Tue.Dec 06, 2022

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18M projected to lose Medicaid coverage at end of COVID-19 emergency

Healthcare Dive

Many people who are currently enrolled in Medicaid will transition to other coverage, but 3.8 million people will completely lose insurance, according to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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UMass Memorial Health proves RPM virtual sitting is as effective as in-person care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

UMass Memorial Health is the largest health system in Central Massachusetts and the clinical partner of UMass Chan Medical School. UMass Memorial is the only adult Level I Trauma Center and Level III Neonatal ICU in Central Massachusetts. The health system's experienced caregivers include experts in behavioral health, cancer, cardiology, children and women's services, heart and vascular care, neurology, pulmonology and surgery.

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20K Kaiser nurses, nurse practitioners ratify new contract

Healthcare Dive

After threatening to wage a two-day strike, nurses and nurse practitioners at Kaiser Permanente facilities in Northern California ratified a deal with the system that includes the addition of more than 2,000 new nursing positions.

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HIPAA Challenges: State AGs Crack Down on Data Privacy

MRO Compliance

HIPAA Challenges: State AGs Crack Down on Data Privacy. December 6, 2022. For The Record. State attorneys general have been increasingly ramping up investigations and cracking down on data breaches at health care organizations. Although hospitals and health systems are well-versed in reporting data breaches to the Office for Civil Rights because of HIPAA, the privacy scope of state attorneys general is more far-reaching.

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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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Patient-centric journey may have hit speed bump

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Fresenius CFO named chief executive amid operational turnaround

Healthcare Dive

Helen Giza is replacing outgoing CEO Carla Kriwet, who is leaving the company by mutual agreement due to strategic differences, Fresenius said Monday.

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HHS to lift mpox emergency declaration as cases drop

Healthcare Dive

New reported daily cases of the virus in the U.S. have dwindled to under 10 from more than 600 per day in August.

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Kids with long COVID should be tracked over a lengthy period of time, says study

Fierce Healthcare

Kids with long COVID should be tracked over a lengthy period of time, says study. fdiamond. Tue, 12/06/2022 - 16:15.

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Enthea Secures $2M to Expand Psychedelic Healthcare Provider Network

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Enthea , the first provider of insurance plans for psychedelic healthcare, has announced a $2M Seed Round raise led by Tabula Rasa Ventures to offer psychedelic-assisted therapy as a workplace benefit. – The funds will be used to launch Enthea’s services into 40 markets across the U.S. in 2023 as well as grow its customer base and provider network to increase access to new, evidence-based healing options that have proven to be very effective in improving sympt

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UnitedHealth report: As mental health concerns rise, more providers are available to treat these needs

Fierce Healthcare

UnitedHealth report: As mental health concerns rise, more providers are available to treat these needs. pminemyer. Tue, 12/06/2022 - 16:03.

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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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Research Shows Power of Anumana AI-ECG Algorithms to Detect Heart Conditions

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – The research is mounting to show that Anumana’s AI -ECG algorithms could dramatically improve screening for cardiovascular disease (CVD), providing early warnings of disease from just a standard electrocardiogram (ECG). Yesterday, a study was published in Nature Medicine that shows an Anumana AI algorithm applied to Apple Watch ECG recordings successfully identified a weak heart pump in patients. – This follows other recent research findings, published in The

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15 Minnesota hospitals reach tentative deal to avoid 15,000-nurse strike

Fierce Healthcare

15 Minnesota hospitals reach tentative deal to avoid 15,000-nurse strike. dmuoio. Tue, 12/06/2022 - 16:52.

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8 Interesting Exhibitors at #RSNA22

Healthcare IT Today

The 2022 edition of the Radiological Society of North America conference #RSNA22 featured almost 650 exhibitors. The exhibit hall was dominated by established radiology leaders like GE Healthcare , Siemens , Philips , Canon , FujiFilm , and Agfa HealthCare. However, it was other exhibitors that had the most interesting stories. Here are eight that stood out.

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CMS proposes certain payers implement electronic prior authorization systems by 2026

Fierce Healthcare

CMS proposes certain payers implement electronic prior authorization systems by 2026. rking. Tue, 12/06/2022 - 17:04.

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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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Show Me The Evidence and The ROI: Digital Health Investing in 2023 via GSR Ventures

Health Populi

With valuations of digital health companies expected to decline in 2023, investors in the sector are Missourian in spirit in “Show Me” mode: here, it’s all about the clinical evidence and ROI, according to a survey from GSR Ventures. conducted among over 50 major digital health venture capital investors. Most of the 50+ responses to the survey expect that in 2023, valuations for digital health companies will decrease by over 20%: that’s a net of 83% including 60% expect

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'Podnosis': Biosimilars' potential to curtail drug prices and what to do about rural communities' healthcare access crisis

Fierce Healthcare

'Podnosis': Biosimilars' potential to curtail drug prices and what to do about rural communities' healthcare access crisis. tcarey. Tue, 12/06/2022 - 12:46.

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System Control Centres ‘a good concept’ but challenges lie ahead

Digital Health News

Yorkshire & Humber Care Record Programme director and CIO, Lee Rickles, speaks exclusively about the purpose and challenges of System Control Centres.

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Industry Voices—The goal for healthcare data moves beyond quality to usability

Fierce Healthcare

Industry Voices—The goal for healthcare data moves beyond quality to usability. hlandi. Tue, 12/06/2022 - 15:17.

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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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Medical Informatics Corp. Raises $27 Million in Financing to Help Hospitals Manage Staff Shortages and Create New Standard of Data-Driven Care

Healthcare IT Today

Round co-led by Catalio Capital Management and Intel Capital. Growth-stage funding will power the company’s expansion as demand soars for MIC’s FDA-cleared platform, Sickbay™, which unlocks waveform data from the patient’s bedside to help hospitals rapidly scale bed and staff capacity, stratify risk and deliver patient-centered, data-driven care. .

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Ultromics scores FDA 510(k) for AI-based heart failure detection aide

Mobi Health News

EchoGo Heart Failure, developed in partnership with the Mayo Clinic, helps physicians detect heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.

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CMR Surgical launches data-led training programme for Versius robot

Digital Health News

A new data-led training programme for the Versius surgical robot system has been launched by CMR Surgical to improve standardisation in surgical care.

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Lung damage found in 11% of severe COVID survivors

Fierce Healthcare

Lung damage found in 11% of severe COVID survivors. fdiamond. Tue, 12/06/2022 - 08:08.

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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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Lenus Health and Us2.ai team up for digital heart failure diagnosis service

Digital Health News

A collaboration between Lenus Health and Us2.ai is boosting access to heart failure diagnostics with a new digital platform.

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Venkamma’s Dowry

NEJM

In this story, one of the two winners of the 2022 NEJM Medical Fiction Contest, Venkamma’s classmates from the Ladies Medical College in small-town India watch her reformist career with a mix of awe and disdain, as they pursue their more traditional lives.

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ChroniSense Medical receives FDA 510(k) for RPM wearable

Mobi Health News

The company’s Polso wrist-worn wearable allows for the collection of blood oxygen saturation, respiration rate and pulse rate.

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Urban: 18M could lose Medicaid coverage after COVID-19 emergency expires, likely next year

Fierce Healthcare

Urban: 18M could lose Medicaid coverage after COVID-19 emergency expires, likely next year. rking. Tue, 12/06/2022 - 16:07.

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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.

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Removing dead skin via telehealth? OIG report finds potential fraud

Modern Healthcare

Advocates for telehealth worry a recent federal report on potential fraud might send the wrong message to policymakers seeking to codify reimbursement.

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Massachusetts hospital to refund patients for losses after data breach

Becker's Health IT

Attleboro, Mass.-based Sturdy Memorial Hospital has settled a lawsuit for a Feb. 9, 2021, data breach that compromised the protected health information of 60,000 current and former patients, Top Class Actions reported Dec. 5.

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Faced with costly discharge bottlenecks, hospitals want Congress to pay for patients' extended stay

Fierce Healthcare

Faced with costly discharge bottlenecks, hospitals want Congress to pay for patients' extended stay. dmuoio. Tue, 12/06/2022 - 12:50.

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Tidewater Physicians Multispecialty Group Implements RPA for Pennies

Healthcare IT Today

It is hard to picture Robotic Process Automation (RPA). There is nothing physical or tangible. There is no user interface that users interact with on a regular basis. In fact, when RPA is properly implemented, it works completely in the background without anyone noticing. That’s why the term RPA is nebulous for many people. What is it? How have organizations successfully deployed it?

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Generative AI for Contracts Is Here: New Tools to Accelerate Drafting and Editing

The emergence of generative AI is reshaping the landscape of contract management, enabling businesses to generate and negotiate legal agreements with greater ease and speed. In this on-demand webinar, Hal Marcus, VP of Product Marketing at Evisort discusses how Evisort's generative AI transforms contract creation and negotiation, empowering legal teams to streamline processes while reducing risk.