Fri.Feb 17, 2023

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Dental Compliance Made Easier

Compliancy Group

With so many considerations in compliance, how can dental compliance be made easier? Although no one likes to ask for help, you probably need it. HIPAA law is not straightforward and is meant to be scaled for different types and sizes of businesses. But it doesn’t exactly lay out a plan for you. You need to dig through thousands of pages of legal documents to find answers, and by the time you get through them, your brain is probably melting.

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How data and AI can advance health equity

Healthcare Dive

Michael Sanky, global industry lead of healthcare and life sciences at Databricks, outlines how technology and healthcare leaders can harness artificial intelligence to equitably help patients.

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American Telemedicine Association announced 12 telehealth innovators challenge finalists

Fierce Healthcare

American Telemedicine Association announced 12 telehealth innovators challenge finalists aburky Fri, 02/17/2023 - 11:45

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SUNY Upstate, Crouse Health System call off merger

Healthcare Dive

The Federal Trade Commission, which opposed the tie-up, cheered the news on Thursday. Previously, the agency had warned state lawmakers about the dangers of shielding hospital mergers from antitrust enforcement.

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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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Larry Saves the Canadian Healthcare System – The Musical – Fun Friday

Healthcare IT Today

Satire + Music + Comedy + Healthcare. What’s not to love? This full-length musical from Sara Kreindler perfectly captures the challenges and frustrations in the Canadian Healthcare System. It tells the story of a eager young healthcare analyst, Larry, who is newly hired by the Canadian government to help “fix” the healthcare system.

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Becerra charges insurer claims of Medicare Advantage pay cuts 'categorically false'

Fierce Healthcare

Becerra charges insurer claims of Medicare Advantage pay cuts 'categorically false' rking Fri, 02/17/2023 - 10:13

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DrFirst Acquires Diagnotes Secure Messaging and Care Coordination Platform

Healthcare IT Today

Expands Backline by DrFirst’s Capabilities for Clinical Communications in Health Systems and Beyond Healthcare technology pioneer DrFirst today announced it has acquired select assets of Indianapolis -based Diagnotes. The acquisition will allow Backline by DrFirst to expand its capabilities to break through communication silos in healthcare at each stage of the patient care journey, promote positive patient outcomes, and enhance satisfaction for staff and patients.

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Optum study: Accountable Medicare Advantage models produce better outcomes, greater efficiency

Fierce Healthcare

Optum study: Accountable Medicare Advantage models produce better outcomes, greater efficiency pminemyer Fri, 02/17/2023 - 13:40

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Q&A: How the PHE's end could affect telehealth, patient care

Mobi Health News

Heather Meade, principal at Washington Council Ernst & Young, discusses the potential effects on digital health companies and patients following the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency.

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Digital Health’s monthly roundup of contracts and go lives

Digital Health News

Our latest roundup features Wellola’s patient communication platform going live in Birmingham and The Christie NHS Foundation Trust deploying CardMedic.

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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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Why Traditional Cybersecurity is Failing Healthcare

Fierce Healthcare

Why Traditional Cybersecurity is Failing Healthcare jpiatt Fri, 02/17/2023 - 16:24

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Government progress on digitising the NHS ‘inadequate’ says Commons Expert Panel

Digital Health News

The Government is making inadequate progress on vital commitments to digitise the NHS, an independent expert panel has found, with “inadequate funding” and a catalogue of “opportunities missed”.

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Urban: Majority surveyed not aware of looming Medicaid eligibility redeterminations

Fierce Healthcare

Urban: Majority surveyed not aware of looming Medicaid eligibility redeterminations rking Fri, 02/17/2023 - 16:40

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Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells roll out ePMA solution

Digital Health News

New electronic prescribing and medicines administration (ePMA) functionality has been rolled out at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.

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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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Protecting the Legitimacy of Medical Expertise

NEJM

Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, state lawmakers have embraced measures that could undermine medical boards’ ability to differentiate practitioners who are providing fact-based advice from those who are not.

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35% More Patients Impacted by Healthcare Data Breaches in H2 2022

Health IT Security

Healthcare data breaches… read more

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Health benefits platform Collective Health announces layoffs

Mobi Health News

The company has let go of 54 employees as part of a restructuring of its workforce.

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Q&A: How the PHE's end could affect telehealth, patient care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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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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Adults hospitalized with Omicron die at 1.5 times rate than those admitted with flu: study

Fierce Healthcare

Adults hospitalized with Omicron die at 1.

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ACLA Expands Class Action Lawsuit Against RIPTA and UnitedHealthcare New England

HIPAA Journal

The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island (ACLU of RI) has amended its complaint against the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) and UnitedHealthcare New England (UHC) in their pending class action lawsuit over an August 2021 data breach. RIPTA is a state agency that operates the public bus service in Rhode Island. In August 2021, an unauthorized third party gained access to its computer systems and stole files that contained sensitive employee information, including names, So

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KillNet, Clop + more ransomware groups targeting healthcare organizations

Becker's Health IT

HHS, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the FBI have urged healthcare organizations to take certain actions to protect their systems from hacker groups that have been known to create cyberespionage campaigns aimed at stealing data from hospitals and health systems.

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2 Orgs Reach Settlements to Resolve Healthcare Data Breach Lawsuits

Health IT Security

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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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FTC celebrates after SUNY Upstate, Crouse Health System scrap merger plans

Fierce Healthcare

FTC celebrates after SUNY Upstate, Crouse Health System scrap merger plans dmuoio Fri, 02/17/2023 - 12:32

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Interview: Stacey A. Tovino, JD, PhD, William J. Alley Professor of Law, University of Oklahoma College of Law

HIPAA Journal

HIPAA Journal is conducting interviews with healthcare professionals, compliance professionals, and industry service providers to find out more about how their experiences with HIPAA, their successes, and the challenges they have and continue to face with HIPAA compliance. This week, Stacey A. Tovino, JD, Ph.D., William J. Alley Professor of Law and Director of Graduate Healthcare Law Programs, The University of Oklahoma College of Law, shared her thoughts.

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Friday at Five – Consider These Spring Events

HealthIT Answers

Have you started attending in-person events yet? Here are five events to consider: ATA2023 Annual Conference & Expo, 13th Annual 2023 State HIT Connect Summit, ViVE 2023, HIMSS 2023, and Digital Health 2023. The post Friday at Five – Consider These Spring Events appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Texas Hospital’s COVID Vaccination Mandate Upheld by Federal Court

The Health Law Firm Blog

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., is Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law As some states lift COVID-19 restrictions, the business community is still grappling with the dynamic between the COVID-19 vaccine and workplace operations. To address this, some U.S. employers have elected to adopt mandatory vaccination policies. These policies, [.

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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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Help us celebrate your wins

Hanys

Share your story of innovation, community health or C2X initiative that improved care quality and health outcomes in your community. Your organization could be featured in our Member Spotlight !

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Goldman Sachs Closes $5.2 Billion Private Equity Fund

McGuire Wood

Goldman Sachs Group has closed a $5.2 billion private equity growth fund, according to a Reuters report. Through its new West Street Global Growth Partners fund, the investment bank plans to invest an average of $50 million to acquire minority stakes in businesses in the early or middle stages of their growth. The fund has already invested in 4G Clinical, a Wellesley, Mass.

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Fraud, Abuse, and Financial Conflicts of Interest

NEJM

Increased attention and ever-growing complexity in the area of health care fraud-and-abuse regulation require the awareness of providers structuring all kinds of health care business arrangements.

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7 health systems seeking cybersecurity talent

Becker's Health IT

Below are seven hospitals and health systems that posted job listings seeking cybersecurity talent.

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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.