Background: Simulation-based education has emerged as an effective approach in nursing education worldwide. We aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a surgical nursing education program based on a simulation using standardized patients and mobile applications among nursing students.

In this cross-sectional study, we evaluated the completeness, readability, and syntactic complexity of cardiovascular disease prevention information produced by GPT-4 in response to 4 kinds of prompts.

Background: Patient and staff experience is a vital factor to consider in the evaluation of remote patient monitoring (RPM) interventions. However, no comprehensive overview of available RPM patient and staff experience–measuring methods and tools exists.

Researchers are pioneering the use of artificial intelligence to explore how the gut microbiome influences Alzheimer’s disease.

The key is having a holistic approach that identifies the top two or three critical issues and tailors the primary care solution to address those needs.

The Corner Series - In most professions, pay-for-performance is the norm. A certain level of performance is expected for an individual to get paid. So why has the fee-for-service model in healthcare persisted for so long? And what’s causing the shift toward value-based care?

On this episode of The Professor’s Corner, Larry Elisco, partner at Wipfli LLP, discusses trends in value-based medicine with McGuireWoods’ Geoff Cockrell. The two acknowledge that the compensation structure has had a slow start despite its promising future.

“My view is that value-based care changes the landscape. It’s pay-for-performance. It creates risk at the provider level, where providers are in fact either going to be paid for performing well or not being paid if they don’t perform well. And that’s really what I see as a mega trend,” says Larry.

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Imperial College London students on the Digital Health Leadership Programme can now apply for professional registration from FEDIP.

Real-world analysis can provide insights into how factors largely out of rural residents’ control impact health outcomes and access to medical care.

Researchers utilized a large-scale unlabeled dataset from the U.K. Biobank to train deep-learning models for accurately monitoring physical activity through wearables, demonstrating enhanced accuracy and generalizability across diverse environments and devices.

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Recognizing healthcare startups driving innovation in patient care and experience. From telemedicine platforms and digital health apps to personalized medicine and remote monitoring devices, these startups are reshaping the healthcare landscape to prioritize patient-centric care.

Ilant Health, a virtual obesity management company, extended its seed funding round from $3 million to $5.5 million. Based in New York City, the company provides value-based care to employers and government payers nationwide. They match patients to personalized obesity treatment options such as intensive behavioral therapy, pharmacotherapy, and bariatric surgery. The funding includes participation from LifeX Ventures, Celtic House Asia Partners, and Cornucopian Capital. Investors were impressed by the founders’ experience and believe in the company’s potential to address the obesity epidemic. Ilant Health aims to improve cardiometabolic health and reduce healthcare costs through personalized obesity management programs. Source link

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Author summary The majority of biopsies received by pathologists for reporting, do not contain invasive cancer. This yields opportunities for Artificial Intelligence (AI) development in identifying cancerous and high grade lesions in a slide and reduce the necessity of pathologist having to review...

I’ve identified four strategies that I see at work in digital health companies doing well in this current market.

The health technology company will use the funds to support the growth of its provider partnerships.

Dr. Monika Sonu, Healthinnovation Toolbox cofounder and HIMSS24 Changemaker, discusses how her medical practice helps inform the development of digital health tools that aim to help address issues that include health equity and interoperability.

Eitan Shay, Former Chief Product Officer at Dario Health, shares how he leverages behavioral design as a product leader, such as through personalized action plans.

TURIN, Italy--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Laife Reply, a company within the Reply Group focused on using AI, Big Data and Machine Learning to innovate preventive healthcare and treatment processes has developed, in collaboration with IEO (European Institute of Oncology), the Value Based Medicine (VBM), a web platform to support the patient care cycle. The platform's objective is to use clinical information to predict, through statistical and artificial intelligence models, the outcomes of therapeutic and

One of the most exciting start-ups to come out of Denmark, Reshape Biotech raised $20m this month and now has its eyes set on the US market.

Solera Health added Ciba Health, Digbi Health and Wondr Health to its HALO platform. The companies treat conditions like hypertension and diabetes.

Vitiligo is a hypopigmented skin disease characterized by the loss of melanin. The progressive nature and widespread incidence of vitiligo necessitate timely and accurate detection. Usually, a single diagnostic test often falls short of providing definitive confirmation of the condition,...

In an interview during The American Journal of Managed Care®'s Institute for Value-Based Medicine® event, held with Sutter Health, Ryan Stice, PharmD, BCPS, explains the impact virtual population health teams can have on improving access to care for patients with cardiometabolic conditions.

Background: With the rapid aging of the global population, the prevalence of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia is anticipated to surge worldwide. MCI serves as an intermediary stage between normal aging and dementia, necessitating more sensitive and effective screening tools for early...

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