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The pipeline of new antibiotics is drying up. A bill in Congress aims to change that.

Healthcare Dive

Despite the growing threat of drug-resistant bacteria, few new antibiotics are reaching the market because of hurdles that biotech executives and experts say stand in the way.

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We Need to Evaluate Ethics Curricula

Bill of Health

By Leah Pierson. Health professions students are often required to complete training in ethics. But these curricula vary immensely in terms of their stated objectives, time devoted to them, when during training students complete them, who teaches them, content covered, how students are assessed, and instruction model used. Evaluating these curricula on a common set of standards could help make them more effective.

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Anthem relies on flexible partner-not-build strategy in shift to value

Healthcare Dive

It's a capital-efficient way to achieve growth without being pigeonholed into one approach and differs from the value-based blueprints of peers UnitedHealth and Humana, analysts said.

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Digital therapeutics industry is gaining steam, but usability questions still loom

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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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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Pfizer, BioNTech begin process of asking FDA for COVID-19 vaccine clearance in young kids

Healthcare Dive

The companies said the FDA, in an unusual step, requested they submit the clinical trial data they currently have while testing of a third dose in children under 5.

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Virtua Health offers lessons in creating a Digital Transformation Office, Part 1

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Virtua Health is a nonprofit community health system with five hospitals, seven urgent care centers and 280-plus locations across South New Jersey and Philadelphia. It employs 14,000 people, including more than 2,850 doctors, physician assistants and nurse practitioners, and has more than one million patient encounters per year. Virtua Health had an early start to digital technology that included the implementation of an integrated electronic health record across its inpatient and ambulatory cam

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What the Future of Re-Charging Your Car Has to Do With Your Health

Health Populi

Health care must confront its role in the climate crisis, a JAMA viewpoint asserted on January 31, 2022. Dr. Kenneth Kizer and Dr. Kari Nadeau recommended that, “Instead of contributing to climate change, health care as an enterprise could become a model for environmental sustainability.” This ethos was called out at the recent COP26 UN Climate Conference which resulted in a portfolio of health care initiatives for providers, globally, to address climate change as a macro determinan

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HHS: Disparities in video telehealth use highlight key barriers to access

Fierce Healthcare

HHS: Disparities in video telehealth use highlight key barriers to access. rking. Wed, 02/02/2022 - 13:45.

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Withings Acquires Health and Fitness App 8Fit to Strengthen Personalized Wellness Capabilities

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Withings , the leader in at-home connected health, today announced the acquisition of 8fit , worldwide health, fitness, and wellness app with more than 40 million downloads. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. – The acquisition is part of a $30M investment Withings is announcing over the next three years in its strategy to combine cutting-edge medical devices with personal health and wellness plans.

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Does Medicare Pay For Routine Vision Care?

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Medicare is a lifeline for millions of Americans, ensuring that they have access to all sorts of treatments, as well as things like prescription drugs and vital supplies to keep them healthy and happy. Of […]. The article Does Medicare Pay For Routine Vision Care?

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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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HealthRhythms lands UCHealth partnership, $11M investment to scale up AI-based mental health app

Fierce Healthcare

HealthRhythms lands UCHealth partnership, $11M investment to scale up AI-based mental health app. hlandi. Wed, 02/02/2022 - 15:39.

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Why Value-Based Care Requires Value-Based Administration

HIT Consultant

Rahul Sharma, Chief Executive Officer at HSBlox Lynn Carroll, Chief Operations Officer at HSBlox. Value-based care (VBC) i s finally gaining steam among healthcare organizations as executives look to implement processes that boost patient outcomes and rein in elevated levels of spending. To that end, more than 90% of health system executives say they expect VBC contracts will continue to grow in the coming years.

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Warren calls for end to Direct Contracting, reforms to Medicare Advantage risk adjustment

Fierce Healthcare

Warren calls for end to Direct Contracting, reforms to Medicare Advantage risk adjustment. rking. Wed, 02/02/2022 - 16:57.

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Neura Health Raises $2.2M to Expand Virtual Neurology Clinic

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Created to close the massive access and quality gap in neurological care, Neura Health announced it has raised $2.2M in seed funding from investors Pear VC (Doordash, Guardant Health), Norwest Venture Partners (Calm, Talkspace), Global Founders Capital , Index Ventures (Figma, Robinhood), digital health expert Nikhil Krishnan , and Next Play Ventures , the fund of former LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner.

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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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Biden relaunches national initiative Cancer Moonshot to accelerate fight against cancer

Fierce Healthcare

Biden relaunches national initiative Cancer Moonshot to accelerate fight against cancer. agliadkovskaya. Wed, 02/02/2022 - 16:26.

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Butterfly Network & Ambra Health Partner to Enhance Ultrasound Data Integration

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Butterfly Network, Inc. (NYSE: BFLY), a digital health company transforming care with handheld, whole-body ultrasound, and Ambra Health , an Intelerad Company, and maker of a leading cloud-based, medical image management suite, today announced a strategic partnership to accelerate and simplify interoperability for bedside imaging data. – Working together, Butterfly and Ambra will empower providers and departments across hospitals and health systems to view and

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Magellan Health partners with Zipline to deliver prescriptions by drone

Fierce Healthcare

Magellan Health partners with Zipline to deliver prescriptions by drone. rtorrence. Wed, 02/02/2022 - 15:25.

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Community Pharmacies Can Help Prevent Opioid Drug Diversion and Accidental Poisonings

Sharps Compliance

Pharmacists are some of the most trusted professionals in the United States. Community pharmacies play a crucial role in the nationwide effort to educate the public about the importance of safe prescription drug disposal and provide access to regulatory compliant disposal solutions. A conducted by Portland State University (PSU) found that an on-site disposal option at the pharmacy could help. “ The presence of a dropbox at a pharmacy was associated with greater customer awareness of prope

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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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Vizient: Drug prices for hospitals to increase 3% in 2022, with remdesivir topping adalimumab in total spend

Fierce Healthcare

Vizient: Drug prices for hospitals to increase 3% in 2022, with remdesivir topping adalimumab in total spend. dmuoio. Wed, 02/02/2022 - 16:48.

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Redundancy Re-considered: Why We’re a Google Cloud Partner

HIPAA Vault

“Never give up, never surrender.” – Cmdr. Peter Quincy Taggart, Galaxy Quest Yes, that is how we feel about cybersecurity. Yet it’s true; redundancy can often feel… superfluous; like making predictions about the future, or deja vu all over again. But when it comes to your client’s healthcare data, redundant protections are anything but unnecessary.

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Biden aims to reduce cancer deaths by 50% over next 25 years

Modern Healthcare

President Joe Biden is committing to reduce the cancer death rate by 50% — a new goal for the “moonshot” initiative against the disease that was announced in 2016 when he was vice president.

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Humana outlines its strategy to bounce back after MA growth for 2022 underwhelms

Fierce Healthcare

Humana outlines its strategy to bounce back after MA growth for 2022 underwhelms. pminemyer. Wed, 02/02/2022 - 07:30.

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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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A Look at the Future of Virtual Care with Omada Health CEO Sean Duffy

Healthcare IT Today

Many of us in the world of health IT saw how the future of healthcare was going to be virtual. The challenge I always had was seeing how we’d actually get there. The financial incentives weren’t in place and still today many of the approaches to virtual don’t actually benefit the doctor who provides the […].

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DOJ recovers over $5B in healthcare fraud settlements, judgments in 2021

Fierce Healthcare

DOJ recovers over $5B in healthcare fraud settlements, judgments in 2021. dmuoio. Wed, 02/02/2022 - 12:13.

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Jolly Good, Otsuka sign $40M deal for behavioural therapy VR

Mobi Health News

The use of social skill training VR facilitates the social rehabilitation of patients with mental disorders.

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CMS puts focus on health equity in Medicare Advantage, Part D Advance Notice

Fierce Healthcare

CMS puts focus on health equity in Medicare Advantage, Part D Advance Notice. pminemyer. Wed, 02/02/2022 - 16:58.

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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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Peloton releases new wearable heart rate monitor

Mobi Health News

The heart rate monitor, which retails for $90, is worn around the forearm, unlike the company's other chest band wearable.

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City of Hope closes acquisition of Cancer Treatment Centers of America

Fierce Healthcare

City of Hope closes acquisition of Cancer Treatment Centers of America. dmuoio. Wed, 02/02/2022 - 14:41.

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Withings buys workout, nutrition app 8fit to boost health insights

Mobi Health News

The acquisition comes just after the health tech company announced it had purchased device maker Impeto Medical.

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New York Optician Convicted of Medicaid Fraud for Nursing Home Residents

Healthcare Compliance Blog

A New York optician has pled guilty to grand larceny for submitting false claims for optician services that he alleged were for specific nursing home residents, but which were never provided. Many of the residents for whom the optician submitted claims were deceased, and he never visited the nursing homes on the dates of the those claims. The optician fraudulently received approximately $74,000 in Medicaid payments between 2016 and 2019 by billing for the optician services that were not provided

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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.