Becker's Health IT
JUNE 15, 2023
Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University and Health System are notifying patients that some of their protected health information may have been compromised due to hackers targeting a software vulnerability called MOVEit, The Baltimore Banner reported June 14.
Healthcare Dive
JUNE 15, 2023
The unwinding of the COVID-19 public health emergency and recent legislation are expected to influence health spending across the country’s major payers over the next decade.
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Healthcare It News
JUNE 15, 2023
Since its inception more than 60 years ago, Community Health Network, an Indianapolis-based nonprofit health system, has worked to stay true to its tagline: “Exceptional Care. Simply Delivered.” A team of roughly 16,000 healthcare professionals shares in that mission by offering the full breadth of healthcare services with a particular focus on population health management.
Healthcare Dive
JUNE 15, 2023
U.S. consumers doubled their use of wearables between 2020 and 2021, with smartwatches outpacing other devices.
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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?
Bill of Health
JUNE 15, 2023
By Laura Dolbow Merck recently filed a lawsuit that challenges the constitutionality of the Medicare price negotiation program created by the Inflation Reduction Act. Under this program, HHS will select a small number of single source drugs for price negotiation. Merck alleges that the price negotiation program operates as a price control because it effectively requires manufacturers to accept the maximum fair price as a condition of participation in Medicare and Medicaid.
Healthcare Dive
JUNE 15, 2023
The medical lobby this week also approved recommendations meant to prevent overdoses, reduce gun violence and pare back physician reliance on body mass index.
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Healthcare Dive
JUNE 15, 2023
On Thursday, New York is expected to greenlight a component of its 2021 staffing law that requires one nurse for every two critical care patients.
MRO Compliance
JUNE 15, 2023
So Many Records, So Little Time: How to Manage Burgeoning Health Plan Requests June 15, 2023 Healthcare IT Today Providers are witnessing an explosion in health plan requests for medical records. In some regions, request volumes are up by 30 percent over last year. Reasons for the spike include upticks in claims denials, more risk adjustment reviews, and increases in mandatory HEDIS reporting.
Healthcare Dive
JUNE 15, 2023
Of physicians who left their organization, 56% had previously said they were “very likely” to leave compared with 8% who said they were “very unlikely” to leave, according to a Klas report.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 15, 2023
The South Australian government has set aside additional funding for its new virtual care services for children and adults to make them permanent. Funding of A$30.8 million ($21 million) over the next four years has been allocated to the Child and Adolescent Virtual Urgent Care Service (CAVUCS) while A$67.8 million ($47 million) has been set aside for the adult SA Virtual Care Service (SAVCS) over the next five years.
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Feeling overwhelmed by medical waste regulations? This comprehensive guide unravels the complexities of medical waste disposal, ensuring you stay compliant and prioritize safety. Inside you'll find: Clear categorization: Learn to precisely classify medical waste for proper handling and disposal. Labeling & Storage: Discover best practices for clear labeling and secure storage of medical waste.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 15, 2023
Retail pharmacy giant Walgreens inked another partnership to recruit participants for research as it continues to build out its clinical trials business. | Retail pharmacy giant Walgreens inked another partnership to recruit participants for research as it continues to build out its clinical trials business.
HIPAA Journal
JUNE 15, 2023
Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Health System are investigating a May 31, 2023, cyberattack and data breach that targeted a widely used software tool. While the tool that was targeted was not mentioned in the attack, the breach date coincides with the Clop/FIN11 attacks on the MOVEit Transfer managed file transfer solution. While the investigation into the data breach is ongoing, the initial findings indicate that sensitive personal and financial information was impacted, including na
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 15, 2023
The former manager of a morgue at Harvard Medical School is up against federal charges for allegedly stealing, selling and shipping human body parts, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. | The former manager of a morgue at Harvard Medical School is up against federal charges for allegedly stealing, selling and shipping human body parts, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday.
HIT Consultant
JUNE 15, 2023
What You Should Know: Cala, the bioelectronic medicine leader setting a new standard of care for chronic disease, today announced the commercial launch of its next generation therapy: the Cala kIQ™ System, the first and only FDA-cleared wearable device that delivers effective therapy for action hand tremor relief in people with essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease.
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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.
HIPAA Journal
JUNE 15, 2023
A class action lawsuit has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa against Trinity Health, Mercy Health Network, and Mercy Medical Center – Clinton over a cyberattack and data breach that affected 21,000 patients. Livonia, MI-based Trinity Health, which operates Mercy Health Network and Mercy Medical Center – Clinton in Iowa, discovered a cyberattack on April 4, 2023, the forensic investigation of which confirmed hackers had gained access to systems containing pat
HIT Consultant
JUNE 15, 2023
What You Should Know: The U.S. digital therapeutics market size is estimated to reach $21.46B by 2030, expanding at a CAGR of 33.8% from 2023 to 2030, according to a new reports by Coherent Market Insights, Inc. Digital therapeutics solutions help improve medication adherence with personalized incentives to encourage long-term behavior change in patients and people with chronic conditions.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 15, 2023
Yet another bill that aims to reform the pharmacy benefit management industry has been introduced in Congress, this time by the Senate Finance Committee. | Yet another bill that aims to reform the pharmacy benefit management industry has been introduced in Congress, this time by the Senate Finance Committee.
HIT Consultant
JUNE 15, 2023
What You Should Know: HandSport Surgery Institute (HSSI), a provider of hand and wrist surgical care launches virtual practice in Decentraland, a blockchain-based metaverse platform. The HSSI Decentraland practice features a futuristic, sophisticated, and professional design inspired by crypto and cyberpunk culture. Visitors can interact with a virtual receptionist to schedule appointments, explore a comfortable waiting room with patient success stories, and learn about hand and wrist procedures
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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.
HIPAA Journal
JUNE 15, 2023
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has advanced a bill that seeks to address the current shortage of cybersecurity skills in rural hospitals, which are increasingly targeted by cybercriminals. Rural hospitals do not have the resources available to invest in cybersecurity and struggle to recruit skilled cybersecurity professionals and, as such, are seen as soft targets by cybercriminals.
HIT Consultant
JUNE 15, 2023
The 2023 annual report, titled “Mission Critical: Bringing drug discount stakeholders together so patients win,” outlines Kalderos’ vision for a new paradigm of cooperation among drug discount program stakeholders in which everyone benefits — particularly patients. What You Should Know: Kalderos , a data infrastructure and analytics company, identified nearly $1B in inaccurate drug discount requests from 2016-Q1 2023 on its drug discount management platform.
HIPAA Journal
JUNE 15, 2023
The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) investigates all reported breaches of the protected health information of 500 or more individuals and some smaller breaches to determine if the breach was caused by the failure to comply with the HIPAA Rules. OCR’s latest HIPAA enforcement action confirms that it is not the scale of a data breach that determines if a financial penalty must be paid but the severity of the underlying HIPAA violations.
HIT Consultant
JUNE 15, 2023
Ram Krishnan, CEO, Valant Value-based care and fee-for-service are two kinds of healthcare reimbursement models for pricing healthcare services. While the fee-for-service model is more traditional, the newer value-based care model has been gaining popularity in recent years. Historically, value-based care has been harder to implement in behavioral healthcare due to difficulty measuring outcomes—it isn’t as simple as physical health.
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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.
Health IT Security
JUNE 15, 2023
HC3 details FIN11's track record of exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in the healthcare sector, particularly using Clop ransomware.
Healthcare IT Today
JUNE 15, 2023
For HHM Health , an FQHC serving the Dallas area, interoperability and access to medical records is vital for establishing trust with their patients and saving lives. The team leans on various modules from eClinicalWorks , including Prisma, which allows them to retrieve records from a variety of information exchanges – a feature that helped them save the life of new patient.
HIPAA Journal
JUNE 15, 2023
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), and its international cybersecurity agency partners have issued a cybersecurity advisory about the LockBit ransomware operation, which has extorted $91 million from organizations in the United States since 2020 across 1,700 attacks.
Healthcare IT Today
JUNE 15, 2023
The following is a guest article by Moliehi “Mo” Weitnauer, Chief Product Officer at MRO Providers are witnessing an explosion in health plan requests for medical records. In some regions, request volumes are up by 30 percent over last year. Reasons for the spike include upticks in claims denials, more risk adjustment reviews, and increases in mandatory HEDIS reporting.
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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.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 15, 2023
Welcome to this week's Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry.
Digital Health News
JUNE 15, 2023
The UK government will protect money for health technology from budget cuts, Secretary of State for Health Steve Barclay said on Thursday.
Becker's Health IT
JUNE 15, 2023
The Rural Hospital Cybersecurity Enhancement Act has made it out of committee and will now head to the Senate floor.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 15, 2023
Most people with either public or private healthcare insurance like their coverage—but they like it a lot less when they’re sick, according to a new
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