Fri.Jul 22, 2022

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HCA beats Wall Street expectations in Q2 after earlier dip in guidance

Healthcare Dive

The Nashville-based hospital operator beat Wall Street expectations on revenue, which rose about 3%, but net income slipped nearly 20% compared to the same time last year.

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Dozens charged in sprawling $1.2B telehealth and genetics fraud crackdown

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Three dozen defendants across the U.S. were charged this week for more than $1.2 billion in alleged fraud involving telehealth, phony genetic testing and durable medical equipment. WHY IT MATTERS. The U.S. Department of Justice announced the coordinated law enforcement action, which includes criminal charges against executives from virtual care vendors, owners of clinical laboratories and makers of durable medical equipment, among others.

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Tenet reins in Q2 labor costs, stock jumps

Healthcare Dive

The chain’s same-hospital adjusted admissions fell 5.3% year over year in the second quarter partially due to an April cybersecurity incident that impacted facilities and had a $100 million impact on adjusted EBITDA.

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iRhythm Technologies receives another FDA 510(k) for AFib monitoring system

Mobi Health News

The latest clearance is for an algorithm that characterizes how much atrial fibrillation a patient is experiencing over time.

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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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Tenet cybersecurity incident hits Q2 volumes

Healthcare Dive

The hospital operator estimated the breach had a $100 million unfavorable EBITDA impact and said its systems have since been rebuilt.

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Covid Clinic Expands Its Services to Offer Treatment Options, Telemedicine Consultations & Prescription Access

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Covid Clinic , a nationwide network of COVID-19 testing sites is expanding its core service offerings across the United States. – In partnership with Driven Care, patients will now be able to easily access treatment options, including antiviral prescription services and consultations, through its newly launched telemedicine services.

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Oncoustics Raises $5M for AI-Driven Point-of-Care Diagnostics

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Oncoustics , San Francisco, CA-based ultrasound-based tissue characterization solutions announces the initial close of a $5 million+ seed round of funding to advance its SaMD (software as a medical device) technology for the low-cost assessment of structural diseases at the point of care. – Oncoustics’ first products will focus on liver disease, one of the fastest-growing causes of morbidity and mortality in the world.

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Amazon and One Medical Sign an Agreement for Amazon to Acquire One Medical

Healthcare IT Today

One Medical is a human-centered, technology-powered U.S. primary care organization on a mission to make quality healthcare more affordable, accessible, and enjoyable through a seamless combination of in-person, digital, and virtual care services. One Medical combines in-person care in inviting offices across the country with digital health and virtual care services, making it easier for patients to schedule appointments, renew prescriptions, access up-to-date health records, and advance healt

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FDA Awards 510(k) Clearances for ZEUS System/Zio Watch

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, iRhythm (a digital health company) and Verily (Alphabet’s life sciences research organization) announced joint FDA 510(k) clearances for the ZEUS System and Zio Watch. Together they create an integrated, prescription-based solution that will improve clinician workflows, care pathways and the patient experience. . – The ZEUS System is the AI algorithm and solution component of the Zio Watch – a clinical grade, long-term and noninvasive wearable that no

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Benson Health Notifies 28,913 Patients About May 2021 Data Breach

HIPAA Journal

Benson Health in North Carolina has recently started notifying 28,913 patients that some of their protected health information was potentially accessed or acquired in a cyberattack that was detected on May 5, 2021. Benson Health said an investigation was immediately launched when the breach was detected, and a specialist cybersecurity and data privacy law firm and third-party forensic specialists were engaged to assist with the investigation.

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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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Industry news in brief

Digital Health News

The roundup round-up includes a virtual reality smartphone app for beating phobias and a project which involves AI being used for lung cancer diagnosis.

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NIST Updates Guidance on HIPAA Security Rule Compliance

HIPAA Journal

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has updated its guidance for HIPAA-regulated entities on implementing the HIPAA Security Rule to help them better protect patients’ personal and protected health information. The Security Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act established national standards for protecting the electronic protected health information (ePHI) that HIPAA-regulated entities create, receive, maintain or transmit.

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Guy’s and St Thomas’ suffers disruption as heat causes IT problems

Digital Health News

Guy’s and St Thomas’ Trust (GSST) is facing major issues after its IT system failed as a result of the unprecedented high temperatures this week.

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Communication Gone Wrong, EMR Conversion, Perception, and VR Humor – Fun Friday

Healthcare IT Today

Happy Friday everyone! This is the point in summer in Las Vegas where we start wondering if living in snow wouldn’t be that bad. Don’t worry. In a few weeks we’ll forget that thought ever happened. We hope you are all having a great summer. Since it’s Friday, you know it’s time for another edition of Fun Friday where we share some humor to kick off your weekend the right way. no you shut up walgreens pic.twitter.com/6gGoXziOFA. — Brendan Keeler (@healthbjk) Jul

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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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Remote value-based care can be delivered more efficiently

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Two NHS trusts go live with Epic electronic patient records

Digital Health News

Royal Devon University Healthcare and Frimley Health have both pushed their Epic electronic patient records in the last two months.

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Massachusetts hospital sued for lost wages after Kronos ransomware attack

Becker's Health IT

Plymouth, Mass.-based Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital and human resources management company Ultimate Kronos Group are being sued for a December 2021 ransomware attack that compromised patients' protected health information and a number of health systems' payroll systems.

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[Cartoon] Compliance Carl Tackles Policies and Procedures

Healthicity

Carl knows that, unlike The Witcher, the goblin flower monster from Stranger Things.

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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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Resident Death after Ant Bites Leads to Lawsuit against Texas Nursing Home

Med-Net Compliance

A civil lawsuit was filed against a Texas nursing home and the healthcare company which owns it after a resident died two weeks after being found covered with ants. The family said they had been notified by the facility that ants had been found in the resident’s room and on her body. The resident was nonverbal and had no way of asking for help. One of the family members spoke to a nurse who said she’d been taking ants off the resident and was getting bitten while doing it.

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New COVID-19 Variants and Symptoms

American Medical Compliance

According to Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner, Dr. Allison Arwady, the BA.4 and BA.5 COVID-19 variants are not presenting drastically different symptoms. However, there are more new symptoms to be aware of. These variants are highly contagious and are associated with cold and flu-like symptoms. These symptoms include night sweats, fever, and sore throat.

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Surveys and Reports Roundup

HealthIT Answers

Our recent roundup of surveys and reports from around the industry. We are still talking and studying COVID, its impact and how it will help prepare for future pandemics. We are still seeing supply chain and labor challenges. And will we ever really see cost savings in healthcare? Check out these studies. The post Surveys and Reports Roundup appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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New COVID-19 Variants and Symptoms

American Medical Compliance

According to Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner, Dr. Allison Arwady, the BA.4 and BA.5 COVID-19 variants are not presenting drastically different symptoms. However, there are more new symptoms to be aware of. These variants are highly contagious and are associated with cold and flu-like symptoms. These symptoms include night sweats, fever, and sore throat.

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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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On This Shift with Dan Marino and Lucy Zielinski

HealthIT Answers

This summer we have asked our radio hosts to invite our podcast hosts on their shows to get to know them. On this episode, Tom Foley talks to Daniel J. Marino, host of Value-Based Care Insights and his producer Lucy Zielinski. The post On This Shift with Dan Marino and Lucy Zielinski appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: Amulet Capital Sells OPEN Health

McGuire Wood

Amulet Capital Partners has sold OPEN Health to Astorg, according to a news release. OPEN Health , established in 2011 and with several U.S. offices, is a global provider of scientific communications and market access services to the pharmaceutical industry. Amulet , based in Greenwich, Conn., is a middle market private equity investment firm focused exclusively on the healthcare sector.

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June 2022 Healthcare Breach Report

Compliancy Group

Each month, we review healthcare breaches to determine the leading cause and how the incidents could have been prevented. We do so by examining the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) online breach portal. The OCR publicly posts healthcare breaches that affected 500 or more patients to ensure that all affected patients know their information could have been potentially compromised.

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AblePay Health to help New York hospitals, patients manage out-of-pocket medical expenses

Hanys

HANYS Marketplace's newest partner, AblePay Health, simplifies the patient payment cycle, bridging the gap between providers and patients. Learn how they can increase your revenue while enhancing the experience for your patients.

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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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Appropriate & Inappropriate Use of Modifiers 59 & XE/XP/XS/XU

Medisys Compliance

Definition of Modifier 59. The CPT Manual defines modifier 59 as Distinct Procedural Service: Under certain circumstances, it may be necessary to indicate that a procedure or service was distinct or independent from other non-E/M (Evaluation/Management) services performed on the same day. Modifier 59 is used to identify procedures/services, other than E/M services, that are not normally reported together, but are appropriate under the circumstances.

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NIST updates cybersecurity guidance for HIPAA compliance

Becker's Health IT

The National Institute of Standards and Technology released new guidelines to help agencies comply with HIPAA's security rule governing electronic protected health information.

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Health Provider News – July 22, 2022

Hall Render

NATIONAL. 10 procedures CMS proposes moving off the inpatient-only list in 2023. CMS pitches outpatient payment rule. CMS proposes 2.7% update to ASC pay rate in 2023: 6 things to know. CMS releases Medicare OPPS and ASC proposed rule. Amazon to buy primary health-care provider One Medical for roughly $3.9 billion. Covid-19 public health emergency extended in the US.

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Upcoming events

Hanys

Healthcare privacy in a digital world. July 26. AHEI - How 3 hospitals used patient demographic data to address disparities. July 27. Building diagnostic excellence: Tools for the journey. Aug. 4. OPWDD draft strategic plan: An opportunity for questions and feedback. Aug. 11. How germs make people sick. Aug. 11.

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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.