Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 9, 2023

The following is a guest article by Patrick Reetz, Chief Product Officer at LinkLive The pandemic was the catalyst for digital healthcare and transforming modern patient care. But it happened abruptly, leaving many challenges in its wake. Dragged into this rapid shift, healthcare organizations adopted a plethora of communication endpoints without assessing their core attributes: adaptability, functionality, interoperability, effectiveness, and reliability.

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Healthcare Dive

JUNE 9, 2023

Regulators said they're trying to work around restrictions regarding what groups Medicare is allowed to pay as they look to address social determinants of health.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 9, 2023

IDC Research's Research Director, Value-based Healthcare IT Transformation Strategies, Jennifer Eaton had this to say in recent research: "To meet consumer needs and demands, healthcare is using technology more than ever to support meaningful, productive and engaging interactions. Using comprehensive data collection and deep learning insights are further supporting these efforts by highlighting individual needs and preferences that in turn creates a more engaged customer and can lead to

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JUNE 9, 2023

The Making Care Primary Model, which will begin next summer in eight states, aims to strengthen primary care delivery, particularly for safety net and small or independent organizations.

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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

Bill of Health

JUNE 9, 2023

By Zainab Ahmed Psychiatric care in the Emergency Department is all-or-nothing and never enough. Often, legal holds are the only intervention available, and they rarely are therapeutic. Upon discharge, our patients are, once again, on their own. The ED acts as a safety-net for a failing health system, one that places little value on mental health services, either preventative or follow-up.

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Healthcare Dive

JUNE 9, 2023

Professors at the University of Arizona argue for more robust infrastructure to understand and research long COVID-19, which impacts one in five Americans.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 9, 2023

Patients throng to communities where they can get practical life advice in a depth that only fellow patients can offer. Belong.Life is an online community and app designed to combine many forms of support patients benefit from. According to Irad Deutsch, co-founder and CTO, the average patient engages on the platform 15 times per month, demonstrating its value.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 9, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission is building out its deep dive into the pharmacy benefit management industry yet again. | The Federal Trade Commission is building out its deep dive into the pharmacy benefit management industry yet again.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 9, 2023

The Supreme Court has ruled against the government, which means federal prosecutors will have to curb identity theft charges and restrict them to cases where the misuse of another person’s identification is the crux of the criminal offense, rather than the current broad interpretation that allows identity theft charges for fraudulent billing, where the use of another person’s identification is merely an ancillary feature of a billing method.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 9, 2023

Walgreens Boots Alliance sold its remaining stake in post-acute care and infusion services company Option Care Health for $330 million. | Walgreens Boots Alliance sold its remaining stake in post-acute care and infusion services company Option Care Health for $330 million.

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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.

HIT Consultant

JUNE 9, 2023

What You Should Know: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently released its Fentanyl Study Dashboard, an innovative tool that utilizes data from the Toxicology Investigators Consortium (ToxIC), to track and monitor nonfatal overdose trends associated with fentanyl. The dashboard, “Fentalog Study: A Subset of Nonfatal Suspected Opioid-Involved Overdoses with Toxicology Testing” went live in May of 2023 aims to provide vital insights to healthcare professionals, policymake

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 9, 2023

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a 43-drug list of the Medicare Part B prescription treatments that must repay the program for raising prices above the rate of inflati | The non-final list of 43 prescription drugs and biological products could save Medicare beneficiaries anywhere from $1 to $449 per average dose in out-of-pocket costs from July 1 to Sept. 30.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 9, 2023

See the first article in this series on lab testing and health IT. Where doctors are reimbursed for each test, it’s well known that they order more tests than necessary. Over time, payers have tightened criteria for reimbursements. The difficult trick is to balance the value of a test against the cost, which comes out of the clinician’s bottom line.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 9, 2023

Many retail pharmacies do not have buprenorphine in stock, posing a problem for opioid use disorder (OUD) patients, a new study shows. | Pharmacies don’t keep every medication in stock. But that should be the case for buprenorphine, which is time-sensitive for opioid use disorder patients, the study's author argues.

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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

HIPAA Journal

JUNE 9, 2023

A zero-day vulnerability in the MOVEit file transfer service (CVE-2023-34362) started to be exploited by a cyber threat actor at scale over the Memorial Day weekend. Progress Software issued an advisory about the vulnerability on May 31, 2023, and rapidly released patches to fix the flaw, but not in time to prevent mass exploitation of the vulnerability.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 9, 2023

Simple HealthKit has inked a deal with Walmart to bring at-home diagnostic tests, including diabetes, respiratory wellness and sexual wellness labs, to the largest retailer in the world. | Simple HealthKit has inked a deal with Walmart to bring at-home tests, including diabetes, respiratory wellness and sexual wellness labs, to the largest retailer in the world.

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Digital Health News

JUNE 9, 2023

Performance capture technology used in Hollywood films is being researched for the benefits it could bring to rehabilitation for stroke patients.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 9, 2023

A district court judge in Indiana has ruled in favor of the plaintiff in a lawsuit alleging negligence for failing to prevent a breach of protected health information, ruling that there is no common law duty in Indiana to ensure the confidentiality of data provided to a vendor. The lawsuit was filed by Trinity Health and its insurer, Aspen American Insurance Company (AAIC), against Blackbaud, a provider of software and support services.

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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.

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Digital Health News

JUNE 9, 2023

Digital Health’s monthly roundup of contacts and go lives features Great Ormond Street and Roche UK partnering to improve children’s care using AI.

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 9, 2023

Alberta Spreafico, managing director of digital health and innovation at Healthware, shares how the report can guide companies' go-to-market strategies for entering the European market.

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Health IT Security

JUNE 9, 2023

MercyOne Clinton Medical Center in Iowa is actively working on network restoration, following a cybersecurity incident that disrupted its systems.

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 9, 2023

Yuvo Health, a tech-enabled platform focused on federally qualified health centers, and value-based care company Syntax Health also secured funding.

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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

Digital Health News

JUNE 9, 2023

The NHS plans to set up an academy to train new data and analytics specialists and could look to the private sector to fund the training.

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Total Medical Compliance Resources

JUNE 9, 2023

With the end of the federal COVID-19 public health emergency on May 11, 2023, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) updated its guidance relating to collecting public health data. The CDC updates are as follows: 1. The CDC will no longer receive data to publish the Community Transmission levels of COVID-19. Healthcare facilities should check with local health departments on community activity. 2.

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Digital Health News

JUNE 9, 2023

A new report has been published looking at the benefits of more widespread adoption of cloud technology within the healthcare sector.

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Total Medical Compliance Resources

JUNE 9, 2023

In healthcare, maintaining high ethical standards and responsible practices are paramount to providing quality care and preserving patient trust. To achieve these goals, a healthcare code of conduct (HCC) plays a pivotal role. An HCC is a set of guidelines and principles that govern the behavior and actions of healthcare professionals – it serves as a moral compass that defines standards and expectations for those in the industry.

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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.

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Becker's Health IT

JUNE 9, 2023

Russian-backed ransomware gang Clop, who is known for targeting the healthcare industry, has been exploiting a new vulnerability, MOVEit Transfer.

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Jackson Lewis

JUNE 9, 2023

A bill to amend the state physician non-compete statute (Conn. Gen. Stat. § 20-14p) and to add non-compete protections for advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) and physician assistants (PAs) has passed the Connecticut legislature. Governor Ned Lamont is expected to sign the bill soon. For physicians, the new law will go into effect July 1, 2023.

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The Health Law Firm Blog

JUNE 9, 2023

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law Many healthcare professionals are unaware of the adverse long-term collateral effects of Medicare revocation or exclusion on their careers and future employment. However, if you are a physician, dentist, nurse, mental health counselor, psychologist, pharmacist, physician assistant, nurse [.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JUNE 9, 2023

Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision holding that the aggravated identity theft statute –and its mandatory minimum of two years – is not triggered merely because someone else’s identification facilitates or furthers the offense in some way. See Dubin v. United States. We have seen a growing trend of the government adding aggravated identity theft in healthcare fraud cases.

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In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.