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Humana and CVS are downsizing their Medicare Advantage plans for 2025. Which insurers could benefit?

Healthcare Dive

Hundreds of thousands of seniors could switch plans during next year’s open enrollment, depending on how drastically the MA market giants slash benefits in an attempt to improve profits.

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Increasing applications of robotic surgical systems across Asia and more briefs

Healthcare It News

Amrita Hospital introduces robotic gait trainer for rehab Amrita Hospital in Kerala's Kochi city has started adopting a robotic gait trainer system to assist in the rehabilitation of brain and spinal injury survivors. The G-Gaiter, developed by local startup Gen Robotics, provides an immersive rehabilitation experience through virtual reality. It also trains patients to walk longer and become less dependent.

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Change Healthcare has responsibility to notify patients data breach, says OCR

Healthcare It News

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights updated its Change Healthcare cybersecurity incident frequently asked questions page on Friday to address questions the agency has received asking which entities are responsible for performing breach notification to HHS, affected individuals and where applicable, the media.

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The MRO Exchange: Healthmap Solutions CIO Bill Moore

MRO Compliance

Healthcare NOW Radio Podcast Network · The MRO Exchange: Healthmap Solutions' CIO Bill Moore S1E2: Host Mark Thomas, Chief Technology Officer at MRO, and guest Bill Moore, Chief Information Officer at Healthmap Solutions, discuss all things healthcare technology. They dive into technology transformation, artificial intelligence, and where healthcare technology is heading in the future.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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How to navigate the risks of remote patient monitoring

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Remote patient monitoring has been taking the spotlight in health IT, and the number of hospitals and health systems embracing this approach to patient care in the home has been increasing. What's more, the number of reimbursable RPM services may soon be on the rise thanks to efforts spearheaded by the CPT Editorial Panel and the American Medical Association.

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Medicare Advantage sales middleman sues HHS over rule capping broker compensation

Healthcare Dive

AmeriLife’s suit joins at least two others from MA sales groups seeking revisions to the rule for threatening their business model. It also comes with a ticking clock, given a looming deadline for marketing contract negotiations.

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Easy, Secure Logins for Patient Data with LG Solutions

Healthcare IT Today

Security has become a top priority in healthcare. If you’re not investing in secure solutions, you’re going to have problems. The challenge for many organizations is balancing the need for secure solutions while not impacting the workflow for clinicians and patients. This is why it was great to see LG coming together with Imprivata to create a simple, secure solution that satisfied the CISOs needs and desires along with a simple workflow that doesn’t impact clinicians and pat

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TytoCare Updates Home Smart Clinic Platform with New Features

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – TytoCare, a virtual care company enabling accessible, high-quality primary care from home, has released a major software update for its Home Smart Clinic. – The update includes a number of new features that are designed to make high-quality healthcare more accessible at scale for payers, providers, and patients. TytoCare Home Smart Clinic Update: Enhancing Virtual Healthcare Accessibility and Efficiency The recent update to TytoCare’s Home Smart Clinic introdu

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Appeals court upholds ruling barring former Express Scripts chief from joining CVS

Fierce Healthcare

A federal appeals court has upheld an injunction preventing the former head of Express Scripts from taking an executive role at CVS Health. | A federal appeals court has upheld an injunction preventing the former head of Express Scripts from taking an executive role at CVS Health.

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Optimizing Medical Waste Management: A Guide to Best Practices

Feeling overwhelmed by medical waste regulations? This comprehensive guide unravels the complexities of medical waste disposal, ensuring you stay compliant and prioritize safety. Inside you'll find: Clear categorization: Learn to precisely classify medical waste for proper handling and disposal. Labeling & Storage: Discover best practices for clear labeling and secure storage of medical waste.

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Tenet, HCA shareholders reject calls to report risks from providing abortion services

Healthcare Dive

It's the second time shareholders have blanched at additional reporting of abortion risks, despite ambiguity about providers’ legal requirements for providing care.

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Patients are bullish on the benefits of genAI, but still have qualms

Healthcare It News

U.S. consumers remain optimistic about the potential of generative artificial intelligence to address healthcare access and affordability challenges, the new 2024 Deloitte Center for Health Solutions consumer survey shows. But they still have some misgivings about AI tools. WHY IT MATTERS Despite a general sense of optimism, the public's use of genAI tools for health-related reasons has dipped a bit since the initial rush of interest that showed in the previous year's Deloitte study &nda

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This Week’s Health IT Jobs – June 5, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

It can be very overwhelming scrolling though job board after job board in search of a position that fits your wants and needs. Let us take that stress away by finding a mix of great health IT jobs for you! We hope you enjoy this look at some of the health IT jobs we saw healthcare organizations trying to fill this week. Here’s a quick look at some of the health IT jobs we found: Technical Support Analyst – Database Performance – Oracle Oracle Fusion SCM – TrovaSemi Techno

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Critical incident at Synnovis disrupts pathology services across SE London

Digital Health News

Breaking news: A critical incident at Synnovis has disrupted services at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS FT and King’s College Hospital NHS FT.

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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Coverage pathways for psychedelic therapies

Fierce Healthcare

This week on "Podnosis," we explore therapeutic psychedelics. | This week on "Podnosis," we explore therapeutic psychedelics. Noah Tong from Fierce Healthcare sat down with Kim Chew, Senior Counsel at Husch Blackwell, to discuss the accessibility challenges in this promising but complex space.

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Why the healthcare industry needs a comprehensive cloud security platform

Healthcare Dive

Healthcare's cloud adoption increases cyber threats, with 633 breaches in a year. Invest in CNAPPs for comprehensive protection of sensitive data and compliance.

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Drive efficiencies and improve patient experiences with AI

Healthcare It News

Sponsor: ServiceNow Primary topic: Artificial Intelligence Topic: Artificial Intelligence Clinical Patient Engagement Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Sponsor: ServiceNow Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: Drive efficiencies and improve patient experiences with AI Region Tag: Global Edition Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Assistive Devices and Technologies for Traumatic Brain Injury Victims

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Life after a traumatic brain injury can be challenging. It can result in severe cognitive and physical limitations. While it’s possible to recover, you may experience sensory issues, cognitive impairment, and other challenges. Traumatic brain […] The article Assistive Devices and Technologies for Traumatic Brain Injury Victims appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Everything You Wanted to Know About FACIS, but Didn’t Know to Ask

Speaker: Amy Anderson

FACIS® helps organizations mitigate patient and organizational risk. Maintaining compliance and safeguarding against fraud and abuse in today’s changing healthcare landscape can be challenging. Most healthcare organizations screen and monitor providers against the OIG but that’s only ONE of FACIS®’ primary sources. FACIS® pulls data for every taxonomy from the lowest level employee to the highest level licensed professional.

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New Portable MRI Revolutionizing Brain Research Demands Ethical and Legal Innovation

Bill of Health

by Francis X Chen, Susan M. Wolf, and Frances Lawrenz The advent of highly portable MRI will transform brain research, but urgently requires ethical and legal guidance. Rather than participants traveling to the MRI scanner, now the scanner can travel to them. This advance could enable research with remote and marginalized communities that have not previously been able to participate, and in doing so address the lack of representativeness and diversity in human neuroscience research.

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Blue KC exiting Medicare Advantage market by 2025 due to 'regulatory demands'

Fierce Healthcare

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City is leaving the Medicare Advantage (MA) market at the end of 2024, the insurer announced recently. | Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City is opting out of the Medicare Advantage market. The health plan said its relatively low membership and burdensome regulatory factors meant the company no longer view the market as financially viable.

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Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine’s outgoing CEO on how technology aids student learning

Healthcare Dive

Before his job as CEO ends this summer, Healthcare Dive spoke with Mark Schuster about the new medical school and how immersive technologies can aid instruction.

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Real-time messaging brings patients’ distant loved ones closer

Healthcare It News

Bethany Children’s Health Center offers inpatient and outpatient services for children aged 0-21 and is the only inpatient pediatric rehabilitation facility in Oklahoma. Many of its patients have families who live far away and can’t visit regularly. Join Amy Gower, parent and family engagement communication specialist at Bethany Children’s Health Center, and TigerConnect CMIO Dr.

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Ensure Continuous Patient Care: How to Avoid Disruptions Due to Ransomware

The industry has seen an increasing pace of ransomware, zero-day, and remote-code execution attacks. Learn how to defend against these against these attacks in this eBook.

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CIO Podcast – Episode 75: AI Benefits with Bill Hudson

Healthcare IT Today

For the 75th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Bill Hudson, Chief Digital Strategist at Aidoc and former CIO at INTEGRIS Health and John Muir Health to talk AI! We kick this episode off by discussing the motivation behind his transition from his role as CIO to the vendor side. Then we talk about where we think AI will offer operational benefits to organizations.

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Clinical Study Shows VR Treats Pain Consistently Across Sociodemographic Categories

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – AppliedVR , an immersive therapeutics (ITx) pioneer advancing a novel, virtual reality-based approach to medicine, today announced results from a secondary analysis of a large randomized controlled trial (RCT) that evaluated whether socio-demographic factors affected the clinical effectiveness of receiving a virtual reality (VR) therapy that treats chronic low back pain (cLBP) at home. – Researchers sought to determine whether there were differences among key

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Judge denies FTC's preliminary bid to block Novant, CHS' $320M hospital deal

Fierce Healthcare

Novant Health and Community Health Systems (CHS) will be permitted to consummate their contested $320 million hospital deal, though the pair still face some regulatory uncertainty following the dea | U.S. District Judge Kenneth Bell wrote that the two-hospital transaction has "at least as much likelihood of competitive benefits as it does competitive harm.

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Compliantly supercharge your hospital’s bottom line

Healthcare Dive

Transforming your hospital's Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) program from a cost center to a strategic center can enhance financial performance, mitigate risks and improve overall quality of care.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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DirectTrust partners with DTA on new accreditation program

Healthcare It News

DirectTrust and the Digital Therapeutics Alliance announced this week that they'll work together on an accreditation program designed to test the efficacy and security of digital therapeutic apps and platforms. WHY IT MATTERS Together, two groups will partner up to establish an assessment regimen that will build on existing DirectTrust programs that provide independent assessment of health apps for safety and transparency, privacy protections, compliance with interoperability regs and best p

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Kentucky Enacts New Consumer Data Privacy Act

Wyatt Law Blog

On April 4, 2024, Kentucky became the 15th state to enact a comprehensive consumer data privacy law. The Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act (“KCDPA”) will become effective on January 1, 2026. The KCDPA creates rights for Kentucky consumers and imposes requirements on certain businesses that collect consumer data.

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Meta Llama 3 on NVIDIA Boosts Healthcare Innovation with Open-Source AI

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Meta’s open-source large language model, Meta Llama 3, is making significant waves in the healthcare and life sciences sectors. This cutting-edge technology, trained and optimized using NVIDIA’s accelerated computing, is empowering researchers, developers, and companies to create innovative applications aimed at improving patient lives. – With Meta Llama 3’s open-source accessibility and NVIDIA’s powerful computing platform, the possibi

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