Tue.Feb 08, 2022

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Reflections on Procedural Barriers to Pediatric COVID Vaccine Access

Bill of Health

By Fatima Khan. When news broke last week that Pfizer-BioNTech was submitting for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) a two-dose COVID vaccine regimen for children under 5 to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), many parents felt a glimmer of hope after a long time. Up until a few days before, the public was expecting approval to possibly drag into summer.

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Black women disproportionately concentrated in low-wage, hazardous healthcare jobs, study finds

Healthcare Dive

The U.S.'s historical legacies of racism and sexism have shaped the employment trajectories of Black women, dating back to how care work was divided in slavery and domestic service, according to new research.

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How Will Drones Shape the Future of Healthcare?

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The threat of coronavirus has posed a number of issues in the healthcare system. But the biggest benefit was that it triggered a major expansion in health technology, such as telemedicine and at-home lab tests. […]. The article How Will Drones Shape the Future of Healthcare?

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Robots cushion omicron's blow to Q4 orthopaedic device sales

Healthcare Dive

Zimmer Biomet, Stryker and Johnson & Johnson's businesses endured more pressures tied to the postponement of elective procedures in the fourth quarter, but sales of their robotic systems continued to expand.

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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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Hayes External Audit Workflow Tool Streamlines Audit Management

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. As payers step up efforts to identify and recoup improper payments, hospitals and health systems require innovative solutions to mitigate the potential threat these reviews pose to the bottom line. To meet this need, Hayes, a leading […]. The article Hayes External Audit Workflow Tool Streamlines Audit Management appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Pfizer forecasts $100B in sales, fueled by COVID-19 vaccine, pill

Healthcare Dive

The company estimated revenue from its COVID-19 vaccine and new antiviral pill Paxlovid will total $54 billion this year.

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Top 6 In-Demand Healthcare Tech Jobs For 2022 and Beyond

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. As more companies adopt tech and IT in their operations, technology and IT professions gather momentum. Companies also try to attract top tech talent to support their digital transformations as the tech playing fields are […]. The article Top 6 In-Demand Healthcare Tech Jobs For 2022 and Beyond appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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How the hybrid future of telemedicine may play out

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In the last few years, care delivery has undergone a major transformation – from nearly 100% in-person to nearly 100% virtual during the lockdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, the healthcare industry has started to reach a consensus that the future of telemedicine will be a hybrid of virtual and in-person care. While virtual care's widespread adoption will certainly help providers offer more proactive care in lower cost settings and decrease the need for regular in-person visits, i

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Health Care Paradox: Medicare Penalizes Dozens of Hospitals It Also Gives Five Stars

Kaiser Health News

The federal government has penalized 764 hospitals — including more than three dozen it simultaneously rates as among the best in the country — for having the highest numbers of patient infections and potentially avoidable complications. The penalties — a 1% reduction in Medicare payments over 12 months — are based on the experiences of Medicare patients discharged from the hospital between July 2018 and the end of 2019, before the pandemic began in earnest.

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Indonesia to expand telemedicine service for COVID-19 patients outside Jakarta

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Indonesian government will be extending its free telemedicine service for COVID-19 patients outside its capital, Jakarta. WHAT IT'S ABOUT. Accessible through a government website, the service is intended for asymptomatic or mild COVID-19 patients under self-isolation. The government has secured the cooperation of 17 health platforms to provide virtual care, including major telehealth players Halodoc and Alodokter.

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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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C2i Genomics, Twist Bioscience Partner to Develop Whole-Genome Cancer Reference Materials

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Twist Bioscience and cancer genomics startup C2i Genomics announced a partnership to develop whole-genome cancer reference materials. – This resource will provide diagnostic labs around the globe with the ability to better validate and monitor the quality of their whole-genome cancer screening and minimal residual disease (MRD) products for more accurate cancer detection.

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More funds added for psychosocial telehealth to support ovarian cancer patients in Australia

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Australian government has added A$2 million ($1.4 million) more to independent non-profit Ovarian Cancer Australia to help maintain its provision of psychosocial telehealth services to ovarian cancer patients. WHY IT MATTERS. Last year saw approximately 1,700 women in Australia diagnosed with ovarian cancer with 1,000 dying from the disease. Given a low 5-year survival rate of below 50% and a recurrence rate of up to 70%, four in 10 women with ovarian cancer experience clinical levels of anx

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Oregon’s Public Option Implementation Report Emphasizes Cost Containment, Health Equity

Center for Health Insurance Reform

The Oregon Health Authority recently released its Public Option Implementation Report, stemming from a legislative directive to develop a plan to make a public health insurance option available in the individual (and potentially small group) market. CHIR’s Christine Monahan takes a look at what’s in the new report and what’s next for the Oregon public option initiative.

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Medable Launches Decentralized Clinical Trials Partner Network

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Medable Inc. , a Palo Alto, CA-based provider for patient-centered clinical trials , today launched the Medable Partner Network – uniting a diverse ecosystem of technology, service, data, site, and direct-to-patient partners that work together to accelerate deployment of decentralized clinical trials. – The network includes new partnerships with Advanced Clinical, Cognizant, and CVS, and expanded relationships with Datavant, Oracle, Parexel, PPD, part of Therm

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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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The Final Rule: How to Prevent $389,000 in Medicare Overpayments

Healthicity

New York Hospital to Pay $389,000 to Medicare. In a recent audit of a New York hospital, the HHS OIG identified overpayments.

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Amazon Care Expands Telehealth Services Nationwide, Expands In-Person Services in More Than 20 Cities

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Amazon Care expands its telehealth services nationwide and in-person services will be rolled out in more than 20 new cities this year. The service is already available in Seattle, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Austin, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Arlington. – Amazon plans to expand more than 20 additional cities—including major metropolitan areas like San Francisco, Miami, Chicago, and New York City—so customers can access care where and when they need it m

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Despite Size of Threat, Healthcare Orgs Still Not Spending Enough On Cybersecurity

Healthcare IT Today

As I reported recently, last year was an extremely difficult one healthcare security. More than 700 healthcare organizations reported a breach of 500 or more patient records to the HHS Office for Civil Rights, more than double the number of such attacks reported five years. Why are things this bad? Well, clearly the pandemic has […].

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Smart sanitation robot in South Korea calculates virus spread in closed spaces

Mobi Health News

It maps its own sterilisation path by locating areas where the virus is most probably dense.

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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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The Great Resignation – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 2/11 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by John Lynn (@techguy) from @hcittoday on the topic “The Great Resignation.” No industry seems to be immune to the loss of employers in what many are […].

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SafeHeal raises €40M for ‘new standard of care’ in digestive surgery

Mobi Health News

Digestive surgery could be transformed with a new medical device called ‘Colovac’ from French innovator.

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Telehealth can boost outcomes for chronic conditions

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Indonesian weight loss app closes $2.6M seed funding

Mobi Health News

It is working to enhance its health programmes by conducting more research and establishing partnerships.

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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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CMS to Host Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-Aside Webinar

Medval Compliance Blog

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced yesterday that it will be hosting a Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-Aside (WCMSA) webinar next Thursday, February 17, 2022 at 1:00 pm ET. The webinar will include a variety of WCMSA topics, including a summary of what’s new in Medicare set-asides, and address questions related to the inclusion of treatments, application of state rules, re-reviews/amended reviews and more.

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CDC adds wastewater surveillance to its digital COVID-19 Data Tracker

Mobi Health News

The tool will let users look at virus levels in wastewater over the last 15 days.

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Get Clarity on COVID Compliance

MedTrainer

What’s going on right now with COVID-19 rules and compliance? That’s a complicated question because the answer is that it depends on your state and what kind of business you have. But let’s break it… The post Get Clarity on COVID Compliance appeared first on MedTrainer.

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YPrime scoops up clinical trial patient engagement tool Tryl

Mobi Health News

Tryl is focused on curbing clinical trial dropout rates through personalized patient engagement.

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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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The Essentials of Software as a Medical Device (SaMD)

Dot Compliance

The digital revolution and IoMT (Internet of Medical Things) has transformed the healthcare landscape. Software and connected devices are now being used to power disruptive medical technologies and solutions. Bioinformatics, point-of-care diagnostics, and 3D printing are just a few of the exponential medicine breakthroughs enabled. Software is changing how healthcare professionals act and react, how they interact with their patients, and patients’ abilities to take charge and manage their

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WEBINAR - RHCs and FQHCs: What You Need to Know NOW about New CMS Regulations on Vaccine Mandates

McBrayer Law Blog

Posted In Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) , COVID-19 , Mandatory vaccination policies More > Tags: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services , CMS , COVID-19 , employer mandate , Healthcare Compliance Issues , Healthcare Provider , Healthcare Providers , Mandatory vaccination.

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With No End in Sight for COVID, Why Is Congress Not Acting on Telehealth?

HIT Consultant

Naresh Gunaratnam MD, AGAF, Gastroenterologist with Huron Gastroenterology. Long gone are the days of physicians arriving at a patient’s bedside, medical bag, and stethoscope in tow. The idea of a house call is quaint, like something seen in an old movie. But during the COVID pandemic, this olden idea has received a high-tech upgrade in the form of telehealth.

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Neura Health Raises $2.2M to Improve Access and Quality of Care for Neurologic Conditions

Healthcare IT Today

Funding to Support Neura Heath’s Long-Term Vision to Find Cures by Learning from Experience of Every Neurology Patient New help is on the way for the more than 100 million Americans who suffer from a neurological disorder. Neura Health, which was built to close the massive access and quality gap in neurological care, today announced it has […].

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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.