Wed.Jan 18, 2023

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Women making up more of physician workforce

Healthcare Dive

Across all genders, primary care specialties like internal medicine, family medicine and pediatrics had the largest number of active physicians and residents in 2021, according to a report from the Association of American Medical Colleges.

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Hospitals rank low across industries for patient and employee satisfaction

Healthcare It News

The 2023 Healthcare Experience Trends report aims to provide healthcare leaders with a global snapshot of insights and recommendations on what patients expect and what employees need. WHY IT MATTERS. For the analysis, Qualtrics, which offers a HITRUST-certified and FEDRAMP-compliant experience management platform, surveyed nearly 9,000 consumers across 29 countries and 3,000 healthcare employees across 27 countries.

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Teladoc slashes 6% of workforce in cost-cutting effort

Healthcare Dive

The job cuts are part of a larger restructuring plan, with the telehealth company saying it’s eliminating redundant roles after prior mergers.

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Monthly Round-Up of What to Read on Pharma Law and Policy

Bill of Health

By  Ameet Sarpatwari , A viva Wang , and  Aaron S. Kesselheim. Each month, members of the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) review the peer-reviewed medical literature to identify interesting empirical studies, policy analyses, and editorials on health law and policy issues relevant to current or potential future work in the Division.

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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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Major government ACOs to cover 13.2M people this year

Healthcare Dive

Accountable care organizations and value-based care advocates cheered the news, with the National Association of ACOs calling 2023 a “turning point” for growth.

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Digital Innovation and AI in Revenue Cycle Management

MRO Compliance

Digital Innovation and AI in Revenue Cycle Management. January 18, 2022. Healthcare IT Today. Digital Innovation and Artificial Intelligence are two huge topics recently in the world of Healthcare IT. We’ve talked about the many areas in which they are actively making a difference, and the areas in which they could make a difference, if applied. Let’s now take a look at how it can impact Revenue Cycle Management!

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Why Healthtech Needs More Female Leaders

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Brooke LeVasseur, CEO, AristaMD. Women occupy 65% of the healthcare workforce yet seem to be missing in C-suite roles, holding approximately 30% of senior leadership positions and a mere 13% of coveted CEO titles. […]. The article Why Healthtech Needs More Female Leaders appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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New Jefferson Health program enables clinical, academic nurses to partner on research

Fierce Healthcare

New Jefferson Health program enables clinical, academic nurses to partner on research agliadkovskaya Wed, 01/18/2023 - 14:16

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Can Employer-sponsored Insurance Be Saved? A Review of Policy Options: Price Regulation

Center for Health Insurance Reform

Health insurance is becoming increasingly unaffordable for employers and workers alike. In the second in their blog series assessing policy options to shore up employer-sponsored insurance as a source of coverage, CHIR experts Linda Blumberg, Sabrina Corlette and Jack Hoadley tackle a policy that economists and budget forecasters predict would have the biggest impact: hospital price regulation.

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Black patients get better care when nurse practitioners have full practice authority: study

Fierce Healthcare

Black patients get better care when nurse practitioners have full practice authority: study. fdiamond. Wed, 01/18/2023 - 15:46.

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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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Digital Innovation and AI in Revenue Cycle Management

Healthcare IT Today

Digital Innovation and Artificial Intelligence are two huge topics recently in the world of Healthcare IT. We’ve talked about the many areas in which they are actively making a difference, and the areas in which they could make a difference, if applied. Let’s now take a look at how it can impact Revenue Cycle Management ! We reached out to the Healthcare IT Today Community for their insights on this topic.

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Healthcare ranked lowest for employee satisfaction, Qualtrics survey finds

Fierce Healthcare

Healthcare ranked lowest for employee satisfaction, Qualtrics survey finds aburky Wed, 01/18/2023 - 16:40

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Sharecare Launches Virtual Model of its Medicare-Reimbursable Cardiac Rehab Program

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Sharecare , the digital health company that helps people manage all their health in one place, today announced Ornish Lifestyle Medicine by Sharecare , the company’s Intensive Cardiac Rehabilitation (ICR) program, is now available through a virtual delivery model. – Reimbursable through Medicare and many commercial plans, Ornish Lifestyle Medicine by Sharecare is the first and only ICR program scientifically proven in randomized controlled trials to often reve

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Health insurers well-positioned to weather inflation, utilization shifts in 2023: Fitch

Fierce Healthcare

Health insurers well-positioned to weather inflation, utilization shifts in 2023: Fitch. pminemyer. Wed, 01/18/2023 - 16:51.

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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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NortonLifeLock Warns Customers About Potential Password Manager Breach

HIPAA Journal

Just a few weeks after LastPass confirmed hackers had stolen a copy of users’ encrypted password vaults comes the news of another password manager data breach. NortonLifeLock has recently notified approximately 6,450 individuals that their accounts have been accessed by unauthorized individuals and that their Password Manager accounts are at risk. Gen Digital, which owns NortonLifeLock, started detecting account compromises on December 12, 2021, when its intrusion detection system started genera

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Providers' price hikes push patients to defer care, rely on payment plans, surveys say

Fierce Healthcare

Providers' price hikes push patients to defer care, rely on payment plans, surveys say. dmuoio. Wed, 01/18/2023 - 12:15.

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Akili Interactive to cut 30% of its staff

Mobi Health News

The prescription digital therapeutics company will also put non-ADHD products in development on hold to "conserve capital and focus.

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Teladoc Health lays off 300 employees, 6% of its non-clinician workforce

Fierce Healthcare

Teladoc Health lays off 300 employees, 6% of its non-clinician workforce. aburky. Wed, 01/18/2023 - 13:22.

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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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Included Health Partners to Deliver First-of-its-Kind LGBTQ+ Health Plan

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Included Health today announced a partnership with Tufts Health Plan and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care , both Point32Health companies, to provide fully integrated LGBTQ+ healthcare services, including gender affirming physical and mental health, to commercial health plan members. The partnership is a first-of-its-kind offering, embedding the LGBTQ+ health concierge service in the health plans of Point32 members. – Effective as of January 1, 2023, fully-insured (

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Monogram Health Closes $375M Growth Capital Raise to Support Continued Expansion of Innovative In-Home Kidney and Polychronic Care Model

Healthcare IT Today

Milestone funding from leading strategic and financial investors will help accelerate company’s mission to measurably improve outcomes for patients living with polychronic conditions, including chronic kidney and end-stage renal disease. Monogram Health , a value-based specialty provider of in-home evidence-based care and benefit management services for patients living with polychronic conditions, including chronic kidney and end-stage renal disease, today announced it has closed on $375 million

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Orbita Launches Blaze to Convert Websites into Virtual Assistant

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Orbita , a leading provider of intelligent virtual assistants and workflow automation for healthcare, launched a new solution set to transform the healthcare website experience. Orbita Blaze uses conversational AI and advanced search technology to interpret and address patients’ requests promptly and with precision, so they access the information and care they need. – Poor healthcare web navigation has historically been a barrier to care, as 78% of people who

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Google Research and DeepMind develop AI medical chatbot

Digital Health News

A new AI-powered medical-specific chatbot developed by Google and DeepMind has shown some potential for clinical applications.

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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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Providers seek more incentives in ACO REACH to target highly underserved areas

Fierce Healthcare

Providers seek more incentives in ACO REACH to target highly underserved areas. rking. Wed, 01/18/2023 - 15:37.

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Shortening Hospital Discharges: Technical and Workflow Solutions

Healthcare IT Today

An earlier article, “ Why Hospital Discharges Take So Long—And What We Can Do To Shorten Them ,” explored the complexities of discharging and how hospitals are re-evaluating their workflows to get patients out faster. This article looks at some technical solutions. Ali Parsa, CEO and founder of Babylon , an AI and digital health platform, says discharge planning doesn’t require “massive amounts of technology” or “rocket science”; just good planning from

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M&A: Arrive Health Acquires UPMC Enterprises Pharmacy Technology

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Arrive Health , a provider of real-time benefit tools and integrated solutions that improve patient affordability, today announced the acquisition of a suite of innovative patient engagement and automation technologies developed by UPMC Enterprises and the UPMC Pharmacy Network. – The acquisition adds AI-driven virtual assistant technology and a robust patient management system to its affordability offerings, expanding support for more than 200 million patient

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Cleveland Clinic anticipates $200M+ operating loss in 2022, CEO says

Fierce Healthcare

Cleveland Clinic anticipates $200M+ operating loss in 2022, CEO says dmuoio Wed, 01/18/2023 - 14:40

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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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Teladoc Health lays off 300 employees to cut costs

Mobi Health News

The layoffs make up about 6% of the virtual care giant's non-clinician workforce.

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2023 predictions: Digital health leaders on what lies ahead

Digital Health News

After another significant year in the digital health space, we asked some digital health leaders what they think is in store for 2023.

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Pear Therapeutics' PDTs added to Florida Medicaid Preferred Drug List

Mobi Health News

Patients can access Pear's reSET for substance use disorder and reSET-O for opioid use disorder.

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Mayo Clinic Settles Lawsuit Alleging Former Employee Viewed Nude Patient Images

HIPAA Journal

Mayo Clinic has settled another lawsuit that stemmed from a data breach involving a former employee, who was discovered to have accessed the records of patients without authorization, including nude images. In October 2020, Mayo Clinic notified 1,614 patients that some of their protected health information had been viewed by a former employee. That information included demographic information, birth dates, medical record numbers, and clinical notes.

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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.