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'On high alert': Hospitals wary of cyber threats from Russia-Ukraine conflict

Healthcare Dive

Cybersecurity has always been chronically underfunded in hospitals, even before COVID-19 swallowed up more resources. Now, this major international threat is creating a "perfect storm," one cybersecurity expert said.

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Fostering Mentally Healthier Workplaces via Disability Advocacy: COVID-Era Strategies and Successes

Bill of Health

By Zachary F. Murguía Burton. Can employers foster mentally healthier workplaces via theater? Here, I discuss a mental health advocacy and inclusivity initiative built around a theatrical production, The Manic Monologues , with a particular focus on pandemic-era efforts to foster awareness, empathy, and connection around mental health challenges. These efforts aim to promote healthier and more inclusive (and, by extension, more productive) workplaces in the face of the ongoing, escalating global

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The stigma of mental health has to go away, says Michael Phelps

Healthcare It News

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Moderna, citing need for 'flexibility,' seeks broad clearance of fourth COVID shot

Healthcare Dive

Days after Pfizer asked U.S. regulators to authorize another booster shot for people 65 and older, Moderna has followed with a similar request for all adults, arguing an OK would "provide flexibility" to public health officials and doctors.

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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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Payer-provider partnerships essential to creating stable hospital-at-home programs

Healthcare It News

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Why Healthcare Consulting is Important

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. In recent years, the healthcare consulting industry has seen a lot of expansion. Increased access to health insurance has resulted in increased demand for services, posing new obstacles for healthcare professionals. But what precisely is […]. The article Why Healthcare Consulting is Important appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Becerra: HHS will fight for more telehealth after public health emergency ends

Modern Healthcare

More than 40% of Medicare enrollees used telehealth during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to federal data.

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How cutting-edge tech interfaces could monitor astronauts' health

Mobi Health News

During a discussion at HIMSS22, panelists discuss the health challenges of a long mission to Mars and how new interfaces could keep astronauts safe.

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How to Get the Most Out of HCCA Compliance Institute 2022

Healthicity

The HCCA’s 26th Annual Compliance Institute (CI) is on March 28-31, 2022, in Phoenix. For all of you who want to go, you have the option to attend in person or virtually. I will be there in person, and I cannot wait to meet you at the Healthicity booth ( #109 ).

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Top 9 Most In-Demand Medical Billing/Revenue Cycle Positions

HIT Consultant

A new AKASA survey highlights the vacant roles healthcare CFOs and financial leaders most need talent for to sustain daily operations within medical billing and the revenue cycle. The back office of healthcare is essential to keeping the doors of hospitals open by making sure the bills are paid. Yet, these teams are facing labor shortages like never before.

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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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Dropping the F-Word at HIMSS22

Healthcare IT Today

Fax is not a vulgarity in the English language, but in healthcare, it is close to being one. The word conjures up images of medical charts printed on curled thermal paper. It is a horrible way to deliver information to patients. However, it is a viable technology that is still one of the most ubiquitous […].

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Adobe Experience Cloud for Healthcare Launches

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Adobe announced the general availability of Adobe Experience Cloud for Healthcare , a solution that empowers healthcare enterprises to deliver seamless customer journeys with personalized and secure digital experiences. – Adobe Experience Cloud for Healthcare enables healthcare and life science companies to activate robust health and behavioral insights that shape everything from member acquisition, retention and connected health.

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Fujitsu fi-8170 Scanner Review for Healthcare Organizations

Healthcare IT Today

In the early days of my healthcare IT career, I made a big mistake in the types of scanners I implemented to scan into the EHR. After literally burning through a 3-in-1 scanner/printer combo until it was unusable, I realized that we needed to invest in a scanner that could handle the high volume scanning […].

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Social media data could be key to tracking disease patterns

Mobi Health News

Optum Group shares data on social media's link to tracking the COVID-19 pandemic.

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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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Compliance Carl: HCCA Karaoke Night

Healthicity

If you love compliance the way Carl loves compliance, you know there’s no better place to be.

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HIMSS22: 3 interoperability policy updates

Modern Healthcare

During the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's 2022 trade show, Health and Human Services Department policymakers shared updates on setting disincentives for providers who engage in information-blocking and requirements for payer-to-payer interoperability.

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Roundup: NDR Medical opens Japan site, WellAway delivers medicines to migrant workers, and more briefs

Mobi Health News

Also, MedLern announces a partnership to help train emergency nurses in India in trauma nursing.

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Clarify Health Acquires Embedded Healthcare to Scale Value-Based Care for Health Plans

Healthcare IT Today

Combined technologies strengthen Clarify’s leadership, creating the most comprehensive end-to-end value-based payments solution Clarify Health, a leading cloud analytics and value-based payments platform company, announced today the acquisition of Embedded Healthcare, a behavior change platform company created by healthcare leaders Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, Dr.

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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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Don’t Overlook the HIPAA Compliance of Your MSP Tools

Compliancy Group

If you’re a Managed Service Provider (MSP), you know that business depends upon your reputation. The MSP tools that you use to manage your clients effectively while maintaining the security and privacy of their data are vital to maintaining that reputation. That’s especially true when working with organizations required to be HIPAA compliant. How does that affect the MSP tools you use to support them?

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Report: Private Hospitals Overcharge NYC Government Over $2B Annually

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – The 32BJ Health Fund, a self-insured fund that provides care for 32BJ SEIU members and their dependents, today released a report that lays bare the stark price disparities between Medicare and private hospitals, and outlines solutions to both reins in prices and holds hospital systems accountable for these practices. – The report, titled, ‘ Hospital Prices: Unsustainable and Unjustifiable ’ found that hospital prices are dramatically rising, the main driver

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OCR Issues Quarterly Cybersecurity Newsletter

Colington Consulting HIPAA Blog

On March 17, the HHS Office for Civil Rights issued its quarterly cybersecurity newsletter. The big take away from the newsletter and the OCR mantra, is most cybersecurity attacks in the healthcare sector can "prevented.

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CMS to Host MSP Recovery Portal Go Paperless Webinar

Medval Compliance Blog

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will be hosting an overview of the new “Go Paperless” feature available in the Medicare Secondary Payer Recovery Portal (MSPRP) on Thursday, April 13 at 1:00 pm ET. The webinar will feature opening remarks and a presentation, followed by a question and answer session. Insurers and authorized agents may now choose to opt-in to paperless functionality.

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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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HANYS awards diversity and inclusion leadership scholarships

Hanys

We're pleased to award Keisha Peters, assistant director of human resources, NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst, and Christopher Sanchez, hospital relations manager, Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital and DeGraff Medical Park, scholarships for the eCornell Diversity and Inclusion Certificate Program.

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Frazier Healthcare Partners Closes $987 Million Life Sciences Fund

McGuire Wood

Frazier Healthcare Partners has announced the closing of Frazier Life Sciences XI with more than $987 million in capital commitments. The new fund, which exceeded its target of $800 million, is Frazier Life Sciences’ fourth venture fund focused on biopharmaceuticals. The firm’s announcement of the new fund comes only a few months after it had announced the closing of an $830 million public-market fund.

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Roundup: Inhealthcare wins NHS Scotland contract, National robotic assisted surgery programme in Wales, and more briefs

Mobi Health News

Also, Israeli startup Well-Beat teams with UST to launch digital patient engagement solution.

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New Cyber Incident Reporting Requirements

Hall Render

New cyber incident reporting requirements are forthcoming from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Part of the just-signed Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022 ( H.R. 2471 ) that we wrote about here , the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022 (“Act”) gives covered entities 72 hours to report to the Agency that a covered cyber incident has occurred.

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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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Telehealth platform Doctolib reaches €5.8BN valuation

Mobi Health News

The firm scored €500M in equity, debt funding.

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Upcoming events

Hanys

Adapting for adversity: Creating a continuous improvement coaching curriculum during COVID-19. March 23. Returning to pre-COVID-19 strategies for CLABSI prevention. March 24. HANYS government relations update call. March 25. Standing membership call on COVID-19 and other issues. March 29. Cybersecurity contracting expert panel. April 6. Source control.

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Physician venture investor talks telehealth, digital therapeutics, Medicaid tech

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

GSR Ventures, a $3 billion assets under management venture firm investing in early-stage digital health companies, is an unusual venture firm: The partners all are former practicing physicians and former successful healthcare technology entrepreneurs themselves. This hands-on experience in the industry gives them the opportunity to bring their medical knowledge and business-growing experience into their investment strategy and process – with the ultimate aim of improving patient care and o

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Help us celebrate your wins!

Hanys

Share your story of innovation, community health improvement or C2X initiative that improved care quality and health outcomes in your community, and your organization could be featured in our Member Spotlight !

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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.