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75% of infusion pumps have cyber flaws, putting them at risk from hackers, study finds

Healthcare Dive

An analysis of more than 200,000 infusion pumps, using crowd-sourced data supplied by healthcare organizations, found about half were susceptible to "critical" and "high" severity cybersecurity vulnerabilities.

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Balancing Patient Rights and Costs in Medical Malpractice Claims

Bill of Health

By John Tingle and Amanda Cattini. The issue of the high and increasing costs of clinical negligence (medical malpractice) in the National Health Service ( NHS ) in England has long been a contentious one. There are common themes in the debate. The economic arguments supporting reform explain that the NHS is spending a considerable amount of money out of its health budget on malpractice claims, which otherwise could be put into front line health care services.

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CVS CIO: Data ecosystem development for a consumer-first healthcare experience

Healthcare Dive

Organizations need to have intelligent, integrated data platforms to make rapid innovation possible, CVS' Roshan Navagamuwa argues.

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How pilots, bartenders and retired nurses helped one city boost vaccine access

Healthcare It News

In January 2021, the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness went live with LouVax, a vaccine scheduling and management system focused on increasing access to the COVID-19 vaccine. After operating on paper for a few weeks, the agency launched the tool. The initial focus was on specific groups such as healthcare workers outside of hospital systems and educators, but expanded later to the general public – with an emphasis on those facing barriers to care.

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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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FDA warns about unauthorized versions of rapid COVID-19 tests from 3 manufacturers

Healthcare Dive

The manufacturers have all received emergency use authorizations for antigen tests. But the FDA has learned some unauthorized versions of their diagnostics have entered the country.

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NYU Langone finds success in slimming down EHR note bloat

Healthcare It News

Patients are more connected to their care than ever before and are empowered to access information, such as clinical notes. They are now the top users of the NYU Langone Health's electronic health record, something Nader Mherabi, NYU Langone Health's chief digital and information officer, frequently points out. And, as Dr. Jonah Feldman, medical director of clinical transformation and chief transformation officer for NYU Langone Hospital Long Island Hospital explained, when it comes to e

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Tech is poised to transform the pharmacy experience for patients

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Primary care physician turnover costs payers almost $1B every year, study finds

Healthcare Dive

Disruptions in care continuity when primary care providers leave their practices was a costly issue even before the pandemic, according to the American Medical Association.

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Virtual care enhances experience for chronically ill patients

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Allscripts selling hospital EHR business to Canadian holding company for $700M

Healthcare Dive

The segment includes much of Allscripts' legacy EHR business, and assets that make up roughly three-fifths of the Chicago-based company's total revenue.

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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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T? Ora Compass Health, Pinnacle launch after-hours telehealth service

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary health organisations T? Ora Compass Health and Pinnacle Midlands Health Network have developed and launched a new telehealth service providing after-hours care. Practice Plus offers same-day appointments of after-hours virtual consultation on weekday evenings from 5-10 pm and on weekends from 8 am-8 pm. It also enables sending electronic prescriptions directly to patients' preferred pharmacies via the NZ ePrescription Service.

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Tech is poised to transform the pharmacy experience for patients

Mobi Health News

UMPC's chief pharmacy officer Chronis Manolis discusses the future of pharmacies ahead of HIMSS22.

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Researchers to facilitate telemedicine for managing chronic illnesses in rural Pakistan

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A research team from the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health is looking to implement telemedicine for managing chronic diseases in Pakistan to study whether it can be used by specialists in the cities to support health providers in rural communities. According to a media release, the team will deploy digital technologies, such as the ECHO training platform, to enable senior doctors in Karachi, a capital city in the south, to mentor health workers and see patients in ru

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Going Legit: Sorting “Truth vs. Trash” in Online Health Information

Healthcare IT Today

The following article includes contributions by Geri Lynn Baumblatt & Teresa Wagner. Most kids grow up online. And for 70% of teens, their first source of health information is the web. It’s easier to use their phone, and they may not feel comfortable asking parents or teachers. Sometimes they do a search to find out […].

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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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Lynx Launches with $17.5M for API-Connected Healthcare Payments

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Lynx , a Boston-based API-connected healthcare payments, banking, and e-commerce platform announced today that it has emerged from stealth with $17.5M in equity financing led by Obvious Ventures and.406 Ventures with participation from Frist Cressey Ventures. Other investors include Winter Street Ventures (an investment subsidiary of Commonwealth Care Alliance ), Shields Capital , and Huntington Avenue Ventures. – Lynx’s goal is to introduce modern fintech to

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Technology and Healthcare Support Relieving Burnout

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Adrian Johansen, freelance writer; @AdrianJohanse18. Nursing burnout has been called a pandemic second to COVID-19, and it’s co-terrorizing society with its consequences for healthcare. Exhausted, overburdened medical professionals cannot be expected to do their best work. […].

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Monongalia Health System Suffers Another Major Data Breach

HIPAA Journal

West Virginia-based Monongalia Health System (Mon Health) has announced it was the victim of a cyberattack that has exposed patient, employee, and contractor data. This is the second major data breach to be reported by the health system in the past 12 months. Mon Health has confirmed that these two data breaches are separate incidents, although it is unclear at this stage if they are in any way related.

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Bringing Medication Reconcilliation and Pharmacovigilance from France

Healthcare IT Today

One thing I’ve learned as I’ve traveled the world is that many of the challenges we face in healthcare are the same around the world. Certainly, there are different ways that healthcare is paid for which provides unique challenges, but so many of the problems we face in the US are things that healthcare everywhere […].

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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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Withings, Calibrate focus on weight management, Dexcom lands breakthrough device designation and other digital health briefs

Mobi Health News

Also: the Surgeon General asks big tech for COVID-19 misinformation data, and Eden Health launches a personal care offering.

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REACHing Beyond the Direct Contracting Model: CMS Announces the New ACO REACH Model Application Period

Hall Render

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) recently announced the ACO Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (“REACH”) Model. The ACO REACH Model is designed to replace the Global and Professional Direct Contracting (“GPDC”) Model, which we previously discussed here. The application period for the ACO REACH Model opens Monday, March 7, 2022, and closes April 22, 2022, with an effective date of January 1, 2023.

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Vaccinating the World: How Does the U.S. Stack Up Against Other Donors?

KFF

This analysis looks at the amount of funding for vaccines and the number of vaccine doses that have been donated to the global COVID-19 vaccine effort and standardizes these donations based on the size of donor economies.

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Report: Mental health startups raise $5.5B globally in 2021

Mobi Health News

That amounts to a 139% increase from 2020, according to CBInsights' State of Mental Health Tech 2021 Report.

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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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ViVE 2022 Announcements and Solutions

Healthcare IT Today

Next week is the first ViVE 2022 conference happening in Miami, FL. We’ll be covering the event here at Healthcare IT Today and sharing all the interesting insights and perspectives we find. Plus, you can expect some great Healthcare IT Today interviews from the conference as well. With so many companies at the event, we […].

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Drug discovery startup ArrePath scores $20M and more digital health fundings

Mobi Health News

Also: Rupa Health raised $20 million for its lab test platform, and CancerIQ scooped up $14 million in Series B funding.

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How Support Automation Enhances Clinical Trial Management

HIT Consultant

David Karandish, CEO of Capacity. The life of a clinical study relies on data from documentation, meetings, emails and calls; all of which can be overwhelming for patients, clinical trial teams and associates. Although mundane, documenting, executing and collecting data is crucial to move a trial from phase to phase. Clinical trial teams face a multitude of competing priorities, from evaluating hundreds of potential patients to maintaining compliance and recording patient progress.

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Roundup: Manage My Health adds diary feature, Synergy Radiology partners with SNAC for AI medical imaging, and more briefs

Mobi Health News

Also, Synapse Medical's billing system has been integrated into IMEXHS's medical imaging software.

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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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California DIR Takes Aim at Public Works Construction Sites – Construction Employers Should Review Workplace Safety Compliance

OSHA Law Blog

The Department of Industrial Relations’ (DIR) Labor Enforcement Task Force (LETF) has announced an initiative to inspect publicly funded construction sites to ensure employers provide worker’s compensation and follow labor laws, including workplace health and safety requirements. With this new focus, construction employers who work on public works projects should review their workplace compliance to avoid citations.

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Qventus Announces $50 Million Growth Capital Round Led by THL and Strategic Partnership with Premier, Inc.

Healthcare IT Today

Investment and partnership position Qventus to expand its market presence and technology offering Qventus, Inc. (“Qventus” or the “Company”), the leading provider of AI-powered software for care operations, today announced a growth investment led by Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. (“THL”), a premier private equity firm investing in growth companies, and a strategic partnership and […].

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Court Rules New York Doctor Can Subpoena Yelp for User Information in Defamation Suit

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 On October 7, 2021, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that Yelp is subject to a subpoena to reveal the names of anonymous users who left negative reviews for a doctor.

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The Latest OIG Updates Might Impact Your Organization: Nursing Homes, Covid-19 Assistance, and More

Healthicity

Emergency Preparedness for Nursing Homes.

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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.