Fri.Feb 11, 2022

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'An ever-spiraling upward cycle': nonprofit hospital CEOs paid 8 times more than average worker

Healthcare Dive

The pandemic has given hospitals (and especially their boards, which decide salary) the chance to rethink how they compensate CEOs. Researchers suggest hospitals look into aligning CEO salary with the value they create.

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Digital patient communication: A new best practice for managing hypertension

Healthcare It News

By John J. Janas III, MD, Medical Director, Twistle by Health Catalyst. Approximately half of all adults in the United States have hypertension, or higher-than-normal blood pressure, costing the nation an estimated $131 billion annually. With its human and economic impact, controlling hypertension is a healthcare and community imperative. Individuals with hypertension have a systolic blood pressure above or equal to 130 mmHg, a diastolic blood pressure above or equal to 80 mmHg, or take medicati

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Only 14% of hospitals comply with federal price transparency rules, advocacy group finds

Healthcare Dive

The report said only two of 361 combined hospitals at three of the largest hospitals systems — HCA Healthcare, CommonSpirit Health and Ascension — were estimated to be in compliance with the federal standard.

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Moving Forward on Tort Reform, Addressing Clinical Negligence Compensation Issues

Bill of Health

By John Tingle. The clinical negligence system reform debate in England is proceeding at some pace now with the House of Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee recently receiving expert oral evidence. The evidence has produced some excellent and controversial food for thought along with creating an important change agenda. One area of controversy: whether clinical negligence lawyers are thwarting reform because of their financial interest in the status quo.

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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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Hospital leaders, Congress mull fixes to current staffing woes

Healthcare Dive

The omicron variant is posing new challenges as staff call in sick or quit their jobs entirely for higher-paying traveling nurse positions. That's leaving hospitals in a bind as they treat higher acuity COVID-19 patients.

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Labcorp teams up with Ascension to expand services in several states

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Labcorp announced this week that it had partnered with Ascension to manage the health system's hospital-based laboratories in 10 states. It will also purchase some assets of Ascension's outreach lab business. Through the partnership, Ascension’s clinicians and patients will have access to Labcorp’s diagnostics and at-home test collection services.

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HIMSSCast: Addressing the digital accessibility gap

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Many health IT experts, innovators and vendors have touted digital health as a mechanism to overcome hurdles to care. But at the same time, we also know that digital health tools can exacerbate difficulties, especially for people with disabilities. Josh Basile, community relations manager for accessiBe, joins Kat Jercich, senior editor of Healthcare IT News , to discuss how organizations can ensure websites and other software are accessible for everyone.

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Benefits of Integrating Your Visitor Management and Access Control System For Hospitals and Clinics

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Hospitals and clinics constantly face new challenges that require time, money, and energy to figure out the best solutions. As the need for increasing the value and use cases for expanding technology in healthcare becomes […]. The article Benefits of Integrating Your Visitor Management and Access Control System For Hospitals and Clinics appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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'Much bigger than just a global pandemic': How hospitals can plan crisis EHR documentation

Mobi Health News

In a preview of their HIMSS22 panel, Serena Bumpus of Ascension and Stephanie Hoelscher of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center explain their Texas pilot study on crisis documentation during COVID-19 surges and how it could lessen the burden on nurses.

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CMS Discontinues Prior Guidance on Visitation Restrictions and Rescinds COVID-19 Focus Infection Control Survey Procedures

Health Law Advisor

On February 4, 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued important updated guidance in a memo (QSO-21-08-NLTC ) regarding how acute and continuing care facilities—including hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, end-stage renal disease facilities, home health agencies, and hospices—manage infection control procedures in light of the COVID-19 public health emergency.

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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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Inmediata Agrees to Settle Class Action Lawsuit for $1.125 Million

HIPAA Journal

Inmediata, a provider of clearinghouse services and business process software, has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit filed by victims of its 2019 security breach that exposed the protected health information of more than 1.56 million individuals. In January 2019, Inmediata discovered a misconfiguration on its website resulted in internal web pages containing electronic protected health information (ePHI) being accessible over the Internet.

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Contributed: Precision genomics could work with digital health to disrupt healthcare

Mobi Health News

Precision genomics could impact the payer, provider and life science space.

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The Best Ability Is Availability

Healthcare IT Today

During today’s #HITsm chat, Twitter went down. Well, the web interface for Twitter went down. We could still access Twitter through third party vendors like Hootsuite and Tweetdeck. However, Twitter in a web browser wasn’t loading. Ironically, I went to find a Twitter status page to wonder if this was the case or if it […].

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Digital MSK startup SWORD Health hires Dr. Vijay Yanamadala as CMO and more digital health hires

Mobi Health News

Also: Patricia Baran joins personal ECG company AliveCor, while SDOH analytics platform Socially Determined and virtual surgery startup Proximie both add two new members to their executive teams.

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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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Data Security Assumptions in Healthcare

HIPAA Vault

The problem with our assumptions, someone once noted, is that we tend to assume they’re true. (This, despite that old quip about what assuming does to you and me!) Maybe we’re hesitant to be proven wrong, or are caught up in a feedback loop of what we’d like to believe – what’s comfortable. Why ask. Continue reading.

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Unique Reverse Expo Style Health IT Conference

Healthcare IT Today

As most of you know, at Healthcare IT Today, we attend and track a long list of health IT conferences throughout the year. During COVID that list got even longer as pretty much everyone was offering some sort of virtual event. While each event has its own culture, community, and approach, one event that we’ve […].

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New CHIR Report Assesses the Effectiveness of Policies in Improving Access to Primary Care for Underserved Populations

Center for Health Insurance Reform

It is hard to overstate the importance of primary care in ensuring robust health outcomes at the population level. In a new report supported by the National Institute for Health Care Reform, CHIR experts reviewed research to assess whether policy initiatives targeting primary care access have been effective in reducing health care disparities. Continue reading → The post New CHIR Report Assesses the Effectiveness of Policies in Improving Access to Primary Care for Underserved Populations a

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Get All of Your Favorite Compliance Carl Cartoons for a Limited-Time-Only

Healthicity

Laughter is good medicine. And I think we can all agree that after the past couple of years.

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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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Michigan Hospital Agrees to Resolve Complaint Allegations of Violating ADA

Healthcare Compliance Blog

The U.S. Attorney’s Office has resolved its investigation of allegations that a Michigan hospital and its affiliated medical facility violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by denying patients with disabilities from bringing their service animals into their facilities. The Michigan hospital allegedly refused to allow a service dog to accompany a patient with a disability into the pre- and post-operative areas of the hospital.

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Ada Health closes Series B funding round at $120M

Mobi Health News

Berlin-based digital health company plans to expand in the US market.

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AristaMD Acquires Referral Management Solution, Preferral, to Increase Patient Access to Specialty Care

Healthcare IT Today

Latest investment to address the growing need to align patient access to timely specialty advice in the appropriate care setting. AristaMD, a leading digital health company that provides eConsult solutions to connect primary care providers (PCPs) with timely, documented specialist insights, announces the acquisition of Preferral, a platform for referral management, analytics and document routing.

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Improving Your Medical Billing Efficiency

Medisys Compliance

Medical billing is a much more comprehensive process than just claim submission. Medical billing includes all activities assisting in revenue generation. Medical billing includes activities like benefits verification; coding; verifying patient demographics; claim submission; managing rejection; payment posting; account receivables management; denial management; provider enrollment and credentialing.

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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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COVID-19 Update: New Variants and Vaccine Research

Health Law Pulse

During a recent Q&A, a representative with the World Health Organization warned that the Omicron variant is not the last of its kind. Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove explained that the next variant is likely to be more transmissible and could be more deadly than any of the previous variants. Although receiving the COVID-19 vaccine remains one of the best ways to combat the severity of one’s symptoms, Dr.

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Vance Street Capital Closes Third Fund With $433 Million

McGuire Wood

Vance Street Capital has announced it has closed its third buyout fund, Vance Street Capital III, with $432.5 million. The fund exceeded its target of $375 million commitments. Through the new fund, the firm indicated it will continue to partner with founders, families and management teams of solutions businesses in the medical and life science sectors as well as a few other sectors.

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To be Useful, Online HIPAA Services Must Be Complete

Compliancy Group

When healthcare providers and the vendors that serve them seek guidance about HIPAA Compliance, an internet search for “online HIPAA” is one place to start. . You’ll find promises of (nearly) free training, compliance, or certification offered, but how do these online HIPAA compliance services match what the government requires to be HIPAA compliant?

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2022 MHPAEA Annual Report Illuminates Tri-agency Review and Enforcement Priorities in a Post-Consolidated Appropriations Act World

C&M Health Law

The Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services (“HHS”), and the Treasury (the “Tri-agencies”) released their 2022 annual report to Congress on the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (“MHPAEA”) on Tuesday, January 25. The Employee Benefits Security Administration (“EBSA”) released an FY 2021 MHPAEA Enforcement Fact Sheet alongside the annual report.

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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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AndHealth, the Digital Health Company for Reversing Migraine and Autoimmune Diseases Raises $57 Million in Financing for Growth

Healthcare IT Today

AndHealth today announced the company’s closure of more than $57 million in financing by leading technology investor Francisco Partners, with participation from the American Medical Association’s venture capital arm Health 2047, Kirkland & Ellis and Twofold Ventures. AndHealth is led by former CoverMyMeds co-founder and CEO Matt Scantland and the team that helped grow healthcare […].

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HANYS testimony on state budget highlights member needs

Hanys

"Building upon the initial investments in the executive budget is the best way to begin solving the chronic problems that have challenged our healthcare system for years." Read HANYS President Bea Grause's state budget testimony.

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Roundup: Qure.ai scores £3.2M for AI-aided cancer detection, Comau partners with IUVO to design wearable, and more

Mobi Health News

Also, HCA Healthcare UK opens £26M specialist oncology unit at UCLH.

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CMS Using Medicare Termination to Squash Doctors Involved in Overprescribing Opioids

The Health Law Firm Blog

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law Recently it has come to our attention that there may be a nationwide effort by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) to squelch physicians who prescribe opioids and other narcotic medications. We.

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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.