Tue.Oct 11, 2022

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Physicians are experiencing delayed COVID-19 burnout

Healthcare Dive

Physician burnout has risen during the most recent phase of the pandemic, resulting in exacerbated retention challenges among healthcare workers, an MGMA survey and other recent reports have found.

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Send Mammogram leverages cloud for data security

Healthcare It News

The mobile and web application that digitally shares breast images sought a managed cloud services provider to operationalize compliance and ensure patients’ private health data remains safe and secure. WHY IT MATTERS. Without past, difficult-to-transfer breast imaging data, patients may experience additional radiation exposure and unnecessary tests — a void Send Mammogram was launched to fill.

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LCMC Health to acquire 3 HCA hospitals in partnership with Tulane University

Healthcare Dive

Together, the two plan to expand academic medicine across Southeast Louisiana. The deal will leave HCA with one remaining hospital in the state.

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How doctors can speed their work with software

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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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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Beleaguered Bright slashes footprint, fully exiting ACA markets and restricting MA to 2 states

Healthcare Dive

Bright is doubling down on its decision earlier this year to contract its business, halting the sale of ACA plans to focus on care delivery business NeueHealth as well as MA in higher-performing markets.

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India rolls out nationwide tele-mental health service

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare of India has formally launched this week its national tele-mental health programme. WHAT IT'S ABOUT. Called Tele Mental Health Assistance and Networking Across States (Tele-MANAS), it will provide free, round-the-clock teleconsultation service for mental health concerns. It runs a network of 23 tele-mental health centres of excellence with the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) at its core and the International In

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About 80% of emergency patients avoided hospital admission in SA Virtual Care Service trial

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SA Health has started rolling out its virtual care programme to over 120 residential care facilities in the state. This follows a trial in 11 aged care homes operated by Eldercare since early last year. In partnership with SA Ambulance Service, regional hospitals and aged care facilities, the SA Virtual Care Service (SAVCS) provides an individualised assessment service via video link for urgent patients on scene with responders.

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Walgreens snaps up rest of CareCentrix for $392M

Healthcare Dive

The Illinois-based retailer has said the buy will expand its reach in the health sector, especially in the fast-growing areas of primary care, specialty pharmacy, post-acute and home care.

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Google Cloud and Rite Aid announce multiyear technology partnership

Mobi Health News

The collaboration will allow Rite Aid to relocate its fundamental applications to Google Cloud, including its vaccine scheduling tool, customer messaging infrastructure and digital engagement platform.

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Beaumont-Spectrum unveils new name: Corewell Health

Healthcare Dive

Months after combining, the Michigan-based nonprofit system is ditching its placeholder name.

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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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Revenue and Workforce Challenges Top of Mind at #MPE22

Healthcare IT Today

Two topics were top of mind for attendees at MGMA’s 2022 Medical Practice Excellence: Leaders Conference (#MPE22) – workforce challenges and revenue pressure. Sessions dealing with either topic were jammed packed and exhibitors that focus in either of these two areas were consistently busy. The consensus at #MPE22 was that there were no short-term solutions and that revenue both revenue and workforce challenges would continue deep into 2023.

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Samsung Expands Its Health and Wellness Ecosystem with New Developer Tools

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Samsung Electronics unveiled a series of new tools ahead of the Samsung Developer Conference 2022 (SDC2022) that will aid developers and communities in shaping health, wellness and safety habits for consumers everywhere. – These developer tools include the Samsung Privileged Health SDK program for select partners, the Fall Detection API to support user safety, Samsung’s new end-to-end research solution for educational, clinical and healthcare programmers, as w

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How digital services can define and address inequities in sexual health

Digital Health News

In a piece for Digital Health, Dr Vanessa Apea from Preventx, looks into how digital services can define and address inequities in sexual health.

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New Meta Quest Pro Enables Scientists to Step Inside Molecules Using Nanome

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Meta released details of its Quest Pro headset today. In a departure from gaming-only content, the new headset comes with Nanome , a virtual and augmented reality app that allows users to step inside and interact with molecules – helping scientists make “eureka” discoveries, and revolutionize the way students learn biology and chemistry.

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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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PRSB publishes extension of shared care record standards

Digital Health News

The Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) has extended the use of its Core Information Standards to five more health and care settings.

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Brave Health Raises $40M for Medicaid Virtual Health Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Brave Health , a virtual mental health provider and engagement platform focused on serving Medicaid populations raises $40M in Series C funding round led by Town Hall Ventures , with existing investors Union Square Ventures, City Light Capital and others joining as well. The company has raised a total of $60M to date, and this most recent funding will support their continued expansion into value-based care arrangements and into new and existing markets. . – Br

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Bright Health to cut individual, family insurance plans next year

Mobi Health News

The company will also stop offering Medicare Advantage plans outside of California and Florida.

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Fitbit Enters Substance Abuse Recovery with Pretaa Partnership

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Fitbit announced that they are partnering with behavioral analytics company Pretaa to improve outcomes for the millions of Americans affected by substance abuse. Pretaa analyzes information from wearable devices worn by those recovering from substance abuse and (with patient consent) notifies their care providers, friends and family members when they might need additional support. – Research indicates that the onset of the pandemic was associated with an incre

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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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New algorithm developed in Australia measures gait quality

Mobi Health News

Its mobile app is slated to be released in late 2023.

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PatientPoint Acquires Rendia to Accelerate Expansion into Ophthalmology Specialty

Healthcare IT Today

Acquisition will help speed point-of-care leader’s expansion into new high-value specialties. PatientPoint today announced the acquisition of Rendia , the No. 1 provider of point-of-care content for eye care providers sold on a subscription basis. With PatientPoint’s expansion into ophthalmology and optometry, PatientPoint’s industry-leading, tech-enabled point-of-care network now engages healthcare providers and patients across 20 medical specialties.

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Brave Health raises $40M for Medicaid-focused virtual mental healthcare

Mobi Health News

The company announced a $10 million Series B raise last year.

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How to Automate the Patient-Provider Working Relationship

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Stephen Dean, Healthcare CRM Expert and Co-Founder of Keona Health. Many health care professionals think the strength of the patient-provider relationship is determined solely by the face-to-face interactions between patients and physicians, and that all problems begin and end there. But in-person interactions are often not the root cause of patient dissatisfaction.

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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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Bond set at $100K for Texas Nursing Home Employees Caught on Camera Abusing Resident

Med-Net Compliance

Charges were filed against two nursing home employees who were caught on camera beating and dragging an 87-year-old resident, according to officials with the Texas City Police Department. The employees were each charged with injury to an elderly person, with bonds set at $100,000. Texas City police said they had received a complaint about an elderly male being assaulted by two caregivers at an area nursing home.

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25% of ransomware attacks cause healthcare organizations to halt operations, study says

Becker's Health IT

A new study from cybersecurity company Trend Micro Incorporated found that 25 percent of healthcare organizations hit by ransomware attacks were forced to halt operations completely.

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Five ways to show how Compliance delivers value

YouCompli

Demonstrate Compliance’s impact with a sales mentality and culturally impactful metrics. Healthcare compliance officers know the value their work and regulatory change management bring to their organization. The challenge is quantifying that value and demonstrating it to leadership. Being an effective influencer and using culturally impactful metrics can help tell Compliance’s story.

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Health IT Hires and Appointments

HealthIT Answers

Latest announcements made from companies and organizations on hiring include Cumulus Neuroscience, Lumeris, Stride Health, AccessOne, DataLink Software, SeamlessMD, Valence Discovery, Babylon, Vytalize Health, Quartet Health, & Parallel Learning. The post Health IT Hires and Appointments 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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The FemTech Revolution

Healthcare Law Blog

This blog is the first in our Digital Health Trends series. Digital health’s explosion in the last few years has led to the proliferation of new technologies and novel solutions to long-standing health problems. FemTech, in particular, has become a major movement in women’s healthcare, and the market appears ready to support this rapid growth. A recent report projects FemTech to grow by approximately 17% over the next five years with a market value over $60 billion. [1] Despite FemTech’s initial

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Establishing First National Directory of Health Care Providers and Services

HealthIT Answers

CMS released a Request for Information seeking public input on the concept of CMS creating a directory with information on health care providers and services or a “National Directory of Healthcare Providers and Services”. The post Establishing First National Directory of Health Care Providers and Services appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: TPG Acquires ClaimsXten for $2.2 Billion

McGuire Wood

TPG Capital has completed its acquisition of ClaimsXten, Change Healthcare’s claims editing business, from UnitedHealth for $2.2 billion, according to news reports. The sale of ClaimsXten follows UnitedHealth’s acquisition of Change Healthcare. This transaction was placed on hold after the U.S. Department of Justice sued to stop it. Last month, a federal judge ruled UnitedHealth’s acquisition could proceed.

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FDA Further Harmonizing Clinical Research Regulations with HHS Common Rule

HealthIT Answers

By Hilary Marston MD MPH & Ann Meeker-O’Connell MS - Clinical trials play a crucial role in advancing science and supporting the development of new medical products to address unmet patient needs. Reliable data from well-designed trials about a medical product’s safety and effectiveness are critical. The post FDA Further Harmonizing Clinical Research Regulations with HHS Common Rule appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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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.