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Cigna partners with in-home primary care provider Heal

Healthcare Dive

The provider, which focuses on care for seniors, is collaborating with Cigna to offer house calls and remote monitoring to Medicare Advantage customers in four states.

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Grand challenges and opportunities for patient-centered CDS

Healthcare It News

Clinical Decision Support Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Government & Policy Patient Engagement AHRQ is helping the transition towards evidence-based recommendations to guide clinical decision-making that incorporates patients' needs and preferences. Dr. Prashila Dullabh Dr. Prashila Dullabh is vice president and senior fellow at NORC at the University of Chicago, and Director of NORC’s Health Implementation Science Center.

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U.S. seeing loss of physicians providing contraceptive services, study suggests

Healthcare Dive

The study highlights how the reproductive care workforce has changed over the pandemic, which is likely to have important ripple effects for patients seeking out abortion and contraception services after the fall of Roe v. Wade.

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Grassroots Mobilization Needed to Defend Abortion Access

Bill of Health

By Camila Gianella. On August 3, Kansas voters spurned the recent decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization by rejecting a proposed constitutional amendment that, in line with the ruling, aimed to ban abortion in the state. What happened in Kansas shows the central role of social and political mobilization in securing abortion rights.

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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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8 ways hospitals can prevent a cyberattack

Healthcare Dive

After the ransomware attack at CommonSpirit, cybersecurity experts share the top ways health systems can protect valuable patient data.

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Nuvance Health develops new memory care-at-home platform

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Patients with mild cognitive impairment being treated at Nuvance Health Neuroscience Institute practices in New York and Connecticut, as well as their caregivers, have access to a new virtual neurological specialty care support program. WHY IT MATTERS. MCI is an early stage of memory loss or other cognition problems, such as difficulty with language and thinking.

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Telemedicine boosts value-based care performance for Happy Kids

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In recent years, the biggest challenge faced by Happy Kids, a six-clinic pediatric practice based in Phoenix, Arizona, was a detrimental loss of business during the COVID-19 pandemic. Patient volume dropped nearly 40% at its worst point. THE PROBLEM. The practice was on a disastrous path. The situation – having the same overhead and not enough patients – would have forced the practice to close its doors.

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5 Ways To Leverage Technology In Your Aesthetics Practice

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The aesthetics industry is constantly evolving, requiring you to keep up with trends. Your capability to provide your clients with treatments that use the latest and most effective technology is crucial for your practice’s financial […]. The article 5 Ways To Leverage Technology In Your Aesthetics Practice appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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OpenSSL Downgrades Bug Severity to High and Releases Patches

HIPAA Journal

Last week, the OpenSSL Project announced a patch would be released on November 1, 2022, to address a critical OpenSLL vulnerability, the details of which were being kept secret to prevent exploitation of the flaw ahead of the patch being released. The news of the vulnerability caused considerable concern amongst the open source community and beyond due to the extent to which OpenSLL is used – It is extensively used to encrypt communication channels and HTTPS connections, so the implications of

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Options MD raises $2.35M to expand virtual care for severe depression

Mobi Health News

The pre-seed will be used to expand the startup's clinical operations and research as well as improve its proprietary clinical protocols.

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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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MedCrypt Raises $25M for Medical Device Cybersecurity Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, MedCrypt , the proactive cybersecurity solution provider for medical devices and manufacturers raises $25M in Series B funding led by Intuitive Ventures and Johnson & Johnson Innovation. . – The round included participation from institutional investors Section 32 , Eniac Ventures , Anzu Partners , and Dolby Family Ventures.

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Consumers Rank Healthcare Experiences in the Bottom-Third of All Industries – the ACSI 2021-2022 Index

Jane Sarashon

While consumers’ satisfaction with inpatient care experiences improved a few points over the past year, health insurance and hospitals still fall in the bottom-third of all industries with which people interact, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) Insurance and Health Care Study 2021-2022. “With visitor restrictions relaxing and more elective procedures going forward, hospitals are slowly coming out of a COVID-induced satisfaction slump,” the study pres

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Mount Sinai Develops Employee Health Contact Tracing Database to Mitigate COVID-19 Spread

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Mount Sinai researchers have developed an Employee Health COVID-19 REDCap Registry to address the need for contact tracing and agile exposure investigations to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 among hospital staff. – Employee Health COVID-19 REDCap Registry is a cloud-based digital framework using the Research Electronic Data Capture web application—to track and reduce the spread of the virus across the Mount Sinai Health System including 8 hospitals and more t

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Best Buy will sell WHOOP's fitness wearable products

Mobi Health News

The wearable tech company’s deal with Best Buy marks its entry into brick-and-mortar retail.

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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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The Expanding Scope of Medical Staff Services | symplr

Symplr

Think provider credentialing is a modern concept? The current set of checks and balances that clinicians undergo as employees or contractors of a health system is just decades old having emerged as healthcare organizations became the extensive enterprises they are today. But traces of what medical services professionals (MSPs) do date back thousands of years.

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COTA Announces New Financing from Deerfield Management and Prior Investors To Accelerate Cancer Research and Treatment Innovation

Healthcare IT Today

Financing will be used to accelerate and further diversify COTA’s oncology real-world data products and services. COTA, Inc. , an oncology real-world data and analytics company, announced its latest financing by an investment fund managed by Deerfield Management , a healthcare investment firm. Deerfield invests across the life science, medical device, diagnostic, digital health, and health service industries at every stage of evolution.

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Hospital outpatient providers to see $6.5 billion Medicare pay bump

Modern Healthcare

Ambulatory surgery centers will receive a $230 million Medicare reimbursement boost next year under the Outpatient Prospective Payment System final rule.

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Health Is Social, With More People Using Apps for Physical and Emotional Wellbeing

Health Populi

People who need people aren’t just the luckiest people in the world: they derive greater benefits through monitoring their health via apps that make it easier to make healthy choices. Channeling Barbra Streisand here to call out a key finding in new consumer research from Kantar on Connecting with the Health & Wellness Community. Kantar polled 10,000 online consumers in ten countries to gain perspectives on health citizens’ physical and emotional health and the role of technology

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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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HHS urges healthcare providers to patch up cybersecurity vulnerability

Becker's Health IT

The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center, part of HHS, is urging healthcare organizations to patch up software library OpenSSL's cybersecurity vulnerabilities as soon as updates are released Nov. 1.

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Online counseling and therapy platform Wellin5 closes $2M funding round

Mobi Health News

The company will expand its team by 300% by 2023 and expand the rollout of its services in the U.S. market.

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Patient sues Advocate Aurora Health in federal court over 'pixel' data breach

Becker's Health IT

A patient has filed a lawsuit against Advocate Aurora Health and Facebook parent company Meta over their use of "pixel" technology that may have ensnared protected health information.

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The challenges posed by personal health records

Digital Health News

In his next piece for Digital Health, Kevin Hamer looks at key questions we need to ask to move forward when it comes to personal health records.

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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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OCR Explains HITECH Recognized Security Practices and How to Demonstrate They are in Place

HIPAA Journal

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has released a video presentation on its YouTube channel that explains in detail how the 2021 HITECH Act amendment regarding “Recognized Security Practices” applies to HIPAA-regulated entities, and how HIPAA-regulated entities can demonstrate to OCR that Recognized Security Practices have been in place for the 12 months prior to a security breach.

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Breaking down language barriers with digital health

Digital Health News

Jayshree Velani, from Ealing Hospital pharmacy explains how a web-based bilingual labelling solution has helped reduce healthcare inequalities.

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Polygon Psychology Practice Confirmed as HIPAA Compliant

HIPAA Journal

Polygon, a West Hollywood-based psychology practice that provides remote diagnostics for dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, ADHD, and other learning differences, has recently been confirmed as having implemented an effective HIPAA compliance program and was verified as in full compliance with the regulatory standards of the HIPAA Privacy, Security, Breach Notification and Omnibus Rules and the HITECH Act.

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Applications open for DigitalHealth.London Launchpad programme

Digital Health News

DigitalHealth.London has opened applications to their Launchpad programme for the next generation of digital health companies.

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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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5 things CIOs need to know about cybersecurity

Becker's Health IT

Recent ransomware attacks at Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health made national headlines and reinforced just how important cybersecurity is for CIOs.

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A Criminal Offense On Your Record Can Prevent You from Obtaining Your License in Florida

The Health Law Firm Blog

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law Someone arrested for a criminal offense knows that it can lead to a criminal record that may or may not be on your record for the rest of your life. However, once you pay your fine and carry [.].

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CMS Pushes Publication of Final FFS Adjuster for RADV Audits Rule to February 1, 2023

Healthcare Law Blog

CMS announced today a further extension until February 1, 2023, of the deadline for its publication of the long-awaited final rule on the use of extrapolation and the application of a fee-for-service adjuster (FFS Adjuster) in risk adjustment data validation (RADV) audits of Medicare Advantage organizations (MAOs). On November 1, 2018 , CMS issued a proposed rule that, among other changes, would use extrapolation in RADV contract-level audits of MAOs starting with payment year 2011 contract-leve

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Three Reasons the Cloud is Critical for Ensuring Patient-Centered Care

HealthIT Answers

By Morris Panner - As the healthcare sector embraces value-based care, the patient – not the procedure – is the central focus for providers. But the move to patient-centered care requires several significant deviations from the status quo. The post Three Reasons the Cloud is Critical for Ensuring Patient-Centered Care 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.