Wed.Jun 29, 2022

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CMS launches voluntary incentive program aiming to cut cancer death rate

Healthcare Dive

The Enhancing Oncology Model requires participating providers to offer services including patient navigation, 24-hour access to clinicians, a detailed care plan and screening for social needs.

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Dubai Health Authority to pilot value-based healthcare with EJADAH

Healthcare It News

Dubai Health Authority ( DHA ) and its health insurance regulatory body have launched a “first-of-its-kind” digital-led programme that is expected to form the foundation for value-based healthcare adoption in the emirate, it has been announced. Unveiled by Dubai Health Insurance Corporation’s (DHIC) CEO, Saleh Al Hashimi, EJADAH will reportedly “help improve government oversight of the health sector by overseeing clinical, economic and human-centric outcomes.

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Mass General Brigham's health plan launches rebrand as it looks to expand

Healthcare Dive

AllWays Health Partners will change its name to Mass General Brigham Health Plan as it looks to leverage the name recognition of the system and deepen integration with the provider.

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GluCare.Health launches value-based weight management pilot

Healthcare It News

A Dubai-based healthtech startup has partnered with Novo Nordisk to launch what is considered one of the first value-based reimbursement model trials in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). GluCare.Health – named amongst the 50 most-funded startups in the region by Forbes Middle East at $20 million – and the Danish multinational pharmaceutical company will kick off their partnership with a 150-patient weight management pilot programme in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

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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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Rising expenses offset small hospital gains in May, report finds

Healthcare Dive

The report from Kaufman Hall displays a continued trend of lackluster hospital performance that’s expected to continue throughout 2022, with margins expected to remain below pre-pandemic levels for the rest of the year.

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How to Assess the Impact of Medical Ethics Education

Bill of Health

By Leah Pierson. There has been too little evaluation of ethics courses in medical education in part because there is not consensus on what these courses should be trying to achieve. Recently, I argued that medical school ethics courses should help trainees to make more ethical decisions. I also reviewed evidence suggesting that we do not know whether these courses improve decision making in clinical practice.

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Evolving patient portals, remote workforce challenges and tech at the bedside

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Patient portal use and telehealth visits have changed dramatically since the COVID-19 pandemic turned the world, especially healthcare, upside down. Kerry Barker, RN, manager, Epic services, at consulting firm CereCore, and a former ICU nurse and nursing instructor at Brigham Young University, left the bedside for the IT side. Her role now is multifaceted in that she assists with various parts of CereCore’s go-live implementations, stays up to date on policies and procedures, and works to

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Changing Views of Retirement and Health Post-COVID: Transamerica’s Look At Workers’ Disrupted Futures

Health Populi

As more than 1 in 3 U.S. workers were unemployed during the pandemic and another 38% had reductions in hours and pay, Americans’ personal forecasts and expectations for retirement have been disrupted and dislocated. In its look at The Road Ahead: Addressing Pandemic-Related Setbacks and Strengthening the U.S. Retirement System from the Tramsamerica Center for Retirement Studies (TCRS), we learn about the changing views of U.S. workers on their future work, income, savings, dreams and fears

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Fitzgibbon Hospital, Diskriter, Christiana Spine Center Suffer Ransomware Attacks

HIPAA Journal

On June 25, 2022, a spokesperson for a threat group called DAIXIN Team contacted HIPAA Journal to share information about a ransomware attack and data theft incident at Fitzgibbon Hospital in Marshall, Missouri. A link was shared to a dark web resource where data stolen in the attack has been published. The published data includes database tables from the MEDITECH database, and sensitive documents containing patient data stolen from internal servers.

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Eye Care Leaders Breach: Ransomware Attack Claims New Victims

Compliancy Group

In early December of 2021, Eye Care Leaders (Eye Care), an electronic medical record vendor supplying business associate services to eye care providers across the country, discovered it had incurred a data breach. The breach quickly disabled systems. . The intruder accessed compromised information, including name, address, phone numbers, health insurance information, and medical information related to eye care services – protected health information.

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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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Reimagining The Future of Pharmacovigilance (PV): Regulations, Tech, Public Perceptions

HIT Consultant

Barry Mulchrone, Senior Director& Head of Pharmacovigilance Oversight and Analytics, IQVIA Annette Williams, VP & Global Head, Lifecycle Safety, IQVIA. Monitoring the safe and effective use of medicines has now been an essential part of public health policy for several decades. New advances in technology (e.g., ICH E2B for the electronic exchange of case reports) over the past 20 years coupled with progressive legislation have been a catalyst for an explosion in safety data over this per

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AMA unveils Recovery Plan for America’s Physicians

HealthIT Answers

In a speech to physician and medical student leaders from across the country, American Medical Association President Gerald E. Harmon, M.D., unveiled the AMA Recovery Plan for America’s Physicians, an ambitious roadmap to renewing our country’s commitment to physicians—and ensuring their needs are met—so patients can receive the high-quality care they deserve.

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Precision Medicine: Is Personalized Care Really Here?

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – New Definitive Healthcare report, Is Personalized Care Really Here? analyzes the US claims data to review how precision medicine has been used in recent years for cancer, transplant matching, genetic testing during pregnancy and more. – Trends within — and adjacent to — precision medicine suggests that consumer preferences for more effective, convenient and affordable care are driving rising rates of precision medicine procedures.

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Multiple Email Accounts Compromised at Covenant Care California and Bergen’s Promise

HIPAA Journal

Aliso Viejo-based Covenant Care California, an operator of skilled nursing facilities and a provider of home health services in California and Nevada, has announced that an unauthorized third party has gained access to its email system, and potentially viewed or obtained electronic protected health information. Suspicious activity was detected in an employee’s email account in February 2022, with the subsequent investigation confirming multiple employee email accounts had been accessed between F

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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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Sector react to government’s digital health and care plan

Digital Health News

We have pulled together some of the best reaction from the healthcare IT sector to the digital health and care have plan which you can find below.

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4 Challenges And Opportunities In Healthcare Fulfillment 

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. In its general sense, healthcare includes efforts made to maintain or restore a person’s well-being, usually by a trained and licensed medical professional. And because of today’s advancements in technology and research, part of the […].

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Study: Internet searches for abortion medications surged after Roe draft leak

Mobi Health News

An analysis published in JAMA Internal Medicine found about 350,000 searches for abortion pill-related terms the first week in May.

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AGS Health Recognized As An RCM Leader and Star Performer By Everest Group

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. AGS Health, the tech-enabled revenue cycle management solution provider for major healthcare organizations across the U.S., has again been named a Leader and Star Performer in Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) Operations by Everest Group. The […]. The article AGS Health Recognized As An RCM Leader and Star Performer By Everest Group appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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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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Still time to apply for Shuri Network’s nursing and midwifery fellowship

Digital Health News

The Fellowship has been developed specifically to support ethnic minority nurses and midwives interested in health technology and data.

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Considerations and Benefits of Successful Healthcare Data Management

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Jane Hite-Syed, VP and COO of National Government Services. Intro. Recent government initiatives and legislation, such as the Omnibus Bill and Executive Order on Transforming Federal Customer Experience and Service Delivery include provisions intended to bolster federal healthcare IT programs. Digitization efforts have resulted in tons of healthcare-related data, and the key to capitalizing on the revolutionary benefits that data has to offer is comprehensive

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Former Oklahoma Nursing Home Employee Pleads Guilty to Abuse

Med-Net Compliance

An Oklahoma nurse aide pleaded guilty to abusing a nursing home resident and was placed on a deferred sentence probation for three years under the supervision of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. As a condition of his probation, he was ordered to serve 10 consecutive weekends in the Oklahoma County Jail, surrender his nurse aide certification, hold no employment involving care of elderly or vulnerable adults while on probation, and pay $940.00 toward the cost of the investigation to the Of

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BREAKING NEWS: CMS TO ENFORCE SNF COMPLIANCE IN OCTOBER

Health Care Performance

Today, CMS issued new and revised. guidance for long-term care surveyors. This guidance includes the following updates: Clarifications and technical corrections of Phase 2 guidance issued in 2017. New guidance for Phase 3 requirements that went into effect November 28, 2019. Arbitration requirements and guidance which went into effect September 16, 2019.

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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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FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health’s Continued Efforts to Return to Normal

HealthIT Answers

By Jeff Shuren MD JD & William Maisel MD - Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the demand for medical devices has far exceeded anything we have seen in previous public health emergencies. The FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health has worked to address these unprecedented demands. The post FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health’s Continued Efforts to Return to Normal appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Merck Digital Sciences Studio Launches to Support Biomedical Startups

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Merck , today announced the launch of the Merck Digital Sciences Studio (MDSS) to enable the generation of innovative technologies for drug discovery and development. – MDSS will support early-stage biomedical startups with direct investment, access to powerful Azure Cloud computing and opportunities to pilot their technologies in collaboration with discovery and clinical scientists at Merck.

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Telehealth evolution: Supporting patients with virtual care

YouCompli

Telehealth use has soared, reaching nearly 53 million visits in 2020. With it, compliance officers have guided their healthcare organizations in complying with changing documentation, coding, and confidentiality requirements. As virtual care requirements for telehealth evolve, we explore how compliance officers can support patient care and help their organizations stay up to date.

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Care Access Acquires IBPClin to Expand Decentralized Clinical Trial Capabilities to Latin America

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Care Access announced the acquisition of IBPClin , a leading clinical trial center in Rio de Janeiro. As a result, Care Access will bring its innovative approach to decentralized clinical research to Latin America. – The acquisition demonstrates progress toward building diverse representation in clinical research and is a strategic first step following Reify Health’s $220 million investment round that was raised to accelerate diversity.

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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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California District Court Finds that EKRA Applies to Compensation Methodologies for Labs’ Employed Marketers Who Market to Physicians

Healthcare Law Blog

Since its passage in late 2018, the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act (EKRA) (18 U.S.C. § 220) has posed interpretive challenges. Our detailed critical analysis of EKRA is available here. EKRA prohibits, among other things, the exchange of remuneration for referrals of patients or patronage to a clinical laboratory, or an individual’s use of the services of a clinical laboratory.

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4 Takeaways from AHIP 2022

HealthIT Answers

By Parth Shah - It is refreshing to finally be back in the full swing of in-person conferences and events, and I feel particularly energized and excited for the future of healthcare upon returning from AHIP 2022 in Las Vegas. The post 4 Takeaways from AHIP 2022 appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Featured Health IT Job: Manager – Enterprise Applications

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Manager – Enterprise Applications position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Goldstone Partners for Mental Health Partners and is in Colorado. Here’s a description of the position: Mental Health Partners, located in Lafayette, Colorado, is a non-profit federally designated comprehensive community mental health collective

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Ria Health scores $18M for virtual alcohol use disorder treatment

Mobi Health News

Ria offers recovery coaching and medication-assisted treatment.

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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.