Tue.Mar 28, 2023

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The New Deaths of Despair in America – Among U.S. Children

Jane Sarashon

The phenomenon of Deaths of Despair is the short-hand name for rising mortality among certainly people living in the U.S. due to overdose, accidents, and suicide. Angus Deaton and Anne Case published their first of many research papers on Deaths of Despair in 2015. Their research uncovered the risks of dying a Death of Despair to be higher among men, especially those between the ages of 25 and 64.

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Ohio AG sues ‘modern gangsters’ Cigna, Humana for alleged PBM price fixing

Healthcare Dive

Ohio Attorney General David Yost filed suit on Monday against the payers' PBMs, along with Prime Therapeutics, for allegedly sharing pricing information and driving up drug prices.

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AWS announces healthcare workforce accelerator cohort

Healthcare It News

The companies selected for the newest AWS Healthcare Accelerator will focus on three critical needs in the healthcare space: retention, deployment and training, says Dr. Rowland Illing, chief medical officer and director of International Public Sector Health & the Global Healthcare Venture Capital and Startups team at AWS. WHY IT MATTERS AWS accelerators are technical, business and mentorship programs that help startups advance their digital solutions using the cloud, such as last year's

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How open-loop networks are changing health rewards as we know them

Healthcare Dive

Health rewards have traditionally included limited offerings that not all members can access. Now, open-loop rewards offer more choices than ever.

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Optimizing Medical Waste Management: A Guide to Best Practices

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.

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Geisinger is seeing big ROI with virtual cardiac rehab

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Geisinger is a world-class health system in Pennsylvania with 10 hospital campuses, more than 130 clinic sites and more than one million patients served annually. Its health plan covers more than half a million members. THE PROBLEM As a rural health system stretching across a broad geography, transportation can be a barrier to patient engagement. Geisinger strives to make better health easy, but it can be challenging to get patients to brick-and-mortar facilities.

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Oscar Health names former Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini as new chief executive

Healthcare Dive

Bertolini brings decades of experience in the payer sector — including overseeing Aetna’s $70 billion sale to CVS in 2018 — to Oscar as the insurer works toward profitability.

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Walgreens healthcare division boosts retail giant’s second-quarter earnings

Healthcare Dive

Walgreens’ U.S. healthcare division, including VillageMD, recorded $1.6 billion in sales in the quarter, an increase of $1.1 billion from last year.

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ViVE 2023: Amazon Pharmacy integrates coupons in latest bid to target affordability of branded drugs

Fierce Healthcare

ViVE 2023: Amazon Pharmacy integrates coupons in latest bid to target affordability of branded drugs hlandi Tue, 03/28/2023 - 15:24

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New York Law Firm Pays $200,000 to State AG to Resolve HIPAA Violations

HIPAA Journal

A New York law firm that suffered a LockBit ransomware attack has agreed to pay a financial penalty of $200,000 to the New York Attorney General to resolve alleged violations of New York General Business Law and the Privacy and Security Rules of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Heidell, Pittoni, Murphy & Bach LLP (HPMB) is a New York City-based medical malpractice law firm.

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Rethinking Behavioral Health Support in the ED: 3 Keys for Innovation

HIT Consultant

Benjamin Zaniello, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer, PointClickCare Dr. Enrique Enguidanos, Founder & CEO of CBC Solutions About one out of five Americans with serious illness struggled to access care during the pandemic, and rates were significantly higher among disadvantaged populations, a 2022 study found. Now, as mental health-related visits in emergency departments (EDs) continue to rise , healthcare professionals must consider: “How can we create better behavioral health supports for peo

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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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'Podnosis': Insight on the Ohio train derailment class-action lawsuit, and how data analytics can improve social risk factor identification

Fierce Healthcare

'Podnosis': Insight on the Ohio train derailment class-action lawsuit, and how data analytics can improve social risk factor identification tcarey Tue, 03/28/2023 - 14:07

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DW Healthcare Partners Closes $210M Fund to Invest in Healthcare Companies

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – DW Healthcare Partners (“DWHP”), a healthcare-focused private equity firm, announced the closing of DW Healthcare Partners Small Cap, L.P. (“Founders Fund”), a $210M fund focused on lower middle market healthcare investments. This new fund brings DWHP’s total capital under management to USD $1.3 billion. – The Founders Fund will invest in companies that are $3M to 6M EBITDA.

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Carrot Fertility expands benefits with hormone replacement therapy coverage

Fierce Healthcare

Carrot Fertility expands benefits with hormone replacement therapy coverage agliadkovskaya Tue, 03/28/2023 - 14:43

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Exec Hires: AVIA Appoints Scott Cullen, M.D., as EVP of Strategic Innovation and Chief Clinical Officer

HIT Consultant

Scott Cullen, M.D., EVP of Strategic Innovation and Chief Clinical Officer at AVIA What You Should Know: – AVIA , the nation’s leading healthcare digital transformation partner, announced today that Scott Cullen, M.D., has been appointed Executive Vice President of Strategic Innovation and Chief Clinical Officer to lead the company’s strategic insights and advisory practice. – An experienced leader in both clinical care and driving strategic success, Dr.

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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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ViVe 2023: CancerX co-hosts Moffitt Cancer Center, Digital Medicine Society, unveil 'Moonshot' digital health effort

Fierce Healthcare

ViVe 2023: CancerX co-hosts Moffitt Cancer Center, Digital Medicine Society, unveil 'Moonshot' digital health effort hlandi Tue, 03/28/2023 - 07:36

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KLAS: Independent Ambulatory Patient Portals Performance 2023

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Patient portals (tools used by healthcare providers to engage with patients) can greatly influence a patient’s ability to seek and receive care. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, healthcare organizations have become keenly interested in technology that gives patients ownership of their health and enhances office efficiencies. Though KLAS has historically looked at how portals perform in the IDN setting, this report examines the experience of customers in the independent ambul

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SpectrumAi Secures up to $20M Series A Investment

Healthcare IT Today

CVS Health Ventures leads with Cobalt Ventures, F-Prime, Frist Cressey, and Autism Impact Fund SpectrumAi , a company developing innovative solutions to improve autism care, today announced that it closed up to $20 million in Series A funding led by CVS Health Ventures with participation from Cobalt Ventures , and follow-on investments from Seed investors F-Prime , Frist Cressey , and Autism Impact Fund.

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Hospitals feel congressional heat over compliance with price transparency rule

Fierce Healthcare

Hospitals feel congressional heat over compliance with price transparency rule rking Tue, 03/28/2023 - 17:11

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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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Industry Spotlight: Chad Holmes, Security Evangelist, Cynerio

Digital Health News

NHS trusts should seize the opportunity to escape the shadow of WannaCry, boost their cybersecurity and onboard new devices with confidence, says Chad Holmes. By Jennifer Trueland.

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How a ransomware attack at a Indiana hospital in '21 is still costing money today

Becker's Health IT

Franklin, Ind.-based Johnson Memorial Health spent six months trying to get their operations back to normal after Hive ransomware group ​​infiltrated its networks in October 2021, but it is still feeling the effects of the cyberattack two years later, Side Effects Public Media reported March 27.

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vCreate launches digital forms and reminders to streamline processes

Digital Health News

vCreate's new digital forms and reminders will help boost collaboration between healthcare teams and streamline clinical processes.

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Wellvana Health raises $84M to expand value-based care platform

Mobi Health News

The company will use the funds to continue its growth in the U.S.

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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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Helix VaxApp gets approval from NHSE to boost vaccine management   

Digital Health News

MedicalDirector UK’s Helix VaxApp has received approval from NHS England to be used across the health service’s Covid and flu vaccination programme.

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The Changing Dynamic Between Clinical Operations and IT

Healthcare IT Today

Over the past two decades the relationship and dynamic between IT and Clinical Operations has changed. The two must now work in close collaboration with each other to improve clinician experiences and patient outcomes. Yet, healthcare IT departments do not have sufficient financial or human resources to deliver on everything that is expected of them.

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Netskope research warns of cloud malware threats

Digital Health News

A new report from Netskope focuses on the threat of cloud malware delivery within the healthcare industry and makes a number of recommendations.

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Bonus Features, ViVE Edition – March 28, 2023 – New products from Babylon and Everly Health, partnership news from Infor and LexisNexis, and more

Healthcare IT Today

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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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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ViVE 2023: Current and former CMMI chiefs reflect on past, future of agency

Fierce Healthcare

ViVE 2023: Current and former CMMI chiefs reflect on past, future of agency pminemyer Tue, 03/28/2023 - 18:58

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KLAS Reveals Some Providers Lack Confidence in Oracle Cerner’s Roadmap/Vision 

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Cerner, one of the major software vendors in healthcare IT, has gone through significant changes over the last year and a half. In October 2021, they announced a new CEO and introduced RevElate as their go-forward patient accounting platform. Two months later, Oracle announced their intent to acquire Cerner. Customers soon reached out to KLAS, wanting to know about their peers’ experiences with these changes.

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Following the Trail of SOC 2 HIPAA Mapping

Compliancy Group

According to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), in 2020, the requirements of HIPAA applied to at least 2.7 million healthcare organizations in the United States. Achieving HIPAA compliance is enough for some covered entities and business associates, but others need to meet additional standards to meet the security needs of the marketplace.

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Report: Razor Thin Hospital Margins Becoming The New Norm

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Hospital finances are beginning to stabilize as razor-thin margins become the new normal, according to the newest data from Kaufman Hall. The National Hospital Flash Report draws on data from more than 900 hospitals from Syntellis Performance Solutions. – The latest National Hospital Flash Report shows that the high level of variance that plagued hospital margins over the past three years is beginning to subside as external economic factors like labor shortage

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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.