Tue.Jul 05, 2022

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Healing within the healthcare community starts with empathy

Healthcare Dive

The U.S. healthcare system can’t take much more employee turnover without compromising care. Overwhelmed and overworked, many healthcare workers don’t feel safe and supported, Qualtrics’ CMO argues.

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Behind the scenes of one of the largest remote patient monitoring implementations and evaluations in the U.S

Healthcare It News

Sponsor: CareSignal Primary topic: Population Health Topic: Innovation Pulse Patient Engagement Population Health Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: Behind the scenes of one of the largest remote patient monitoring implementations and evaluations in the U.

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To aid rural hospitals, CMS proposes rule for new provider type

Healthcare Dive

The rural emergency hospital designation is expected to help prevent facility closures and maintain access to crucial healthcare services.

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St. Luke's University Health proves telehealth is as good as in-person care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

St. Luke's University Health Network realized it needed technology that could help expand care across its 14 hospitals throughout Eastern Pennsylvania and Western New Jersey spanning both urban and rural areas. THE PROBLEM. The organization was looking for a way to not only expand network coverage but also to reduce time to consult. It also wanted to expand access to care whenever patients needed it, which St.

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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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Social needs program for Medicaid beneficiaries can be effective but costly, research finds

Healthcare Dive

The youngest patients enrolled in the program saw the greatest reduction in healthcare use while less of an impact was seen among older patients. Also, 60% of patients enrolled in the program did not engage.

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Personalizing health education and outreach by using data

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Direct Primary Care Engages Physicians as Much as Patients

Healthcare IT Today

Since the arrival of COVID-19 it is rare to hear physicians talk about their work with excitement and enthusiasm. Yet, that is exactly what happens when you sit down for a discussion about Direct Primary Care (DPC). This new model of care is engaging physicians as much as the patients they serve. The only question is whether this enthusiasm will continue to spread.

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Ransomware attack on finance company affects 600 hospitals, practices

Becker's Health IT

More than 600 healthcare organizations have been affected by a February data breach on accounts receivable management company Professional Finance Company's network.

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How AI Can Accurately Detect Diabetes Through Retinal Images

HIT Consultant

Recent advancements in AI have demonstrated that AI can accurately detect diabetes through the analysis of retinal images that retina experts would consider healthy. To better understand this achievement, it is worth taking a step back to understand the context and magnitude of the achievement. Diabetes is a chronic health condition that affects the body’s ability to metabolize glucose, resulting in high levels of sugars in the bloodstream.

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Data Breaches Reported by University Pediatric Dentistry, OrthoNebraska, Michigan Avenue Immediate Care

HIPAA Journal

University Pediatric Dentistry in Buffalo, NY, has started notifying 6,843 patients that some of their protected health information has been exposed in an email security incident. The email system was immediately secured when the breach was detected with the forensic investigation confirming that two email accounts had been accessed by an unauthorized third party between January 12, 2022, and January 19, 2022.

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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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Path to Predictive Patient Data: Silencing The Noise of Healthcare

HIT Consultant

Shane Cooke, CEO and President of Etiometry. As the healthcare industry is experiencing major changes in the wake of the pandemic, how do we cut through the noise of beeping monitors and the constant influx of data each patient produces in a given moment to ensure optimal care, especially for critically ill patients? Instead of adding a new beep or silencing the existing ones, why not build a path through the noise with data?

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WebMD acquires analytics specialist Mercury Healthcare

Mobi Health News

As part of the deal, Mercury will join WebMD Provider, the company’s business focused on consumer/physician engagement and clinical education.

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Technology and Advanced, Team-based Primary Care – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 7/8 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Christopher Crow, MD ( @catalysthg ) on the topic “Technology and Advanced, Team-based Primary Care. ”. Primary care providers face a unique dichotomy: Never have they been more valuable… and never has their future been more uncertain.

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Sajid Javid resigns as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

Digital Health News

The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has resigned saying he “can no longer continue in good conscience” Sajid Javid announced his resignation on Twitter on July 5 and posted a copy of the letter he sent to Prime Minister, Boris Johnson. I have spoken to the Prime Minister to tender my resignation […].

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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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Price transparency rule leads to insurer confusion

Modern Healthcare

Health insurance companies could be fined $100 per member for every day they delay posting required information.

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Revealed: The finalists of the 2022 Digital Health Awards

Digital Health News

The best and brightest digital leaders from across the healthcare landscape have been recognised as the Digital Health Award finalists are revealed. .

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PainChek to develop pain assessment app for children with disabilities

Mobi Health News

The company has received backing from the state government of Western Australia.

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Back to the Basics of Compliance

Healthicity

“Keep It simple, stupid.” This is a famous project management/design principle with the well-known acronym KISS.

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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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The Increasing Importance of Payments in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

For a long time in healthcare, payments weren’t really that important in healthcare because a majority of a healthcare organizations revenue came from payers. As high deductible plans entered the fray, patient payments started to matter much more. As we continue to improve the consumer experience with a wide variety of digital health platforms, it seems like every health IT solution out there needs to think about how they’re approaching payment collection to create a seamless exper

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Why Is Interoperability Important In Healthcare? | symplr

Symplr

It’s the reason why patients can send healthcare data from their Bluetooth-enabled blood pressure cuff to their provider’s electronic health record (EHR). It’s how an emergency room (ER) physician can access test results from a patient’s cardiologist with the click of a button. Or why a primary care physician can directly send electronic care summaries to a gastroenterologist when referring patients.

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Health IT Hires, Appointments, and Who’s Hiring

HealthIT Answers

Latest announcements made from companies and organizations on hiring include Kyruus, Health2047, Forma Therapeutics, Kipu Health, GV20 Therapeutics, Cellino Biotech, Inc., Vori Health, LifePoint Health, Kaia Health, NextGen Healthcare, Caravan Health, Sphere, & Trusted Health. The post Health IT Hires, Appointments, and Who’s Hiring appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Unpacking Averages: Common Root Causes Driving Medical Device Recalls

Health Law Advisor

Recalls have always been a bit of a double-edged sword. Obviously, companies hate recalls because a recall means their products are defective in some manner, potentially putting users at risk and damaging the brand. They are also expensive to execute. But a lack of recalls can also be a problem, if the underlying quality issues still exist but the companies are simply not conducting recalls.

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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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HHS Seeking Public Comment on Strengthening Primary Health Care

HealthIT Answers

The public comment period will be open for 36 days starting June 27, 2022, through August 1 at 11:59 PM ET. HHS is committed to transparency and providing opportunities for public participation during the development of the plan. The post HHS Seeking Public Comment on Strengthening Primary Health Care appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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HIPAA Covers a Lot Less Than People Think. But Beware of Other US Privacy Laws.

HIPAA & Health IT

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 may be the most well-known privacy law in the United States, but it is also one of the most misunderstood. Many people don’t even get the acronym correct. It is HIPAA, with one P and two A’s. “More often than not when someone mentions a situation where they think the law protects their privacy, they’re wrong,” reads a new Consumer Reports article , which lays out situations where HIPAA doesn’t apply, Read the details in this post t

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Recap of AHLA’s Annual Meeting

Healthcare Law Blog

The AHLA’s Annual Meeting held June 27-29 in Chicago reunited healthcare attorneys across the country. The diverse group of attendees were eager not only to reconnect in-person, but also to process the changes that the now-easing pandemic has brought to all corners of the healthcare industry. The conference presenters grappled in real-time with the transitory nature of the healthcare landscape today, including the significant role that technology has played in driving shifts in care delivery.

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HHS Issues Guidance in Light of Dobbs Decision

HIPAA & Health IT

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued guidance on June 29 discussing privacy protections under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) in the wake of the Dobbs decision. Health care providers will need to evaluate whether they are permitted to disclose an abortion patient’s Protected Health Information (PHI) under HIPAA.

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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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How to Revive Your Healthcare Quality Assurance Program Post Pandemic

HealthIT Answers

By Joni Orand - For quality professionals, job number one is jump starting healthcare quality initiatives that took a back seat during the height of COVID-19. As hospital staff were stretched thin and supply chains were disrupted CMS even temporarily suspended quality reporting requirements for Medicare quality programs in 2020. The post How to Revive Your Healthcare Quality Assurance Program Post Pandemic appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Optimize Your Healthcare Supply Chain to Handle Shortages, Control Costs | symplr

Symplr

Healthcare supply chain leaders are struggling to procure medical supplies amid widespread shortages. Supply chain disruptions stem from component scarcities, backlogged ports, transportation glitches, and lockdowns in China to combat the spread of COVID-19. Optimizing healthcare supply chain operations—making them flexible, resilient, and proactive—is essential to keep hospitals operating in normal times and in crises.

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Understanding Basics of Medicare Overpayment

Medisys Compliance

What is Medicare Overpayment? An overpayment is a payment made to a provider exceeding amounts due and payable according to existing laws and regulations. Identified overpayments are debts owed to the federal government. Laws and regulations require CMS recover overpayments. This fact sheet describes the overpayment collection process. A Medicare overpayment exceeds regulation and statute properly payable amounts.

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Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: TPG to Take Convey Private for $1.1 Billion

McGuire Wood

TPG Capital will take Convey Health Solutions Holdings (NYSE: CNVY) private, according to a news release. Convey , based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., is a specialized healthcare technology and services company. Founded in 2001, the company solutions, designed for government-sponsored health plans, are designed to support member interactions, compliance and Medicare processes.

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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.