Wed.Jul 27, 2022

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Humana to reorganize, launches executive search

Healthcare Dive

The move will slim the organization down into separate units it will call Insurance Services and CenterWell, building on the payer’s recent acquisition of Kindred amid the push for care at home.

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Included Health, Pear Therapeutics announce layoffs

Mobi Health News

Virtual care company Included Health said it reduced its headcount by less than 6%, while prescription digital therapeutics maker Pear Therapeutics laid off about 9% of its full-time workforce.

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CMS targets maternal health, extends postpartum coverage

Healthcare Dive

The strategy to improve outcomes and equity includes ensuring access to reproductive healthcare services and adopting a new “birthing-friendly” hospital designation.

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Syapse Raises $35M to Expand Learning Health Network

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Syapse raises $35M led by an affiliate of Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC (Innovatus) to tackle the challenge of understanding, preventing, and treating complex cancers. – The investment will allow Syapse to expand its artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities, making it more efficient to uncover meaningful insights from real-world oncology data.

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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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Nurses at Mayo Clinic hospital in Minnesota vote to decertify union

Healthcare Dive

The effort was driven by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, which also recently helped nurses at Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine, initiate a vote to decertify their union.

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The Mounting Provider Burden of Patients Disconnected from Their Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices (CIEDs)

HIT Consultant

Dr. Arnaud Rosier, CEO at Implicity. The first implantation of a pacemaker in a human occurred in 1958. Since then, the technology behind permanent cardiac rhythm management has steadily evolved, enabling a variety of implants known collectively as cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs). Today, CIEDs are the standard of care for a range of cardiac arrhythmias, and researchers estimate that 1.2–1.4 million of these devices are implanted annually worldwide.

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Cloud Security Alliance Releases Third Party Vendor Risk Management Guidance for Healthcare Organizations

HIPAA Journal

Cyber actors are increasingly targeting business associates of HIPAA-covered entities as they provide an easy way to gain access to the networks of multiple healthcare organizations. To help healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs) deal with the threat, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has published new guidance on third-party vendor risk management in healthcare.

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Caraway raises $10.5M seed to offer virtual care to college women

Mobi Health News

The startup plans to launch its team-based mental, physical and reproductive healthcare in the fall.

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County Durham and Darlington improves patient safety with AI

Digital Health News

County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust is using a new predictive AI model to reduce the risk of acute kidney injuries to patients.

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Featured Health IT Job: Marketing Content Writer

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Marketing Content Writer position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Genzeon and is a Remote Position. Here’s a description of the position: The Marketing Content Writer will be primarily responsible for content creation, helping us to bring social posts, case studies, eBooks, blog posts, white papers, video scripts, and article

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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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Some systems back online but Guy’s and St Thomas’ IT issues continue

Digital Health News

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GSST) is still experiencing issues after its IT systems failed last week as a result of the UK’s heatwave.

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The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 3 of 5 – Apple as “Intelligent Health Guardian”

Health Populi

Apple wants to be your “intelligent guardian for health,” based on a 60-page paper shepherded by Jeff Williams, the company’s Chief Operating Officer. Published last week, the paper is one of the big signals trumpeted this U.S. summer marked by the BA.5 omicron subvariant of SARS-CoV-2, inflation pressures on our household budgets, social/political tensions, and hot-hot weather.

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East and North Hertfordshire EPR contract awarded to Dedalus

Digital Health News

A contract to provide East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust (ENHT) with a new electronic patient record (EPR) has been awarded to Dedalus.

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Donor Government Funding for HIV in Low- and Middle-Income Countries in 2021

KFF

This report tracks funding levels of the donor governments that collectively provide the bulk of international assistance for AIDS through bilateral programs and contributions to multilateral organizations. Donor governments disbursed US$7.5 billion in 2021, largely flat amid the COVID-19 pandemic and essentially matching 2008 levels.

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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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A Simple Isodose Plan Checklist for Auditing Radiation Oncology

Healthicity

Radiation Oncology Coding. Coding Radiation Oncology services can be confusing.

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Home Healthcare and Hospice Agencies Owner Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison

Med-Net Compliance

A California home healthcare and hospice agencies’ owner was sentenced to 18 months in prison for one count of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud and one count of conspiracy to pay and receive healthcare kickbacks. According to court documents, the woman and her husband owned and controlled home healthcare and hospice agencies in the greater Sacramento area.

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NeuroSense Therapeutics and NeuraLight Collaborate to Detect ALS Oculometric Biomarkers

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – NeuroSense Therapeutics Ltd. , a company developing treatments for severe neurodegenerative diseases, and NeuraLight, a company developing objective and sensitive biomarkers for neurological disorders, today announced a collaboration to advance the science of digital biomarkers in the detection and monitoring of neurological diseases including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). – This agreement marks NeuraLight’s first clinical trial and comes on the heels o

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Leveraging Technology to Improve Referral Management in Home Health Care

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Adeel Sarwar, Chief Technology Officer at CareCloud. Home health care fills an important niche in ensuring quality, affordable care for a wide range of patients. The demand for home health services is projected to grow nearly eight percent annually through 2030, which is fueled by the majority of the Baby Boomer generation reaching the Medicare age of 65 and growing orthopedic-related diseases. .

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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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Amazon Web Services adds healthcare cybersecurity software to marketplace

Becker's Health IT

Amazon Web Services Marketplace will now offer cloud-based disaster recovery service OpSus Recover in its digital catalog.

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The Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic

KFF

This updated fact sheet provides the latest data on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, including impact on affected/vulnerable populations, treatment and prevention efforts, and an overview of the U.S. and global responses to the epidemic.

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Personalized Medicine for Everyone

HealthIT Answers

New On Demand Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist: With guests Geri Landman, MD, MPH a pediatric urgent care physician, and Zach Landman, MD, MPH Interventional Pain Medicine Fellow at Stanford University. The post Personalized Medicine for Everyone appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: Riverside Company Acquires Rockpointe

McGuire Wood

The Riverside Company has announced it has acquired Rockpointe. Rockpointe , based in Columbia, Md., is a healthcare education company. Founded in 1995, the company provides accredited continuing education activities and related training for healthcare professionals. Riverside Co. , co-headquartered in Cleveland and New York, focuses on acquiring and investing in growing businesses valued at up to $400 million.

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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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The Blueprint for Success with Custom-Tailored Healthcare Access

HealthIT Answers

By Derek Streat - Our world today is more personalized than ever. Most industries are now characterized by customization, with consumers expecting experiences and outcomes exactly how they want them, when they want them. If retail, hospitality, food services, and most other industries can custom-tailor experiences based on the wants and needs of their target audiences, why can’t healthcare do the same?

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Your Board Committee is only as effective as you make it

YouCompli

Sharon Parsley, JD, MBA, CHC, CHRC , is a health law attorney, compliance officer, author, speaker, investigator, and problem solver. She currently serves as the president and managing director of Quest Advisory Group, LLC. She has nearly 20 years of healthcare compliance and legal leadership experience, and she believes that mentorship and on-the-job training are critical to compliance professional success.

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We Can Attest: 100% Compliance for First-Time Attestations

HealthIT Answers

By Christopher Monk & Papia Paul - Health IT Modules certified through the ONC Health IT Certification Program provide end users with confidence that the technology they depend on to provide care lives up to its certified capabilities. The post We Can Attest: 100% Compliance for First-Time Attestations appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Primary Care EHR Elation Health Raises $50M to Support Independent Primary Care Practices

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Elation Health , the clinical-first technology company powering innovation in primary care, announced a Series D financing round of $50M. The Series D round was co-led by Generation Investment Management and Ascension Ventures with participation from Threshold Ventures , Ascend Partners , and individual investors including Fay Rotenberg and Jonathan Bush.

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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.

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Reduced Co-Insurance for Screening Colonoscopies

Medisys Compliance

As per the update dated 29 th April 2022, CMS reduced the coinsurance for certain screening flexible sigmoidoscopies and screening colonoscopies. This special coinsurance applies regardless of the code you bill for the establishment of a diagnosis as a result of the test, or for the removal of tissue or other matter or other procedure. It’s effective when provided in connection with, as a result of, and in the same clinical encounter as the colorectal cancer screening test.

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Mayo Clinic, Mercy Sign 10-Year Collaboration to Transform Patient Care

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Mayo Clinic and Mercy announced a 10-year collaboration agreement— a first-of-its-kind alliance between two large healthcare systems that will use the most current data science and years of deidentified patient outcomes to find diseases earlier and start patients on paths to better health more quickly. – With the combination of privacy-protected, cloud-based technology architecture, and the growth of artificial intelligence and machine learning, this aggregate

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Donor Governments Spent US$7.5 Billion on Efforts to Combat HIV/AIDS Globally in 2021, Largely Flat Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic, KFF-UNAID Report Finds

KFF

A new report from KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation) and The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) finds that donor governments disbursed US$7.5 billion in 2021 to combat HIV in low- and middle-income countries, largely flat amid the COVID-19 pandemic and essentially matching 2008 levels, against a backdrop of growing inflation and shrinking funding from … More.

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Data breaches cost health systems more than $10M each

Becker's Health IT

The average cost of a data breach for a healthcare organization is $10.1 million, according to IBM's annual cost of data breach report.

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Generative AI for Contracts Is Here: New Tools to Accelerate Drafting and Editing

The emergence of generative AI is reshaping the landscape of contract management, enabling businesses to generate and negotiate legal agreements with greater ease and speed. In this on-demand webinar, Hal Marcus, VP of Product Marketing at Evisort discusses how Evisort's generative AI transforms contract creation and negotiation, empowering legal teams to streamline processes while reducing risk.