Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Telehealth use increased in the West, Midwest and South in July while it fell in the Northeast, according to Fair Health’s monthly telehealth data out Monday.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 3, 2022

By Jamal Spencer and Monik C. Jiménez. Prisons, jails, and other carceral facilities have been core sites of the COVID-19 pandemic, from initial outbreaks in Chinese prisons to some of the largest outbreaks in the U.S. The uniquely dangerous physical conditions within carceral facilities (i.e., overcrowding, poor ventilation, and lack of sanitation); a high prevalence of chronic diseases among incarcerated people; and high levels of physical movement through facilities, resulted in environmental

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 3, 2022

It does not appear the DOJ will challenge the deal in appellate court, although not appealing would be viewed as a major setback for the agency, antitrust legal experts told Healthcare Dive.

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 3, 2022

A review published in JAMA Network Open evaluated 41 RCTs of machine learning interventions. None of the studies fully followed CONSORT-AI standards, a set of guidelines developed for clinical trials evaluating medical interventions that include AI.

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Details are still emerging on the incident, which is impacting multiple divisions of the 140-hospital system and causing patient procedures to be rescheduled in some areas.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 3, 2022

One Health, based in Hardin, Montana, is a family of Federally Qualified Health Centers that provides integrated primary care to rural and frontier communities in Montana and Wyoming. It has 12 clinics spanning from the Canadian border to the Montana/North Dakota border to northern Wyoming. The service area (though not continuous) covers a region roughly equivalent to the states of New York, New Jersey and Vermont – combined.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Marc Helberg, Managing VP at Pariveda. The disruption of the healthcare industry is continuing at a frenetic pace. As reported in a World Economic Forum article, $44 billion was pumped into medical innovations in 2021. Experts expect this influx to continue, all with the hopes of bringing machine learning, artificial intelligence, telehealth, and other technological and digital advancements and processes to both medical professionals and the people they serve.

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Thousands of nursing home and hospital patients have been moved to other facilities as recovery efforts continued Sunday.

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Medisys Compliance

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Due to the nature of the patient population, it becomes difficult to take care of the medical billing services without any complexities or issues, especially in comparison to the other medical specialties. When it comes to handling the behavioral billing services by the in-house billing team it requires additional care because patients with focused-care treatment require additional services, literary introductions, training with regards to patient handling and support training.

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Organizations that strategically manage and engage their networks will see substantial results in the form of both revenue and growth.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 3, 2022

James Archetto, VP at Gaumard Scientific. Ebbs and flows in the need for nurses and the number of students entering nursing programs are common, but the COVID-19 pandemic caused a more severe nursing shortage than has been previously experienced. At the height of the pandemic, nursing schools suspended in-person classes and were essentially closed. At the same time, many experienced nurses chose early retirement.

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Enrollment in the popular plans is expected to continue to grow in 2023, CMS predicts.

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HIPAA Journal

OCTOBER 3, 2022

FMC (Family Medicine Centers) Services, an Amarillo, TX-based network of primary care clinics in Amarillo and Canyon, has recently announced it was the victim of a hacking incident that was detected and blocked on July 26, 2022. A forensic investigation was conducted by a third-party cybersecurity firm to determine the nature and scope of the attack.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The annual open enrollment period for Marketplace coverage is right around the corner. There are many new policies impacting the Marketplace in 2023, including an extension of enhanced financial assistance through the Inflation Reduction Act; a federal fix to the “family glitch” that will create more affordable coverage opportunities for families; and tools to make shopping for a Marketplace plan more consumer-friendly.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Change is hard regardless of change. However, complex changes are even harder because it generally means that multiple parties have to change. Each person has their own framework for why they do or don’t want to change. Aligning all those parties is complex. The bad news for healthcare is that almost every change is complex. You have to convince multiple people, navigate challenging regulations, and understand a wild set of often perverse incentives.

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HIPAA Vault

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Is text messaging an acceptable tool for healthcare? Do HIPAA compliance regulations support the texting of electronically protected health information (ePHI)?

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Digital Health News

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Derriford Hospital is using virtual reality so that patients and staff can experience for themselves the new emergency care centre that is being built.

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HIPAA Journal

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Microsoft was warned that two zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server are being actively exploited in the wild and has shared mitigations ahead of the vulnerabilities being patched. The two flaws are being chained together and are being exploited by a Chinese threat actor. The attacks have been limited so far, but the healthcare and public health sector in the United States could potentially be a target.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Symplr

OCTOBER 3, 2022

In the healthcare “theater,” supply chain professionals largely work behind the scenes. As a result , we tend to notice supply chains only during times of disruption. Yet, these professiona ls frequently engage in logistical acrobatics to help protect clinicians’ ability to perform in their roles to ultimately provide excellent patient care. Since the pandemic upended healthcare, there's been an overwhelming realization of just how crucia l the supply chain is to the healthcare delivery ecosyste

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Digital Health News

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Docobo has added remote monitoring functionality for cardio-respiratory patients to its DOC@HOME digital health platform.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 3, 2022

“Consumers are using the Internet to take their health into their own hands,” at least for 1 in 2 U.S. consumers engaging in some sort of preventive health care activity online in mid-2022. The new report on Connected Wellness from PYMNTS and Care Credit profiles American health consumers’ use of digital tools for health care promotion and disease prevention.

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Digital Health News

OCTOBER 3, 2022

In the fifth Digital Health Awards 2022 winner profile in our series, we hear from Diarmaid Crean, who was named CIO of the Year.

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Becker's Health IT

OCTOBER 3, 2022

A federal contractor published source codes containing sensitive credentials from the Department of Veterans Affairs, FedScoop reported Sept. 29.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 3, 2022

DocSpera, an intelligent surgical coordination SaaS platform between healthcare providers and medical device enterprises, announces close of Series B funding. Today, DocSpera , a leading integrated healthcare surgical data and image communication company, announced a $10 million Series B financing round led by Pier 70 Ventures and JJDC, Inc., with participation of other key strategic investors.

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HealthIT Answers

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services would like to remind clinicians of important upcoming Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) dates and deadlines in 2022. The post Upcoming MIPS Important Dates and Deadlines appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 3, 2022

What You Should Know: – Labcorp has today announced a long-term laboratory relationship with non-profit and Catholic health system Ascension. – As a part of the companies’ strategic collaboration, Labcorp purchased select assets of Ascension’s outreach laboratory business and will manage the health system’s hospital-based laboratories in Alabama, Florida, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin. – The new relationship expands access for co

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McGuire Wood

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Great Point Partners (GPP) has completed a growth investment in iXCells Biotechnologies, according to a news release. iXCells , based in San Diego, is a provider of cell-based products and discovery services to the academic, biotech and pharmaceutical communities worldwide. Founded in 2014, the company focuses on primary and induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cellular models.

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Healthcare Law Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Representing a sizable portion of the American economy, few industries in the United States have received more attention from the press, legislators, and antitrust agencies than the healthcare industry—particularly in recent years. Recent developments at the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) reaffirm that healthcare remains a top antitrust enforcement priorities in the United States.

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HealthIT Answers

OCTOBER 3, 2022

By Steven Posnack MS MHS - On October 6, 2022, we reach the end of the more than two-year glide path laid out for the information blocking regulations. Moving forward, expect to see periodic, experience-driven regulatory updates as well as continued work on education, outreach, and oversight, including the establishment of disincentives for health care providers.

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