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Digital health funding holds steady in Q1 after year of decline

Healthcare Dive

The digital health sector defied trends seen in the larger venture capital environment, where funding continues to fall. But digital health investment is still at its lowest level seen in years.

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Does Your Team Have These Modern Skills to Protect Healthcare Data?

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Ameesh Divatia, Co-Founder and CEO at Baffle Healthcare organizations were early adopters for protecting data in the modern environment — from stringent compliance regulations to the need to share health records between offices securely. However, protecting patient data has grown more complex in recent years with the influx of new regulations, cloud computing and myriad other factors.

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Leveraging Mobile Technology in Clinical Trials

HealthIT Answers

By Scott Gray - Digital transformation within the healthcare industry has expanded rapidly throughout the past decade. The adoption of novel technologies has allowed providers to improve their internal processes, deliver more efficient care, and better meet the needs of patients in crisis. The post Leveraging Mobile Technology in Clinical Trials appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Health equity efforts get a boost from digital therapeutics

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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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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April 2023 Healthcare Data Breach Report

HIPAA Journal

There was a 17.5% month-over-month fall in the number of reported healthcare data breaches with 52 breaches of 500 or more records reported to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) – less than the 12-month average of 58 breaches per month, and one less than in April 2022. One of the largest healthcare data breaches of the year was reported in April, but there was still a significant month-over-month reduction in breached records, which fell by 30.7% to 4,425,891 records.

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Just Get Connected Already

Healthcare IT Today

When my optometrist notices an odd lesion on one of my eyes, we agreed we should let my PCP know. The optometrist printed his report that I would bring to my next PCP exam, because otherwise my optometrist had no reliable way to transfer the data. This is the burden still faced by three quarters of U.S. clinicians, as estimated by Paul L Wilder, Executive Director of the CommonWell Health Alliance.

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How Urgent Care Can Address its Degrading Scope of Practice

HIT Consultant

Monte Sandler, COO of Experity Over the past several years, urgent care centers nationwide have opened their doors to millions of patients in need of COVID-19 testing and treatment, driving an increase in daily patient visit volumes and new, challenging patient care demands. To accommodate this rapid influx, urgent care centers developed new workflows that prioritized efficiency and transitioned to a reimbursement model that rewards providers for the number of patients treated per day.

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CMS rule would mandate greater transparency on drug prices

Modern Healthcare

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposes requiring pharmacy benefit managers to disclose drug prices under Medicaid.

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Amazon’s PillPack reports data breach affecting more than 19,000

Healthcare Dive

The online pharmacy said the attack exposed customers’ email addresses, prescription information and contact details for their prescribing provider. Around 3,600 affected accounts included prescription information.

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RPM brings 30-day mortality rate to almost zero for heart bypass procedure

Healthcare It News

In the past at Atrium Health's Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute, as in many other hospitals, postoperative cardiac patients were discharged with a vague understanding of what recovery entails. Uncertainty can lead to preventable poor outcomes and readmissions for issues that could have been managed in the outpatient setting. THE PROBLEM Anxiety is common in patients preparing for cardiac surgery.

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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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Monthly Round-Up of What to Read on Pharma Law and Policy 

Bill of Health

By  Ameet Sarpatwari , Aviva Wang , and   Aaron S. Kesselheim Each month, members of the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) review the peer-reviewed medical literature to identify interesting empirical studies, policy analyses, and editorials on health law and policy issues. Below are the citations for papers identified from the month of April.

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Innovation in Payer and Provider Data Exchange: On-Air Insights

MRO Compliance

Innovation in Payer and Provider Data Exchange: On-Air Insights I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Beth Friedman, Senior Partner at FINN Partners, as a guest on the FINN Voices show on Healthcare NOW Radio. The topic was innovation in payer and provider data exchange. As we talked about the challenges between payers and providers, one ray of hope emerged.

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CVS could lose up to $1B next year from MA star ratings drop

Healthcare Dive

Just 21% of CVS’ MA members are currently in plans with a star rating of at least four, down from 87% at the end of 2021, the payer disclosed.

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Roundup: Monash IVF begins digital transformation and more briefs

Healthcare It News

Monash IVF taps Personify Care for digital transformation ASX-listed fertility services provider Monash IVF Group has started embarking on its digital transformation by implementing a digital front door. It recently partnered with Personify Care to set up digital patient pathways which optimise the collection and sharing of critical information with patients throughout their treatment.

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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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A deep dive into PrimaryOne Health's virtual care journey

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

PrimaryOne Health is a federally qualified health center located in Central Ohio and is one of the largest FQHCs in the state. PrimaryOne Health provides comprehensive primary and preventive healthcare services in accordance with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Bureau of Primary Health Care Federally Qualified Health Center Program requirements for uninsured, underinsured and other medically underserved central Ohio residents.

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Addressing Food Insecurity with Electronic Health Records

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Baraka Floyd, MD, pediatrics physician at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health and Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford School of Medicine and Lindsay Stevens, MD, pediatrics physician at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health and Clinical Professor at […] The article Addressing Food Insecurity with Electronic Health Records appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Modernized, AI-enabled VoC to meet today’s CX

Healthcare Dive

Today’s optimized and AI-enabled VoC survey will meet the mark for improved member experience in two key areas across both commercial and Medicare member bases.

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Health equity can be improved with CDS

Healthcare It News

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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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Roundup: South Korea opens public medical data utilisation centres and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

South Korea designates 5 centres for public medical data analysis The South Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare has officially launched designated centres for safe medical data utilisation. The ministry has named five centres which have been equipped with physical, technical, and managerial security measures to allow the safe utilisation of public medical and clinical data for research purposes.

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The Growing Pet Economy – What It Means for Human Health, Well-Being, and Healthcare Costs

Health Populi

Our pets can be personal and family drivers of health and health care cost savings, according to a new study from according to a new report from researchers at George Mason University published in their paper, Health Care Cost Savings of Pet Ownership. Reviewing this new paper inspired me to explore the current state of the pet/health market and implications for their human families, my weaving of various stories explored in this Health Populi blog post.

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US projected to hit record-low uninsurance rate this year, before rates tick upward

Healthcare Dive

As federal aid expires, lower-income Americans — who saw the largest recent gains in uninsurance trends — will likely be affected the most, according to experts.

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Patients need more info, tools and support

Healthcare It News

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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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Telehealth helps reduce depression in youth, Texas consortium finds

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

More than 60% of children with major depression in the U.S. do not receive any treatment. In spring 2021, emergency department visits for suspected suicide attempts were nearly 51% higher for adolescent girls compared with the same time period in 2019. THE PROBLEM At the same time, there is a critical shortage of behavioral health specialists. By 2024, analysts expect the United States to be at a deficit of as many as 31,000 psychiatrists. 570 counties in the U.S. right now have no mental health

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CommonSpirit Health Says Ransomware Attack Likely to Cost $160 Million

HIPAA Journal

CommonSpirit Health has provided an updated estimate on the cost of its October 2022 ransomware attack, which is expected to increase to $160 million. The ransomware attack was detected by CommonSpirit Health on October 2, 2022, forcing systems to be taken offline. The attack affected over 100 current and former CommonSpirit facilities in 13 states.

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AHIP chief executive to step down in October

Healthcare Dive

Matt Eyles will depart after serving nearly five years as CEO of AHIP. The organization is launching a nationwide search for his replacement.

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Startup Florence acquires Zipnosis from Bright Health to build out telehealth services

Fierce Healthcare

Startup Florence acquires Zipnosis from Bright Health to build out telehealth services hlandi Wed, 05/24/2023 - 06:15

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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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The Oft Forgotten Benefits of Multi-Cloud in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

I remember the days when cloud was almost a dirty word in healthcare. Most healthcare CIOs probably saw the writing on the wall that cloud was the future, but there was a lot of fear going to the cloud. Now every healthcare organization is not just in the cloud but is multi-cloud. What’s interesting about healthcare’s move to the cloud is that we often forget the benefits of multi-cloud when it comes to things like patient outcomes and clinician experience.

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19,000 Amazon PillPack Customer Accounts Compromised

HIPAA Journal

The Amazon-owned online pharmacy, PillPack, has recently started notifying 19,000 customers that some of their protected health information was compromised in a cyberattack in April. Unauthorized customer account activity was detected by PillPack on April 3, 2023, and the investigation revealed customer accounts had been accessed by an unauthorized third party between April 2 and April 6, 2023.

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Pharma-backed report targets federal clinics for benefiting financially from 340B drug discounts

Healthcare Dive

Those grantees on average are reimbursed almost four times more for 340B prescription drugs than what they pay, and make billions in 340B drug margin, according to the report, which was funded by Gilead Sciences.

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Study: ChatGPT fails to pass American College of Gastroenterology tests

Mobi Health News

A study published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology found two versions of ChatGPT flunked tests gauged to determine if one would pass an actual board exam.

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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.