Bill of Health

APRIL 6, 2022

By Cynthia M. Ho. The leaked compromise regarding a “waiver” of international intellectual property (IP) obligations under the TRIPS Agreement for World Trade Organization (WTO) members has met harsh criticism as a shadow of the original proposal to waive international obligations regarding patent, trade secret, and copyright obligations relating to any COVID vaccine, treatment, diagnostic, or personal protective equipment (PPE).

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 6, 2022

Combined, the system will become one of the nation's largest nonprofit health operators with 33 hospitals and hundreds of clinics across seven states.

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Compliance Now

APRIL 6, 2022

Jennifer Berman, CEO, MZQ Consulting. On April 5, 2022, the Administration issued new proposed regulations changing certain aspects of the affordability and minimum value rules under the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”). Notably, the rules only impact whether an individual is eligible for federally subsidized health insurance; they DO NOT change the affordability requirements for applicable large employers under the ACA’s employer mandate.

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 6, 2022

A Duke University study, which was supported by Philips, showed that roughly four out of five patients with an infection following a cardiac implant did not have devices extracted, which goes against clinical guidelines.

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MRO Compliance

APRIL 6, 2022

Fast Focus: Information Sharing. Background Summary. The 21st Century Cures Act aims to improve access to health information and a connected healthcare ecosystem by establishing interoperability and anti-information blocking requirements. What started nearly two decades ago with regional Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) has evolved into an inexorable force for good. under the Cures Act and the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rules.

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 6, 2022

There are some obstacles to use. Yescarta is expensive, priced by Gilead at $373,000 per patient. Treatment is now widely covered by insurance, but the cost can still present hurdles for patients, depending on their coverage plans.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 6, 2022

"Those of you who think that I'm going to give you a technology talk, you might as well leave now," said Roberta Schwartz, chief innovation officer at Houston Methodist at HIMSS22 this past month. While technology is key to delivering virtual care at scale, the story of the sprawling Texas health system's tele-ICU system, the tale of "getting from ground zero to where we are today," is really "a story of change management," said Schwartz.

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Jane Sarashon

APRIL 6, 2022

He had me at the statement, “I believe health data is medicine.”. Those were the words of Ardy Arianpour, CEO and Co-Founder of Seqster, when sharing with me how his company was founded. We met up last week at the DIA Europe 2022 meeting (Drug Information Association) in the cool SQUARE Conference Center in Brussels, Belgium (my current home base for work and life).

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 6, 2022

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Rondy Jennings, managing director of the not-for-profit healthcare group at Goldman Sachs & Co and a founding member of the Black Directors Health Equity Agenda. Health equity has taken years to move from the […]. The article The Solution To Health Equity Begins with Addressing The Health Ecosystem appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 6, 2022

What You Should Know: – Doceree , a global network of HCP-only platforms for programmatic messaging raises $11M in a Series A funding round led by Eight Roads Ventures to enrich programmatic messaging offerings for health information technology (HIT) platforms to improve the distribution of hyper-relevant messages to prescribers. The round also included participation from F-Prime Capital and Alkemi Growth Capital. – Doceree’s platform offers real-time measurement solutions to underst

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2022

The US Department of Justice has announced that it intends to join a whistleblower lawsuit filed against EHR vendor Modernizing Medicine and cofounder and CEO Daniel Cane. The suit alleges that the company engaged in serious violations of the False Claims Act and illegal kickbacks to physicians. The whistleblower in the case is Amanda Long, […].

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 6, 2022

What You Should Know: – IntelyCare, a leading intelligent workforce management solution for post-acute facilities raises $115M to solve the nationwide nurse shortage. – IntelyCare plans to build on this momentum by using the new funding to expand its footprint to new states and invest heavily in its AI-based platform and data science technology. IntelyCare , a Quincy, MA-based tech-enabled nurse staffing platform for healthcare organizations announced it has secured $115M in a Series C financing

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 6, 2022

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 6, 2022

A new study published in the Lancet found that patients using VR therapy had a significant reduction in agoraphobic avoidance and distress compared to participants receiving usual care.

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NCG Medical Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

Do you dedicate resources to analyzing payment accuracy? Plenty of practices don’t—and are putting too much faith in payers to reimburse in full on every claim they complete, and this good faith can lead to financial losses.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 6, 2022

The new deal will provide Evry Health's Dallas-based members with Quit Genius' digital offerings.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

APRIL 6, 2022

Along with the cherry blossoms, new health policy research was in full bloom this month. In addition to filling out our March Madness brackets, the CHIR team reviewed studies on health insurance rates during the pandemic, how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) impacted women’s health coverage, and consumer access to high-quality marketplace plans. Continue reading → The post March Research Roundup: What We’re Reading appeared first on Center on Health Insurance Reforms.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 6, 2022

This marks Aidoc's second FDA 510(k) so far this year.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2022

As healthcare organizations continue to consolidate, one of the big challenges they face is how to combine the data from multiple systems. One of the most important types of data is patient medication history. No one wants to check multiple systems for medication reconciliation, and merging that information into one system is a real challenge. Yet doing so […].

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 6, 2022

The company said it will use the financing to expand in Europe and the U.S., and develop new digital therapeutics with its pharma partners.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

A Pennsylvania nurse formerly employed at a senior living facility has pled guilty to neglect of a care-dependent person and tampering with medical records. A patient under the care of the nurse was left in the lobby of the facility and died hours after suffering a fall and serious head injury. Evidence revealed that the nurse failed to administer a total of eight required neurological checks to the patient after he had an unwitnessed fall at the facility on the night of April 12, 2018.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 6, 2022

It features medicines and other healthcare products and services offered by over 500 independent sellers.

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Compliancy Group

APRIL 6, 2022

While staffing shortages continue to afflict the hospital sector, administrators scramble to keep their hospitals adequately staffed. The ones that manage to keep staff are often paying an excessive amount to temporary staff, such as traveling nurses, to maintain their standard of care. . In situations such as these, compliance often falls to the wayside.

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YouCompli

APRIL 6, 2022

Significant updates to the Safe Harbors and Civil Monetary Penalties under the Anti-Kickback Statute related to beneficiary inducements went into effect in January 2021. The Office of Inspector General’s final rule aims to improve patient care overall. It will accelerate the transformation of the healthcare system into one that pays for better value and promotes coordinated care.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 6, 2022

What You Should Know: – Blue Shield of CA and Walgreens Health announces a new health advisory service that will expand access to care management and coordination for Californians through in-store and virtual resources through the launch of 12 new Walgreens Health Corner™ locations in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles County. – With the addition of Walgreens Health Corner™ locations in LA and the Bay Area, Blue Shield commercial PPO and HMO members can receive health screeni

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2022

Led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, the round underscores Clarify’s leadership in the system of intelligence market and its position to change the way we pay for healthcare Clarify Health, a leading cloud analytics and value-based payments platform company, announced today that it secured $150 million in Series D financing. SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led the round […].

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 6, 2022

What You Should Know: – EHR leader Epic has selected Lyniate , a provider of healthcare data interoperability, for integration within its new Garden Plot Software as a Service (SaaS) model for independent medical groups. . – Garden Plot takes on hosting, support, and ongoing configuration and updates so providers can focus on their patients.

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Health Care Performance

APRIL 6, 2022

Your Board is responsible for compliance failures. And, board members can be held personally liable for financial losses caused by those compliance failures. In other words, your Board is ultimately responsible for your compliance program. Does your Board know this? Board Responsibility. The OIG has said : “every Board is responsible for ensuring that its organization complies with relevant Federal, State, and local laws.”.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2022

Remote patient monitoring devices from different manufacturers rarely talk to each other. There are standards for device data exchange, but no incentives or penalties for device makers to adopt them. Instead, most manufactures pair their devices with their own proprietary smartphone app. MedM wants to tear down these walled gardens with their platform that acts […].

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 6, 2022

The round brings the company's valuation to $1.1 billion.

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