Bill of Health

JANUARY 26, 2022

By Sarah Wang. Incarcerated individuals need health care, but punitive policies make securing access to care particularly difficult among this population, which numbers about 2.1 million as of 2021. As a first step to protecting incarcerated individuals’ right to health, Congress should repeal the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy (MIEP). The MIEP, established in 1965, prohibits Medicaid from covering incarcerated individuals, despite any prior eligibility.

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 26, 2022

Membership targets for the coming year, for one, "look a shade light," one analyst noted, though Anthem said it expects COVID-19 to cause less of a headwind in 2022 than in years prior.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 26, 2022

Uber Health on Tuesday announced the hire of its first chief medical officer. WHY IT MATTERS. Dr. Michael Cantor, a board-certified geriatrician, has more than 20 years of leadership experience, having served as CMO at companies such as Intuition Robotics, Bright Health and CareCentrix. At Uber Health, he'll be in charge of building innovative tools for patients, clinicians and care coordinators.

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 26, 2022

The agency is sending payments to more than 7,600 healthcare providers nationwide this week to help them as staffing shortages and heightened labor expenses pose new financial challenges.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 26, 2022

The United States is in the middle of a mental and behavioral healthcare crisis. There simply are not enough clinicians and therapists to go around as the pandemic and its stresses drag on. The problem is worsened by geography – in rural America, such providers are even harder to find. But technology has a huge role to play in lessening the crisis.

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 26, 2022

A key driver behind spending at the health system is prices, not increased utilization, according to the Health Policy Commission, which is charged with policing healthcare cost growth in the state.

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JANUARY 26, 2022

Michael Cantor is a geriatrician with more than two decades of experience in the healthcare industry.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 26, 2022

Telehealth and remote patient monitoring have proven themselves to be not only convenient but necessary tools for patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic. URAC is an independent, nonprofit accreditation organization – and one of the most influential telehealth accreditors in the world. Dr. Shawn P. Griffin is the first physician to serve as president and CEO of URAC.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 26, 2022

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The Federal Communications Commission approved an additional 100 applications for funding commitments totaling $47.89 million for its COVID-19 Telehealth Program. This is the FCC’s sixth and final funding announcement of approved Round 2 applications.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 26, 2022

Even before COVID-19 placed a significant strain on hospitals in Singapore, health systems such as the National University Health System were looking at ways to move care away from the hospital and into a person's home or community. This shift would help the country better manage an ageing population and increasing demand for hospital beds. THE PROBLEM.

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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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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 26, 2022

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Zach Zettler, president, Updox In 2020, healthcare providers quickly implemented new solutions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, providers evaluated their ongoing needs and optimized their patient engagement and operational processes.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 26, 2022

The med tech company pitches this tool as a way to cut down on clinical trial attrition rates.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 26, 2022

Senate health leaders preview bipartisan plan to overhaul the nation's public health response. dmuoio. Wed, 01/26/2022 - 12:17.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 26, 2022

Dr. John Ciccone, Chief Medical Officer, DSS, Inc. The pandemic has pushed nurses to the brink. A recent survey by the American Nurses Association reports 51 percent of nurses feel overwhelmed, 76 percent report exhaustion and burnout, and nurse-to-patient workloads have tripled. ( Jan. 2021 ). Hospitals function on the back of nurses, and the current burnout levels cannot be sustained.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 26, 2022

Number of ACOs increases modestly to 483 for 2022, which advocates say should be wake-up call. rking. Wed, 01/26/2022 - 13:36.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 26, 2022

What You Should Know: – Today, Honeywell announced it has made a strategic investment in RapidSOS , an NYC-based emergency response data platform, to further modernize and digitize the public safety communications process. – In addition to the strategic investment, Honeywell Connected Life Safety System (CLSS) will integrate with the RapidSOS emergency response data platform to provide faster, more accurate communications with 911 agencies.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 26, 2022

Uber taps first chief medical officer for growing healthcare arm. rtorrence. Wed, 01/26/2022 - 16:24.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 26, 2022

We reached out to six healthcare executives for their trends and predictions on healthcare cybersecurity and ransomware to watch in 2022. Milan Shah, Chief Technology Officer of Biofourmis. Cyberattacks on hospitals and health systems will continue their rapid pace in 2022, but as more providers launch hospitals at home and remote patient management programs and the technology has to traverse enterprise firewall boundaries, it provides attackers an extensive new surface area to attack.

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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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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 26, 2022

In a preview of their HIMSS22 session, Joel D. Ray, vice president of patient care services and CNO, and Julia W. Aucoin, director of practice, quality and research at UNC REX Healthcare, discuss the country's nursing shortage and how tech solutions can help.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 26, 2022

What You Should Know: – Philips introduced the industry’s first full-service, at-home, 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) solution for use in decentralized clinical trials. – The solution is the most advanced patient-centric ECG offering within the company’s cardiac monitoring portfolio, pairing data readings comparable to clinical, site-based ECGs with Philips leading cloud-based data collection and analysis services.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 26, 2022

Infermedica, a leading digital health company, specializing in AI-powered solutions for symptom analysis and patient triage, today announces a $30 million Series B funding round, led by One Peak, and supported by previous investors: Karma Ventures, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Heal Capital, and Inovo Venture Partners. The new investment – which follows a […].

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JANUARY 26, 2022

John Baker, Client Success/Implementation Engineer at AMD Global Telemedicine. Telehealth has been majorly beneficial to millions of patients and providers throughout the pandemic. To continue being efficient and delivering results, however, virtual care must evolve quickly. Healthcare organizations will need to implement telehealth for use cases beyond the reactive video-only model they’ve grown used to during COVID.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 26, 2022

Health cost regulator tells Mass General Brigham to clamp down on spending, critiques $2B expansion plan. dmuoio. Wed, 01/26/2022 - 15:23.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 26, 2022

The merger with the special-purpose acquisition company Social Capital Suvretta Holdings Corp. I is expected to net Akili up to $412 million.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 26, 2022

Biden admin redirected nearly $7B of provider relief to COVID vaccine, therapeutics purchases: report. dmuoio. Wed, 01/26/2022 - 16:22.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 26, 2022

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 26, 2022

NextGen Healthcare eyes opportunities to build up RCM business amid tight healthcare labor market. hlandi. Wed, 01/26/2022 - 12:04.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 26, 2022

As we head into 2022, we asked the Healthcare IT Today community to share some predictions for the new year. I always find it interesting to learn what people think is coming down the road. Be sure to check out all our Health IT Predictions. There’s no topic in health IT that keeps healthcare CIOs […].

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 26, 2022

Maven Clinic adds new positions to focus on evidence-based care redesign. agliadkovskaya. Wed, 01/26/2022 - 09:59.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 26, 2022

Infermedica lands $30 million in Series B funding, and DigitalOwl scores $20 million.

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