Healthcare Dive

MARCH 1, 2022

The two companies make interesting bedfellows for the partnership, given they are direct competitors in virtual-first primary care delivery.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 1, 2022

By Matt Bauer. Science and engineering graduate students’ curricula should include cross-disciplinary studies in intellectual property (IP). These students research, discover, and invent new technology and methodologies for their thesis work. Accordingly, they should be better equipped to understand and navigate the fundamentals of intellectual property to protect those innovations.

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 1, 2022

Pear Therapeutics CEO Corey McCann said the agency's new HCPCS code for prescription digital behavioral therapy is an important milestone for getting digital therapeutics as a product category covered by more insurance plans.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 1, 2022

Ransomware attacks have recently been reported by four healthcare providers across the country, which have collectively resulted in the exposure and potential theft of the protected health information of more than 49,000 individuals. Jax Spine & Pain Centers. Jax Spine and Pain Centers in Jacksonville, FL has recently announced it was the victim of a ransomware attack that occurred on January 24, 2022.

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 1, 2022

Providers and patients again delayed non-emergent care, either to mitigate the spread of the virus or preserve resources for patients with more urgent needs, according to Kaufman Hall.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 1, 2022

Tech-enabled vendors and services on the market have expanded with rapid acceleration since the pandemic. Telemedicine, though, cannot directly provide services to address social determinants of health, services that still remain scattered and disparate. Hospital technology leaders could potentially benefit from companies that offer an umbrella of technologies and services that address health disparities for vulnerable populations to promote health outcomes and equity with an inclusive and expan

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 1, 2022

What You Should Know: – Experity , the national leader in on-demand care solutions, today announced a strategic growth investment from GTCR , a private equity firm with significant experience in healthcare technology and services. Existing investor Warburg Pincus will retain a minority interest in the company. – The strategic growth investment from GTCR, along with the combined capability of two world-class investors (including Warburg Pincus) will provide industry-leading innovation

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 1, 2022

In reporting its annual results, Mayo Clinic also said it is giving eligible staff members a 4% minimum salary increase in 2022.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 1, 2022

What You Should Know: – Accenture and Microsoft will assist the Mount Sinai Health System (Mount Sinai) with its transition to the cloud to help enable innovation at a much faster pace. – By modernizing its infrastructure, Mount Sinai will be able to reinvest cost-savings and focus on its healthcare mission. The migration to Microsoft Azure could deliver millions in savings.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 1, 2022

In a recent blog post, Director of the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights, Lisa J. Pino, urged HIPAA-regulated entities to take steps to strengthen their cybersecurity posture in 2022 in light of the increase in cyberattacks on the healthcare industry. 2021 was a particularly bad year for healthcare organizations, with the number of reported healthcare data breaches reaching record levels. 714 healthcare data breaches of 500 or more records were reported to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights in 2021 and

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 1, 2022

What You Should Know: – Today, the department of Cedars-Sinai announced it has established a new division to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) can be applied to help solve complex medical problems and enhance clinical care. – The new division, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, or AIM will be led by Sumeet Chugh, MD, an associate director of the Smidt Heart Institute and a prominent expert in sudden cardiac arrest, who has long relied on technology and population-wide data t

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 1, 2022

The Houston Health Department has recently announced that the personal information and COVID-19 test results of 10,291 individuals have been exposed online as a result of a technical issue with its portal. The issue allowed approximately 3,500 portal users to access the data of other individuals. The Houston Health Department said it detected the issue on January 6, 2022, and the portal was deactivated within 48 hours.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 1, 2022

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 3/4 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by John Lynn (@techguy) from @hcittoday on the topic “ViVE and HIMSS Preview.” The next couple weeks are going to be extremely exciting for the world of healthcare […].

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 1, 2022

The tool lets patients access information about the condition and connect with others living with it.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 1, 2022

When I look at what topics are going to be trending at the upcoming HIMSS 2022 conference in Orlando, healthcare security lands in my top 2 topics. While some may feel that the topic of security is getting old (and in some ways it is), the number of ransomware attacks, the increasing attack surface, and […].

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 1, 2022

The deal comes less than a year after the direct-to-consumer virtual care company scooped up Modern Fertility.

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Modern Healthcare

MARCH 1, 2022

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau questions whether medical debts should appear on credit reports at all.

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2022

Voice technology has become a mainstream household Internet of Things thing for consumers, used to streamline and ease peoples’ daily tasks to hear about the weather, listen to favorite tunes, or seek information. At the same time, the pandemic fostered growing experience with and appreciation for virtual care platforms and on-ramps to health care when needed.

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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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Mobi Health News

MARCH 1, 2022

Also: Nayya rakes in $55 million for health navigation, and Synapse Medicine rakes in $28 million.

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Modern Healthcare

MARCH 1, 2022

That’s an upward revision from an estimate of around 20% of free tests ordered by people in “high vulnerability Zip Codes” that White House officials had earlier provided to The Associated Press.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 1, 2022

Motion Trainer uses computer vision to provide feedback to users.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

MARCH 1, 2022

An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division determined that a Pennsylvania treatment center manually deducted a 30-minute break, even from nurses who were unable to take their lunch breaks due to staffing issues and workload. A consent judgement by a U.S. District Court of Pennsylvania ordered payment of the nurses back wages and liquidated damages.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 1, 2022

Synapse Medicine has raised $28 million, led by leading European venture firm Korelya Capital, and existing investors (XAnge, MACSF, and BNP Paribas Development). This is the third fundraising round in three years for the startup, reaching a total of $40 million. The company, already scaling across Europe, plans to accelerate the deployment of its medication […].

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Innovaare Compliance

MARCH 1, 2022

The monthly premium for Medicare Part B rose 14.5%, from $148.50 in 2021 to $170.00 in 2022, which is partly offset by a cost-of-living increase of 5.9% in Social Security benefits. By law, the Medicare Part B monthly premium must equal 25% of the estimated total Part B costs for enrollees age 65 and over. [1] The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has to establish an annual Part B premium that will adequately fund projected Medicare spending and maintain an adequate reserve in c

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 1, 2022

What You Should Know: – MEDITECH today announced the availability of Expanse Ambulatory in independent and physician-owned practices, without requiring an Expanse EHR in the hospital setting. – The subscription-based solution lives in the cloud, so there is no significant IT footprint required. Expanse Ambulatory’s Practice Management. Expanse Ambulatory’s Practice Management solution offers efficient office workflows and intuitive features like drag-and-drop scheduling, automated pa

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Verisys

MARCH 1, 2022

If there’s one thing healthcare organizations can count on, it’s changing regulations. Although credentialing and recredentialing standards were temporarily changed due to COVID, many regulations are returning to the former protocol. That’s why it’s important to understand primary source verification, methods of accessing primary sources, and how to get help with practitioner credentials verification if you need it.

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Compliancy Group

MARCH 1, 2022

The question is asked of HIPAA subject matter experts with an almost maddening frequency: “How often do I need to conduct a HIPAA Security Risk Analysis (SRA)?” In 2010, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights issued guidance on the topic. The guidance did not spell out how often the analysis is to be performed. Yet, the guidance pointed toward an answer by noting several Security Rule requirements.

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Healthcare Law Blog

MARCH 1, 2022

Texas HB 1445, which went into effect on January 1, 2022, exempts medical billing services performed before the submission of the relevant insurance claim from state sales tax. The new legislation legally exempts medical billing services from the statutory definition of taxable “insurance services.” Practically speaking, this relieves management services companies, and ultimately physicians and patients, from bearing the burden of tax payments of up to 8.25% for the provision of certain medica

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Medisys Compliance

MARCH 1, 2022

Clean Claim Requirements. Submitting clean claims will ensure timely and accurate insurance reimbursements. Clean claims will ensure that you are not wasting your staffs’ time on reworking insurance claims. As per definition, a clean claim is a submitted claim without any errors or other issues, including incomplete documentation. A clean claim meets all of the following requirements: Identifies the health professional, health facility, home health care provider, or durable medical equipment pro

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PowerDMS Compliance

MARCH 1, 2022

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