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How to improve patient trust and strengthen cybersecurity

Healthcare It News

The policies that followed a pre-HIPAA workplace data breach won back patient trust, sparking his interest in cybersecurity, recounts Dr. Eric Liederman, director of medical informatics for the Permanente Medical Group.

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Bayer launches precision health unit in latest digital health venture

Healthcare Dive

The pharma company said it will work with startups and other digital health companies as well as add to its own capabilities as it builds out the consumer-focused business unit.

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Medicare to broaden coverage of Alzheimer’s drugs after full FDA approval, but with some restrictions

Fierce Healthcare

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services outlined plans Thursday to broadly cover a new class of Alzheimer’s drugs once the medications get full approval from the Food and Drug Administration | CMS outlined plans Thursday to broadly cover a new class of Alzheimer’s drugs once the medications get full approval from the Food and Drug Administration.

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Medicaid changes, end of COVID emergency hampered hospital margins in April

Healthcare Dive

Inflation and high expenses are placing a burden on hospitals as they recover from COVID-19 challenges. Hospital labor expenses rose 3% in April from March, according to Kaufman Hall.

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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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Discrimination, racism, violence are common and weighing heavily on healthcare workers, surveys show

Fierce Healthcare

A pair of new healthcare workforce surveys outline widespread reports of discrimination, racism and workplace violence perpetuated by patients and coworkers alike. | A pair of polls released this week detail the interpersonal difficulties nurses and other healthcare workers face in the workplace.

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Over half a million disenrolled amid Medicaid redeterminations so far

Healthcare Dive

A KFF analysis of 11 states found many of the people who have already been removed from the Medicaid program were disenrolled for procedural reasons.

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BJC HealthCare, Saint Luke’s Health System plan to merge, forming $10B system

Healthcare Dive

The organizations signed a non-binding agreement to form a 28-hospital system serving patients in Missouri, Kansas and Illinois.

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IRS Reminds Plan Sponsors of Cafeteria Plan Claims Substantiation Requirements

Compliance Now

By Jessica Waltman, Principal, Forward Health Consulting The federal Section 125 “cafeteria plan” regulations permit health plans to reimburse participants for qualifying medical and dependent care expenses on a pre-tax basis through health flexible spending accounts (FSAs) and dependent care assistance plans (DCAPs) if those claims are properly and fully substantiated.

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Healthcare costs top $31,000 for family of 4 in 2023

Healthcare Dive

After declining briefly in 2020, family healthcare costs are rising as the industry faces an uncertain macroeconomic environment.

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The State of Healthcare Interoperability: Slow Progress, Fragmented Landscape and Technical Challenges

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Welcome to this three-part series examining healthcare interoperability in the United States and the reasons for its slow progress. In Part 1, we delve into the fragmented healthcare landscape and the technical challenges that impede […] The article The State of Healthcare Interoperability: Slow Progress, Fragmented Landscape and Technical Challenges appeared first on electronichealthreporte

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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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Oak Street, post CVS acquisition, plans to enter 4 new states

Healthcare Dive

Oak Street Health, which was acquired by CVS in May, plans to enter Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas and Virginia beginning this summer.

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Attack by notorious ransomware group compromises personal data of 8.9M dental patients

Fierce Healthcare

Data breaches for the year have reached the high-water mark with the data of nearly 9 million individuals being compromised in a reported cyberattack on one of the country’s largest dental health i | Managed Care of North America posted a notice Friday that between Feb. 26 and March 7, a digital intruder stole the data of 8.9 million people. The cyberattack is the largest of its kind in 2023 to date.

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Medicare keeps limits on Alzheimer’s drug coverage, but loosens policy

Healthcare Dive

The agency will reimburse Alzheimer’s treatments if they receive full FDA approval, but plans to still require data collection via a patient registry.

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Idaho hospital diverts ambulances, turns to paper charting following cyberattack

Fierce Healthcare

For more than 24 hours, a hospital in Idaho has been diverting ambulances due to a cyberattack. | Idaho Falls Community Hospital along with adjacent Mountain View Hospital and local clinics are still recovering from a cyberattack that occurred earlier this week.

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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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FDA hits iRhythm with warning letter over problems at heart monitor facility

Healthcare Dive

IRhythm can continue to manufacture and sell its products and does not expect the warning letter to materially affect its financial results.

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Georgia places troubled insurtech Friday Health Plans into receivership, forcing 40,000 patients to seek new coverage

Fierce Healthcare

Georgia places troubled insurtech Friday Health Plans into receivership, forcing 40,000 patients to seek new coverage fdiamond Thu, 06/01/2023 - 13:04

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Somavedic Launches AI-Enabled, Biomarker Analysis App

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Somavedic Technologies (Inc.) , makers of the scientifically-studied sleep & well-tech device by the same name, launches Attune Health Mobile App , an AI-enabled, biomarker analysis, offering 100% contactless solution that enables anyone to measure a wide range of vital signs by simply using their smartphone camera. Somavedic aims to empower consumers with the knowledge to make informed wellness decisions through instant and accessible wellness markers delivered to the

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Why Addressing Stress is the Foundation for Better Health

Fierce Healthcare

When it comes to improving population stress levels, there’s one movement that really gives us hope: We can empower individuals with information, tools, and insights to take better control of their | When it comes to improving population stress levels, there’s one movement that really gives us hope: We can empower individuals with information, tools, and insights to take better control of their stress, and improve their overall health and wellbeing.

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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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Idaho Hospitals Divert Ambulances and Clinic Temporarily Closes Due to Cyberattack

HIPAA Journal

Mountain View Hospital, Idaho Falls Community Hospital, and several clinics in rural Idaho run by the same operator have been affected by a recent cyberattack. The decision was taken to temporarily close one of the clinics – Mountain View RediCare – while the attack is remediated. All other clinics have remained open but are offering reduced services.

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Strive Health scores $166M to scale value-based kidney care

Mobi Health News

The company will use the funds to support and grow its team, enhance its platform and expand partnerships with payors, health systems and physicians.

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Walmart Raises Pay, Invests in Over 7,000 Pharmacists & Opticians

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Walmart announced this week it has raised pay for approximately 3,700 pharmacists, raising the average salary for pharmacists to more than $140,000, not including bonuses and incentives. These investments build on the raises for 36,000 pharmacy technicians that took place last year. Additionally, Walmart will be raising pay for more than 4,000 opticians, bringing the average wage for opticians to be more than $22.50 an hour.

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Unlocking the Power of Price Transparency Data

Fierce Healthcare

Did you know the average total cost of a knee replacement surgery in the U.S. can range from $14,188 to $49,016? | Over a billion new rates-based data sets are now publicly available via machine-readable files, but these files are hard to use. Learn how to harness the power of this data for a competitive advantage.

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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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Do You Understand the Quality of Your Data and the Value Clean Data Can Provide?

Healthcare IT Today

We live in a messy world (and a biased one), so hardly any organization can claim to have data as accurate as they want. According to Mike Noshay, Founder and Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at Verinovum , provenance is “supreme.” In other words, the way to good data is to know how it was collected, who collected it, when events happened and were recorded, and so on.

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15 healthcare systems have been hit with ransomware attacks in 2023

Becker's Health IT

Since the start of 2023, 15 healthcare systems operating 29 hospitals have been targeted by a ransomware incident, BankInfoSecurity reported May 31.

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Transcarent partners with Andy Roddick's ViewFi for orthopedic and musculoskeletal care

Mobi Health News

Transcarent is led by digital health investor, entrepreneur and Livongo vet Glen Tullman. U.S. tennis champion Andy Roddick cofounded ViewFi.

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28,000 Clarke County Hospital Patients Affected by April Cyberattack

HIPAA Journal

Clarke County Hospital in Osceola, IA, has recently started notifying 28,003 current and former patients about a security breach that exposed some of their protected health information. Suspicious activity was detected within its IT environment and the network was immediately isolated. A third-party digital forensics firm was engaged to investigate the security breach to determine the nature and scope of the incident and confirmed there had been unauthorized access on April 14, 2023, and the par

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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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THINK Surgical miniature robotic system gains FDA clearance

Digital Health News

A miniature robotic system from THINK Surgical has gained FDA clearance, and will open up robotic-assisted surgery to more knee replacement patients.

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UnitedHealthcare nixes prior authorization rule, but docs aren’t happy about what's replaced it

Fierce Healthcare

The controversial prior authorization policy for colonoscopies that UnitedHealthcare wanted to put into effect today will not take place, the company said last night

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A Data Network to Tackle Real-Time Eligibility and Claims Along with Many Other Health Data Problems

Healthcare IT Today

Two of the biggest billing problems in U.S. healthcare involve coverage, eligibility and claims. First of all, will the insurer pay for the treatment the doctor requests? Second, how much is covered and how much does the patient have to pay out-of-pocket? Avaneer Health , a company created by a consortium of major payers and health care providers, is trying to solve these problems and other administrative inefficiencies once and for all.

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New Bayer Precision Health group to develop digital health solutions

Digital Health News

A new precision health group from Bayer will aim to bring new digital solutions to market to support consumers having more control over their health.

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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.