Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Value-based care is emerging in the healthcare ecosystem, largely due to its ability to offer benefits for everyone from patients to physicians to payers. With the power of data and analytics, users can track and improve patient outcomes and control healthcare costs while delivering better quality of care. Patient 360 can provide an optimal experience to patients and healthcare providers with first-rate payment integrity.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Trade association AHIP said it was “concerned with the potential adverse impact of the rate notice,” especially in light of other recent regulation seeking to claw back overpayments to MA payers.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Infectious disease doc Verrall named Health Minister A parliament shakeup led by New Zealand's new Prime Minister Chris Hipkins saw Ayesha Verrall taking over health from Andrew Little, who is now handling defence. An infectious disease physician, Dr Ayesha Verrall became an MP in 2020 and since then, she has held the roles of associate Health Minister and Minister for Covid-19 Response.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

About 30% of patients selected a new provider in 2021, up from 26% in 2017, according to a new report from Accenture. Gen Zers and millennials were six times more likely to switch providers than older people.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The Northern Queensland Primary Health Network is deploying a shared care platform to GPs in North Queensland. The care planning platform, INCA, developed by the health IT company Precedence Health Care, enables health professionals to manage patient health data, create and monitor care plans, and share information digitally. This system allows the creation of Medicare-compliant GP management plans and team care arrangements, which can be automatically shared with the care team.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Virtual nursing is gaining significant momentum as an effective way to redesign and redistribute nursing workload. Virtual models decrease the burden on nurses delivering direct bedside patient care and leverages nurses that want to continue practicing but may not be able to practice at the bedside by extending their nursing careers. THE PROBLEM "The flexibility and various practice areas and models of care may appeal to nurses considering leaving the profession and who may not be able to w

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Electronic Health Reporter

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Dr. Harietta Eleftherochorinou, vice president 0f innovation ventures, IQVIA. Patients, health systems and CROs are embracing digital health, as indicated by the number of digital health apps, digital diagnostics, digital biomarkers, digital therapeutics and […] The article Digital Health Innovation: The True, Quantifiable Impact On The Industry and Patients appeared first on electroniche

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

If you work with devices in healthcare, then you’re likely familiar with Zebra and their line of mobile computing devices. For a number of years, Zebra has had one of the most healthcare focused handheld mobile computing devices the size of a cell phone on the market. They were more rugged than your traditional cell phone and had enterprise features that made IT administrators lives easier.

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85% of practices are not complying with the government’s HIPAA standards. The large majority of practices are likely trying to protect patients’ information, but they may not be doing all that they need to meet government requirements. Not complying with HIPAA has definite drawbacks, with one major one being massive fines. The government can fine up to 1.5 million dollars for a single HIPAA breach incident - an amount that would put most small practices out of business.

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Electronic Health Reporter

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Inovalon, a leading provider of cloud-based software solutions empowering data-driven healthcare, today announced the addition of its EASE All-Payer claims management solution to the PointClickCare Marketplace. Building on a five-year partnership, Inovalon’s newest listing on the Marketplace […] The article Inovalon Adds All-Payer Claims Management Software To The PointClickCare Market

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission’s Health Breach Notification Rule requires vendors of personal health records and related entities to issue notifications to consumers in the event of a breach of unsecured personal records. The rule took effect in 2009, yet compliance has not been enforced. That has now changed. Yesterday, the FTC issued its first penalty for noncompliance with the Health Breach Notification Rule to the prescription drug provider, GoodRx Holdings Inc, which has been ordered to pay a

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Electronic Health Reporter

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Paul Schuhmacher, managing director in the healthcare practice, AArete. At the onset of COVID-19, public health emergency (PHE) declarations rapidly transformed the healthcare industry and insurance landscape. In the first few months alone, an […] The article The Looming End of A Long Redetermination Pause Calls For A Cleareyed Strategy appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The company is seeing a ten-fold increase in demand quarterly and this strategic investment will allow them to grow their capacity, increase headcount, further improve services and expand to new markets Deciphex , a leading provider of pathology software and services, announced today a further €3.9m in funding bringing its full Series B round tally to €14.4m.

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Speaker: Mallory Herrin, CEO & Principal HR Consultant at HerrinHR

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Electronic Health Reporter

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Oxygen therapy, or the administration of medical oxygen, has increasingly been used to treat various medical conditions, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cancer, and cystic fibrosis. Oxygen therapy is ideal for most patients who […] The article Oxygen Therapy Trend and Outlook for 2023 appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Health Law Advisor

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

On February 1, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule outlining its audit methodology and related policies for its Medicare Advantage (MA) Risk Adjustment Data Validation (RADV) program. The final rule codifies long-awaited regulations first proposed by CMS in 2018. As stated in the final rule, CMS intends to extrapolate RADV audit findings beginning with payment year (PY) 2018 but will not extrapolate RADV audit findings retroactively for PYs 2011–20

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

What You Should Know: – Hurdle , a diagnostics-as-a-service company launches an at-home Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) Test that enables adult consumers to take a simple at-home blood sample to screen and monitor for diabetes. – Developed by leading scientists, Hurdle’s testing technology offers leading accuracy and reliability and operates in partnership with labs that hold themselves to the highest testing standards.

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Health Care Law Brief

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

After multiple extensions over the past three years, on Monday, January 30, 2023, President Biden announced that the COVID-19 national emergency and public health emergency (“ PHE ”) will officially end on May 11, 2023. However, with less than four months until that date, providers must quickly review their operations and ensure their continued compliance with billing requirement changes that will result from the PHE’s expiration.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2023

What You Should Know: – Today, Wildflower Health and the Healthcare Transformation Consortium (HTC), a collaborative of independent health systems in New Jersey, announced a new partnership to launch a value-based maternity care initiative. The collaborative, which is powered by Wildflower Health, aims to serve as a national blueprint for approaches to closing maternal care gaps and improving equity. – As part of this initiative, Wildflower and HTC will also be working closely with O

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In late January, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) at the U.S. Department of Labor published new enforcement guidance which will see the agency adopt a much more aggressive stance on serious violations of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act) in an effort to improve OSH Act compliance. OSHA will be stepping up its enforcement activities and will be issuing more civil monetary penalties to employers that fail to ensure a safe working environment for their em

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

During a panel discussion at Digital Frontiers in Public Health, panelists discussed how the public and private sectors can work together to share data and improve public health.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

White House unveils CancerX innovation accelerator, new funding for cancer screenings on Moonshot anniversary hlandi Thu, 02/02/2023 - 16:20

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Respiratory health monitoring company Aluna raised $15.3 million, and virtual applied behavior analysis therapy provider AnswersNow scooped up $11 million.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Payers, providers clash over scope of CMS review of ACA's essential health benefits rking Thu, 02/02/2023 - 17:40

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

It extracts quantitative data for clinical decision-making from analysing videos of patient's movements.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Patients overestimate how well they recall diagnoses, care after discharge: study dmuoio Thu, 02/02/2023 - 16:44

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Speaker: Cory Jorbin - Chief Compliance Officer, West Region with Hub International

Let's face it: this is a candidate's world and HR is working hard to keep up! From workplace perks and culture to benefits that support their lives outside the office, recruits and talented employees are diligently evaluating the criteria for the jobs they want. While competitive pay and DEIB initiatives will attract candidates, a strong DEIB strategy must also pay attention to what helps retain talented workers: an equitable benefits package.

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