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Tax breaks exceed community care spending at large majority of nonprofit hospitals: report

Healthcare Dive

Nonprofits’ cumulative “fair share” deficit is enough to pay off the medical debt of everyone in California, Texas, New York and Pennsylvania combined, according to the Lown Institute.

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How HIMSS is advocating for global health equity and wider access to care

Healthcare It News

Among the top global policy issues at HIMSS24: AI regulation, patient access and equity. Tom Leary, SVP and head of government relations at HIMSS, explains how the organization advocates for health policies that support those goals.

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Keys to improving the patient experience, from the experts

Healthcare It News

Since the onset of the pandemic, patient experience scores from Press Ganey, a firm with more than 40 years of experience in patient experience, have taken a drastic dive – with much of the data pointing to staffing shortages and other challenges as key indicators of the decline in scores. However, since February 2023, the firm has observed a steady rise in patient experience scores – at the end of 2023 nearly reaching pre-pandemic levels.

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Revolutionizing Clinical Data Exchange: Healthcare Innovation 2024 Innovator Award Winner

MRO Compliance

In healthcare today, efficiency and accuracy are paramount. Now, more than ever, healthcare organizations are seeking innovative solutions to streamline processes and enhance collaboration among stakeholders. At the heart of MRO’s mission lies a commitment to optimizing the quality reporting process within healthcare systems. Recognizing the complexities and administrative burdens inherent in quality reporting, MRO has dedicated its efforts to developing cutting-edge solutions that simplify ever

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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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First 24/7 virtual emergency clinic in Australia's outback launched

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Not-for-profit aeromedical services provider Royal Flying Doctor Service has introduced what could be the first unmanned virtual medical emergency centre in Australia's outback. The new RFDS William Creek Community Health Service in the outback tourism town of William Creek in South Australia features a 24/7 virtual emergency centre with a telehealth unit that members of the community and tourists can access to connect with on-call RFDS doctors.

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How Amazon Pharmacy is using AI to deliver medications faster as it expands same-day delivery

Fierce Healthcare

Amazon Pharmacy expanded its same-day medication delivery service to New York City and Los Angeles, with plans to add a dozen more U.S. | Amazon Pharmacy expanded its same-day medication delivery service to New York City and Los Angeles, with plans to add a dozen more U.S. cities by the end of the year, the company announced Tuesday.

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Radar-powered AI technology helps seniors age at home

Healthcare It News

Cherish Health's camera-free remote monitoring technology keeps seniors safe while preserving their privacy and independence, says the company's CEO Sumit Nagpal, who explains how it works.

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MDaudit Enhances Billing Compliance And Revenue Integrity Platform with AI Capabilities

Electronic Health Reporter

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 minimize billing risk and maximize revenues, announced today it has elevated the artificial intelligence (AI) and automation capabilities of its […] The article MDaudit Enhances Billing Compliance And Revenue Integrity Platform with AI Capabilities appeared first on electron

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CISA, calling Volt Typhoon an urgent threat, updates DDoS response guide

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Guidance released this week from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation and other U.S. and international partners outlines best practices for defending against "living off the land" cyber activity – where threat actors use an organization's own tools to attack its network – while addressing the specific needs and challenges of defending against distributed denial of service attacks with new mitigations and visual aids.

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Diabetes management tools not worth the cost, study finds. But digital health companies push back on 'flawed' analysis

Fierce Healthcare

A new analysis pours cold water on the effectiveness of widely used digital diabetes management solutions, stirring up discussion about how best to evaluate the growing market of digital health too | The Peterson Health Technology Institute's analysis assessed whether digital diabetes solutions improve users' health outcomes over "usual care.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Ascension will outsource Illinois hospitalist functions to PE-backed staffing firm

Healthcare Dive

Beginning June 1, the Catholic health system will cede responsibility of hospitalist functions to staffing firm SCP Health.

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The Revolutionary Impact of Healthcare Mobile Apps In Remote Regions

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Amy Groden-Morrison, vice president of marketing and sales operations, Alpha Software. In an era where technology intersects with health to create impactful solutions, healthcare mobile applications are proving to be a lifeline in remote […] The article The Revolutionary Impact of Healthcare Mobile Apps In Remote Regions appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Care transformation via artificial intelligence

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Artificial intelligence can enhance virtual nursing, quality and outcomes, and healthcare transformation, says Dr. Stephanie Lahr, president of Artisight, a healthcare AI technology company. She shows how.

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CBO weighs in on PBM reform, AI in healthcare

Fierce Healthcare

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) addressed a series of questions from lawmakers on health policy priorities ranging from pharmacy benefit management to Medicare spending. | The Congressional Budget Office addressed a series of questions from lawmakers on health policy priorities ranging from pharmacy benefit management to Medicare spending.

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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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Hospital groups question HHS about data breach reporting after Change attack

Healthcare Dive

In a Thursday letter, the American Hospital Association urged the HHS’ Office of Civil Rights to reduce possible “duplicative” breach notifications from the Change cyberattack.

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Healthcare organizations can succeed with tech by using empathy

Healthcare It News

Technology has the potential to address healthcare's three biggest challenges: rising costs, staffing shortages and cyber threats - but it must be used with care, says Arnab Sen, chief strategy officer of Omega Healthcare.

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Unlocking the Power of Generative AI: InterSystems IRIS with Vector Search

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Artificial intelligence has transformative potential for driving value and insights from data. As we progress toward a world where nearly every application will be AI-driven, developers building those applications will need the right tools for creating experiences from these applications. This is why InterSystems is excited to announce the addition of vector search to the IRIS data platform.

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Virtual care service expansions in Australia

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

VRGS goes south Western New South Wales's Virtual Rural Generalist Service (VRGS) has been expanded to cover Southern NSW. The service provides 24-hour virtual medical support, specialty or critical care advice and transport, logistics, and coordination support. It ensures patients have medical coverage with a VRGS doctor who can answer their questions and discuss their condition, supported by an on-site nursing staff.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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80% of nonprofit hospitals' community investments lag their tax savings, Lown Institute finds

Fierce Healthcare

Four in five nonprofit hospitals are spending less on community benefit areas like financial assistance than what they are estimated to receive in tax breaks, according to the latest annual report | Even after accounting for discounted care and community benefit investments, the money 2,425 nonprofit hospitals saved through tax breaks in 2021 would be enough to wipe out the medical debt of everyone living in California, Texas, New York and Pennsylvania, the Lown Institute found.

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Walgreens’ VillageMD sells 11 locations in Rhode Island

Healthcare Dive

The sale comes as the pharmacy chain culls VillageMD clinics, including in Florida and Illinois.

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Patients identify care gaps for healthcare leaders

Healthcare It News

Authors of the new book "Diagnosed," Cris Ross, CIO of Mayo Clinic, and Edward Marx, CEO of Marx Advisory, talk about how their own experiences inspired this tome on patients taking charge of their healthcare journeys after difficult diagnoses.

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March 2024 Health IT Marketing Minutes

HealthIT Answers

What makes marketing in the health IT space unique? Who are the movers and shakers? What’s working, what’s trending? Where can you learn more? News from Brafton, Amendola Communications, KNB Communications, Clarity Quest, Matter Communications, FINN Partners, Astonish Media Group, Innsena, Swaay.Health, and Merge. The post March 2024 Health IT Marketing Minutes appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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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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Inpatient care experience gets a boost from telenursing and AI

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Sensors and automation tech can allow nurses to interact with and monitor multiple hospital patients around the clock without entering their rooms or interrupting their sleep. Michael Brandofino, president and COO of Caregility, explains how.

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Providers 'wasted' $10.6B in 2022 overturning claims denials, survey finds

Fierce Healthcare

More than 100 provider organizations want the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to take a tougher stance on Medicare Advantage (MA) plans’ practices following an industry survey es | Providers spent nearly $20 billion in 2022 pursuing delays and denials across all payer types, yet those efforts are substantially more costly on average when dealing with private plans, hundreds of hospitals and health systems told Premier in a recent survey.

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Hospitals could face revenue hit if insurers play hardball over MA: report

Healthcare Dive

Insurers could increase claims denials and engage in aggressive contract negotiations with hospitals as profitability in the popular plans declines.

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Strengthening Cybersecurity Preparedness for Small Organizations: Lessons from the Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack

HIT Consultant

Usman Choudhary, general manager, VIPRE Security Group Here we go again. The US health system is in a desperate cybersecurity state of affairs. Another healthcare cyberattack has made the news and it’s a big one. UnitedHealth Group’s technology unit, Change Healthcare, is currently facing an ongoing ransomware attack which has reverberated through healthcare systems and affected prescription deliveries.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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Will hospitals need to notify patients about the Change hack?

Becker's Health IT

Following the Change Healthcare cyberattack in February, questions remain around what data may have been stolen and how patients would be notified if needed — the issue is top of mind for hospitals nationwide.

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How RPM can scale and sustain CMS' hospital at home program

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just released data on its Acute Hospital Care at Home initiative , which thus far has admitted 11,159 patients suffering from respiratory infections, heart failure and severe sepsis. While the program has proven successful in reducing hospital visits, the level of manpower it requires is costly and likely unsustainable for the already overburdened healthcare system.

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Nvidia inks tie-ups with Abridge, GE HealthCare and Microsoft as it expands its footprint in healthcare AI

Fierce Healthcare

Chipmaker Nvidia sees big opportunities in healthcare AI and this week it launched more than two dozen new gen AI-powered microservices. | The global computing powerhouse inked collaborations with Abridge, Microsoft, GE HealthCare and Hippocratic AI to to expand its generative AI capabilities into healthcare and life sciences.

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OIG reports detail errors with VA, Oracle EHR deployment

Healthcare Dive

Three reports released last week detail scheduling and pharmacy problems with the electronic health record integration — including an error that may have contributed to a patient’s death.

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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.