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Wisconsin passes law making threats against healthcare workers a felony

Healthcare Dive

The state already has a law making it a felony to commit battery against nurses, emergency care providers or those working in an emergency department, but this expands that protection to threats.

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Using Contracts to Lessen Inequities in Access to Medicines in Pandemics and Epidemics

Bill of Health

By Sapna Kumar and Ana Santos Rutschman. Research funding contracts can help to safeguard against profound inequities in global allocation and distribution of lifesaving diagnostics, drugs, and vaccines. During large transnational public health crises, global demand soars for diagnostics, drugs, and vaccines. Although some of these products can be developed within compressed timelines, global production capacity remains limited.

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Record 14.5M Americans signed up for ACA coverage this year

Healthcare Dive

But the generous subsidies that contributed to the increase in enrollment are temporary and set to expire at the end of the year absent congressional action.

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Google to launch appointment scheduling in search, submits new Fitbit feature to FDA

Mobi Health News

The tech giant also provided an update on its artificial intelligence research and announced the expansion of YouTube's tools to mitigate the spread of health misinformation.

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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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Appeals court nixes Hackensack-Englewood hospital merger in New Jersey

Healthcare Dive

New Jersey's largest hospital system lost its challenge to merge with Englewood Hospital, a transaction the FTC sought to halt because of competition concerns.

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Patient Data Stolen in July 2021 Cyberattack on Chelan Douglas Health District

HIPAA Journal

Chelan Douglas Health District in East Wenatchee, WA, has announced it was the victim of a cyberattack in July 2021 in which the personal and protected health information of patients was exfiltrated from its systems. The breach notice uploaded to Chelan Douglas Health District website does not disclose when the breach was detected but says a third-party cybersecurity company was engaged to investigate the cyberattack and confirmed that its network was accessed by unauthorized individuals between

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FBI: At Least 148 Healthcare Organizations Suffered Ransomware Attacks in 2021

HIPAA Journal

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released its 2021 Internet Crime Report , which reveals there were at least 649 ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure organizations from June 2021 to December 2021. 14 of the 16 critical infrastructure sectors reported at least one ransomware attack, although the healthcare and public health sector was the worst affected, accounting for 148 of those attacks, followed by financial services with 89 attacks,

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PT Team Member Spotlight: Meet Keke

Provider Trust

Meet Keke! She serves on our Client Care team taking care of our healthcare partners everyday. She started on our Vendor Care team initially and stepped into Client Care leadership a few years ago. Keke’s ability to balance being an excellent leader at ProviderTrust while raising her family is inspiring, all while sharing her love of music and theater with us.

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Why Healthcare Workers should be Using a Password Manager

HIPAA Journal

Healthcare workers access electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) on a daily basis – most often via the use of password-protected EHRs. In order to mitigate the risk of ePHI being hacked, compromised, or unavailable due to a cyberattack, healthcare workers should be using a password manager that generates, stores, and auto-fills complex passwords.

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New OCR Guidelines for Defending Against Cybersecurity Attacks

Total HIPAA

In a recent statement , President Biden encouraged private sector companies to give increased attention to their cybersecurity programs against potential attacks. This came soon after the news that Russia is reportedly exploring the possibility of directing cyberattacks towards US companies. Aside from possible Russian intervention, healthcare has long been the industry most targeted by hackers seeking unauthorized access to electronic information.

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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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HHS OIG Signs Off on Substance Use Recovery Incentive Program

Healthcare Law Blog

On March 2, 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office of the Inspector General (the “OIG”) issued a new advisory opinion (“ AO 22-04 ”) related to a program through which the Requestor would provide certain individuals access to digital contingency management (“CM”) and related tools to treat substance use disorders (“Program”).

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RedDress Donates FDA-Cleared Wound Care Solution to Aid Injured Ukrainians

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – RedDress , a Florida-based Israeli medical company is shipping revolutionary blood-clotting wound care systems to Ukraine to help with serious injuries and severe trauma wounds. – RedDress began shipments of 400 of their ActiGraft systems this week to multiple hospitals in Ukraine to help treat civilian casualties as a result of the indiscriminate Russian attacks.

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Bridging The Digital Divide In Rural Areas

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Bill Thomson, vice president of marketing and product manager, DC BLOX. In South Carolina, many residents are plagued by the unavailability of high-speed broadband connections. Despite 91.5% of the state’s residents having the ability […]. The article Bridging The Digital Divide In Rural Areas appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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UK Startup Oliva Raises $6.3M for Workplace Mental Health Platform

HIT Consultant

Oliva Co-Founders Javier Suarez and Sançar ?ahin. What You Should Know: – Oliva , a London-based workplace mental health platform announced it has raised $6.3M (£4.84M) in seed funding led by Stride VC , a seed-stage VC firm based in London, along with additional investment provided by Moonfire. – The seed raise marks the largest seed funding for a mental health startup in Europe.

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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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Digital mental health startup Cerebral launches opioid use disorder program

Mobi Health News

The program launched in Florida in early March and will expand to other states in coming months.

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Why Mainstream Precision Medicine Hinges on Healthcare HPC Storage

HIT Consultant

Adam Marko, Director of Life Science Solutions at Panasas. The healthcare industry is experiencing a data deluge, and it shows no sign of slowing down. In 2020, estimates reported that healthcare data comprised a staggering 30% of the world’s total data volume ; projections for 2025 bump that number up to 36%, a growth rate outpacing every other industry.

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Roundup: Digital health platform Altibbi supports Egyptian project, ORCHA launches digital health academy, and more briefs

Mobi Health News

Digital health platform Altibbi supports Egyptian blood plasma project Altibbi has partnered with Egypt’s Ministry of Health and Population to work on a blood plasma project.

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COTA Promotes Miruna Sasu to President and CEO

HIT Consultant

Miruna Sasu, Ph.D., MBA, President & CEO at COTA, Inc. What You Should Know: – COTA, Inc. , an oncology real-world data and analytics company, announced today that Miruna Sasu , Ph.D., MBA, has been appointed president and chief executive officer. – Since April 2021 when she was hired as the company’s chief strategy officer, Miruna has helped spearhead a series of research collaborations focused on investigating racial disparities in cancer care and the drug development process,

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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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Google Health Adds Condition-Focused Feature To Its Clinical Data Sorting Tool

Healthcare IT Today

About a year ago, Google gave the world a look at a pilot version of a new tool designed to give clinicians harmonized health data from different sources. The tool, Care Studio, is software designed to offer a comprehensive view of patient records and help clinicians find and review results in context. This week, at […].

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Podimetrics Secures $45M for SmartMat to Prevent Diabetic Amputations in High-Risk Patients

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Podimetrics raises $45M to help at-risk providers and health plans prevent diabetic amputations in high-risk patients. – With this latest round of funding, Podimetrics plans to focus on hiring to build out their product development and research teams, while also expanding the breadth of services delivered by their nurse support team.

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How RWJBarnabas Health Is Leveraging Data Across Disparate Systems

Healthcare IT Today

One of the biggest challenges in health IT is the fact that patient data is spread across multiple systems. While we’d like to think that the EHR stores all the information about a patient, it doesn’t. There are many other systems in a healthcare organization where patient data is stored. One thing we’ve learned over […].

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Go Local and Go Beyond Medical Care: What Hospitals, Health Plans, and Pharma Can Do to Rebuild Trust

Health Populi

Without trust, people do not engage with health care providers, health plans, or life science companies… nor do many people accept “science fact.” I explore the sad state of Trust and Health Care. published in the Medecision Liberate Health blog, with a positive and constructive call-to-action for health care industry stakeholders to consider in re-building this basic driver of well-being.

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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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BioCoach Reaches $100 Million Valuation for Its Innovative Approach to Digital Health Solutions

Healthcare IT Today

Health Technology Innovator Announces Seed Round to Fund Platform Growth BioCoach, a leader in direct-to-consumer in-vitro diagnostic testing, today announced it has received $4 million in funding from SecretLab LLC to kick metabolic disease in the a**. The seed round will allow BioCoach to begin to scale its new digital health platform. “No one gets it,” said […].

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Preparing for the Biggest Coverage Event Since the ACA: The Role of States as Medicaid Continuous Coverage Comes to an End

Center for Health Insurance Reform

CHIR and our colleagues at the Center for Children and Families (CCF) have published two new resources examining state-level preparations for the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency and the redetermination of the Medicaid eligibility of close to 85 million people. CHIR and the Urban Institute published a review of how state-based Marketplaces and Medicaid agencies are working together to ease coverage transitions, and CCF and KFF released their 20th 50-state survey of Medicaid agencies,

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Osso VR scores $66M for virtual reality surgical training and more digital health fundings

Mobi Health News

Also: Diabetes care company Podimetrics raised $45 million, and employer-focused hybrid startup Radish Health brought in $4 million in seed funding.

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Hikma Ventures Leads Series B Extension in Activ Surgical to Support the Global Commercialization of Its Platform

Healthcare IT Today

Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC (Hikma), the multinational pharmaceutical company, today announced that its venture capital arm, Hikma Ventures has led an $15 million USD round of financing for Activ Surgical, a pioneering digital surgery imaging startup that is developing groundbreaking interoperative surgical intelligence hardware and software. The investment is an extension of the Series B round that was previously announced by Activ Surgical […].

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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.

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Genetics in Healthcare and Compliance Risks

Healthicity

The Future and Hope of Genetics in Healthcare.

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What Does the OFAC Sanctions List Have to do With Russia and Ukraine?

Verisys

Reports from Ukraine continue to reveal devastation, including shelled-out apartment buildings, street fighting in Kyiv, and missile launches from the Black Sea. Since the initial assault on Feb. 24, hundreds of Ukrainians have died and hundreds of thousands more have fled their homes. Many nations reacted to the invasion of Ukraine by imposing sanctions against Russia.

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Court Allows New York Doctor To Subpoena Yelp for User Information in Defamation Suit

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 On October 7, 2021, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that Yelp is subject to a subpoena to reveal the names of anonymous users who left negative reviews for a doctor [.].

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Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: WACS to Acquire LIBERTY Dental Plan

McGuire Wood

Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS) announced earlier this month that it will acquire a majority ownership stake in LIBERTY Dental Plan Corp. LIBERTY, based in Irvine, Calif., is a dental benefits administrator. Founded in 2002, the company states it administers dental benefits in all 50 states. WCAS , based in New York, is a private equity firm focused exclusively on the healthcare and technology industries.

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Generative AI for Contracts Is Here: New Tools to Accelerate Drafting and Editing

The emergence of generative AI is reshaping the landscape of contract management, enabling businesses to generate and negotiate legal agreements with greater ease and speed. In this on-demand webinar, Hal Marcus, VP of Product Marketing at Evisort discusses how Evisort's generative AI transforms contract creation and negotiation, empowering legal teams to streamline processes while reducing risk.