Healthcare Dive
APRIL 2, 2024
The ratings agency doesn’t anticipate a credit impact to nonprofits as long as providers can return to normal operations soon and maintain a large enough cash cushion during the outage.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 2, 2024
Big-box retailer Costco is expanding its reach into healthcare services with a new weight loss program for members. | Big-box retailer Costco is expanding its reach into healthcare services with a new weight loss program for members.
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Healthcare It News
APRIL 2, 2024
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Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 2, 2024
Virtual care navigation platform Pager Health has built three new enterprise tools using Google Cloud generative AI technology to better support its payer partners. | Pager Health revealed three new tools for payers powered by Google on Wednesday. The shift toward automating administrative tasks with AI represents a shift in how healthcare is conducted.
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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 2, 2024
The government and many healthcare leaders are pushing for more interoperability and data sharing in healthcare. While this is great and has the potential to make a really big impact for good on the lives of patients and potentially costs, one thing that is often missed in this discussion is high quality patient identification. This is a problem that’s made worse by not having a national patient identifier, but let’s set that topic aside for a moment and recognize that even with a
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 2, 2024
Kaiser Permanente’s Risant Health has closed its acquisition of Geisinger Health, notching the first step on its ambitious plan to form a multisystem, multiregional value-based care organization.
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Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 2, 2024
States now can add routine adult dental services as an essential health benefit, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced in its 2025 Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters fina | In its annual Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters final rule, CMS prioritized dental and prescription drug benefits, network adequacy standardization and extended special enrollment periods.
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 2, 2024
New Financing Round, Led By Next Coast Ventures, S3 Ventures, And UPMC Enterprises, Positions Company For Continued Growth, Innovation, And Integration BrainCheck Expands Board of Directors with Appointment of Nicholas Shapiro as New Board Member, Further Strengthening the Company’s Strategic Leadership BrainCheck, Inc. , a digital health innovator delivering first-of-its-kind technology into the growing digital cognitive assessment market, today announced a $15 million new financing round, l
Mobi Health News
APRIL 2, 2024
The Eko Low Ejection Fraction Tool will be added to the company's cardiac early detection platform, which already includes various algorithms to inspect heart health.
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 2, 2024
Health care payers, such as CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield , traditionally have only billing data on their patients. That’s why Mo Weitnauer, chief product officer at MRO , calls clinical data “the hottest commodity” in health care. Piyush Khanna, Vice President Clinical Services at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, would like to store all their data in a single repository and use it for “bidirectional conversations” between the payer and providers.
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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.
Digital Health News
APRIL 2, 2024
Pressure injuries are a major risk in intensive nursing and care environments, but once visible, they are much more difficult to treat.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 2, 2024
Primary and urgent care providers within HCA Healthcare’s network now have the option to refer their patients to Talkiatry’s full-time psychiatrists from within their electronic health record thank | The integration, which is live across the "vast majority" of HCA's systems, allows primary and urgent care physicians to quickly refer a patient for a virtual psychiatric visit.
Digital Health News
APRIL 2, 2024
Lee Rickles believes shared care records are “the Cinderella service of frontline digitisation” and do not get enough funding like other initiatives.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 2, 2024
Avihai Sodri, CEO, Antidote Health Each year, the financial barriers to healthcare continue to become more pronounced in the US. For example, the health expenditure per person in the US was $12,555 in 2022 , with comparable countries spending about half of that. These costs can put such strain on Americans that a 2023 poll from KFF found that one in four adults will outright skip or postpone getting healthcare, which rises to six in ten among uninsured adults.
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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.
Digital Health News
APRIL 2, 2024
Research has shown that Brainomix’s AI-powered e-Lung software can more accurately identify lung fibrosis patients most at risk of decline.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 2, 2024
Yet another congressional inquiry is seeking information on private equity’s role in care delivery, this time on whether their investments in emergency physician staffing firms are leaving hospital | Staffing reductions and other cost reduction moves in the emergency department can have "homeland security implications," Sen. Gary Peters, D-Michigan, wrote in inquiry letters to three private equity firms and the distressed physician staffing companies they control.
Becker's Health IT
APRIL 2, 2024
"Data breach at Battle Mountain General Hospital affects 3,000 patients, compromising sensitive information. CEO apologizes and takes steps to improve security.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 2, 2024
Three-year-old AI precision medicine company Zephyr AI brought on board a scientist and executive with deep biotech and pharma experience to lead its strategic and commercial efforts. | Three-year-old AI precision medicine company Zephyr AI is bringing on board a scientist and executive with deep biotech and pharma experience to lead its strategic and commercial efforts.
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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.
Mobi Health News
APRIL 2, 2024
The data-powered research shows positive signs for predicting sudden infant death syndrome.
HealthIT Answers
APRIL 2, 2024
The Merit-based Incentive Payment System Value Pathways registration window is open for the 2024 performance year. Individuals, groups, subgroups, and Alternative Payment Model (APM) Entities that wish to report an MVP can register until December 2, 2024, at 8 p.m. ET. The post 2024 MIPS Value Pathway (MVP) Registration Now Open appeared first on Health IT Answers.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 2, 2024
Why must organizations stay agile? How can healthcare leaders operate proactively instead of reactively in a changing landscape? What are the ingredients to building resilience? | Mary Jo Williamson, Chief Administrative Officer at Mayo Clinic Laboratories, shares tips on how to stay agile and resilient, including setting expectations for change, scenario planning, embracing new information and fostering a culture of optimism.
HealthIT Answers
APRIL 2, 2024
By Dr. Nick van Terheyden aka Dr. Nick - Digital collections do not quite replace everything the same as AI does not replace everything. We still need the human touch and pattern matching and decision-making while differences remain important. The post Just Do It (Using AI) appeared first on Health IT Answers.
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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.
Verisys
APRIL 2, 2024
March 2024 Bad Actor Roundup By Verisys Each month we will give a roundup of recent healthcare fraudsters and compliance busters. Here is a round up of bad actors: Physician Fraud Physician pays $1.8M to settle False Claims Act liability ( Full Story ) Arlington doctor who illegally flooded Northern Virginia with oxycodone pills sentenced to 10 years in prison ( Full Story ) Richland Physician, Health Care Staffing Company Agree to Pay $700,000 to Resolve False Claims Act Liability Arising from
HealthIT Answers
APRIL 2, 2024
With 18% of healthcare workers having left their jobs and another 12% being laid off, what are the solutions for healthcare as a whole? You can’t open a paper, magazine, or watch news and not hear about the crisis that has evolved. This is our Talent Tuesday Workforce edition. The post Talent Tuesday: The Healthcare Workforce appeared first on Health IT Answers.
Compliancy Group
APRIL 2, 2024
Healthcare organizations are complex systems, fraught with a dynamic range of risks. Risk is a given in a complex system or program. Managing risk and ensuring various types of compliance are paramount to the organization’s health and longevity. Healthcare risk management software is an efficient and highly effective method of identifying risks, safeguarding against vulnerabilities, streamlining compliance processes, and ensuring the highest standards of patient care.
Healthicity
APRIL 2, 2024
March was a busy month for new additions to the OIG’s Work Plan. Some of the items fit nicely into two broad categories which we’ve grouped together and summarized below. The selected items relate to (1) nursing homes and (2) medications.
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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.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 2, 2024
What You Should Know: Viome , a leading innovator of health technology and personalized health solutions, is partnering with Henry Schein to provide better access to Viome’s Oral Health Pro™ With CancerDetect™. Viome’s laboratory-developed test helps detect early biomarkers of oral and throat cancers, enhancing practitioners’ ability to effectively harness the power of preventive care and improve patient outcomes.
Becker's Health IT
APRIL 2, 2024
"UNC Hospitals and School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, N.C. experienced a data breach due to a phishing attack, exposing patient information.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 2, 2024
What You Should Know: – Eko Health , a provider of AI-powered heart and lung disease detection today announced FDA clearance for its Low EF detection AI. – Built in collaboration with Mayo Clinic, the AI allows U.S. healthcare providers to detect Low Ejection Fraction (LVEF), a crucial indicator of heart failure, in just 15 seconds using a standard Eko stethoscope during a routine physical exam.
Hall Render
APRIL 2, 2024
Health care continues to drive private equity activity, creating opportunities for investors and traditional health care providers. Transactions in the health care space are especially complicated, layering health care regulatory and reimbursement considerations on top of a complex securities, antitrust, privacy and security framework. Hall Render’s private equity team of attorneys and advisors leverage the strength and depth of their bench to navigate and efficiently execute private equity tran
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In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.
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