Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
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.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
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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Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
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.
Bill of Health
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
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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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?
Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
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.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
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.
Health Care Compliance Brief brings together the best content for health law & compliance professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
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.
Electronic Health Reporter
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
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.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
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.
Health Law Advisor
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
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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Center for Health Insurance Reform
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
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
HIPAA Journal
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
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.
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
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 […].
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
Precision genomics could impact the payer, provider and life science space.
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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.
HIPAA Vault
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
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.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
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.
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
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 […].
Healthicity
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
Laughter is good medicine. And I think we can all agree that after the past couple of years.
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Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
Berlin-based digital health company plans to expand in the US market.
Healthcare Compliance Blog
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
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.
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
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.
Medisys Compliance
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
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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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.
Health Law Pulse
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
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.
McGuire Wood
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
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.
Compliancy Group
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
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?
C&M Health Law
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
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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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.
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
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 […].
Hanys
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
"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.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
Also, HCA Healthcare UK opens £26M specialist oncology unit at UCLH.
The Health Law Firm Blog
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
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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