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• How CRISPR shapes the future of disease diagnosis and treatment

  21-09-2023 07:46 via healthcareitnews.com
  
  Dr Tamara Sunbul of Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare talked about the promising application of gene editing in healthcare but also cautions on uncertainties.
  
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• A Top New York Hospital, an Unapproved Treatment and an F.D.A. Warning

  20-09-2023 21:25 via nytimes.com
  
  A product made from umbilical cord blood was used in spine surgeries at a Manhattan hospital. After a federal warning came an internal complaint: Patients should have been told.
  
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• U.S. Will Resume Offering Free At-Home Covid Tests

  20-09-2023 21:08 via nytimes.com
  
  The Biden administration is restarting a program to provide free rapid tests through the mail.
  
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• Sufjan Stevens Says He Lost Ability to Walk From Guillain-Barré Syndrome

  20-09-2023 19:31 via nytimes.com
  
  The indie-rock singer-songwriter said in a statement on his website that he was expected to recover from the rare neurological condition.
  
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• The Reach of Wildfire Smoke Is Going Global and Undoing Progress on Clean Air

  20-09-2023 17:41 via nytimes.com
  
  In the United States, smoke from wildfires is undoing progress from the Clean Air Act. In poorer countries, the situation is even worse.
  
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• Phoenix Children's makes big gains with homegrown data warehouse and apps

  20-09-2023 17:11 via healthcareitnews.com
  
  Among its success stories, the health system built an app that identifies more than 10 patients each week with potential malnutrition who then are referred to nutritionists.
  
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• Warming Oceans May Raise Risk of Bacterial Infections

  20-09-2023 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  As oceans warm, pathogenic bacteria are turning up more frequently in northern regions, scientists say.
  
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• The Beach Is Lovely. The Water, Maybe Not So Much.

  20-09-2023 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  As oceans warm, pathogenic bacteria are turning up more frequently in northern regions, scientists say.
  
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• How Much Do Patients Need to Know About a Potentially Risky Treatment?

  20-09-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  An unapproved product made from umbilical cord blood was used at a prominent New York hospital. After an F.D.A. warning came an internal complaint: Patients should have been told.
  
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• Starting your own human digital twin project

  20-09-2023 04:39 via healthcareitnews.com
  
  Digital twin technology has been enabling organisations' shift to precision and preventive medicine.
  
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• ATA releases SDOH toolkit to scale community telehealth delivery

  19-09-2023 17:29 via healthcareitnews.com
  
  The American Telemedicine Association says the new measures, calculators and other tools will help communities address the economic burden of inaction on health disparities and improve health through better access to virtual care.
  
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• Oracle Cerner adds generative AI to its EHR platforms

  19-09-2023 17:15 via healthcareitnews.com
  
  The Oracle Clinical Digital Assistant tool can also respond to conversational voice prompts from clinicians, the company says, as it aims to "reduce mundane work that leads to burnout."
  
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• VA clinician says teleneurology is improving access and care for veterans

  19-09-2023 17:00 via healthcareitnews.com
  
  A Regenstrief Institute researcher and VA neurologist unpacks the results of a recent study that researched the outcomes of adding telemedicine to the care plans for veterans with neurologic disease.
  
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• Plugging the shortfall of workforce with digital health

  19-09-2023 13:30 via healthcareitnews.com
  
  Making digital health an extension of health facilities can help organisations meet the growing shortage of health workers, says HIMSS President Hal Wolf.
  
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• Full-Body MRI Scans Like Prenuvo Have Become a Status Symbol. Do They Work?

  19-09-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Companies like the celebrity-endorsed Prenuvo claim they can revolutionize preventive health care. Experts warn this might not be the right approach.
  
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• 'Embrace the spirit of connectedness,' leaders implore at HIMSS23 APAC

  19-09-2023 08:48 via healthcareitnews.com
  
  Speakers emphasise working together as the key to success in digital transformation.
  
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• Overlooked No More: Margaret Chung, Doctor Who Was ‘Different From Others’

  18-09-2023 20:50 via nytimes.com
  
  As the first known American woman of Chinese ancestry to earn a medical degree, she treated celebrities and opened a practice in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
  
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• New York community hospitals still impacted by Lockbit attack, weeks later

  18-09-2023 17:32 via healthcareitnews.com
  
  Carthage Area Hospital and Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center were forced to divert patients from the ransomware attack on August 31 and are still canceling appointments.
  
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• Telehealth, properly integrated with EHRs, can boost cancer care

  18-09-2023 16:45 via healthcareitnews.com
  
  Electronic-reported outcomes appearing in clinicians' EHR workflow can help inform the ways providers deliver care and achieve better outcomes, says one oncology software exec.
  
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• NTT, Japan's National Center for Neurology and Psychiatry building brain digital twin tech

  18-09-2023 09:14 via healthcareitnews.com
  
  They aim to use digital twins to detect and prevent mental disorders.
  
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• Fujitsu's quantum-inspired computing helps uncover additional OR capacity

  18-09-2023 09:14 via healthcareitnews.com
  
  It has helped find 231 additional full-day surgery blocks in OR trials.
  
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• How a Lawsuit in N.J. Could Bring Aid in Dying to Millions

  17-09-2023 18:08 via nytimes.com
  
  The plaintiffs want the state to drop its residency requirement. Oregon and Vermont have already done so.
  
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• Supporters of Aid in Dying Sue N.J. Over Residency Requirement

  16-09-2023 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  If the state were to change its course, aid in dying would become more accessible to millions of Americans.
  
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• Windows Installed in Skulls Help Doctors Study Damaged Brains

  16-09-2023 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Some neurosurgeons are testing an acrylic prosthesis that lets them peer into patients’ heads with ultrasound.
  
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• Why It Took So Long for the FDA to Tackle a Cold Medicine

  15-09-2023 22:24 via nytimes.com
  
  Pharmacists affiliated with the University of Florida have spent decades nudging the agency to pull a decongestant from over-the-counter medicines.
  
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• FDA releases updated final guidance for its Breakthrough Devices Program

  15-09-2023 18:27 via healthcareitnews.com
  
  The FDA clarifies its interpretation of "more effective" and indicates it will consider improved accessibility of a device during the Breakthrough designation process.
  
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• HIMSSCast: Don Rucker's fresh takes on the progress of FHIR, TEFCA and more

  15-09-2023 16:51 via healthcareitnews.com
  
  As chief strategy officer for 1upHealth, the former national coordinator for health IT and interoperability guru gets a lot of feedback from industry stakeholders. Here are some of the questions, comments and concerns he's hearing.
  
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• AI helps AtlantiCare lung cancer patients speed from discovery to treatment

  15-09-2023 16:30 via healthcareitnews.com
  
  One of the New Jersey health system's interventional pulmonologists tells the story of how an artificial intelligence-aided detection system is offering significant clinical ROI.
  
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• 5 key insights for healthcare cybersecurity, based on peer benchmarking

  15-09-2023 15:00 via healthcareitnews.com
  
  When healthcare CISOs owned responsibility for medical device security, the application of frameworks such as HHS 405(d) Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices increased by as much as 18%, according to early peer benchmarking research results.
  
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• Best Buy Health partners with Geisinger for chronic care management

  14-09-2023 23:44 via healthcareitnews.com
  
  The retail giant and Pennsylvania-based healthcare system will create technology and services for organizations entering the chronic care management space.
  
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• Burnout growing among PAs; 8% plan to leave

  14-09-2023 23:29 via healthcareitnews.com
  
  The strongest predictors of burnout include workload, census divisions, age, specialties and practice settings.
  
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• MDMA Therapy for PTSD Inches Closer to U.S. Approval

  14-09-2023 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Results of a new study may offer regulators enough evidence to allow the psychedelic, also known as Ecstasy, to be considered for use as a PTSD treatment.
  
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• Where healthcare CIOs are allocating their IT spend now

  14-09-2023 16:48 via healthcareitnews.com
  
  A report from Bain and KLAS sees 80% of chief information officers and other tech leaders boosting their investments in software and digital tools. They've got rev cycle and clinical workflows top of mind, but their AI plans are still coming into focus.
  
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• VA and Oracle eye new EHR deployment schedule by next summer

  14-09-2023 16:24 via healthcareitnews.com
  
  But restarting the paused Electronic Health Record Modernization program will first require a successful deployment at Lovell Federal Health Care Center in Chicago, says Dr. Neil Evans of the EHRM Integration Office.
  
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• St John of God Midland digitises patient flow with Telstra Health

  14-09-2023 05:08 via healthcareitnews.com
  
  It can now accurately measure and track real-time capacity and demand across wards and departments.
  
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• EMC Healthcare rolling out Celo's messaging platform

  14-09-2023 05:08 via healthcareitnews.com
  
  The solution solves the healthcare provider's concern with the confidentiality of patient data.
  
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• Google announces funding for AI-enabled digital health projects

  13-09-2023 23:15 via healthcareitnews.com
  
  Fifteen projects, including eight digital health initiatives, received $3 million in cash, Google Cloud credits and technical assistance.
  
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• Senators push back on DEA proposed telehealth rules, say they'd affect patient care

  13-09-2023 17:17 via healthcareitnews.com
  
  In a letter to Anne Milgram, administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, they say Congress created a special registration under the SUPPORT Act "not as an option for DEA to utilize, but a requirement."
  
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• User-unfriendly EHRs pose serious risks to patient safety

  13-09-2023 17:06 via healthcareitnews.com
  
  Electronic health records that deliver suboptimal user experience are more likely to lead to alert fatigue and less likely to catch errors that could impact hospital safety, University of Utah Health research shows.
  
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• Blue Shield of California announces faster CRM data tools

  13-09-2023 17:06 via healthcareitnews.com
  
  The payer says its new care management platform built on Salesforce Health Cloud helps understand members' care needs better and reduces the processing time for benefits administration from 24 hours to five minutes. 
  
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• C.D.C. Recommends New Covid Vaccines for All Americans

  13-09-2023 00:15 via nytimes.com
  
  Everyone aged 6 months and older should get at least one dose, the agency said.
  
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• Apple unveils Watch Series 9 with new health features

  12-09-2023 23:25 via healthcareitnews.com
  
  The Apple Watch Series 9 allows users to log and access healthcare data, and to control the Watch by double-tapping their index finger and thumb.
  
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• Legal Actions Seek Guarantee of Abortion Access for Patients in Medical Emergencies

  12-09-2023 22:52 via nytimes.com
  
  New cases say fear and confusion about abortion bans in three states are causing doctors and hospitals to deny medically necessary abortions.
  
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• C.D.C. Advisers Recommend New Covid Vaccines for All Americans

  12-09-2023 22:21 via nytimes.com
  
  Everybody 6 months and older should get at least one dose of the vaccines, the panel said.
  
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• Decongestant in Cold Medicines Doesn’t Work, Panel Says

  12-09-2023 20:47 via nytimes.com
  
  The agency now must decide whether products containing the ingredient, like some Sudafed and NyQuil products, should no longer be sold.
  
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• Cybersecurity tabletop board game pits hackers vs. defenders

  12-09-2023 16:26 via healthcareitnews.com
  
  Guardians of the Grid, designed for individuals and organizations to use as a preparation tool, invites players to take their roles as cybercriminals or cyber defenders. The healthcare CISO who invented it is hoping to raise funding with a Kickstarter campaign to offer it commercially.
  
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• NIST releases draft algorithms for quantum-resistant cryptography

  12-09-2023 12:04 via healthcareitnews.com
  
  As it works to safeguard existing cybersecurity protocols from easy decryption by a future quantum computer, the agency is requesting feedback on standards for three algorithms designed to withstand quantum-powered cyberattacks.
  
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• C.D.C. Advisers to Decide Who Should Receive New Covid Vaccines

  12-09-2023 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Scientists will meet on Tuesday to consider data on newly approved shots from Pfizer and Moderna.
  
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• New info system in Japan connects GPs with infectious disease specialists

  12-09-2023 08:47 via healthcareitnews.com
  
  It also facilitates contracts and payments between them.
  
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• Hira developing single API access for developers

  12-09-2023 08:25 via healthcareitnews.com
  
  The connector plane will ensure safe access to health data on consumer apps.
  
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