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Amazon will see you now: reading between the lines of the One Medical acquisition

Healthcare Dive

The deal’s near-term ramifications are unlikely to be monumental. But what it represents should be concerning for One Medical’s primary care competitors and larger entities looking to capture a greater slice of the healthcare market.

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PatientBond, Vizient team up for digital behavior change tools

Healthcare It News

Patient engagement SaaS provider PatientBond and healthcare performance improvement and analytics company Vizient are partnering up to provide Vizient member healthcare organizations with digital patient engagement and behavior change programs. WHY IT MATTERS. PatientBond's digital engagement workflows can be personalized with psychographic insights, with the aim of activating patient behaviors and driving improved patient engagement and outcomes.

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One Medical Acquisition: The Path Forward

Bill of Health

This piece has been adapted slightly from its original form, which was published at On the Flying Bridge on July 24, 2022. By Michael Greeley. Last week’s $3.9 billion acquisition of One Medical (NASDAQ: ONEM) by Amazon triggered significant hyperventilating about the transformative and immediate impact of this transaction on the health care industry.

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The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 2 of 5 – Amazon and One Medical

Health Populi

Today we review the various viewpoints on Amazon’s announced acquisition of One Medical (ONEM, aka 1life Healthcare) which has been a huge story in both health care trade publications, business news, and mainstream media outlets. Welcome to Day 2 of The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S., my week-long update of the American retail health/care ecosystem weaving the latest updates from the market and implications and import for health care consumers.

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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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CVS names first chief psychiatric officer

Healthcare Dive

Taft Parsons, who previously worked for Molina Healthcare and Henry Ford Health System, will be tasked with focusing on mental well-being for patients and leading the Aetna Medical Affairs Behavioral Health organization.

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Roundup: New partnerships for Allscripts, athenahealth and Oracle Cerner

Healthcare It News

Several new partnerships were announced this week between legacy electronic health record vendors and smaller tech firms offering services and capabilities across a variety of clinical and operational use cases. Allscripts approves third-party referral automation platform for EHR. Allscripts has approved a third-party integration with a patient-provider match tool, ReferralPoint, for use with the Allscripts Professional EHR and Allscripts Practice Management platforms.

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Ransomware Attacks Drop by 23% Globally but Increase by 328% in Healthcare

HIPAA Journal

SonicWall has released a mid-year update to its 2022 Cyber Threat Report , which highlights the global cyberattack trends in H1 2022. The data for the report was collected from more than 1.1 million global sensors in 215 countries and shows a global fall in ransomware attacks, with notable increases in malware attacks for the first time in 3 years. Ransomware.

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Humana to reorganize, launches executive search

Healthcare Dive

The move will slim the organization down into separate units it will call Insurance Services and CenterWell, building on the payer’s recent acquisition of Kindred amid the push for care at home.

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A Texas-based health system leveraged Innovaccer’s PRM solution to deliver personalized and unified patient journey

Healthcare It News

Sponsor: Innovaccer Primary topic: Patient Engagement Topic: Cloud Computing Patient Engagement Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Sponsor: Innovaccer.

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ATA cheers prospective telehealth extensions, but calls for more

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The American Telemedicine Association and its ATA Action affiliate on Monday expressed support for a bipartisan bill that would extend the virtual care flexibilities of the public health emergency another two years. They also called for the legislation to safeguard two other provisions they said were key to health equity. WHY IT MATTERS. Sponsored by U.S.

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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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The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 1 of 5

Health Populi

I’ve returned to the U.S. for a couple of months, having lived in and worked from Brussels, Belgium, since October 2021 (save for about ten days in March 2022). Work and life slow down in Europe in July and August, giving us the opportunity to return to our U.S. home base, reunite with friends and family, and re-join life and living this side of the Atlantic.

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Teladoc names ex-Providence executive as new COO, filling vacancy

Healthcare Dive

The chief operating officer role has been empty since David Sides departed Teladoc in September to become the chief executive of an ambulatory technology company.

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Northern Adelaide Local Health Network sets up digital prenatal care platform

Healthcare It News

The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network has digitised its delivery of prenatal care to reduce the administrative burden on its midwives while enabling personalised support to pregnant women. Pregnancy Online Platform NALHN (POPN) was developed in partnership with Personify Care, which has powered the system with digital pathways that deliver information specific to a woman's stage of pregnancy.

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HC3 Warns of Risk of Web Application Attacks on Healthcare Organizations

HIPAA Journal

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) has issued guidance to help healthcare organizations protect against web application attacks. Web applications have grown in popularity in healthcare in recent years and are used for patient portals, electronic medical record systems, scheduling appointments, accessing test results, patient monitoring, online pharmacies, dental CAD systems, inventory management, and more.

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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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Caption Health partners with Heartbeat Health for remote cardiac care

Mobi Health News

Clinicians will use Caption's AI-enabled guidance software to perform ultrasounds, even in patients' homes. Heartbeat's virtual cardiologists will receive and interpret the results remotely.

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OIG warns of telehealth fraud risks in wake of DOJ crackdown

Healthcare Dive

The special alert to healthcare providers describes how fraudsters recruit and reward practitioners in schemes to exploit the growth of telemedicine.

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UT Austin, MITRE team up on ethical AI initiative

Healthcare It News

The University of Texas at Austin is working with the MITRE Corporation on a new partnership to develop more innovative and ethical artificial intelligence research. WHY IT MATTERS. The project is focused on work already underway by interdisciplinary teams of researchers working as part of UT Austin's Good Systems research grand challenge. Officials say MITRE's investment of $1 million in support of Good Systems will help expand its team expertise and support a greater number of faculty

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IBM: Average Cost of a Healthcare Data Breach Reaches Record High of $10.1 Million

HIPAA Journal

The average cost of a healthcare data breach has reached double digits for the first time ever, according to the 2022 Cost of a Data Breach Report from IBM Security. The average cost of a healthcare data breach jumped almost $1 million to a record high of $10.1 million, which is 9.4% more than in 2021 and 41.6% more than in 2020. Across all industry sectors, the average cost of a data breach was up 2.6% year over year at $4.35 million, which is the highest average cost in the 17 years that IBM h

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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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Q&A: Why mental health chatbots need strict safety guardrails

Mobi Health News

Ramakant Vempati, Wysa cofounder and president, discusses how the startup tests its AI-backed chatbot to monitor safety and quality.

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Elevance ups bet on post-acute focus

Healthcare Dive

The payer, formerly known as Anthem, is leveraging its recent acquisition of myNexus to scale a new post-acute product to all of its Medicare markets, executives said last week.

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Vulnerabilities in health data privacy causing tension among patients

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Prior Authorization – Boon or Bane? Federal and State Policymakers Seek Reforms to Insurers’ Utilization Management Practices

Center for Health Insurance Reform

Utilization management is one tool that insurers can use to help keep premiums in check, but it comes with significant tradeoffs for patients. CHIR's Megan Houston considers the history and current landscape of utilization management tools, what they are used for and what policymakers are doing to keep them in check. Continue reading → The post Prior Authorization – Boon or Bane?

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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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Included Health, Pear Therapeutics announce layoffs

Mobi Health News

Virtual care company Included Health said it reduced its headcount by less than 6%, while prescription digital therapeutics maker Pear Therapeutics laid off about 9% of its full-time workforce.

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Ochsner piloting program to hire Ukrainian nurses

Healthcare Dive

The system will offer eight nurses employment and assist them and their families in getting acclimated to their new communities. Nurses will be committed to their roles for at least two years.

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White House Pushes OSHA Heat Illness Prevention Initiative

OSHA Law Blog

As thermometers hit their peak, the White House is touting the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) heat illness prevention efforts to “protect millions of workers from heat illness and injury.”. To read this article in its entirety, please click here.

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What Technology Will Be Available in the Healthcare Facility of the Future?

Healthcare IT Today

Yesterday we looked at what the healthcare facility of the future will look like. As we continue our look at healthcare facilities and what changes we’ll see, today we’re going to look at what technology the Healthcare IT Today community thinks will be needed and included in a healthcare facility. Here’s a look at a few of the ideas they shared.

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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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Ultrasound devicemaker Exo acquires AI developer Medo

Mobi Health News

Exo said integrating Medo's AI tools into its platform will let healthcare workers with less ultrasound expertise capture and interpret images.

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Healthcare remains costliest industry for data breaches

Healthcare Dive

The cost of the average breach for healthcare increased by $1 million to $10.1 million. That's up more than 40% since the 2020 report by Ponemon and IBM Security.

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Tenet Healthcare Cyberattack Had a $100 Million Unfavorable Impact

HIPAA Journal

A cyberattack and data breach cost Tenet Healthcare $100 million in lost revenue and mitigation costs in Q2, 2022. Dallas, TX-based Tenet Healthcare is one of the largest healthcare providers in the United States, running 65 hospitals and more than 450 healthcare facilities across the United States through its brands and subsidiaries. In April 2022, Tenet experienced a cyberattack that caused major disruption to its IT systems and acute care operations for several weeks.

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A Look Back at 12 Years of #HITsm Chats – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 7/29 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by John Lynn ( @techguy ) on the topic “A Look Back at 12 Years of #HITsm Chats. ”. Hard to believe it’s been nearly 12 years since the #HITsm Twitter chats were started. Almost 6 years ago, we took over the #HITsm chat from the Health Standards blog (which ironically is now gone) and Corepoint (which was acquired by Lyniate).

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Generative AI for Contracts Is Here: New Tools to Accelerate Drafting and Editing

The emergence of generative AI is reshaping the landscape of contract management, enabling businesses to generate and negotiate legal agreements with greater ease and speed. In this on-demand webinar, Hal Marcus, VP of Product Marketing at Evisort discusses how Evisort's generative AI transforms contract creation and negotiation, empowering legal teams to streamline processes while reducing risk.