Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 5, 2023

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Eric Hyman, vice president of of corporate and product marketing, GTT. Telehealth and telemedicine have made rapid advancements in the past few years. However, while these advancements greatly improved access to healthcare services, they’ve […] The article How Healthcare Can Evolve Its Approach To Fighting Cyber Threats appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 5, 2023

Rachel Walensky, who has served as director since 2001, was criticized for the federal government’s handing of the pandemic, announcing in August last year that she planned to reorganize the CDC.

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Bill of Health

MAY 5, 2023

By Sarah Gabriele On April 27, 2023, the European Commission proposed new legislation that would allow companies to make drugs without the patent holder’s consent in emergency situations. The proposed legislation constitutes a step forward in the European Union’s effort to harmonize patent law in the Union, after the establishment of Unitary Patents and the European Patent Court.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 5, 2023

CFO Brian Evanko said that, while Cigna is “not yet seeing signs of economic pressure,” it expects higher levels of overall disenrollment in the back half of the year.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 5, 2023

Altera's ANZ head promoted to APAC VP Todd Haebich, head of Australia and New Zealand at Altera Digital Health, is taking on a new role as the company's EVP for Asia-Pacific. He first joined the company, then Allscripts, in 2015 as an associate VP for Strategic Accounts in ANZ before becoming the general manager in 2018. His responsibilities now include the Southeast Asian market where he has lived from 2008 to 2014 and held senior positions with leading healthcare IT companies like Wolt

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 5, 2023

The April job numbers are a decrease compared to the sector's average monthly gain of 47,000 jobs over the prior six months.

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Hospitals 315

Healthcare It News

MAY 5, 2023

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 5, 2023

OIG flags $580M in improper Medicare payments for psychotherapy, with the bulk billed for telehealth services aburky Fri, 05/05/2023 - 15:03

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Mobi Health News

MAY 5, 2023

Boehringer Ingelheim and Click Therapeutics initiate clinical trial on PDTx treatment for schizophrenia and Akili's EndeavorRx shows promise for adults with ADHD.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 5, 2023

Verizon will supply VA with mobile devices, emergency tech in $448M deal aburky Fri, 05/05/2023 - 16:17

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Mobi Health News

MAY 5, 2023

In a blog post, the virtual care provider blasts the insurer for paying it less than other providers in California and refusing to process 'every single' out-of-network claim.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 5, 2023

There has been an incredible rise in technological advancements in the world of healthcare recently due to our sudden need for everything to be digital when COVID hit. While the cases of COVID have gone down and we’ve settled into a new normal, that isn’t the only crisis that we need a tech fix too. We need to start searching for how we can use technology , new or old, to fix health inequality and discrimination.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 5, 2023

California lawmakers greenlight $150M of emergency loans for struggling hospitals dmuoio Fri, 05/05/2023 - 15:30

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 5, 2023

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions , part of RELX , today announced it has acquired Human API , a leading provider of a proprietary consumer-driven data platform. LexisNexis Risk Solutions and Human API will deliver a next-generation consumer consent management solution that enables more seamless delivery of data. This approach empowers consumers with better access to their healthcare data and insurance resources that can improve care coordination and automate life insurance underwriting. “Toge

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Mobi Health News

MAY 5, 2023

Simon-Kucher's Jan Bordon and Kay Schultze discuss how to encourage uptake for digital health products.

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Symplr

MAY 5, 2023

Every May, we celebrate National Nurses Day on May 6 in recognition and appreciation of all that nurses do. National Nurses Week follows from May 6-12, ending on the birthday of Florence Nightingale , widely considered the founder of modern nursing.

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Digital Health News

MAY 5, 2023

A decades-long partnership between Agilio Software and NICE has been extended for at least three more years, with Agilio providing trusted clinical content.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 5, 2023

Healthcare providers and laboratory personnel have been warned about a maximum severity vulnerability in Illumina Universal Copy Service software used by its DNA sequencing instruments. The vulnerability affects Illumina products with Illumina Universal Copy Service (UCS) v2.x installed: iScan Controls Software (v4.0.0 and v4.0.5) iSeq 100 (all versions) MiniSeq Control Software (v2.0 and later) MiSeq Control Software (v4.0 RUO Mode) MiSeqDx Operating Software (v4.0.1 and later) NextSeq 500/550

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Digital Health News

MAY 5, 2023

Accurx Self-Book, which helps GPs schedule and book appointments could save £123.1 million over five years if scaled up nationally, an evaluation found.

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Becker's Health IT

MAY 5, 2023

Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems is facing a lawsuit for a January data breach that compromised the protected health information of 1 million patients, Bloomberg Law reported May 4.

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Digital Health News

MAY 5, 2023

A randomised control study has shown that using the Healum planning software and app significantly improves health outcomes for Type 2 diabetes patients.

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Health Outcomes 82

Modern Healthcare

MAY 5, 2023

The U.N. health agency's officials said that even though the emergency phase was over, the pandemic hasn't come to an end.

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Digital Health News

MAY 5, 2023

The latest Digital Health News industry roundup includes Thriva's CQC registration and TSC Connected Care acquiring the assets of Connected Health Group.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 5, 2023

Alignment Health's CEO predicts that the insurtech will break even next year, turn a profit in 2025 fdiamond Fri, 05/05/2023 - 15:10

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 5, 2023

The following is a guest article by Erin Rutzler, Vice President of Fraud, Waste, and Abuse at Cotiviti In Delaware, more than 250 Medicare patients underwent unnecessary genetic testing based on telehealth consultations that often lasted less than two minutes— costing Medicare thousands of dollars per patient. Meanwhile, an emerging scheme for fraudulent and unnecessary cardiovascular and cancer genetic testing allegedly resulted in $174 million in false and fraudulent Medicare claims.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 5, 2023

WHO declares end to COVID-19 global health emergency dmuoio Fri, 05/05/2023 - 10:24

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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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Kaiser Health News

MAY 5, 2023

California’s attorney general is warning two tobacco companies that their new cigarettes appear to violate a state ban on most flavored tobacco products that was upheld by voters last year. Attorney General Rob Bonta sent letters to R.J. Reynolds and ITG Brands LLC, dated April 25, warning that the packaging and promotional materials for nine reformulated versions of Camel, Newport, and Kool cigarettes were likely against the law.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 5, 2023

Cigna boosts guidance as it reports $1.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 5, 2023

Also, Coviu and Alcidion have integrated their remote patient monitoring solutions.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 5, 2023

CareFirst, Noom program aims to ‘retrain the brain’ of members with obesity, prediabetes fdiamond Fri, 05/05/2023 - 10:56

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