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New York files False Claims Act case against Fresenius in whistleblower suit

Healthcare Dive

The state of New York has formally joined a lawsuit against the major dialysis provider that alleges Fresenius performed thousands of medically unnecessary vascular procedures on kidney disease patients.

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Marshfield Clinic creating hospital-at-home program with Dispatch Health

Healthcare It News

Marshfield Clinic Health System is partnering with DispatchHealth to bring its rural patients in-home medical care. WHY IT MATTERS. Marshfield serves a population in Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula with more than 60 Marshfield Clinic locations and 11 hospitals. With this new collaboration, it will expand access to its patients in rural communities in their homes.

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FDA clears Novavax's COVID-19 vaccine as 4th option in US

Healthcare Dive

The regulator’s decision comes more than a year after the main part of the principal trial was completed, raising questions about the shot’s effectiveness against omicron.

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Central Adelaide Local Health Network introduces digital 'pre-hab' for surgery patients

Healthcare It News

The Central Adelaide Local Health Network has launched a new digital programme which aims to help make a patient fit for surgery. The surgical pre-rehabilitation programme dubbed My Prehab was developed in partnership with Health Translation SA, The Hospital Research Foundation, and healthcare tech company Personify Care. According to a media release, it includes a comprehensive health screening questionnaire and provides a personalised checklist of items which patients can discuss with their GP

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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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Intermountain Healthcare taps chief digital executive

Healthcare Dive

Craig Richardville’s responsibilities include overseeing the newly combined health system’s technology, data and digital services for its 33 hospitals and 385 clinics.

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Reproductive Governance in a Post-Roe US: The Weaponization of Health Systems

Bill of Health

By Alicia Ely Yamin. I was living and working in Peru in 2001, when Karen Noelia Llantoy discovered she was pregnant with an anencephalic fetus. Llantoy, a minor at the time, became profoundly depressed. Her own physician, a social worker, and a psychiatrist all concurred that she should have a termination, as anencephaly is a fatal brain defect that also poses an unnecessary risk to the mother’s physical health, and the pregnancy was having a severe impact on Llantoy’s mental health.

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GIS + Healthcare is All About Sharing

Healthcare IT Today

Almost all of the healthcare implementations of Geographic Information System (GIS) being discussed at the 2022 Esri User Conference would not be possible if GIS data was not shared so readily by government organizations. When combined, these disparate datasets lead to important health insights that would have been difficult or impossible to obtain using non-GIS methods.

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Delaware awards statewide Medicaid contracts to 3 insurers

Healthcare Dive

Coverage under the managed care program will begin next year.

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Over 10,000 Organizations Targeted in Ongoing MFA-Bypassing Phishing and BEC Campaign

HIPAA Journal

Microsoft has warned of a large-scale phishing campaign targeting Office 365 credentials that bypasses multi-factor authentication (MFA). The campaign is ongoing and more than 10,000 organizations have been targeted by scammers in the past 10 months. Microsoft reports that one of the phishing runs used emails with HTML file attachments, with the email telling the user about a Microsoft voicemail message that had been received.

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5 Anti-Aging Solutions Aided by Healthcare Technology

HIT Consultant

Displaying signs of aging is a natural part of getting on in the years. But it doesn’t automatically mean that you can’t do anything to minimize or lessen the effects of aging on your face and your body. Looking and feeling youthful can have a number of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits, including staying fitter for longer and advancing your career.

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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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3 Reasons Healthcare Organizations Aren’t Meeting Digital Patient Experience Expectations

HealthIT Answers

By Kamal Anand - The health IT research institution, KLAS, recently conducted a survey of patients to learn about their satisfaction with technology that allows them to digitally interact with the healthcare system. Data revealed the technology offered by their providers doesn’t always meet their expectations. The post 3 Reasons Healthcare Organizations Aren’t Meeting Digital Patient Experience Expectations appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Glooko Launches Diabetes Medical Education Academy in Ireland

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Glooko announced, in partnership with the Diabetes Technology Network (DTN)/Association of British Clinical Diabetologists (ABCD), the expansion into Ireland of Academy , the company’s online medical education program for clinicians who treat people with diabetes. – Originally inspired after discussions with the National Health Service England (NHSE) as part of its effort to ensure all healthcare professionals learn uniformly about technology, the program will

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Exceptional Customer Support Leads to Greater Adoption, Use, and Value of Policy Management Software

Healthcare Blog

Even the best-built software is of little value if no one in your organization knows how or wants to use it. Software vendors that take the time and the effort to establish thoughtful, expansive support services are able to deliver greater value and longer-lasting results than those with just bare-bones offerings. Policy management software evaluation must go beyond the bells and whistles of the solution itself and examine what life will be like post-implementation to see if it is the right fit.

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Northwell Health Selects Google Cloud to Accelerate Digital Transformation

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Northwell Health , New York State’s largest health care provider and private employer, and Google Cloud today announced a collaboration to improve patient care, clinician experiences, and to help the health and hospital network operate more efficiently. – Privacy and security will be of the utmost importance in all aspects of this digital transformation.

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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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Peloton to stop manufacturing its own connected bikes, treadmills

Mobi Health News

Peloton said it's expanding its partnership with Taiwanese company Rexon Industrial Corp., which will become the primary manufacturer of its bike and treadmill products.

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Geisinger Taps Cohere Health to Streamline Prior Authorizations

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today Geisinger Health Plan (GHP) and Cohere Health , a provider of utilization management (UM) technology, announced they are joining forces to streamline the prior authorization process for providers. – Cohere’s collaborative UM platform will help GHP support value-based care delivery, reduce administrative costs, and lead the nation in aligning quality improvement initiatives across all its lines of business, including Commercial, Exchange, Medicare Advanta

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Northwell and Google Cloud partner to automate workflows, identify health risk factors

Mobi Health News

New York-based Northwell said the collaboration will accelerate its digital transformation.

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COVID-19: Addressing the Urgent Mental Health Needs of Frontline Workers

HIT Consultant

Jorge E. Palacios, MD, Ph.D. – Senior Digital Health Scientist at SilverCloud Health. It is no secret that one by-product of the ongoing pandemic is an exacerbation of the country’s mental health crisis. According to research from Johns Hopkins , one in four Americans experience a mental health disorder in a typical year. Yet among adults in the U.S. rates of depression have steadily climbed from 8.5% before the pandemic to an alarming 32.8% in October of 2021, according to research publis

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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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PRSB develops information sharing standards for diabetes healthcare

Digital Health News

PRSB - the Professional Record Standards Body - has launched two new information sharing standards for diabetes to help improve care.

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Northwell Invests $10M in Brightline for Virtual Pediatric Behavioral Healthcare

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Brightline , the category leader in virtual behavioral healthcare for children, adolescents, and families, announced a $10M investment by Northwell Health , New York’s largest healthcare provider, bringing its total Series C funding to $115M. – This strategic investment and partnership will create greater access to innovative pediatric mental health services across the New York Metro area at a critical time for families.

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Somerset Integrated Digital e-Record being used 13,000 times a month

Digital Health News

Launched in 2019, the record aims to give healthcare professionals across Somerset a complete overview of a patient’s medical record.

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Featured Health IT Job: Hospital Network & Systems Engineer at Natividad

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Hospital Network & Systems Engineer at Natividad position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Natividad and is in California. Here’s a description of the position: At Natividad, our dedication to the people of Monterey County is at the heart of everything we do – from the health care services we provide to the specializ

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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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Induction signs software reseller agreement with System C Healthcare

Digital Health News

As part of the agreement, System C will sell Induction Zesty to new and existing customers of its CareFlow electronic patient record.

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Indonesian health insurtech firm Rey Assurance raises $4.2M in seed funding

Mobi Health News

The membership-based company seeks to champion technology and eliminate paper-based processes.

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The Compliance Newbie

Healthicity

This is a guest blog entry from Kristen Poat, who has stepped into the compliance officer role.

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Two Brothers Sentenced for Scheme to Steal and Sell Vaccination Cards

Med-Net Compliance

Two California brothers were both sentenced to 36 months of probation and ordered to pay $500 dollars in restitution after pleading guilty to misdemeanor conspiracy to steal or convert government property charges stemming from the theft of Centers for Disease Control (CDC) COVID-19 Vaccination Record Cards. In the plea agreement, both defendants admitted that between March 2021 and August 2021, they conspired to defraud the Centers for Disease Control by agreeing to sell stolen CDC COVID-19 Vacc

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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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Tucker Attorneys Jeremy Farrell and Rebecca Moran Published in the Allegheny County Medical Society’s Signature Publication

Med Law Blog

Jeremy Farrell and Rebecca Moran recently wrote an article entitled, “ Pregnancy-Related Protections for New Physicians ” in the Legal Summary section of the June 2022 Allegheny County Medical Society (ACMS) Bulletin. The ACMS Bulletin is the Allegheny County Medical Society’s signature publication which reaches over 2,000 physicians in Southwestern Pennsylvania each month.

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The Tate Chronicles Welcomes Aboard Don Hardwick

HealthIT Answers

This summer we have asked our radio hosts to invite our podcast hosts on their shows to get to know them. On this episode, Jim Tate talks to Don Hardwick, host of Follow the (Medical) Record. The post The Tate Chronicles Welcomes Aboard Don Hardwick appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: Heritage Group Invests in TwelveStone

McGuire Wood

Heritage Group has invested in TwelveStone Health Partners, according to a news release. TwelveStone , based in Murfreesboro, Tenn., is a provider of comprehensive chronic care medication services. Launched in 2016, the company’s offerings include ambulatory infusion, home infusion and packaged medication delivery. Heritage Group , based in Nashville, Tenn., makes control and minority equity investments exclusively in the healthcare industry.

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Revenue Cycle and Payer News – July 13, 2022

HealthIT Answers

Latest news being reported on payers and the health insurance industry including news from Oscar Health, Aetna, AHIP, Very Well Health, UnitedHealth Group, Humana, Cigna, Oscar Health, HPI, Employers Health Network and more. The post Revenue Cycle and Payer News – July 13, 2022 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.