Thu.May 26, 2022

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Millions of people counting on Congress to protect telehealth access

Healthcare Dive

Patients in communities across the nation who have come to rely on telehealth have been left waiting and wondering if they will be able to receive the virtual care they need once the COVID-19 public health emergency has ended.

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Internal Audits Help Combat Payer Risk

MRO Compliance

Internal Audits Help Combat Payer Risk. May 26, 2022. For The Record. For a smooth-running revenue cycle, tap into the immense powers of this best practice tool. Wonder Woman has a golden lasso. Captain America has an impenetrable shield. Thor has a lightning hammer. Just as these magical tools bolster superheroes’ defenses, insights gleaned from internal audits are your organization’s superpower to prevent revenue recoupment and drive down risk.

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Rollback of pandemic protections to test Medicaid managed care organizations

Healthcare Dive

At question is whether insurers will be able to shift Medicaid members who lose coverage to subsidized marketplace plans.

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Re-examining National Health Expenditures

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Ken Perez, vice president of healthcare policy and government affairs, Omnicell, Inc. Discussions about the cost of healthcare in the United States often take the form of debates, pitting one sector against the other. […]. The article Re-examining National Health Expenditures appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Optimizing Medical Waste Management: A Guide to Best Practices

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.

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Clover Health appoints Scott Leffler as CFO following role turnover

Healthcare Dive

Leffler joins the nine-state insurtech from sterilization and lab services provider Sotera, where he was CFO for five years.

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6 EHR Optimization Tips

Healthcare IT Today

One thing I’ve learned in 16 years writing about health IT and particularly focused on EMR (now EHR if you prefer), is that the EHR still impacts so many things in the life of a clinician. Yes, hospitals and health systems have 1000s of health IT solutions that they have to manage, upgrade, secure, etc. […].

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Paxlovid Paradox, Part 2: An Ideal Scenario

Healthcare IT Today

The first article in this three-part series criticized the conditions of COVID-19 treatment in the United States. Now let’s look toward the future: what we do ideally if we had an epidemic and a treatment we wanted to administer quickly to patients? The ideas in this article combine observations of mine over several years with […].

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No Mask, No COVID-19 Pandemic, Right?

HIT Consultant

The end of the public transportation mask mandate, officially undone by federal Judge Kathryn Mizelle on April 18, may be recognized as the day the COVID-19 pandemic ended in America. Except it hasn’t ended in any real sense. The virus continues to produce new variants of greater or lesser transmissibility and lethality; for now, comparatively small numbers of people continue to die of the virus daily and weekly; and the CDC continues to recommend that the elderly and immunocompromised take ever

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Office Ally Announces Acquisition of Bluemark

Healthcare IT Today

Office Ally, a leading provider of electronic clearinghouse and healthcare software solutions, today announced that is has acquired Bluemark, LLC, a provider of specialized healthcare software for healthcare professionals and community-based organizations. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2001, Bluemark provides specialized healthcare software and adaptive technology, including revenue integrity and […].

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RapidAI Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for Pulmonary Embolism Triage & Notification

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – RapidAI , a neurovascular and vascular AI-enhanced clinical decision support and patient workflow receives FDA 510(k) clearance for its Rapid PE Triage & Notification product for fast identification and communication of suspected central pulmonary embolism — further strengthening RapidAI’s industry-leading clinical AI platform. – Rapid PE Triage & Notification, in conjunction with Rapid Workflow for PE , will enable care teams to more easily manage the

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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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Hippogriffs, Healthcare, and HIPAA: Securing Data in Healthcare Applications

HIPAA Vault

For me, one of the best parts of science fiction and fantasy stories is the travel. When you’re zapped into the Matrix, climb aboard the Millenium Falcon or a retrofitted Delorean, or even a flying “hippogriff” in Harry Potter, you can’t help but wonder, How will we travel in the future? (Ok, the hippogriff might. Continue reading.

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Transcarent hires chief marketing officer from Fitbit and more digital health hires

Mobi Health News

Also: Komodo Health appoints Dr. Aswin Chandrakantan chief operating officer in addition to his role as chief medical officer.

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Increasing the Efficiency of Your Medical Vacuum System (Updated)

Medical Gas Compliance

Optimizing the flow of vacuum in your OR enhances the productivity of your surgical staff by allowing your team to spend their valuable time and effort operating. With this, you protect the patient with less available time, and clinicians have less distraction and better turnaround time in the OR. With optimum vacuum flow, you will boost the morale of your surgical staff by not distracting or delaying their work with poor suction, reducing requests for repairs or remodels of ORs and procedure su

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Senate finance leaders propose bill to expand telehealth for mental healthcare

Modern Healthcare

The lawmakers want to preserve telehealth flexibilities created during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on Medicare, Medicaid and schools.

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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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Chulalongkorn University develops AI tool for colorectal polyp detection

Mobi Health News

The AI system can also classify abnormal tissues as malignant or benign.

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New Surgeon General Advisory Warns of Healthcare Worker Burnout and Resignation

Healthcare Compliance Blog

United States Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy issued a new Surgeon General’s Advisory highlighting the urgent need to address the healthcare worker burnout crisis across the country. Healthcare workers, including physicians, nurses, community and public health workers, nurse aides, and others, faced systemic challenges in the healthcare sector even before the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to crisis levels of burnout.

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Clinical trial tech company uMotif scores $22.5M to continue international expansion

Mobi Health News

The London-based company most recently raised ÂŁ5 million in Series A funding in 2020.

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A Day in the Life of a Travel Auditor

Healthicity

Have you ever considered a career in travel auditing?

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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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Roundup: Telehealth platform for endometriosis launched in Malaysia, India upgrades health ID app, and more briefs

Mobi Health News

Also, DoctorOnCall has added Muslim doctors of PERDIM to its online network.

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Email Incidents Reported by Washington University School of Medicine & Oswego County Opportunities

HIPAA Journal

Oswego County Opportunities (OCO) in New York has announced that a limited number of employee email accounts were recently accessed by an unknown actor. The security breach was identified when suspicious email activity was detected and the email accounts were immediately secured. Third-party cybersecurity experts were engaged to investigate the breach to determine the nature and scope of the attack, and what information, if any, had been accessed by the threat actor.

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CMS Reminder of Medicare Fraud, Waste and Abuse Vigilance

Innovaare Compliance

On April 15, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released potential fraud, waste and abuse (FWA) trending data collected from Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug Plans (plan sponsors) for fourth quarter 2021. The most prominent suspect was misrepresentation of services/products (48.87%). Three categories of FWA allegations accounted for 78.47 percent, more than three-quarters of all reported.

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Thinking about leaving private practice? What should physicians do with medical records?

Health Law Checkup

Recent trends indicate that more physicians are considering retirement or selling their private practice to a health care system or other physician practice. If you are one of these physicians, then it is important to think about and understand medical record retention requirements.

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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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Health and Social Care Northern Ireland Taps Tegria for National Digital Transformation

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Health and Social Care Northern Ireland (HSCNI) has enlisted the support of global healthcare technology specialist, Tegria , and digital health consultancy, Cloud21 , in a deal to support its national digital transformation program. – The organizations will help to deliver Northern Ireland’s Encompass program – a decade-long initiative that aims to deliver improvements to outcomes for patients by making it easier for health and care professionals to deliver h

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Roundup: Women’s health startup raises $10M, NuvoAir launches remote asthma service, and more briefs

Mobi Health News

Also, British digital health startup Healum launches research network.

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Supreme Court Ruling Impacts Choice to Litigate Before Seeking to Compel Arbitration

Hall Render

On May 23, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision that significantly impacts a litigant’s right to compel arbitration and the circumstances that may result in a decision that a litigant has waived its right to compel arbitration. The Case. In Morgan v. Sundance, Inc. , an hourly employee at a fast food franchise signed an agreement that required her to arbitrate any employment disputes.

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Healthcare spending could drop $11.4B next year if ACA premium subsidies expire, research finds

Healthcare Dive

The looming coverage cliff would also hit providers financially, according to a new report. President Joe Biden has pushed Congress to extend the more generous financial aid provided by the American Rescue Plan.

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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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Geisinger & Tempus Create AI Model to Identify Structural Heart Disease

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Tempus , an $8B precision medicine company, announced a collaborative study with Geisinger focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) model that can accurately identify patients at increased risk of undiagnosed structural heart disease (SHD). The study addresses a critical diagnostic gap – SHD is a progressive disease that affects the valves, walls, chambers, and muscles of the heart, and causes debilitating symptoms or death, yet many patients with the disease go

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HHS scraps Trump-era SUNSET rule that mandated regulatory reviews

Modern Healthcare

A policy that could erase thousands of regulations would have caused more harm than good, according to the Biden administration.

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CVS Health Launches New Virtual Primary Care Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – CVS Health launches of its new Virtual Primary Care solution on a single digital platform for a more coordinated and consumer-centric health care experience. – The new offering, which is being sold to Aetna fully-insured, self-insured plan sponsors, and CVS Caremark clients now, will become effective for eligible Aetna members starting January 1, 2023, and for eligible CVS Caremark members during the second quarter of 2023.

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Economic Approaches to Insurance Law

HealthLaw Prof Blog

Peter Molk (University of Florida), Economic Approaches to Insurance Law in Rsch. Handbook on Int’l Ins. L. & Regul. (Julian Burling & Kevin Lazarus eds., 2nd ed., Forthcoming 2022): Law and economics has proven enormously influential across a wide range.

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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.