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Surprise billing compliance 'very daunting,' regulatory experts say

Healthcare Dive

The bill is best known for its signature achievement, but there are lesser known requirements that are difficult to put into practice, experts told Healthcare Dive.

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Introducing the Global Health and Rights Project’s New Affiliated Researchers

Bill of Health

(Clockwise from top left: Alma Beltrán y Puga, Luciano Bottini Filho, Ana Lorena Ruano, María Natalia Echegoyemberry). By Alicia Ely Yamin and Chloe Reichel. Leer en español. In the years before the pandemic, and especially since the pandemic began, there have been increasing calls to decolonize global health. Setting aside what ???y? Abímb??lá rightly characterizes as the slipperiness of both the terms “decolonizing” and “global health,” these calls speak to the need to

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Advocate Aurora investment arm acquires remote monitoring firm

Healthcare Dive

This is the fourth transaction for the newly minted Advocate Aurora Enterprise, which launched last year with the aim of building a portfolio of companies beyond acute medical care.

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Introducing Affiliated Researchers for the Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation

Bill of Health

(Clockwise from top left: Kwasi Adusei, Ismail Lourido Ali, Jonathan Perez-Reyzin, Dustin Marlan.). We are excited to welcome our inaugural group of affiliated researchers for the Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation (POPLAR). Through regular contributions to Bill of Health , as well as workshops and other projects, POPLAR affiliated researchers will share their expertise and perspectives on developments in psychedelics law and policy.

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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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Telehealth use rose for third straight month in January as omicron spread

Healthcare Dive

Among the top five telehealth diagnoses in January, COVID-19 tied for second with acute respiratory diseases and infections. Mental health conditions were by far the most common diagnosis, coming in at nearly 60% of all claims.

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The Patient Right of Access Rule and a Look at Enforcement Actions

MRO Compliance

The Patient Right of Access Rule and a Look at Enforcement Actions. April 7, 2022. Healthcare IT Today. New government regulations never stop in healthcare. It’s just the nature of the business and that’s unlikely to change. However, the reality of this is that some rules get more attention than others. One rule that I think some have missed is the Patient Right of Access rule.

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Roundup: Bayer to launch 27 telemedicine centres in India and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Bayer to launch 27 telemedicine centres over 2 years in India. German multinational pharmaceutical company Bayer is setting up 27 telemedicine centres in 12 districts across eight states in India over the next two years through Bayer Foundation India. The company has identified the states of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Madhya Pradesh to launch telemedicine facilities that will provide healthcare via telehealth.

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'Where's the patient?': Experts question FDA's final recall guidance

Healthcare Dive

While the guidance encouraged the use of electronic communications in recalls, a change experts have advocated for, some questioned why the agency did not address more problems with the system.

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Cyberattack on SuperCare Health Affects 318,000 Patients

HIPAA Journal

SuperCare Health, a Downey, CA-based post-acute, in-home respiratory care provider serving the Western United States, has recently started notifying 318,379 patients that some of their protected health information has been exposed and potentially accessed by unauthorized individuals in a cyberattack that occurred in July 2021. In its March 25, 2022, breach notification letters, SuperCare Health explained that it identified unauthorized activity within its IT systems on July 27, 2021.

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FDA advisers grapple with how to update COVID-19 vaccines

Healthcare Dive

About half of eligible Americans haven't received a booster and may be less protected should cases surge. Health officials hope to soon ready an updated shot, but experts on the committee struggled to identify the best approach.

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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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NCCoE Releases Final Guidance on Effective Enterprise Patch Management

HIPAA Journal

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has released the final versions of two Special Publications that provide guidance on enterprise patch management practices to prevent the exploitation of vulnerabilities in IT systems. Cybercriminals and nation-state threat actors target unpatched vulnerabilities in software, operating systems, and firmware to gain access to business networks to steal sensitive data and disrupt operations.

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Egypt’s O7 Therapy lands game-changing $2.1M in funding

Mobi Health News

The digital platform and mobile app specialises in bilingual mental health services for users across the Middle East and North Africa.

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MedTech: Transforming Healthcare with Medical Imaging AI

HIT Consultant

Travis Richardson, Chief Strategist at Flywheel. Healthcare providers and their patients stand to benefit dramatically from AI technologies, thanks to their ability to leverage data at scale to reveal new insights. But for AI developers to perform the research that will feed the next wave of breakthroughs, they first need the right data and the tools to use it.

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The Patient Right of Access Rule and a Look at Enforcement Actions

Healthcare IT Today

New government regulations never stop in healthcare. It’s just the nature of the business and that’s unlikely to change. However, the reality of this is that some rules get more attention than others. One rule that I think some have missed is the Patient Right of Access rule. For those that may have missed some […].

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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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OCR Seeks Comment on Recognized Security Practices and the Sharing of HIPAA Settlements with Harmed Individuals

HIPAA Journal

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has released a Request for information (RFI) related to two outstanding requirements of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (HITECH Act). The HITECH Act, as amended in 2021 by the HIPAA Safe Harbor Act, requires the HHS consider the security practices that have been implemented by HIPAA-regulated entities when considering financial penalties and other remedies to resolve potentia

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Viz.ai Raises $100M for Care Coordination Platform at $1.2B Valuation

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Viz.ai , a San Francisco-based AI-powered disease detection and care coordination platform raises $1000M in Series D funding led by Tiger Global and Insight Partners. The round also included participation from Scale Ventures , Kleiner Perkins , Threshold , GV (formerly Google Ventures) , Sozo Ventures , CRV , and Susa. – The new funds will be used to support Viz.ai’s significant growth trajectory, expand the Viz Platform to detect and triage additional disease

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Study: Providing tablets to rural vets decreases suicide behaviors, increases mental health visits

Mobi Health News

According to a study published in JAMA Network Open, providing a video-enabled tablet to veterans living in rural areas decreased emergency department visits and suicide behaviors.

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C2i Genomics Brings Distributed Cancer Monitoring to Cancer Centers Across Europe

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – C2i Genomics, a cancer intelligence company launches its C2inform minimal residual disease (MRD) test across Europe, after obtaining CE-IVD marking in the EU, UK and Switzerland. The company also announced the completion of several clinical trials across the globe, including leading cancer centers in Europe, U.S. and Singapore. – The new clinical data will be presented at the 2022 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting in New Orleans, L

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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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Does Your Healthcare Organization Need to Level Up Their NIST Security Efforts?

Healthcare IT Today

For all its good and ill, meaningful use drove action and adoption of EHR in healthcare. What made the difference? Ok, $36 billion in stimulus money helped. However, the key to change was healthcare organizations having a common goal. Once health IT professionals are focused on something, it is amazing to see the results they […].

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Forge Health Secures $11M for Value-Based Behavioral Health Model

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Forge Health , a White Plains, NY-based behavioral healthcare provider with a proven, national-payer-validated ability to drive clinical outcomes that span all areas of health, today announced an $11M growth funding round led by HC9 Ventures. – Innovative behavioral health company works with payers and health systems to enable value-based care for mental health and substance use populations.

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The Best of the 2022 HCCA Compliance Institute

Healthicity

Gathering together again in person, at last! Finally, the healthcare compliance community met face-to-face again.

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Echo Health Ventures Expands Investment Model to Nashville

HIT Consultant

Echo Health Advisors Principal Hayley Hovious. What You Should Know: – Echo Health Ventures , a healthcare strategic venture capital and growth equity investment firm, today announced it is establishing a local presence in Tennessee led by Echo Health Advisors Principal Hayley Hovious, who joined the company in March following seven years as president of the Nashville Health Care Council. – Echo Health Ventures CEO Rob Coppedge expects the new location to drive innovation by developi

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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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Medical image sharing startup PocketHealth scores $16M

Mobi Health News

This new round of funding brings the Toronto-based startup's total raise to $22.5 million.

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The Expiration of the Public Health Emergency Also Ends Policies to Lower Health Access Barriers

Center for Health Insurance Reform

As we approach the end of the public health emergency, Medicaid will not be the only program affected by pandemic relief policies that expire. CHIR's Emma Walsh-Alker and Megan Houston reviewed other policies that expire at the end of the PHE including mandated coverage of COVID-19 tests and related care, lower barriers to telehealth, and ease the use of mental health and substance use services.

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Roundup: eMedAsia offers online COVID-19 screening, Phablecare buys Fused Training, and more briefs

Mobi Health News

Also, Terumo has partnered with Glooko to enable diabetes data transfer from insulin patch pump to a data platform.

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Never-ending costs: When resolved medical bills keep popping up

Modern Healthcare

A bill one family considered paid wrongfully resurfaced, resurrecting painful memories. It’s a scenario that’s not uncommon but grievously unsettling.

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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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Stroke care coordination company Viz.ai lands $100M

Mobi Health News

This new infusion of cash brings the company's total valuation to $1.2 billion.

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HHS seeks input on plan to address environmental health disparities

Modern Healthcare

The department is considering providing air conditioners and energy bill stipends to people in communities affected by extreme weather.

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Evernow scores $28.5M for digital menopause care

Mobi Health News

The company said it will use the funds for hiring staffers, building a user community and developing new products.

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Nurse-1-1 Raises $2.3 Million in Seed Funding, Pioneering “Conversational Marketing for Healthcare”

Healthcare IT Today

Nurse-1-1, the first conversational marketing company for healthcare, today announced the close of its $2.3 million seed funding round led by Argon Ventures with participation from York IE and Hyperplane. The company will use the financing to expand its team, accelerate its go-to-market efforts, and scale its current partnerships with publicly traded and nationwide digital health, at-home testing, and pharma companies. […].

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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.