HIPAA Journal
MAY 19, 2023
Whether or not a HIPAA violation will show up on a background check depends on the nature of the violation, the consequences of the violation, and the motive for the violation. While it is currently rare for a HIPAA violation to show up on a background check, this may change due to a proposed update to the Privacy Rule. There are many different types of HIPAA violations.
Healthcare Dive
MAY 19, 2023
The unions allege that UPMC, the largest private employer in the state, has used its market dominance to stamp out wage growth, “drastically increase” workload and keep workers from departing to other jobs.
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Healthcare It News
MAY 19, 2023
A dataset dating back to 2005, containing contributions from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients will be added to the Pooled Resource Open-Access ALS Clinical Trials, or PRO-ACT database at Massachusetts General Hospital. The database, part of MGH's Neurological Clinical Research Institute, contains anonymized data from 29 clinical trials and 11,685 patient records.
Healthcare Dive
MAY 19, 2023
The Rochester, Minnesota-based academic medical system reported increased admissions and revenue in the first quarter. Operating expenses also grew, largely due to salary and benefit costs.
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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?
Electronic Health Reporter
MAY 19, 2023
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Leon Rozenblit, JD, PhD, Registry CoE, IQVIA, Alexandra Weiss, nonprofit strategy, patient organizations, IQVIA. The past few years ushered in a historic wave of innovation in the therapeutic development landscape, heightening the demand for high-quality, […] The article Understanding the Benefits of Data Registries for Advancing Patient Centricity and Research appeared first on electroni
Healthcare Dive
MAY 19, 2023
Political will seems to be rising to address drivers of growing medical costs and poor access to care, according to lawmaker comments on the Hill.
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Healthcare Dive
MAY 19, 2023
The purchase, which includes clinics in Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Houston and El Paso, will boost the for-profit health system’s urgent care footprint.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 19, 2023
Commercial payers frequently delayed paying out providers' claims in Q1, report finds dmuoio Fri, 05/19/2023 - 15:44
Healthcare IT Today
MAY 19, 2023
Venture Capital Commitment for Mayo Clinic Platform Portfolio Company Underscores Promise of Clinical AI to Transform Healthcare Delivery Lucem Health , a leading provider of transformational clinical AI technology and solutions, announced that it has closed a Series A funding round of $7.7 million. Led by Mayo Clinic, Granger Management, and Mercy (St Louis), this round builds on Lucem Health’s seed funding and includes financing from existing investor Rally Ventures.
Mobi Health News
MAY 19, 2023
The Federal Trade Commission alleges the company shared personal health information with two China-based firms, Google and analytics company AppsFlyer.
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HIPAA Journal
MAY 19, 2023
Easy Healthcare, the developer and distributor of the Premom Ovulation Tracker (Premom) app, has agreed to settle an FTC complaint that alleged violations of the FTC Act and Health Breach Notification Rule related to the sharing of app users’ health data with third parties without consent. The Premom app allows users to track their periods and ovulation cycles.
HIT Consultant
MAY 19, 2023
Health IT veteran Ed Marx announces his departure as CEO at Divurgent to launch his advisory company, Marx Advisory focused on helping healthcare executives & organizations achieve objectives and key results. Particle Health appointed Jason Prestinario as its next CEO, effective today. Troy Bannister, founder and current CEO, will continue with Particle as Chief Strategy Officer, where he will spearhead product innovation.
Mobi Health News
MAY 19, 2023
Connor Tobin, professional soccer player and the cofounder and executive director of the United Soccer League Players Association, discusses a partnership with telehealth platform Onrise to support players' mental health.
Healthcare IT Today
MAY 19, 2023
Epic started out as a rather inert data repository, but decades of use and growth have allowed it to look beyond the EHR itself. According to Project Manager Erika Koch, they have taken on the pressing challenges of health care: making doctors’ work lives easier, reducing costs, and improving the patient experience. Work with genomics and rare diseases is underway.
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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.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 19, 2023
Senators press Medicare Advantage insurers over claims denials pminemyer Fri, 05/19/2023 - 14:01
HIPAA Journal
MAY 19, 2023
The issue with answering the question is Qualtrics HIPAA compliant is that, although the “experience management” platform appears to support HIPAA compliance, configuring and using the platform in a HIPAA compliant manner looks more complicated than some Covered Entities will be comfortable with. For those who struggle with fancy terminology, Qualtrics is an online platform that enables businesses to create and send surveys, obtain customer/employee feedback, and address satisfaction issues usin
Digital Health News
MAY 19, 2023
A grant from UKRI will allow EarSwitch to develop, test and trial its EarMetrics technology allowing a range of metrics to be taken all via a hearing aid.
Mobi Health News
MAY 19, 2023
The prescription digital therapeutics companies' assets were sold to four bidders: Click Therapeutics, Harvest BIO, Nox Health Group and Welt.
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Healthcare IT Today
MAY 19, 2023
It’s been a while since we’ve done a Fun Friday article and so we have to remedy that today. What can I say? It’s been really busy with so much content coming out of the ViVE and HIMSS conferences. However, I think we can all use a little fun as well. For those not familiar with Fun Friday, it’s a chance for us to let our hair down and share a little humor as we head into the weekend.
Becker's Health IT
MAY 19, 2023
A North Carolina radiology group is suing its cyber insurance carrier after its coverage lapsed two days before it suffered a ransomware attack, The Wall Street Journal reported May 18.
Digital Health News
MAY 19, 2023
Digital clinical noting from System C has enabled Bristol Royal Hospital for Children's (BRHC) busy paediatric ED to reduce reliance on paper forms.
Center for Health Insurance Reform
MAY 19, 2023
On May 15, 2023, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily paused the Braidwood v. Becerra ruling by a federal district court. That court's decision would have blocked federal enforcement of the ACA's requirements that insurers cover and waive cost-sharing for preventive services. In their latest post for the State Health & Value Strategies project, Sabrina Corlette and Tara Straw discuss who is impacted, and how states can help protect their residents.
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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.
Digital Health News
MAY 19, 2023
The latest Digital Health News industry roundup includes TidalSense raising funds for its diagnostics system, and Excelerate suing two health organisations.
HIPAA Journal
MAY 19, 2023
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has proposed changes to the Health Breach Notification Rule to strengthen the applicability of the Rule to health apps and other emerging direct-to-consumer technologies that collect, store, and transmit identifiable health data. There has been an explosion of health apps and connected devices that collect health data, and those apps and devices are collecting vast amounts of health data.
Digital Health News
MAY 19, 2023
Vitality plans to extend the use of the Wysa app to its members, following a pilot that showed it reduced symptoms of anxiety and depression.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 19, 2023
LRVHealth raises $200M to fund the 'second wave' of digital health innovation hlandi Fri, 05/19/2023 - 06:21
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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.
Digital Health News
MAY 19, 2023
Kingston Hospital is to deploy new healthcare platform, OX.ar, to its assisted conception unit from tech specialist OX.DH.
Mobi Health News
MAY 19, 2023
It is now looking to expand into other regions such as the Middle East.
Becker's Health IT
MAY 19, 2023
Northwest Health-La Porte (Ind.) filed a data breach notice on May 2 disclosing that patient records were illegally removed from shredding bins at one of its old facilities, JD Supra reported May 18.
HIPAA & Health IT
MAY 19, 2023
Brightree by ResMed (“Brightree”), a cloud-based management software platform for healthcare providers, has conducted its biannual interoperability survey, and issued its corresponding biannual Interoperability and Engagement Research Report. Most notably, and not surprisingly, 99% of the 400+ provider entities that were surveyed, said they are most likely to send patient referrals for post-acute care (PAC) to providers who are able to support interoperability needs.
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