Healthcare Dive

MARCH 4, 2022

Healthcare added 64,000 jobs last month, though employment in the sector is still down by about 306,000 jobs, or 1.9%, since February 2020.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 4, 2022

Care coordination is becoming increasingly important in U.S. healthcare for a variety of reasons, including the increased use of value-based care models, the behavioral care shortage and a boom in home healthcare. The pandemic underscored the need for providers to lean into value-based care – physicians are paid according to the quality of care they deliver, as indicated by patient outcomes.

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 4, 2022

The nonprofit group announced ambitious plans to begin offering insulin at prices no higher than $30 per vial by early 2024.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 4, 2022

A round-up of data breaches that have recently been reported by healthcare organizations that have involved the exposure or theft of individuals’ personal and protected health information. Catholic Health Services Reports Breach of Employee Email Accounts. Miami Lakes, FL-based Catholic Health Services has discovered the email accounts of three Catholic Hospice employees have been accessed by unauthorized individuals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 4, 2022

Analysts and stakeholders have put a lot of energy toward trying to predict the future of telehealth: Are we at the peak of a bubble, or is it only up from here? A new report from Trilliant Health takes a measured view, arguing that telehealth use tapered in 2021 from its early pandemic spike. Joining Healthcare IT News Senior Editor Kat Jercich to discuss the report is Sanjula Jain, Trilliant Health chief research officer and senior vice president of market strategy.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 4, 2022

Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) has self-reported two vulnerabilities that affect its BD Pyxis automated medication dispensing systems, BD Rowa pouch packaging systems, and BD Viper LT automated molecular testing systems. Both vulnerabilities are due to the use of hard-coded credentials. If exploited, the vulnerabilities could allow an unauthorized individual to access, modify, and delete sensitive data, which could include electronic protected health information (ePHI).

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 4, 2022

This week, researchers at Palo Alto’s Unit 42 team published a report that shows security gaps and vulnerabilities often exist in smart infusion pumps. These bedside devices automate the delivery of medications and fluids to patients and are connected to networks to allow them to be remotely managed by hospitals. The researchers used crowdsourced scans from more than 200,000 infusion pumps at hospitals and other healthcare organizations and searched for vulnerabilities and security gaps that cou

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 4, 2022

What You Should Know: – This week, Amazon announced the launch of its new Symptom Checker for Alexa devices and provide a list of possible medical conditions for common ailments like fever, rash, stomachache, runny nose, and headaches to help you make better-informed decisions about your health. – This symptom checker experience was inspired by the COVID-19 self-checker feature that Alexa teams was launched in March 2020.

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NCG Medical Blog

MARCH 4, 2022

A 2020 study asked, “If your doctor went out of business today, how much—or how little—would you care?” A troubling 55% of people responded that it would be inconvenient , but that they already didn’t have a deep relationship with their provider; 27% said they would be glad because they wanted a different provider anyway.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 4, 2022

As more competitors enter an already oversupplied telehealth market, gaining consumer loyalty will be even harder, especially when competing against brands like Walmart and Amazon.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 4, 2022

The pandemic has made it abundantly clear that healthcare is a vital part of every country’s infrastructure. Protecting healthcare against cyberattacks is therefore in the best interest of governments. The consensus is that more financial incentives would be welcome, but not additional regulation. Healthcare Cybersecurity Spending According to a 2020 survey by Statistica, 42% of […].

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 4, 2022

However, researchers found the blended approach did have a greater impact on fear-avoidance beliefs and patients' reported adherence to at-home exercises.

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Healthicity

MARCH 4, 2022

The OIG continues to perform focused audits on hospital claims using billing data from thousands of hospitals.

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C&M Health Law

MARCH 4, 2022

The Russia-Ukraine conflict is increasing the risk of ransomware attacks and other cyber threats for U.S. companies, and those in the health care industry may be targeted. In a recent analyst note from the Department of Health & Human Services (“HHS”), HHS describes the cyber capabilities of Russia, one of the world’s major cyberpowers, and analyzes two malware variants most likely to impact the U.S. health care and public health sector.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 4, 2022

A new JAMA study identifies common themes of discrimination in healthcare.

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Medisys Compliance

MARCH 4, 2022

Importance of Accurate Payment Posting. Consider a scenario, where your amazing employee incorrectly posts the payment of $1002 rather than $102, the claim made its way along medical billing process, the mistake wasn’t caught. First of all, the patient received an excessive bill, which doesn’t inspire confidence in practice. The practices account receivables reports are now inaccurate and the overall financial picture is askew, from one incorrectly entered number.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 4, 2022

What You Should Know: – Unite Us , the enterprise technology company providing the digital infrastructure to power integrated health and social care, today announced the launch of its Social Care Payments solution. – Social Care Payments is a first-of-its-kind solution designed to bridge the gap between healthcare funders and community-based organizations (CBOs), enabling social care funding at scale.

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McGuire Wood

MARCH 4, 2022

GTCR has announced it has acquired a majority equity stake in Experity. Experity, based in Machesney Park, Ill., is a provider of SaaS software solutions and technology-enabled services for the urgent care industry. Founded in 2019, the company states it provides electronic medical record, practice management and patient engagement software, revenue cycle management solutions and outsourced teleradiology services to more than 5,700 urgent care clinics in the United States.

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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.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 4, 2022

Constellation Software Inc. (“Constellation”) (TSX:CSU) announced today that it has, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, N. Harris Computer Corporation (“Harris”), completed an agreement with Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (“Allscripts”) (NASDAQ:MDRX) to acquire the net assets of Allscripts’ Hospitals and Large Physician Practices business segment.?

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Hanys

MARCH 4, 2022

Our latest blog post highlights the many ways hospitals continue to make significant positive impacts – even in the midst of COVID-19 disruption – and the need for federal and state support for New York hospitals and healthcare organizations.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 4, 2022

CancerIQ, the platform powering early cancer detection and prevention across broad patient populations, announced today it closed a $14 million Series B financing round co-led by Merck Global Health Innovation Fund (Merck GHI) and Amgen Ventures. McKesson Ventures, OSF Ventures (the investment arm of OSF HealthCare, a current CancerIQ customer), as well as CancerIQ’s Series […].

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

MARCH 4, 2022

The Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Connecticut announced that a former payroll manager of a Connecticut home healthcare company has pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and impede and impair the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The charges are related to his employment at the home healthcare company.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 4, 2022

If you’re like us at Healthcare IT Today, you’re getting excited for the fun that is ViVE 2022 and HIMSS 2022 back to back in Florida. You’re also exhausted from all the preparation and looking at your upcoming schedule. That’s the perfect time for another edition of our Fun Friday where we try and bring a smile […].

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Hanys

MARCH 4, 2022

Professional liability trends: Where we were, where we are, where we're going. March 9. Maximizing 340B savings at contract pharmacies: How hospitals are recovering $2.5M a year from 'non-eligible' prescriptions. March 10. Innovations in care and management through Hospital-Home Care Collaboration. March 10. HANYS government relations update call. March 11.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 4, 2022

Chad Waldman, VP of Engineering at DexCare. Over the past several years, nearly all of the leading health systems in the United States have adopted some form of AI , such as machine learning (ML) or natural language processing (NLP), to assist in managing healthcare operations. The unprecedented growth and development of AI has been instrumental in transforming health system administration, healthcare data analytics and patient diagnosis and treatment.

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Hanys

MARCH 4, 2022

The Workers' Compensation Board's new webinar series provides an overview of CMS-1500, including payer objections to bills, how and when to file a dispute for non-payment and FAQ. Learn more about the CMS-1500 initiative on the WCB website.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 4, 2022

By Cathy Zhang. In February, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a one-sentence order allowing Tennessee’s “reason ban” abortion restrictions to go into effect. The restrictions make it a felony for a provider (or any other person) to perform an abortion if the provider “knows” the patient is seeking an abortion on account of the fetus’s sex, race, or probable diagnosis of Down syndrome.

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Hanys

MARCH 4, 2022

This week, the following bill passed both houses of the Legislature and is awaiting delivery to Gov. Hochul: Emergency medical services training (A.7686/S.7144). The following chapter amendments were signed into law: Health equity impact assessment/Certificate of Need application (Chapter 137 of the Laws of 2022). Antimicrobial stewardship programs (Chapter 83 of the Laws of 2022).

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HealthLaw Prof Blog

MARCH 4, 2022

Sara Colangelo (Georgetown University), Jack Whiteley (Georgetown University), West Virginia v. EPA, Amicus Brief of Public Health Organizations & Public Health School Leaders, SSRN (2022): Amici are leading physician-member public health organizations, as well as deans, directors, and chairs of.

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Hanys

MARCH 4, 2022

They reduced hypoglycemic events by 87% through a multidisciplinary team approach — implementing a nurse-driven, anti-hypoglycemic treatment protocol and order set, increasing education and standardizing team review. Learn more in our Member Spotlight.

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