Mon.Sep 26, 2022

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NYT investigation finds Providence pressured poor patients to pay

Healthcare Dive

“The result, in the case of Providence, is that thousands of poor patients were saddled with debts that they never should have owed,” The New York Times found.

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AI firm TIIM Healthcare gets exclusive IP for Duke-NUS sepsis triaging tech

Mobi Health News

The technology uses heart rate variability measurements to assess the severity of sepsis in ED patients.

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CommonSpirit posts $1.3B full-year operating loss

Healthcare Dive

It’s the latest system to report that pressures from inflation and expenses are outpacing revenue growth.

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Is Google Meet HIPAA Compliant?

HIPAA Journal

Google Meet is an advanced VoIP and videoconferencing service that can be used by healthcare providers to provide telehealth services, remote consultations, and virtual patient visits. But is Google Meet HIPAA compliant? Google Meet is rapidly becoming the go-to videoconferencing service for organizations in all industries due to its integrations with other productivity tools in the Google Workspace Suite.

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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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Moody’s downgrades Envision, citing high bankruptcy risk

Healthcare Dive

The private equity-owned physician staffing firm faces a deteriorating operating performance that could deplete its cash by the end of 2023, the rating agency warned.

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Digiceuticals: Driving Growth Through Digital Health Services

HIT Consultant

Subhro Mallik, SVP & Head of Life Sciences at Infosys. There was tremendous interest in telemedicine before 2020. However, the COVID-19 pandemic made it a reality triggering unprecedented disruption across the industry. For instance, digital-first healthcare aggregators had been testing programs for telemedicine but, since 2020, the demand for telehealth services has exploded across the globe.

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Nevada Actuarial Study Projects Significant Savings from Public Option Plans

Center for Health Insurance Reform

Last week, the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services released the results of an actuarial study projecting hundreds of millions of dollars in savings from the state’s Public Option plans within the program’s first few years. CHIR’s Christine Monahan takes a look at the estimated impact of the state’s public option-style law. Continue reading → The post Nevada Actuarial Study Projects Significant Savings from Public Option Plans appeared first on Center on Health Insurance Reforms.

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System C to deliver integrated EPR for Circle Health Group

Digital Health News

System C will be delivering a new integrated EPR to Circle Health Group to support its digital strategy and reduce the use of paper.

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New robotic arm at the Kolling Institute to drive joint replacement in Australia

Mobi Health News

It will be used to test implants for hip and knee replacements.

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[Cartoon] Compliance Takes Center Stage

Healthicity

Happy National Compliance Officers Day! Today is dedicated to the people who leave no stone unturned.

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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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Analysis Finds DNR Practices Incorrectly Followed in over 100 Georgia Nursing Homes

Med-Net Compliance

An Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) analysis identified more than 100 Georgia Department of Community Health (DCH) investigations where do-not-resuscitate (DNR) paperwork or practices were not properly followed in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and personal care homes in the past five years. In some cases, staff failed to administer CPR and residents died, even though their medical record indicated they wanted to be resuscitated.

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Big Tech + Digital Health: Even Big-Ticket Mistakes Won’t Dissuade Companies From Healthcare

Jane Sarashon

“Big Tech has the capability to disrupt healthcare, though the complexity of healthcare ecosystems is not making it easy for these companies,” according to Big Tech & Digital Health , a detailed update from HealthXL published last week. The pace of activity among Big Tech companies partnering with, investing in, and acquiring health technology and provider organizations has been dizzying, accelerating in and beyond the pandemic.

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CIO Podcast – Episode 40: Legacy Applications with Mark Weisman, MD

Healthcare IT Today

For the 40th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Mark Weisman, MD, CIO at TidalHealth to talk about legacy applications and EHR data conversion. First, we dive into his move from CMIO to CIO and how that shift has gone for him. Then, we ask him about TidalHealth’s move from Cerner to Epic and the process he went through and lessons learned.

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Everyone Can Be a Winner

HealthIT Answers

New On Demand Healthcare Upside/Down: With guest Bryan Carmody, MD, a pediatric nephrologist and associate professor of pediatrics at Eastern Virginia Medical School. They discuss how medical education is changing and what we can do to fund programs that better fill our communities’ needs. The post Everyone Can Be a Winner appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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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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Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: InTandem Sells Paradigm Oral Health to BlackRock LTPC

McGuire Wood

BlackRock Long Term Private Capital (LTPC) will acquire Paradigm Oral Health from shareholders including InTandem Capital Partners, according to a news release. Paradigm , based in Lincoln, Neb., is an oral surgery and digital dentistry platform. Founded in 2018, the company states that it has partnered with more than 100 surgeons who provide care in 75 facilities throughout the United States.

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What’s Happening at the ONC – 9-26-22

HealthIT Answers

Supporting the adoption of health IT and the promotion of nationwide health information exchange to improve health care, here is what is happening at the ONC, including the USCDI v4 Submission Period, closes on 9/30, a new Data Brief that found fewer than 1 in 5 primary care physicians electronically exchanged patient health information with public health agencies & more!

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New Study Reveals Complex Coding Structures in U.S. For Rise in Medical Billing Costs

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 A study publicized in August 2022 revealed that the complex coding structures used in the United States drive up medical billing costs. This helps to make the U.S. one of the most expensive countries for health providers to [.].

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Physicians Propelling Health Care’s Digital Transformation

HealthIT Answers

Physicians are increasingly seeing the advantages of digital health solutions since 2016 when the American Medical Association first investigated the motivations, requirements, and uses of digital health technology among physicians. The post Physicians Propelling Health Care’s Digital Transformation appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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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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The U.S. Government and Global Health

KFF

This fact sheet provides an overview of U.S. government global health policy and engagement.

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Lawsuit claims Mon Health didn't protect patients from data breach

Becker's Health IT

Morgantown, W.Va.-based Mon Health is being sued over a December 2021 data breach, The (Morgantown) Dominion Post reported Sept. 24.

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We Haven’t ‘Learned the Lessons of COVID’ Until We Remake the Political Economy of Health

Bill of Health

By Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant. Over the course of the pandemic it has been popular to claim that we have “learned lessons from COVID,” as though this plague has spurred a revolution in how we treat illness, debility, and death under capitalism. Management consulting firm McKinsey, for example, writes that COVID has taught us that “infectious diseases are a whole-of-society issue.

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Lyfegen Raises $8 Million to Drive Down Drug Costs and Help Patients Access Life-Saving Medications

Healthcare IT Today

Lyfegen’s value-based contracting software is used by healthcare payers and leading pharma companies, including Novartis, Roche, MSD, Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) and Johnson & Johnson. Lyfegen , a global healthtech SaaS company driving the world’s transition from volume to value-based healthcare for high-cost drugs, today announced an oversubscribed $8 million Series A financing round led by aMoon, with additional participation from APEX Ventures and others.

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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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Biden-?Harris Admin Awards $1.5B to Address Overdose Epidemic

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – The U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), awarded nearly $1.5 billion to support states, tribal lands, and territories’ efforts to address the opioid crisis and support individuals in recovery. – The grants are part of SAMHSA’s State Opioid Response and Tribal Opioid Response grant programs.

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Thoughts on a Vaccine Act MDL

Drug & Device Law

Bexis recently returned from speaking at the 2022 National Vaccine Law Conference. As a veteran of both the DTP and thimerosal vaccine litigations, he was generally interested in vaccine-related product liability issues, so he stayed for the entire conference. He was most interested in learning more about the compensation systems provided by the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act and the PREP Act.

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