Healthcare Dive

MAY 3, 2022

Nurses will return to work Tuesday after ratifying a deal on new contracts that include measures to better retain and recruit nursing staff, the union said.

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Compliance Now

MAY 3, 2022

By: Megan Diehl, Manager, Compliance Consulting, MZQ Consulting. Late last week, the Internal Revenue Service released updates to the maximum annual 2023 contribution limits for health savings accounts (HSAs) under high deductible health plans (HDHPs). These adjustments, which have increased slightly from 2022, apply to both individual and family coverage.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 3, 2022

Many patients returned for nonurgent procedures and other non-COVID-19 care, especially outpatient, that had been previously delayed, according to a Kaufman Hall report.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 3, 2022

What You Should Know: – Element5 , the world’s first Automation-as-a-Service solution purpose-built for post-acute care, today announced that it has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Insight Partners. With the closing of the Series B funding round, Element5 has raised $48.5M in total capital to date. – This investment will strengthen Element5’s position and enable the company to continue the disruption of the health care industry’s $400B post-acute care workflow a

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 3, 2022

Some doctors listed in managed care provider network directories didn't file any Medicaid claims over the course of a year, according to new research published in Health Affairs.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 3, 2022

What You Should Know: – StimScience , the company using personalized neuroscience to improve sleep, today announces its new consumer sleep product, Somnee. Somnee is the first-ever electronic sleep aid headband to use personalized non-invasive brain stimulation to improve the wearer’s sleep quality. – In a 1,500-night home pilot study, Somnee cut the time it took beta users to fall asleep in half, and it reduced the amount of overnight tossing and turning by more than one-third.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 3, 2022

What You Should Know: – Serenity Engage announces new, innovative technology integrated with Amazon’s Senior Living solution from Alexa Smart Properties. ??. – By marrying Amazon’s Alexa voice AI and video technology with Serenity’s platform, Serenity’s custom Alexa deployment serve as a personalized, digital concierge – bringing simplicity and connection to an otherwise complex, siloed system.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 3, 2022

Also: Imagene AI raises $21.5 million across two rounds for precision cancer care, and Capable Health scores $6 million in seed funding to help providers build healthcare apps.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 3, 2022

Salusive Health, the developer of the myNurse platform which helps physician practices streamline disease management, has experienced a cyberattack in which patient data was compromised. In its breach notification letters to patients, Salusive Health explained that it identified unauthorized activity within its computer network on March 7, 2022, and immediately implemented containment, mitigation, and restoration efforts, and engaged third-party cybersecurity experts to assist with those process

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 3, 2022

A hospital program aimed at reducing EHR alert fatigue by cutting down the number of “interruptive” alerts has made a meaningful impact on the number of alerts clinicians received. The program was kicked off in 2020, by the Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Clinical Informatics Center in collaboration with VUMC’s health IT department. The program was […].

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Healthicity

MAY 3, 2022

“Three generic pharmaceutical manufacturers, Taro Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., Sandoz Inc., and Apotex Corporation.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 3, 2022

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 5/6 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Linda Stotsky (@EMRAnswers) from @Bossoft on the topic “Vendor Evaluation – What Makes it So Difficult?” Evaluating vendors in healthcare is a highly strategic task, and can […].

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Mobi Health News

MAY 3, 2022

The completed deal comes weeks after LetsGetChecked announced its intent to acquire Veritas Genetics and Veritas Intercontinental.

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Symplr

MAY 3, 2022

Safety will influence whether your providers and staff stay or leave their jobs. As a result, healthcare access management —thoughtfully controlling visitors’ and vendors’ access to a facility—is an important strategy to protect healthcare staff and increase workforce retention while ensuring compliance.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 3, 2022

This acquisition further underscores HST’s longstanding commitment to enhancing ASC technology and delivering improved patient outcomes across the industry. HST Pathways, the leading provider of end-to-end software solutions for the ambulatory surgery industry (ASC), today announced the acquisition of Simplify ASC, a software company that offers a revenue cycle management solution along with other ASC […].

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

MAY 3, 2022

An investigation by the US Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found that a Michigan adult foster care company misclassified their residential healthcare providers as independent contractors. The misclassification caused seven workers at two of the company’s locations not to receive their full overtime wages, in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

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HIT Consultant

MAY 3, 2022

What You Should Know: – Magellan Federal , which serves 300 U.S. military bases, has partnered with NeuroFlow to support United States military families with personalized, digital behavioral health and well-being support. – The platform will give hundreds of thousands of service members the ability to track their mood, report on the highs and lows of military life, and engage with counselors if needed.

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Symplr

MAY 3, 2022

Last year marked 25 years since the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was established, and this year HIPAA may be undergoing changes related to patient access to protected health information (PHI). In a recent webinar , Lynne Rinehimer, Esq., GRC Solution Engineer for symplr’s Compliance solution, discussed the changes, as well as other recent HIPAA-related developments, and provided alarming statistics related to data breaches.

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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.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 3, 2022

What You Should Know: – Luma Health , a digital health company streamlining patient-provider communications announced a strategic partnership with Change Healthcare , a healthcare technology company that provides the connection and data transfer between providers, payers, and consumers. – The two companies will develop solutions to meet health systems’ demand for streamlined and unified clinical, operational, and financial journeys.

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Hall Render

MAY 3, 2022

Indiana’s Build-Operate-Transfer Statute. For political subdivisions in Indiana considering pursuing a public-private partnership for the development, design and construction of public facilities, build?operate?transfer (“BOT”) is rapidly becoming the “go-to” procurement and delivery method. Subject to satisfaction of the procedural requirements set forth in Indiana Code §5-23 et seq. (“BOT Statute”), which governs BOT transactions, the BOT model allows

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HIT Consultant

MAY 3, 2022

Anne Davis, VP of Government Markets & Strategy at Wellth. Structural racism and poverty are correlated with a higher incidence of obesity among Black Americans (49%). Social drivers of health, which impact a disproportionate number of non-white Americans who live below the poverty line, account for as much as 90% of individuals’ health outcomes.

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Dot Compliance

MAY 3, 2022

A manufacturer can equip its quality team with the real-time visibility and control required for effective change management through implementation of a cloud-based, enterprise-wide, quality management system (QMS) that is fully integrated with other key systems (e.g., MES, SQM, PLM, etc.), fully validated and pre-configured with best practices that meet FDA, ISO and GxP regulations.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 3, 2022

Ed Marx, Chief Executive Officer, Divurgent. What You Should Know: – Divurgent , a healthcare IT consulting company, today announced it has appointed Ed Marx, a renowned leader with more than 30 years of experience, as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). – In addition, Colin Konschak, company founder and CEO since 2007, will move to a new role as Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors.

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Dot Compliance

MAY 3, 2022

A manufacturer can equip its quality team with the real-time visibility and control required for effective change management through implementation of a cloud-based, enterprise-wide, quality management system (QMS) that is fully integrated with other key systems (e.g., MES, SQM, PLM, etc.), fully validated and pre-configured with best practices that meet FDA, ISO and GxP regulations.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 3, 2022

What You Should Know: – Atlas Healthcare Partners (Atlas) , which specializes in developing and managing ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) in partnerships with health systems and physicians, announced today that Banner Health has invested into Atlas. – Atlas formed a joint venture partnership with Banner in 2018 to develop and operate a network of ASCs in Arizona, Colorado, and Wyoming.

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Health Law Advisor

MAY 3, 2022

On April 20, 2022, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a nationwide coordinated enforcement action targeting COVID-19-related fraud involving charges against 21 individuals across nine federal districts, and over $149 million in alleged false claims submitted to federal programs. [1]. This marks the first significant DOJ enforcement action since Attorney General Merrick Garland named Associate Deputy Attorney General Kevin Chambers as the Director for COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement on March 10

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HIT Consultant

MAY 3, 2022

What You Should Know: – Vivalink , a leading provider of digital healthcare solutions launches a multi-vital blood pressure patch for remote patient monitoring is now available for research and development. – The advanced multimodal continuous signal processing patch captures ECG trace, heart rate, respiratory rate, systolic and diastolic blood pressure on a single device.

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Hall Render

MAY 3, 2022

On March 28, 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced the resolution of two more complaints under its Right of Access Initiative. This brings the total number of cases to 27 since the initiative was first announced in 2019, with financial liability imposed on covered entities ranging from $3,500 to $200,000.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 3, 2022

Researchers noted they were unable to discover a single unified framework for tackling LoS prediction, which made it difficult to compare approaches.

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Health Law RX

MAY 3, 2022

Healthcare facilities and other entities receiving federal financial assistance can breathe a little easier after a U.S. Supreme Court decision issued last week barring the recovery of emotional damages for certain discrimination claims. Many federal anti-discrimination statutes allow recovery for “emotional injuries” that include humiliation, trauma, mental anguish, anxiety, depression, and other non-physical symptoms a plaintiff claims to have suffered as a result of discrimination.

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