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Employees cause more cyber breaches in healthcare than other industries, report finds

Healthcare Dive

Employees were responsible for 39% of healthcare breaches last year. That's compared to 18% across all industries, according to new Verizon research.

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Is telemedicine an answer to physician burnout and staffing shortages?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

With the huge initial swell in the use of virtual care in the rearview mirror, many industry experts – from health plans to big tech and practicing clinicians – are considering whether a doubling down on telehealth is just what the doctor ordered for the future of patient care. Many clinicians are hungry for new opportunities that allow them to continue to serve patients without dealing with long-standing administrative burdens and the aftermath of burnout from COVID-19 in their hosp

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Medtech companies keep supply, staffing challenges in check even as recession risks loom, analysts say

Healthcare Dive

Companies are coping with factors such as supply disruptions, staffing shortages, inflation and foreign-exchange hurdles, according to analysts at William Blair.

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AI and IoT device connects with concierge platform for RPM

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Healthcare workflow technology company Braidio has partnered with health IT vendor BlueSemi with the aim of creating a preventive home-health and telehealth ecosystem. BlueSemi's primary product is a handheld device called EYVA, which measures six vitals, including blood glucose, without requiring a pinprick for blood. By integrating the device with Braidio's My Health Concierge platform, the companies will be attempting to encourage positive behavioral change.

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Optimizing Medical Waste Management: A Guide to Best Practices

Feeling overwhelmed by medical waste regulations? This comprehensive guide unravels the complexities of medical waste disposal, ensuring you stay compliant and prioritize safety. Inside you'll find: Clear categorization: Learn to precisely classify medical waste for proper handling and disposal. Labeling & Storage: Discover best practices for clear labeling and secure storage of medical waste.

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Study: Teletherapy program reduces OCD symptoms

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Over 850,000 Individuals Affected by Partnership HealthPlan of California Cyberattack

HIPAA Journal

In March 2022, Partnership HealthPlan of California (PHC) announced that third-party forensic specialists had been engaged to help restore the functionality of its IT systems following a cyberattack. PHC has now confirmed in a breach notification to the Maine Attorney General that the protected health information of 854,913 current and former health plan members has potentially been stolen, making this one of the largest healthcare data breaches to be reported so far this year.

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AWS Launches New Healthcare Accelerator Focused on Health Equity

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced the launch of the next AWS Healthcare Accelerator—this year with a new focus on health equity. The Accelerator is open to startups with US operations and applications open today. – This is part of AWS’s efforts to help organizations use the power of the cloud to help tackle the health equity gap – other efforts include the $40 million AWS Health Equity Initiative , which AWS also provided an update on in today’s announ

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RapidAI receives FDA 510(k) to identify potential pulmonary embolism

Mobi Health News

The Rapid PE Triage & Notification tool analyzes CT pulmonary angiograms to find potential cases and alert care teams.

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LetsGetChecked Launches Virtual Consultation Offering with Healthcare Providers

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – LetsGetChecked , a leading healthcare solutions company, announced today the launch of Virtual Consultation services through its secure clinical messaging platform in the company’s proprietary app. – The new offering furthers the company’s ongoing commitment to pioneer a full lifecycle of personalized healthcare including diagnostic testing, virtual care, e-prescription, and treatment plans, all from the comfort of home.

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Will Healthcare AI Augment or Replace? – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 5/27 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by John Lynn (@techguy) from @hcittoday on the topic “Will Healthcare AI Augment or Replace?” A lot of talk about AI has been people scared that their job was going […].

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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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Sweden: 5th COVID-19 shot to people over 65, pregnant women

Modern Healthcare

For most of the pandemic, Sweden stood out among European nations for its comparatively hands-off response. It never went into lockdown or closed businesses, largely relying instead on individual responsibility.

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OIG Work Plan Updates for April 2022: MOUD, EVV, and HIV

Healthicity

April 2022 has brought more items to the OIG Work Plan. Let’s take a closer look at them.

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KAID Health Announces Series A to Fuel Growth of its AI-Powered Provider/Payer Whole Chart Analysis Platform

Healthcare IT Today

Funding to expand company’s footprint among healthcare providers and the insurers they partner with while improving reimbursement, clinician efficiency, and care quality KAID Health, makers of an artificial intelligence-enabled clinical analysis and provider engagement platform, today announced its $4.25 million Series A funding. The financing was led by prominent healthcare IT investors, including Activate Venture Partners and Martinson Ventures. […].

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Pennsylvania AG Charges Two Care Home Managers for Failing to Report Sexual Abuse

Healthcare Compliance Blog

The Pennsylvania Attorney General announced that the Office of Attorney General, in conjunction with the 47th Statewide Investigating Grand Jury, had filed charges against the general manager and the director of health and wellness?of a personal care home in Bucks County. The managers had failed to report sexual abuse committed by a male resident with dementia on three female residents also suffering from dementia.

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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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CIO Podcast – Episode 32: Clinical Informatics Success with Tom Selva

Healthcare IT Today

For the 32nd episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Tom Selva, MD, CMIO at University of Missouri Health Care. In this discussion, we talk about Dr. Selva and his team winning the 2021 HIMSS Davies Award and what it meant to him and his organization. Plus, he […].

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Japanese firms collaborate to use wearable health data to drive drug discovery

Mobi Health News

The study will accumulate objective lifestyle data from around 2,000 participants.

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CareFirst BCBS Launches Enterprise-Wide Social Risk Intelligence Strategy with Socially Determined

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, the largest health plan in the mid-Atlantic region announces a first-of-its kind initiative with analytics company Socially Determined to use social determinants of health (SDoH) analytics across all business functions. – Access to these actionable insights will support CareFirst’s mission to advance health equity and advocate for affordable, accessible, and quality care for members, employers and the communities they serve.

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OncoRes Medical receives $12.5M in latest funding to pursue clinical trials

Mobi Health News

The company develops a breakthrough device for detecting residual cancer tissues.

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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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KAID Health Raises $4.25M for AI-Powered Provider/Payer Whole Chart Analysis Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: KAID Health ,makers of an artificial intelligence -enabled clinical analysis and provider engagement platform,today announced its $4.25M in Series A funding bringing their total capital raised to $6.45M. – The funding will fuel growth of the provider/payer platform that integrates with the electronic medical records (EMR) to identify high-value tactical care and coding interventions.

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Compliance & Internal Investigations

AIHC

Written by: Joanne Byron , BS, LPN, CCA, CHA, CHCO, CHBS, CHCM, CIFHA, CMDP, COCAS, CORCM, OHCC, ICDCT-CM/PCS Are you an internal auditor conducting “routine” reviews? Have you ever uncovered erroneous or potentially fraudulent evidence? Once your suspicions have been reported to the Compliance Officer, were you asked to partake in evidence gathering during the investigation?

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Geisinger Selects AWS as Strategic Cloud Provider to Migrate Over 400 Apps to AWS

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Geisinger has chosen Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its strategic cloud provider and will transition its entire digital portfolio of more than 400 applications and numerous workflows to AWS. – The project will be one of the largest electronic health record (EHR) cloud migrations to AWS to date, expected to enable life-saving technologies and save Geisinger several million annually.

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Podcast: OSHA’s Permanent COVID-19 Standard and Enforcement Blitz – Diagnosing Health Care

Health Law Advisor

In this episode of the Diagnosing Health Care Podcast : What challenges are providers likely to face as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) prepares its permanent COVID-19 standard for health care workers? Attorneys Denise Dadika , Bob O’Hara , and Tim Murphy review the provisions of OSHA’s temporary COVID-19 standard for health care workers and what’s expected to change under the permanent rules.

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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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How Patient Movement Benefits from Standardized Acuity Scoring

HIT Consultant

Dr. Martin Sellberg, Co-Founder of Motient. Nurses and providers typically assess patient acuity and volume at the beginning of their shift, whether formally or informally. Managers use patient acuity to balance nursing assignments, and nursing staff uses it to determine which patient care action should be prioritized next. Taking a standardized approach to acuity assessments not only provides more objectivity, but also gives hospitals the data they need to make a variety of tactical and strateg

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Celo Health, Core Schedule launch integrated healthcare staff comms, rostering solution

Mobi Health News

Their combined solution eliminates manual scheduling and paging.

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Alarming Rate of Ransomware Data Breaches Calls for Increased Protection in Healthcare Industry

Health Law Attorney

Participants in the healthcare industry have seen a multi-front threat related to their information security practices/healthcare data – increased enforcement and fines by the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR); increased scrutiny from plaintiffs’ attorneys and State Attorneys General; and increased threats from malicious actors.

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Neurowyzr's digital brain screening tool comes to Parkway Shenton

Mobi Health News

The web-based brain health assessment tool enables early detection of cognitive decline.

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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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MedTrainer Tapped as Exclusive Healthcare Content Partner for Absorb Learning Management System

MedTrainer

The Partnership will widen the exposure of MedTrainer’s industry-leading training courses on Absorb’s far-reaching Platform. LAS VEGAS , May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — MedTrainer , healthcare’s leader in credentialing, training, and compliance management, announced today that it has become the exclusive healthcare content partner for Absorb Software’s global learning management system (LMS). 500 of MedTrainer’s healthcare learning courses are available to

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Southeast Asian online pharmacy platform SwipeRx bags $27M in Series B funding

Mobi Health News

The company seeks to grow its network of pharmacies across the region.

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The Leaked Dobbs Opinion, Explained

Bill of Health

By Chloe Reichel. On May 2, 2022, Politico published a leaked draft of the majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , which showed the Supreme Court’s intent to overturn the right to abortion as decided in Roe v. Wade. In response to the leak, the Petrie-Flom Center hosted a discussion with legal historian and Daniel P.S. Paul Visiting Professor of Constitutional Law Mary Ziegler and Petrie-Flom Center Faculty Director, James A.

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Parallel Learning scores $20M to expand pediatric behavioral health, learning support services

Mobi Health News

The company launched in December with a $2.8 million seed.

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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.