Healthcare It News

JUNE 3, 2022

The emergency room is a stressful and unplanned way to begin a patient journey, and the Ruth and Harry Roman Emergency Department at Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles is one of the nation's busiest. THE PROBLEM. Staff wanted their patients to feel supported and heard, so instead of relying solely on post-discharge/post-transfer insights, they committed to collecting real-time feedback to better understand patient needs and quickly implement changes to improve the patient experience.

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Healthcare Dive

JUNE 3, 2022

The data provides a snapshot of early 2022 when COVID-19 infections dropped and patients seemed more willing to return to the doctor's office.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 3, 2022

Since California expanded health coverage under the Affordable Care Act, a large number of people have been mistakenly bounced between Covered California, the state’s marketplace for those who buy their own insurance, and Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program for low-income residents. Small income changes can cause people’s eligibility to shift, but when bad information is typed into a computer system shared by the two programs — or accurate information is deleted from i

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Healthcare Dive

JUNE 3, 2022

The amount reflects the third-straight year of massive insurer rebates as payers experienced high profits from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 3, 2022

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Healthcare Dive

JUNE 3, 2022

The agency said the separate deals in Utah and New Jersey would reduce competition and raise prices.

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Healthcare Dive

JUNE 3, 2022

Stronger-than-expected economic recovery from COVID-19 pushed back Medicare's go-broke date by two years, though budget hawks are warning the sunnier outlook might rely on outdated assumptions.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 3, 2022

Five vulnerabilities that require immediate patching have been identified in the Illumina Local Run Manager (LRM), which is used by Illumina In Vitro Diagnostic (IVD) devices and Illumina Researcher Use Only (ROU) instruments. The affected devices are used for clinical diagnostic DNA sequencing and testing for various genetic conditions, and for research use.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 3, 2022

Lightbeam Health Solutions, Inc., the leader in end-to-end population health management solutions and services, today announced it has entered into an asset purchase agreement to acquire the operating assets related to Jvion, Inc., including Jvion’s market-leading AI-enabled prescriptive analytics and social determinants of health (SDoH) solutions. The strategic acquisition combines Lightbeam’s health analytics and outcomes […].

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Natalia Mazina

JUNE 3, 2022

This is something we (those who own or work for independent pharmacies) have been waiting for. Finally someone was bold (and brave) enough to bring an action against a PBM on DIR fees. This someone is Aids Healthcare Foundation (“AHF”), a California non-profit, which owns and operates retail pharmacies that serve HIV/AIDS patients. While many were exploring a potential legal action against PBMs on DIRs fees, all ran into a problem that pharmacies contractually agree to such fees (and we have var

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 3, 2022

What You Should Know: – A new PwC report offers insights into how pharma companies can translate game-changing science into greater returns. – Despite many major therapeutic advancements within the last decade, returns from pharma companies lagged the S&P 500 by about one-third and biotech underperformed by 60 percent. The stock performance divide between the front and back of the pack has been widening.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 3, 2022

In 2021, Iranian state-sponsored hackers attempted a destructive cyberattack on Boston Children’s Hospital, which the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was able to successfully block before the hospital’s computer network was damaged. FBI Director Christopher Wray said the attempted cyberattack was “one of the most despicable cyberattacks I have ever seen.”.

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 3, 2022

CEO Eren Bali said the company was winding down some of its COVID-19-related services and plans to shift its focus from growth to profitability.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 3, 2022

Happy Friday everyone! Is summer finally here? It feels like it for me since my kids are out of school and the temperatures in Las Vegas are starting to heat up. No complaints though since I love my children and it’s been a milder start to June than some years. We hope you’ve had a […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2022

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 3, 2022

HIPAA Journal has partnered with The Compliancy Group to offer its readers a free annual HIPAA Risk Assessment. Covered Entities like medical practices and Business Associates like IT providers are required conduct a HIPAA risk assessment by the 2003 HIPAA Security Rule (45 CFR § 164.308 – Security Management Process) and HITECH Act 2009. The post Reader Offer: Free Annual HIPAA Risk Assessment appeared first on HIPAA Journal.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

JUNE 3, 2022

Beginning in 2023, CMS will require QHP provider networks for plans sold on the federal marketplace to meet minimum time-and-distance standards and, beginning in 2024, minimum standards for appointment wait times. Our colleagues at the Georgetown Center for Children & Families examine the new marketplace network adequacy standards and how they compare to Medicaid's standards.

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Modern Healthcare

JUNE 3, 2022

Director Robert Otto Valdez wants health organizations to look to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for ways to make their work more effective.

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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

JUNE 3, 2022

The following is a guest article by Joel Landau, Founder and Chairman of The Allure Group. Sadly, most of us realize now that the promise of a “paperless society” is unlikely to become a reality. Despite technology’s ability to eliminate some of the more tedious tasks like filling out endless insurance forms, and paying bills, […].

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

JUNE 3, 2022

A registered nurse (RN), 32, was sentenced to 54 months in prison and three years of supervised release for tampering with vials of injectable Hydromorphone. She was also ordered to pay a $3,000 fine. According to court documents, from July to November 2020, the RN was employed as a contract nurse in the Clinical Pre/Post Procedure Unit (CPPU) at a medical center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 3, 2022

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are on the rise in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), increasing the financial and health burden affecting these vulnerable populations. To reverse this trend will require not only resources, but also new business models for LMICs that can overcome the barriers patients face to receiving care, such as unaffordable, unavailable, or inaccessible healthcare services and treatments, and limited awareness of disease and preventative care.

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Hanys

JUNE 3, 2022

Through our Advancing Healthcare Excellence and Inclusion initiative we're providing education, tools and support in three New York state regions to help hospitals address healthcare disparities, strengthen collaboration with community partners and execute local health equity priorities. AHEI's virtual learning series, We Ask Because We Care , is open to all HANYS members and kicks off June 8.

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NCG Medical Blog

JUNE 3, 2022

The goal of your medical practice’s presence in your community is to deliver great, high-quality care to your patients. Obviously, the type of care might be different from patient to patient, day-to-day. One kind of treatment is that of principal care management, also known as PCM. This entails caring for your patients who have one chronic condition, but PCM is different from chronic care management (CCM) and we’ll explore how later in this article.

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Hanys

JUNE 3, 2022

Standing membership call. June 7. Condition critical: The emergency department liability experience. June 8. AHEI virtual learning series. June 8 – Dec. 8. Making sense of public hospital quality ratings for healthcare trustees. June 9. Improving health equity: Leadership considerations for moving beyond "standing in solidarity" June 9.

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Compliancy Group

JUNE 3, 2022

A recent poll of webinar attendees found that barely one-third may be HIPAA compliant, based upon responses to a single question. Conducting an annual Security Risk Analysis is one of the foundational requirements of HIPAA compliance. Still, only 33.5 percent of 146 respondents answered affirmatively to the question, “Have you completed your HIPAA Risk Analysis for this year?

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Hanys

JUNE 3, 2022

Healthcare leaders from around the country will address the multiple facets of healthcare burnout and how to increase the well-being of physicians, nurses and administrators during this June 23 – 24 event.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 3, 2022

Alameda Health System in California, Capsule pharmacy in New York, and Aon PLC in Illinois have recently reported data breaches affecting a total of 56,290 individuals. Alameda Health System Notifying 90,000 Patients About PHI Breach. Oakland, CA-based Alameda Health System has recently reported a data breach to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights that has affected up to 90,000 patients.

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Hanys

JUNE 3, 2022

The voluntary submission for hospital s that have administered AHRQ's Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture, Version 2.0 is open June 1 – July 22. Participants will receive a feedback report displaying their results as well as aggregated, de-identified results from all database participants. Hospitals that have not previously administered the survey still have time to participate.

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Hall Render

JUNE 3, 2022

NATIONAL. 4 benefits of behavioral health partnership for hospital performance. AHA presses for False Claims Act probes to target payers over Medicare Advantage denials. ASCs fight to recruit staff as jobless claims hit historic low. CMS has cited 69 hospitals for noncompliance with worker vaccine mandate. Court OKs denying coverage for mental health, substance-use care.

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HealthLaw Prof Blog

JUNE 3, 2022

Kay Levine (Emory University), Joshua Hinkle (Georgia State University), Elizabeth Griffiths (Rutgers University), Making Deflection the New Diversion for Drug Offenders, 19 Ohio State J. Crim. L. (2022): In this paper we argue that prosecutors ought to embrace deflection programs.

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