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Workforce challenges top concern for hospital CEOs for second year in a row, survey finds

Healthcare Dive

Before staffing woes took the top spot last year, financial challenges had previously ranked as the top concern for 16 consecutive years in a survey from the American College of Healthcare Executives.

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Reclaiming Salus Populi

Bill of Health

By Wendy E. Parmet and Elaine Marshall I. Introduction: The Threat to Public Health As we reach the COVID-19 pandemic’s third anniversary, the warning signs for the future of public health law are everywhere. In the past three years, courts, led by the Supreme Court, have endangered reproductive health and handcuffed governments’ capacity to meet a wide array of public health challenges.

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HHS pauses surprise billing arbitration after Texas court decision

Healthcare Dive

The process by which health insurers and medical providers hash out payments for surprise bills is still in flux due to a series of lawsuits threatening the dispute resolution process.

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An inside look at AdventHealth's powerful telemedicine program

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Most healthcare consumers have experienced certain pain points in receiving care for family and friends. THE PROBLEM Patient access is a top priority for AdventHealth, a health system based in Altamonte Springs, Florida. For the health system, improving the way it delivers care to patients starts with meeting them at the place of their needs. "Looking for ways to solve for bringing the right care to the right patient at the right place and time is imperative to stay ahead of the ever-changi

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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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Kaiser’s $4.5B loss in 2022 driven by labor expenses, investment losses

Healthcare Dive

Kaiser is the latest non-profit to report annual losses as hospital operators face soaring labor costs, investment losses and rising medical expenses driven by inflation.

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Helping women navigate menopause with femtech

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Q&A: Integrating digital health apps into clinical care

Mobi Health News

Trina Histon, vice president of clinical product strategy at Woebot Health, discusses incorporating digital health tools into the provider workflow.

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How OrthoIndy uses ambient clinical intelligence to boost efficiency and reduce costs

Healthcare Dive

Learn about the impact ambient clinical intelligence has had on Dr. Mihir Patel and his colleagues — and the value the solution is delivering for their organization.

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Clinical trial startup Faro Health raises $20M and more digital health fundings

Mobi Health News

Marker Learning, which provides virtual assessments for learning disabilities, raised $15 million, and reproductive care company Twentyeight Health scored $8.3 million.

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Cures Act in the New Year: Four Simple Ways to Make the Transition Easier

HealthIT Answers

By Patti Barkey - The 21st Century Cures Act (also known simply as the Cures Act), signed into law on December 13, 2016, is bipartisan legislation designed to increase choice and access to electronic health information for patients and providers. Provisions in the law are intended to help accelerate. The post Cures Act in the New Year: Four Simple Ways to Make the Transition Easier appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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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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BenchSci Launches ‘Map’ of Biology Research Platform for Pharmaceutical Research

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – BenchSci , a Canadian-based tech company and leader in AI solutions for drug discovery recently launches a Google-backed ‘map’ of biology research platform, ASCEND™ by BenchSci, to understand the underlying biology. – The patented machine learning platform reads millions of published and previously hidden experiment external and internal data sources to create a map that allows scientists to more quickly (50% more) and accurately understand the bio

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CMS, insurers clash over whether Medicare Advantage is going to be cut in proposed rule

Fierce Healthcare

CMS, insurers clash over whether Medicare Advantage is going to be cut in proposed rule rking Mon, 02/13/2023 - 14:25

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Luna to Deliver In-Home Physical Therapy for AARP Members

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Luna , a provider of in-home physical therapy, announced that it has been chosen as the exclusive provider of in-home physical therapy for AARP members. – Based on specialty, geography, schedule, and other factors, Luna will match AARP members with local therapists at the time and location of their choosing. For consistency of care, the same therapist will treat AARP members for the entirety of the treatment plan.

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6 Organizations Approved as the Initial QHINs Under TEFCA

Healthcare IT Today

As you probably know, we’ve been tracking the creation of QHINs under TEFCA for a while. In our interview with Micky Tripathy from ONC about the 21st Century Cures Act , we talked with him about these subjects and he said to watch for the HHS event in February to learn more. That event happened today and the big news coming out of the event was the six organizations that applied and have been officially designated as QHINS.

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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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Veradigm and HealthVerity Partner to Advance Real-World Evidence for Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Veradigm and HealthVerity announced a collaboration to advance research and improve patient care for those with cardiovascular disease and diabetes. The collaboration makes Veradigm’s data from their Cardiovascular and Metabolic Registries fully interoperable with de-identified patient data from HealthVerity Marketplace, the nation’s largest healthcare and consumer data ecosystem. – The HealthVerity IPGE platform is an integrated technology and real-wor

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Senators Demand Answers from Telehealth Firms on Pixel-Related Data Sharing Practices

HIPAA Journal

A bipartisan group of senators has written to three telehealth companies demanding answers about the use of third-party tracking technologies on their websites and details of the sensitive health data that they share with third parties such as Meta, Google, and social media networks. In the summer of 2022, The Markup/STAT conducted an investigation into the use of tracking technologies on the websites of U.S. hospitals and found that around one-third of the hospitals investigated had these techn

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Explore AI, Data and Analytics at Digital Health Rewired 2023

Digital Health News

Find out more about the AI, Data and Analytics Stage at Rewired 2023, which will display the best of AI in action and explore opportunities in patient care.

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March 1, 2023: HIPAA Breach Notification Rule Deadline for Reporting Small Data Breaches

HIPAA Journal

The deadline for reporting healthcare data breaches of fewer than 500 records is fast approaching. HIPAA-regulated entities must ensure these data breaches are reported to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) no later than March 1, 2023. Late reporting of data breaches is a HIPAA violation and can result in a financial penalty. The HIPAA Breach Notification Rule requires HIPAA-regulated entities to issue notifications to all individuals whose protected health information has been exposed or im

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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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Providers want more from CMS on prior authorization reform after proposed changes

Fierce Healthcare

Providers want more from CMS on prior authorization reform after proposed changes rking Mon, 02/13/2023 - 17:36

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Private equity targeted in CMS nursing home ownership regulation

Modern Healthcare

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services published a proposed rule that aims to promote transparency in the often opaque realm of nursing home ownership.

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PrescriberPoint Raises Significant Growth Investment from Lilly, Pfizer, Adobe, and Mastercard with a Mission to Reimagine the Traditional HCP-Pharmaceutical Company Engagement Model

Healthcare IT Today

PrescriberPoint , a digital marketplace where Healthcare Providers (“HCPs”) can find all of the resources and support they need in one place to get their patients on therapy, for any FDA or OTC-approved medication, announced its Series Seed investment today. Eli Lilly and Company, Pfizer Inc., Adobe Inc., and Mastercard Incorporated participated in the round.

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HHS ushered in the first group of TEFCA's Qualified Health Information Networks

Fierce Healthcare

HHS ushered in the first group of TEFCA's Qualified Health Information Networks aburky Mon, 02/13/2023 - 17:25

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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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Digital Health Unplugged: A chat with Misbah Mahmood

Digital Health News

Misbah Mahmood, deputy chief midwifery information officer at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, chats to Jordan Sollof about her midwifery career.

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Cigna launches rebrand as it continues to build out portfolio

Fierce Healthcare

Cigna launches rebrand as it continues to build out portfolio pminemyer Mon, 02/13/2023 - 14:40

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Insulet acquires Bigfoot's insulin pump patents for $25M

Mobi Health News

The Omnipod maker purchased assets related to Bigfoot Biomedical's pump-based automated insulin delivery technology.

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Sanford Health, Fairview Health Services delay merger until May

Fierce Healthcare

Sanford Health, Fairview Health Services delay merger until May pminemyer Mon, 02/13/2023 - 16:22

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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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GootLoader Malware, SEO Poisoning Impacting Healthcare

Health IT Security

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$3 Million Settlement Proposed to Resolve 20/20 Eye Care Network Data Breach Lawsuit

HIPAA Journal

iCare Acquisitions has proposed a $3 million settlement to resolve claims from individuals affected by a 2021 data breach that affected almost 3.3 million 20/20 Eye Care Network and 20/20 Hearing Care Network health plan members. A security breach was detected in January 2021, when suspicious activity was identified in its AWS cloud storage environment.

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Vida Health Expands its Cardiometabolic Capabilities

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Vida Health is expanding its solution for chronic conditions by adding the ability to prescribe and deprescribe glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) agonists for both type 2 diabetes and obesity for appropriate patients. As part of Vida’s value-oriented treatments for cardiometabolic conditions, patients with obesity and diabetes will now be candidates for GLP-1 therapy within the Vida platform. – With the addition of GLP-1s and other obesity medications in higher

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CIO Podcast – Episode 49: Frictionless Billing with Joanne Mizell

Healthcare IT Today

For the 49th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Joanne Mizell, Chief Operating Officer at Banner|Aetna to talk about Frictionless Billing, an initiative to improve the patient billing process. Mizell shares with us some of the financial and revenue pressures that healthcare organizations are facing today and her answer may surprise you.

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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.