Tue.Jul 19, 2022

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ACA marketplace premiums poised to jump

Healthcare Dive

Health insurers' preliminary filings with state regulators point to a 10% median bump in rates for enrollees in 2023, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

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Patient facing tools should be designed with input from the disabled community

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Health data breaches slowing from 2021's record high, report suggests

Healthcare Dive

Malicious attacks were the No. 1 cause of breaches for the sixth year in a row, according to a new report from Fortified Health Security.

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Groups doubles down on telehealth with a mobile app to treat opioid addiction

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Like many healthcare provider organizations, Groups, a value-based care provider of opioid addiction treatment, had to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic overnight. THE PROBLEM. In order to keep members safe, the organization made the decision to close all 120 of its clinics across the country and transition to 100% virtual opioid use disorder treatment services.

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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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SCAN Group invests in medical transportation firm in push to diversify

Healthcare Dive

The deal aims to reduce the barriers seniors face in getting to healthcare appointments and builds on the group’s other recent investments.

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Access to Care and Digital Health/Health IT – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 7/22 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Derek Streat from @dexcare on the topic “Access to Care and Digital Health/Health IT. ”. The hard truth is – our healthcare system is hardly a system at all. Rather, it is a convoluted assemblage of disconnected and decentralized sectors that struggle to provide a streamlined, coordinated, and connected care experience for all stakeho

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DiMe releases toolkits to help scale wearables, remote patient monitoring

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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Humanity Health Raises $6M to Advance Health Equity Through Inclusive Leadership

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Humanity Health , a New York City-based career acceleration and talent sourcing platform for underrepresented leaders in healthcare and life sciences, has raised $6 million in Series A funding led by Jumpstart Nova with follow-on participation from Deerfield Management. – Humanity Health will use the new funding to expand its base of C-Suite and executive-level leaders who are members of the Humanity Talent Network.

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Anumana partners with Novartis to develop AI cardiovascular disease detection tools

Mobi Health News

The partnership will focus on software that uses ECGs to find left ventricular dysfunction and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

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Caption Health Receives CE Mark for AI Ultrasound Tech

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Caption Health , the leader in using artificial intelligence (AI) and services to improve heart ultrasound access, today announced that it has received a CE Mark for its Caption AI™ technology platform. – This certification represents the first step in making Caption Health’s industry-leading technology platform available outside the US, and highlights the company’s strong clinical and regulatory track record as it uses AI and ultrasound to deliver better card

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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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New Digital Health Services, Climate and Health, 988 Lifeline – Twitter Roundup

Healthcare IT Today

It’s been a while since we’ve done a roundup of interesting tweets. Today I saw a number of interesting discussions and ideas that I thought may be useful and of interest to the Healthcare IT Today community. Here we go. Most new digital health services require building the new service *plus* a new business model because the new service doesn’t slot in to the status quo’s financial language.

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Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells expand patient flow platform

Digital Health News

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is enhancing strategic capacity planning by expanding its care co-ordination centre to four Kent community hospitals.

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Study Confirms Security Awareness Training Significantly Reduces Susceptibility to Phishing Attacks

HIPAA Journal

A recent Phishing by Industry Benchmarking Report has confirmed that providing security awareness training to the workforce significantly reduces susceptibility to phishing attacks. The benchmarking study was conducted by KnowBe4 to determine how effective security awareness training is at reducing susceptibility to phishing attacks. For the report, KnowBe4 analyzed data from more than 9.5 million users across 19 industry sectors, over 30,000 organizations, and 23.4 million simulated phishing em

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Norfolk Community Health and Care expands remote monitoring service

Digital Health News

Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust is supporting newly diagnosed heart failure patients by extending its remote monitoring service to rural areas.

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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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Digital health tech infrastructure startup Healthie scores $16M

Mobi Health News

The company previously raised $1.9 million in pre-seed and seed funding.

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NHS website registers 500% increase in visits for heat exhaustion advice

Digital Health News

The NHS website saw a massive increase in visits to its page on heat exhaustion advice, ahead of the current extreme temperatures.

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Healthcare automation company Olive lays off around 450 workers

Mobi Health News

Olive announced a $400 million investment round in July 2021.

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Applying for Reinstatement after OIG Exclusion

Med-Net Compliance

Reinstatement of an excluded individual or entity is not automatic once the specified period of exclusion ends. In order to participate in the Medicare, Medicaid, and all federal healthcare programs once the term of exclusion ends, the individual or entity must apply for reinstatement and receive written notice from OIG that reinstatement has been granted.

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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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COVID-19 Burn Out Causing More Resident Physicians to Unionize, Part 1

The Health Law Firm Blog

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law This is part one in a blog series focusing on the effects of COVID burnout in healthcare professionals. Be sure to check back for part two. As you know, residents are new physicians who have recently finished medical [.].

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Healthie Raises $16M to Enable Infrastructure Platform for Digital Health Companies

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Healthie , a New York City-based infrastructure platform for digital health companies raises $16M in an oversubscribed Series A round led by Velvet Sea Ventures with participation from Greymatter Capital , Watershed, Builders VC and a customer syndicate. – Over 60 angels with deep healthcare and tech experience also participated in the financing, including Roushan Zenooz, Executive Chairman of Primary Health, B12 CEO Nitesh Banta, Rafid Fadul, former CMO at Wh

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A Voice for Transforming People with Diabetes

HealthIT Answers

Now on demand, Health Unabashed episode with guest Frank Westermann, co-founder and co-CEO of 9AM.health, a StartUp Health portfolio company headquartered in San Diego, CA. 9am.health is a virtual diabetes clinic that delivers personalized, affordable, and compassionate care directly to consumers. The post A Voice for Transforming People with Diabetes appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Inovalon Launches Race & Ethnicity Data Enrichment Offering for Health Plans

HIT Consultant

– What You Should Know: Inovalon , a provider of cloud-based software solutions empowering data-driven healthcare unveils a new data enrichment offering that allows health plans to improve the completeness and accuracy of race and ethnicity data for their members. – By using algorithms uniquely available through the Inovalon ONE ® Platform , the new offering fills in information gaps that can lead to care disparities across member populations and helps plans meet new stratification r

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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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Key Themes from HITAC Hearing on Health Equity by Design

HealthIT Answers

By Kiri Bagley, Thomas A. Mason, Ryan Argentieri, & Elisabeth Myers - As part of ONC’s efforts to embrace the concept of health equity by design, ONC’s HIT Advisory Committee held a hearing to explore equity considerations in health IT featuring an industry expert panel. The post Key Themes from HITAC Hearing on Health Equity by Design appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Curana & Innovaccer Partner to Improve Outcomes for Senior Living Communities

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Innovaccer Inc., the Health Cloud company, announced that Curana Health is partnering with Innovaccer to build a leading edge value-based care solution to support delivery of exceptional care quality at the lowest possible cost for one of healthcare’s highest risk populations: residents in senior living communities across the country. – Together, Curana Health and Innovaccer will build an industry-leading value-based-care toolkit using the Innovaccer He

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Talent Tuesday: Are salary and work-from-home benefits enough?

HealthIT Answers

By Viral Patel - In the U.S., there are nearly 5.5 million more jobs open than there are people to fill them. HR leaders scramble daily to introduce new benefits — including flexible hours and nitro coffee taps — in attempts to stay relevant to younger workforces and boost recruitment and retention. Unfortunately, these solutions just aren't cutting it.

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Canvas Medical Achieves ONC Certification, Raises $24MM to Power Clinicians and Developers Building and Scaling Digital Health Companies

Healthcare IT Today

Canvas Medical, the EMR that enables clinicians and developers to power the future of care delivery, has raised $24MM in Series B funding led by M13 with participation from Haystack and previous investors Inspired Capital, IA Ventures, Upfront Ventures, and Irongrey. Canvas provides a full-stack ambulatory EMR and digital health developer platform, enabling both established and startup healthcare providers to launch new patient experiences and business models faster.

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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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BJC HealthCare to spend $2.7M to boost email security, settles breach suit

Becker's Health IT

St. Louis-based BJC HealthCare agreed to a class action lawsuit settlement to resolve allegations that its poor cybersecurity led to a May 2020 phishing attack that compromised sensitive patient data.

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Gas ‘N Healthcare – How Transportation Links to Health Care Access and Financial Health

Jane Sarashon

Some patients dealing with cancer at Mercy Health’s Lourdes Hospital have been supplied with gas cards. This gesture is enabling families to get to medical appointments around Paducah, Kentucky where, this week, car drivers faced regular gas priced at an average of $4.16 a gallon compared with $2.92 one year ago. Here’s the Hospital’s Facebook page featuring their gratitude to FiveStar Food Mart, the American Cancer Society, and the Mercy Health Foundation. “By providing

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FTC Blog Post Highlights Regulatory Focus on Collection of Location and Health Data

Health Care Law Brief

On July 11, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published “ Location, health, and other sensitive information: FTC committed to fully enforcing the law against illegal use and sharing of highly sensitive data ,” on its Business Blog. The blog post is likely related to an Executive Order (the “EO”) signed by President Biden in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision.

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Challenges Relating to Complying with Product Standard An Agricultural Product

HealthLaw Prof Blog

Tefera Nigussie (Amhara Regional State), Challenges Relating to Complying with Product Standard An Agricultural Product, SSRN (2022): A standard is a document established by consensus and approved by a recognized body that provides for common and repeated use, rules, guidelines,

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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.