Healthcare Dive
MARCH 22, 2024
Two weeks after the FDA updated Wegovy’s label, Medicare changed its stance to allow people with a history of heart disease to receive treatment, a shift that could further boost access to the fast-selling medicine.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 22, 2024
VRGS goes south Western New South Wales's Virtual Rural Generalist Service (VRGS) has been expanded to cover Southern NSW. The service provides 24-hour virtual medical support, specialty or critical care advice and transport, logistics, and coordination support. It ensures patients have medical coverage with a VRGS doctor who can answer their questions and discuss their condition, supported by an on-site nursing staff.
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Healthcare Dive
MARCH 22, 2024
In a Thursday letter, the American Hospital Association urged the HHS’ Office of Civil Rights to reduce possible “duplicative” breach notifications from the Change cyberattack.
Fierce Healthcare
MARCH 22, 2024
Uncomfortable waiting rooms. Revealing hospital gowns. Confusing insurance. Exhausting travel between appointments. | Oncology was a major focus at this year’s SXSW conference. Across multiple sessions, clinicians and patient advocates called for better access to specialty care, more thoughtful communication with patients and continued collaboration across stakeholders.
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Healthcare Dive
MARCH 22, 2024
In testimony to Congress Thursday, industry and patient group leaders described the trade-offs expected from increased FDA oversight of laboratory-developed tests.
Fierce Healthcare
MARCH 22, 2024
Though it may sound benign, unexpected laundry service interruptions can leave a deep stain on hospital care delivery. | The large nonprofit systems will jointly own and operate a regional laundry facility that will deliver 80 community jobs and 35 million pounds of clean hospital linens per year.
Health Care Compliance Brief brings together the best content for health law & compliance professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Fierce Healthcare
MARCH 22, 2024
Walgreens-owned VillageMD sold 11 primary care clinics in Rhode Island to Boston-based Arches Medical Partners. | Walgreens-owned VillageMD sold 11 primary care clinics in Rhode Island to Boston-based Arches Medical Partners.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 22, 2024
J&J Medtech will use NVIDIA's technology to expand the use of AI in surgery centers, assisting with surgical decision-making and collaboration across operating rooms.
Healthcare IT Today
MARCH 22, 2024
Trinity Capital Inc. (Trinity) , a leading provider of diversified financial solutions to growth-stage companies, today announced the commitment of $25 million in growth capital to Moxe Health (Moxe) , a leader in healthcare interoperability and clinical data exchange. Based in Madison, WI , Moxe leverages technology to improve and simplify the sharing of clinical information and critical insights between payer and provider organizations.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 22, 2024
The Brunei Ministry of Health has recently announced the launch of several new features on the BruHealth application following its update. This includes a queue management system, which now allows patients to book appointments, pay online, and check in before visiting any government health facilities. It will also allow them to view their queue number in real-time on the app.
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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.
Healthcare IT Today
MARCH 22, 2024
The following is a guest article by Jared Gillespie, Senior Director of Clinical Solutions at Academy Medtech Ventures (AMV) In the landscape of rehabilitative care, the integration of neurocognitive technology stands as a beacon of innovation, charting a course toward improved clinical quality and patient outcomes. This journey into the brain’s potential within rehabilitation not only elevates the standard of care but also underscores the role of advanced technologies in shaping the futur
Becker's Health IT
MARCH 22, 2024
Change Healthcare plans to restore its major clearinghouse platforms and process $14 billion in claims after IT outages caused by a ransomware attack.
Symplr
MARCH 22, 2024
I recently served as a panelist at the ViVE 2024 conference entitled, “The platform: Who will get the final rose?”, a discussion about the industry’s move to integrated comprehensive platforms while eyeing the promise of emerging disruptors. Here I reflect on the key takeaways and insights garnered from our panel discussion.
Digital Health News
MARCH 22, 2024
System C's critical care solution has been deployed at Jersey General Hospital as part of its plans to achieve digital maturity.
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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.
Fierce Healthcare
MARCH 22, 2024
Chutes & Ladders—US Radiology Specialists taps new CEO; Kindbody names leaders as company expands ntong Fri, 03/22/2024 - 12:18
Digital Health News
MARCH 22, 2024
It’s a common issue for doctors who regularly do outpatient surgery: patients often forget instructions given just after day surgery.
Becker's Health IT
MARCH 22, 2024
A new bill, introduced in the wake of the Feb. 21 cyberattack on Change Healthcare, aims to incentivize cybersecurity upgrades made by healthcare organizations, Nextgov/FCW reported March 22.
KFF
MARCH 22, 2024
This dashboard monitors the status of USAID tuberculosis (TB) priority countries’ progress toward global TB targets. It includes data for more than 20 countries in which USAID’s bilateral TB program currently carries out its efforts.
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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.
Healthcare IT Today
MARCH 22, 2024
The ambient voice solution at Medvise.AI focuses on the revenue cycle. According to CEO Gautamdev Chowdary, they have trained their voice-to-text transcription on medical input and made it extremely accurate with full automation. They have also achieved 100% accuracy in billing through a few extra features. If the conversation did not provide enough information to assign the best ICD or CPT codes, the service asks a few simple questions of the doctor after the visit.
HealthIT Answers
MARCH 22, 2024
March 26, 2024, from 1:00 to 2:00 PM ET: Register and join CMS for their virtual education session on the Interoperability and Prior Authorization final rule. Questions can be submitted beforehand via the registration form. The post CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule Education Session appeared first on Health IT Answers.
Digital Health News
MARCH 22, 2024
This roundup is dominated by EPR contracts, including for Epic with East Suffolk and North Essex and University Hospitals Plymouth NHS trusts.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 22, 2024
Synthace also announced a new addition to its board of directors.
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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.
MedTrainer
MARCH 22, 2024
Gone are the days of boring videos, in-person sessions, and repetitive courses. Today’s healthcare workers expect more from a compliance training program. For the administrators, compliance officers, and HR professionals tasked with crafting such programs, the challenge is finding a balance between what is legally required and what is practical for their already stretched staff.
Dot Compliance
MARCH 22, 2024
Quality isn’t a set-it-and-forget-it sort of undertaking. We talk a lot about the downfall of silos in business, whether between processes or operational areas (or both). But it’s also important not to manage quality in a silo. This often happens when quality is considered the responsibility of only the quality department, rather than all employees.
Compliancy Group
MARCH 22, 2024
Over 65 million people in the U.S. depend on Medicare to get the healthcare they need. Remaining in good standing with Medicare has several advantages. As a compliance officer or critical decision-maker, you can help your healthcare organization avoid exclusion from this valuable program by creating a comprehensive compliance program and using software to streamline your compliance processes.
The Health Law Firm Blog
MARCH 22, 2024
By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On November 30, 2022, a group of former Walgreens workers filed a proposed class action in Florida federal court that accuses the pharmacy chain of sending confusing, incomplete COBRA notices. The former employees sued, saying the company purposely [.
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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.
MedTrainer
MARCH 22, 2024
As a healthcare provider, you understand the importance of working with insurance payers to ensure smooth and timely reimbursement. The challenge is meeting each payer’s unique provider credentialing and enrollment process. In this blog, we’ll highlight how to navigate Cigna provider enrollment. We’ll walk you through the steps in enrolling with Cigna, the information and documents you’ll need, common challenges you may encounter, and best practices to follow.
Hanys
MARCH 22, 2024
Exercising your regulatory rights March 27 Building a strong foundation: Strategies for attracting and retaining entry-level healthcare talent March 27 Leveraging the MATTERS Network to treat OUD and support harm reduction March 28 AHEI virtual learning series April 2 Standing membership call on state and federal issues April 2 Updates to NYS Hepatitis C testing law April 9 Crucial conversations and conflict resolution April 10
Hall Render
MARCH 22, 2024
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) has agreed to pay $418M to settle claims that it inflated real estate commissions. Under the settlement, NAR will change its rules to 1) no longer require agents to subscribe to multiple listing services (MLS); 2) prohibit selling agents from posting commissions they will pay to buyer agents on MLS sites; and 3) require buyer agents to enter into written agreements with their clients.
Hanys
MARCH 22, 2024
Grant applications for Cycle X of the Physician Loan Repayment and Physician Practice Support programs on a rolling basis until May 2. All new awards will require a three-year service obligation and will provide up to $40,000 per year for three years (not to exceed $120,000 in total funding). Learn more and apply online.
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