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OIG reports detail errors with VA, Oracle EHR deployment

Healthcare Dive

Three reports released last week detail scheduling and pharmacy problems with the electronic health record integration — including an error that may have contributed to a patient’s death.

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Care transformation via artificial intelligence

Healthcare It News

Artificial intelligence can enhance virtual nursing, quality and outcomes, and healthcare transformation, says Dr. Stephanie Lahr, president of Artisight, a healthcare AI technology company. She shows how.

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Advocate offloads senior home care business to private equity firm

Healthcare Dive

The health system is selling Senior Helpers to Waud Capital Partners just three years after it acquired the home care group.

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Radar-powered AI technology helps seniors age at home

Healthcare It News

Cherish Health's camera-free remote monitoring technology keeps seniors safe while preserving their privacy and independence, says the company's CEO Sumit Nagpal, who explains how it works.

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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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How RPM can scale and sustain CMS' hospital at home program

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just released data on its Acute Hospital Care at Home initiative , which thus far has admitted 11,159 patients suffering from respiratory infections, heart failure and severe sepsis. While the program has proven successful in reducing hospital visits, the level of manpower it requires is costly and likely unsustainable for the already overburdened healthcare system.

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Contract negotiations between Providence, Blue Shield of California go publicly south

Fierce Healthcare

Providence has launched the first public salvo in a spat with Blue Shield of California over ongoing contract negotiations. | Providence has launched the first public salvo in a spat with Blue Shield of California over ongoing contract negotiations.

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CBO weighs in on PBM reform, AI in healthcare

Fierce Healthcare

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) addressed a series of questions from lawmakers on health policy priorities ranging from pharmacy benefit management to Medicare spending. | The Congressional Budget Office addressed a series of questions from lawmakers on health policy priorities ranging from pharmacy benefit management to Medicare spending.

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Strengthening Cybersecurity Preparedness for Small Organizations: Lessons from the Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack

HIT Consultant

Usman Choudhary, general manager, VIPRE Security Group Here we go again. The US health system is in a desperate cybersecurity state of affairs. Another healthcare cyberattack has made the news and it’s a big one. UnitedHealth Group’s technology unit, Change Healthcare, is currently facing an ongoing ransomware attack which has reverberated through healthcare systems and affected prescription deliveries.

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80% of nonprofit hospitals' community investments lag their tax savings, Lown Institute finds

Fierce Healthcare

Four in five nonprofit hospitals are spending less on community benefit areas like financial assistance than what they are estimated to receive in tax breaks, according to the latest annual report | Even after accounting for discounted care and community benefit investments, the money 2,425 nonprofit hospitals saved through tax breaks in 2021 would be enough to wipe out the medical debt of everyone living in California, Texas, New York and Pennsylvania, the Lown Institute found.

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MDaudit Enhances Billing Compliance And Revenue Integrity Platform with AI Capabilities

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. MDaudit, an award-winning provider of technologies and analytics tools that enable premier healthcare organizations to minimize billing risk and maximize revenues, announced today it has elevated the artificial intelligence (AI) and automation capabilities of its […] The article MDaudit Enhances Billing Compliance And Revenue Integrity Platform with AI Capabilities appeared first on electron

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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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CIO Podcast – Episode 71: Data, Analytics, and AI with Richard Clark, PhD

Healthcare IT Today

For the 71st episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Richard Clark, PhD, Senior Vice President and Chief Analytics Officer at Highmark Health to discuss data, analytics, and AI! To kick off this episode, we discuss Clark’s double role working for a payer and provider and how that has allowed him to do things that would otherwise be difficult if he wasn’t.

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The Revolutionary Impact of Healthcare Mobile Apps In Remote Regions

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Amy Groden-Morrison, vice president of marketing and sales operations, Alpha Software. In an era where technology intersects with health to create impactful solutions, healthcare mobile applications are proving to be a lifeline in remote […] The article The Revolutionary Impact of Healthcare Mobile Apps In Remote Regions appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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deepc joins King’s Health Partners Digital Health Hub

Digital Health News

AI company deepc has joined the King's Health Partners Digital Health Hub to help fledgling medtech AI companies navigate regulatory and data governance.

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Redi Health Lands $14 Million Investment to Continue Improving Patient Health Outcomes by Connecting Pharma, Providers, and Patients in One Platform

Healthcare IT Today

Series B Funding Round Led by Blue Heron Capital, with Participation from North Coast Ventures, Refinery Ventures, Mutual Capital Partners, Rev1 Ventures, and M25 Redi Health today announced that it has closed $14 million in Series B funding. The funding round was led by Blue Heron Capital , with participation from North Coast Ventures and existing investors Refinery Ventures, Mutual Capital Partners, Rev1 Ventures, and M25.

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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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Birdie joins Tech Nation’s Future Fifty cohort for 2024

Digital Health News

Birdie is joining Tech Nation's Future Fifty, the only UK-wide accelerator tailored to late-stage ventures with the potential to achieve unicorn status.

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The Self-Prescribing Consumer: DIY Comes to Prescriptions via GLP-1s, the OPill, and Dexcom’s CGM

Health Populi

Three major milestones marked March 2024 which compel us to note the growing role of patients-as-consumers — especially for self-prescribing medicines and medical devices. This wave of self-prescribed healthcare is characterized by three innovations: the Opill, GLP-1 receptor agonists, and Dexcom’s Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) system that’s now available without a prescription.

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Holly Health digital health and wellbeing tool reduces GP appointments

Digital Health News

Primary Care Networks using the Holly Health digital health and wellbeing coaching tool have seen a reduction in GP appointments.

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Midi Health partners with Neurotrack to help identify menopause brain fog

Mobi Health News

The partnership brings care access to often overlooked menopause-linked memory lapses.

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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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Advocate Health sells home care franchise Senior Helpers to PE firm Waud Capital

Fierce Healthcare

Advocate Health has sold off its senior home care business Senior Helpers to private equity firm Waud Capital for an undisclosed sum, the organizations announced last week. | Senior Helpers spans over 380 franchised and owned locations across 44 states, Canada and Australia. Its new owner is targeting further growth.

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ATA Nexus 2024

HealthIT Answers

May 5-7 in Phoenix, AZ, ATA Nexus 2024: Deep Dives into Virtual Care Hot Topics & New Telehealth 101 Bootcamp. Examining our new realities, highlighting the lessons learned and sharing actionable insights and use cases. The post ATA Nexus 2024 appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Medicare Final Rule Decreased Physician Payments But Expands Coverage to Counselors

The Health Law Firm Blog

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law and Hartley Brooks, Law Clerk, The Health Law Firm On November 2, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule that decreased overall payment rates for services provided under the Physician Fee Schedule [.

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What’s Happening at the ONC

HealthIT Answers

Supporting the adoption of health IT and the promotion of nationwide health information exchange to improve health care, here is what is happening at the ONC, including the upcoming quarterly ONC Health IT Certification Program Developer Roundtable, the upcoming USCDI+ Cancer Data Exchange Summit, the HITAC Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2023, & more.

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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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Florida Man Agrees to Plead Guilty in $110 Million Telemedicine Medicare Fraud Scheme

The Health Law Firm Blog

By: George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On February 16, 2024, a Parkland, Florida, man agreed to plead guilty to organizing a Medicare fraud scheme worth $110 million. The federal prosecution is taking place in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The [.

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What was the Buzz at HIMSS24?

HealthIT Answers

HIMSS24 just wrapped in Orlando FL this year. Thanks to Olivia Schlabach from FINN Partners for rounding up some thoughts and takeaways from the conference. The post What was the Buzz at HIMSS24? appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Esformes Reaches Plea Deal in Major Nursing Home Medicare Fraud Scheme

The Health Law Firm Blog

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law and Hartley Brooks, Law Clerk, The Health Law Firm On February 1, 2024, the District Court for the Southern District of Florida announced that Florida nursing home mogul Phillip Esformes had reached a plea deal on pending conspiracy [.

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Private Equity Deal Spotlight | Weekly Update

Hall Render

Health care continues to drive private equity activity, creating opportunities for investors and traditional health care providers. Transactions in the health care space are especially complicated, layering health care regulatory and reimbursement considerations on top of a complex securities, antitrust, privacy and security framework. Hall Render’s private equity team of attorneys and advisors leverage the strength and depth of their bench to navigate and efficiently execute private equity tran

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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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Your Healthcare Compliance Due Diligence Checklist

Compliancy Group

In today’s complex healthcare landscape, compliance is crucial. Healthcare organizations must navigate a multitude of regulations and requirements to maintain the highest standards of care while protecting patient privacy and safety. A healthcare compliance due diligence checklist is one essential tool that can help organizations in their quest for compliance.

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Why Managing Mobile Devices at Scale Matters in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

Healthcare organizations are increasingly reliant on mobile devices for daily operations, enabling tasks that range from clinical communications to electronic record access. The proliferation of devices brings new challenges including loss, security risks, and a strain on IT resources. Managing those devices effectively not only reduces risk, but also improves workflow efficiency says Daniel Siegal, MD, CEO of Navv Systems , a company that offers a mobile device management platform.

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When a Wrong Creates a Life: Tort Responses to Children Born From Institutional Sexual Violence

HealthLaw Prof Blog

Karen Tani (University of Pennsylvania), When a Wrong Creates a Life: Tort Responses to Children Born From Institutional Sexual Violence, 73 DePaul L. Rev.

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The Center for Neuroscience and Behavior at American University Presents The Therapeutic Use of Psychedelic Drugs: Legal, Policy and Neuroscientific Perspectives

HealthLaw Prof Blog

The Center for Neuroscience and Behavior at American University Presents The Therapeutic Use of Psychedelic Drugs: Legal, Policy and Neuroscientific Perspectives; 8:00AM – 6:00PM on Friday, April 12th, 2024. The symposium will bring together internationally recognized experts to speak on.

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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.