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What will be the impact of COVID-19 on the next wave of health IT innovation?

Healthcare It News

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of all kinds of healthcare information technology, from telehealth to artificial intelligence. As a result, the opportunities that exist for health IT companies are massive. Crunchbase estimates that healthcare technology companies have raised a record-breaking $36.6 billion globally from 2020 through October 2021.

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How Telehealth Relies On Quality Internet Infrastructure

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Trent S. Anderson, chief revenue officer, Bluebird Network. Virtual services have now become the new normal with telehealth being a prime example. Now if we want an annual checkup or consultation, we can talk […]. The article How Telehealth Relies On Quality Internet Infrastructure appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Anthem-backed Hydrogen Health rolls out virtual primary care services for insurers, employers

Fierce Healthcare

Anthem-backed Hydrogen Health rolls out virtual primary care services for insurers, employers. hlandi. Thu, 12/09/2021 - 09:01.

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M&A: Quartet Health Acquires InnovaTel Telepsychiatry

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Quartet acquires InnovaTel Telepsychiatry, a provider of virtual mental healthcare services with a differentiated expertise in treating complex conditions. – The partnership lays the foundation for a comprehensive, nationwide solution to help all people — including those with complex needs — and focuses on speed to high-quality mental health care.

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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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AHA, AMA sue Biden admin to challenge surprise billing arbitration process

Fierce Healthcare

AHA, AMA sue Biden admin to challenge surprise billing arbitration process. pminemyer. Thu, 12/09/2021 - 12:17.

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AT&T, Samsung and Qure4u Partner to Deliver Remote Patient Monitoring

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: AT&T, Samsung and Qure4u team up to deliver remote patient monitoring with FirstNet® for high-risk patients. Qure4u , a provider of digital health solutions, today announced a strategic collaboration with with AT&T and Samsung to provide remote patient monitoring (RPM) for patients with high blood pressure. As part of this collaboration, Qure4u chose FirstNet ®, Built with AT&T, to provide reliable and highly secure connectivity to support RPM kits and help expa

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Ksana Health Joins Novo Nordisk’s Global Prevention Accelerator

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Ksana Health , a digital behavioral health company that uses technology to provide continuous objective measurement, personalized insights and interventions to improve mental health care, announced its selection by Novo Nordisk’s Global Prevention Accelerator. Organizations were selected based on a set of criteria including the ability to make a global impact and provide scalable digital solutions that can be adapted for local populations. – Ksana Health will

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CVS Health projects at least $304B in revenue for 2022

Fierce Healthcare

CVS Health projects at least $304B in revenue for 2022. pminemyer. Thu, 12/09/2021 - 15:57.

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3 in 4 Insured Americans Worried About Medical Bills — Especially Women

Health Populi

In the U.S., being covered by health insurance is one of the social determinants of health. Without a health plan, an uninsured person in America is far more likely to file for bankruptcy due to medical costs, and lack access to needed health care (and especially primary care). But even with health insurance coverage, most health-insured people are concerned about medical costs in America, found in a MITRE-Harris Poll on U.S. consumers’ health insurance perspectives published today. “

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CMS: Nearly 4.6M have signed up for coverage on the ACA exchanges during open enrollment

Fierce Healthcare

CMS: Nearly 4.6M have signed up for coverage on the ACA exchanges during open enrollment. pminemyer. Thu, 12/09/2021 - 11:59.

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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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connectRN raises $76M for healthcare worker staffing, networking

Mobi Health News

The company said the latest round brings its total raise to more than $100 million.

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Spring 2022 Scholarship Winners Announced

Sharps Compliance

Sharps Compliance has announced the winners for its scholarship contest, which it holds twice a year. College students can submit an essay and application for a chance to win a $1,500, $1,000, or $750 scholarship. The Spring 2022 winners are below: Prize. Name. School. First. Benjamin C. Florida International University. Second. Nydaya G. North Carolina A&T State University.

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Emerging Trends in Patient Engagement

Healthcare IT Today

The following is an interview with Vik Krishnan, General Manager of Intrado Digital Workflows. Intrado recently administered a survey of College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) members, including executives from a variety of leading healthcare organizations, about their patient engagement goals, wish lists and priorities for 2022.

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Evernow names Dr. Leah Millheiser its next CMO and more digital health hires

Mobi Health News

Also: Carrot Fertility taps Tim Kelly as its next chief commercial officer.

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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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ChronWell Secures $6m Funding Round

Healthcare IT Today

New Investment to Aid Expansion of Digital Health Programs for Liver Patients ChronWell, a digital health and technology-enabled remote care management company, has announced new funding of $6 million. The financing comes amidst accelerating market traction for its programs leading the digital transformation of health. This funding round combines existing and new strategic investors.

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Roundup: HelloLyf patient management software comes to India, ShutEye's latest update features snoring detection, and more briefs

Mobi Health News

Also, AXA Hong Kong is offering limited time free trial of Mind Healer online mental health consultation on its mobile app.

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States Consider Blocking Ransomware Payments

Healthcare IT Today

Over the past several years, ransomware attacks have become a steadily more virulent threat to healthcare organizations. Things have gotten even worse since the pandemic hit, as it has strained healthcare IT organizations to the limit and made them far more vulnerable to security breaches. The latest wave of healthcare ransomware attacks has included “triple […].

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Quartet Health snaps up fellow mental health company InnovaTel Telepsychiatry

Mobi Health News

This news comes just days after Quartet announced a $60 million funding round.

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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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MEDVAL Exhibiting at the WCI Conference in Orlando Dec 12-15

Medval Compliance Blog

MEDVAL is pleased to be attending and exhibiting at the 75th Annual Workers Compensation Educational Conference December 12-15, 2021, at the Orlando World Center Marriott. With 3000 attendees expected, we look forward to connecting with clients, partners and prospective customers. If you are planning to attend, please stop by and visit us at Booth 911.

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Roundup: HypnoVR raises €4.5M, EPR provider Alcidion to acquire Silverlink and more

Mobi Health News

Also, Proximie announces partnership to improve obstetric surgical care in Kenya.

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Podcast: No Surprises Act: New Rules and Guidance for Stakeholders (Part 1) – Diagnosing Health Care

Health Law Advisor

In this episode of the Diagnosing Health Care Podcast : The No Surprises Act (NSA) will go into effect on January 1, 2022. Since our last episode on the topic, the federal government has issued additional interim final rules and guidance to implement the NSA, including the second interim final rule. In addition to describing how the NSA interacts with the plan external review procedures, the second interim final rule describes the independent dispute resolution (IDR) process and how the IDR’

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HCA Healthcare to Deploy MEDITECH Expanse in New Hampshire

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – HCA Healthcare , one of the nation’s leading providers of healthcare services, has begun implementing MEDITECH Expanse EHR platform across three hospitals in New Hampshire as a part of its digital transformation initiatives. HCA will go-live by the end of 2022. – The three locations — Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester, Parkland Medical Center in Derry, and Portsmouth Regional Hospital in Portsmouth — will leverage Expanse to help hospital teams deliver ex

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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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Insurtech Bright Health raises $750M from Cigna, NEA

Mobi Health News

This week the company also reaffirmed its 2021 revenue guidance and announced its outlook for next year.

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Prior Authorizations: 3 Ways to Reduce Administrative Burden & Burnout

HIT Consultant

Russ Graney, CEO and founder of Aidin. Medicare’s annual enrollment period has started, and you know what that means: a slew of commercials suddenly appearing on television for Medicare Advantage plans. The advertising appears to be working. Enrollment in Medicare Advantage has more than doubled over the past decade to more than 26 million people this year.

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Chutes & Ladders—NIH taps Tabak as acting director; Former Unilever CIO joins Mass General Brigham

Fierce Healthcare

Chutes & Ladders—NIH taps Tabak as acting director; Former Unilever CIO joins Mass General Brigham. hlandi. Thu, 12/09/2021 - 16:30.

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4 Key Barriers to Prevent Surprise Medical Bills

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: A new AKASA survey highlight the challenges hospitals and health systems face when trying to prevent surprise medical bills. AKASA™ , the developer of AI for healthcare operations, today released findings from a new survey highlighting the challenges hospitals and health systems face when trying to prevent surprise medical bills.

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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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MedTrainer Named a Company of the Year in the 2021 BIG Awards for Business

MedTrainer

MedTrainer Named a Company of the Year in the 2021 BIG Awards for Business. All-in-one compliance management suite creator recognized for providing healthcare organizations with the highest quality of customer support and innovation for their compliance and credentialing needs. Redlands, CA – December 7, 2021— MedTrainer , the creator of the only all-in-one compliance management suite, announces it has been selected as a winner of the BIG Awards for Business program.

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Alabama Doctors' Pill Mill Convictions Get U.S. Supreme Court Review

The Health Law Firm

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On November 5, 2021, the US Supreme Court agreed to hear the appeals of two doctors who were convicted of running a massive opioid "pill mill" operation at their Alabama clinic known as "Pain Specialists of Alabama." An Alabama federal jury found both doctors guilty in 2017 of prescribing opioids in violation of the federal Controlled Substances Act and they were sentenced to 21 and 25 years in prison.

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Iowa Supreme Court Dismisses Claim Alleging Reporting Physician Misconduct is Defamatory

Jackson Lewis

Physicians often have a legal obligation to report conduct which they believe may constitute negligence, or demonstrate an individual’s inability to practice medicine competently, safely, or within the bounds of the relevant code of medical ethics. Because of the nature of the information required to be reported, it is not unusual for the physician (or other medical provider) who is the subject of the report to contend the information is inaccurate or defamatory.

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No Surprise Billing Requirements to be Implemented Jan 1, 2022

Florida Health Care Law Firm

On January 1, 2022, a new federal law, “ Requirements Related to Surprise Billing, Part I ” (“The Rule”), goes into effect for health care providers and facilities and for providers of air ambulance services. The Rule will restrict excessive out-of-pocket costs to consumers which resulting from surprise billing and balance billing. Group health plans and health insurers contract with a network of provider and health care facilities, these providers are considered as in-network providers.

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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.