Wed.Sep 15, 2021

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Telehealth has grown by leaps at doc practices, with wide variance in usage patterns

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

To the surprise of no one, the new AMA Physician Practice Benchmark Survey , finds a major uptick in use of telehealth since before the pandemic: 70.3% of physicians polled say they work in practices that used videoconferencing to provide patient visits in September 2020, according to the survey – that's compared to only 14.3% in September 2018.

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3 Tips For Creating A Website For Your Medical Practice

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Running a medical practice comes with a wide range of responsibilities. From patient record management to abiding by regulatory medical guidelines, you have a long list of priorities to tend to. One of these priorities […]. The article 3 Tips For Creating A Website For Your Medical Practice appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Taking stock of the sudden evolution of telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth continues to grow as a crucial part of patient care, especially when supporting patients who live in remote areas and senior citizens. Research firm Frost & Sullivan forecasts a sevenfold growth in telehealth by 2025 – a five-year compound annual growth rate of 38%. The bottom line is that people want to have access to healthcare anytime, anywhere, across multiple devices and in the language of their choice.

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Industry Voices—Not all automation is created equally for clinical documentation improvement

Fierce Healthcare

Industry Voices—Not all automation is created equally for clinical documentation improvement. hlandi. Wed, 09/15/2021 - 15:26.

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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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GoPuff piloting a prescription-delivery service expansion

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

GoPuff, a snack-delivery service operating in more than 1,000 cities, has reportedly begun to pilot a prescription-delivery option in Philadelphia. According to Insider's Nancy Luna, the company – which generally delivers convenience-store grocery items and alcohol – is testing out expanding into the pharmacy space. GoPuff did not respond to requests for comment from Healthcare IT News.

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Digital Identity in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

One of the most interesting and challenging topics in healthcare lately has been around identity. Certainly this was brought to the forefront thanks to COVID vaccinations, but it’s also become important with things like information blocking and healthcare APIs making data more available. It’s great to make patient data available, but if we don’t improve […].

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Elvie launches new smart breast pump in the US covered by insurance

Mobi Health News

Elvie has partnered with a number of durable medical equipment providers to ensure customers get their breast pumps covered by insurance.

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Aetna misrepresented network to secure Pennsylvania Medicaid contract, lawsuit claims

Fierce Healthcare

Aetna misrepresented network to secure Pennsylvania Medicaid contract, lawsuit claims. pminemyer. Wed, 09/15/2021 - 11:33.

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Digital pharmacy Mednow launches telehealth service

Mobi Health News

As part of the new multimodal service, patients can talk to a doctor virtually and get their prescription in the mail.

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IncludeHealth Launches Device Agnostic Musculoskeletal Operating System

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – IncludeHealth , a digital musculoskeletal (MSK) health company, launched its proprietary Musculoskeletal Operating System (MSK-OS™) in collaboration with Google and ProMedica Health System. The MSK-OS™ is a hardware-free, device-agnostic platform combining the most accessible, measurable pose estimation technology available with proprietary clinical intelligence and tools to transform virtual MSK care delivery. – The new MSK-OS™ platform will power the next ge

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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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Contentious report suggests safety net hospitals leveraging discounts to pocket strong gains from cancer drugs

Fierce Healthcare

Contentious report suggests safety net hospitals leveraging discounts to pocket strong gains from cancer drugs. dmuoio. Wed, 09/15/2021 - 16:06.

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Swift Medical Launches AI Digital Wound App to Support Clinical Trials

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Global digital wound care provider Swift Medical , today announced the launch of a new application specifically designed to help pharma and med device researchers conduct decentralized clinical trials. Since patients are now doing more trials at home, study coordinators have had trouble tracking skin side effects remotely — or trusting patients to conduct adequate analysis and recording on themselves. – Swift Medical’s first product, Swift Skin and Wound, provid

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RecoveryOne lands $33M backed by private equity arm of BCBS of Kansas City

Fierce Healthcare

RecoveryOne lands $33M backed by private equity arm of BCBS of Kansas City. agliadkovskaya. Wed, 09/15/2021 - 15:40.

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Do You Replace Medical Equipment If It’s a Security Failure?

Healthcare IT Today

I came across this interesting Twitter thread where Drex commented: “We don’t replace medical equipment just because it’s a security failure…” — ???????? (@drexdeford) September 14, 2021 If you work in healthcare, you’ve likely been there. In some cases, it’s true. You’re not going to replace the insecure medical device. That’s why every health IT […].

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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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Moderates balk at Medicare drug price negotiation authority pursued by Dems in $3.5T package

Fierce Healthcare

Moderates balk at Medicare drug price negotiation authority pursued by Dems in $3.5T package. rking. Wed, 09/15/2021 - 15:08.

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Zelis to Acquire Healthcare Transparency Leader Sapphire Digital

Healthcare IT Today

Zelis accelerates mission to harmonize the complete payment process in healthcare on behalf of payers, providers and healthcare consumers with Sapphire’s innovative pricing and provider selection tools. Zelis, a leading payments company in healthcare, announced today it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Sapphire Digital (“Sapphire”), the healthcare industry’s leading platform for provider selection, […].

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Stakeholder panel calls for stronger price transparency enforcement, data accessibility

Fierce Healthcare

Stakeholder panel calls for stronger price transparency enforcement, data accessibility. dmuoio. Wed, 09/15/2021 - 12:22.

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Study: Chatbots could help people with substance use disorder avoid relapse

Mobi Health News

The bulk of participants using the Woebot chatbot said they would recommend the 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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Venture firms warn R&D funding for new drugs will 'drop off a cliff' if Dem bill approved

Fierce Healthcare

Venture firms warn R&D funding for new drugs will 'drop off a cliff' if Dem bill approved. rking. Wed, 09/15/2021 - 16:28.

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Australian medtech startup emerges from stealth, unveils tomographic ultrasound robot

Mobi Health News

The device can help reduce injuries that sonographers get from operating large diagnostic machines while producing 3D diagnostic outputs.

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HHS: ACA exchange enrollment reaches 12.2M thanks to enhanced subsidies

Fierce Healthcare

HHS: ACA exchange enrollment reaches 12.2M thanks to enhanced subsidies. rking. Wed, 09/15/2021 - 11:21.

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#HelloHumankindness and Happy New Year….

Health Populi

When Dignity Health, the Catholic health care system, launched the “Hello humankindness” PR campaign in June 2013 , well, they had me at “Hello.” When the project went live, Dignity Health’s President/CEO Lloyd Dean provided the rationale for the program, saying: “What’s missing in the public discourse about health care is the fact that while medicine has the power to cure, it’s humanity that holds the power to heal.” Dean pointed to two driv

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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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CareFirst unveils new virtual primary care practice, CloseKnit

Fierce Healthcare

CareFirst unveils new virtual primary care practice, CloseKnit. pminemyer. Wed, 09/15/2021 - 14:51.

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Workforce tool to manage and communicate vaccine policies introduced in Australia

Mobi Health News

According to Humanforce research, many Australian employees prefer to work with vaccinated colleagues.

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Healthcare Compliance Tips: OIG Federal Register 2000

JNC Compliance

Study the OIG Federal Register 2000. I was recently thinking about my high school graduation, and how much I dreaded my first college level math course. […]. The post Healthcare Compliance Tips: OIG Federal Register 2000 appeared first on JNC Healthcare Compliance Group.

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Medical data management company Flywheel scores $22M

Mobi Health News

The company said the funding supported its acquisition of St. Louis-based Radiologics.

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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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Reimagining Patient Support Through Digital Peer Coaching Programs

HIT Consultant

Dr. Rosemary Ku VP of Medical Affairs at Better Health. Studies have found that social connectedness is so critical to human life that loneliness is more dangerous than obesity and isolation can increase mortality by 30%. Peer support, which is a system of giving and receiving help from others with a shared experience, not only increases social connectedness but also creates opportunities for participants to connect with their peers and exchange practical tips for how to overcome the challenges

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Swift Medical's new imaging platform expands the digital wound care company into decentralized trials

Mobi Health News

The platform allows for image collection and management from multisite trials and the homes of study participants.

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Edifecs Acquires Talix to Expand Risk Adjustment Solution

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Edifecs , a global health IT provider announced it is acquiring Talix , a SaaS IT company, to expand Edifecs’ reach in the encounter management and risk adjustment space. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. – The integration of Edifecs’ and Talix’s technologies will create an expanded risk adjustment solution with critical workflows and insights that improve efficiencies and directly support payer and provider collaboration.

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Key Issues and Questions for PEPFAR’s Future

KFF

This brief explores key issues and poses questions regarding PEPFAR’s future, providing a roadmap for the major decisions ahead for the program. It identifies eight key, interrelated issues facing the administration, Congress, and other PEPFAR stakeholders.

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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.