Wed.Dec 21, 2022

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Judge questions surprise billing ban implementation during court hearing

Healthcare Dive

A federal judge tested the government’s defense concerning a rule designed to help third parties resolve payment disputes between healthcare providers and insurers.

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Real-time patient journey data – architecting a 360-degree view

Healthcare It News

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Centene reaches $44M settlement with Iowa

Healthcare Dive

It’s the latest deal in a string of settlements to resolve allegations the nation’s largest Medicaid managed care organization overcharged states for pharmacy services.

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CVS Health Study Highlights Value of Provider Coordination and Intervention  

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Creagh Milford, DO, MPH, FACOI, senior vice president of retail health, CVS Health. The massive shift to virtual health and explosion of innovation in the digital space has provided patients with an expanding array […]. The article CVS Health Study Highlights Value of Provider Coordination and Intervention 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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HHS releases ownership data on nation’s hospitals

Healthcare Dive

“We are pulling back the curtain and letting the sunshine in on hospital and nursing home ownership because it is what the public deserves,” HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said Tuesday in a statement.

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Digital health leaders discuss their key takeaways from 2022

Mobi Health News

The execs spotlight the year's rise of home healthcare, drop in digital health investment and expanded use of AI, in addition to the value of virtual care.

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The 2022 Midterms: Implications for 2023-2024 and Health Policy

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. Although it took eight days for most of the dust to settle after the 2022 midterm elections, it is now clear that […]. The article The 2022 Midterms: Implications for 2023-2024 and Health Policy appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Stakes are high in California’s Medicaid market shakeup

Healthcare Dive

Four insurers that lost out on lucrative contracts in the state’s first-ever competitive process are challenging the managed care provider selections.

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How community-based organizations are taking a tech-driven approach to connect health services to social care

Fierce Healthcare

How community-based organizations are taking a tech-driven approach to connect health services to social care. agliadkovskaya. Wed, 12/21/2022 - 12:18.

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High-intensity billing in ERs has increased, but not only due to upcoding, research suggests

Healthcare Dive

The proportion of emergency room visits billed as “high intensity” that don’t result in a hospitalization has grown, reflecting the ER’s shifting role in the acute care ecosystem, according to a Health Affairs study.

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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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'It's finally here': States have long sought Medicaid eligibility redetermination deadline

Fierce Healthcare

'It's finally here': States have long sought Medicaid eligibility redetermination deadline. rking. Wed, 12/21/2022 - 16:58.

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A Detailed Guide On Wound Care Billing

Medisys Compliance

Wound care has become increasingly significant with a growing population of the elderly. In addition to the difficulty of caring for patients with such wounds, there are issues with regulatory standards and billing practices that make it difficult to receive timely and appropriate reimbursements. Sounds like a problem? The problem is that not all forms of wound care are paid for by insurance, and those that are reimbursed require a number of administrative tasks like correct documentation, preci

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Editor's corner: Fierce Healthcare's 10 most-read stories tracked Amazon's latest moves, COVID variants and the labor crunch

Fierce Healthcare

Editor's corner: Fierce Healthcare's 10 most-read stories tracked Amazon's latest moves, COVID variants and the labor crunch. hlandi. Wed, 12/21/2022 - 12:39.

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Ukraine Soldiers Get Prosthetics and Care From 5K Miles Away

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Protez Foundation , the non-profit helping Ukrainian children, soldiers and civilians who have lost their limbs during the war to get free quality prosthetics in the US, today announced they have partnered with OneStep , an innovative platform for digital physical therapy using pioneering science that turns any smartphone into a clinical-grade motion analysis lab, to provide remote care for their patients. – Protez Foundation is committed to helping rehabilita

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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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Healthy.io, Blue Cross of Idaho team up to provide home kidney tests

Mobi Health News

The partners said the test kits will first be offered to Blue Cross employees before a broader rollout with Medicare Advantage members next year.

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Merck Invests in Gesund, Launches Medical AI Platform on AWS

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Gesund, the company ensuring that medical artificial intelligence (AI) is safe and effective for all, today announced the securing of a strategic investment from Merck as well as a launch of a new commercial platform on Amazon Web Services Marketplace. – While terms of the investment are not being disclosed, the news signals support for the company’s approach as it launches a first of its kind commercial platform on Amazon Web Services Marketplace, immed

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Brother ADS-4900W Scanner Review for Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

High speed scanners are an extremely important technology in most healthcare organizations. As we work to automate everything using NLP and AI, it is important that all of the information about a patient is electronic. In the past you may scan these patient documents, consent forms, etc to avoid having to store them in a separate paper chart. Now, a nice combination of OCR, NLP, and AI allow a healthcare organization to take these scanned documents and turn them into structured data that can

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Kahun Taps MediOrbis to Offer AI-Powered Digital Intake and Triage Services

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – MediOrbis , a multi-specialty telehealth company today announces a strategic partnership with Kahun , the clinical reasoning tool that performs dynamic clinical assessments at scale. – The strategic partnership will enable MediOrbis to offer Kahun’s proprietary AI-driven digital intake tool as a part of its comprehensive telehealth platform. – By offering Kahun’s proprietary AI-driven digital intake tool as a part of its comprehensive telehealth platform

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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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November 2022 Healthcare Data Breach Report

HIPAA Journal

November was a relatively quiet month for healthcare data breaches with 31% fewer breaches reported than the previous month. November’s total of 49 breaches of 500 or more records was also well below the 12-month average of 58 breaches a month. 643 healthcare data breaches have been reported to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights so far in 2022, which makes this year the second worst year to date for healthcare data breaches.

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Third-Party Risk Management Actions to Avoid Data Breaches

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Aaron Kirkpatrick, CISSP, CRISC, CIPM, GCIH, GCC, Chief Information Security Officer at Venminder. Without a doubt, the healthcare industry is growing and thriving. It’s one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing industries, and the global healthcare market will reach $665.37 billion by 2028. As the industry grows, more service and operational needs arise, resulting in increased outsourcing, and additional vendor risk.

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Prolonged ED stays more common among kids with behavioral health diagnoses since COVID began

Fierce Healthcare

Prolonged ED stays more common among kids with behavioral health diagnoses since COVID began. dmuoio. Wed, 12/21/2022 - 16:48.

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Telehealth company MediOrbis integrates Kahun's AI-based digital intake tool

Mobi Health News

MediOrbis will incorporate Kahun's AI tool into its platform to provide clinical insights to healthcare providers based on patients’ intake information.

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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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Editor's corner: Fierce Digital Health's 10 most-read stories of 2022 tracked a market cooldown

Fierce Healthcare

Editor's corner: Fierce Digital Health's 10 most-read stories of 2022 tracked a market cooldown. hlandi. Wed, 12/21/2022 - 16:16.

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Digital Health Review of the Year 2022

Digital Health News

Digital Health's CEO and editor-in-chief Jon Hoeksma looks back at the key themes and stories in digital health across the past 12 months.

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Omicron infection should be taken more seriously: study

Fierce Healthcare

Omicron infection should be taken more seriously: study. fdiamond. Wed, 12/21/2022 - 13:08.

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Doctor Anywhere acquires specialist clinic group Asian Healthcare Specialists

Mobi Health News

The company seeks to meet the rising demand for specialised care across Southeast Asia.

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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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Editor's corner: Fierce Health Payer's top 10 stories of 2022

Fierce Healthcare

Editor's corner: Fierce Health Payer's top 10 stories of 2022. pminemyer. Wed, 12/21/2022 - 11:41.

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Featured Health IT Job: Delivery Consultant – Core

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Delivery Consultant – Core position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by e4 Services and is in New York. Here’s a description of the position: e4 is a Healthcare Consulting firm based in Philadelphia established in 2006.

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New York hospital network still relying on paper records after November IT incident

Becker's Health IT

New York City-based One Brooklyn Health's hospitals are still relying on paper charting after a November cybersecurity incident caused three of its hospitals to shut down its EHR and IT systems, CNN reported Dec. 20.

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MA Executive Order Confronts Increasing Cybersecurity Threats

Health IT Security

Massachusetts Governor… read more

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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.