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Nov 11, 2023·Kaufman Hall

September saw a slight decline in overall hospital performance, although the median Kaufman Hall Calendar Year-To-Date Operating Margin Index showed a slight increase to 1.4%. This is attributed to variations in 2023 hospital performances. Despite decreased volume across all hospitals, improvements in overall financial picture compared to 2022 were observed. More details are in the October issue of the National Hospital Flash Report.

Nov 10, 2023·CSO Online

US initiates "Shields Ready" campaign, hosted by DHS, CISA, and FEMA, for critical national infrastructure (CNI) security. Shields Ready strategizes CNI resilience and disruption-preparedness. CISA's "Shields Up" encourages immediate action to individual threat intelligence. Shields Ready makes CNI entities more resilient to various hazards, from cyberattacks to natural disasters.

Nov 10, 2023·Forbes

Amazon adds primary care services to Prime membership via One Medical platform for $9/month. Offers 24/7 virtual health access and expedited treatment for common care. Service included in membership; office visits payable. Usually $199, Prime allows $99 annual option. Amazon's purchase of One Medical ($3.9bn) reveals healthcare interest. Primary care shortage predicted (21,400-55,200 by 2033); retail giants (CVS, Walgreens, Walmart Health) respond with increased investments. Amazon aims to create complete patient healthcare ecosystem.

Nov 10, 2023·Medium

ChatGPT, an AI program, can answer a variety of health questions, explain medical terms, and suggest potential queries for a doctor. It's not a substitute for professional medical advice. To use it, introduce yourself without personal identifying details, share relevant health info, ask clear and specific health related questions while ensuring your privacy. Note that it can clarify medical documents and test results (without sharing sensitive data). Review and save your discussions with ChatGPT and respect that it’s not a professional medical practitioner.

Nov 10, 2023·Healthcare IT Today

Jessica Beegle from Lifepoint Health addressed legacy health IT systems' lack of intercommunication and data accessibility by aggregating and organizing data to enhance patient experiences. Lifepoint Health teamed with Clinical Architecture to improve data quality, clean, normalize, and standardize data from various EHRs across their facilities. The data quality initiative took seven months to complete, leading to improved patient care and reduced clinician burnout.

Nov 10, 2023·Forbes

Best Buy Health and Mass General Brigham (MGB) are partnering to expand home healthcare services using technology. Key focus is expanding MGB's Home Hospital service for severe conditions and Home Care service for chronic conditions. Best Buy Health will contribute by leveraging its home care platform, Current Health, which streamlines remote patient monitoring and telehealth services. MGB will also utilize Lively, Best Buy Health's personal emergency response system. The partnership aims to address rising patient demand for convenient access to care and improving health outcomes, while also catering to workforce shortages.

Nov 10, 2023·Healthcare Info Security

American Hospital Association (AHA) and three other groups sue U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) over claim that hospital web tracking potentially violates HIPAA. AHA also seeks injunction to stop HHS from taking enforcement action against member hospitals for web tracking.

Nov 9, 2023·LinkedIn

Allie K. Miller shares key takeaways from OpenAI Dev Day: Agent-friendly Performance Improvements enable multiple function calls simultaneously; new releases make experimentation cheaper, spurring innovation; Custom ChatGPT allows anyone to build a personalized GPT; OpenAI introduces enterprise-constricted custom GPTs; AI community is growing, evidenced by Satya Nadella's surprise appearance.

Nov 7, 2023·AMDIS / WittKieffer

WittKieffer and AMDIS have maintained a collaborative relationship for over ten years, conducting four comprehensive surveys with Chief Medical Information/Informatics Officers (CMIOs) and physician informatics leaders in 2014, 2018, 2021, and most recently in April-May 2023. The latest survey gathered insights from over 215 physician informatics executives on the evolving role, scope, and compensation of CMIOs, as well as the current challenges they face in leadership and talent management. The findings from the most recent survey indicate a significant shift in the role of physician informatics leaders from operational duties to more strategic ones, including the integration of digital transformation and artificial intelligence tools, with 79% of participants reporting an increase in their responsibilities. Financial constraints pose challenges for funding projects and expanding teams, and compensation has not seen substantial growth, though 72% of executives could negotiate better pay when moving to new organizations. Talent acquisition and retention remain problematic for over half of the respondents, with a strong ongoing commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. However, less than 40% of CMIOs and their equivalents have a succession plan in place, highlighting a gap in future leadership planning.

Nov 7, 2023·Walmart Corporate News

Walmart Health partners with Ambetter from Sunshine Health, providing insurance via Florida health insurance marketplace, and Orlando Health, a hospital network in Florida, to extend affordable healthcare options. The collaboration emphasizes patient engagement through care coordination and referral management. Walmart Health and Ambetter Health enhance Medicaid awareness and marketplace insurance accessibility. The Ambetter from Sunshine Health’s Value Plan now includes Walmart Health Centers as a preferred provider. Second collaboration with Orlando Health streamlines patient's healthcare journey via effective care transitions and robust communication. Walmart Health also expands in Florida with 17 new health centers, providing diverse services, open seven days a week.

Nov 7, 2023·OpenAI

OpenAI announced updates at DevDay including cost-effective GPT-4 Turbo model with 128k context window, Assistants API for AI app development, and multi-modal features. GPT-4 Turbo optimizes performance, offers knowledge of events up to April 2023, prices 3x cheaper. Function calling updates allow efficient execution of multiple tasks. Improved instruction following, JSON mode, reproducible outputs, and log probabilities are featured as well. Enhancements to GPT-3.5 Turbo include an expanded context window, accurate following of instructions and parallel functioning. OpenAI also introduced Assistants API for agent-like experiences in developers' applications. It also includes GPT-4 Turbo and GPT-3.5 Turbo with vision through Chat Completions API, the DALL·E 3 image integration via Images API, and a text-to-speech API. Prices decreased across platform, rate limits were increased. Copyright shield for copyright infringement protection was launched. Open sourcing of Whisper v3 and Consistency Decoder upcoming.

Nov 6, 2023·Beckers Hospital Review

Nurses at 146 hospitals ranked their employers on Glassdoor, creating the Nursing Satisfaction Index. The list reflects their views on leadership, workload, pay, and organizational support from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic to June 2023.

Nov 6, 2023·Becker's Hospital Review

Hospitals' chief digital officer roles disappearing in favor of AI, analytics, and data officers. Role's definition varies among systems causing confusion. Healthcare systems incorporating digital elements into traditional roles. Unfilled roles may indicate financial challenges or difficulties hiring.

Nov 5, 2023·PeterAttiaMD

AI, with its ability to efficiently process vast amounts of data, is enhancing the efficacy of predictive healthcare models, particularly in relation to body composition and mortality. Using raw imaging and longitudinal data, rather than isolated or static metrics, provides a more detailed and accurate prediction of an individual’s health journey, enabling more precise interventions. Improved prediction of all-cause mortality, facilitated by AI, supports the evolution of personalized healthcare.

Nov 5, 2023·Beckers Hospital Review

104 rural hospitals closed since 2005, more closures since 2020 due to financial challenges, workforce shortages. CMS launched rural emergency hospital designation to address reduced care access, only 16 have converted. Mobile health, partnerships, new payments seen as solutions; need for collaboration, diversified services for financial sustainability.

Nov 5, 2023·McKinsey & Company

Uncertain economy makes growth challenging, requiring active and strategic choices from growth leaders. Companies with CEOs who place marketing central to growth strategy achieve twice the annual growth rate. Misalignment between CEOs and CMOs regarding marketing’s role and potential as well as metric measurements disrupt marketing’s impact. Defining the CMO’s role clearly, engaging in modern marketing and aligning on growth metrics helps stimulate growth.

Nov 4, 2023·Children's Hospitals Today

In 2019, Seattle Children's pledged to combat systemic racism actively, leading to structural changes and increased diversity in the workforce. The hospital’s three-phase Health Equity and Anti-Racism Action Plan has delivered measurable improvements, with employee diversity up 6%, managerial diversity up 3%, executive diversity up 9%, and board diversity up 8%. Policies were examined and amended to address existing disparities, and the hospital pursued initiatives for equity in patient care outcomes. No-show rates at the Odessa Brown Children's Clinic reduced through more accessible reminder systems and responsive scheduling. Human resources altered procedures to ensure affected parties receive follow-up support after racially or ethnically insensitive incidents. Diverse perspectives were included in recruitment processes, and job descriptions were revised for inclusivity. Existing policies were audited to remove discriminatory practices. A publicly available dashboard tracks progress towards being an anti-racist organization and a 2022 workforce survey displayed a positive staff response to these efforts.

Nov 4, 2023·Star Bridge Advisors

Design paramount in HIT (Health Information Technology) development and deployment. Design impacts healthcare delivery quality, clinical outcomes, user satisfaction, and financial performance. Assign strong facilitator and incorporate all stakeholders. Essential design areas include workflow optimization, user engagement and adoption, patient and family engagement, data accuracy and integrity, interoperability and integration, and security and privacy. Enhances efficiency and outcomes. StarBridge Advisors offers advice, leadership, experts and independent verification/validation services for HIT projects.

Nov 4, 2023·HFMA

AI, encompassing technology like RPA and ML, can resolve business problems and should not be ignored by executives. Scripps Health's application of AI in patient inquiry response and physician-patient note taking has shown potential. AI integration can optimize revenue cycle management by generating accurate codes and invoices from patient records. Understanding the problem and choosing the appropriate AI solution, whether RPA, ML, or NLP, is critical for beneficial outcomes and ROI.

Nov 4, 2023·Cleveland Clinic

Cleveland Clinic launches Quantum Innovation Catalyzer Program for start-ups to explore quantum computing in life sciences and healthcare. Up to four awarded start-ups receive immersive experience including access to IBM Quantum System One computer, workspace, collaboration with Cleveland Clinic clinicians, participation in Quantum Working Group, education programs, and demo day. Participants also have collaborative opportunities with Cleveland Clinic-IBM Discovery Accelerator team, part of 10-year partnership advancing biomedical research. Applications for the program, launching in April, are open till January 15.