Wed.Feb 08, 2023

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Top healthcare trends of 2023

Healthcare Dive

Providers and payers are still grappling with the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, including the winding down of pandemic-era policies, which will have major effects on hospitals and insurers.

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Merchandising healthcare access: adopting e-commerce techniques

Healthcare It News

As the consumerization of healthcare continues to take shape, the next frontier of healthcare access may well be merchandising healthcare inventory, contended Derek Streat, cofounder and CEO of DexCare, a digital transformation platform vendor. By combining healthcare and e-commerce technologies and strategies, healthcare provider organizations can dramatically improve digital discovery of, and access to, care for patients, he said.

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CVS, Oak Street stump for $10.6B combination by outlining plans for growth

Healthcare Dive

Linking Oak Street with CVS assets could drive new patients to Oak Street. It could also help Aetna retain more MA members and drive greater use of CVS’ pharmacy and PBM, management said Wednesday.

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Singapore General Hospital shifts to gamified VR nurse training

Healthcare It News

The Singapore General Hospital has started training its nurses in IV cannulation using VR technology. A team of SGH nurses, together with Serious Games Asia and sensor solutions developer Microtube Technologies, developed an immersive gamified training module called IV NIMBLE (Nursing Innovation in Mobility-based Learning) to enhance nurses' training.

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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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Cigna restricts coverage of new ALS drug, deepening fears about access

Healthcare Dive

The health insurer’s national formulary considers Amylyx Pharmaceuticals’ Relyvrio to be "experimental, investigational or unproven for any use,” and now does not recommend covering it.

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Hands-on cardiac education pays dividends for patients and others, says Abiomed

Healthcare It News

At a Heart Recovery Advocate Day held on February 3 at Abiomed's Danvers, Massachusetts, headquarters, patients shared their stories of heart recovery, toured the facility, participated in lab demonstrations and had the opportunity to meet the operators who made their left ventricular assist devices, right ventricular assist devices and lung-assist devices.

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How AI-driven patient scheduling can improve health equity

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Centene set to lose 2M Medicaid members as pandemic protections end

Healthcare Dive

The insurer said it expects to add some members who are no longer eligible for Medicaid to its ACA exchange plans.

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Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Sued for Website Tracking Technology Privacy Violations

HIPAA Journal

A lawsuit has been filed against Cedars-Sinai Medical Center alleging impermissible disclosures of patient data to Google, Meta, and other third parties due to the use of website tracking technologies without either a business associate agreement with the code providers or authorizations from patients. In the summer of 2022, an investigation into the use of these technologies revealed almost one-third of the top 100 hospitals in the United States had used pixels and other tracking code on their

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Faro Health Secures $20M to Streamline Smart Clinical Trials

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Faro Health , a cloud-computing company that is developing digital infrastructure for smart clinical trials raises $20M in Series A funding led by General Catalyst to help scale the digital transformation of clinical trials––essentially making it easier and quicker for drug developers to greatly reduce the cost and time of trials. – The round also included participation from previous investors Section 32 , Polaris Partners , Zetta Ventures , and Northpond Vent

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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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98% of Organizations Use a Vendor That Had a Data Breach in the Past 2 Years

HIPAA Journal

Healthcare organizations have been investing in cybersecurity to improve their defenses against increasingly numerous and sophisticated cyberattacks; however, while an organization’s security posture can be improved, it can only be as good as the weakest link. Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting the supply chain in their attacks, as these are usually the weakest links in the security chain.

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Southern Illinois Healthcare Selects Xealth to Digitally Engage Patients

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Southern Illinois Healthcare (SIH) announced that it’s using Xealth’s digital health platform system-wide to automate digital programs, starting with smoking cessation. SIH plans to add additional digital health programs to deliver operational efficiencies while enhancing the patient experience. – The Xealth digital health platform is designed to help clinicians integrate, prescribe and monitor digital health tools for patients from one location within

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Reconstructive Justice — Public Health Policy to End Mass Incarceration

NEJM

The abysmal state of U.S. public health and safety cannot be separated from the destructive effects of mass incarceration. Undoing these harms requires abolishing oppressive systems and constructing infrastructure for repair.

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Blood Sugar Monitoring Devices Pose Wearability & Use Problems for Older Diabetic Adults & Caregivers

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – In an initial trial of continuous glucometer use, faulty device adhesive — a serious wearability challenge — and patient difficulty in interpreting graphs produced by the device, were noted. In a subsequent trial, 70 older adults with diabetes wore glucometers and activity monitors and used smartphones and electronic medication bottles to track and manage blood sugar over a two-week period. – Among these 70 patients, two-thirds of whom were African

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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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DOJ collected nearly $2B in health fraud False Claims Act cases in fiscal year 2022

Fierce Healthcare

DOJ collected nearly $2B in health fraud False Claims Act cases in fiscal year 2022 rking Wed, 02/08/2023 - 16:01

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Hackers Compromised Sharp HealthCare Web Server and Stole Patient Data

HIPAA Journal

Sharp HealthCare in San Diego has recently notified almost 63,000 patients that some of their personal and protected health information has potentially been stolen in a recent cyberattack on its web server. Sharp HealthCare detected the cyberattack on January 12, 2023, and immediately shut down the web server while the incident was investigated. A third-party digital forensics company was engaged to investigate and determine the nature and scope of the incident and confirmed that an unauthorized

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With Oak Street Health deal, CVS pushes healthcare ambitions as investment in value-based care heats up

Fierce Healthcare

With Oak Street Health deal, CVS pushes healthcare ambitions as investment in value-based care heats up hlandi Wed, 02/08/2023 - 18:03

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ICYMI: HIPAA and Social Media IRL

Healthcare Law Blog

Social media’s interplay with healthcare privacy presents a constantly evolving challenge. ICYMI (“in case you missed it”), there is an uptick in enforcement and scrutiny IRL (“in real life”) related to communications through social media and other public platforms by entities subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”).

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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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Humana, ChenMed continue an established partnership by announcing five-year network agreement

Fierce Healthcare

Humana, ChenMed continue an established partnership by announcing five-year network agreement aburky Wed, 02/08/2023 - 17:29

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Realise the potential of Digital Transformation at Rewired 2023

Digital Health News

Learn more about the Digital Transformation Stage at Rewired 2023, which will showcase exciting developments and share lessons from successful programmes.

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Femtech startup Evvy launches new platform to fill gender research gap, provide precision health for women

Fierce Healthcare

Femtech startup Evvy launches new platform to fill gender research gap, provide precision health for women aburky Wed, 02/08/2023 - 12:42

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Dorset Care Record expands to two adult hospices in region

Digital Health News

Dorset Care Record has been extended to two adult hospices in the region, who will now be able to access vital patient information to support their work.

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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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Do masks really protect against COVID-19? Meta-analysis authors want to see more evidence

Fierce Healthcare

Do masks really protect against COVID-19?

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University Alliance calls for simulation in nursing training

Digital Health News

In a bid to tackle the challenges around staffing in the NHS, University Alliance is calling for simulation to be used in nursing training.

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Chartis Group: Rural hospital closures expected to pick up as relief dollars go away

Fierce Healthcare

Chartis Group: Rural hospital closures expected to pick up as relief dollars go away rking Wed, 02/08/2023 - 14:06

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Orion Health secures HITRUST, DirectTrust accreditations

Mobi Health News

The health IT company is reinforcing its security credentials amid the spate of cyberattacks against the healthcare industry.

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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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Employers expect more from their health and well-being vendors, says WTW survey

Fierce Healthcare

Employers expect more from their health and well-being vendors, says WTW survey fdiamond Wed, 02/08/2023 - 13:45

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Post-Roe Realities

NEJM

In this episode of “Intention to Treat,” host Rachel Gotbaum takes us to Tennessee and Ohio, where new abortion bans are already harming patients and threatening their physicians.

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UnitedHealthcare rolls out new member reward program with focus on wellness

Fierce Healthcare

UnitedHealthcare rolls out new member reward program with focus on wellness pminemyer Wed, 02/08/2023 - 11:43

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Healthcare IT company athenahealth lays off 178 employees

Mobi Health News

The layoffs affect less than 3% of the company's workforce.

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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.