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.
Healthcare Dive
MARCH 15, 2023
Google also shared an a updated version of its medical artificial intelligence that can answer clinical questions at an “expert” level at its annual healthcare event on Tuesday.
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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 15, 2023
Researchers and healthcare technology innovators are using artificial intelligence in many ways to improve patient outcomes and experiences and healthcare delivery. TytoCare, Noze and Google, in partnership with Mayo Clinic, aim to tackle some of the challenges of speed to diagnosis and treatment with new AI-powered technologies. FDA clears AI-driven remote wheeze detection by TytoCare TytoCare, a virtual care company, announced today that it has received U.S Food and Drug Administration clearan
Healthcare Dive
MARCH 15, 2023
Sean Martin is stepping up as chief medical officer of the New York-based insurer, after Oscar’s old CMO left to become CMO of L.A. Care Health Plan in December.
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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 15, 2023
South Korea's Ministry of Health and Welfare has released its report on the conduct of temporary telemedicine during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. FINDINGS According to the report, over 25,000 medical institutions provided remote treatment to 13.79 million people from February 2020 to January 2023. Of the 36.61 million treatments administered via telehealth, most treatments (29.25 million) were home treatments for COVID-19 cases while about 1.36 million treatment cases were first-time
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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 15, 2023
Researchers and healthcare technology innovators are using artificial intelligence in many ways to improve patient outcomes and experiences and healthcare delivery. TytoCare, Noze and Google in partnership with Mayo Clinic aim to tackle some of the challenges of speed to diagnosis and treatment with new AI-powered technologies. FDA clears AI-driven remote wheeze detection by TytoCare TytoCare, a virtual care company, announced today that it has received U.S Food and Drug Administration clearance
Healthcare Dive
MARCH 15, 2023
The agency cited its need to take on bigger and more complex cases in areas like health privacy in its request on Tuesday for a $160 million funding boost.
HIPAA Journal
MARCH 15, 2023
Independent Living Systems, LLC (ILS), a Miami, FL-based provider of third-party administrative services to managed care organizations, has recently informed the Maine Attorney General that it suffered a data breach that has affected up to 4,226,508 individuals – the largest healthcare data breach to be reported so far this year. According to the breach notification, ILS identified suspicious activity within its computer systems on July 5, 2022.
Healthcare Dive
MARCH 15, 2023
The largest single year increase was in 2020, with the value of tax exemptions for nonprofits rising an estimated $4 billion the year the coronavirus pandemic began, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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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.
Electronic Health Reporter
MARCH 15, 2023
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. MDaudit, an award-winning provider of technologies and analytics tools that enable premier healthcare organizations to retain revenue and reduce risk, announced today the retirement of its long-time president and CEO, Peter J. Butler, effective Mar. […] The article MDaudit President and CEO Peter Butler To Retire appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
Healthcare Dive
MARCH 15, 2023
Under the Inflation Reduction Act, pharma companies owe rebates to Medicare for price increases they take that exceed inflation. But they won’t need to pay until 2025.
HIPAA Journal
MARCH 15, 2023
A lawsuit has been filed against Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) over its recent BlackCat ransomware attack. The attack saw files encrypted after data was exfiltrated as is typical in ransomware attacks; however, the attack stood out due to the aggressive move of the threat group to increase the pressure on LVHN to pay the ransom. Naked images of breast cancer patients were published on the group’s data leak site, along with medical questionnaires, passports, and other sensitive patient data
Kaiser Health News
MARCH 15, 2023
Jessica Layman estimates she has called more than 150 doctors in the past few years in her search for someone to prescribe opioids for her chronic pain. “A lot of them are straight-up insulting,” said the 40-year-old, who lives in Dallas. “They say things like ‘We don’t treat drug addicts.’” Layman has tried a host of non-opioid treatments to help with the intense daily pain caused by double scoliosis, a collapsed spinal disc, and facet joint arthritis.
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Healthcare IT Today
MARCH 15, 2023
The following is a guest article by Krishna Nacha, SVP and Head of North America and Latin America at Iron Mountain Discovering how best to use the vast amount of data your organization creates and collects is one of the key tenets of any organization’s strategy. Although the importance of effective use of data is now far better understood than ever before, centric to effectively converting data to actionable insights is an organization-wide information lifecycle management framework.
HIPAA Journal
MARCH 15, 2023
This month, the Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) Cybersecurity Working Group (CWG) published guidance to help healthcare delivery organizations effectively manage cyber risks associated with legacy technology. In healthcare, a great deal of attention has been focused on addressing cybersecurity risks associated with legacy medical devices, but they are not the only type of legacy technology in use in healthcare environments.
Healthcare IT Today
MARCH 15, 2023
Greenway Health’s Intergy Practice Management (PM) solution was recently ranked in the top five as a ‘ Best in KLAS ’ solution. This recognition was, in part, thanks to improvements that were made from direct user feedback. Greenway Health uses multiple channels to solicit feedback from users including advisory boards, town halls, round tables, and usability research.
HIPAA Journal
MARCH 15, 2023
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) has launched a new pilot program in response to the increase in ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure entities. The aim of the pilot program is to help critical infrastructure entities better protect their systems against ransomware attacks by fixing exploitable vulnerabilities in their Internet-facing systems.
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This report explores current issues in the behavioral health industry in 2023. Topics covered include quantitative statistics describing the overall increase in behavioral health issues, the impact of psychologist and staff burnout, how HIPAA compliance is once again at the top of our minds & much more!
Healthcare IT Today
MARCH 15, 2023
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Project Director, Healthcare Quality Measurement and Outcome position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Yale New Haven Health and is in Connecticut. Here’s a description of the position: Overview The Yale New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE) is a leading national outcomes research center dedica
Mobi Health News
MARCH 15, 2023
Fire1, a remote patient monitoring company for heart failure patients, and Protai, an AI-powered drug discovery platform, scored funding.
HIT Consultant
MARCH 15, 2023
Jeremy Bloom, CEO, NorthSight Recovery The United States only represents five percent of the world’s population; however, Americans consume 80 percent of the world’s opioids. 1 The U.S. is the world’s leader in the use of opioid medications to cope with physical and emotional difficulties. And the recent Walgreens and Wal-Mart multi-state opioid settlement agreement disclosures have only hammered home the point.
HealthIT Answers
MARCH 15, 2023
By Michael Armstrong - From patient communication to cancer detection, artificial intelligence’s role across healthcare is becoming increasingly more prominent. Although its implementation increases the effectiveness and efficiency of healthcare, AI also raises patient privacy concerns. The post The Ethical Implications of AI and Data in Healthcare appeared first on Health IT Answers.
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HIT Consultant
MARCH 15, 2023
What You Should Know: – OpenLoop , a leader in white-label telehealth support services powering virtual and hybrid care across the country, today announced it has raised a $15M Series A funding. – The round was led by Nava Ventures , with participation from new investors UnityPoint Health Ventures and PrimeTime Ventures , and existing investors SpringTide Ventures and ManchesterStory.
Fierce Healthcare
MARCH 15, 2023
With lower Medicare drug copays slated for April, Biden says US has 'finally won' a battle against pharma's 'exorbitant profits' dmuoio Wed, 03/15/2023 - 16:11
HIT Consultant
MARCH 15, 2023
What You Should Know: – Protai , a proteomics and AI-powered drug discovery startup revolutionizing the way new drugs are discovered, today announced a $12 million extension of its seed round, bringing the total amount to $20M. – The round includes existing investors Grove Ventures and Pitango Healthcare and was joined by Copenhagen-based Maj Invest Equity Fund.
Fierce Healthcare
MARCH 15, 2023
Biden's 'Cancer Moonshot' is already being fueled by tech addressing breast cancer aburky Wed, 03/15/2023 - 12:05
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