Tue.Feb 07, 2023

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Judge’s ruling on surprise billing threatens to disrupt arbitration process

Healthcare Dive

The ruling tosses out portions of a final rule and raises questions about the arbitration process providers and payers are currently using to resolve payment disputes related to out-of-network care.

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FTC’s Proposed Non-Compete Rule: A Step in the Right Direction for Health Care and Biotechnology

Bill of Health

By Aparajita Lath In January, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a new draft rule that would categorically ban non-compete clauses — contractual terms between an employer and an employee that prevent subsequent employment at a competing firm — across the country. Banning non-compete clauses may help to promote competition and innovation in biotechnology and health care.

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Hive takedown puts ‘small dent’ in ransomware problem

Healthcare Dive

Experts don’t expect that, or any isolated event, to ultimately diminish the persistent threat and forces that propel ransomware activity.

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Memorial Healthcare System grows its telehealth offering to 61 programs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Before the widespread adoption of telemedicine technology, there were several problems that hindered the delivery of healthcare services for most healthcare organizations. THE PROBLEM One of the main problems was access to healthcare, particularly with working families and those with chronic conditions. Many people lacked convenient access to medical care and providers, making it difficult for them to receive the care they needed.

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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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MA enrollment grew 337% from 2006 through 2022, study finds

Healthcare Dive

Traditional Medicare lost 1 million enrollees over the same period, according to new research published in Health Affairs.

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Unlocking the Future of Health—and Care—with AI

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Jonathan Jesneck , Co-Founder and CTO at Firefly Lab. Unlocking the future of healthcare with Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a hot topic amongst tech and medical professionals alike. Leaps and bounds have been made since the term was first applied in medicine in the mid-1950s , but it wasn’t until the late 2000s that developments using AI in a variety of healthcare fields started to happen.

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New Financial Platforms Aim to Fix a Confusing Healthcare Payment System

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Bob Chin, chief information officer, PayMedix Employers who shift more healthcare insurance payments to employees to keep costs down risk increasingly discontented employees who struggle with growing out-of-pocket (OOP) costs compounded by a flood […] The article New Financial Platforms Aim to Fix a Confusing Healthcare Payment System appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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KLAS Report Reveals Key Challenges from Provider Organizations

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – In September 2022, KLAS hosted the sixth annual Digital Health Investment Symposium (DHIS). Executives from healthcare provider organizations, HIT companies, investors, and innovators came together to collaborate on important developments in healthcare technology. – Drawing on insights from a pre-summit survey as well as insights shared at the summit in small-group discussions, KLAS published a white paper highlighting core challenges identified by summit part

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CVS nearing deal to buy Oak Street Health: WSJ

Mobi Health News

According to reporting by the Wall Street Journal, CVS is closing in on an agreement to acquire the primary care chain for $10.5 billion including debt.

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Memora Health & Virtua Health Partner to Streamline Patient Experience

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Memora Health , an intelligent platform for virtual care delivery and complex care management partners with Virtua Health , the largest health system in South Jersey, to streamline care delivery and improve the patient experience. – The partnership will leverage Memora’s clinical intelligence platform across specialties to automate clinicians’ routine care tasks and streamline care management operations with the goal of removing unnecessary barriers and making

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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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Healthcare Devices Combined with Intelligent Remote Patient Monitoring from OMRON Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

VitalSight is a new tool for remote patient monitoring (RPM) from OMRON , a company that offers a wide range of health devices for blood pressure, respiratory problems, and more. RPM is the order of the day for health care. Monitoring, together with providing data-based guidelines for patient behavior, is a crucial component of telehealth and a key building block of value-based care, where an improvement in the patient’s condition is more important than the number of clinical visits.

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TytoCare and Overlake Partner to Expand Virtual Care Offerings

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Virtual care company TytoCare has partnered with Overlake Medical Center & Clinics , a nonprofit regional medical center offering a full range of advanced medical services to the Puget Sound region, to enhance their virtual care offerings. – Overlake Clinics is introducing the TytoHome device into its Concierge Care medical service to enhance the care providers’ ability to diagnose and treat patients with comprehensive physical exams during virtual visits.

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Elaborate Announces $10M in Funding to Modernize Lab Results

Healthcare IT Today

Elaborate’s technology offers doctors a way to contextualize health data and deliver clear, action-oriented communications to their patients Elaborate , the tool that doctors and their staff use to deliver contextualized, action-oriented lab results to patients, announced today it has raised $10 million in Seed funding. The funding round was led by Tusk Venture Partners, with participation from Founder Collective, Company Ventures, Bling Ventures, and Arkitekt Ventures, as well as renown

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Why Researchers Should Explore New Apps of Machine Learning

HIT Consultant

Michael Munsell, Director of Research at Panalgo As the amount of real-world data (RWD) in the pharmaceutical industry continues to grow, so does the usage of machine learning (ML) to analyze that data and gain insights. In fact, in a recent survey, 95% of life sciences executives said they expect to utilize ML in the next few years to generate real-world evidence (RWE) from this data.

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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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Is Contact Form 7 HIPAA-Compliant?

HIPAA Vault

“There’s a form for that.” You’ll hear it when you start a new business, do your taxes, or register your boat with the DMV. And your patients will surely hear it when they register to receive your quality healthcare. Medical history forms, HIPAA consent forms, patient referral forms, insurance information forms, notifications and review forms.

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Blue Shield of California, Virta Health Partners to Reverse Type 2 Diabetes in California

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Blue Shield of California has expanded its partnership with Virta Health to help reverse the human and financial impact of type 2 diabetes in the state. – The partnership marks Blue Shield as the first health plan in California to implement a digital diabetes reversal solution across multiple lines of business. Blue Shield is first health plan in California to implement digital diabetes reversal solution across multiple lines of business.

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Wheel lays off more than a quarter of its staff

Mobi Health News

The telehealth staffing and services startup confirmed it laid off 56 employees. It conducted an earlier round of layoffs over the summer.

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Lawsuit Seeks Damages for GoodRx Users for Invasion of Privacy

HIPAA Journal

Last week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced its first-ever financial penalty for a violation of the FTC Health Breach Notification Rule. GoodRx was alleged to have failed to issue notification letters to customers whose PHI was disclosed to third parties such as Google and Facebook via tracking technologies on its website and mobile app.

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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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Why user needs should be at the heart of healthtech

Digital Health News

Digital solutions should never be imposed on patients or NHS staff. To be successful, learn from the people who will be using the system – and make sure their first experience of it is positive, explains Matt Harrington, Director at Public Digital.

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Payers' price transparency data still not user-friendly, say researchers

Fierce Healthcare

Payers' price transparency data still not user-friendly, say researchers fdiamond Tue, 02/07/2023 - 15:14

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Government strategy sets out to increase access to medical technology

Digital Health News

The government has set out an ambition to accelerate access to medical technologies as part of the first ever medtech strategy published last week.

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Mental health platform Mindstrong to close HQ, lay off 128 employees

Mobi Health News

The layoffs come weeks after the company said it will stop offering patient care services.

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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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State of the Union expected to lay out priorities for telehealth, insurer pay parity

Fierce Healthcare

State of the Union expected to lay out priorities for telehealth, insurer pay parity rking Tue, 02/07/2023 - 15:36

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PRSB extends partnership scheme to health and social care providers

Digital Health News

The Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) is expanding its Standards Partnership Scheme to help speed up the adoption of digital shared care records.

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3 Organizations Report Recent Healthcare Data Breaches

Health IT Security

Healthcare data breach… read more

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An Inflection Point for Healthcare

Fierce Healthcare

An Inflection Point for Healthcare mteefey Tue, 02/07/2023 - 15:27

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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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Intermountain Health Taps Qualtrics to Help Advance Patient, Consumer and Employee Experience Management

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Intermountain Health has chosen Qualtrics (Nasdaq: XM), the leader and creator of the experience management category, to create world-class experiences for its patients, caregivers and all populations who interact with and consume Intermountain’s services by helping improve how it listens, understands and acts on experience data. – Intermountain is a nonprofit health system headquartered in Salt Lake City with 60,000 caregivers serving millions of patien

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Judge hands providers another win by striking down surprise billing arbitration process

Fierce Healthcare

Judge hands providers another win by striking down surprise billing arbitration process rking Tue, 02/07/2023 - 10:48

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Patients and Availability of Care Impacts from Ransom Supply Chain Attacks

HealthIT Answers

The Tate Chronicles episode now on demand. Host Jim Tate talks to CEO Carter Groome at First Health Advisory. Listen in to hear them discuss cybersecurity issues in healthcare. The post Patients and Availability of Care Impacts from Ransom Supply Chain Attacks appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Primary Care Community Health Workers: Roles and Functions

AIHC

Written by: Dr. Ali Khan, MD, MPP, FACP Primary care is the cornerstone of a functioning healthcare system. Community health workers (CHWs) are an invaluable resource to communities worldwide. They are on the front lines of providing care, education, and support services to meet the needs of vulnerable populations. These passionate professionals play a vital role in helping patients navigate their own healthcare pathways and ensure they receive comprehensive, tailored services along the journey.

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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.