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Following decline, telehealth visits notched up 1.9% in November

Healthcare Dive

Mental health conditions continued to dominate telehealth diagnoses last year as the federal government worked to protect telehealth provisions during the COVID-19 public health emergency now set to end.

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Why It’s Time for Intelligent Prior Authorization

HIT Consultant

Alina M. Czekai, MPH, VP of Strategic Partnerships at Cohere Health The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently proposed a new rule to advance interoperability and improve the prior authorization (PA) process for Medicare and Medicaid patients. Specifically, the rule stipulates that health plans adopt electronic prior authorization processes, adhere to shorter turnaround times, clearly communicate denial reasons, publish key metrics annually, and implement the Fast Healthcare

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Molina expects contract wins to offset Medicaid losses

Healthcare Dive

The forecast comes as its competitor, Centene, expects to lose as many as 2.2 million Medicaid members when pandemic protections end and states to resume eligibility checks.

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Included Health, Solv Partner to Connect Virtual & In-Person Care

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Solv today announced the launch of Solv Final Mile Network , the first solution to bridge the gap from online navigation and virtual care to in-person, local medical care across the country. – Built on the scale of Solv’s national network of providers, Solv Final Mile technology makes continuity of the patient care journey possible, by eliminating the friction between digital care and same-day, in-office visits for providers and their patients.

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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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Tenet’s net income tumbled in 2022, but labor expenses show signs of easing

Healthcare Dive

The for-profit hospital operator’s profit fell 55% year over year, according to an earnings report out Thursday.

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The Hidden Cost of Managing Prospective Patients

HealthIT Answers

By Ram Krishnan - Coordinating new patient inquiries is a top priority for both solo practitioners and managers of multi-provider behavioral health clinics. Prospective patient management may seem routine but it can be cost-prohibitive, if not handled correctly. The post The Hidden Cost of Managing Prospective Patients appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Addressing Health Equity: Practical Solutions to Address Variations in Care

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – The companies and organizations that comprise the Healthcare Leadership Council (HLC) , representing all sectors of the American healthcare industry, have joined in a commitment to advance health equity in the United States including principles and actions to ultimately eliminate health disparities. – The joint commitment follows the release late last year of a report developed by HLC and ZS, a global management and technology consulting firm, identifying mult

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Trade group pushes back on FDA’s clinical decision support guidance

Healthcare Dive

The Clinical Decision Support Coalition is asking the agency to rescind its guidance and propose new rules that change how software tools are regulated as medical devices.

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U.S. Air Force and SimX Expands VR Medical Training Partnership

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – SimX and the U. S. Air Force are announcing a $1.7M expansion of its ongoing effort to advance the future of medical simulation training using virtual reality (VR) technology. – This effort, housed within the Virtual Advancement of Learning for Operational Readiness (VALOR) program at SimX, aims to enhance the usability and medical capability of virtual simulation training, with a focus on prehospital combat casualty care delivered by the Air Force’s eli

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New hybrid provider Enabled Healthcare launches in Washington with a focus on older adults with chronic conditions

Fierce Healthcare

New hybrid provider Enabled Healthcare launches in Washington with a focus on older adults with chronic conditions agliadkovskaya Thu, 02/09/2023 - 13:59

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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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The Ins and Outs of Remote Patient Monitoring

Healthcare IT Today

Trying to talk about Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) can be like talking about math. We’re all familiar with what it is, but there are so many different avenues that it can take, that it honestly works best to divide it into pieces, just like how math is divided into algebra, geometry, theoretical, etc. This was made clear when we reached out to our lovely Healthcare IT Today community for their insights on RPM.

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Senators raise concerns about telehealth startups' data sharing

Mobi Health News

In letters to Monument, Workit Health and Cerebral, the senators expressed concern about reports that the companies are sharing health data with third parties like Google and Facebook.

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Clearsense Announces Success of $50M Capital Raise

Healthcare IT Today

Healthcare analytics firm secures Series D financing to invest in continued growth Clearsense , a PaaS company that partners with healthcare organizations to increase data value, governance, and transparency, announced their successful $50M Series D capital raise led by HealthQuest Capital. The raise brought the healthcare-dedicated investment group to Clearsense with the shared goal of improving trust in enterprise data and expanding data-driven operations within healthcare organizations.

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RDP and Cloud Databases Most Common Targets of Threat Actors

HIPAA Journal

Malicious actors used a variety of methods to gain initial access to victims’ networks but in 2022, cybercriminal groups appeared to focus on Remote Desktop Protocol and attacking cloud databases, according to cyber insurer Coalition. RDP is one of the most common ways that initial access brokers (IABs) and ransomware gangs gain access to victims’ networks and RDP is by far the most common remote-scanning by malicious actors.

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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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HHS releases new guidance implementing key Medicare drug rebate program

Fierce Healthcare

HHS releases new guidance implementing key Medicare drug rebate program rking Thu, 02/09/2023 - 16:01

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DarioHealth, Dexcom partner to use CGM data for chronic care

Mobi Health News

The partnership allows DarioHealth to integrate data from Dexcom's continuous glucose monitors in its chronic condition management platform.

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Evernorth study: Risk of suicide on the rise among youth

Fierce Healthcare

Evernorth study: Risk of suicide on the rise among youth pminemyer Thu, 02/09/2023 - 13:39

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London Care Record supporting care home staff in region

Digital Health News

The end of 2022 saw the London Care Record rolled out to 28 care homes in the region, who are now benefitting from the vital information they can access.

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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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More physicians died from COVID-19 in pandemic's early days than expected: study

Fierce Healthcare

More physicians died from COVID-19 in pandemic's early days than expected: study fdiamond Thu, 02/09/2023 - 08:39

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Southeast Asian online pharma SwipeRx gets $10 million from Sanofi, other investors

Mobi Health News

It will be used to invest in specialised healthcare logistics and financing, among other plans.

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Chutes & Ladders—Duke lands a new CEO; Verily hires new CFO following lay offs

Fierce Healthcare

Chutes & Ladders—Duke lands a new CEO; Verily hires new CFO following lay offs aburky Thu, 02/09/2023 - 17:54

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GE HealthCare to acquire AI ultrasound guidance company Caption Health

Mobi Health News

The deal marks GE HealthCare's second announced acquisition since it debuted as an independent company early this year.

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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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Three Ways Enterprise Visibility and Automation Benefit Staff and the Patient Experience

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Scott Hondros, Vice President of Professional Services at CenTrak. It’s often said that necessity is the mother of invention. This theory has been tested within the healthcare industry over the last few years as the COVID-19 pandemic aligned with, and expedited, the retirement of many employees in the Baby Boomer generation.

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Top Security Certifications Required for Data Protection

HIT Consultant

Paul Banco, CEO of etherFAX    How secure is your data? If your organization does not have the right security certifications in place, it’s not a matter of if a data breach will occur – but when. A lack of regulatory compliance, network and technical vulnerabilities, unencrypted information, unsecured mobile devices, and weak credentials all play a part in putting a healthcare organization at risk for a data breach.

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Health Care Trends Shaping Strategy in 2023

HealthIT Answers

Now on-demand, Value-Based Care Insights host Daniel J. Marino and his colleague Lucy Zielinski discuss important trends in 2022 forcing healthcare organizations to recalibrate their strategic plans heading into 2023. The post Health Care Trends Shaping Strategy in 2023 appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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4 Trusted HIPAA Compliance Resources Online

Compliancy Group

Navigating the complexities of HIPAA compliance takes work, especially for healthcare providers and their vendors. Because of the vague nature of the law and the fact that HIPAA compliance is an all-or-nothing endeavor, too many organizations depend on hope more than knowledge. The first step is finding sources with reliable and trusted information.

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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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Google Cloud, Health-ISAC Partner to Build More Resilient Healthcare

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Google Cloud announced that its security engineers are working with Health-ISAC Threat Operations Center to develop an open sourced integration that connects the Health-ISAC Indicator Threat Sharing (HITS) feed directly with Google Cloud’s Chronicle Security Operations information and event management. – HITS allows Health-ISAC members to easily connect and quickly share cyber threat intelligence through machine-to-machine automation.

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UMass Memorial Health Center settles data breach suit for $1.2M

Becker's Health IT

Worcester-based UMass Memorial Health Center has agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle a lawsuit alleging the health system was negligent in protecting patients' confidential information after its June 2020 data breach, Top Class Actions reported Feb. 8.

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Epic, Impact Advisors, Nordic, Chartis Named 2023 Overall Best in KLAS® Awards

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Epic, Nordic, Impact Advisors and The Chartis Group won the 2023 Overall Best in KLAS® awards. Epic was named the top Overall Software Suite for the thirteenth straight year in 2023 Best in KLAS – Software & Services report , released, which reports on the top vendors for 2022. Epic was also named the top Overall Physician Practice Vendor.

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Health IT Business News – February 9, 2023

HealthIT Answers

Health IT business news from GenieMD, CareCloud, Medicomp Systems, SeamlessMD, Health Innovation Manchester, Linus Health, Implicity, Cohere Health, Edifecs, VirtualHealth, Inovalon, OncoHost, Babson Diagnostics, Virsys12, Solv, and more. The post Health IT Business News – February 9, 2023 appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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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.