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Surprisingly, physician burnout could contribute to slightly better outcomes, new study suggests

Healthcare Dive

But this doesn't indicate that physician burnout is beneficial or should be tolerated, researchers said, stressing that the relationship between burnout and outcomes is complex and needs further investigation.

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Regulatory Barriers Present Challenges for At-home Birth

Bill of Health

By Bailey Kennedy. Statistics released at the end of last year confirmed what many already knew anecdotally to be true. Many women had turned to home births during the pandemic. While the absolute number of women who chose to use home birth to deliver their children was quite small — about 9,000 more women chose to give birth at home in 2020 versus 2019 — the percentage increase was notable.

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5 FDA decisions to watch in the second quarter

Healthcare Dive

Between April and June, the agency will advance key regulatory reviews in ALS and gene therapy as well as host an advisory meeting on cancer drugs.

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Inato Appoints CSO Liz Beatty To Board of Directors

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Inato, a clinical trial platform for community sites, today announced the appointment of Liz Beatty to its Board of Directors. Beatty brings decades of experience in leadership and clinical trial management, along with over three […]. The article Inato Appoints CSO Liz Beatty To Board of Directors appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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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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Ascension, AdventHealth make breakup official, renaming hospitals

Healthcare Dive

The end of the joint venture formed in 2015 to run hospitals in the Chicago area will see 14 facilities operate under the Ascension name and four carry the AdventHealth banner.

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Revenue Integrity: How to Reduce Costs and Retain Revenue

MRO Compliance

Revenue Integrity: How to Reduce Costs and Retain Revenue. April 4, 2022. Journal of AHIMA. As the world prepares to navigate year three of COVID-19, the impact of the pandemic continues to touch every facet of healthcare. For health information (HI) professionals, demands to share patient information and support interoperability present multiple challenges related to the complexities of release of information (ROI).

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Update on State Public Option-Style Laws: Getting to More Affordable Coverage

Center for Health Insurance Reform

While federal health coverage reforms remain stalled in Congress, several states are pushing forward to establish modified versions of public health insurance options. In their latest post for the Commonwealth Fund's To the Point blog, CHIR’s Christine Monahan, Justin Giovannelli, and Kevin Lucia provide an update on implementation of public option-style plans in Washington, Colorado, and Nevada.

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How HIPAA Safeguards Can Help You Safely Transmit PHI

Total HIPAA

For organizations handling Protected Health Information (PHI), cybersecurity attacks and other security threats are always just around the corner. Having a strong security program is important for keeping your organization’s information safe. To protect yourself from breaches, fines, and other penalties, here is a list of technical safeguards you can implement to help keep your data secure.

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Differences Between Small and Large Healthcare Organizations on Security

HIPAA Journal

A recent survey of healthcare providers by Software Advice provides insights into healthcare data breaches, their root causes, and the different security practices at small and large healthcare providers. The survey was conducted on 130 small practices with 5 or fewer licensed providers and 129 large practices with six or more providers to understand the security issues they face and the measures each group has taken to protect against cyberattacks and data breaches.

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DiMe teams up with big pharma, insurers on new digital endpoints toolkit

Mobi Health News

The partnership, which includes Anthem, Biogen, Eli Lilly, Evidation, Janssen and Merck, gives payers guidance for including digital endpoints in reimbursement for new drugs.

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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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#ViVE2022 and #HIMSS22 Wrapup – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 85

Healthcare IT Today

For the 85th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about the recent ViVE 2022 and HIMSS 2022 conferences. Attending both big events back to back was quite the experience and gave us a unique view into what’s being talked about in health IT. In this episode, we dive into the things we heard, […] For the 85th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about the recent ViVE 2022 and HIMSS 2022 conferences.

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Telehealth platform Coviu adds language interpretation service

Mobi Health News

The new service offers on-demand access to interpreters via video telehealth.

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Medication Reconciliation and Pharmacovigilance with Dr. Clement Goehrs

Healthcare IT Today

Long time readers may remember that we covered the announcement of a French company, Synapse Medicine, launching their Medication Reconciliation and Pharmacovigilance solutions in the US. I always find it exciting when the US can benefit from technology and solutions that are already having an impact internationally. At the HIMSS 2022 conference, I was able […].

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Pear to offer substance use PDTs through telehealth partners

Mobi Health News

The first telehealth offering included in the program is PursueCare, which focuses on addiction medicine.

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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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To Become Patient-Centered, Listen to Patients

Healthcare IT Today

Patients want to be treated like they are as consumers in the retail and hospitality world. Healthcare is coming around, but slowly. To accelerate the transformation to a more patient-centric system, experts recommend something simple – listen and learn from patients. That is exactly the advice from Windstream Enterprise and Akumin, who partnered to create […].

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Two Former Employees of Pennsylvania Healthcare Facility Charged with Federal Hate Crimes

Healthcare Compliance Blog

Two former employees of a Pennsylvania in-patient healthcare facility have been indicted on federal hate crimes. The residents at the facility suffered from a range of severe physical, intellectual, and emotional disabilities, and required assistance with all activities of daily life, including bathing, using the bathroom, oral hygiene, feeding, and dressing.

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NTU researchers develop marker-less motion capture tech for physiotherapy

Mobi Health News

The system is trained with over 150 subjects to accurately locate human bone landmark locations.

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AmplifyMD Raises $23 Million to Improve Patient Access to Specialty Care

Healthcare IT Today

AmplifyMD’s platform connects medical institutions missing critical specialty coverage to a network of leading specialists. AmplifyMD, the national telemedicine platform connecting medical institutions with specialist doctors, today announced the company has raised $23 million. The funding includes a Series A led by F-Prime Capital, and a seed round co-led by Forerunner Ventures and Greylock.

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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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Clinical trial startup ProofPilot scores $12M in Series C funding

Mobi Health News

This new round brings the company's total funding to $15.7 million.

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March 2022 Healthcare Breach Report

Compliancy Group

Each month, we review healthcare breaches to determine the leading cause and how the incidents could have been prevented. We do so by examining the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) online breach portal. The OCR publicly posts healthcare breaches that affected 500 or more patients to ensure that all affected patients know their information could have been potentially compromised.

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Season Health scores $34M for meal planning, food delivery service

Mobi Health News

Patients work with dietitians to build meal plans and have ingredients delivered to their homes.

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2022 Budget Bill Includes Mandatory Healthcare Cyber Incident Reporting

Med Law Blog

The Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act (CIRCIA), was passed as part of the consolidated Budget Act for 2022, which also included the telehealth provisions I posted about last week. The definition of “covered entity” in the Act is far greater than covered entity as defined by HIPAA. Covered entity as per CIRCIA includes all of the entities identified by presidential policy directives as “designated critical infrastructure sector” entities.

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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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MemorialCare Taps TytoCare to Offer Virtual Exam Kits for Enhanced Telehealth

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – TytoCare , a provider of AI-powered , on-demand, remote medical exams has inked a partnership with MemorialCare , a health system in Orange and Los Angeles Counties, to bring patients diverse telehealth options and allow them to pursue comprehensive primary care options from home. – The integration of the TytoCare solution into MemorialCare’s current telehealth appointments enhances the health system’s ability to diagnose and treat patients through in-depth, p

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Coronavirus Pandemic Provider Relief Fund Expected To Run Out of Money If Congress Doesn't Act Soon

The Health Law Firm

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law In 2020, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) created the "Provider Relief Fund" (PRF) to help support healthcare providers in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic. The federal program has served as a lifeline to frontline healthcare workers who’ve experienced revenue losses and increased demand for their services during the pandemic.

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Health Care Real Estate Briefing: U.S. Senate Plans to Propose Bill to Legalize Marijuana | Staffing Updates Could Have Large Financial Impact on SNFs

Hall Render

Our Health Care Real Estate Briefing is your comprehensive summary of weekly health care real estate highlights currently happening across the nation. This week’s update includes legislation that, if passed by the U.S. Senate, could legalize marijuana and generate tax revenue to boot. Early reports suggest that the U.S. Senate plans to propose its own form of the bill on the topic.

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In charting a future course for healthcare, let’s think bigger

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Precision Medicine Telehealth Workforce AI, augmented reality, biomedical sensors and beyond – by mapping out a clear vision now, we can widen our ambitions and improve modernization strategies to better harness the vast potential offered by technology advances. Angela Jones Angela Jones is a program manager in digital health transformation at Booz Allen Hamilton.

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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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At-Home Digital Health Innovations Transforming Diabetes Care

HIT Consultant

Mark Clements, MD, PhD, CPI, FAAP, Chief Medical Officer, Glooko, Inc. If you’re looking for a silver lining in the COVID-19 dark cloud still enshrouding the world, consider this: The pandemic has turbocharged widespread acceptance of at-home digital health solutions. Forced to function in a world of social distancing, healthcare providers and physicians have quickly discovered how easily telehealth visits, remote patient monitoring (RPM) and digital therapeutics can improve patient care. .

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In the New Inflationary Era, Gas and Health Care Costs Top Household Budget Concerns

Jane Sarashon

Inflation and rising prices are the biggest problem facing America, most people told the Kaiser Family Foundation March 2022 Health Tracking Poll. Underpinning that household budget concern are gas and health care costs. Overall, 55% of people in the U.S. pointed to inflation as the top challenge the nation faces (ranging from 46% of Democrats to 70% of Republicans).

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Equal Protection and Scarce Therapies: The Role of Race, Sex, and Other Protected Classifications

HealthLaw Prof Blog

Govind Persad (University of Denver), Equal Protection and Scarce Therapies: The Role of Race, Sex, and Other Protected Classifications, U. Denver L. Stud. Research Paper (forthcoming): The allocation of scarce medical treatments, such as antivirals and antibody therapies for COVID-19.

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Statute of Repose is the Star of the Show in Tennessee Hip Implant Appeal

Drug & Device Law

The long-planned New York trip is in the books, and it was a smashing success. The Drug and Device Law Dowager Countess (almost 88) was ecstatic throughout, and all of the puzzle pieces meshed seamlessly. We can report that The Music Man is a serviceable revival of a silly, illogical musical (most of our classic favorites fit this description – see Camelot).

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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.