Healthcare Dive

MARCH 13, 2023

Over the next 12 months in healthcare, we expect AI technology will help organizations withstand increasing pressures and improve their confidence.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 15, 2023

By Sarah Gabriele Doctors are now using social media platforms to spread medical knowledge and to interact with the communities that they are actively building. This trend poses new ethical questions for physicians who want to create and engage with their communities on social media. A recent survey showed that almost 1 in 5 Americans now turn to TikTok before their doctor for health advice.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 20, 2023

By Matthew Chun In recent months, generative artificial intelligence (AI) has taken the world by storm. AI systems like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion have captured the imagination of the masses with their impressive and sometimes controversial ability to generate human-like text and artwork. However, it may come as a surprise to some that — in addition to writing Twitter threads and dating app messages — AI is also well underway in revolutionizing the discovery of life-saving drugs.

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 1, 2023

The ecommerce giant's $3.9 billion buy of primary care company One Medical closed last week without a challenge from the FTC, even as consumer protection groups and regulators aired worries about the tie-up.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 27, 2023

By Jennifer S. Bard The White House is preparing to shut down their COVID Task Force this May, in conjunction with ending the public health emergency — the latest in a series of astounding and shortsighted decisions that put individual Americans at as great a risk from serious harm as a result of catching COVID-19 as at any stage in the pandemic. By declaring the pandemic over by fiat, the government is giving up the fight when they should be redoubling their efforts.

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 20, 2023

Discover how telehealth is revolutionizing veteran healthcare, providing high-quality care regardless of location with essential use cases like video consultations, remote monitoring and telestroke.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 20, 2023

The COVID-19 public health emergency may be coming to an end in May. The boost the pandemic gave telemedicine into the mainstream cannot be understated. But what's next for virtual care? And what about the blossoming trend of virtual-first hybrid care? Healthcare IT News sat down with Sean Mehra, CEO and cofounder of HealthTap, a virtual-first urgent care and primary care clinic.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 1, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Healthcare Data Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York. Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collabor

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Natalia Mazina

MARCH 19, 2023

The California Court of Appeal, First Appellate District has just affirmed the holding of a trial court that Optum’s arbitration clause in its manual is unconscionable and unenforceable. I have previously covered this case here. But in a nutshell, a group of California pharmacies brought a case against Optum alleging misrepresentation, fraud, and breach of contract.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 17, 2023

Fertility care is expensive and often hard to access. OCA Ventures' Dana Sun and Ellen Bursey explain the digital health landscape and offer advice for investors and founders in the space.

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 30, 2023

The bill mirrors California’s nurse staffing law which took effect in 2004 and outlines exactly how many patients a nurse in specific hospital units can care for at one time.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 31, 2023

Virtua Health, the largest health system in South New Jersey, saw an uptick in virtual care appointments and digital communications during the pandemic as patients sought care at home. With this shift in patient engagement, many health systems, including Virtua, saw an incredible influx of messages to the care team. THE PROBLEM The increase in patient interactions created additional friction in clinical workflows that weren’t optimized to deal with the volume, said Dr.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 31, 2023

The reason the HIPAA retention requirements needs clarifying is that the distinction between HIPAA medical records retention and HIPAA record retention can be confusing. This article aims to clarify what records should be retained under HIPAA compliance rules, and what other data retention requirements Covered Entities and Business Associates may have to consider.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 1, 2023

The following is a guest article by Josh Miller, Co-Founder & CEO at Gradient Health. As a global society, we have never spent more on healthcare. We have never been more informed. We’ve never been more advanced. Yet there is a great divide between what we have accomplished scientifically, and what patients actually get access to. This is not something spoken about a lot, because the focus is of course on developing life-saving medical devices and diagnostics.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 21, 2023

Cleveland Clinic, IBM unveil first quantum computer dedicated to biomedical research hlandi Tue, 03/21/2023 - 11:49

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 23, 2023

A study published in The New England Journal of Medicine found a closed-loop control system kept children's glucose levels in the target range longer than standard care.

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 30, 2023

Provider groups applauded the move, but said they’d need to see how the requirements are rolled back before passing judgment on whether the step would ease documentation burdens on physicians.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 29, 2023

Dr. Shelly Nash will offer more details during the HIMSS23 session "Creating Technology to Empower Patients and the Home Dialysis Experience." It is scheduled for Wednesday, April 19, at 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. CT at the South Building, Level 4, room S406 A.

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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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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 24, 2023

Ransomware activity increased in February according to the latest GRIT Ransomware Report from GuidePoint Security. The report is based on data collected by the GuidePoint Research and Intelligence Team, which reports a 51.5% increase in attacks compared to January and a 15.8% increase in attacks compared to February 2022. The LockBit 3.0 ransomware group was particularly active in February, posting more than twice the number of victims (129) on its leak site as January (50), accounting for virtu

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 16, 2023

The following is a guest article by Dmitrii Evstiukhin , Director of Managed Services at Provectus In today’s world, personalized and efficient digital interactions are expected, especially in the healthcare industry. To meet those demands, organizations should prioritize the creation of convenient digital-first environments that satisfy all parties involved in providing health care services.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 23, 2023

Taxpayers shouldn't foot the bill for health systems' massive 2022 investment losses, health economists say dmuoio Thu, 03/23/2023 - 17:25

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 31, 2023

Bill Taranto, president of Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, discusses the current funding environment and how digital health companies can ensure investment in the year ahead.

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 31, 2023

The service is made possible through integrating Uber Health’s dashboard with ScriptDrop, a tech platform Uber first partnered with in 2021 for prescription delivery.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 2, 2023

Sun Pharma probes cyber breach Indian pharma giant Sun Pharmaceutical Industries has reported an "information security incident," according to PTI. The news report noted that the company has already reported the incident to the authorities and has since isolated its affected IT assets. Presently, the company is investigating the matter while taking appropriate containment and remediation actions in a "controlled" manner to address the apparent cyber attack.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 3, 2023

Losses to phishing attacks increased by 76% last year, with almost one-third of companies losing money to successful phishing attacks according to Proofpoint’s recently published 2023 State of the Phish Report. In 2022, more than 4 out of 5 surveyed organizations experienced at least one successful phishing attack, with more than half of those organizations experiencing at least three successful phishing attacks.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 8, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Senior Epic Application Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic and is located in Toppenish, Washington. Here’s a description of the position: YVFWC has a compulsory vaccination policy including the Covid-19 primary series, the organization does not mandate the Covid-19 booster although i

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 3, 2023

Walgreens won't sell abortion pills in GOP states after legal threats from state officials agliadkovskaya Fri, 03/03/2023 - 17:18

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 20, 2023

Ida Tin, cofounder and chairwoman at Clue, explains how she sees the fall of Silicon Valley Bank affecting femtech investments and how the sector could progress fruitfully.

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 30, 2023

Although telehealth use declined overall compared to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual visits still comprised the highest percentage of medical claim lines in 2021.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

MARCH 24, 2023

Nearly half of U.S. residents are enrolled in employer-sponsored health insurance. Many of these plans use third-party administrators (TPAs), intermediaries—frequently insurance companies themselves—that help build provider networks, design benefit packages, and adjudicate claims, among other responsibilities. But a TPA’s interests may not align with those of their employer clients.

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