Wed.Sep 28, 2022

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How Hospital Authority Hong Kong is working towards sustainable healthcare

Healthcare It News

Hospital Authority has made significant achievements over the past years in digitising its processes and ways of delivering care to patients and communities. For over 30 years, it has invested in developing its clinical management system, which is now considered one of the most advanced systems in the world. Recently, it also began working on projects that contribute to its vision of a smart hospital.

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In surprise result, Alzheimer’s drug from Eisai, Biogen shows benefit in large trial

Healthcare Dive

The companies said the drug, called lecanemab, met all of its goals in the Phase 3 study. The data are a significant finding and provide stronger support for a much-debated hypothesis for treating Alzheimer’s.

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Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health and Its Devastating Implications for Immigrants’ Rights

Bill of Health

By Asees Bhasin. While reproductive injustice against immigrants is not new, they are now even more vulnerable to reproductive oppression in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturning the constitutional right to abortion. Immigrant reproduction has long been vilified and opposed, with immigrant parents facing accusations of being hyper-fertile and giving birth to “anchor babies.

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AHA asks HHS to delay Oct. 6 deadline for information blocking compliance

Healthcare Dive

Health groups must start sharing health information electronically as regulators seek to make it easier for consumers to access their health data. But groups warn they’re not prepared to meet the deadline.

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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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Do No Harm: A Call for Decarceration in Hospitals

Bill of Health

By Zainab Ahmed. In an era of mass suffering, some still suffer more than others. What’s worse, there is nothing natural about it. It is human made. As an emergency medicine resident at a large academic hospital in Los Angeles, I see how incarcerated patients’ suffering is sanctioned by hospitals and medical professionals, despite their pledge to do no harm.

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Hospitals altered charity care policies during pandemic, study shows

Healthcare Dive

Many made positive changes, but vague and unpublicized eligibility criteria were also common, research published in JAMA Network Open found.

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Fitbit, Google Cloud unveil wearable data analytics service for healthcare

Mobi Health News

Device Connect for Fitbit aims to help healthcare and life science organizations use and analyze data from Fitbit's health-tracking wearables.

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How one FQHC uses telehealth for primary care, behavioral health and addiction treatment

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Harbor Care Health and Wellness Center in Nashua, New Hampshire, provides primary care, behavioral health and dental services to a population that is either homeless or at risk of homelessness. Harbor Care Health is a Federally Qualified Community Center. FQHCs were established to provide affordable medical services to those in need, regardless of their ability to pay.

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Nebraska awards Medicaid managed care contracts to 3 insurers

Healthcare Dive

The health plans, selected from a field of five, will receive five-year contracts.

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New Wave of Health Insurers Driving Change for Members and Incumbent Plans

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Venkatgiri Vandali, president of healthcare, Firstsource. A new generation of health insurers has appeared in recent years, gradually gaining momentum in key markets in part by claiming to offer a more modern, digital consumer […]. The article New Wave of Health Insurers Driving Change for Members and Incumbent Plans appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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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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Has the era of 'hyper-personalized' patient engagement arrived?

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Effective Digital Transformation In Healthcare: 4 Key Characteristics To Look For In a Risk Adjustment Partner

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Vinitha Ramnathan, senior vice president of product management, Episource. Digital transformation is responsible for a lot of very promising innovations in healthcare. From telemedicine to AI-enabled medical devices to NLP-driven coding, technology is reshaping […].

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How Technology Can Help Overcome Barriers to Getting Effective Therapies into Patients with Ultra Rare Disorders

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Dr. Zach Landman, Co-Founder of Moonshots for Unicorns. As a physician who trained at UCSF, Harvard, and Stanford, I assumed that when my youngest daughter, Lucy – at 10-months old – was diagnosed with an ultra-rare genetic disorder of glycosylation called PGAP3, the answers would reside within a hospital or academic laboratory.

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Fitbit & Google Cloud Launches Device Connect for Fitbit

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Fitbit Health Solutions and Google Cloud are introducing Device Connect for Fitbit , which empowers healthcare and life sciences enterprises with accelerated analytics and insights to help people live healthier lives. – Fitbit data from their consenting users is made available through the Fitbit Web API, providing users with control over what data they choose to share and ensuring secure data storage and protection.

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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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Telemedicine, Telehealth, Telecare & Patient Care | symplr

Symplr

Any healthcare consumer unfamiliar with telehealth, telemedicine, or telecare before the pandemic certainly could explain this ever-present care option now. What they might not know is that these words describing a long-distance provider-patient connection come from t he Greek word “tele” meaning “far off,” and “medicine” from the Latin word “medicus” for physician.

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Let’s Talk Interactive Announces The Launch of TrustVideo

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Let’s Talk Interactive (LTI), a leading telemedicine solutions provider, today announces the launch of its next-generation enterprise virtual care solution, TrustVideo. TrustVideo leverages a revolutionary utilization encounter-based model that allows all providers in a healthcare system […].

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Maryland Passes Legislation for HIE to Operate as State Health Data Utility

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Maryland State Legislature has passed inaugural legislation, mandating the state-designated health information exchange (HIE), CRISP , to operate as the state-designated health data utility (HDU) beginning Oct. 1. – Effective October 1, 2022, state law will require the state-designated HIE to provide data in real-time to individuals and organizations involved in the treatment and care coordination of patients and to public health officials to support public he

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Guy’s and St Thomas’ team up with General Catalyst for tech innovation

Digital Health News

Guy's and St Thomas' is tackling key NHS challenges thanks to a partnership with General Catalyst aimed at supporting innovation.

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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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IntelyCare Launches The IntelyHeart Foundation, Committing $2M to Support Healthcare Professionals

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. IntelyCare, a healthcare workforce management platform in the United States, announces the launch of The IntelyHeart Foundation, a charitable not-for-profit organization. The IntelyHeart Foundation, with support from IntelyCare, will provide need-based grants to healthcare professionals who apply […].

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Are Your Diagnostic Test and Lab Ordering Processes Compliant?

Healthicity

Patients suffering from mental health conditions can frequently resort to self-medicating through drug.

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Health Education England CEO discusses digital workforce issues

Digital Health News

A session at Healthcare Excellence Through Technology (HETT) show was focused on ‘using digital to tackle the workforce crisis and alleviate the backlog’.

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Cyberattacks Reported by Wolfe Clinic, Reiter Affiliated Companies, & SERV Behavioral Health System

HIPAA Journal

Wolfe Clinic, P.C in Iowa has recently confirmed that it was affected by the data breach at the electronic medical record provider, Eye Care Leaders. The attack exposed the protected health information of 542,776 current and former Wolfe Clinic patients. Wolfe Clinic used the myCare Integrity medical records platform, which was accessed by an unauthorized party on or around December 4, 2021, who deleted databases and system configuration files.

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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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Consumers’ and the White House’s Growing Focus on Food and Nutrition

Health Populi

Today, the White House is convening a Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health. So it’s a propitious time to weave together some of the latest research and insights into food-as-medicine and a key determinant of health and well-being. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and current economic stress facing U.S. families and households, the Biden-Harris Administration is bringing together experts and advocates addressing hunger, food and health including Chef Jose Andres (who must be cloni

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Healthcare Industry Warned About Risk Posed by APT41 Threat Group

HIPAA Journal

The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) has issued a warning about the Chinese state-sponsored threat actor tracked as APT41. The group has been active since at least 2012 and has a history of targeting the healthcare sector, as well as education, high-tech, media, retail, software, pharma, telecoms, video games, travel services, and virtual currencies, with companies in the United States frequently targeted.

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Wisconsin Man Gets Probation for Stalking Assisted Living Facility

Med-Net Compliance

A Wisconsin man will spend three years on probation for stalking and frightening an employee of an assisted living facility following the death of his wife, who had been a resident there. The man continued trying to contact the employee and the facility even after he had been banned from the premises, authorities said. As conditions of probation, he was ordered not to have contact with the employee or to be within one mile of the facility.

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Burnt Out of Being Burnt Out – What’s Needed to Really Help Physicians?

Healthcare IT Today

You can’t turn anywhere in healthcare that you’re not seeing people burnt out. It’s gotten so bad that it’s now contributing to healthcare workforce issues. COVID hasn’t helped. Over regulation hasn’t helped. And don’t even talk to me about that yoga room either (It’s nice, but not a real solution to burnout).

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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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Identity-Driven Engagement and Personalized Consumer Experience

HealthIT Answers

On this episode of The Digital Patient hosts Alan Sardana and Dr. Joshua Liu chat with Sara Vaezy about how Providence ideates, incubates and spins out health tech startups, and how they are creating personalized omni-channel consumer experiences and leveraging digital transformation to evolve policy. The post Identity-Driven Engagement and Personalized Consumer Experience appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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McKesson Signs Agreement to Acquire Rx Savings Solutions

Healthcare IT Today

Acquisition aligns with McKesson’s strategic growth focus by connecting biopharma and payer services to patients. Acquisition extends leadership in access, affordability, and adherence solutions, leveraging McKesson’s differentiated platform. Acquisition of Rx Savings Solutions strengthens McKesson’s purpose to advance health outcomes for all.

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MedStar Health Awarded $2M Telehealth Research Grant

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – MedStar Health has received a nearly $2 million telehealth research grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to expand its research collaboration with Stanford Medicine and Intermountain Healthcare focused on telehealth access, safety, and equity. – The grant will allow researchers to establish a patient safety learning laboratory over a four-year funding period to apply a cross-disciplinary, human factors and systems engineering approa

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Bridging the Digital Divide in Healthcare – No Person Left Behind

HealthIT Answers

By Lynda Rowe - The COVID-19 pandemic forced the healthcare community to pivot quickly and deliver care remotely. It offered patients the ability to receive non-urgent care while staying safely in their homes. The rapid shift to telehealth was executed with lightning speed. The post Bridging the Digital Divide in Healthcare – No Person Left Behind appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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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.