Healthcare Dive
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Cybersecurity can no longer be treated as a secondary concern and must become incorporated into every organization’s core business model, according to the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Healthcare It News
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
A hack into a third-party vendor's email reportedly led to the exposure of patient and clinical data, resulting in care delays and clinical workflow disruptions across the health system. St. Luke's Health learned that a data breach affecting consultant Adelanto Healthcare Ventures had compromised protected health information. The data breach affecting the Texas-based system of 16 hospitals is unrelated to the massive ransomware attack on its parent company, CommonSpirit Health.
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Healthcare Dive
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Cigna’s health services division Evernorth is also taking a stake in the deal, and will become a minority owner in VillageMD.
Bill of Health
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
By Jennifer S. Bard. The longer the pandemic continues, the more obvious it is how effective the sweeping federal and state laws shielding medical providers from malpractice associated with COVID-19 have been. Few cases have been brought, and so far there is no record of successful judgements or settlements. Even without these statutes, proving negligence in COVID-related cases would be exceptionally difficult, given the ever-evolving virus and treatment options.
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Healthcare Dive
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
The new policy comes as nurses and physicians across the country report an escalation in aggression against healthcare providers.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Remote biometric monitoring technology company Biotricity recently announced securing National Institutes of Health funding from the National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute with plans to launch a study of its Bioflux-AI technology. Bioflux-AI combines an FDA-approved, high-precision, small mobile cardiac telemetry device with AI-driven algorithms specifically trained for the prediction of stroke in stage 4 and stage 5 chronic kidney disease patients.
Health Care Compliance Brief brings together the best content for health law & compliance professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
UnitedHealth continues to lead the way on insurer profits in Q3. Here's how its competitors fared. pminemyer. Mon, 11/07/2022 - 15:36.
Healthcare Dive
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Best practices for monitoring, referring and ordering physician populations, exposing the gaps and vulnerabilities that could leave you open to risk.
Total Medical Compliance Resources
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
In a recent Google search for adjectives to describe the world’s experience with the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the illness COVID-19, there was quite a range of emotions voiced. Some of the descriptive terms included: frightening, enlightening, paralyzing, loss, fear, and gain. Whatever term or terms you might use, the word stressful does comes to mind. Anecdotal reports from our clients indicate that both patients and workers have felt the impact of this pandemic, and for many the impact has affected
Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Fierce Healthcare Fundraising Tracker—DispatchHealth rakes in $330M; Care.ai banks $27M for ambient intelligence. hlandi. Mon, 11/07/2022 - 17:36.
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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.
HIPAA Journal
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
HIPAA Journal is conducting interviews with healthcare professionals to find out more about their compliance journeys, how the HIPAA Rules have affected their working lives, and the successes of HIPAA compliance and the challenges they have faced. The first HIPAA Journal Reader to share his views on HIPAA is Nathanael Ayala, Compliance Officer at Hospital San Carlos Borromeo in Puerto Rico.
Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Walgreens' VillageMD inks $9B deal to buy Summit Health, marking largest physician deal of the year. hlandi. Mon, 11/07/2022 - 11:57.
HIPAA Vault
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
In 1980’s Canada, the infamous “tainted blood scandal” led to thousands of unsuspecting transfusion recipients being exposed to HIV and hepatitis C. Inadequate screening of stored blood produced the largest, most preventable health disaster in Canada’s history. Like the flow of blood in a body, the quality of infused data will also nourish or weaken.
HIT Consultant
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Dr. Jessica Badichek, Chief Informatics and Compliance Officer, MediTelecare. Modern healthcare is an intricate dance between quality and quantity. Payers and insurance providers want better patient outcomes due to the high cost of poor health, while health providers want to ensure their patients aren’t overlooked and are appropriately cared for. To understand how we can satisfy the needs of both patients and payers, we’ll have to take a step back and look at the relationship between payer commu
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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed
HIT Consultant
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
What You Should Know: – Americans’ use and willingness to use video telehealth has increased since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, rising most sharply among Black Americans and people with less education, according to a new RAND Corporation study. – Following a representative survey panel of Americans from March 2019 through March 2021, researchers found that the willingness to use video telehealth increased overall from 51% in February 2019 to 62% in March 2021.
HIPAA Journal
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Oakbend Medical Center in Richmond, TX, and Keystone Health in Chambersburg, PA, are facing class action lawsuits over recent hacking incidents that resulted in the exposure and theft of the protected health information of hundreds of thousands of patients. OakBend Medical Center. On September 1, 2022, OakBend Medical Center discovered its systems had been compromised and files had been encrypted.
HIT Consultant
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
What You Should Know: Hemanext , a Lexington, MA-based blood processing, storage, and transfusion technology company raises $18M in Series B funding from noted global private investors with deep finance and healthcare expertise. To date, the company has raised approximately $130M (inclusive of $8M in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health).
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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.
Healthcare IT Today
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
For the 43rd episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Henry Vynalek, Director of HIE & IT Operations at Ohio Health Information Partnership. This time we’re diving into the world of HIEs! We look at what the IT stack looks like for an HIE. Next we discuss the biggest challenges HIEs are facing. Vynalek then shares what interoperability challenge he wishes he could get rid of.
HIT Consultant
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
What You Should Know: – Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Bio + Health fund today announced a strategic partnership with Bassett Healthcare Network , an integrated healthcare system in central New York state. – The strategic partnership aims to leverage digital healthcare technologies from a16z’s portfolio companies to address the inequities and systemic challenges of delivering high-quality healthcare to rural patient populations through Bassett Healthcare Network.
Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
'Well-intentioned, poorly executed waste': How tech companies aim to reduce billions in wasteful spending. agliadkovskaya. Mon, 11/07/2022 - 23:29.
HIT Consultant
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
What You Should Know: – Cost concerns increasingly outweighed worries about the pandemic as the top reason Americans deferred healthcare, according to a new study by Qualtrics , the leader and creator of the experience management category. – Between 2020 and 2022 the share of consumers deferring care because of pandemic-related health concerns decreased by 11 percentage points from 28% to 17% while the share of consumers deferring care because of cost concerns grew by four percentage
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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.
Mobi Health News
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Walgreens-backed VillageMD signed an agreement to purchase Summit Health, a multispecialty medical practice and parent company of urgent care provider CityMD. The deal is expected to close early next year.
Healthcare IT Today
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Health systems and physician practices are struggling with profitability as costs continue to rise while revenue remains flat. To endure, organizations will need to look to creative talent solutions, process automation, and other technologies – particularly in revenue cycle management (RCM). Healthcare IT Today recently connected with Patrice Wolfe, CEO and Thomas Thatapudi, CIO at AGS Health , a provider of RCM services, technologies, and support to healthcare organizations.
Mobi Health News
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
The layoffs come three months after a $10 million extension that brought its Series C round to $115 million.
Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Medical supplies company CCS leverages chronic care experience to address gestational diabetes. aburky. Mon, 11/07/2022 - 15:04.
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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.
HIPAA Journal
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
St. Luke’s Health has recently notified 16,906 patients that some of their protected health information has been exposed in a security incident at a vendor that provides consulting services. On November 5, 2021, the email accounts of two employees of Adelanto Healthcare Ventures (AHCV) were accessed by an unauthorized individual. An investigation was launched into the incident, which initially determined no patient information had been exposed; however, a subsequent review determined the informa
Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Charity care accounts for less than 1.4% of operating expenses at half of US hospitals, KFF finds. dmuoio. Mon, 11/07/2022 - 17:05.
Modern Healthcare
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
A ruling in favor of the Health and Hospital Corp. of Marion County could affect millions of Americans who rely on federal assistance programs.
Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
CMMI aims to bolster primary, specialty care coordination via new payment models. rking. Mon, 11/07/2022 - 15:53.
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