Bill of Health

MARCH 22, 2022

By Brooke Ellison. There is a profound need to deconstruct and actively reconstruct the interpretation of disability as it is currently understood. The current framing of disability as inability — whether an inability to be employed or otherwise — has utterly failed not only people with disabilities, but also the communities in which they live. This perception of disability is a relic of attitudinal and policy structures put into place by people who do not live with disability themselves: people

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 22, 2022

Telehealth is increasingly being woven into healthcare organizations' future plans, giving hope to proponents of hybrid care models.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 22, 2022

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Health system IT leaders need to be ready to enable care delivery anywhere, anytime, to any patient. New advances in cloud and telehealth/remote monitoring are forcing the issue. David Chou Healthcare chief information officers had a lot to take in at HIMSS22 this past week.

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 22, 2022

If successful, the coalition would bring together New York City's largest public employee union and the United Federation of Teachers. Together the group would represent about 540,000 people.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 22, 2022

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 22, 2022

UMass Memorial Health had to quickly improvise a way to run payroll for more than 16,000 employees without hours-worked data, CFO Sergio Melgar said.

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 22, 2022

The boost in non-COVID-19 patient services helped the 26-hospital Midwestern system offset rising labor and supply costs.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2022

For some time now, special pandemic rules have been in effect which allowed providers to offer various forms of government-funded telehealth. However, if no action was taken to head this off, these rules were due to expire with the official end of the COVID-19 public health emergency. The American Telehealth Association has been pushing Congress […].

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 22, 2022

Dr. Toyin Ajayi, CEO at Cityblock Health. What You Should Know: – Cityblock Health, a value-based healthcare provider for Medicaid, dually-eligible and lower-income Medicare beneficiaries appoints co-founder Dr. Toyin Ajayi to CEO. Co-founder Iyah Romm is stepping down as CEO but will continue serving as a member of the board. – Dr. Ajayi most recently served as president, where she oversaw the company’s growth and clinical model.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2022

In-person healthcare conferences offer a unique opportunity to learn from industry thought-leaders, discover interesting new companies, and hear from established players in the ecosystem. This year at #HIMSS22 I had the opportunity to capture a few of these meetings on camera. Check out these short videos with: MedeAnalytics, DrFirst, Fortinet, R-Zero, and Project Hosts.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 22, 2022

What You Should Know: – NVIDIA today introduced Clara Holoscan MGX , a platform for the medical device industry to develop and deploy real-time AI applications at the edge, specifically designed to meet required regulatory standards. – Clara Holoscan MGX expands the Clara Holoscan platform to provide an all-in-one, medical-grade reference architecture, as well as long-term software support, to accelerate innovation in the medical device industry.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 22, 2022

The company announced a deal with Indegene to launch Regulora, its recently FDA-approved prescription digital therapeutic for treating abdominal pain associated with IBS.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 22, 2022

What You Should Know: – Eko , a digital health company advancing heart and lung disease detection, today announced the launch of its newly-redesigned Eko App, which will transform patient interactions into an opportunity to screen for cardiovascular disease. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S., and there has not been an efficient and affordable solution to screen for heart disease at the physical exam until now. – Eko has transformed the traditional stethoscope in

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2022

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 3/25 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by John Lynn (@techguy) from @hcittoday on the topic “Post #ViVE2022 and #HIMSS22 Wrapup.” We just finished a busy two weeks of big health IT conferences with ViVE […].

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 22, 2022

What You Should Know: – Today, Nuvo Group announced a strategic collaboration with Philips to address maternal care disparities in rural areas, beginning in Colorado. – Following the White House’s call to action on maternal health, the companies’ goal is to offer an integrated solution for rural-based care providers and their patients to increase access and drive adherence to prescribed prenatal care via the INVU by Nuvo remote pregnancy monitoring system.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 22, 2022

A Nature article outlines the digital health approaches of nine countries around the world.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2022

OptimizeRx Corp. (the “Company”) (Nasdaq: OPRX), a leading provider of point-of-care technology solutions helping patients start and stay on therapy, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire the EvinceMed platform and related assets. EvinceMed is a leader in delivering end-to-end automation for specialty pharmaceutical transactions. The acquisition includes the full Market Access Management Platform supporting pharma […].

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Health Populi

MARCH 22, 2022

The financial toxicity of health care costs in the U.S. takes center stage in Health Populi this week as several events converge to highlight medical debt as a unique feature in American health care. “Medical debt is the most common collection tradeline reported on consumer credit records,” the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau called out in a report published March 1, 2022.

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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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Modern Healthcare

MARCH 22, 2022

Elizabeth Fowler, director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) and deputy administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, discusses the decision-making behind recent changes to Medicare direct contracting models.

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Healthicity

MARCH 22, 2022

Acupuncture is becoming a more accepted treatment for pain in traditional medicine.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

MARCH 22, 2022

The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently published guidance on how businesses can ensure that their websites are accessible to people with disabilities. Websites are required to be accessible to people with disabilities under the American with Disabilities Act (ADA). Inaccessible web content means that people with disabilities are denied equal access to information.

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Compliancy Group

MARCH 22, 2022

While some healthcare organizations do not think that becoming HIPAA compliant is worth the investment, failure to comply with HIPAA can come at a much higher cost. The cost of noncompliance can include an increased likelihood of breaches, reputational damage, and HIPAA violation fines. . In addition, the cost of responding to breaches and remediating the vulnerabilities that caused the incident are much higher for noncompliant organizations, and data breach reputation damage can be detrimental

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The Health Law Firm Blog

MARCH 22, 2022

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law In October 2021, attorneys who had acted as the class counsel in litigation suing UnitedHealth Group over mental health reimbursement policies asked a New York federal court to approve a $3.35 million fee award. If approved, it would.

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Health Care Performance

MARCH 22, 2022

I recently had a conversation with Scott Wolff, President and owner of LanServ, a St. Louis IT and managed service provider. Scott was a recent guest expert for a MPA webinar that discussed HIPAA Security Risk Assessment and cybersecurity. I asked Scott if there has been an increase in cyber threat activity as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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The Health Law Firm Blog

MARCH 22, 2022

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On February 23, 2022, a psychiatric practice and its owner agreed to pay $310,874 to resolve allegations they improperly hired and employed a physician who was excluded from federal healthcare programs. The physician who was hired was on.

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Jackson Lewis

MARCH 22, 2022

OSHA has just announced it is partially reopening the record on the rulemaking for the permanent healthcare COVID-19 standard known as the rule on Occupational Exposure to COVID-19 in Healthcare Settings. For more information please see this post at our OSHA Law Blog.

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OSHA Law Blog

MARCH 22, 2022

OSHA has just announced it is partially reopening the record on the rulemaking for the permanent healthcare COVID-19 standard known as the rule on Occupational Exposure to COVID-19 in Healthcare Settings. Comments are due by April 22, 2022. The docket number is OSHA-2020-0004. Following the written comments, there will also be a hearing held online on April 27, 2022.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 22, 2022

This new rollout comes after Talkspace acquired self-guided app Lasting in 2020.

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Modern Healthcare

MARCH 22, 2022

Amid calls to distribute aid more quickly, 89% of Phase 4 applications have been processed and $6.5 billion remains.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 22, 2022

Also: Telehealth startup Antidote Health and fertility tech company Alife Health both raise $22 million.

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