Mon.Dec 12, 2022

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Progressive lawmakers call on CMS to cull companies with history of Medicare fraud from ACO REACH

Healthcare Dive

At least 10 organizations with records of healthcare fraud and abuse prior to 2021 participated in the direct contracting program last year despite CMS screening requirements, the letter said.

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Unite Us Partners with Paralyzed Veterans of America

Healthcare It News

Unite Us, which seeks to use software to address social determinants of health, will help PVA's Veterans Career Program assist transitioning service members, veterans, military spouses and their caregivers connect with essential resources, like housing, transportation, mental health and more. WHY THIS MATTERS. This population's immediate need is to address a lack of access to basic necessities, which are beyond the scope of the career program, according to PVA's announcement.

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400 healthcare workers wage strike at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Southern California

Healthcare Dive

Those striking include nursing assistants, surgical technicians, pharmacists and other front-line employees who want staffing, safety and wage concerns addressed in new contracts.

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Physician-Led Advocacy for the Future of Reproductive Health Care

Bill of Health

By Katie Gu. The American Medical Association (AMA) recently adopted new policies aimed at protecting access to reproductive health care and reducing government interference in medical practice. As the nation’s most prominent professional medical association, the AMA’s unified stance brings a stronger physician-led voice in reproductive health care advocacy in the aftermath of Dobbs v.

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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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5 hospital shipping oversights that create financial waste

Healthcare Dive

Shipping and receiving may not get much attention in busy healthcare environments, but there are untapped efficiencies that can come from a more robust and centralized strategy.

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Behavioral health is getting a boost from virtual care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Federal agencies release updated privacy guide for health app developers

Mobi Health News

The Mobile Health Apps tool aims to help developers determine which federal laws apply and which agencies oversee different aspects of mobile health technology.

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Amgen to buy Horizon Therapeutics in year’s biggest biotech deal

Healthcare Dive

After outlasting rival suitors Sanofi and J&J in deal talks, Amgen agreed to a deal that values the Ireland-based maker of rare and inflammatory disease drugs at about $28 billion.

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House and Senate Dems want CMS to drop ACO REACH members due to fraud concerns

Fierce Healthcare

House and Senate Dems want CMS to drop ACO REACH members due to fraud concerns. rking. Mon, 12/12/2022 - 16:08.

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Receivables Performance Management Data Breach Affects More Than 3.7 Million Individuals

HIPAA Journal

Data breaches have recently been reported by Acuity Brands in Georgia, San Gorgonio Memorial Hospital in California, and Receivables Performance Management in Washington. The latter appears to have affected more than 3.7 million individuals. Receivables Performance Management. Receivables Performance Management (RPM) in Lynnwood, WA, a business associate of several HIPAA-covered entities, has recently started notifying individuals affected by a 2021 ransomware attack.

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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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Healthcare companies' default risk steadily rising, with most owned by private equity: Moody's

Fierce Healthcare

Healthcare companies' default risk steadily rising, with most owned by private equity: Moody's. hlandi. Mon, 12/12/2022 - 22:05.

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Don’t Let Revenue Leakages affect your Patient Care

Medisys Compliance

Tracking, overseeing, and managing the entire revenue cycle of a hospital is known as revenue cycle management. A hospital’s income cycle is universal. You can choose to effectively manage it or not. It would be similar to not caring for your body if you didn’t manage your revenue cycle. Even though you may believe everything is alright, you are probably losing money and misusing your time.

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EMRs Are Outdated, but Big Tech Is Not The Answer

HIT Consultant

Dr. Roya Azadi, MD – Internal Medicine Specialist in Austin, TX. Over a decade ago, the “meaningful use” clause in the United States Affordable Care Act incentivized Electronic Medical Record (EMR) adoption. The purpose of this directive was to improve the transfer of laboratory data to point-of-care clinicians to help us make better, more informed decisions for our patients.

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$295,000 Settlement Proposed by Conway Regional Medical Center to Resolve Data Breach Lawsuit

HIPAA Journal

Conway Regional Medical Center, a non-profit healthcare system in north central Arkansas, has proposed a $295,000 settlement to resolve a class action lawsuit that was filed on behalf of individuals affected by a 2019 data breach. The data breach in question occurred in June 2019. Email accounts containing the protected health information of patients were accessed by unauthorized individuals after employees responded to phishing emails.

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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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AI/ML Used for Clinical Trial-Site Identification Simultaneously Improves Enrollment Rates and Diversity

HIT Consultant

Lucas Glass, VP of the Analytics Center of Excellence (ACOE), IQVIA. Ethnic and racial minorities are commonly underrepresented in clinical trials. This problem is so severe that in April, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expanded upon existing guidance to further emphasize recommendations to sponsors developing treatments to increase enrollment from underrepresented populations in the U.S., including African-American, Hispanic, Asian and other persons of color, in clinical trials.

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7 Tips for Healthcare Event Marketing – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 103

Healthcare IT Today

For the 103rd episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we are sharing 7 tips for healthcare event marketing! As we share these few tips, we will be debating some questions along the way pulling from our experience attending hundreds of healthcare IT conferences. First up, we dive into whether healthcare customers buy at events. Next, we take a look outward to discuss which company’s event marketing efforts stood out to us.

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Primary Care Shifts to Pharmacy and Retail Clinic Settings, Survey Reveals

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Primary care is continuing to decentralize with more decisions made outside of primary care offices, according to a recent report by Wolters Kluwer. – The Pharmacy Next: Health Consumer Medication Trends survey explores consumer sentiment amid this shift, and offers insight into what safeguards are needed to address their top concerns around medication-related care. .

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ED docs offer better care than nurse practitioners, research finds

Fierce Healthcare

ED docs offer better care than nurse practitioners, research finds. fdiamond. Mon, 12/12/2022 - 16:05.

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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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Brightside Health Launches Telehealth Program to Combat Suicide Epidemic

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Brightside Health today announced Crisis Care , a telehealth program treating individuals with elevated suicide risk. With the addition of Crisis Care, the company will expand its services to individuals experiencing acute suicidal thoughts and behaviors. – While telehealth has improved access to mental healthcare, the majority of virtual mental health services only treat patients with low-to-moderately severe conditions.

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2022 Survey Report from Hundreds of Healthcare Compliance Professionals

Healthicity

Healthcare compliance professionals – wondering what challenges and opportunities your peers faced in 2022? We have just the report for you.

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Home ovulation diagnostic startup Proov brings hormone insights to Google Health Connect

Fierce Healthcare

Home ovulation diagnostic startup Proov brings hormone insights to Google Health Connect. aburky. Mon, 12/12/2022 - 13:11.

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What policies 3 CEOs say they want to drive health innovation

Modern Healthcare

Modern Healthcare asked the CEOs of Ardent Health Services, Virtua Health and Monument Health to share their hopes for regulatory and policy updates in 2023.

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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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Federal appeals court strikes down Biden admin's transgender care mandate

Fierce Healthcare

Federal appeals court strikes down Biden admin's transgender care mandate. hlandi. Mon, 12/12/2022 - 06:58.

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symplr CEO: Healthcare Operations Technology Investment Matters | symplr

Symplr

The symplr Compass Survey of technology leaders, all members of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME),  found them motivated to digitally transform their healthcare operations  despite financial pressure, widespread healthcare workforce problems, and other challenges. Next, we asked symplr's top executives to share their outlook for healthcare operations and technology. symplr   CEO BJ Schaknowski's  responses and reactions follow. .

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CMS proposes cap on non-standard ACA plans, network adequacy standard changes for 2024

Fierce Healthcare

CMS proposes cap on non-standard ACA plans, network adequacy standard changes for 2024. rking. Mon, 12/12/2022 - 17:34.

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Site-Shifting: the Consumer-Driven Pressure on Traditional Healthcare Utilization

Health Populi

While overall U.S. consumers’ utilization of health care has been pretty stable, the type of visit encounters is shifting away from hospital inpatient cases to ambulatory care, urgent and retail health care sites, data from Kaufman Hall and Sg2 tell us. The companies shared insights in a session on Building Relationships with the Modern Healthcare Consumer l ast week, warning that hospitals are facing economic challenges with implications on how they should engage and interact with patient

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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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NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland go live with asthma virtual ward

Digital Health News

Asthma patients under NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland can access a virtual ward to help treat their condition at home after hospital discharge.

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Serena Williams-backed Juno Medical scores $12M in Series A funding

Mobi Health News

The funds will be used to add additional brick-and-mortar locations, recruit new healthcare providers and expand its technology platform.

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Nervecentre wins place on all-Wales ePMA framework agreement

Digital Health News

Nervecentre has won a spot on an all-Wales ePMA framework agreement, one of just three organisations to be included on the agreement.

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American Hospital Association Urges DEA to Issue Special Registration for Telemedicine Controlled Substances

Healthcare Law Today

The American Hospital Association (AHA), on behalf of its nearly 5,000 member hospitals and health systems, sent a letter urging the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to take immediate action to allow telemedicine prescribing of controlled substances before the Public Health Emergency (PHE) waivers expire. The letter exhorts the DEA to publish the proposed rule for a special telemedicine registration, something the DEA has said it would do since 2009 (yes, 13 years ago; not a typo).

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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.