Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Sparrow Health System in Lansing, Michigan, began developing a virtual care strategy in October 2019 – well before COVID-19 struck – with the hope of leveraging the technology as a tool to support patient care and the organizational strategy, rather than as a stand-alone strategy in and of itself. Sparrow's initial goal was to launch on-demand, virtual urgent care to increase access and provide another front door into the health system.

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Even as the uninsured rate has dipped to a record low, having coverage is not enough to protect consumers from the high-cost of care, Commonwealth Fund researchers found.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Sponsor: Wacom Primary topic: Interoperability Topic: Interoperability Patient Engagement Privacy & Security Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: New frontiers in signature capture and digital workflow management Region Tag: Global Edition Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The Massachusetts Health Policy Commission required the state’s largest health system to submit a cost-cutting plan, a first for the state board.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The bill cuts funding for COVID-19 and monkeypox aid but extends two rural hospital programs.

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Expectations are now higher for amyloid-clearing drugs after lecanemab showed it can slow the disease’s progression in a large late-stage clinical trial.

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Humana has recently announced that the protected health information of 22,767 individuals has potentially been compromised in a security incident and data breach at one of its business associates – Choice Health – which Human used to sell Medicare products on its behalf. On May 18, 2022, Choice Health learned that a Choice Health database was accessible over the Internet, with the investigation confirming the misconfiguration was caused by a third-party service provider.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

What You Should Know: – Rockley Photonics Holdings Limited , a global leader in photonics-based health monitoring and communications solutions, recently announced that it has developed what it believes to be the world’s first micro-transfer-printed (mTP) silicon-photonics-based laser for commercial applications. – This groundbreaking achievement is expected to allow Rockley to further increase the density and reduce the size of its high-density spectrophotometer chips — which are alr

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Medisys Compliance

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Claim denials can be super-frustrating. Let’s face it! Employees at the medical settings frequently attempt to fulfill many roles at once. The individual in charge of billing for optometry frequently handles multiple tasks throughout the day. That implies that they are unable to invest the necessary time and effort to achieve a healthy revenue management cycle.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Doreen DeGroff, MEDITECH Senior Productor Director, CereCore. According to the National Assessment of Adult Health Literacy , only 12% of adults in the U.S. have proficient health literacy skills. Healthcare is a unique industry because it is wide-ranging yet highly personalized. Health literacy is important for patients, physicians and their communities.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Healthcare Data Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York. Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collabora

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

What You Should Know: – Qnovia (formerly Respira Technologies)—a pharma company developing inhaled therapeutics with an initial focus on nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and cardiopulmonary diseases—has raised $17M in Series A funding led by Blue Ledge Capital and included DG Ventures , Evolution VC Partners , Gaingels , TL Capital, and Vice Ventures. – Qnovia will use the Series A proceeds to advance its NRT drug candidate through an IND submission with the FDA and begin human cli

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Instacart confidentially filed for an initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange earlier this year.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Thanks to COVID, we’ve all been forced to learn about a number of technologies we hadn’t known deeply about previously. One of those technologies that’s been around for a long time that’s valuable to know about thanks to COVID is UV products. This relatively old and proven technology has been modernized to address both COVID safety issues and many other health risks that benefit from a high quality disinfection system.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Mati Gil, CEO of AION Labs, describes how its new startup OMEC.AI came to fruition and what it aims to accomplish for drug discovery and development.

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Modern Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The health care industry says travel nurse agencies exploited the COVID-19 pandemic for billions of dollars, but experts are questioning whether the law would be effective at reducing costs.

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Digital Health News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

After a two-month break the Unplugged Podcast returns as Jordan Sollof chats with the first group of 35 under 35 bursary scheme members.

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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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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently conducted a review of Medicare telehealth services provided during the COVID-19 pandemic, when a waiver was in place that greatly expanded access to telehealth and virtual visits. The review covered the utilization of telehealth services, how the CMS identified and monitored risks under the Medicare waivers, and how the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) changed its enforcement of HIPAA compliance with respect to telehealth during the COVID-19

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Med-Net Compliance

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

As part of its response to the opioid crisis, United States Attorney Rachael S. Rollins sent a letter to all skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) in Massachusetts warning that refusing to provide care for persons with opioid use disorder (OUD) violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and that the US Attorney’s Office will aggressively enforce these protections.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Rippl's mental health offering aims to provide seniors with 24/7 access to care.

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HealthIT Answers

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

10 healthcare organizations band together to urge HHS to postpone Information Sharing Compliance deadlines. Read the CHIME press release. The post Organizations Urge HHS to Postpone Blocking Deadlines appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Contingent staffing, also called contingent talent management (CTM), is a business of timing. And in a highly competitive environment where demand is outstripping supply, as it is in healthcare today, every second counts. To maintain the rapid pace needed, many healthcare staffing agencies have deployed some degree of automation in their applicant hiring process.

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YouCompli

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

A sacred trust is at the heart of the relationship between patient and provider. Maintaining this trust can be tough for providers to navigate amid changing regulations and evolving technology. We explore how compliance officers can help their organizations’ providers maintain trusted relationships while ensuring requirements around patient privacy and protected health information (PHI) are met.

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Compliancy Group

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

When HIPAA was signed into law in 1996, modernizing and streamlining medical records access goals were part of the primary focus of the law. That same year, it became possible to send faxes over the internet. Today you’re more likely to see old-style telephone fax machines in a museum than in an office. Internet faxing (or efaxing) has become the preferred choice for most businesses.

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HealthIT Answers

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

By Kathryn Marchesini, Jeff Smith, & Jordan Everson - When talking about artificial intelligence today, people are usually referring to predictive models—often driven by machine learning techniques—that “learn” from historic data and make predictions, recommendations, or classifications (outputs) which inform or drive decision making. The post Minimizing Risks and Maximizing Rewards from Machine Learning appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

What You Should Know: – Rippl , a new mental health startup focused on caring for seniors with dementia and other neurocognitive conditions, launched today with $32M in seed round funding led by ARCH Venture Partners and General Catalyst. The round also includes investment from GV , F-Prime Capital , and Mass General Brigham Ventures. – Rippl will use its seed funding to hire and train a team of clinicians, build technology, and open a Washington state-based clinical support center t

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Sharps Compliance

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Retailers face many challenges: staff retention, rising prices, product shortages, transportation delays, and more. When you’re racing to get new hires trained on basic tasks – how to stock shelves and run the register – who has time to worry about what they’re throwing in the dumpsters? Every store manager and corporate compliance department should worry.

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The Health Law Firm Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issues investigative subpoenas through the Office of the Inspector General (OIG). This agency investigates allegations of fraud, waste, and abuse against Medicare, Medicaid, and other federally funded healthcare programs. [.].

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HealthIT Answers

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

By Ittai Dayan, MD - Following the enactment of HIPAA, patient privacy cemented itself among the foremost concerns of health care providers. This focus on patient privacy was only amplified after Europe passed its own, stronger set of regulations under The General Data Protection Regulation. The post Federated Learning Is Driving a New Approach to Health Care appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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