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Steward bankruptcy likely as massive debt remains, with few options left

Healthcare Dive

Steward Health Care’s forbearance period ends in less than 15 days. Analysts say this time, creditors are unlikely to extend the embattled company another lifeline.

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Payer content rules put health equity front and center

Healthcare It News

Payers will not only need to comply with the 2024 CMS Final Rule pertaining to materials and content, but they will need to go the extra mile because it affects star ratings, says Ernie Crawford, president and CEO of Crawford Technologies.

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UnitedHealth expects up to $1.6B hit from Change cyberattack this year

Healthcare Dive

Investors on Tuesday got a clearer picture of the cyberattack's financial fallout on the healthcare juggernaut. Some said it wasn't as bad as they'd feared.

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Lawsuit Alleges Obamacare Plan-Switching Scheme Targeted Low-Income Consumers

Kaiser Health News

A wide-ranging lawsuit filed Friday outlines a moneymaking scheme by which large insurance sales agency call centers enrolled people into Affordable Care Act plans or switched their coverage, all without their permission. According to the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, two such call centers paid tens of thousands of dollars a day to buy names of people who responded to misleading advertisements touting free government “subsidies” and other

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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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Cybersecurity takes center stage at AHA annual meeting

Healthcare Dive

In the wake of the Change Healthcare attack, experts advised hospital leaders to increase their cyber defenses. Change will not be the last sector-wide attack, they warned.

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UnitedHealth Group posts $1.4B loss in Q1 amid Change cyberattack fallout

Fierce Healthcare

UnitedHealth Group released its first-quarter earnings Tuesday morning as the industry continues to reel from the massive cyberattack on its Change Healthcare unit. | UnitedHealth Group released its first-quarter earnings Tuesday morning as the industry continues to reel from the massive cyberattack on its Change Healthcare unit.

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House to discuss national data privacy bill with implications for healthcare

Fierce Healthcare

The House Energy & Commerce subcommittee on innovation will hold a hearing Wednesday to discuss data privacy and the protection of kids online. | The House Energy & Commerce Committee holds a legislative hearing to discuss a slate of privacy and online safety bills Wednesday, one of which would give consumers more control over health data collected by apps and big tech.

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Telehealth company Cerebral to pay $7M fine over data sharing

Healthcare Dive

The Federal Trade Commission alleged the digital mental healthcare company had provided sensitive data to third parties and maintained “sloppy” security practices.

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Lawmakers express fury toward UnitedHealth in first Change attack hearing

Becker's Health IT

UnitedHealth Group drew the ire of federal lawmakers during the first hearing on the fallout surrounding the unprecedented cyberattack on Change Healthcare in late February.

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Lawmakers raise healthcare consolidation concerns after Change cyberattack

Healthcare Dive

Legislators also slammed UnitedHealth Group, which acquired Change Healthcare nearly two years ago, for not sending a representative to the House subcommittee hearing.

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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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Cybersecurity Investment in Fundamental Tools and Training Is Key to Securing Your Healthcare Organization

Healthcare IT Today

According to Ryan Witt, Vice President, Industry Solutions at Proofpoint, Inc. , phishing emails are still the most prevalent and dangerous sources for security breaches. In this video, Witt and Joshua Roth, Chief Information Security Officer at Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) , discuss how they protect against breaches through fundamental investments in tools and training.

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LunaJoy Health Secures $4.2M to Launch LunaCare & Address Disparities in Maternal Mental Health

HIT Consultant

S ipra Laddha, MD, Co-Founder & Shama Rathi, MD, Co-Founder at LunaJoy Health What You Should Know: – LunaJoy Health , a FemTech company dedicated to improving women’s mental health, has announced the launch of LunaCare, a novel integrated care program specifically focused on maternal mental health. – The initiative is backed by $4.2M in fresh funding from a distinguished group of investors, including Y Combinator , FoundersX Fund , and Goodwater Capital.

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NHSE awards £8.5m contract to KPMG to ‘promote adoption’ of FDP

Digital Health News

NHS England has awarded an £8.5m contract to consultancy firm KPMG to “promote the adoption” of the FDP by trusts and integrated care boards.

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The AI Blueprint: An Implementation Guide for Revenue Cycle Leaders

HIT Consultant

Michael Gao, MD, CEO and co-founder of SmarterDx Applying artificial intelligence (AI) solutions in hospitals and health systems can be overwhelming for leaders due to AI’s complexity (it’s not one technology, but several) and rapid proliferation. This is in addition to the usual technology hurdles within healthcare that include data quality and accessibility, interoperability, and clinical validation and adoption.

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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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Frazier Healthcare Partners Announces Acquisition of RevSpring

Healthcare IT Today

Investment in Leading Communications and Payment Solutions Provider Frazier Healthcare Partners (Frazier) , a Seattle-based, healthcare-focused investment firm, announced today that it has completed its acquisition of RevSpring (or the Company), a leading provider of end-to-end communication and payment solutions servicing healthcare and financial services companies, from leading private equity firm GTCR.

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Mersey and West Lancashire implement Netcall digital solutions

Digital Health News

Netcall's patient engagement portal, Patient Hub and Waiting List Validation tool have been implemented at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals.

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North Dakota offering affordable cybersecurity for hospitals

Becker's Health IT

The North Dakota Hospital Association has created a new cybersecurity initiative that provides hospitals with an affordable option for cybersecurity services, Grand Forks Herald reported April 14.

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Queen Victoria Hospital NHS FT awards £10m EPR contract

Digital Health News

A £10m contract has been awarded to Insight Direct by Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust for an electronic patient record system.

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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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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Populi

This post follows up Part 1 of a two-part series I’ve prepared in advance of the AHIP 2024 conference where I’ll be brainstorming these scenarios with a panel of folks who know their stuff in technology, health care and hospital systems, retail health, and pharmacy, among other key issues. Now, let’s dive into the four alternative futures built off of our two driving forces we discussed in Part 1.

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Postpartum Support International launches Connect App for perinatal mental health

Mobi Health News

The mobile app aims to make mental health support and resources easily accessible for women postpartum.

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Providers pitch their post-Change cybersecurity policy fixes to sympathetic Congress

Fierce Healthcare

Healthcare providers held the receptive ears of lawmakers during a congressional hearing Tuesday morning exploring cybersecurity and related policy changes to be made in the wake of the Change Heal | With UnitedHealth Group out of the room, lawmakers were happy to entertain providers' calls for greater third-party cybersecurity liability and antitrust during a recent subcommittee hearing.

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Hybrid behavioral health provider Two Chairs scores $72M

Mobi Health News

The Series C equity and debt financing round brings the company's total raise to $103 million. Two Chairs will use it to expand its reach nationally.

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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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Best practices, legislative priorities and SNFs: 4 key takeaways from the NAACOS spring conference

Fierce Healthcare

The National Association of ACOs (NAACOS) hosted a spring conference last week, with sessions on post-acute care, fraud, implementation best practices, health equity and legislative priorities. | At last week's value-based care conference, presenters explained why its best practices playbook has no health equity section, legislative priorities during a lame duck Congressional session and the future of skilled nursing facilities.

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Healthcare spatial data company Kontakt.io raises $47.5M from Goldman Sachs

Mobi Health News

The funds will support the company's global growth and advance its AI-enabled Internet of Things platform.

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Behavioral health provider Two Chairs clinches $72M in equity, debt to expand hybrid model

Fierce Healthcare

Two Chairs, a hybrid behavioral health provider, has closed $72 million in a series C equity and debt financing round. | The company operates in three states with plans to expand to new markets. It will also use the latest capital to beef up its technology.

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Navigating Advance Directives Training for Healthcare Providers

American Medical Compliance

The following Navigating Advance Directives Training for Healthcare Providers is designed to educate healthcare providers on the legal significance of advance directives. During an emergency or at the end of life, you may face questions about your medical treatment and not be able to answer them. You also may assume your loved ones know what you would want, but that’s not always true.

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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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CVS creating new ACO in South Carolina through REACH program

Fierce Healthcare

CVS Accountable Care and inVio Health Network, a collection of more than 600 providers in South Carolina, are partnering to improve care outcomes for 60,000 Medicare beneficiaries. | A new ACO is forming between CVS Health and a South Carolina-based provider health network, aimed at improving health outcomes for 60,000 Medicare beneficiaries.

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Survey Readiness Training for Healthcare Providers

American Medical Compliance

The following Survey Readiness Training for Healthcare Providers is designed to educate healthcare providers on the purpose and importance of survey readiness in healthcare. Surveys may play a large role in your healthcare facility. Also, it is important to understand the purpose and the regulations associated with them. Because of this, AMC can help your healthcare organization become more aware of healthcare surveys.

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Maven beefs up fertility program with focus on natural conception, male fertility care

Fierce Healthcare

Maven Clinic is expanding its fertility and family building program with additional providers and platform enhancements to streamline patient data and invoicing. | Maven has shared the details of its health coaching program, focused on natural conception, and has enhanced its provider portal to enable partner clinics to get paid quickly. It is also expanding its provider network to better support male fertility care.

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US Physicians Embracing Generative AI for Patient Care, But Transparency is Key

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – A new survey by Wolters Kluwer Health reveals a significant shift in US physicians’ attitudes towards generative AI (GenAI). – The study reveals that 40% of doctors are now prepared to use GenAI tools when interacting with patients at the point of care. This marks a rapid rise in acceptance, with nearly 70% of respondents admitting their views on GenAI have become more positive over the past year.

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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.