Healthcare It News

MAY 24, 2023

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 24, 2023

As federal aid expires, lower-income Americans — who saw the largest recent gains in uninsurance trends — will likely be affected the most, according to experts.

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MAY 24, 2023

Innovation in Payer and Provider Data Exchange: On-Air Insights I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Beth Friedman, Senior Partner at FINN Partners, as a guest on the FINN Voices show on Healthcare NOW Radio. The topic was innovation in payer and provider data exchange. As we talked about the challenges between payers and providers, one ray of hope emerged.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 24, 2023

The digital health sector defied trends seen in the larger venture capital environment, where funding continues to fall. But digital health investment is still at its lowest level seen in years.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 24, 2023

The Amazon-owned online pharmacy, PillPack, has recently started notifying 19,000 customers that some of their protected health information was compromised in a cyberattack in April. Unauthorized customer account activity was detected by PillPack on April 3, 2023, and the investigation revealed customer accounts had been accessed by an unauthorized third party between April 2 and April 6, 2023.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 24, 2023

The American Hospital Association (AHA) has urged the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights to rethink its guidance on online tracking technologies and to stop considering an IP address as a unique identifier under HIPAA with respect to pixels and other website tracking technologies. OCR’s December 2022 guidance was issued in response to the widespread use of tracking technologies on healthcare provider websites.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 24, 2023

At the latest congressional inquiry into pharmacy benefit managers, lawmakers argued the middlemen profit at the expense of patients and taxpayers.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 24, 2023

Michelle Stansbury, VP of Innovation and IT Applications at Houston Methodist , discusses in this video their virtual hospital programs as well as hot technologies they’re looking at for the future. Their virtual ICU project started four years ago as a two-year project, but they managed to set it up in just six months as COVID-19 hit. Now they’re extending their insights into the whole hospital and beyond.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 24, 2023

The layoffs at Abbott’s manufacturing plant come after the COVID-19 public health emergency expired this month, and the company forecasts decreasing demand for the tests this year.

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85% of practices are not complying with the government’s HIPAA standards. The large majority of practices are likely trying to protect patients’ information, but they may not be doing all that they need to meet government requirements. Not complying with HIPAA has definite drawbacks, with one major one being massive fines. The government can fine up to 1.5 million dollars for a single HIPAA breach incident - an amount that would put most small practices out of business.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 24, 2023

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Baraka Floyd, MD, pediatrics physician at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health and Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford School of Medicine and Lindsay Stevens, MD, pediatrics physician at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health and Clinical Professor at […] The article Addressing Food Insecurity with Electronic Health Records appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 24, 2023

Bright Health, which recently said it's looking to exit the insurance business, purchased telehealth company Zipnosis in 2021.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 24, 2023

Startup Florence acquires Zipnosis from Bright Health to build out telehealth services hlandi Wed, 05/24/2023 - 06:15

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 24, 2023

A medical management company has been fined $550,000 by the New York Attorney General for failing to prevent a cyberattack that exposed the personal and protected health information of 1.2 million individuals, including 428,000 New Yorkers. Professional Business Systems Inc, which does business as Practicefirst Medical Management Solutions and PBS Medcode Corp, had its systems hacked in November 2020.

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Speaker: Mallory Herrin, CEO & Principal HR Consultant at HerrinHR

Your employees are your most valuable resource. If you want to retain employees and keep them happy, you want to make the incentives more valuable. With a full-stack employee experience, culture, health, wellness and benefits navigation solution, you can provide employees with the wellbeing support they need. The results? Employees who are happier, healthier, and more engaged, as well as a business that is thriving both internally and externally, every day.

Mobi Health News

MAY 24, 2023

MJFF will use H1's AI-enabled platform to evaluate treatment approaches and improve clinical trial access for patients with Parkinson's from marginalized communities.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 24, 2023

What You Should Know: H1, the connecting force for global healthcare provider, clinical, science, and research information, today announced the world’s largest nonprofit funder of Parkinson’s research, The Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF), has selected its Trial Landscape solution to improve and transform its education and research initiatives.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 24, 2023

Every business can suffer financially and reputationally from Denial of Service attacks or ransomware, but in healthcare, patient safety is at risk. In this video, two cybersecurity experts advise healthcare organizations not to fret over AI and advanced attacks, but to shore up the “basic fundamentals”: training against phishing attacks, practicing responses to attacks, and proven cyber technologies.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 24, 2023

Bob Jacobus, co-founder and CEO AI Metrics Healthcare delivery is undergoing a dramatic transformation as AI technologies begin to take hold in the care setting. The technology is revolutionizing radiology, particularly in ED triage, early disease detection, and now in cancer imaging and reporting. These fields are particularly suited to improvements using AI, given their antiquated workflows and resistance to change over the decades.

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HealthIT Answers

MAY 24, 2023

By Bulat Lutfullin - The healthcare industry is on the brink of a technological revolution that could change the way we diagnose, treat, and manage diseases. AI has the potential to improve patient outcomes, enhance clinical decision-making, and optimize resource utilization. The post Embracing the Potential of AI in Healthcare appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 24, 2023

What You Should Know: Florence, an innovator in healthcare enablement software, announced today its acquisition of Zipnosis, an asynchronous-first virtual care solution that creates efficiency for clinicians while making quality care more accessible and affordable for patients. Through this acquisition, Florence will broaden its product offerings with synchronous and asynchronous virtual care and further their mission to create a consumer-centric interface that engages patients at every stage of

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 24, 2023

LGBTQ+ dating app Grindr helps fight a COVID-related decrease in STI testing aburky Wed, 05/24/2023 - 20:08

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HIT Consultant

MAY 24, 2023

David Moss, CFO of INmune Bio Our brain is an extraordinary organ. This three-pound structure is the central processing unit of our universe that controls intelligence, sense, movement, behavior and much more. When healthy, we take it for granted, and when diseased we carry a substantial burden. Astonishingly, the burden of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and related dementias is growing rapidly with an aging population.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 24, 2023

The following is a guest article by Timi Leslie, President at BluePath Health and Connecting for Better Health Coalition Leader, and Gregg Smith-McCurdy, CIO at Hill Physicians Medical Group Hill Physicians Medical Group, the largest network of independent physicians in Northern California, considers obtaining discrete, contiguous patient health data one of the most important objectives and biggest challenges.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2023

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Digital Health News

MAY 24, 2023

A study into UK GP surgeries’ websites has found that two-thirds (66%) of sites have detectable design errors, potentially excluding one-in-five users.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 24, 2023

PCMA slams lawmakers for lack of PBM voices at hearing on industry pminemyer Wed, 05/24/2023 - 16:35

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Speaker: Cory Jorbin - Chief Compliance Officer, West Region with Hub International

Let's face it: this is a candidate's world and HR is working hard to keep up! From workplace perks and culture to benefits that support their lives outside the office, recruits and talented employees are diligently evaluating the criteria for the jobs they want. While competitive pay and DEIB initiatives will attract candidates, a strong DEIB strategy must also pay attention to what helps retain talented workers: an equitable benefits package.

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