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Former CMS chief of staff previews 4 areas of value-based care in 2022

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Value-based care continues to take root in healthcare. It's clear the future of reimbursement will at minimum include a heaping portion of providers being paid for value as opposed to volume. This is why, as the new year approaches, Healthcare IT News has sat down with an expert in value-based care to get his views on what 2022 will hold for the payment system.

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Survey: Telehealth adoption highest among the young, educated and wealthy

Mobi Health News

Rock Health’s 2021 Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey also found an increase in live video telemedicine and a decrease in satisfaction with telehealth compared with in-person care.

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Equity must be embedded in the overall health ecosystem

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

This past week, Vice President Kamala Harris announced the inaugural federal Day of Action on maternal health, aimed at drawing attention to the country's crisis. As Harris noted, women in the United States are dying from childbirth-related causes at a higher rate than in any other developed nation – and the risk is far higher for women of color, especially Black women.

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SMART Health Card Emerging As Model For Sharing Covid Vaccine Data

Healthcare IT Today

In recent times, as the demand for proof of COVID vaccination status has climbed, the healthcare industry has scrambled to find effective ways of sharing vaccine data between varied locations. As readers know, sharing any kind of health data is still a best a challenge, but given the circumstances, most parties involved don’t have a […].

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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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International Medical Center expands on digital offering via new partnership

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Jeddah’s International Medical Center (IMC) is expanding its digital offering by signing a strategic partnership with Saudi Telecom Company (STC), it has announced. The multidisciplinary hospital will reportedly make use of STC’s advanced telecom services “to enhance its medical care services and speed up the digital transformation process in the field of telemedicine,” the company said in a statement.

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Health systems reap big rewards by acquiring practices, but physicians aren’t sharing in those benefits, study finds

Fierce Healthcare

Health systems reap big rewards by acquiring practices, but physicians aren’t sharing in those benefits, study finds. hlandi. Tue, 12/14/2021 - 12:46.

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HHS to distribute $9B in COVID-19 relief funds to smaller providers this week

Fierce Healthcare

HHS to distribute $9B in COVID-19 relief funds to smaller providers this week. rking. Tue, 12/14/2021 - 11:31.

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Xandar Kardian Raises $10M for Contactless Health Monitoring

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Toronto-based startup Xandar Kardian raises $10M to empower digital automation of building control and contactless measurement of vital biomarkers. Xandar Kardian , a Toronto-based digital health startup announced today that it closed a $10 million Series A funding round led by Phoenix Venture Partners , Portfolia Active Aging & Longevity Fund and Taronga Ventures.

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Self Care and Public Health Prevention Measures – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 12/17 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Maram Museitif (@MaramMPH) on the topic “Self-care in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Public Health Preventions.” Our lives have changed forever since the COVID-19 pandemic. The […].

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XIFIN Acquires OmniSYS to Expand into Pharmacy Market – M&A

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – XIFIN enters the pharmacy market with the acquisition of OmniSYS to support the healthcare industry shift to more convenient, cost-effective care settings; provides a technology-driven connection between pharmacies, diagnostic providers, and payors. – The XIFIN/OmniSYS transaction is aligned with this activity and will support retail pharmacies as they move in this direction.

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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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Former CMS chief of staff previews 4 areas of value-based care in 2022

Mobi Health News

Caravan Health President and CEO Tim Gronniger talks telemedicine, staff retention and provider burnout, health equity, and growth in value-based payment.

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UpLift Raises $8M to Integrate Psychiatry with Mental Healthcare Delivery Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – UpLift, a vertically integrated mental healthcare delivery platform raises $8M in secondary funding which they plan to allocate to expand their hybrid model services to include psychiatric treatments in an effort to close the behavioral healthcare gap and optimize the appropriate plan of care. UpLift , the first vertically integrated mental healthcare delivery system, announced their expansion into psychiatry as well as the closing of $8M in secondary funding led by

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U.K. antitrust watchdog investigates Microsoft-Nuance deal following E.U. probe

Fierce Healthcare

U.K. antitrust watchdog investigates Microsoft-Nuance deal following E.U. probe. rtorrence. Tue, 12/14/2021 - 18:22.

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Clearlake Capital-Backed Dude Solutions Acquires Facility Health Inc.

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Dude Solutions, a Clearlake-backed software company acquires Facility Health (FHI), a technology that helps healthcare organizations manage assets and facilities. . Today, Dude Solutions , the leading SaaS provider of cloud-based operations management solutions, backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. (together with its affiliates “Clearlake”), today announced it has acquired Michigan-based Facility Health, Inc.

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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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Supreme Court blocks challenge to New York's health worker vaccine mandate

Fierce Healthcare

Supreme Court blocks challenge to New York's health worker vaccine mandate. hlandi. Tue, 12/14/2021 - 20:16.

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Mental health startup UpLift raises $8M to add psychiatry services

Mobi Health News

The company also plans to expand geographically in 2022.

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Universal Coronavirus Vaccines — An Urgent Need

NEJM

We need a research approach that can characterize the global coronaviral universe, characterize the natural history and pathogenesis of coronaviruses in animals and humans, and apply this information in developing broadly protective “universal” vaccines.

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Ophelia, provider of opioid recovery tool, scores $50M

Mobi Health News

This new infusion of cash brings the company's total raised to $68 million.

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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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aptihealth Raises $50 Million Series B to Scale Higher Acuity Behavioral Healthcare Services

Healthcare IT Today

New capital from world-class syndicate will accelerate growth and expansion of aptihealth’s tech-driven, novel care model for outcomes-based behavioral healthcare aptihealth, the first tech-driven behavioral health provider built to transform higher acuity care, today announced a $50 million Series B funding round from Takeda Digital Ventures, Pivotal Life Sciences, Vista Credit Partners, Olive Tree Ventures, […].

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Remote care management startup Cadence hits $1B valuation with $100M series B

Fierce Healthcare

Remote care management startup Cadence hits $1B valuation with $100M series B. rtorrence. Tue, 12/14/2021 - 15:02.

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The Wild West of Checkpoint Inhibitor Development

NEJM

Although immunotherapy development has improved overall survival among patients with common cancers and has led to important therapeutic advances, rapid expansion of the checkpoint inhibitor class of drugs has been expensive and largely uncoordinated.

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Community Drivers of Health: Policy Paper Series

Kaiser Permanente

Economic and social conditions influence health. A new series of policy papers offers some of the most comprehensive analyses to date of key economic and social conditions that influence health – food, housing and transportation – and shares evidence-based policy opportunities to address them. The “Community Drivers of Health” papers build on policy discussions between experts in the fields of public health and health care assembled by APHA, AcademyHealth and Kaiser Permanente.

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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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RPM company Cadence scores $100M, boosting valuation to $1B

Mobi Health News

The company emerged from stealth in August with $41 million.

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This is How Telehealth Will Impact Your Organization’s Revenue Cycle

Healthicity

Telehealth is changing the healthcare landscape and has evolved dramatically in the past year and a half.

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Centene CEO Neidorff to retire next year

Fierce Healthcare

Centene CEO Neidorff to retire next year. pminemyer. Tue, 12/14/2021 - 10:37.

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Med Claims Compliance Corporation Secures $5.7M in Series A Funding Financing will advance MCC’s development of the AI-enabled platform RemitOne™

Med Com Blog

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. December 14, 2021 9:21AM CST. AUSTIN, Texas – December 14, 2021 – Med Claims Compliance Corporation (MCC), a healthcare platform as a service (PaaS) company, today announced that MCC completed a $5.7 million Series A financing round from leading healthcare venture capital funds and individual investors who are dedicated to revolutionizing the way the healthcare is delivered, processed, and paid.

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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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Texas Hospital’s Vaccination Mandate For COVID-19 Upheld by Federal Court

The Health Law Firm Blog

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., is Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law As some states lift COVID-19 restrictions, the business community is still grappling with the dynamic between the COVID-19 vaccine and workplace operations. To address this, some U.S. employers have elected to adopt mandatory vaccination policies.

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A Busy Day in Court For COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates in Healthcare

Jackson Lewis

Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request to enjoin New York State from enforcing its regulation requiring COVID-19 vaccination for healthcare workers despite the fact that the regulation did not allow for religious accommodations. The Court did not issue any written opinion or rationale but was accompanied by a 14-page dissent by Justice Gorsuch.

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U.S. Global Health Legislation Tracker

KFF

This tracker provides a listing of global health-related legislation introduced in the current Congress.

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Rethink Scheduling: Prepare for Positive Impact

HIT Consultant

Rich Miller, Chief Strategy Officer of QGenda. As with so many other aspects of life, the COVID-19 pandemic has shaken up what healthcare organizations thought they knew about provider scheduling. No longer can they take for granted that existing scheduling workflows will work equally well in all scenarios. If nothing else, the pandemic has taught health systems to expect the unexpected.

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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.