Healthcare Dive
APRIL 5, 2022
National Nurses United argued before a federal appeals court on Monday that an existing temporary emergency standard isn't enough to protect healthcare workers from the ongoing threat of COVID-19.
Bill of Health
APRIL 5, 2022
By Sarah Hashkes. When we talk about microdosing psychedelics, it’s important we have a mutual understanding of its definition to be able to conduct accurate research, promote regulations, and educate the wider population. This article will look at three main questions and ambiguities regarding the term “microdosing psychedelics” and suggest a definition that would help promote coherence in the field. 1.
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Healthcare Dive
APRIL 5, 2022
The Florida locations will be the first Walmart Health centers to use a medical record built by health IT software giant Epic, as part of a partnership announced last year.
Healthcare It News
APRIL 5, 2022
Advocate Aurora Enterprises on Tuesday announced its acquisition of MobileHelp, which develops remote monitoring technology and personal emergency response systems. WHY IT MATTERS. A subsidiary of Advocate Aurora Health, AAE invests in and sometimes buys consumer health and wellness companies to expand the Illinois health system's capabilities beyond traditional clinical care.
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Healthcare Dive
APRIL 5, 2022
Although the system has withdrawn a proposal for three suburban surgery centers, it did secure recommendations for conditional approval for two other large-scale projects.
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 5, 2022
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 4/8 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by John Lynn (@techguy) from @hcittoday on the topic “Healthcare Marketing.” In this crossover chat with the #HITMC (Healthcare and IT Marketing Community) community, we’re excited to dive into the […].
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HIPAA Journal
APRIL 5, 2022
A bipartisan pair of senators have introduced the Protecting and Transforming Cyber Health Care (PATCH) Act which aims to improve the security of medical devices. Vulnerabilities are often identified in medical devices that could potentially be exploited by threat actors to change the functionality of the devices, render them inoperable, or to allows the devices to be used as a springboard for more extensive attacks on healthcare networks.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 5, 2022
Juan Pablo Segura, Co-founder of Babyscripts. As the coronavirus pandemic first spread across the globe, health systems turned to technology and virtual care while focusing their efforts on COVID-19 and its consequences. Physicians deployed digital tools to keep the worried well out of hospitals, to keep beds open for COVID-19 patients, and to support and manage conditions like pregnancy from the safety of patients’ homes.
Mobi Health News
APRIL 5, 2022
According to Rock Health's wrap up, U.S. digital health companies raised $6 billion in the first quarter, compared with $7.3 billion in the fourth quarter last year.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 5, 2022
What You Should Know: – Eleos Health has announced a $20 million Series A round, co-led by F-Prime Capital and Eight Roads Ventures, bringing their total raise to $28 million. – Eleos Health is a behavioral health application for voice AI, operating ambiently in the background of mental health clinician-patient conversations. It’s in production use with 20+ care providers and health plans, with a goal of unlocking up to 30% more mental health care provider capacity as the U.S. grappl
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Modern Healthcare
APRIL 5, 2022
HHS must consider an organization's security practices over the year prior to a privacy incident when imposing HIPAA fines.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 5, 2022
What You Should Know: – Rock Health report reveals Q1 2022 digital health funding closed with $6.0B across 183 deals, and an average deal size of $32.8M. – Q1 2022 digital health funding was significantly behind Q4 2021’s $7.3B and the trailing twelve month quarterly average of $7.1B. Digital health funding reached a total of $6B in Q1 2022 across 183 deals, and an average deal size of $32.8M, according to Rock Health , a full-service venture fund dedicated to digital health.
Mobi Health News
APRIL 5, 2022
The multiyear agreement will focus on speeding clinical trials and drug development in oncology and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 5, 2022
Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed
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Mobi Health News
APRIL 5, 2022
BizBaz adds health scanning capabilities to its app that gamifies and rewards health and wellness activities.
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 5, 2022
As someone who did IT support for a pharmacy in my early health IT career, I saw how pharmacists were an incredibly valuable piece of healthcare and also an underutilized resource. Over the last decade, many have come to realize the value pharmacists can provide population health efforts that goes well beyond counting pills, delivering […].
Mobi Health News
APRIL 5, 2022
The company uses AI-backed voice technology to help clinicians review mental health visits.
Healthcare Compliance Blog
APRIL 5, 2022
A recently filed lawsuit by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged a Minnesota healthcare provider with violating the civil rights of a qualified, deaf candidate. The lawsuit states that the provider failed to hire an applicant who is deaf because of her disability and failed to provide her a reasonable accommodation. According to the lawsuit, in July 2020, the individual applied for a greeter position with the healthcare provider.
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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.
Mobi Health News
APRIL 5, 2022
This new round brings the company's total funding to over $350 million.
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 5, 2022
Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. (“THL”), a premier private equity firm investing in growth companies, announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire a majority interest in Intelligent Medical Objects (“IMO,” or “the Company”), a healthcare data enablement company and market leader in clinical terminology solutions from Warburg Pincus, a leading global […].
HIT Consultant
APRIL 5, 2022
What You Should Know: – Azalea Health Innovations Inc. (Azalea Health or Azalea), a provider of cloud-based patient management and health IT solutions, today launched Azalea Apps Marketplace, a one-stop app library of approved third-party vendors that are integrated with Azalea Health. – The Azalea Apps Marketplace allows users to search through a library of third-party applications that are connected with Azalea’s application suite.
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 5, 2022
When we talk about cybersecurity, we often like to talk about the financial elements of a breach. No doubt the financial impact is extremely important and can cost an organization dearly if they’re not prepared. You also often hear about the reputation impact a breach has on an organization when the breach hits the local […].
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HIT Consultant
APRIL 5, 2022
What You Should Know: – Clarify Health , a cloud analytics and value-based payments platform company, announced today that it secured $150 million in Series D financing. SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led the round and was joined by funds and accounts managed by BlackRock and Memorial Hermann Health System , along with existing investors Insight Partners , Spark Capital , KKR , Aspenwood Ventures , Rivas Capital , and Sigmas Group. – This newest round of funding comes on the heels
McGuire Wood
APRIL 5, 2022
Berkshire Partners and Warburg Pincus have agreed to invest in Ensemble Health Partners, according to a news release. Ensemble , based in Cincinnati, Ohio, is a provider of technology-enabled revenue cycle management solutions for health systems. Founded in 2014, the company states it has partnered with nearly 300 hospitals across the United States.
Health Care Performance
APRIL 5, 2022
Sign up for MPA's FREE Compliance webinars: All webinars are 11:00 a.m. CST - 12:00 p.m. CST and are presented by Margaret Scavotto and Scott Gima. April 6, 2022: Compliance Lessons from Ted Lasso. 1.2 CCB CEUs. “Taking on a challenge is a lot like riding a horse, isn’t it?”. "You know what the happiest animal on Earth is? It's a goldfish. You know why?
The Health Law Firm Blog
APRIL 5, 2022
By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law In October 2021, attorneys who had acted as the class counsel in litigation suing UnitedHealth Group over mental health reimbursement policies asked a New York federal court to approve a $3.35 million fee award. If approved, it would [.].
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AIHC
APRIL 5, 2022
Written by: AIHC Blogger This article provides educational information related to mitigating the risk of an unwarranted payer investigation. Only appeal claims when you have evidence and supporting documentation to substantiate your right to payment. This is the final article in a 3-part series on denials and appeals management. Read Part 1 entitled “ Managing Denials Is Important to Good A/R Hygiene ” posted March 22, 2022, and Part 2 entitled “ Understanding How Payers Deny Claims. ” Audit Cod
Total Medical Compliance Resources
APRIL 5, 2022
Let’s be honest here; most Compliance Officers are chosen because they are the ones on the staff with the most time, and that’s usually the newest people. While this idea seems logical it can cause a lot of problems in the long run. There are drawbacks in choosing a new employee or a low-level worker to be a compliance officer. They aren’t familiar with your set-up or your policies and procedures.
Hall Render
APRIL 5, 2022
In June of 2021, OSHA published an Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”) in order to protect health care and health care support service workers from exposure to COVID-19 while at work. The ETS took immediate effect, though at the time, OSHA requested comments on the specifics of the ETS, including whether it should become permanent. OSHA is now preparing to make the ETS permanent, but because the majority of the comment period took place prior to when the Delta and Omicron variants became widesp
HIT Consultant
APRIL 5, 2022
Dr. George Busby, co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Allelica. The promise of personalized medicine is a world in which interventions, screening, and therapeutics are targeted to those most likely to get the disease. Polygenic risk scores will help society reach this ambition by accurately assessing the contribution that one’s DNA makes to disease risk. .
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