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Sen. Bernie Sanders to target high healthcare costs as leader of influential committee

Healthcare Dive

The longtime Congressman and “Medicare for All” proponent will soon assume leadership of the Senate HELP committee, giving him sway in one of the nation’s most broadly influential health policy platforms.

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CVS, Cigna back kidney care coordination, tech startup Monogram Health's latest $375M raise

Fierce Healthcare

CVS, Cigna back kidney care coordination, tech startup Monogram Health's latest $375M raise. dmuoio. Mon, 01/09/2023 - 12:24.

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Rise of telehealth during pandemic boosted mental health treatment rates

Healthcare Dive

The number of patients who received virtual care early in the pandemic surpassed those who dropped in-person mental health treatment in a new Rand study.

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Email Account Breaches Reported by Legacy Hospice, Live Oak Surgery Center, University of Miami Health

HIPAA Journal

Email accounts have been compromised at Legacy Hospice and Live Oak Surgery Center, and a University of Miami Health employee’s personal data breach also saw their work email account compromised, highlighting the risks of employees storing their work login credentials on personal devices. Legacy Hospice Email Account Breach Affects 21,000 Patients. Legacy Operating Company, an Alabama-based operator of Legacy Hospice facilities in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, an

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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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More than 7K New York nurses wage strike

Healthcare Dive

Nurses at eight hospitals originally intended to strike. Ultimately, despite continued bargaining over the weekend, two failed to reach deals in time to stop nurses from walking off the job.

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These socioeconomic factors may be indicators of long COVID risk, study says

Fierce Healthcare

These socioeconomic factors may be indicators of long COVID risk, study says. fdiamond. Mon, 01/09/2023 - 16:48.

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2023 Predictions Final Thoughts

HealthIT Answers

Over the past few weeks we have heard from many of our industry experts on what they see happening in 2023. From AI to equity, from security to risk, from payers to investors, and from innovation to transformation, here are some final thoughts. The post 2023 Predictions Final Thoughts appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Eisai, in pricing new Alzheimer’s drug, tries to sidestep controversy

Healthcare Dive

The pharma set the average annual cost of it and Biogen’s newly approved medicine Leqembi to $26,500, below the cost of the companies’ earlier drug Aduhelm but above one estimate of cost effectiveness.

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Monogram Health Secures $375M to Expand In-Home Kidney Care

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Monogram Health , a Nashville, TN-based kidney disease benefit management and care delivery company announced a $375M growth funding round that will drive the company’s continued rapid expansion as the leading solution for high-quality, in-home care for polychronic patients living with chronic kidney and end-stage renal disease in the U.S. – Investors in the round include CVS Health, Cigna, Humana, Memorial Hermann Health System, SCAN, TPG Capital, Frist Cres

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5 Tips on How to Increase Patient Volume

Medisys Compliance

While the number of patients you see ultimately determines the success of your practice, there is so much that is dependent on the financial health of your practice as well, which is taken into account to analyze the success of your practice. Your revenue, word-of-mouth advertising, and community acceptance of your company are all directly impacted by the volume of patients you see.

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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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6 Executive Health Data Predictions to Watch in 2023

HIT Consultant

Kevin Agatstein, CEO at Kaid Health. In 2023 I predict that unstructured medical data, which makes up the majority of a patient’s chart, will become too valuable to ignore by both providers and payers. Driven in part by the growth of Medicare Advantage and oncology, both of which require the data within medical notes rather than just claims and labs data, organizations will start to use their unstructured EMR data in entirely new ways.

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Hybrid care provider Carbon Health announces more layoffs

Mobi Health News

The company let go of over 200 people in its second round of layoffs in the past year and plans to shift its focus to its primary care and urgent care services.

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Omada Health, Intermountain, Castell to Establish Integrated, Virtual Care Option for Diabetes Management and Prevention

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Omada Health and Castell , an Intermountain value-based care subsidiary, announced a first-of-its kind partnership – creating a new, integrated virtual care model to reach and help more at-risk patients through proven prevention and Diabetes programs. The new virtual care model expands the access of Omada’s Diabetes Prevention Program and Diabetes Program to patients and caregivers receiving care from Intermountain Healthcare’s primary care providers within its Utah

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Kidney-care company Monogram Health receives $375M investment

Mobi Health News

The funds will help expand the company's deployment of its in-home kidney and polychronic care delivery model and its clinical services.

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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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Caris Life Sciences and ConcertAI Partner to Accelerate Drug Development and Novel Research

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Caris Life Sciences ®(Caris), a molecular science, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technology company actively developing and delivering innovative solutions to revolutionize healthcare, and ConcertAI , an oncology real-world evidence data and AI technology company, announced a unique partnership to align the two companies’ oncology capabilities. – The strategic partnership will create one of the largest translational and clinical devel

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Inaugural EY health equity survey finds eagerness for cross-sector collaboration, but gaps in strategy

Fierce Healthcare

Inaugural EY health equity survey finds eagerness for cross-sector collaboration, but gaps in strategy. agliadkovskaya. Mon, 01/09/2023 - 13:32.

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Exec Hires: Former CVS Health Leader Joins Virgin Pulse as Chief Medical Officer

HIT Consultant

Jeffrey Jacques, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Virgin Pulse. What You Should Know: – Virgin Pulse , a global digital-first health, wellbeing, and navigation company, announced that Jeffrey Jacques, MD, has joined the company as Chief Medical Officer. – As chief medical officer at Virgin Pulse, Dr. Jacques will advance the company’s clinical strategy, providing insight and guidance to product and commercial teams.

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2023 Healthcare IT Predictions – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 105

Healthcare IT Today

In the last episode, we took a look back. Now, for the 105th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we are looking forward! Join us as we discuss our predictions for what Healthcare IT will look like in 2023. First we try to guess what the biggest topic, outside of the workforce and revenue, will be in 2023. Next we debate whether this will finally be the year that patients needs are met or significantly improved.

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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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Backed by CVS Health, Array Behavioral Care Raises $25M for Virtual Psychiatry/Therapy

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Array Behavioral Care , the nation’s leading virtual psychiatry and therapy practice, announced today the closing of its latest $25M equity round to further scale modern behavioral healthcare across the continuum, with CVS Health leading the round. Existing investors also joined the round and contributed additional capital. – The financing builds upon a long history between Array and CVS Health and opens doors to new levels of collaboration to expand access to

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JPM23: Centene gears up for Medicaid redeterminations to begin this spring

Fierce Healthcare

JPM23: Centene gears up for Medicaid redeterminations to begin this spring. pminemyer. Mon, 01/09/2023 - 14:19.

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KeyCare Completes $27M Round to Expand Epic-based Virtual Care Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – KeyCare, Inc., the nation’s only virtual-first care platform built with Epic, announced the completion of its Series A funding round following new investments from Ziegler and two additional health systems. This expanded backing brings KeyCare’s total Series A raise to over $27 million. – These investors join 8VC , LRVHealth , Bold Capital , and Spectrum Health Ventures in support of KeyCare’s mission to improve patient access, expand provider capa

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Array Behavioral Care announces $25M funding round led by CVS Health

Mobi Health News

The investment will help expand the telepsychiatry platform's reach.

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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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JPM23: CommonSpirit to limit expansion in bid for positive cash flow after recent struggles

Fierce Healthcare

JPM23: CommonSpirit to limit expansion in bid for positive cash flow after recent struggles. rking. Mon, 01/09/2023 - 14:13.

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Interview: Natalie Birindelli, Healthcare Engagement Advisor, Amazon Web Services

HIPAA Journal

Natalie Birindelli, Healthcare Engagement Advisor at Amazon Web Services has shared her thoughts on HIPAA and how the legislation relates to her role and her career. Tell the readers about your career in the healthcare industry. Experienced Healthcare Cybersecurity/Information Technology Leader with over 20 years in the hospital & healthcare industry.

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JPM23: Carbon Health nabs $100M, CVS Health partnership to pilot primary care in retail stores

Fierce Healthcare

JPM23: Carbon Health nabs $100M, CVS Health partnership to pilot primary care in retail stores. hlandi. Mon, 01/09/2023 - 17:28.

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How the federal government could incentivize healthcare cybersecurity

Becker's Health IT

Greg Garcia, executive director of cybersecurity at the Health Sector Coordinating Council, said that regulatory policy moves by the federal government could encourage healthcare organizations to invest in cybersecurity, BankInfoSecurity reported Jan. 6.

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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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Kaufman Hall purchases Gist Healthcare to bolster advisory services, media reach

Fierce Healthcare

Kaufman Hall purchases Gist Healthcare to bolster advisory services, media reach. dmuoio. Mon, 01/09/2023 - 16:42.

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Digital Health Funding Updates from FINN + Galen and Silicon Valley Bank – Context for JPM2023

Health Populi

As we enter the week’s brainstorms and deal-making prospects this week at the annual JP Morgan meet-up for healthcare, I’m kicking off Health Populi’s posts this week by diving into two major reports published in sync with this meeting that’s so pivotal and important for the digital health community: the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) 2022 Annual Report on Healthcare Investments and Exits and the 2022 Global State of Digital Health Report from FINN Partners and Galen Growth.

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NHS digital apps’ data could reduce health inequalities

Digital Health News

A report from the NHS Race and Health Observatory has made recommendations for how the NHS rebuilds, collects and uses data to guide policy decisions.

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Revenue Cycle Management Company RSi Announces Acquisition of Invicta Health Solutions

Healthcare IT Today

Decisive move brings Invicta’s Insurance Discovery, Claim Status, Eligibility Verification, Medicaid Enrollment, and Out-of-State Medicaid Billing solutions to the RSi portfolio. RSi, LLC , a leading national provider of revenue cycle services for the hospital and large physician practice market, has announced its acquisition of Invicta Health Solutions, LLC (Invicta).

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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.