Wed.Aug 10, 2022

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Hospitals still fall short on price transparency, consumer group says

Healthcare Dive

Hospitals pushed back on the Patient Rights Advocate report, which found that just 16% of hospitals were fully compliant with the price transparency law.

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Patient-centered care gets a boost from digital efficiency

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Cerner agrees to pay $1.9M to settle racial discrimination case

Healthcare Dive

Hiring bias, which Cerner denies, resulted in a notable shortfall of Black and Asian hires for certain positions between 2015 and 2019, federal regulators allege.

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Climate Change Is Not Good for Health and Living Things

Health Populi

There is an image from my childhood, drawn by Lorraine Schneider, which reads “War is not healthy for children and other living things.” As I read through a paper published this week on climate change’s contribution to the burden of chronic disease, I couldn’t help but conjure up Lorraine’s observation from my little girl memory bank.

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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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Scan Health Plan makes push into Texas

Healthcare Dive

The Medicare Advantage insurer will cover seniors in a total of four states, pending regulatory approval.

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HHS awards $150M for data and capacity building

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Health Resources and Services Administration, awarded nearly $90 million in American Rescue Plan funding to nearly 1,400 community health centers to advance health equity through better data collection and reporting – as well as nearly $60 million to grow the workforce and increase healthcare access in rural areas.

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The Woodstock of Healthcare Interoperability

Healthcare IT Today

When I first heard that Civitas and DirectTrust were collaborating to hold the Civitas Networks for Health Annual Conference and the DirectTrust Summit together, I thought that this is likely going to be one of the greatest gathering of healthcare interoperability professionals that has happened. As the title says, it’s going to be a kind of Woodstock of Healthcare Interoperability people, but the music is replaced with really nerdy conversations about standards, networks, identification,

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Zenith American Solutions Reports Mailing Error that Exposed SSNs of 37,000 Individuals

HIPAA Journal

Zenith American Solutions, a third-party administrator for the Sound Health and Wellness Trust, has recently notified individuals about a mailing error that exposed individuals’ Social Security numbers. According to the breach notification, a mailing was sent to individuals on June 24, 2022, advising them to complete their Personal Health Assessments or Health Profiles to enroll in the 2023 Health Reimbursement Account.

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Teladoc Brings At-Home Diabetes Testing for Members

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Teladoc Health recently added an at-home A1C testing program to its chronic care solution, making it easier for members to manage their diabetes while also bridging health equity gaps in chronic condition care. – Livongo by Teladoc Health members will have the option to receive at-home A1C tests provided by LetsGetChecked, a leading healthcare solutions company that enables providers to administer diagnostics and care directly into the homes of patients.

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Babylon reports Q2 revenue growth driven by value-based care sector

Mobi Health News

The multinational digital health company posted Q2 revenue of $265.4 million, compared with $57.5 million during the same period last year. It also reported a $157.1 million loss.

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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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New Strategic Partnership Helps Hospitals Deploy Epic EHR to AWS Cloud

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Cloudticity and Sapphire Health announced a strategic partnership to help hospitals and healthcare providers that use Epic EHR to undergo a seamless transition into the AWS Cloud. – This first-ever strategic alliance enables hospital systems to leverage cloud power to ensure their infrastructure can achieve high levels of availability, resilience, and agility.

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Featured Health IT Job: Senior Solutions Architect – HIE

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Senior Solutions Architect – HIE position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by TransForm Shared Service Organization and is an international position in Canada – Ontario. Here’s a description of the position: Company: TransForm Shared Service Organization.

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Intel Invests $20M in Biofourmis’ Virtual Care Offerings

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Biofourmis, a Boston-based global leader in virtual care and digital medicine, today announced that Intel Capital , the strategic investment arm of chipmaker Intel Corporation, has joined its Series D financing in an extension that brings the total funding raised in the round to $320M. – The initial Series D funding round was announced in April and was led by global growth equity firm General Atlantic with participation by CVS Health (NYSE:CVS) , Trevor Fetter

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Why HIPAA Compliance is Becoming More Challenging…

HIPAA Vault

and What You Can Do About It “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Whoever said it first (possibly Churchill, though it’s debated) understood a deeper truth about life’s challenges, often missed in easier times: storms and suffering tend to shake us out of our complacency, refining us for better things. Case in point: Continue reading.

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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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Biofourmis scores another $20M and more digital health fundings

Mobi Health News

Also, Northwestern University spinout Sibel Health raises $33 million, and real-world evidence startup Atropos Health scoops up $14 million.

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Somerset Trust eliminates non-urgent bleeps with digital task management

Digital Health News

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust's year-long study into a digital task management solution has shown positive results and less reliance on bleepers and paper.

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Best Practices for Compliance in Hospitals

Healthicity

We all know the importance of the seven elements of an effective compliance program.

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Guy’s and St Thomas’ still feeling the heat with ongoing IT issues

Digital Health News

Guy’s and St Thomas’ now have their core IT systems back online but work continues to recover several clinical applications following the heatwave.

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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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Why HIPAA Compliance is Becoming More Challenging…

HIPAA Vault

and What You Can Do About It “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Whoever said it first (possibly Churchill, though it’s debated) understood a deeper truth about life’s challenges, often missed in easier times: storms and suffering tend to shake us out of our complacency, refining us for better things. Case in point: Continue reading.

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myGP adds Pharmacy2U delivery service for repeat prescriptions

Digital Health News

The myGP app has added another delivery service to its platform, welcoming Pharmacy2U for users looking for repeat prescriptions.

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Lawsuit Filed after Resident Leaves Assisted Living Facility and Drowns

Med-Net Compliance

A lawsuit has been filed against an assisted living facility in Illinois after an 82-year-old man with dementia went missing from the facility and drowned. The resident had been reported missing early in the morning on July 30, 2021. He had dementia and was last seen walking away from the facility, police said at the time. An Endangered Missing Person Advisory was issued for him.

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Boots delivers prescription medicines by drone to the Isle of Wight

Digital Health News

Boots has become the first pharmacy in the UK to deliver prescription medicines by drone following a test flight from Portsmouth to the Isle of Wight.

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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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A Look at Care Navigation, Virtual Care, and Oracle Cerner with Zane Burke from Quantum Health

Healthcare IT Today

One of the people who’s had a front row seat to some of the major happenings in health IT is Zane Burke. Most of us got to know Burke during his two decades at Cerner Corporation (now Oracle Cerner ) where he eventually became President. Then, Burke was CEO of Livongo Health before it was eventually acquired by Teladoc. Burke is now CEO at Quantum Health.

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A Glimpse of the Holy Grail for Healthcare Cost Transparency

HIT Consultant

Michael Rea, PharmD, Founder & CEO at Rx Savings Solutions. Imagine being told which car or computer you must buy and just forking over whatever it costs. Even if you’re only paying a portion, would you simply write a blank check? That’s essentially what American healthcare consumers have been doing for decades, even as the cost of healthcare and consumers’ share of it continue to climb.

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Elation Health Announces $50M Series D for Innovative Primary Care

Healthcare IT Today

Generation Investment Management and Ascension Ventures co-led the round for Elation’s primary care platform supporting practices in new payment models and more than 12.8 million patients. Elation Health , the clinical-first technology company powering innovation in primary care, today announced a Series D financing round of $50 million. Generation Investment Management, a firm established in 2004 to back businesses driving sustainability, co-led the round alongside Ascension Ventures with parti

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ALERT – Phishing Campaign

Total Medical ComplianceHIPAA

These phishing emails are targeting healthcare providers. The email has a subject of “(Victim Organization) (Date) Business Review” and utilizes a Secure Message theme. Inside of the email is a malicious link that takes the recipient to an Evernote site that looks like it belongs to the Victim Organization. On that site is an HTML download that is Trojan malware that steals usernames and passwords and other sensitive credentials and 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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Two tips for enabling a speak-up culture in your healthcare organization 

YouCompli

Most compliance programs strive for a safe “speak-up” culture in their organizations, and for good reason. It is not possible for compliance professionals to be in all places at all times. Even more important, compliance is everyone’s responsibility, not just those who work in the Compliance department. Empowering individuals to speak up is an essential part of any compliance program as it facilitates open lines of communication.

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Bow River Closes Third Private Equity Fund With $590 Million

McGuire Wood

Bow River Capital Partners has announced it has closed its third private equity fund at $590 million. The fund was oversubscribed, exceeding its target of $500 million. The new fund will continue the firm’s strategy of investing in middle market companies located throughout the United States in healthcare services and a few other sectors. Bow River primarily focuses on companies in the Rocky Mountain West and Southwest.

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Q&A: Meharry Medical College on Vendor Compliance

Provider Trust

Ronette Adams-Taylor has been the Associate General Counsel and Director of Compliance and Risk Management for Meharry Medical College for the last 10 years. Q: Can you tell us about Meharry Medical College? Meharry Medical College is here in Nashville, Tennessee. We are the first medical college for African Americans in the South. We were founded in 1876, and now we are now considered an academic health science center because we have a dental program, a graduate school program, and we graduate

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How to Improve Cybersecurity in Healthcare

Compliancy Group

Cloud computing has dramatically transformed how companies do business within the past decade. Organizations love the increased convenience and productivity possible with cloud computing, but security considerations have been overlooked or neglected. Based on surveys and focus groups, employees have noticed it. Given the consequences of security failures within the industry, employees and stakeholders have the right to ask, how to improve cybersecurity in healthcare?

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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.