Healthcare Dive

AUGUST 9, 2022

Patients made greater use of virtual care visits for a second straight month during an upturn in coronavirus cases.

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 9, 2022

According to Deloitte's survey, 49% of respondents said they'd attended a virtual medical appointment as a patient in the past year, while 26% said they'd been to a virtual visit where another person was the patient.

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Healthcare Dive

AUGUST 9, 2022

All but two of the seven largest insurers saw profits climb in the second quarter as hospital operators continued to struggle with weak volumes and higher labor costs amid record-high inflation.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 9, 2022

In all of my conversations, people know that I often go back to one basic principle: Follow the Money. It’s amazing how often that explains various behaviors, market dynamics, or trying to understand the why of something that seems unexplainable. However, in healthcare I find this is often dramatically more complicated than people realize. The number of people and organizations that profit off the dysfunction of healthcare is troubling to say the least.

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Healthcare Dive

AUGUST 9, 2022

The Oakland, California-based integrated health system attributed the setback in its quarterly results to market investments.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 9, 2022

The following is a guest article by Natalie C. Oehlers, Associate Attorney and Carly C. Koza, Healthcare Associate Attorney at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney. While various legislation has been implemented or proposed at both the federal and state levels to standardize and accelerate the development of artificial intelligence (AI), most stop short of addressing the significant ethical challenges that may arise.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 9, 2022

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 9, 2022

Justin Jacobson, VP & General Manager, Patient Engagement Solutions at Nuance Communications. When patients contact their healthcare providers, they look for efficiency, convenience, and compassion. But often, the reality is far more clunky and impersonal when they find that an out-of-date phone system or a long hold queue are their only options.

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 9, 2022

San Diego-based medical device company ResMed has announced the acquisition of mementor, a consumer software developer that offers a digital solution for insomnia. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The acquisition of Leipzig, Germany-based mementor lays the foundation for ResMed to build its digital sleep medicine portfolio in Germany, the company said.

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 9, 2022

The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) has published a security advisory warning the healthcare and public health sector about the risks associated with Internet of Things (IoT) devices along with recommendations for improving the security of IoT devices. The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to physical devices that have the capability to exchange data or connect to other devices over the Internet.

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Digital Health News

AUGUST 9, 2022

When Jurgita Kaubryte spotted a job bringing together her passion for healthcare and mathematics, she seized the opportunity. Now she's helping Oracle Cerner grow their NHS client services within the burgeoning field of data science.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 9, 2022

Out of Stealth, Caraway Raises $10.5 Million in Seed Funding, Led by 7wireVentures and OMERS Ventures, with Participation from Hopelab Ventures. Caraway , a women’s+ digital healthcare company, emerged from stealth to take on the societal and medical imperative of caring for college students by providing integrated mental, reproductive and physical healthcare.

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 9, 2022

The Cardiac Scale monitors patients with fluid management conditions like heart failure and kidney disease.

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Digital Health News

AUGUST 9, 2022

The third Digital Health Awards 2022 winner profile in our series focuses on Rob Ratcliffe, who won the Rising Star in Digital Nursing award.

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 9, 2022

Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System in California has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit for $340,000 to resolve claims from patients affected by a breach of its email environment in 2020. Between April 30, 2020, and June 5, 2020, unauthorized individuals gained access to the email accounts of four employees and a contractor following responses to phishing emails.

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Digital Health News

AUGUST 9, 2022

Staff were praised for using innovation to help eliminate long waits for scans, checks, surgical procedures and other routine treatment.

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Healthicity

AUGUST 9, 2022

Urinary Catheters. Some people have a condition called urinary retention.

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Digital Health News

AUGUST 9, 2022

Richard Craven considers some of the big developments in pathology and how technology will help laboratories to confront current challenges.

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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.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 9, 2022

Combining the premier payment integrity platform with the leading NLP technology solution to transform how health plans address payment integrity, risk adjustment and data management. ClaimLogiq, a leading technology enabling payment integrity platform, announced today that it has acquired SyTrue, the pioneer in healthcare natural language processing technology, creating a seamless and cohesive solution for clinical, coding and medical record reviews.

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Med-Net Compliance

AUGUST 9, 2022

An Illinois nursing home was named in a lawsuit alleging the staff’s negligence resulted in a resident’s fall. The plaintiff, acting as independent administrator of the estate of the resident, filed the lawsuit, citing negligence. According to the lawsuit, when the resident was admitted to the nursing home, the staff were told that she was at risk for falls, had dementia, and was almost completely blind.

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Becker's Health IT

AUGUST 9, 2022

The federal government issued a warning Aug. 4 about the rise in cybersecurity risks associated with Internet of Things devices in the healthcare and public health sector.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 9, 2022

Good healthcare and the financial sector cannot be separated entirely, even when their base motivations lie in different directions. While the medical sector should focus more on the health of the patients instead of consumerism, a good amount of capital is needed to ensure a functional system. Naturally, we can find healthcare companies on the stock market.

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Becker's Health IT

AUGUST 9, 2022

St. Albans, Vt.-based Northwestern Medical Center terminated an employee who accessed its EHR without authorization to obtain the protected health information of patients, Saint Albans Messenger reported Aug. 8.

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Jane Sarashon

AUGUST 9, 2022

“Almost overnight, lines blurred between consumers’ physical and digital worlds, and home became the headquarters for virtual working, learning, fitness, health care, shopping, socializing, and entertaining.” . That blur has reshaped peoples’ Everyday Normal we learn in Mastering the new digital life from Deloitte, a survey conducted among 2,005 U.S. consumers in the first quarter of 2022.

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HealthIT Answers

AUGUST 9, 2022

On this episode of Healthcare Transformers Podcast, Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, VP and Chief Health Equity Officer at CVS Health, shares the impact when organizations move beyond buzzwords and embark on a health equity transformation. Take a listen. The post Ending Health Disparities Should be a Deliberate Mindset appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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The Health Law Firm

AUGUST 9, 2022

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law Florida law requires that health professionals (including physicians, nurses, physical therapists, nurse practitioners, professional counselors and social workers, among others) obtain a Level 2 background screening prior to working in a facility licensed by the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA).

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Health Law Checkup

AUGUST 9, 2022

On July 20, 2022, the OIG released a Fraud Alert encouraging practitioners to exercise caution when entering into arrangements with telemedicine companies, given the various fraud and abuse risks associated with such arrangements, including an increased risk of fraudulent claims to Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal healthcare programs.

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HealthIT Answers

AUGUST 9, 2022

By Mike Hodge - Long term acute care facilities are increasingly challenged to care for higher acuity patients transferred from hospital intensive care units. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated this trend by driving a greater number of sicker patients into LTAC settings as hospitals reach ICU capacity. The post Reducing Risks and Costs in the LTAC Setting appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 9, 2022

What You Should Know: – One of the nation’s largest real-time health information networks Availity announced an agreement to acquire Diameter Health , a national leader in clinical data quality and interoperability. – This strategic deal expands Availity’s clinical portfolio to deliver the strongest integrated clinical and claims data network and interoperability platforms in healthcare.

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HealthIT Answers

AUGUST 9, 2022

By Devin Partida - The COVID-19 pandemic changed the world forever, including how employees work. More than ever, workers seek the flexible and remote opportunities they grew accustomed to during the pandemic. The pandemic also changed the methods of health care used by providers and challenged providers to adapt by creating telemedicine and other virtual health care opportunities.

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