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Long-term health of patients, hospitals at stake as care delays continue

Healthcare Dive

As federal relief funds dwindle and volumes remain stagnant, concerns are mounting about the stability of many providers' operations, especially those lacking robust outpatient services.

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Re-Imagining Work in the Post-Pandemic Era: An Arendtian Lens

Bill of Health

By Xochitl L. Mendez. The coronavirus pandemic changed the world in countless ways, and for a moment it challenged the pre-pandemic separation of — in Hannah Arendt’s terms — the Private and the Public. To Arendt , the Public is defined as the sole realm where a human can live in full, as a person integral and part of a community as an equal. Being human is only fully procurable by the presence that a person achieves when acting among others.

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Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic

Healthcare Dive

Hospitals overhauled their operations in COVID-19's early days. Now, two years into the pandemic, they are looking ahead at the future of their business, including revenue diversification and workforce stability.

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

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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US health spending growth decelerated in pandemic's second year

Healthcare Dive

According to new numbers from the CMS, national health spending grew 4.2% last year to almost $4.3 trillion, a significant slowdown from the 9.7% growth rate in 2020.

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Hackensack Meridian Health shows the benefits of telepsychiatry

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Addressing the increasing need for behavioral health services is a nationwide challenge. With a shortage of physicians to address the growing need for care, a lack of providers who accept Medicaid, and access issues due to transportation or office hour challenges, healthcare organizations are looking to technology to help bridge the gap. "Without the utilization of telehealth, patients arriving at an emergency department often have long wait times before meeting with an available physician,

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The Healthcare AI Project That Experts Said Wasn’t Possible

Healthcare IT Today

While at the HIMSS 2022 conference, I sat down with Bob Rogers, AI Expert in Residence Center for Digital Health Innovation at UCSF, and Sri Ambati, CEO & Co-Founder at H2O.ai, to learn about a really interesting project that Rogers was working on at UCSF. When he started the project, he asked a number of experts about […].

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Why Healthcare Interoperability Is So Important In 2022

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Lisa Esch, chief of strategy, innovation and provider industry solutions, NTT DATA Services. The current state of our healthcare system is in disarray. Healthcare organizations are overworked and understaffed as they deal with the […]. The article Why Healthcare Interoperability Is So Important In 2022 appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Brightside Health Raises $50M for Personalized Anxiety & Depression Care

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Brightside Health announced it raised a $50M Series B, led by ACME Capital and Mousse Partners, bringing its total funding to $75M to date. – The funding will help Brightside expand access to high-quality mental healthcare to more people across the country, enhance the platform, forge new partnerships, and grow as a team, from about 57 now to an expected 175 later this year. .

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Remote pulse oximetry monitoring could help spot signs of deterioration in COVID-19 patients

Mobi Health News

A systematic review published in the Lancet found that RPM for COVID-19 patients could help triage a patient's condition, but did not necessarily link to a better health outcome.

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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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LCMC Health Delivers Remote Pregnancy Care to More Than 1,200 Mothers Through Babyscripts

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Babyscripts , a virtual care platform for managing obstetrics, announced a one-year partnership with LCMC Health , a New Orleans-based, non-profit health system. – The partnership has provided more than 1,200 mothers with equitable access to care through the Babyscripts virtual maternity care platform and has been shown to increase patient compliance to important maternal care guidelines.

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Doubling-Down on Clinical Team Education – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 4/1 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Kathryn Ayers Wickenhauser (@KAWickenhauser) from @DirectTrustorg on the topic “Doubling-Down on Clinical Team Education.” It’s clear healthcare technology and infrastructure continues to become more advanced.

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New report aims to help evaluate critical LGBTQ+ health data collection

Modern Healthcare

The report provides the NIH with guidance for gathering data on gender and sexuality, key to understanding disparities across marginalized populations.

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FinPay Completes $15 Million Growth Round Led By PeakSpan Capital To Expand Patient Engagement and Financial Management Solution

Healthcare IT Today

FinPay Holdings, Inc., a recognized leader in patient engagement and financial management, announced today it has closed a $15 million growth round. The round was led by PeakSpan Capital, a New York and San Mateo, California-based leader in growth-stage software investing, and with investor Montreux Growth Partners, a leader in healthcare growth investing.

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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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Pediatric mental health startup Brightline raises $105M and more digital health fundings

Mobi Health News

Also: Digital mental health company Brightside Health scores $50 million, and Qure.ai brings in $40 million for its imaging algorithms.

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Compliance Conversations Podcast: Pathways to Compliance

Healthicity

How did you end up in Compliance? What is compliance? How does one become a compliance expert?

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5 things you might have missed from Biden's HHS budget plan

Modern Healthcare

Behavioral health and public health top President Joe Biden's health agenda but HHS is eying other new policies, including higher penalties for HIPAA violations.

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Two Florida Women Sentenced for Stealing Personal Information from a Healthcare Provider 

Healthcare Compliance Blog

Two Florida women that have pled guilty to one count of conspiring to defraud the United States have been sentenced. Both women admitted that they conspired to obtain and utilize patient information from a healthcare provider where one of the women was employed. The woman that was employed at a Florida healthcare provider had improperly accessed 22 patient files.

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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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Baymatob secures $3M funding to complete its pilot study on AI labour monitoring device

Mobi Health News

Oli uses sensors and AI to identify mothers who are at high risk of developing abnormal postpartum haemorrhage.

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The Misadventures of Ada: ICD-10 Cartoon, "The Wrong Procedure" Y65.5

Healthicity

For many folks, bunions are painful and can easily disrupt daily life.

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Singapore medical device brand BUZUD launches smartwatches with sleep apnea detection

Mobi Health News

The BUZUD smartwatches can also measure blood oxygen levels, blood pressure, and heart rate.

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What’s Revenue Cycle Management Going to Look Like in 2025?

Healthcare IT Today

Healthcare IT Today recently partnered with CorroHealth on an e-Book called The Road to 2025: 5 RCM Trends that Are Shaping the Future of Healthcare. The e-Book is full of great insights into how the world of revenue cycle management (RCM) is changing and what healthcare organizations need to know to be prepared for this […].

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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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Understanding Write-Offs in Medical Billing

Medisys Compliance

A write-off is an amount that a practice deducts from a charge and does not expect to collect, thereby ‘writing it off’ the accounts receivable or list of monies owed them by payers or patients. A write-off is an amount that cannot be collected from the patient due to several issues. Collecting accurate reimbursements from insurance and patient is really important for any practice for their financial suitability.

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12 key metrics for compliance officers looking to move their culture forward

YouCompli

Are you spending your time on the right things? You know the seven elements for compliance program effectiveness. They are a north star for healthcare compliance officers, and they’re at the heart of the adage “you can’t manage what you can’t measure.”. Healthcare compliance officers often rely on the seven elements as key performance indicators to measure whether their organization’s compliance goals are achieved.

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Earn CEUs with MPA's FREE Compliance Webinars!

Health Care Performance

Sign up for MPA's FREE Compliance webinars: All webinars are 11:00 a.m. CST - 12:00 p.m. CST and are presented by Margaret Scavotto and Scott Gima. April 6, 2022: Compliance Lessons from Ted Lasso. 1.2 CCB CEUs. “Taking on a challenge is a lot like riding a horse, isn’t it?”. "You know what the happiest animal on Earth is? It's a goldfish. You know why?

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LetsGetChecked scoops up genomics company Veritas Genetics

Mobi Health News

This acquisition will give LetsGetChecked whole-genome-sequencing capabilities.

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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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4 New Enforcement Actions

The HIPAA Blog

4 New Enforcement Actions. The OCR issued a press release last night outlining 4 recent HIPAA enforcement action settlements. Three takeaways:None of the entities are hospitals or health systems, physician groups, or insurers, and all of them look like small practices (all of them could be solo practitioner dentist or psychotherapist shops).

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Indian fitness platform GOQii snaps up $10M to develop its health metaverse

Mobi Health News

Its metaverse ecosystem will incentivise users for healthy behaviours and completing gamified fitness activities.

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OCR Announces 4 Financial Penalties to Resolve HIPAA Violations

HIPAA Journal

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has announced its first financial penalties of 2022 to resolve alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Three of the cases were settled with OCR, and one resulted in a civil monetary penalty being imposed. OCR is continuing to enforce compliance with the HIPAA Right of Access, with two of the enforcement actions resolving violations of this important HIPAA provision.

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ConcertAI scores $150M, valuation skyrockets to nearly $2B

Mobi Health News

The Series C comes about two years after another $150 million raise.

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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.