Healthcare Dive
MAY 23, 2024
Equalizing Medicare payment between sites of service to cut down on provider consolidation is a “no brainer,” one witness testified during the hearing.
Healthcare It News
MAY 23, 2024
Trinity Health reaches out to patients on their preferred platform to encourage them to make needed visits. Dr. Roosevelt De Los Santos, its medical director for health informatics, describes why it works.
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Healthcare Dive
MAY 23, 2024
The medical community needs to take “smart risks” to maximize organ donation use, according to the president of the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations.
Healthcare IT Today
MAY 23, 2024
The following is a guest article by John English, Director of Service Provider Marketing and Business Development at NETSCOUT Amidst the COVID-19 crisis, medical technology became essential for keeping healthcare running when other industries had to close. Cellular network technology, particularly 5G, has been a critical enabler in running medical services during and after the pandemic.
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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?
Healthcare Dive
MAY 23, 2024
Thirty-seven percent of healthcare organizations did not have a cyberattack contingency plan in place, despite half having experienced an attack, according to a new survey from Software Advice.
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Healthcare Dive
MAY 23, 2024
Cigna’s massive pharmacy benefit manager has unveiled a new collaboration with a network of independent pharmacies at a time of rising tension between PBMs and the pharmacies they pay.
HIT Consultant
MAY 23, 2024
Brian Montgomery, Expert Security Engineer, Altera Digital Health Being an avid soccer fan, player, and coach, I’ve heard countless times that “the best defense is a good offense.” As a cybersecurity professional, the concept of taking active steps to improve your team’s position resonates. However, cybersecurity programs within and outside the healthcare industry typically focus on reactive approaches.
Healthcare Dive
MAY 23, 2024
The struggling health system continues to cut roles as it struggles to chart a path to financial health.
Becker's Health IT
MAY 23, 2024
Ascension, a 140-hospital system based in St. Louis, continued to deal with the fallout of a ransomware attack more than two weeks after the hack took its IT network offline.
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Healthcare IT Today
MAY 23, 2024
A year ago, eClinicalWorks made a big investment in AI, adding it to dozens of modules in their cloud EHR. That investment is paying off. Many customers have successfully deployed the new AI Assistant and seeing significant benefits. eClinicalWorks Leaned into AI a Year Ago In 2023, Healthcare IT Today attended the eClinicalWorks Enterprise Summit (for large practices) and the Health Center Summit (for community health clinics and federally qualified health centers – FQHCs).
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 23, 2024
Centene's philanthropic arm is joining forces with McCormack Baron Salazar to develop new affordable housing options in multiple states. | Centene's philanthropic arm is joining forces with McCormack Baron Salazar to develop new affordable housing options in multiple states.
HIT Consultant
MAY 23, 2024
What You Should Know: – Redox , a healthcare interoperability company, and Snowflake , the Data Cloud company, have joined forces to simplify the exchange of healthcare data. – This strategic partnership aims to revolutionize how healthcare organizations access and utilize patient data, ultimately leading to improved patient care. Unifying Legacy Systems for Seamless Data Flow The collaboration leverages Redox’s expertise in unifying healthcare data from various sources, includ
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 23, 2024
Atropos Health, maker of a real-world data platform, sits at the intersection of two rapidly growing fields, real-world evidence research and artificial intelligence. | Atropos Health is getting closer to its mission of addressing the evidence gap in healthcare and secured $33 million in series B funding to help fuel its growth.
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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.
Becker's Health IT
MAY 23, 2024
In April, hackers breached the IT network of CentroMed, a healthcare provider based in San Antonio, Texas, compromising the protected health information of 400,000 patients.
Mobi Health News
MAY 23, 2024
The company will use the funds to enter into strategic relationships with life sciences organizations focusing on oncology and specialty care.
HIT Consultant
MAY 23, 2024
Image: Ella Maru Studio What You Should Know: – A collaborative effort between Providence , Microsoft , and the University of Washington has yielded a breakthrough in cancer diagnostics with the development of an AI-powered pathology model, Prov-GigaPath. – Prov-GigaPath is an AI-powered pathology model designed to improve patient care and transform cancer diagnostics.
Digital Health News
MAY 23, 2024
The three trusts that form the Acute Hospital Alliance are to implement a new shared electronic patient record (EPR), which will go live in 2026.
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HIPAA Journal
MAY 23, 2024
A Texas ophthalmology practice has experienced a ransomware attack that resulted in the encryption of files on its computer systems. The attack affected Victoria Surgery Center, Victoria Eye Center , and Victoria Vision Center and involved the personal and protected health information of 80,122 individuals. The attack was detected on March 21, 2024, when the file encryption made certain computer systems inaccessible.
Digital Health News
MAY 23, 2024
NHS England has announced proposals to increase access to virtual wards in a bid to reduce emergency department (ED) waiting times.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 23, 2024
Interim CEO at Veradigm Shin-Yin Ho and Will Manidis, CEO and founder of ScienceIO (which was recently acquired by Veradigm), spoke about the potential of artificial intelligence on a panel at the | Veradigm and ScienceIO CEOs discussed how artificial intelligence will dramatically change the function of electronic health records, from making their contents more usable to demoting their prominence in healthcare.
HIPAA Journal
MAY 23, 2024
The American Privacy Rights Act (APRA), the successor of the A merican Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA), has been criticized by 15 State Attorneys General who are urging Congress not to proceed with the proposed federal data privacy law in its current form. A draft of the APRA was released in April 2024 that addressed some of the problems with the ADPPA that prevented the bill from progressing.
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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.
HealthIT Answers
MAY 23, 2024
By Pieter De Leenheer, Ph.D. - FHIR is designed to be a modular and open-source standard, encouraging global adoption and continual refinement. It allows for local customization to meet specific needs, which is critical given the diverse regulatory and operational needs in healthcare. The post The Healthcare Interoperability Universe: FHIR, Governance, and Transparency appeared first on Health IT Answers.
HIPAA Journal
MAY 23, 2024
Incidents involving the theft of portable electronic devices containing protected health information are now relatively rare, but two incidents were reported this month. Former Multnomah County Health Department Employee Failed to Return Laptop Containing Patient Information Multnomah County Health Department in Portland, OR, has notified 1,092 Multnomah County Health Center patients that some of their protected health information has been exposed.
MedTrainer
MAY 23, 2024
The Administration for Community Living (ACL) recently updated the Older Americans Act (OAA) for the first time in 34 years to ensure older adults receive broader services and support from state and territorial agencies – and the healthcare organizations that provide services through them. The final OAA rule took effect March 15, 2024, and regulated agencies have until Oct. 1, 2024, to comply with the updates.
HealthIT Answers
MAY 23, 2024
CMS encourages you to submit improvement activities for consideration for future years of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System. The MIPS Annual Call for Improvement Activities process allows clinicians, professional associations and medical societies that represent clinicians, researchers, consumer groups, and others to identify and submit activities.
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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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