Healthcare Dive
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Healthcare employment has risen by an average of 47,000 new jobs a month this year, compared to 9,000 a month on average in 2021, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
HIPAA Journal
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, has recently published a white paper – Cybersecurity is Patient Safety – that highlights the current cybersecurity challenges facing the healthcare industry and suggests several potential policy changes that could help to improve healthcare cybersecurity and better protect all health information, including health data not currently protected under the HIPAA Rules.
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Healthcare Dive
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
The new analysis found wide variations in charity care. At 8% of hospitals, it made up 0.1% or less of operating expenses.
HIPAA Journal
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Aveanna Healthcare has agreed to pay a $425,000 financial penalty to the Office of the Attorney General of Massachusetts for failing to implement appropriate safeguards to prevent phishing attacks, in violation of state and federal laws. Aveanna Healthcare operates in 33 states and is the nation’s largest provider of pediatric home care. In the summer of 2019, Aveanna Healthcare was targeted in a phishing campaign that saw more than 600 phishing emails sent to its employees.
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Healthcare Dive
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Nine straight months of negative margins could lead to “one of the worst financial years for hospitals” in 2022, according to a new report.
HIPAA Journal
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Two class action lawsuits have been filed on behalf of patients whose protected health information (PHI) was impermissibly disclosed to Meta/Facebook as a result of the use of the Meta Pixel JavaScript code snippet on the websites and web applications of Advocate Aurora Health and WakeMed Health and Hospitals. Advocate Aurora Health said the PHI of up to 3 million patients had potentially been disclosed to Meta/Facebook, and WakeMed said around 495,000 patients were affected due to the inclusion
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HIT Consultant
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
What You Should Know: – A new dawn is on the horizon in healthcare. Equipped with new digital capabilities and pressured by new consumer expectations for personalized, convenient experiences, healthcare organizations face a predicament — act now and stay afloat, fail to act and get consumed by the competition, or risk financial ruin. – Market research leader Forrester’s latest report explores 5 key predictors for healthcare in 2023.
Mobi Health News
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Ochsner Health Chief Digital Officer Dr. Denise Basow discusses the health system's remote monitoring pilot program for Medicaid patients with chronic conditions like hypertension and Type 2 diabetes.
Digital Health News
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust harnessed the power of digital transformation with Pathpoint SurgiCare, an end-to-end clinical workflow solution, to manage their elective surgical backlog.
Mobi Health News
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
The company will expand its team and product offerings, including direct-to-consumer operations, thanks to the FDA's approval of over-the-counter sales of hearing aids.
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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.
Center for Health Insurance Reform
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
The tenth open enrollment season for the Affordable Care Act’s marketplace is in full swing. With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, CHIR has updated and improved our Navigator Resource Guide. Navigators and other enrollment assisters can access over 300 frequently asked questions and answers, state fact sheets, a summary of new federal policies for 2023, and more.
Healthicity
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
2023 is fast approaching, and so are new changes from the Centers for Medicaid & Medicare (CMS)!
Digital Health News
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
A new app from Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is ensuring vascular disease patients have access to exercise therapy.
Healthcare IT Today
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
EHR vendor Modernizing Medicine has agreed to pay $45 million to the federal government to settle a whistleblower suit alleging that the vendor engaged in varied kickback schemes as well as causing its provider customers to submit false claims. The lawsuit was filed in 2017 by law firms Phillips and Cohen LLP and Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC. The US Department of Justice joined the case in March 2022, which now targeted founders and executives Dan Cane and Dr.
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Compliancy Group
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Establishing a healthcare cybersecurity policy is important for multiple reasons. Cybersecurity policies create standards for your staff, enabling them to keep sensitive information private. HIPAA requires healthcare organizations to have policies and procedures that limit the use and disclosure of patient information, and to ensure that it is not accessed inappropriately.
Healthcare IT Today
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Happy Friday everyone! We hope you had a great week and accomplished many great things and connected with many great people. As we head off into the weekend, it’s time again for another edition of Fun Friday where we share something funny, insightful, or intriguing as we hope to brighten your day and start your weekend off right. We have some good selections today.
HIT Consultant
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
What You Should Know: – Smile Digital Health, a FHIR® health data fabric and exchange solutions provider, announced that it has acquired Alphora, a market leader in Clinical Quality Language (CQL) that provides tooling and services to unlock clinical reasoning, decision support and other quality metrics capabilities. – As a result of the acquisition, Smile Digital Health customers now have access to Smile Alphora, the company’s new clinical reasoning capability that leverages i
Hanys
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
HANYS' Age-Friendly Collaboratives help organizations meet the needs of a growing older adult population. In our latest blog post , past participants share how small changes have yielded big results at their organizations.
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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.
Jane Sarashon
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Lately we’ve been talking a lot in THINK-Health’s workflows with clients about trust and health citizenship: how inspiring positive individual health behaviors can initiate a flywheel of public health goodness. The UK’s National Health Service is acting on this concept through a new campaign to inspire people in the Black community to give blood.
Becker's Health IT
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Hospitals could have to meet minimum cybersecurity standards to participate in the Medicare program, according to a list of potential proposals outlined Nov. 3 by U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va.
Digital Health News
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Our latest Movers and Shakers roundup features Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust, NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight and more.
Becker's Health IT
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Houston-based St. Luke's Health is notifying patients about a third-party data breach at consulting services vendor Adelanto Healthcare Ventures that resulted in the protected health information of 16,906 patients to be compromised.
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Hall Render
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
NATIONAL. AHA calls outpatient payment rate in final rule ‘insufficient’ given cost pressures. AMA scrutinizes lack of competition, consumer harms in Medicare Advantage plans. CMS bumps ASC payments to 3.8 percent in final rule. CMS gives nursing homes a longer leash on staff COVID-19 vaccination requirements. CMS locks in court-ordered 340B drug payment rates for 2023, though back payments still to come.
Hanys
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Become an age-friendly health system in 2023 with HANYS. Nov. 7. Standing membership call. Nov. 8. Complex case discharge delay learning series. Nov. 8. Through the looking glass: How the travel market will be impacted in 2023. Nov. 9. Optimizing strategic planning for revenue growth: DataGen and Sg2 resources. Nov. 9. Government relations update call.
Hall Render
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
PWC and the Urban Land Institute published their Emerging Trends in Real Estate report for 2023. The report is extensive and wide-ranging in scope, but one interesting finding was a list of markets where the greatest overall real estate growth is expected in 2023. Among the hottest markets were Nashville, Dallas-Fort Worth, Atlanta, Austin, Raleigh/Durham and Miami, due to large and consistent population and job growth as well as above-average levels of economic diversity and employment.
Hanys
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Join us for a Nov. 7 webinar to learn about joining our 2023 New York Age-Friendly Action Community and New York Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation Collaboratives. Hear from IHI, DOH and past participants who will talk about the program, discuss funding opportunities and answer questions.
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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.
Becker's Health IT
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Here are four data breach lawsuits involving health systems as reported by Becker's since Sept. 26.
Hanys
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
The Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment System final rule for 2023 contains several HANYS advocacy priorities including a 3.8% increase to the outpatient payment rates; a payment rate of average sales price plus 6% for drugs and biologicals acquired under the 340B Drug Pricing Program; and new Critical Access Hospital mileage criteria. Further details are available to members online.
Healthcare IT Today
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Acquisition Creates One of the Nation’s Largest Specialty-Focused, Digital Point of Care Advertising Networks. CheckedUp (or the Company), one of the leading providers of 100% digital healthcare solutions at the point of care, announced today that it has acquired Health Media Network (HMN), a provider of digital healthcare solutions and wellness content to health venues across the country.
Hanys
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
HANYS and allied associations have partnered with the Center for Health Workforce Studies to better understand your workforce challenges and advocate for New York hospitals and health systems. Help us help you: Complete your survey by Nov. 11.
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