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Opinion: Charging patients to message their doctors mostly benefits major hospital systems

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Some hospital systems have started charging patients for digital messages to their doctors via the electronic medical record, either a flat rate (like a copay) or on sliding scale depending on the time or complexity of the physician’s response. Thinking about messaging your physician about a weird rash?

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Opinion: The staggering financial burden of a proposed HIPAA rule

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health care system is facing a new and costly threat that will affect patient care and ultimately may lead to hospital closures : paying for and processing a torrent of medical record requests. The already beleaguered U.S.

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Opinion: Medicaid during incarceration: a step toward health equity

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As a physician caring for chronically ill individuals recently released from incarceration, I’ve become accustomed to working as a detective of sorts, trying to piece together the care they received while incarcerated in an attempt to recreate their medical histories and treatment plans.

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STAT+: ‘Apples to apples’: How new health data rules could hold providers accountable

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Last year, medical records opened up to patients. Before the ball drops on New Year’s Eve, electronic health care record vendors will have to provide tools to easily pull big batches of patient data from their systems. This year, they’re opening up to the nation. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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STAT+: AI health care companies say they’ll keep humans in the loop. But what does that actually mean?

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A flurry of AI-guided ambient documentation startups can rapidly transcribe and summarize patient visits and populate patients’ medical charts, but they require doctors and nurses to OK the generated entries first.   Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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NHS Digital tweaks e-referral system to hospitals

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NHS Digital has tweaked its electronic referral system, to smoothen the process of making a hospital appointment. Following consultations with both GPs and hospital doctors, changes have been introduced to the service to increase the number of successful consultations and referrals.

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STAT+: Hospitals struggle to validate AI-generated clinical summaries. ‘It’s a bit chaotic’

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As an intern at Duke University Medical Center in the ’90s, he’d sometimes be tasked with poring through a patient’s medical history to uncover the cause of their latest hospitalization. Back then, the stacks of paper records could tower 18 inches tall.

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