Wed.Apr 20, 2022

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Corporate employment of physicians surged during pandemic

Healthcare Dive

A study by Avalere found that hospitals or other corporate entities are buying up independent physician groups at a rapid clip, raising concerns about increasing pressures on doctors.

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Patient generated data can be a key factor in reducing health inequity

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

At this point, it's not a surprise to say that data is power – particularly when it comes to advancing clinical research, furthering innovation and improving patient care. Tools such as wearables can provide a holistic view of a patient's care journey beyond information gathered in a clinical visit. Still, experts say that network-wide availability of patient-generated health data is still lacking.

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Traveling Kaiser members get access to Cigna providers under new deal

Healthcare Dive

Under the five-year agreement, Kaiser members will be responsible for the cost-sharing within their plan, and not have to pay out-of-network rates for visiting Cigna providers outside of the eight states covered by Kaiser.

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An Empathetic Ear: Strategies for Employer Health and Wellness Negotiations

Bill of Health

By Stacey Lee, Jacobo Guzman, and Gladys Johnson. Amid federal and state vaccine mandates, labor shortages, and increased requests for remote work flexibility, employers find themselves in an evolving landscape with less latitude over their organization’s workplace. As a result, employers and employees find themselves in conversations about crafting a “new normal” in which worker well-being is featured more prominently than 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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Healthcare worker training org aims to root out bias in care

Healthcare Dive

The heightened racial unrest of 2020 revealed unmet needs and windows of opportunity to challenge structural racism.

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Merging informatics and empathy in nursing

Healthcare It News

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Adaptive Health Integrations Data Breach Affects More than 510,000 Individuals

HIPAA Journal

An Adaptive Health Integrations data breach has recently been reported to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) that involved the protected health information (PHI) of 510,574 individuals. Adaptive Health Integrations is listed as a Williston, North Dakota-based provider of LIS software services and billing/revenue services to laboratories, physician offices, and other healthcare companies.

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The Color of Care – Oprah and The Smithsonian Channel Partner on Health Equity

Health Populi

A new documentary and educational campaign on health equity will be launched on May 1st, 2022, from Oprah’s Harpo Productions studio partnering with The Smithsonian Channel. The Color of Care documents stories of people who have lost loved ones in the COVID-19 pandemic as well as expert interviews with frontline workers and public health experts and researchers sharing data on systemic racism in health care that has underpinned racial health disparities since slavery was instituted in Ame

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HHS Issues Warning to HPH Sector about Hive Ransomware

HIPAA Journal

The HHS’ Office of Information Security Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) has issued a TLP: White alert about the Hive ransomware group – A particularly aggressive cybercriminal operation that has extensively targeted the healthcare sector in the United States. HC3 has shared an analysis of the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) known to be used by the group in their attacks and has shared cybersecurity principles and mitigations that can be adopted to improve resilie

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OSHA Proposes Expanding Electronic Recordkeeping Rule to Add Smaller Employers

OSHA Law Blog

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has published a proposed rule to restore and expand Obama-era requirements for high-hazard employers with at least 100 employees to submit their injury and illness forms electronically to the agency. To read the article in its entirety, please click here.

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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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Brave Health and the Doula Network partner for maternal mental healthcare

Mobi Health News

With the partnership, doulas will be able to refer their Medicaid patients to Brave for mental health services like therapy, psychiatry and medication management.

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500K Patients Affected by Adaptive Health Integrations Breach

Compliancy Group

Adaptive Health Integrations, based in North Dakota, reported an incident of unauthorized access to protected health information. There were potentially 510,574 patients affected in the massive breach. More details regarding the Adaptive Health Integrations Breach are discussed below. How Did the Adaptive Health Integrations Breach Occur? What’s Their Response?

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5 ways CMS' proposed hospital rule could affect patient safety and quality

Modern Healthcare

The agency is focusing on holding hospitals accountable for improving health outcomes, particularly for disadvantaged communities and maternal care patients.

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Are We Further Along with Interoperability Than We Think?

Healthcare IT Today

The inability to easily exchange medical data is holding back healthcare improvements and innovation. Thankfully there has been concerted effort recently from governments, vendors, standards bodies, and healthcare organizations to address this. Key to this effort is a standardized way to measure our interoperability progress (or lack thereof). The Healthcare Leadership Council and other leading […].

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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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mPharma & TytoCare Integrate to Offer Telehealth to Pharmacies in Africa

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – TytoCare , an all-in-one modular device and examination solution for AI-powered , on-demand, remote medical exams partners with mPharma , a technology-driven healthcare company building Africa’s largest health management organization with a focus on making medications affordable and accessible to every African. -The integration of the TytoCare solution into mPharma’s telehealth offerings enables pharmacies to provide patients with enhanced remote care through

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Butterfly Network taps Heather Getz as CFO and more digital health hires

Mobi Health News

Also: Employer-focused mental health startup Spring Health makes two new hires, and Carrot Fertility adds to its medical team.

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Why a Focus on Behavioral Health is Key to Improving Quality Measures

HIT Consultant

Tom Zaubler, MD, Chief Medical Officer of NeuroFlow. Since the passage of the Medicare Improvements for Patients & Providers Act in 2008, the U.S. healthcare system has been moving towards value-based care (VBC) which encourages health providers to improve care quality by reimbursing them based on successful outcomes rather than individual medical services.

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Dental care company quip scoops up dental telehealth company Toothpic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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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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PreciseDx’s AI-Enabled Digital Pathology Proven to Detect Early-Stage Parkinson’s Disease

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Mount Sinai spinout, PreciseDx , today announced that its AI-enabled digital pathology is the first proven to detect early-stage Parkinson’s disease, according to a recent research study. – The study , conducted in collaboration with Michael J. Fox Foundation, identified that PreciseDx’s technology can accurately diagnose Parkinson’s disease in living patients prior to the severe onset of symptoms.

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Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Can Help Close The Looming Gap In Health Equity

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by David Maman, CEO and founder of Binah.ai. Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) can offer a myriad of benefits for patients and providers alike. It can even pose as a solution to many of healthcare’s more complex problems, including the looming gap in health equity across the U.S. While RPM […].

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The End of the Public Health Emergency Will Prompt Massive Transitions in Health Insurance Coverage: How State Insurance Regulators Can Prepare

Center for Health Insurance Reform

It will be "all hands on deck" for state officials once the public health emergency ends and up to 16 million people face the loss of their Medicaid coverage. As many of these individuals will be eligible for commercial health insurance (and up to one-third will be eligible for Marketplace subsidies), state insurance regulators will play an important role.

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9am.health Raises $16 Million Series A To Build a Comprehensive Virtual Diabetes Destination Nationwide

Healthcare IT Today

9am.health also adds 7Wire Managing Director and Transcarent CEO Glen Tullman to the Board of Directors and will enter self-insured employer market to offer virtual diabetes care as a covered benefit 9am.health, a fast-growing virtual diabetes clinic that delivers personalized, affordable, and compassionate care directly to consumers, today announced a $16 million Series A funding round, bringing its total […].

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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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Cigna's Evernorth, Kaiser Permanente team on improving healthcare access

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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National Infant Immunization Week

Sharps Compliance

When the COVID-19 national emergency was declared in March 2020, many families dutifully followed stay-at-home orders. However, this led to a near immediate and notable decrease in routine childhood vaccinations, per the CDC. Two years later, the 2022 National Infant Immunization Week (NIIW) is focusing on ensuring families get back on track (and stay on track) with their children’s well-child checkups and recommended vaccinations.

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AP-NORC poll: Most people in U.S. want masks for travelers

Modern Healthcare

Interviews for the poll were conducted last Thursday to Monday, shortly before a federal judge in Florida struck down the national mask mandate on airplanes and mass transit.

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Dental care company quip scoops up dental telehealth company Toothpic

Mobi Health News

This acquisition will allow quip to offer virtual dental care.

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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.

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Federal Investigations Led to Recovery of $383K from Pennsylvania Homecare Service

Healthcare Compliance Blog

Four federal investigations have led to the recovery of $383,183 in back wages and liquidated damages for 46 workers of a Pennsylvania homecare service provider who denied them their full wages by not paying them overtime when the law required. The US Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division conducted four investigations into the homecare service provider.

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Healthcare staffing startup Clipboard Health raises $80M across two rounds and more digital health fundings

Mobi Health News

Also: Virtual ketamine therapy company Nue Life Health brings in $23 million in Series A and debt financing, and Source Health launches out of stealth with a $3 million seed.

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COVID-19 Update: Federal Mask Mandate Struck Down by Florida Court

Health Law Pulse

On April 19, 2022, a federal district court in Florida determined the federal mask mandate from the Biden Administration was unlawful and therefore void. The mandate required patrons to wear a mask on public transportation, like airplanes, trains, and buses. The federal judge presiding over the case determined the mandate exceeded statutory authority created under the Health Services Act of 1944.

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Synergy Health Partners Acquires SoCal Anesthesia Solutions, Inc.

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Synergy Health Partners, a hospital services company that improves access to patient care through innovative and custom orthopedic and general surgeon staffing programs, today announced the acquisition of SoCal Anesthesia Solutions, Inc. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. – Founded in 2019 by Dr. Jay Rindenau, SoCal Anesthesia Solutions is one of southern California’s most trusted anesthesiology providers.

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Generative AI for Contracts Is Here: New Tools to Accelerate Drafting and Editing

The emergence of generative AI is reshaping the landscape of contract management, enabling businesses to generate and negotiate legal agreements with greater ease and speed. In this on-demand webinar, Hal Marcus, VP of Product Marketing at Evisort discusses how Evisort's generative AI transforms contract creation and negotiation, empowering legal teams to streamline processes while reducing risk.