Wed.Nov 09, 2022

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Profits continue to climb for payers as possible recession looms

Healthcare Dive

Despite talk of a recession, all major insurers expect a rosier end to 2022 than earlier predictions. On the other hand, profits fell for large hospital operators faced with pricier labor and lower volumes.

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Google Cloud to power virtual care delivery at Manipal Hospitals

Healthcare It News

Manipal Hospitals has tapped Google Cloud to improve its virtual and remote care capabilities while leveraging AI to enhance patient experience. The partnership involves the deployment of the Amwell telehealth platform to enable virtual visits. Since 2020, Amwell has been Google's preferred telehealth partner to expand access to virtual care delivery worldwide.

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Book Review: ‘Drugs and the FDA: Safety, Efficacy, and the Public’s Trust’ by Mikkael A. Sekeres

Bill of Health

By Matthew Chun. In Drugs and the FDA: Safety, Efficacy, and the Public’s Trust , oncologist Mikkael A. Sekeres tells a captivating story of how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration became the agency it is today and how it makes some of its toughest decisions regarding the regulation of potent drugs. Sekeres centers his narrative on the controversial 2011 Avastin hearings , in which the FDA reconsidered and ultimately withdrew the breast cancer indication for Genentech’s Avastin dru

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Changi General Hospital developing AI algorithms to predict patient deterioration

Healthcare It News

Changi General Hospital in Singapore is now developing and validating AI algorithms to predict the likelihood of patient deterioration as part of its smart remote health monitoring system. WHAT IT'S ABOUT. The hospital has been collaborating with A*STAR medtech spinoff Respiree to develop a remote patient monitoring (RPM) system. It is one of the projects that CGH, Respiree and A*STAR are working on, backed with SG$1.35 million (over $950,000) in funding from the National Research Foundation

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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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What’s in it for Evernorth? Cigna’s health services arm invests $2.5B in VillageMD-Summit

Healthcare Dive

The deal could have major ramifications on Evernorth’s push to value-based care in the commercial sector, according to Cigna executives and analysts.

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Personalizing the patient care experience through data

Healthcare It News

Patients interact with different organizations in the patient care continuum, from when they discover they are ill to when they receive care and follow-up. Only through positive, personalized experiences across these touchpoints can an otherwise emotional and overwhelming experience be made easier. Health data within these touchpoints is siloed, locked across members of the healthcare value chain.

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Building out virtual behavioral health for Medicaid patients

Healthcare It News

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Elevance Health to acquire specialty pharmacy BioPlus

Healthcare Dive

BioPlus will complement the payer’s existing pharmacy benefit manager, IngenioRx, providing patients with specialty drugs and a whole-health approach.

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Rural NY health system working with Silicon Valley to expand access, digital transformation

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Andreessen Horowitz Bio + Health fund this week announced a new strategic partnership that aims to give an upstate New York health system access to digital health technologies that can help it address access challenges for its patient population. WHY IT MATTERS. The partnership aims to advance the patient experience, assure financial sustainability and position Bassett Healthcare for long-term growth.

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Abortion rights, Medicaid expansion win in state midterms

Healthcare Dive

Voters in California, Michigan and Vermont passed measures codifying abortion rights, while those in conservative Kentucky rejected an anti-abortion measure.

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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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Meta Faces Legal Firestorm As Hospitals Cite Its Pixel Tool In Health Data Breaches

Healthcare IT Today

Two health systems have become the latest healthcare organizations to name a web tracking tool created by Meta (formerly Facebook) as responsible for their data breach. This comes as the social media giant faces a growing number of lawsuits alleging that the tool improperly collects and sells sensitive patient health information. Both of the recent incidents, which were announced in mid-October, involved a Meta tracking tool known as Meta Pixel.

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Healthcare Sector Warned About Cyberattacks by Iranian State-Sponsored Threat Actors

HIPAA Journal

The federal government has issued a warning to the healthcare sector about the threat of cyberattacks by Iranian threat actors. Iranian state-sponsored actors lack the sophisticated technical capabilities of Russian and Chinese threat actors, but still pose a significant threat to the sector. The threat actors mostly use social engineering in their attacks to gain access to healthcare networks and are known to conduct sophisticated spear-phishing campaigns.

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Featured Health IT Job: Clinical Systems Analyst

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Clinical Systems Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by QuadMed in Sussex but can also be remote. Here’s a description of the position: QuadMed is seeking a Clinical Systems Analyst to join out team!

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Security Awareness Training Does Not Appear to Improve Password Hygiene

HIPAA Journal

Security awareness training is a vital part of any security strategy; however, one area where it appears to be having little effect is improving password hygiene. Employees can be taught what a strong password is and how passwords should be created, but even though the theory is understood it is not being put into practice. Employees may be made aware of the importance of practicing good cyber hygiene when it comes to passwords, but creating complex, unique passwords for every account is difficu

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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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What Is Medical Credentialing and Why Is it Important?

Medisys Compliance

Medical credentialing has opened up a plethora of opportunities in the healthcare industry that were previously closed to the healthcare professionals. With more patients than ever having insurance, medical practices are able to treat more patients than ever and boost their potential revenue as a result of getting reimbursed by insurance companies. Isn’t that just great?

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Experts urge polio vaccination to ward off any major resurgence

Fierce Healthcare

Experts urge polio vaccination to ward off any major resurgence. fdiamond. Wed, 11/09/2022 - 15:06.

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TytoCare Launches the Home Smart Clinic, the First Remote Primary Care Offering for the Entire Family

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – TytoCare , a virtual care company enabling accessible, high-quality primary care from home, today announced the launch of the Home Smart Clinic, a multi-pronged offering delivering health plans and providers a comprehensive range of elements required to launch a truly successful virtual care program without compromises. – The Home Smart Clinic is proven to reduce the total cost of care (TCC) for health plans by 10% on average, to deliver 59% more accurate diag

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Telehealth Visits Can Improve Revenue, But They’re No Cornucopia

Healthcare IT Today

In the Spring of 2020, a number of institutions—health, education, judicial, and others—went through a wrenching technological transformation: To prevent the spread of COVID-19, they took refuge online. Clinical sites that had long ignored the appeals of telehealth advocates suddenly adopted virtual visits. The change took place in almost a twinkling of an eye.

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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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Fathom Secures $46M for AI Medical Coding Automation Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Fathom , an AI-powered medical coding automation platform raises $46M in Series B funding co-led by Alkeon Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from Vituity’s Inflect Health , Cedars-Sinai , ApolloMD , Jonathan Bush, and other healthcare executives. – The company plans to use the funding to advance the standard in automated medical coding in response to critical challenges facing providers.

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Providers urge Biden to tackle 'gridlocked' hospital EDs and life-threatening care delays

Fierce Healthcare

Providers urge Biden to tackle 'gridlocked' hospital EDs and life-threatening care delays. dmuoio. Wed, 11/09/2022 - 13:55.

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Report: Telehealth accounts for about 10% of outpatient visits

Mobi Health News

An analysis performed by Chartis and Kythera Labs also shows those between ages 18 to 44 have highest telehealth usage.

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Industry Voices—Telehealth is dead. The era of hybrid care has arrived

Fierce Healthcare

Industry Voices—Telehealth is dead. The era of hybrid care has arrived. hlandi. Wed, 11/09/2022 - 11:43.

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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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NHS Digital announces tech innovation framework suppliers

Digital Health News

NHS Digital has announced the eight suppliers joining the tech innovation framework, to develop new GP clinical systems in line with the framework.

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CMS' disproportionate share hospital payment formula structurally disadvantages Black communities, study finds

Fierce Healthcare

CMS' disproportionate share hospital payment formula structurally disadvantages Black communities, study finds. dmuoio. Wed, 11/09/2022 - 17:17.

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Twill partners to add teletherapy for higher acuity care

Mobi Health News

e-Psychiatry's telepsych services will be provided alongside Twill's digital treatment modalities. .

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LAN report: Medicare Advantage plans increased spending on 2-sided risk models in 2021

Fierce Healthcare

LAN report: Medicare Advantage plans increased spending on 2-sided risk models in 2021. rking. Wed, 11/09/2022 - 15:13.

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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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North Middlesex University awarded HIMSS Stage 5 rating

Digital Health News

North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust has been awarded a HIMSS EMRAM Stage 5 rating, meaning the trust is now in the top 20% for digital maturity.

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MindMaze, Mount Sinai partner on digital neurotherapeutic program

Mobi Health News

New York-based Mount Sinai Health System will deploy home-based care and an outpatient rehab program using MindMaze's tools.

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Bridging the Gap: Oregon’s Proposal to Ease Coverage Transitions at the End of Public Health Emergency

Center for Health Insurance Reform

At the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, millions of people will lose Medicaid as states resume eligibility determinations. To help connect these consumers to a new source of affordable coverage, Oregon is considering an option under the ACA to leverage federal funding for health plans that cover lower-income consumers: a Basic Health Program (BHP).

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Customization vs. Configuration in Healthcare Fraud Detection

Fierce Healthcare

Customization vs. Configuration in Healthcare Fraud Detection. mteefey. Wed, 11/09/2022 - 16:55.

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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.