Mon.Jul 11, 2022

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California to manufacture its own insulin, Newsom says

Healthcare Dive

Saying the medicine’s high cost “epitomizes market failures,” California’s governor announced a $100 million budget to create a production facility and develop affordable insulin products.

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Healthcare's newest pivot: consumer identity as the cornerstone of digital health

Healthcare It News

Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Patient Engagement Smart health systems are realizing that they must think about their sustainable growth strategies in terms of end-to-end user experience. Paddy Padmanabhan Healthcare's newest pivot: consumer identity as the cornerstone of digital health. Smart health systems are realizing that they must think about their sustainable growth strategies in terms of end-to-end user experience.

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Transforming virtual care to virtual-first care beyond the pandemic

Healthcare Dive

The rapid expansion of virtual-first healthcare is dramatically reshaping how care is accessed and delivered.

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Change for the Medical Malpractice Compensation System in England?

Bill of Health

By John Tingle. It is fair to say that the British public are generally speaking very proud of our National Health Service in England, and treasure it greatly. The NHS Constitution sets out the seven key principles which guide the NHS in all its activities, and these include: The NHS provides a comprehensive service, available to all. Access to NHS services is based on clinical need, not an individual’s ability to pay.

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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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1 in 5 Americans report still receiving surprise medical bills after federal ban

Healthcare Dive

A Morning Consult survey highlights weakness in the surprise billing law, which does not protect consumers from balance bills related to labs and blood work in all instances.

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Critical digital systems yet to be implemented across Australia's residential aged care sector: survey

Healthcare It News

The Aged Care Technology Consortium in Australia has noted the dearth of critical digital system implementations across the residential aged care sector in a recent nationwide survey. FINDINGS. The survey, which was conducted in June, gathered responses mostly from facility managers (37%), followed by nursing directors (20%), CEOs (13%) and care managers (7%).

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How AI and NLP can boost care via remote patient monitoring

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Shannon Hastings is the chief technology officer at Project Ronin, where he helps to lead the organization in delivering systems to help cancer patients and clinicians, including remote patient monitoring for cancer patients. Ronin uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing and electronic health records in its work to manage cancer patients.

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Biden says White House looking into public health emergency for abortion access

Healthcare Dive

The president has said repeatedly that the best way to preserve abortion access is for Congress to codify Roe v. Wade into law.

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Supreme Court Rules Employers Can Limit Benefit for Dialysis

Compliance Now

By: Megan Diehl, Manager, Compliance Consulting, MZQ Consulting. The Supreme Court has been the focus of a great deal of the national discourse over the past several weeks. In addition to the cases making headlines, the Court also issued a 7-2 ruling in a case directly related to employer sponsored health plans, Marietta Memorial Hospital Employee Health Benefit Plan v.

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House oversight committee launches investigation into reproductive health data collection

Healthcare Dive

The committee sent letters to five data broker companies and five personal health apps requesting information on how they store and share user data.

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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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CMS Proposes Physician Payment Rule to Expand Access to High-Quality Care

HealthIT Answers

CMS issued the Calendar Year 2023 Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule, which would significantly expand access to behavioral health services, Accountable Care Organizations, cancer screening, and dental care - particularly in rural and underserved areas. The post CMS Proposes Physician Payment Rule to Expand Access to High-Quality Care appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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CVS names executive to new chief data, tech officer role

Healthcare Dive

Tilak Mandadi will be responsible for the healthcare giant’s digital and tech strategy, along with overseeing company growth through digital and consumer-focused services.

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Patient Information Compromised at Phoenixville Hospital, Family Practice Center, and Southwest Health Center

HIPAA Journal

Phoenixville Hospital Fires Employee for HIPAA Violation. Phoenixville Hospital in Pennsylvania has recently fired an employee for accessing the medical records of patients without authorization. According to the hospital operator, Tower Health, the unauthorized access was discovered during a routine audit of medical record access logs. An employee was discovered to have accessed the medical records of several patients without authorization between October 2021 and May 2022, when there was no le

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GE Healthcare Launches First 5G Innovation Lab for Remote Care

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – GE Healthcare , a leading global medical technology, diagnostics, and digital solutions innovator, inaugurated its 5G Innovation Lab in Bengaluru, India, the first for GE Healthcare across the globe. – With the advantage of massive bandwidth, high data speeds, low latency, and highly reliable connectivity, 5G has the potential to disrupt the patient care continuum, transforming diagnosis, therapy, and prognosis. 5G Enabled Precision Healthcare.

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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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NHS England announces new Adoption Fund for 2022/2023

Digital Health News

NHS England has launched its Adoption Fund for 2022/2023, supporting ICSs to develop their digital innovations designed to help patients at home.

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5 Public Health Challenges to Watch in the Post-Pandemic Era

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Public health agencies across the US are at a crossroads, finds the Reimagining Public Health Survey produced by Ernst & Young LLP (EY US). – This survey of 301 public health officials found that while slightly more than one in two (52%) are optimistic about what data can achieve for their communities, the rate of digital transformation remains uneven, and organizations face significant barriers to change.

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Healthcare Facility of the Future – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 92

Healthcare IT Today

For the 92nd episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we’re talking about the Healthcare Facility of the Future. COVID forced us out of many healthcare facilities and opened a lot of eyes to the digital opportunities for healthcare. Plus, it changed how we used our facilities as well. Do we really need to walk around to do rounding or can we do it virtually?

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Moving Analytics Nabs $20M for Virtual & Remote Cardiac Rehab Program

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Moving Analytics , an Irvine, CA-based telehealth provider of cardiovascular prevention programs raises $20M in Series A funding led by Wellington Access Ventures and Seae Ventures with participation from Philips Ventures , SteelSky Ventures , Aphelion Capital (American Heart Association’s official VC fund), Nueterra Capital , and Citi Ventures.

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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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Teladoc adds medication delivery, lab collection at home to primary care offering

Mobi Health News

The new services come through partnerships with digital pharmacy Capsule and specimen-collection company Scarlet Health.

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NHS Scotland Academy uses digital resource to help support workforce

Digital Health News

Preparing for Work in Health and Social Care Programme launched in December 2021 and since then more than 1,200 learners have accessed it.

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Health Aid of Ohio Settles Class Action Data Breach Lawsuit

HIPAA Journal

Health Aid of Ohio has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit to resolve claims that it failed to protect the sensitive personal information of its customers. Health Aid of Ohio is a Parma, OH-based full-service home medical equipment provider. On February 19, 2021, Health Aid discovered hackers had gained access to its network and viewed and removed files containing sensitive customer information.

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Trust in AI among healthcare staff and patients ‘will improve with regulation’

Digital Health News

AI technology can gain the trust of patients and staff through increased regulation into the technology, a report has stated.

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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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Philippine's biggest conglomerate Ayala to launch health superapp

Mobi Health News

It will combine teleconsultations, medicine delivery, laboratory tests and home care services.

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Healthcare Fraud and Abuse Control Program Fiscal Year 2021 Report

Med-Net Compliance

According to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program Annual Report for Fiscal Year (FY) 2021, the federal government won or negotiated more than $5 billion in healthcare fraud judgments and settlements in FY 2021, in addition to other healthcare administrative impositions.

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Delays Extending The American Rescue Plan’s Health Insurance Subsidies Will Raise Premiums And Reduce Coverage

Center for Health Insurance Reform

Congress has spent months debating an extension of enhanced premium tax credits enacted under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. However, as CHIR's Sabrina Corlette and the Urban Institute's Jason Levitis discuss in this recent Health Affairs Forefront article, the clock is ticking. Continued delays would likely cause coverage losses and additional costs that wouldn't be restored even if a subsidy extension is later enacted.

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Amid Workforce Shortages, Intelligent Data Capture saves Health Systems Time

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Tom Romeo, General Manager of Healthcare IT at Quest Diagnostics. The importance of utilizing Enterprise Content Management to Streamline Digital Health Solutions. Healthcare today is in an epic battle to hire and retain employees. The American Hospital Association estimates that, since February 2020, hospital employment has decreased by nearly 94,000 workers, despite a still-increasing demand for hospital services.

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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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All Trans Software Confirmed as HIPAA Compliant

HIPAA Journal

All Trans Software Inc, a Ramsey, MN-based provider of Non-Emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT) software solutions to transportation vendors, has been confirmed as having implemented an effective HIPAA compliance program by Compliancy Group. Vendors of software solutions that collect, process, store, or transmit protected health information (PHI) are classed as business associates under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and are required to comply with certain provisions

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Additional Negative Consequences for Discipline on Your Professional License, Part 1 of 2

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 Do you have a medical, pharmacist, counselor, or nursing license in more than one state? Do you have a license in more than one profession? Have you been notified that an investigation has been opened against your professional [.].

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Tebra Raises $72M to Help Independent Practices Thrive

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Tebra , the digital backbone for independent healthcare practices, announced that it has closed more than $72M in funding at a valuation greater than $1B. – This capital infusion will accelerate Tebra’s merger plans including expanding market share, developing and launching the combined product line and advancing the new branding for the company.

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DOJ Files False Claims Suit Against Nursing Homes Over “Substandard Services and Nonexistent” Care

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 June 15, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it has sued three nursing homes in Ohio and Pennsylvania, citing their “grossly substandard skilled nursing services.” The False Claims Act (FCA) complaint against the American Health [.].

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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.