Thu.Dec 01, 2022

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As complaints roll in, ‘complexity’ holding up HHS information blocking enforcement, health IT coordinator says

Healthcare Dive

The HHS has yet to finalize disincentives for providers or say how the OIG will go about investigating and applying civil monetary penalties to health IT vendors. “We’re working really, really hard,” Micky Tripathi told Healthcare Dive.

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Franciscan Health expands its Epic-linked telemedicine offerings

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Prior to 2020, Franciscan Health, a health system based in Mishawaka, Indiana, conducted few telemedicine visits throughout the organization. Outside of some tele-stroke and behavioral health virtual care there wasn't any robust programming for patients to participate with Franciscan Alliance providers through telemedicine. THE PROBLEM. In February 2020, some specialties were in the process of requesting telehealth technologies, and a few of them, such as urgent care, already were in the sta

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Cleveland Clinic losses top $1.5B amid inflation pressures

Healthcare Dive

Hospital operators are continuing to report rising losses in a tricky operating environment, with staffing shortages and high labor costs pressuring finances.

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Contributed: How digital health can improve cancer care delivery

Mobi Health News

Flare Capital Partners' Ian Chiang and Jonathon George discuss the complexity of end-to-end cancer care management and how digital health could address unmet needs.

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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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Texas Medical Association files third lawsuit over surprise billing ban

Healthcare Dive

This latest filing targets the methodology for how payments are calculated and used during arbitration.

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As major hospitals now bill for some patient-provider messaging, the move could usher wider adoption

Fierce Healthcare

As major hospitals now bill for some patient-provider messaging, the move could usher wider adoption. dmuoio. Thu, 12/01/2022 - 17:48.

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Rough investments, rising costs push Cleveland Clinic's 9-month losses past $1.5B

Fierce Healthcare

Rough investments, rising costs push Cleveland Clinic's 9-month losses past $1.5B. dmuoio. Thu, 12/01/2022 - 15:00.

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Hacking and IT Incidents Affect 563,000 Patients and Health Plan Members

HIPAA Journal

Health Care Management Solutions LLC, a West Virginia-based consulting company focused on improving care quality for vulnerable populations including veterans, has recently reported a data breach to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights that has affected up to 500,000 individuals. Little is currently known about the data breach as the company has yet to publicly announce the breach.

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Florida panel hands TeamHealth a win in its ongoing battle with UnitedHealthcare

Fierce Healthcare

Florida panel hands TeamHealth a win in its ongoing battle with UnitedHealthcare. pminemyer. Thu, 12/01/2022 - 15:34.

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Virta Health Helps AutoZone Employees Reverse Type 2 Diabetes

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Type 2 diabetes reversal leader Virta Health revealed promising one-year outcomes from its partnership with AutoZone, Inc., a retailer and distributor of automotive replacement parts and accessories in the Americas. – Virta provides virtual, continuous health coaching, medical supervision and personalized nutrition to help patients reverse their metabolic disease, lose weight, + get off medications.

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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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UnitedHealth, American Nurses Foundation team on pilot to tackle nurse burnout

Fierce Healthcare

UnitedHealth, American Nurses Foundation team on pilot to tackle nurse burnout. pminemyer. Thu, 12/01/2022 - 16:56.

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Driving Healthcare Operational Efficiency with IoT Sensing as a Service

HIT Consultant

Guy Yehiav, President of SmartSense by Digi. Amid widespread staffing shortages across the healthcare sector, the need for IoT-enabled digital transformation in hospitals and patient care facilities is increasingly clear. For the first time since 2004, a lack of staffing has overtaken financial volatility as the No. 1 concern among healthcare CEOs in the American College of Healthcare Executives’ annual survey.

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Senators to Medicare Advantage plans: Get your provider directories in order

Fierce Healthcare

Senators to Medicare Advantage plans: Get your provider directories in order. rking. Thu, 12/01/2022 - 16:41.

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Lumen Raises $62M for Handheld Device to Measure Metabolic Health

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Lumen , the metabolic health company behind the first handheld device to measure your metabolism through the breath, today announced that it has raised $62M in a series B funding round led by Pitango Venture Capital. – Participating investors include Hanwha Group , Resolute Ventures, RiverPark Ventures, Unorthodox Ventures, Almeda Capital, and Disruptive VC.

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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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One Brooklyn Health Dealing with Ongoing Cyber Incident

HIPAA Journal

One Brooklyn Health System is currently dealing with a cyberattack that has caused disruption at its three hospitals – Interfaith Medical Center, Brookdale Hospital Medical Center, and Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center. Little information has been released about the attack so far, which is believed to have occurred on or just before November 19. That was the date when the health system shut down its network, which has remained offline for more than a week.

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What If…Healthcare was as Important as Pizza?

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Tim Dubes is Senior Director of Marketing at Documo. Earlier this year, I walked into a national chain restaurant to order a pizza. I’ve ordered pizza from their other locations in the area and I was hungry again. I went to the counter and let them know that I had an appointment to get a pizza. The counter person gave me a form to complete: my information, bank account, and questions about how hungry I was, my favorite toppings, any allergies, and my family

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Texas docs file latest legal challenge to surprise billing rule, arguing arbitration process unfair

Fierce Healthcare

Texas docs file latest legal challenge to surprise billing rule, arguing arbitration process unfair. rking. Thu, 12/01/2022 - 14:43.

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York GP group sees significant benefits of AI triage tech

Digital Health News

A GP group in York has implemented AI triage technology to help them maximise their resources and ensure patients are seen by the right person.

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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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Is Digital Health Closing Gaps in Health Equity?

Fierce Healthcare

Is Digital Health Closing Gaps in Health Equity? ncapone. Thu, 12/01/2022 - 12:54.

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Turbine to develop its AI platform following $20 million in Series A funding

Digital Health News

Turbine has received $20m in Series A funding to help them further develop their cell simulation platform, which predicts effective cancer treatments.

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San Juan Regional Medical Center Reaches Settlement Following Healthcare Data Breach

Health IT Security

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Founder of Pitchfest 2022 winner named Start-up Entrepreneur of the Year

Digital Health News

Dr Rachael Grimaldi, founder of Pitchfest 2022 winner CardMedic, has been named Start-up Entrepreneur of the Year at the Great British Entrepreneur Awards.

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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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HHS Offers HIPAA Guidance on Online Tracking Technologies

Holland & Knight

Paul Bond, Shannon Britton Hartsfield, Ilenna J. Stein, Mark S.

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Omicron wave greatly increased infant hospitalization, says CDC

Fierce Healthcare

Omicron wave greatly increased infant hospitalization, says CDC. fdiamond. Thu, 12/01/2022 - 12:02.

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Featured Health IT Job: Executive Coordinator

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Executive Coordinator position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York. Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaborat

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UpStream nabs $140M to expand nationwide, scale up value-based care services

Fierce Healthcare

UpStream nabs $140M to expand nationwide, scale up value-based care services. agliadkovskaya. Thu, 12/01/2022 - 14:10.

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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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Wearable company Oura launches employer program

Mobi Health News

The program will allow employers to collect group insights into employees' wellbeing.

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Understanding A FACIS Level 3 Background Check

Verisys

Patient safety increases when health care organizations thoroughly verify the identity, credentials, and backgrounds of their providers. The level of accuracy with which these screenings are conducted matters. Since there is not a consolidated list of bad actors and fraudulent individuals who are skilled at hiding their identities, having many data sources is critical to establishing a complete picture of someone’s history.

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What Did They Say About HLTH 2022?

HealthIT Answers

HLTH 2022 wrapped after 4 days in Las Vegas bringing back one of the largest in person events since COVID hit. Was everyone just glad to be back together or did the event live up to the buzz? The post What Did They Say About HLTH 2022? appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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M&A: Carenet Health Acquires Stericycle Communication Solutions

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Carenet Health , a leading provider of 24/7 and on-demand patient engagement solutions, today announced it has acquired Stericycle Communication Solutions , an industry leader in patient engagement technology and solutions and a service of Stericycle, Inc. The companies’ combined capabilities create the industry’s most comprehensive patient experience platform. – This acquisition emphasizes Carenet’s commitment to providing better healthcare for all, as the co

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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.