Healthcare Dive

APRIL 26, 2024

The largest data breach reported so far this year comes as regulators reconsider healthcare’s use of tracking technologies.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 25, 2024

San Francisco-based Augmedix has launched what it says is the first fully-automated, generative AI-powered medical documentation software for emergency departments, and it's already in use at one of the biggest health systems in the country. Known as Augmedix Go, the ambient documentation tool for EDs leverages automatic speech recognition and natural language processing and was developed in partnership with physicians at four HCA Healthcare hospitals, the company said Wednesday in announcin

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 23, 2024

The FTC estimates the final rule would lower healthcare costs by $194 billion over the next decade, while freeing up physicians to more easily move between employers.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 21, 2024

Private healthcare group IHH Healthcare has moved several on-premise database systems of its hospitals across Malaysia and Singapore to the cloud. IHH Singapore's core application workloads, including the electronic medical record (EMR), enterprise data warehouse, and laboratory information systems (LIS), have been migrated to Oracle Exadata Database Service on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 22, 2024

Digitalisation in healthcare holds the promise of optimising processes and expanding access to care. In some European countries such as Slovenia, Croatia, Estonia, Poland and Hungary, patients can access national portals that contain their prescriptions, referrals, discharge letters, etc. In other countries such as Belgium and Spain, patients can access regional portals.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 23, 2024

The Home as a Health Care Hub will use augmented reality and virtual reality to reimagine how the home can become a healthcare system to improve health equity.

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 23, 2024

The rule places more stringent staffing requirements on nursing homes than those initially proposed and offers exemptions for certain providers. Still, interest groups on all sides slammed the rule, calling it either too stringent or lax.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 22, 2024

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the Sequoia Project on Monday announced the launch of Common Agreement Version 2.0, an update to the document most recently released this past November. ONC also published new Participant and Subparticipant Terms of Participation, which set forth the requirements that participants must agree to and comply with to exchange data under the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 22, 2024

Today, most remote patient monitoring services are billed under four Current Procedural Terminology codes. These codes can be split into two categories to help understand their uses. There are two RPM device monitoring codes – 99453 and 99454 – and two timed RPM management service codes – 99457 and 99458. CPT 99453 covers the time it takes to enroll patients in RPM and get them set up on their devices.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 22, 2024

What You Should Know: – The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), along with The Sequoia Project, Inc., a Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE), has released Common Agreement Version 2.0 (CA v2.0). What is the Common Agreement? The Common Agreement establishes a set of common rules and technical standards for secure health information exchange across different health information networks (HINs) and their users.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 24, 2024

Walgreens is expanding its specialty pharmacy services to offer gene and cell therapy services, supported by a dedicated 18,000-square-foot center in Pittsburgh, the company announced Thursday. | Walgreens is expanding its specialty pharmacy services to offer gene and cell therapy services, supported by a dedicated 18,000-square-foot center in Pittsburgh, the company announced Thursday.

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 24, 2024

The states' proposals, which resemble Medicare for All, need approval from the federal government and face pushback from major health systems and insurers.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 22, 2024

The role of nurse informaticists has expanded to include deciding which technologies can best support evolving care delivery models, says MaryAnn Connor, senior director of nursing informatics, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2024

Providence, a 52-hospital health system based in Renton, Washington, views digital innovation as an important vehicle to overcoming industrywide challenges and transforming care delivery for the betterment of the communities it serves. Many of the virtual care and digital health systems in development, as well as those pursued over the past several years, are geared toward addressing three macro challenges healthcare currently faces: workforce shortages and burnout; hospitality capacity and thro

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 24, 2024

What You Should Know: – John Snow Labs , the AI for healthcare company announced the findings of the inaugural Generative AI in Healthcare Survey. Conducted by Gradient Flow , the research explores the trends, tools, and behaviors around generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) use among healthcare and life sciences practitioners. – Findings reveal a significant increase in GenAI budgets across the board, with one-fifth of all technical leaders witnessing a more than 300% budget gr

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 22, 2024

Simple HealthKit is bringing chronic condition diagnostics to front porches across the country via a new partnership with Amazon. | Consumers can now buy Simple HealthKit’s at-home tests for diabetes (HbA1c), respiratory wellness and sexual wellness and have it shipped to their door through Amazon.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 26, 2024

On an April 18 conference call with Optum Everycare CEO Jennifer Phalen, some employees of the company's virtual care division were told that their last date would be in July, according to a news report this week. WHY IT MATTERS UnitedHealth Group, Optum's parent company, reported more than $1 billion in net losses during the first quarter – which included impacts from the February 21 Change Healthcare ransomware attack and subsequent payment systems outage.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 22, 2024

Cambron Carter, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Pearl The synergy of artificial intelligence (AI) and medical imaging has opened new horizons for healthcare. AI-mediated computer vision has been in use in oncology for more than 20 years; however, its arrival in other medical fields, notably dentistry, is more recent. Dentistry is particularly notable here, because while relatively few people have seen an oncologist, almost everyone sees a dentist at least every few years.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 22, 2024

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is hoping to improve Medicaid enrollees’ access to care through a final rule that better compensates caregiving roles. | CMS released a series of final rules Monday, including Medicaid access regulations that some groups worry will cause providers to close.

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 24, 2024

Because of the final rates for next year, Humana will have to enact “larger benefit reductions to achieve stable margins,” its CFO told investors.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 22, 2024

Cloud-based technology has enabled one healthcare provider's swift transition to a new cancer treatment guideline. The private Sydney Adventist Hospital (the San) in Sydney's north is an early adopter of the NSW Cancer Institute's guideline for anticancer drug dosing in kidney dysfunction (ADDIKD). Initially published in 2022, the evidence-based guideline on eviQ standardises the measurement of kidney dysfunction to provide more appropriate dose recommendations compared to existing c

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 25, 2024

The Joint Commission this week announced its new Telehealth Accreditation Program for eligible hospitals, ambulatory and behavioral healthcare organizations. The program, with an effective date of July 1, is designed to offer updated and more streamlined standards to help organizations offering telehealth services put structures and processes in place to help deliver safer and higher quality virtual care WHY IT MATTERS The new Telehealth Accreditation Program was developed, the commission says,

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Becker's Health IT

APRIL 23, 2024

UnitedHealth Group admitted to paying ransom in an attempt to protect patient data stolen during the February cyberattack against its subsidiary, Change Healthcare, according to a CNBC report.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 22, 2024

Headspace has launched direct-to-consumer text-based mental health coaching to expand its reach beyond employer customers and capture the cash-pay healthcare market. | Headspace is entering the direct-to-consumer mental health coaching market, broadening its reach beyond its model of contracting with health plans and employers.

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 23, 2024

More than 20 screenshots of potentially stolen patient data were posted on the dark web for about a week, the insurer said Monday.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 23, 2024

Andrew Schultz, PatientPoint chief product and strategy officer, shows how the technology works as a communication hub between the waiting room, exam room, infusion suite and the back office.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 22, 2024

The Swiss pharmaceutical firm, Octapharma Plasma, is dealing with a cyberattack that has affected systems at 190 plasma donation centers in 35 U.S. states. Those centers have been temporarily closed while the company responds to the attack and works on bringing the affected systems back online. Octapharma identified suspicious activity within its network on April 17, 2024, and confirmed that an unauthorized third party had breached its network and disrupted certain parts of its operations.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 23, 2024

Members can access mental health coaches for cases that may not require a licensed therapist, such as sleep-related issues or building healthy relationships.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 22, 2024

UnitedHealth Group provided an update late Monday on its analysis of the data accessed in the cyberattack on Change Healthcare, and said it identified files that contain personal and health informa | UnitedHealth Group provided an update late Monday on its analysis of the data accessed in the cyberattack on Change Healthcare, and said it identified files that contain personal and health information.

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 26, 2024

The nation's largest Medicaid insurer expects to return to normal operations this year, though redeterminations continue to dog Centene through a mismatch between rates and acuity.

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