Tue.Nov 29, 2022

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CMS warns hospitals must protect staff, patients from violence

Healthcare Dive

Hospitals must effectively mitigate risks to ensure patients and staff are safe as part of their Medicare certification, the agency said in a Monday memo, noting that some facilities have received citations for failing to do so.

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Follow the (Medical) Record: Clinical Claim Denials with Dawn Crump

MRO Compliance

Follow the (Medical) Record: Clinical Claim Denials with Dawn Crump. On this episode, host Don Hardwick interviews Dawn Crump, senior director of revenue integrity solutions at MRO, about clinical claim denials. They discuss the billing cycle, the different types of claim denials, and the bottom-line impacts to organizations. HealthcareNOW Radio Podcast Network ยท Follow the (Medical) Record: Dawn Crump, Senior Director of Revenue Integrity Solutions at MRO.

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HHS proposed rule targets substance use stigma

Healthcare Dive

The American Hospital Association backed the new rule, saying it would improve the exchange of patient records in the treatment of substance use disorders.

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Data privacy, lack of in-person contact among major barriers to telehealth uptake among Asian PLHIV

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

While telehealth uptake is increasing among people living with HIV and at-risk individuals in Asia-Pacific, concerns over data privacy and lack of in-person support are still keeping most of them from getting fully on board with online sexual health services, according to a recent survey report backed by global biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences.

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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 to make of Eisai and Biogenโ€™s latest Alzheimerโ€™s drug data

Healthcare Dive

At a medical conference, the companies detailed clinical trial results that could help support approval of their drug lecanemab. However, some doctors aren’t convinced the medicine’s risks are worth its potential benefits.

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Unsecured Database Exposed 16,000+ Childrenโ€™s Records

HIPAA Journal

A database containing the personally identifiable information (PII) of more than 16,000 children has been exposed over the Internet and could be accessed without a password or any other form of authentication. The database was found by security researcher Jeremiah Fowler and the Website Planet team and was traced to Tridas Group LLC. Tridas Group is the developer of Tridas eWriter, a web-based software solution that allows parents and teachers to rapidly complete interviews to facilitate the dia

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Collective Health Appoints Chief Financial Officer

HIT Consultant

Chris Newman, Chief Financial Officer at Collective Health. What You Should Know: – Collective Health has appointed Chris Newman as its new Chief Financial Officer. Under this leadership, he will be responsible for leading the finance team at Collective Health, while ensuring the company continues to grow in a way that delivers on its brand promise.

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'Podnosis': Is virtual-first care here to stay, and what can be done about skyrocketing US drug prices

Fierce Healthcare

'Podnosis': Is virtual-first care here to stay, and what can be done about skyrocketing US drug prices. tcarey. Tue, 11/29/2022 - 12:35.

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AWS Launches Amazon Omics for Precision Medicine

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – AWS announced the launch of a new service, Amazon Omics, to help bioinformaticians, researchers, and scientists store, query, and analyze genomic, transcriptomic, and other omics data and generate insights to improve health and advance scientific discoveries. – The explosion of โ€œomicsโ€ data, such as genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic data, is driving a new understanding of biology at the molecular level.

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How Elevance Health is working with NCQA and Harvard to advance its health equity work

Fierce Healthcare

How Elevance Health is working with NCQA and Harvard to advance its health equity work. hlandi. Tue, 11/29/2022 - 23:48.

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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 clientโ€™s particular scenarios and requirements.

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Ohio Families Receive Free Telehealth Breastfeeding Support via Kettering Health

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Families across Ohio can now receive telehealth consultations with lactation professionals at no cost via a partnership between the non-profit health system Kettering Health and Nest Collaborative. – Nest Collaborativeโ€™s International Board Certified Lactation Consultants (IBCLCs) will augment Kettering Healthโ€™s own lactation program by providing virtual prenatal and postpartum support for new parents 7 days a week.

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CMS threatens citations for hospitals without appropriate workplace safety practices

Fierce Healthcare

CMS threatens citations for hospitals without appropriate workplace safety practices. dmuoio. Tue, 11/29/2022 - 12:17.

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Summer Health Launches Messaging-Based Pediatric Care to Combat the RSV, Flu, and COVID Tripledemic

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Summer Health , the first text-based pediatric care provider designed to offer parents support, prescriptions, and referrals within just 15 minutes, today launched free trials to combat the U.S. tripledemic plagued by the rise of RSV, Flu, and COVID cases amongst children. – Amid a growing pediatric-care crisis that has caused an overflow in emergency rooms and doctorโ€™s offices across the country, Summer Health aims to help relieve the overwhelming burden and

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How a population data set and predictive risk analytics underpinned Wirralโ€™s social media health campaign

Digital Health News

Healthy Wirral Partners used Oracle Cernerโ€™s vast population data set and predictive risk capabilities to encourage vaccination uptake among people at higher risk from Covid-19 and influenza. The technology underpinned social media messaging by behavioural marketers at ICE around the principle of โ€˜social normingโ€™, promoting vaccination as normal behaviour.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics wonโ€™t cut it in todayโ€™s data-driven applications โ€“ not for your end users, your development team, or your business. Thatโ€™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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GE Healthcare teams up with augmented reality company MediView XR

Mobi Health News

The companies will develop an AR-based system for physicians to examine 3D images and collaborate with care teams in different locations.

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Health Equity, Pollution, Carbon Footprintsโ€“and Your IT Department

Healthcare IT Today

There are solid financial reasons for reducing energy use in your data center, for eliminating medical waste, and for increasing the diversity of your staff. But these initiatives also have impacts on your patients and the community. Erin Jospe, MD, Chief Healthcare Advisor at World Wide Technology , explains the connection in this video interview. For instance, the medical waste and other pollution you generate can end up in the local water and air, exacerbating respiratory and other problems a

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The Fresh Assault on Insurance Coverage Mandates

NEJM

Braidwood Management Inc. v. Becerra targets the ACAโ€™s use of USPSTF recommendations as a basis for mandating insurance coverage for preventive care and threatens access to important health services.

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NHS Englandโ€™s national CCIO Prof Jonathan Benger moves to NICE

Digital Health News

Prof Jonathan Benger, national CCIO at NHS England, is to become the new chief medical officer at the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE).

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Everything You Wanted to Know About FACIS, but Didnโ€™t Know to Ask

Speaker: Amy Anderson

FACISยฎ helps organizations mitigate patient and organizational risk. Maintaining compliance and safeguarding against fraud and abuse in todayโ€™s changing healthcare landscape can be challenging. Most healthcare organizations screen and monitor providers against the OIG but thatโ€™s only ONE of FACISยฎโ€™ primary sources. FACISยฎ pulls data for every taxonomy from the lowest level employee to the highest level licensed professional.

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The Tik Tokโ€™ing of Medical Mis-Information: Doctorsโ€™ and Patientsโ€™ Roles in Curating Healthy Advice

Health Populi

Doctors in the U.S. believe that the medical mis-information problem is worsening, learned in survey research from Merck Manuals. Doctors and patients, both, have roles to play in addressing medical misinformation online. Less than half of consumers, 44%, said that that there is more medical mis-information online than previously. That’s less than half of the percentage of doctors saying so — 98%, virtually all U.S. physicians, citing the problem.

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Mid and South Essex to support integrated care with HealthTrust Europe

Digital Health News

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust has gained a commercial procurement partner in HealthTrust Europe, to support integrated care in the region.

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Remote monitoring and data analytics company Medical Informatics raises $17M

Mobi Health News

The company will use the investment to expand its product specialist and client engagement teams.

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A symplr Value Proposition for Healthcare Workforce Management Tools | symplr

Symplr

What happens when health system CEOs face a challenge that โ€”for the first time in nearly 20 yearsโ€” suddenly outranks financial concerns as the biggest threat ? That top concern for healthcare executives is a shortage of clinical and nonclinical personnel.

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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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Interview: John Jessop, Sr. Director, HIPAA Security & Regulatory Compliance, PPFA

HIPAA Journal

HIPAA Journal is conducting interviews with healthcare professionals and service providers to find out more about their compliance journeys, how the HIPAA Rules have affected their working lives, and the successes and challenges they have faced with HIPAA compliance. John Jessop, MHA, CISSP, CHPS, HCISPP, CISA, CMPE, Sr. Director, HIPAA Security & Regulatory Compliance, PPFA has shared his thoughts.

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Healthcare Industry Remains a Top Victim of Ransomware Attacks

Health IT Security

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St. Lukeโ€™s Health Deploys Epic-Integrated I-PASS Solution for Standardized Handoff Communication

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Idaho-based St. Luke’s Health System today announced it is implementing Epic-integrated standardized communication tools across the health system and have selected the I-PASS Patient Safety Institute to implement the I-PASS solution. – The I-PASS handoff bundle enables industry-leading health organizations to rapidly adopt and implement a common language for care transitions across specialties and continuum of services.

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Value in Wearable Data

HealthIT Answers

By Matt Fisher - Can clinical relevance be found in all of the data collected by wearable devices that individuals use? It is a key question around the use of such devices, especially as consumer devices grow in ubiquity along with corresponding rises in adoption. The post Value in Wearable Data appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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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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Eyenovia Secures $15M for Ophthalmic Drug Delivery Technologies

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Eyenovia, Inc., a pre-commercial ophthalmic technology company developing the Optejetยฎ delivery system for use both in combination with its own drug-device therapeutic programs for mydriasis, presbyopia and pediatric progressive myopia as well as out-licensing for additional indications, today announced that the company enters a $15M credit facility with the Avenue Venture Opportunities Fund, L.P.

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Medicare Remote Therapeutic Monitoring: Top FAQs for 2023

Healthcare Law Today

On November 1, 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized new policies related to remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM) services reimbursed under the Medicare program. The changes, part of the 2023 Physician Fee Schedule final rule , clarify CMS’ position on how it interprets requirements for RTM services. The final rule rejects some of the proposals released in July 2022, and builds upon previous RTM guidance , including changes allowing general supervision for pur

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Rgenta Therapeutics Raises $52M for Integrative RNA-Targeting Discovery Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Rgenta Therapeutics Inc. raises a $52M Series A round led by AZ-CICC Healthcare Investment Fund with participation from all existing investors and new investors including Korean Investment Partners, Delos Capital. – Rgenta Therapeutics is focusing on developing RNA-targeting medicines for historically undruggable disease targets.

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Centene Will Pay $19 Million to Washington State For Medicaid Fraud Allegations

The Health Law Firm Blog

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On August 24, 2022, managed healthcare company, Centene Corporation, agreed to pay $19 million to the State of Washington to settle fraud allegations. Centene owns and operates Sunshine State Health Plan, d/b/a Sunshine Health, in Florida. In addition, [.].

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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. Youโ€™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.