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California probes Kaiser over enrollee access to mental health appointments

Healthcare Dive

The investigation comes as a strike by therapists over staffing issues at Kaiser facilities in Northern California enters its third week.

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An inside look at a national, bilingual telemedicine service

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Galileo is a recently launched telehealth service that delivers 24/7 primary and multi-specialty care in both English and Spanish. It aims to set itself apart with its fully bilingual service offerings. Dr. Jason Chirichigno is Galileo's clinical systems leader. His goal is to help remove language as a barrier for access to healthcare for the 53 million U.S.

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Court blocks bid to reinstate OSHA pandemic standard for health workers

Healthcare Dive

An appeals court ruled it lacked the authority to force OSHA to make certain rules, leaving discretion up to the workplace safety agency, according to court documents.

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Virtual Care and Mental Health Top of Mind for Employers’ Workplaces in 2023

Health Populi

The concept that all companies are “health care companies” takes on greater import in the wake of the pandemic. The 2023 Large Employers’ Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey from the Business Group on Health (BGH) found that two in three large employers see their health and well-being strategy as an integral part of their overall workforce strategy.

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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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Cigna expanding ACA footprint to 3 new states in 2023

Healthcare Dive

The expansion comes a little over a week since President Joe Biden signed a law extending subsidies for coverage and subsequently creating more stability in the exchanges.

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Study: Symptom checkers' diagnostic, triage accuracy is low

Mobi Health News

A review of studies published in npj Digital Medicine found diagnostic and triage accuracy varied but was generally low, raising concerns about using symptom checkers as patient-facing tools.

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Full coverage: HIMSS22 APAC Health Conference

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

HIMS22 APAC The first HIMSS in-person conference taking place in the Asia-Pacific region since the pandemic will see healthcare changemakers gathering in beautiful Bali from 26 to 29 September 2022. Our reporters will be present to cover discussions on care, data and connectivity, as well as how Indonesia can learn from the lessons of other nations to advance its digital transformation in healthcare.

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Burdened With Practice Administrations, Try Outsourcing Medical Billing Services

Medisys Compliance

The healthcare sector is probably one of the ones that suffered the most from the COVID-19 pandemic. The unfulfilled expenses of COVID-19 admissions have led to a severe financial dilemma for many health care organizations today. As a result of delaying non-emergency cases and canceling elective operations in order to stop the spread of infection, there is also a significant financial loss.

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Is Wix HIPAA Compliant?

Compliancy Group

Wix is one of the most popular web-based services for building, maintaining, and hosting websites. The reasons for having a website are virtually limitless, but if your business must follow HIPAA’s rules and regulations, you must know if Wix is HIPAA compliant. What Makes a Software Tool HIPAA Compliant? Regarding software, there are specific indications of the tool’s HIPAA compliance.

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DeliverHealth Exec Talks Combatting Physician Burnout with Automation Tech & Data

HIT Consultant

Jodie Hilliker, Senior Director of EHR and Managed Services at DeliverHealth. Provider burnout has shown no signs of slowing down in the past couple of years – a fact proven by a recent report found that 45% of physicians have been experiencing burnout over the past two years. As providers and healthcare organizations continue to face burnout, staffing shortages and financial pressures, they must find a way to reduce administrative burdens while allowing for more time spent on patient care

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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 No Surprises Act Final Rule: Implications for State Regulators

Center for Health Insurance Reform

The Biden administration has published its final rules governing the independent dispute resolution process outlined in the No Surprises Act. In a new Expert Perspective for the State Health & Value Strategies project, CHIR's Jack Hoadley, Kevin Lucia, and JoAnn Volk review the rule and its implications for state regulators. Continue reading → The post The No Surprises Act Final Rule: Implications for State Regulators appeared first on Center on Health Insurance Reforms.

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Medical Devices Cleared or Approved by FDA in 2022

HIT Consultant

The medical device industry is booming and shows no signs of slowing down. In 2022, the FDA ( Federal Food and Drug Administration ) will clear or approve over 1,000 medical devices. This is great news for patients who stand to benefit from the latest and greatest technology, but it can be tough for hospitals and doctors to keep up with all of the new devices on the market.

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Third Time is the Charm? Proposed Regulations Strengthen Nondiscrimination Protections for Health Insurance Enrollees

Center for Health Insurance Reform

For the third time, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights has proposed rules to effectuate the application of civil rights protections to the health care industry under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act. If finalized, the regulation will have significant implications for health insurers and provide important nondiscrimination protections for insurance enrollees.

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Facebook Pixel Healthcare Data Leak: Understanding Third-Party Risk for Sensitive Data

HIT Consultant

John Elliot, Security Advisor at Jscrambler. A recent report by The Markup , validated by research published in Patterns , highlights the risk of including third-party JavaScript in an organization’s website. The studies discovered that the Meta/Facebook “pixel” that was included on a large number of hospital and health organization websites was sending sensitive medical data to Meta, possibly in violation of HIPAA regulations.

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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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Theranica raises $45M for migraine digital therapeutic

Mobi Health News

The startup plans to use the funding to expand in the U.S.

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CIO Podcast – Episode 38: EHR Standardization with Rusty Yeager

Healthcare IT Today

For the 38th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Rusty Yeager, Senior VP and CIO at Encompass Health. This time we’re taking a look into EHR strategies and their standardization on the Oracle Cerner solution. Yeager shares details on the rollout of the EHR and the value of having a standard EHR across the enterprise.

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Hackers exfiltrate patient files at Baton Rouge General

Becker's Health IT

Baton Rouge, La.-based General Health System, which operates Baton Rouge General Medical Center, has confirmed that unauthorized individuals gained access to its network and exfiltrated files containing patient data.

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CareHarmony Secures $15 Million in Series A Funding Led by Maverick Ventures

Healthcare IT Today

Investment will fuel development of proprietary CareBlocks™ technology and accelerate hiring to meet increasing market demand. CareHarmony , an AI-powered care coordination solutions provider, today announced it has closed a $15 million Series A funding round led by Maverick Ventures, with participation from Nashville Capital Network. The financing comes as CareHarmony continues to experience exponential growth, serving several of the nation’s leading hospitals and health systems through its car

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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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Harnessing Healthcare Data: How the Right Low-Code Solution Empowers Clinicians & Improves Patient Experience

HIT Consultant

Ryan Kimber, CEO and Co-Founder, Daylight. The healthcare industry has been slowly adopting new technology solutions to improve efficiency and patient care, but it’s still largely known for paper-based processes, and for having massive amounts of data 1. To make matters worse, it’s estimated that 80% of the data in the healthcare industry is unstructured, in the form of discharge summaries, medical images, and clinical notes. 2.

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$25.00 Minimum Wage for Healthcare Workers Will It Go Viral? Which New Laws Are Stayed?

Jackson Lewis

At the start of June 2022, the City of Los Angeles approved an ordinance to raise the minimum wage for certain healthcare workers at privately-owned healthcare facilities within the city. Since June, more cities have passed nearly identical ordinances. There is also a push for a California statewide healthcare minimum wage. However, no formal bill has been proposed and the current legislative session ends on August 31st.

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MedAllies and its Work in Interoperability with CEO Dr. John Blair

HealthIT Answers

Now on Demand Tell Me Where IT Hurts episode with host Dr. Jay Anders and his guest CEO Dr. John Blair of interoperability communications company MedAllies and an expert on moving medical information for a discussion on interoperability and TEFCA. The post MedAllies and its Work in Interoperability with CEO Dr. John Blair appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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4 Types of Policies to Implement at Your Medical Practice

NCG Medical Blog

As you very well know, running a medical practice involves a mountain of paperwork; everything from your standard SOAP notes to your mission statement or various policies and a million other writings all comprise the administrative side of your practice.

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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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Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: Arsenal Acquires Innovative Products & Equipment

McGuire Wood

Arsenal Capital Partners has announced it has acquired Innovative Products & Equipment. Innovative , based in Hudson, N.H., provides automation and product and process development solutions to customers in specialized markets, with a focus on medical device and life sciences. Founded in 1980, the company’s technologies and solutions include automated assembly and test systems, machine vision solutions, integrated robotics and engineering services.

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Hospital Finances Down As Funding Dries Up, Report Finds

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Hospitals and health systems saw decreases in outpatient revenue and operating room time and increases in inpatient lengths of stay from June to July 2022, leading to a decline in financial performance after months of improvement, according to the latest National Hospital Flash Report from Kaufman Hall. – The analysis reveals that U.S. hospitals and health systems are experiencing some of the worst margins since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, with 202

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Untangling the Web of Relationships That Can Make VBC Thrive

HealthIT Answers

By Lynn Carroll & Rahul Sharma - The promise of producing better patient and population outcomes while reducing healthcare costs continues to drive the adoption of value-based care by providers and payers. VBC contracts are projected to cover nearly 65 million Americans by 2025. The post Untangling the Web of Relationships That Can Make VBC Thrive appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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ONC and HRSA Launches USCDI+ Initiative to Support UDS Modernization

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – ONC and HRSA launches a new USCDI+ collaboration to support HRSA’s Uniform Data System (UDS) reporting through the UDS Modernization Initiative. – Last October ONC announced USCDI+ , an initiative to support the identification and establishment of domain or program-specific datasets that will operate as extensions to the existing USCDI.

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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.

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Monday Morning Rounds with CMS

HealthIT Answers

In case you missed it, this is recent communication from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Subscribe to their email lists to keep up to date on all press and news releases. The post Monday Morning Rounds with CMS appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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HHS Office of Civil Rights not ready for healthcare cyberthreat: Report

Becker's Health IT

The HHS Office of Civil Rights is unprepared for the growing healthcare cybersecurity threat, information security experts and officials told Politico in an Aug. 28 story.

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Newest Digital Health Programs Address Digestive Disease Management

Healthcare IT Today

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Top 3 Reasons to Visit symplr at NAMSS 2022 | symplr

Symplr

The excitement is real.

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Generative AI for Contracts Is Here: New Tools to Accelerate Drafting and Editing

The emergence of generative AI is reshaping the landscape of contract management, enabling businesses to generate and negotiate legal agreements with greater ease and speed. In this on-demand webinar, Hal Marcus, VP of Product Marketing at Evisort discusses how Evisort's generative AI transforms contract creation and negotiation, empowering legal teams to streamline processes while reducing risk.