Tue.Sep 26, 2023

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Compliance Carl Celebrates National Compliance Officer Day

Healthicity

Compliance never takes a break – not even on National Compliance Officer Day. As Carl approached the cake he requested for the occasion, he couldn't help but feel a sense of duty, a commitment to upholding justice, even in the sweetest of moments. Carl wanted to make sure there were no non-compliant slices – bigger vs. smaller slices, pieces with more frosting than others, etc.

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Hospices bought by PE, public companies had more dementia patients, study finds

Healthcare Dive

Hospices acquired by private equity firms and publicly traded companies shift their operational strategies toward maximizing profits, the new study in JAMA Network Open suggests.

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Advocate Health, Mount Sinai among 10 big health systems in Transcarent provider network

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Transcarent platform integrates directly through the care pathway of each of the 10 health systems it is partnering with, including scheduling and pre- and post-care, support services and same-day payment for providers. WHY IT MATTERS Transcarent says the ecosystem will provide the employees of national self-insured employers with faster access to verified high-quality digital or in-person care, higher-quality care, and affordable and predictable costs with full transparency.

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Cano sells Texas, Nevada centers to Humana subsidiary for $67M

Healthcare Dive

The divestiture to Humana’s CenterWell Senior Primary Care business comes after Cano CEO Mark Kent said in August the company was exploring a potential sale amid its worsening liquidity position.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

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?

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How virtual care can help ease the rural mental health crisis

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Southwest Rural Health Research Center has identified mental health concerns and addiction as the first and second most important priorities for rural health stakeholders, according to a May 2023 policy brief. With a chronic shortage of mental healthcare providers in rural areas, there is a significant lack of access to this much-needed care for those who reside there.

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Elevance, BCBSLA pause $2.5B merger amid regulatory scrutiny

Healthcare Dive

The health insurers originally expected their merger to close before the end of 2023, but have hit snags receiving the regulatory green light in Louisiana.

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Exo Unveils Handheld Ultrasound Device

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Exo (pronounced “echo”), a medical imaging software and device company, today unveiled a category-redefining handheld ultrasound device, Exo Iris™, to put high-performance medical imaging into the hands—and pockets—of every caregiver. Built on Exo’s advanced silicon technology, Exo Iris delivers versatile imaging performance for point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) at a fraction of the size and cost of cart-based systems.

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Not All Prescription Management and Clinical Decision Support Are Created Equal

Healthcare IT Today

When I first discovered Synapse Medicine , I was fascinated by the depth of work they had done to handle prescriptions and clinical decision support in their system. Since their system was and is being broadly used in France, they were able to see and work on all the problems associated with medication management and discover the solutions that worked across a wide swath of patients and environments.

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CMS: Most Medicare Advantage beneficiares won't see premiums rise in 2024

Fierce Healthcare

Expect premiums, benefits and plan choices for Medicare Advantage (MA) and the Medicare Part D prescription drug program to look similar in 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (C | CMS announced that nearly three-quarters of MA plan beneficiaries will not see their premiums rise.

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Kindbody, Rightway partner to expand fertility care offerings to employers

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Rightway will integrate the New York-based company's hybrid fertility and reproductive care platform into its ecosystem partnership program.

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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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Adela scores $48M to grow genomic cancer detection platform

Mobi Health News

The company will use the funds to enrich its technology, commercialize its MRD product and continue the development of its multi-cancer early detection offering.

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Digital health company Waltz Health charts move into payer market

Fierce Healthcare

Digital health company Waltz Health is cracking into the payer market by inking its first partnership. | Digital health company Waltz Health is cracking into the payer market by inking its first partnership.

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Vital Lines September 2023

Redox

Top stories CMS creates all-payer model for states CMS is offering an all-payer funding opportunity of up to $12M for eight states to improve population health. Read more Bright spots remain in digital health funding According to PitchBook, the categories receiving the most funding this year are teletherapy and behavioral health as well as care coordination and navigation.

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Cano Health to sell senior-focused primary care clinics in 2 states to Humana's CenterWell for $66.7M

Fierce Healthcare

Tech-enabled primary care company Cano Health is selling off its senior-focused clinics to Humana's CenterWell in Texas and Nevada, according to an announcement. | Tech-enabled primary care company Cano Health is selling off its senior-focused clinics to Humana's CenterWell in Texas and Nevada, according to an announcement.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

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.

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Let’s not make the FDP something that it’s not says Vin Diwakar

Digital Health News

We must see the positives and not make the Federated Data Platform (FDP) something that it is not, Dr Vin Diwakar said in his keynote speech at HETT 2023.

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Elevance Health, BCBSLA press pause on $2.5B merger as regulators turn up the heat

Fierce Healthcare

Elevance Health and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana are pressing pause on $2.5 billion merger plans as state regulators raise concerns about the impact it could have on local competition.

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Leeds Teaching Hospitals develops motion detection tool for MS

Digital Health News

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has co-developed a kinetic tool that can help identify treatments for MS through its motion detection technology.

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Elevance, Hims & Hers, HCA Healthcare named Best Companies to Work For by U.S. News

Fierce Healthcare

Elevance Health, Humana, Hims & Hers Health and HCA Healthcare are among the best large, public healthcare companies to work for, according to a new industry-specific ranking published Tuesday | The ranking of top public healthcare employers considered metrics such as compensation and work/life balance. The list was largely dominated by pharma and biotech companies.

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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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Mission Bio Announces and Launches Single-Cell Measurable Residual Disease (MRD) Assay

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Mission Bio , a leader in single-cell multi-omic solutions for precision medicine, announced the commercial launch of the Tapestri® Single-cell MRD (scMRD) AML Multiomics Assay. The company designed the scMRD AML Multiomics Assay to bring unprecedented resolution to disease relapse and recurrence in acute myeloid leukemia (AML), demonstrating the potential of single-cell DNA and protein multiomics to identify therapeutic targets in recurrent AML.

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FTC Sues Anesthesiology Provider and PE Firm Over Anticompetitive “Roll Up” Scheme

Med Law Blog

As Mike Cassidy and Adam Appleberry discussed during their presentation at PBI’s A Day in Health Law earlier this month, private equity’s involvement in healthcare will be an interesting item to watch over the next few years. Just last week, the FTC sued the U.S. Anesthesia Partners, Inc. and their private equity backer Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, alleging a “multi-year anticompetitive scheme to consolidate anesthesia practices in Texas, drive up the price of anesthesia services provide

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Chatbot Care Managers? Why ACOs Should Be Cautious in AI Adoption

HIT Consultant

Theresa Hush, CEO and Co-founder of Roji Health Intelligence Given Artificial Intelligence’s potential to improve patient care and reduce costs, it’s no surprise that AI applications are gaining momentum in health care. As your organization explores the benefits of AI in your journey towards Value-Based Care, however, you need to carefully assess the implications, for better and worse.

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Standards and legacy infrastructure key to transformation says Quinn

Digital Health News

Delivering national architecture and standards are one of the key priorities for NHS England going forward, NHSE CIO John Quinn said on Tuesday at HETT.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

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.

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iRhythm Launches Wearable ECG Heart Monitor

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: iRhythm Technologies, Inc. today announced the U.S. launch of its next-generation Zio® monitor and enhanced Zio® long-term continuous monitoring (LTCM) service. Zio monitor is iRhythm’s smallest, lightest and thinnest cardiac monitor, enhancing the cardiac monitoring experience for patients and healthcare providers together with new service enhancements.

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Two-thirds of GPs want to prescribe assistive tech to dementia patients

Digital Health News

More than two-thirds of UK GPs would like to prescribe assistive technologies to their dementia patients, new research published today suggests.

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Kindbody, Rightway partner to expand fertility care offerings to employers

Mobi Health News

Rightway will integrate the New York-based company's hybrid fertility and reproductive care platform into its ecosystem partnership program.

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Newcastle Hospitals reviewing documents for unsent patient letters

Digital Health News

Newcastle Hospitals said it is reviewing documents from its electronic records after being notified that some patient letters may never have been sent.

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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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The Pharmacist’s Shifting Provider Role

HealthIT Answers

Now on-demand, Trending NOW episode with host Jared Johnson and his guest Stacey Emmons, Director of Patient Outcomes and Adherence at Walgreens. What's trending now is how pharmacists continue to be the most accessible healthcare provider we have today. The post The Pharmacist’s Shifting Provider Role appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Payers, providers are cautiously optimistic about their value-based care efforts. Here's how their sentiments differ

Fierce Healthcare

Payers, providers are cautiously optimistic about their value-based care efforts.

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Advanced Email Attacks Skyrocket in Healthcare

Health IT Security

Advanced email attacks remain a top threat to organizations around the world, including those in the healthcare sector.

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Transcarent launches direct-to-employer solution in partnership with Advocate, Mount Sinai, other major health systems

Fierce Healthcare

Employee healthcare navigation company Transcarent unveiled Tuesday new partnerships with a network of major health systems to help its employer customers offer their workers access to high-quality | Transcarent unveiled Tuesday new partnerships with a network of major health systems to help its employer customers offer their workers access to high-quality medical services at lower cost, according to CEO Glen Tullman.

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How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics

In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.