Bill of Health
JANUARY 13, 2022
By Katie Moran-McCabe. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, legislators in almost every state have introduced bills that would limit state executive authority to respond to the current pandemic or future public health emergencies. Between January 1, 2021, and November 5, 2021, one or more of these bills were enacted into law and became effective in 19 states.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 13, 2022
A new project in the Australian state of Victoria aims to improve the telehealth capabilities of mental health and palliative care services. Researchers at Monash University have received A$2 million ($1.4 million) funding from the federal government-backed Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre (DHCRC) for its Enhanced Telehealth Capabilities project.
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Mobi Health News
JANUARY 13, 2022
Health tech companies raised nearly $40 billion last year, according to Silicon Valley Bank's Healthcare Investments and Exits Report. IPOs were also up, but those companies didn't fare as well in the public markets.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 13, 2022
Supreme Court upholds HHS' vaccine requirement for healthcare workers, blocks OSHA's large employer mandate. dmuoio. Thu, 01/13/2022 - 15:37.
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Healthcare IT Today
JANUARY 13, 2022
Many organizations have taken on the quest—and the enormous business opportunity—of measuring the quality of clinical care. For instance, health care registries collect data about procedures and outcomes for particular disciplines, such as oncology or heart failure. These registries don’t try to serve as a gigantic, general-purpose data repository like the failed Health Information Exchange […].
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 13, 2022
Express Scripts, Columbia study finds pharmacists taking greater role in patient care. pminemyer. Thu, 01/13/2022 - 13:06.
Health Care Compliance Brief brings together the best content for health law & compliance professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 13, 2022
JPM 2022: Talkspace faces securities fraud class-action suit as consumer revenue declines. rtorrence. Thu, 01/13/2022 - 12:55.
HIT Consultant
JANUARY 13, 2022
What You Should Know: – Tempus and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced an accelerated phase II study evaluating the efficacy and safety of niraparib, an oral, once daily PARP inhibitor, for patients with breast and pancreatic cancers. The study, titled “Niraparib in the Treatment of Patients With Advanced PALB2 Mutated Tumors” (the PAVO study, NCT05169437) is sponsored by Tempus and opened for enrollment on January 7, 2022. – This trial’s data-driven design and site selection were comple
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 13, 2022
MedPAC declines to recommend to Congress additional pay bumps for doctors, hospitals. rking. Thu, 01/13/2022 - 16:07.
HIT Consultant
JANUARY 13, 2022
What You Should Know: – InterSystems and Sage Growth Partners announced research that reveals just how much healthcare organizations could save from investing in higher quality data – including up to $42.1 million over the course of three years. Report Background. According to the respondents from 100 C-level leaders from top healthcare organizations, hospitals, and healthcare systems are using inefficient practices that can impose a significant financial burden.
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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.
Mobi Health News
JANUARY 13, 2022
Also: AI-enabled documentation tool DeepScribe raises $30 million, cancer risk stratification platform PreciseDx scores $10.75 million and care navigation startup HeyRenee brought in $4.4 million.
HIT Consultant
JANUARY 13, 2022
What You Should Know: – New data from Tufts and Medable reveal on average, decentralized clinical trials (DCTs) are associated with reduced clinical trial timelines and can achieve net financial benefits ranging from five to 14 times for Phase II and Phase III trials, respectively. . – The findings are based on financial modeling and analysis of trial data from the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (CSDD), Tufts University School of Medicine, and more than 150 clinical t
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 13, 2022
Avaneer Health banks $50M in seeding funding from Aetna, Anthem and Cleveland Clinic. agliadkovskaya. Thu, 01/13/2022 - 13:27.
Mobi Health News
JANUARY 13, 2022
Over 100 clinics have already joined WellAway since the company received its license last year.
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Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 13, 2022
ACA signups blow past 14M as Saturday deadline for open enrollment looms. rking. Thu, 01/13/2022 - 10:32.
Mobi Health News
JANUARY 13, 2022
Video calls, messaging and administrative tools add new value to the ecosystem of the French telehealth company.
OSHA Law Blog
JANUARY 13, 2022
In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court has granted a temporary stay of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS). To read this article in its entirety, please click here.
Mobi Health News
JANUARY 13, 2022
Patients can use the service to access support groups, navigation tools and a clinical trial-matching program.
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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.
Healthcare IT Today
JANUARY 13, 2022
As we head into 2022, we asked the Healthcare IT Today community to share some predictions for the new year. I always find it interesting to learn what people think is coming down the road. Be sure to check out all our Health IT Predictions. One of the surprise topics for me heading into 2022 […].
Healthcare Compliance Blog
JANUARY 13, 2022
The Department of Justice (DOJ) and a Georgia hospital reached an agreement under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The agreement will ensure effective communication with deaf patients and companions. A deaf patient alleged that the Georgia hospital, despite her requests for an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter for her labor and delivery, did not provide an interpreter or any other communication aid or service.
Healthcare IT Today
JANUARY 13, 2022
DexCare, Inc., a data-driven intelligence company focused on healthcare access, today announced a $50M Series B funding led by Transformation Capital, with participation from all existing investors, Kaiser Permanente, Providence Ventures, Mass General Brigham, Define Ventures, Frist Cressey Ventures, and SpringRock Ventures. In less than one year, DexCare has closed two oversubscribed funding rounds totaling […].
Mobi Health News
JANUARY 13, 2022
Also, Tech accelerator calls for gut health startups in the EMEA region
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Healthcare IT Today
JANUARY 13, 2022
Partnership will expand TigerConnect’s ability to deliver software to support healthcare organizations and professionals in their mission of improving patient health outcomes TigerConnect (the “Company”), maker of healthcare’s most powerful software collaboration suite, today announced it has received a significant strategic growth investment from Vista Equity Partners (“Vista”), a leading global investment firm focused exclusively on […].
Medical Gas Compliance
JANUARY 13, 2022
The number of hospital airborne infection isolation rooms is limited. An outbreak of infectious disease produces a demand for a large number of rooms. The past year and a half have highlighted navigating the COVID-19 pandemic. Healthcare facility managers have come to terms with the extreme realization of the critical importance of medical gas systems, the effects of increased demand on the hospital infrastructure, and the need for more hospital isolation rooms and negative pressure rooms.
Health Law Attorney
JANUARY 13, 2022
In June 2021, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“ OSHA ”) issued an Emergency Temporary Standard (“ ETS ”) that would require, amongst other things, employers with 100 or more employees to adopt a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy. OSHA’s mandatory vaccination policy would affect approximately 84 million employees. An overview of the OSHA Vaccine Policy requirements can be accessed here.
Health Law Advisor
JANUARY 13, 2022
On January 11, 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published an anticipated proposed National Coverage Determination (“NCD”) decision memorandum that begins the process of determining whether the Medicare program will cover FDA-approved monoclonal antibodies directed against amyloid for the treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease. ( [link] ).
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Compliancy Group
JANUARY 13, 2022
The Illinois Department of Labor (IDOL) filed new rules on January 7, 2022, to formally adopt the federal agency’s OSHA Emergency Temporary Standards (ETS). Details of Illinois OSHA Emergency Temporary Standards. While the rules were effective immediately, Illinois employers with more than 100 employees have until January 24, 2022, to begin complying with the requirements of the OSHA ETS, which include developing workplace policies and procedures regarding vaccination and testing.
HIT Consultant
JANUARY 13, 2022
What You Should Know: – Wolters Kluwer Health announced the launch of Ovid® Synthesis , a suite of applications to power evidence-based workflows in hospitals and health systems. – The first application is called Clinical Evidence Manager, developed in collaboration with Duke Health, WVU Medicine and other healthcare organizations, to provide a holistic view of all quality improvement research projects across an institution.
Compliancy Group
JANUARY 13, 2022
The U.S. Supreme Court today (January 13, 2022) issued a stay of the Occupational Health and Safety Administration’s (OSHA) Emergency Temporary Standard that would have forced all private employers in the country with more than 100 workers to require COVID-19 vaccinations or masks and weekly testing for unvaccinated staff. The Supreme Court’s ruling effectively blocks all federal enforcement of the OSHA ETS.
HIT Consultant
JANUARY 13, 2022
What You Should Know: – iSpecimen , the developer of an online marketplace that connects human biospecimen with researchers, announced that is has expanded its supplier capabilities in support of COVID-19 researchers. – Through a new partnership with a reference lab in New York, researchers looking to validate their own COVID variant identification assays can obtain sequenced and unsequenced COVID-19 positive and negative swabs in a variety of media types through iSpecimen.
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