Thu.Mar 31, 2022

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Hospitals struggle to fill staffing holes in short, long term amid surge in nurse turnover

Healthcare Dive

"This is a bigger workforce shortage than we have ever dealt with," said Gay Landstrom, senior vice president and chief nursing officer of Trinity Health, a nonprofit system with 88 hospitals nationwide.

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Southern DHB taps Inde Technology to co-design New Zealand's first digital hospital

Healthcare It News

The Southern District Health Board has appointed IT specialist Inde Technology to the consortium designing the Dunedin Hospital, the first digital hospital in New Zealand. It will be collaborating with three other partners – civil engineering consultancy WSP, smart building specialist Torque IP and property developer Lendlease – for the hospital's initial design phase.

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Surprise medical bills rank as public's second-highest financial worry, survey finds

Healthcare Dive

While 58% of the public said they're worried about being able to afford surprise bills, the majority of people with private insurance stated they knew nothing about the consumer protection law that went into effect in January.

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To Promote Health Equity, States Must Restrict Police Intervention in Mobile Crisis Response

Bill of Health

By April Shaw and Taleed El-Sabawi. The COVID-19 pandemic and recent increases in the incidence of televised violence against Black persons by law enforcement actors and others have contributed to the worsening mental health of these subordinated and marginalized communities. While the policy solutions needed to address this disparate impact are structural and multi-faceted, the introduction of 988, a national mental health crisis hotline, offers an opportunity to positively contribute to the ov

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

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?

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Pear expects $22M in revenue this year, as it banks on growing adoption of digital therapeutics

Healthcare Dive

Pear still has substantial challenges going forward, as it faces several unknowns about the long-term adoption and reimbursement of its products. The company has been operating at a net loss, seeing a $65 million loss last year.

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Transdisciplinary Integration: The Only Way Forward for Public Health

Bill of Health

By Scott Burris. As we look toward National Public Health Week amid two long years of a pandemic, reflection for us at the Center for Public Health Law Research has focused on how we move forward in a mostly broken public health system. We see public health law as a central component of a strong future for public health, where transdisciplinary partnership leads the way.

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Personalized healthcare driven by an explosion of patient needs

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Intel gives Intermountain funding to expand patient safety monitoring

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Intermountain Healthcare a $100,000 grant from Intel to develop new remote monitoring capabilities in its hospitals. WHY IT MATTERS. The money is helping fund acquisition of 70 new camera systems for use in its Intermountain Patient Safety Monitoring program, giving caregivers an extra "set of eyes and ears," officials say, in rooms where patients may be at risk of falling or pulling out an IV or catheter.

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Telehealth Seems To Have Boosted Uptake of Mental Health Services

Healthcare IT Today

New survey results suggest that the availability of telehealth-based mental health services — and the high level of mental health symptoms Americans experienced during the pandemic — led more consumers to seek mental health care online than ever before during 2021. The study, which was conducted by ZocDoc, draws on data tracking mental health appointment booking […].

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PT Team Member Spotlight: Meet Jodi

Provider Trust

Meet Jodi! Jodi Murphy is our Director of People Operations. She has been with us since 2017. She is passionate, fearless, and leads our team members with a heart of gold. Tell us about yourself and what you do for ProviderTrust. I’m a karaoke enthusiast, sneaker collector, storied field hockey coach, and aspirational Jeopardy contestant. I was originally brought on to the ProviderTrust team five years ago to serve as the “Team Dream Leader.

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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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Patient Experience and Health Equity are Top Priorities for HealthLinc

Healthcare IT Today

Despite the staffing and logistical challenges brought on by the pandemic, forward-thinking healthcare organizations like HealthLinc remain focused on improving overall patient experience and addressing health equity. They realize that dealing with these challenges has a significant positive impact on the overall health of their community and ultimately drives down healthcare costs.

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Smart toilets could play a role in COVID-19 tracking efforts

Mobi Health News

A new article in Nature outlines how smart toilets could help individuals determine their COVID-19 status and help public health organizations.

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Stakeholder Perspectives and Feedback on Health Equity in the 2023 Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters

Center for Health Insurance Reform

In the proposed Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services asked for feedback on how to promote health equity through ACA marketplace operations and plan certification standards. CHIR’s Rachel Swindle reviewed comments from states, insurers, and consumer advocates to see how they responded. Continue reading → The post Stakeholder Perspectives and Feedback on Health Equity in the 2023 Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters appeared

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Sharing the Load: The Role of Load Balancers in Business Continuity

HIPAA Vault

“It’s not the load that weighs you down, it’s the way you carry it.” It’s a great quote – if you don’t think about it too long. Aside from the fact that one can easily imagine a crushing load upon their shoulders – even those 1,000 pounds of feathers (yes, it’s still half a ton). Continue reading.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

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.

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Babylon's AI-enabled symptom checker added to recently acquired Higi's app

Mobi Health News

The company said the integration will serve as a model for potential partners who may want to use Babylon's tools in their platforms.

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Despite doctors’ concerns, pharmacists get more leeway to offer treatment with testing

Modern Healthcare

Some states are expanding pharmacists’ work to include directly prescribing drugs for customers who seek some routine, point-of-care tests, such as those for flu or strep throat. But doctor groups oppose the move.

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Why Your Nonprofit Healthcare Organization Needs Fund Accounting

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Neil Taurins, General Manager of Nonprofit Solutions at MIP Fund Accounting. You’re busy providing for your community members and beneficiaries, but when’s the last time you took a moment to evaluate your finance team’s efficiency? Revenue cycle management for healthcare organizations, like physician offices or urgent care centers, […].

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Hims & Hers looks to brick-and-mortar care through Carbon partnership

Mobi Health News

The partnership will give Hims & Hers clinicians the ability to link California patients to Carbon services.

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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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Two NY Home Healthcare Agencies Settle False Claims Act Allegations for $5.4 Million 

Healthcare Compliance Blog

Two New York home healthcare agencies settled with the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the New York State Attorney General’s Office for allegations of violating the federal False Claims Act and New York State’s False Claims Act. The agencies had claimed that they paid their home care aides the minimum wages required under New York State law, when they were in fact underpaid.

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Telstra Health launches residential aged care app

Mobi Health News

CareKeeper enables staff to view, capture, and document care by a resident's side in real-time.

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OSHA Pushes Heat Standard

OSHA Law Blog

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has made clear that heat illness is a top priority, and the forthcoming heat exposure standard is certain to affect construction firms. To read this article in its entirety, please click here.

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Vietnamese digital health startup Med247 gets $4.5M in Series A funding

Mobi Health News

It plans to put up more family clinics and set up a training academy for doctors and nurses.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

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.

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Illinois pandemic funding is running out for community health workers

Modern Healthcare

What will happen to the community trust that has been built up when the federal COVID money runs out and the workers disappear?

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VideaHealth raises $20M for AI-enabled dental care

Mobi Health News

The startup said it expects its imaging analysis tool to receive FDA clearance in the coming months.

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Nurse-1-1 Raises $2.3M to Expand Conversational Marketing for Healthcare

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Nurse-1-1 , the first conversational marketing company for healthcare raises $2.3M in seed funding round led by Argon Ventures with participation from York IE and Hyperplane. – The company will use the financing to expand its team, accelerate its go-to-market efforts, and scale its current partnerships with publicly traded and nationwide digital health, at-home testing, and pharma companies.

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Medical-interpretation company Jeenie scores $9.3M in Series A funding

Mobi Health News

The company plans to use the capital infusion to grow its teams across the board.

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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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Reema Health Secures $8M for Personalized, Community-Based Health Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Reema Health , a Minneapolis, MN-based community-based health technology platform raises $8M in seed funding led by MaC Venture Capital and DNA Capital. Combined with a previous $1.25 million pre-seed round and earlier preliminary investments, Reema’s has raised over $10 million to date. – Reema uses technology to power human relationships with the goal of improving health outcomes for people who are hardest to reach.

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HHS Requesting Physician COVID Relief Payback of $100 Million

Med Law Blog

HHS sent notices to noncompliant physicians and facilities on March 10, 2022 giving them 30 days to return funds paid to healthcare providers who have not complied with the agency’s reporting requirements. Attach is the PDF from HRSA (Health Resources and Services Administration), which is the agency responsible for dispensing and collecting the grant money. . .

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Powered by Biofourmis, Blessing Health System Partners Launches Home Hospital Services

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Blessing Health System , an integrated rural health system selects Biofourmis , a virtual care and digital therapeutics provider to launch its own home hospital services. – As part of the selection, Biofourmis is supporting the health system with its turnkey, end-to-end, home hospital solution for participation in the Rural Home Hospital project.

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Brightline Fuels National Expansion of Virtual, Equitable, and Affordable Family Behavioral Health Care with a $105M Series C Raise, Led by KKR

Healthcare IT Today

Brightline accelerates growth with leading health plans, national employers, and ecosystem partners Brightline, the category leader in virtual behavioral health care for children, adolescents, and families, today announced it has secured a $105M Series C funding, bringing the company’s total funding to over $200M. Global investment firm KKR led the round, and existing investors GV (formerly Google Ventures), […].

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How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics

In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.