October 2019

Amazon launches virtual medical clinic for Seattle employees

By Rebecca Pifer for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: Amazon has launched a virtual care clinic as a pilot for its Seattle employees called Amazon Care, including in-person followup doctor visits at an employee’s home or office, along with at-home prescription drug delivery. The e-commerce giant’s virtual offering includes an in-app telemedicine visit with a doctor,…

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CMS penalizes 2,583 hospitals for high readmissions: 5 things to know

By Ayla Ellison for Becker’s Hospital Review In fiscal year 2020, CMS will penalize 2,583 hospitals for having too many Medicare patients readmitted within 30 days, according to federal data released Sept. 30 cited in a Kaiser Health News report. This is the eighth year of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. To determine penalties for…

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Physician viewpoint: Patient voices are crucial for AI innovation

By Andrea Park for Becker’s Hospital Review Though artificial intelligence algorithms require as much objective patient data as possible to be effective tools for healthcare delivery, it is equally important that they are trained on anecdotal patient evidence, according to Blake McKinney, MD. In an op-ed for STAT, Dr. McKinney, an emergency medicine physician and…

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Inaccuracies found in physician residents’ EHR documentation

By Jeff Lagasse for Healthcare Finance Emergency department residents do what all physicians do: They document patient encounters into an electronic health record. But the information they’re entering may not be all that accurate. A study published in JAMA Network Open tasked 12 observers with following nine physician residents as they documented patient encounters into…

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