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Geisinger solves behavioral health access problem with telemedicine

Healthcare It News

Benjamin C. Gonzales, operations manager II, virtual care, at Geisinger, said the prominent health system has faced a problem that is the biggest problem in behavioral healthcare: access. And while Geisinger’s population certainly has experienced its own challenges with behavioral health access like other communities, the problem has been significantly compounded by three things.

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Elevance reports $6B profit in 2022 on higher medical membership

Healthcare Dive

The results come days after the insurer said it plans to buy Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana, a deal that would expand its reach to 15 states.

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Tracking Public Health Authority Changes from 2021 & 2022 Legislative Sessions

Bill of Health

By Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research COVID-19 called for quick, decisive action by public health authorities to support communities and prevent infections. Since the pandemic began, legislators around the country have been acting to change the way authorities may respond to future public health emergencies — expanding or limiting officials’ authority to act in an emergency, changing who has authority to act, and the actions they may have the authority to take.

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Cybersecurity ‘more critical than ever’ in era of connected care

Healthcare Dive

Becton Dickinson’s annual report on the state of healthcare cybersecurity calls for better transparency and coordination across the industry.

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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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2023 HIM Planning Includes Seven New Ways to Focus Your Internal Coding Audits

MRO Compliance

2023 HIM Planning Includes Seven New Ways to Focus Your Internal Coding Audits I recently collaborated with Jacqueline Erickson, RHIA, CRCR, to provide HIM professionals with valuable advice on how to plan for their 2023 internal audits. This Journal of AHIMA article is an important launch point for anyone involved in HIM and coding audits. Since nearly every department in hospitals and health systems faces staffing challenges, now is the time to proactively seek ways to streamline processes and

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Will Elevance’s Louisiana acquisition kick off BCBS consolidation wave?

Healthcare Dive

The proposed purchase reminds some industry experts of a period beginning in the 1990s, when nonprofit BCBS plans were acquired by for-profit groups.

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Featured Health IT Job: Sr. Solution Architect – Radiology

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Sr. Solution Architect – Radiology position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by e4 Services and is in Alabama. Here’s a description of the position: e4 is a Healthcare Consulting firm based in Philadelphia established in 2006.

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COVID-19 caused surge in heart disease deaths in first year of pandemic: report

Fierce Healthcare

COVID-19 caused surge in heart disease deaths in first year of pandemic: report fdiamond Wed, 01/25/2023 - 08:44

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Angle Health Raises $58M for Digital-First Health Insurance

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Angle Health, a digital first health insurance carrier raises $58M in Series A funding, making health insurance more convenient, approachable, and affordable for employers and members. The round was led by Portage with participation from PruVen Capital , Wing Venture Capital , SixThirty Ventures , Mighty Capital , Wormhole Capital , Mindset Ventures , Crew Capital , Aloft VC , and Pilot founder Waseem Daher; and support from existing investors Blumberg Capital , Cor

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Payer startup Angle Health scores $58M to scale operations, expand to new markets

Fierce Healthcare

Payer startup Angle Health scores $58M to scale operations, expand to new markets agliadkovskaya Wed, 01/25/2023 - 09:42

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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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Brain-computer interface company Precision Neuroscience scores $41M and more digital health fundings

Mobi Health News

AI-based drug discovery platform Atomic AI, senior lifestyle company Mighty Health, Lithuania-based Oxipit and cybersecurity firm MedCrypt also closed funding rounds.

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Health system hospitals, physicians deliver 'marginally' better care at higher cost than independent peers: study

Fierce Healthcare

Health system hospitals, physicians deliver 'marginally' better care at higher cost than independent peers: study dmuoio Wed, 01/25/2023 - 13:52

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Kroger Health launches clinical trial site network

Mobi Health News

The grocery chain's healthcare division also announced its first trial, a collaboration with Persephone Biosciences.

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State-by-state licensure is anachronistic in the age of teletherapy, providers say

Fierce Healthcare

State-by-state licensure is anachronistic in the age of teletherapy, providers say aburky Wed, 01/25/2023 - 14:52

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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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Epson DS-790WN Scanner Review for Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

We’re back again with another review of a high quality, high speed scanner. In this case, we had a chance to review the Epson DS-790WN. This fast, secure scanner would be a great fit for many of healthcare’s scanning needs and could work great for a lot of healthcare organizations. Besides having the core capabilities you would expect in a high speed scanner, I really loved the 4.3″ color touch screen on this scanner.

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Medicare Advantage plans brace for final controversial risk adjustment rule by Feb. 1

Fierce Healthcare

Medicare Advantage plans brace for final controversial risk adjustment rule by Feb.

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Pearl Health raises $75M to grow tech platform for value-based care

Mobi Health News

The company offers a technology platform that aims to help primary care practices find gaps in care and manage the health of their patient populations.

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Logan Health Proposes $4.3 Million Settlement to Resolve Class Action Data Breach Lawsuit

HIPAA Journal

Logan Health has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit related to a 2021 hacking incident that exposed the protected health information of 213,543 individuals. Under the terms of the settlement, Logan Health has agreed to create a fund of $4.3 million to cover claims from individuals affected by the breach. Logan Health, formerly Kalispell Regional Medical Center, is a 622-bed health system based in Kalispell, MT, which operates six hospitals and more than 68 provider clinics in the state.

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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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Latest partnership in Japan to use wearables in studying sleep disorders

Mobi Health News

They seek to identify digital predictive biomarkers of narcolepsy and excessive daytime sleeping.

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Ransomware Profits Decline as Victims Refuse to Pay Ransoms

HIPAA Journal

Ransomware gangs are finding it much harder to profit from their attacks as fewer victims are ransoms to obtain the decryption keys and prevent the exposure of stolen data, according to two recently released reports from the ransomware remediation firm, Coveware, and blockchain analysis firm, Chainalysis. Coveware reports that in Q1, 2019, 85% of ransomware victims paid the ransom following an attack.

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Wave of leading medical schools pull out of U.S. News' annual rankings

Fierce Healthcare

Wave of leading medical schools pull out of U.S.

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Clinithink and AstraZeneca launch AI project for lung cancer detection

Digital Health News

Clinithink and AstraZeneca are using artificial intelligence to help detect early-stage lung cancer to improve patient outcomes.

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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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Downloaders, Ransomware, Among Top Healthcare Cyberattack Tactics in Q4

Health IT Security

Ransomware remained a… read more

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Nottingham University Hospitals rolls out Nervecentre EPMA

Digital Health News

The rollout of Nervecentre's EPMA has further advanced Nottingham University Hospitals' Digitisation Programme and is improving patient safety.

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Medicare officials call for gradual shift in calculation of Medicare Advantage benchmarks to reflect growing popularity

Fierce Healthcare

Medicare officials call for gradual shift in calculation of Medicare Advantage benchmarks to reflect growing popularity rking Wed, 01/25/2023 - 17:10

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NHS workforce: Standards for a digital staff passport will help the NHS simplify and improve recruitment

Digital Health News

In the first of a new series from the Professional Record Standards Body, Professor Bernard Crump explains why digitisation is ‘desperately’ needed in NHS recruitment.

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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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Record 16.3M people enroll in ACA plans

Modern Healthcare

More than 3 million new members joined the marketplace, also known as “Obamacare,” according to the Department of Health and Human Services.

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Digital health unicorn Innovaccer lays off 245 employees

Mobi Health News

The cuts affect about 15% of the health data analytics startup's workforce.

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Raising Red Team Thinking in Healthcare

HealthIT Answers

New On Demand Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist: With guest Neil Clauson, Regional CISO, at Mimecast, a company focusing on stopping “bad things from happening to good organizations by enabling them to work protected”. The post Raising Red Team Thinking in Healthcare appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: Renovus Acquires ToxStrategies

McGuire Wood

Renovus Capital Partners has announced it has made a majority investment in ToxStrategies. ToxStrategies , based in Katy, Texas, is a multidisciplinary scientific consulting firm. Founded in 2008, the company’s client base includes pharmaceutical companies, medical device companies, health and beauty care companies, and government agencies. Renovus , based in Philadelphia, is a lower middle market private equity firm that invests in a few sectors, including healthcare services.

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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.