Tue.Nov 15, 2022

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Amazon launches virtual doctor marketplace in newest healthcare play

Healthcare Dive

The company is doubling down on virtual care with its latest health business: a marketplace allowing customers to choose from a network of telehealth providers for a variety of common medical needs.

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The Filter Effect: What Does Comparing Our Bodies on Social Media Do to Our Health?

Bill of Health

By Sarah Gabriele. Filters on social media apps such as Instagram and TikTok are great to take silly pictures alone and with friends, and they often give us a good laugh. However, as Dr. Christine Stabler from Penn Medicine writes , they also create an illusion, a perfection that we struggle to live up to every day. This is the case even if almost everyone is well aware that pictures are filtered and carefully selected, and that pictures do not always represent reality.

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General Catalyst adds 10 new health system partners, including UHS

Healthcare Dive

The venture capital firm connects health systems to health tech startups, allowing partner hospitals to develop new technologies in exchange for the startups testing their products on the ground.

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Provider burnout rates have leveled off, says KLAS report

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Combining research on provider burnout, electronic health record experiences and other data, KLAS researchers address what organizations can do to address staff shortages and patient care. WHY IT MATTERS. Most of the measured contributors to burnout have become less prevalent than they were at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new Provider Burnout and the EHR Experience report from the KLAS Arch Collaborative.

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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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Fitch downgrades TeamHealth as ER volumes, pricing face pressure

Healthcare Dive

TeamHealth staffs healthcare facilities nationwide and is among the bigger players in the sector. ER staffing represents the majority of TeamHealth’s revenue from contracted physician services, according to Fitch.

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Covenant Health uses telemedicine to get specialists to rural areas – and much more

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Covenant Health, a health system based in Knoxville, Tennessee, had a problem with telemedicine – a lack of physician specialists needed in rural communities. THE PROBLEM. Covenant Health began its journey with telehealth a decade prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and served as a pioneer in the region in virtual care. The health system's telehealth stroke program was begun in 2012, developing the region's first comprehensive stroke center.

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Pennsylvania Updates Data Breach Notification Law

HIPAA Journal

The Governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Wolf, has signed Senate Bill 696 into law, which expands the definition of personal information under the Breach of Personal Information Notification Act that warrants individual notifications to be issued in the event of a data breach. The updated law will take effect on May 2, 2023. The updated definition of personal information now includes medical information, health insurance information, and usernames and passwords.

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Maven raises $90M, fueling push into Medicaid, CMO says

Healthcare Dive

Roadblocks for the startup inclulde shifting requirements state-by-state and historically low margins in Medicaid.

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Amazon's latest push into digital health—a virtual clinic for common conditions like allergies and hair loss

Fierce Healthcare

Amazon's latest push into digital health—a virtual clinic for common conditions like allergies and hair loss. hlandi. Tue, 11/15/2022 - 09:18.

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Medical group asks Congress to offset Medicare payment cuts

Healthcare Dive

The Medical Group Management Association wants Congress to take action to help physician practices by the end of the year.

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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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Providing Useful Anonymized Data for Health Research: Subsalt Finds a Blended Solution

Healthcare IT Today

Ever since data went online, health care organizations and others have been struggling to provide useful data for advanced analytics while guarding Protected Health Information (PHI). Data masking, data aggregation, synthetic data, and differential privacy are among the solutions, but each presents difficulties and limitations. Each solution, for instance, requires expert intervention to determine how much data transformation is required to achieve de-identification.

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Nearly 1 in 4 gig workers lacks health insurance, survey finds

Healthcare Dive

A majority of those workers cited affordability as the main barrier to getting coverage, according to a poll from insurance broker Stride Health.

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HLTH22: Google, Epic ink deal to migrate hospital EHRs to the cloud to ramp up use of AI, analytics

Fierce Healthcare

HLTH22: Google, Epic ink deal to migrate hospital EHRs to the cloud to ramp up use of AI, analytics. hlandi. Wed, 11/16/2022 - 02:42.

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Elevance plans to continue aggressive M&A, CEO says

Healthcare Dive

CEO Gail Boudreaux said the insurer plans to grow "very aggressively" into adjacent care services.

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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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The $2.8M Medicine: How Data Can Help Insurers Pay for Life-Changing Therapies Without Breaking The Bank

HIT Consultant

Girisha Fernando, CEO and Founder of Lyfegen. Advanced medical research has brought us to the point where many serious conditions can potentially be treated and even cured – with people who have essentially faced a lifetime of being incapacitated finally able to conduct normal lives. Many of these treatments are drug-based gene therapies–- but they come with an extremely high price tag.

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Sanford Health inks merger deal after failed Intermountain bid

Healthcare Dive

The deal, which is expected to close next year, will create a system with annual revenue of about $14 billion.

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HLTH22: Amazon Launches Amazon Clinic Across 32 States

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Today, Amazon announced the launch of Amazon Clinic , a virtual health service that will operate across 32 states to support more than 20 common health conditions. Amazon Clinic will serve as a convenient virtual care option that offers up-front pricing, and treatment within hours, instead of days—helping customers achieve better health.

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Why Should You Hire A Medical Billing Company Right Before ThanksGiving?

Medisys Compliance

With Thanksgiving around the corner, it’s that time of year when we genuinely think about giving thanks for all the things we’re grateful for in our lives. However, being thankful extends beyond the sentimental warmth we experience over a huge Thanksgiving Turkey meal. Doesn’t it? In reality, a number of studies have revealed that developing the habit of noticing and appreciating the positive has a discernible influence on one’s health and wellbeing.

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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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Exo Co-founder & Board Chair, Janusz Bryzek, Ph.D. Passes Away

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Exo , a medical imaging software and device company, today announces the death of its Co-Founder and Board Chairman, Janusz Bryzek, Ph.D. – Janusz passed away in his home on the morning of November 10, 2022, surrounded by his loving wife and three children. Dr. Janusz Bryzek Bio & Impact. Commonly referred to as the “Father of Sensors” and the “Trillion Sensor Man,” Janusz was a renowned pioneer in the development of micro-mechanical integrated systems (MEMS) tech

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Amazon launches virtual health service with Amazon Clinic

Mobi Health News

The virtual care platform will provide services for nonurgent health and lifestyle needs.

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Verizon and Higi Extend Community Healthcare Access & Services

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Wireless and communications leader Verizon and Higi – a consumer health engagement company announced their collaboration to provide digital health solutions and services that will extend care access for communities and help support preventative health, drive literacy, and identify high risk consumers eligible to be managed via home-based monitoring.

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Northwell Health's research arm studied 35,000 COVID patients for years. Using basic data, it built an AI tool to predict outcomes

Fierce Healthcare

Northwell Health's research arm studied 35,000 COVID patients for years. Using basic data, it built an AI tool to predict outcomes. agliadkovskaya. Tue, 11/15/2022 - 16:23.

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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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How Biosensing Tech Can Alleviate Dehydration in Older Adults

HIT Consultant

Jennifer Corso (Kukral), Upstream Marketing Manager, Physiology, Rockley Photonics. For most adults, the first sign of dehydration is feeling thirsty. However, as we age, our thirst sensation naturally weakens, which means older people may not know that they need more fluids until they’re typically underhydrated, putting them at a higher risk of clinical dehydration.

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Five Former Tennessee Hospital Employees Charged with Criminal HIPAA Violations

HIPAA Journal

Five former employees of Methodist Hospital in Tennessee have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Memphis for criminal violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) for impermissibly accessing the protected health information of patients and providing that information to another individual for financial gain. According to the indictment, between November 2017 and December 2020, Roderick Harvey, 40, conspired with five former hospital employees and paid them t

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Penumbra Launches First Hands-Free, Full-Body VR for Rehab

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Penumbra, Inc. , a global healthcare company focused on innovative therapies, today announced the first full-body, non-tethered immersive virtual reality (VR) healthcare offering. – The latest REAL® System y-Series is the only platform to use upper and lower body sensors that allow clinicians to track full body movement and progress in real-time.

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Midwest nonprofits Sanford Health, Fairview Health Services target a 58-hospital merger for 2023

Fierce Healthcare

Midwest nonprofits Sanford Health, Fairview Health Services target a 58-hospital merger for 2023. dmuoio. Tue, 11/15/2022 - 13:05.

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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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HLTH22: General Catalyst Adds 10 New Health System Partners

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Healthcare venture capital firm General Catalyst adds 10 new health system partners, bringing the number to 15 total. – This first-of-its-kind strategic ecosystem will encapsulate 10% of the US population across 43 states (as well as the largest academic health system in the UK), with a goal to promote health assurance and deliver accessible, affordable and effective care.

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NHS website registers an estimated 1.2 billion visits in past year

Digital Health News

The NHS website has recorded over a billion visits in the past 12 months, with the most popular pages being booking a covid vaccine and the BMI calculator.

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HLTH22: Cyclica Awarded $1.8M Grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to Discover Non-Hormonal Contraceptive

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Cyclica Inc. , a neo-biotech that is exploring the entire protein universe to advance a robust and sustainable drug discovery portfolio, has received a $2.4M CAD ($1.8M USD) grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop new, non-hormonal contraceptives for low-data biological protein targets. – The grant enables Cyclica to apply its validated, AI-enabled drug discovery platform towards the discovery of expanded contraceptive options that can gi

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Interview: Erich Scheunemann, Assistant Fire Chief, Anchorage Fire Department

HIPAA Journal

HIPAA Journal is conducting interviews with healthcare professionals and service providers to find out more about their compliance journeys, how the HIPAA Rules have affected their working lives, and the successes and challenges they have faced with HIPAA compliance. This week, Erich Scheunemann, Assistant Fire Chief for the Anchorage Fire Department in Alaska shares his thoughts.

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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.