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The Bind We’re in — And How the Supreme Court Put Us There

Bill of Health

By Jennifer Bard. As the COVID-19 pandemic rages into its third year of global death and destruction, the Supreme Court of the United States has effectively thwarted every measure by federal or state government to implement the public health tools that for hundreds of years have been used to stop the spread of contagious disease. They have done so by operationalizing what were previously fringe and relatively harmless academic views in ways that extend their powers beyond any previous boundaries

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Grassley pushes for PBM probe

Healthcare Dive

The senator wants FTC commissioners to come up with a more targeted focus for the study and suggested narrowing a review to the impact on consumers and their out-of-pocket costs.

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Electronic Caregiver debuts animated RPM tech; XRHealth, HTC unveil VR telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Electronic Caregiver, a digital health technology and services company, is debuting Addison the Virtual Caregiver at HIMSS22. The company labels Addison the next generation of remote patient monitoring technology that offers a solution to the caregiver shortage by providing healthcare management outside a doctor's four walls. Addison, to be released later this year, is a 3D-animated caregiver.

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What is consumerism amid COVID-19?

Healthcare Dive

Hospital executives grappled with defining the term during day one of HIMSS22, and issued advice for hospitals looking to serve the modern consumer — while leaving no patients behind.

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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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'If you don't ask, you don't know': Why gathering patient data is key to holistic care

Healthcare It News

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Staffing shortages lead ECRI's annual list of patient safety concerns

Healthcare Dive

The lack of workers is actively jeopardizing patient safety with many patients waiting longer for care, even in life-threatening emergencies, according to the report.

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An integrated platform for intelligent care management services

Healthcare Dive

Integrated care driven by analytics and digital technology is a key focus of next-generation care management programs.

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Stakeholder Perspectives on CMS’s 2023 Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters: Insurers and Brokers

Center for Health Insurance Reform

The Biden administration has proposed significant changes to the Affordable Care Act's health insurance marketplaces through the annual "Notice of Benefit & Payment Parameters." In this second of a three-part series, CHIR's Megan Houston and Sabrina Corlette review the comments and recommendations that participating health insurers have submitted in response.

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Sutter Health defeats antitrust challenge in jury trial

Healthcare Dive

The federal jury in a class action suit rejected allegations that the California hospital system drove up healthcare costs in its markets through anti-competitive practices.

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As crisis mode ends, hospitals renew focus on the patient experience

Healthcare It News

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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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Consumer and Patient Experience – Same or Different?

Healthcare IT Today

The term “consumer experience” has become more prevalent in healthcare over the past couple of years. Many Health IT companies and organizations use the term interchangeably with “patient experience”. That is a mistake according to an expert panel at the 2022 HIMSS conference. The two are not the same. Patients Are Not Homogenous Day 1 […].

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Utah Consumer Privacy Act Goes to Governor for Signature

Compliancy Group

The Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA) is legislation unanimously passed in the Utah Legislature. The final version of this Utah privacy law now awaits the signature of Governor Spencer Cox. If, as expected, the Governor signs the legislation by March 24, 2022, Utah will become the fourth state in the nation with a comprehensive consumer privacy law. The details of the Utah Consumer Privacy Act are discussed below.

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Ophthalmologist Gets Eight Years for COVID-19 PPP Loan Fraud and Multi-Million Dollar Improper Billing Scheme

The Health Law Firm

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On March , 2022, a New York ophthalmologist was sentenced to 96 months in prison for fraudulently obtaining two government-guaranteed small business loans and for a seven-year fraudulent healthcare billing scheme, the Justice Department announced. According to the indictment, the former eye doctor was charged with fraudulently obtaining government-guaranteed small business loans under the Paycheck Prot

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Clarify Health Acquires Embedded Healthcare, Behavior Change Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Clarify Health , leading cloud analytics and value-based payments platform company, just announced its acquisition of Embedded Healthcare – a behavior change platform company created by notable healthcare leaders such as Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel to scale value-based care for health plans. – The announcement marks the company’s second acquisition in 6 months and represents Clarify Health’s deep commitment to further build out its technology and cement its l

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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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South Denver Cardiology Associates Confirms Data Breach Affecting 287,000 Patients

HIPAA Journal

South Denver Cardiology Associates (SDCA) has recently announced it was the victim of a cyberattack in January 2022 in which files containing patient information were accessed and potentially stolen by hackers. Unusual network activity was detected on January 4, 2022, and the SDCA breach response process was immediately initiated. Systems were isolated from the network and shut down, with the investigation determining hackers had access to certain systems from January 2, 2022, to January 5, 2022

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House Rx Secures $30M to Optimize the Specialty Pharmacy Experience for Patients and Their Care Teams

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today House Rx, a health technology platform that empowers oncology and rheumatology physician practices with medically integrated dispensing, announced they’ve secured $30 million in financing. – Founded by two former Flatiron Health executives, Ogi Kavazovic and Tesh Khullar the company has partnered with four medical practices and 30 prescribers since March 2021.

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As crisis mode ends, hospitals renew focus on the patient experience

Mobi Health News

Speakers at HIMSS22's Patient Experience Forum discuss the future of the caregiver and patient experience.

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Featured Health IT Job: Director of EHR Systems Operations

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Director of EHR Systems Operations position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Cayuga Centers and is in New York. Here’s a description of the position: HIGHLIGHTS: Earn $80,000-$90,000 […].

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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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Health2Sync partners with Novo Nordisk to support better insulin usage

Mobi Health News

The partnership includes a patient support programme that brings tailored and age-based educational content to patients with Type 1 diabetes.

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Lawsuit Filed by EEOC Against California Post-Acute Skilled Care Corporation

Healthcare Compliance Blog

A California based post-acute skilled nursing corporation is facing charges by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for allowing racial harassment against black employees and allowing one of those employees to receive retaliation. The alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race and retaliation.

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"If you don't ask, you don't know": Why gathering patient data is key to holistic care

Mobi Health News

Ascension's Dr. Baligh Yehia discussed the role of data in combating health inequities at HIMSS22.

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CIO Podcast – Episode 28: Healthcare IT Partners with Skip Rollins

Healthcare IT Today

For the 28th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Skip Rollins, Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer at Freeman Health with Colin Hung as host. Rollins shares about the staffing crunch and how he’s helping his organization through the challenge. Then, Rollins dives into what […].

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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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Happify Health partners to commercialize PDTs in Asia

Mobi Health News

The partnership with Zuellig Pharma includes Ensemble, Happify's therapeutic for treating major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder, and a prescription digital therapeutic for chronic insomnia.

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Lundbeck v Sandoz – High Court decision

Health Law Pulse

1. Introduction. The High Court has delivered the latest instalment in Lundbeck and Sandoz’s lengthy saga concerning escitalopram. The particular circumstances giving rise to this dispute are unique, however, the High Court’s approach to interpreting a patent licence granted by Lundbeck to Sandoz should be considered when preparing patent licences. The High Court’s decision may also encourage patent licensees (and patentees) to add misleading and deceptive conduct claims relating to patent infri

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Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: Argosy Recapitalizes Specialty Care Management

McGuire Wood

Argosy Healthcare Partners (AHP) has announced it has completed a recapitalization of Specialty Care Management (SCM). SCM , based in Bucks County, Pa., is a payor services company focused on healthcare cost containment and claims management services for the self-insured market. Founded in 2002, the company specializes in program design for catastrophic claims.

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HIPAA Key Fact: Patient Sign-in Sheets

Colington Consulting HIPAA Blog

Our series is designed to explain best practices about HIPAA compliance, HIPAA settlements, and the various requirements an organization must have in place under the HIPAA Security & Privacy Rules.

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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.

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Should they stay or should they go: Fate of waivers following expiration of the federal PHE

Health Law Checkup

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued almost 200 “blanket” waivers which automatically apply to health care providers including hospitals, other healthcare facilities, and healthcare professionals. These blanket waivers are effective through the duration of the federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) declared by the Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which has been extended for 90-day periods since the onset

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Want to Maximize Your Revenue Cycle? 3 Reasons to Partner with a Medical Billing Firm

NCG Medical Blog

One of the key methods for ensuring the longevity of your medical practice is to maximize your revenue cycle. This cornerstone of your practice’s operations impacts every aspect from attracting new patients to ensuring the medical billing process goes smoothly. But if your team is already stretched thin and struggling to keep up with new billing regulations or rejected claims, then it’s time to make a change.

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Tips for Improving Prior Authorization Process

Medisys Compliance

As a practice owner, your main focus is always on patient care. But due to constantly changing billing guidelines and insurance carrier-specific policies, you find yourself arguing with someone from an insurance company about reimbursements. For example, one day the insulin NovoLog is covered and then the next day it changes to Humalog, and now the patient has to switch, and it’s very confusing.

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Thanks to Congress’s $1.5 Trillion Omnibus Spending Package, Help Is on the Way for America’s Federal Senior Housing Program

Hall Render

On Thursday, March 10, Congress passed a $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill after months of negotiation amongst lawmakers in both the House and the Senate. If signed by President Biden this week as expected, the bill will significantly increase the funding for the federal senior housing program to a degree not experienced by HUD since fiscal year 2010.

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Generative AI for Contracts Is Here: New Tools to Accelerate Drafting and Editing

The emergence of generative AI is reshaping the landscape of contract management, enabling businesses to generate and negotiate legal agreements with greater ease and speed. In this on-demand webinar, Hal Marcus, VP of Product Marketing at Evisort discusses how Evisort's generative AI transforms contract creation and negotiation, empowering legal teams to streamline processes while reducing risk.