith, Myers, and Paul wrote.
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https://mhealthintelligence.com/news/1-in-5-patients-find-wearables-hard-to-use
1 in 5 Patients Find Wearables Hard to Use
But
despite issues with usability, patients cited several benefits linked to
wearables, including gaining a better understanding of their health, a new
survey shows.
By Anuja Vaidya
March 07,
2022 - Though a vast majority of healthcare consumers (86 percent) said
that wearable devices improved their health and quality of life, 20 percent
said that their device is hard to use, according to
a new survey.
Conducted by
software research firm Software Advice in January, the
survey polled 450 US patients who currently use medically prescribed
wearable devices.
Nearly half
of the patients (49 percent) cited gaining a better understanding of their
health as the most significant benefit of using their wearable device, while 27
percent cited an improved quality of life.
About 15
percent of respondents said that the ability to receive remote care was the
biggest advantage that wearable devices offer, and 5 percent said it enabled
easier collaboration with their physicians.
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https://patientengagementhit.com/news/using-online-provider-reviews-to-tackle-discrimination-patient-safety
Using Online Provider Reviews to Tackle Discrimination, Patient Safety
In absence
of other measures, online provider reviews give organizations the data needed
to deploy training programs that tackle discrimination to improve patient
safety.
By Sara Heath
March 07,
2022 - Online provider reviews can be effective for measuring
discrimination in healthcare, according to a recent JAMA Network Open study,
granting healthcare organizations the information needed to address racism in
medicine as a patient safety issue.
As medical
professionals continue to zero in on health equity, the question of
discrimination in healthcare has become more pertinent. Explicit and implicit
bias in healthcare can be of detriment to the patient experience and
patient safety, and it can harm
patient trust and discourage future patient care access, most experts
agree.
But although
understanding discrimination in healthcare is important, there are few
mechanisms by which healthcare organizations can measure or document these
issues. Poor measurement impedes organizational efforts to improve patient
safety and experience through cultural competency and other provider education
interventions.
“Traditional
health care performance metrics, such as Hospital Compare, do not report on
discrimination or health inequities,” the researchers explained.
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https://healthitsecurity.com/news/hc3-outlines-history-of-healthcare-cybersecurity-from-1980s-to-now
HC3 Outlines History of Healthcare Cybersecurity From 1980s to Now
HC3 issued
a comprehensive history of major healthcare cybersecurity events spanning from
the 1980s to today in order to inform future defense strategies.
By Jill McKeon
March 07,
2022 - As organizations navigate the complexities of the current cyber threat
landscape, it is important to take a step back and look at how healthcare
cybersecurity has evolved over time. Following this notion, the Health Sector
Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) released
a comprehensive brief outlining the history of major healthcare cybersecurity
events over the past few decades and predictions for what lies ahead.
Cybercrime
has existed for decades, but today’s healthcare cyber threat landscape consists
of more sophisticated and effective threat actors than ever before. Supply
chain attacks, phishing, remote desktop protocol (RDP), and open-source
software compromise all pose significant threats to the healthcare sector.
The
first-ever ransomware attack occurred in 1989 and was centered around
healthcare, HC3 noted. Biologist Joseph Popp distributed 20,000 trojanized
floppy disks at the World Health Organization AIDS conference in Stockholm,
Sweden. The disks installed malicious codes and eventually demanded $189 from
victims in order to regain access to their systems.
But the first
truly significant healthcare cybersecurity event occurred in 2014, when
Anonymous attacked the Boston Children’s Hospital with distributed
denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Through 2015 and 2016, threat actors
launched a few other notable attacks against healthcare organizations,
accessing protected health information (PHI) and demanding ransoms. These types
of attacks occur almost daily in today’s cyber threat landscape.
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NHS creates blueprint for testing bias in AI models
Researchers
used COVID-19 chest imaging data to assess the accuracy of health and care
algorithms.
By Tammy Lovell
March 07,
2022 09:38 AM
The
NHS AI LAB has created a blueprint for testing the robustness of artificial
intelligence (AI) models, paving the way for safer adoption in health and care.
Working
with a research group, the imaging team ran a proof-of-concept validation
process on five AI models / algorithms using data from the National COVID-19 Chest Imaging Database (NCCID), a
database of chest scans and supporting medical information from NHS trusts.
They
tested how accurately the models detected positive and negative COVID-19 cases
from medical images and how the models performed with different patient
sub-groups e.g. by age, ethnicity, and/or sex.
This
validation process will support work at NHS Digital to develop new AI assurance
processes and bespoke training, as well as helping to clarify a structure for AI regulations.
The
research group was formed by the British Society of Thoracic Imaging, AI firm Faculty,
Queen Mary University of London, Royal Surrey Foundation Trust, and the
University of Dundee.
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Using AI and people power to combat sepsis
In a preview
of his HIMSS22 session, Dr. Thomas Selva talks through his team's Davies
Award-winning strategy to detect the life-threatening condition early.
By Kat Jercich
March 07,
2022 10:03 AM
Sepsis,
the body's damaging over-response to an infection, affects at least 1.7 million adults in the United States
every year.
Early
treatment is key to staying ahead of the condition, which can be
life-threatening. But sometimes the clinical signs can be hard to spot – making
artificial intelligence tools particularly useful.
This
past year, University of Missouri Health Care was recognized with a HIMSS Davies Award for its
work pairing the National Early Warning Score algorithm with a rapid
response team to contribute to a reduction in sepsis mortality.
Developed
by the Royal College of Physicians, "the National Early Warning Score is a
wonderful system that uses measures the nurses are already capturing to give
you an idea that you might want to take a closer look at your patient, that
they might be showing signs of early decline," explained Dr. Thomas Selva,
chief medical information officer at MU Healthcare and medical director for the
Tiger Institute for Health Innovation.
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World Health Organization Releases ICD-11
Analysis
| By Amanda Norris |
March 04, 2022
Although
the U.S. timeline for implementing ICD-11 is still up in the air, the new code
set is now officially in effect for the reporting of causes of illness, death,
and more.
The World Health Organization (WHO) officially
released ICD-11, the newest code set that WHO member countries will be
implementing worldwide. According to the WHO press
release, 35 countries have already started reporting with ICD-11.
According to
the WHO, compared with previous versions, ICD-11 is entirely digital with a new
user-friendly format and multilingual capabilities that reduce the chance of
error.
"A key
principle in this revision was to simplify the coding and provide users with
all necessary electronic tooling—this will allow healthcare professionals to
more easily and completely record conditions," Robert Jakob, team lead of
classifications terminologies and standards at the WHO, said in a press
release.
According
to the organization, ICD-11 was adopted at the World
Health Assembly in May 2019 and at the time, member states committed to
start using it for mortality and morbidity reporting in 2022.
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