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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Compliance Now
JANUARY 13, 2022
By: Jennifer Berman, CEO, MZQ Consulting. The Biden Administration recently announced the new out-of-pocket (OOP) limits that will apply to group and individual health plans during the 2023 plan year, as well as the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Fee for plan or policy years ending on or after October 1, 2021, and before October 1, 2022.
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.
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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?
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.
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 […].
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HIT Consultant
JANUARY 13, 2022
What You Should Know: – Sanofi, a global biopharmaceutical company focused on human health has inked a strategic partnership with BrightInsight, Inc., provider of the leading global platform for biopharma and medtech regulated digital health solution to bring to market a next-generation digital companion application for one of Sanofi’s products. – The BrightInsight® Platform has been selected to serve as the underlying infrastructure to accelerate continuous development of one of
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.
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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.
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.
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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.
Mobi Health News
JANUARY 13, 2022
Over 100 clinics have already joined WellAway since the company received its license last year.
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.
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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
Patients can use the service to access support groups, navigation tools and a clinical trial-matching program.
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 […].
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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.
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.
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 […].
Verisys
JANUARY 13, 2022
As the pandemic continues into the winter months and COVID disruptions continue to affect the healthcare workforce, states, payers, and providers should be aware of recent changes that will affect telehealth services and access to telemedicine. Providers and payers should pay attention to the following updates on both the state and federal level. State-Level Changes Affecting Telehealth Services.
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.
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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.
Health Law Advisor
JANUARY 13, 2022
Throughout 2021, we closely monitored the latest privacy laws and a surge of privacy, cybersecurity, and data asset management risks that affect organizations, small and large. As these laws continue to evolve, it is important for companies to be aware and compliant. We will continue to monitor these trends for 2022. The attorneys of the Privacy, Cybersecurity & Data Asset Management group have written on a wide range of notable developments and trends that affect employers and health care p
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.
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] ).
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.
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