Healthcare Dive

JULY 28, 2022

The cost of the average breach for healthcare increased by $1 million to $10.1 million. That's up more than 40% since the 2020 report by Ponemon and IBM Security.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 28, 2022

Several new partnerships were announced this week between legacy electronic health record vendors and smaller tech firms offering services and capabilities across a variety of clinical and operational use cases. Allscripts approves third-party referral automation platform for EHR. Allscripts has approved a third-party integration with a patient-provider match tool, ReferralPoint, for use with the Allscripts Professional EHR and Allscripts Practice Management platforms.

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Healthcare Dive

JULY 28, 2022

The payer maintains headquarters in Long Beach, California, along with offices in New York City and assorted properties in other states. It employs 14,000 people.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 28, 2022

The average cost of a healthcare data breach has reached double digits for the first time ever, according to the 2022 Cost of a Data Breach Report from IBM Security. The average cost of a healthcare data breach jumped almost $1 million to a record high of $10.1 million, which is 9.4% more than in 2021 and 41.6% more than in 2020. Across all industry sectors, the average cost of a data breach was up 2.6% year over year at $4.35 million, which is the highest average cost in the 17 years that IBM h

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Healthcare Dive

JULY 28, 2022

The issues stem from Centene’s WellCare acquisition and plans are already underway to turn the star ratings around, CEO Sarah London said.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 28, 2022

A study published in JAMA Network Open found low health literacy and a higher area deprivation index were associated with more audio-only telehealth visits.

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Natalia Mazina

JULY 28, 2022

While this is not a new case, it serves as a good reminder that even a small healthcare provider is subject to potential monetary penalties under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). Cornell Prescription Pharmacy was a small compounding pharmacy in Denver. A complaint was filed with the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) – which is a branch of US Department of Health and Human Services with HIPAA enforcement functions – that the pharmacy allegedly discarded hardco

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Healthcare Dive

JULY 28, 2022

States have a wide variety of opinions on how difficult the looming process of resuming annual eligibility reviews after the COVID-19 public health emergency ends might be, according to MACPAC.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 28, 2022

What You Should Know: Elevation Oncology, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of precision oncology products for patients with genomically defined cancers, today announced that it has secured a $50M senior secured loan facility from funds managed by K2 HealthVentures. Elevation plans to use the funding from the facility will primarily support the exclusive license of EO-3021 (SYSA1801) outside of Greater China from CSPC Pharmaceutical Group and the execution of

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Healthcare Dive

JULY 28, 2022

The for-profit hospital operator missed Wall Street expectations on revenue and saw admissions decline 3.4% year over year.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 28, 2022

What You Should Know: – A new examination of patient perspectives on health data privacy illustrates unresolved tension over the eroding security and confidentiality of personal health information in a wired society and economy. – More than 92% of patients believe privacy is a right and their health data should not be available for purchase, according to a survey released by the American Medical Association (AMA).

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 28, 2022

Healthcare Performance Group, Inc. (HPG), which has provided industry-leading consulting expertise for EHR technology since 2002, announced today that it acquired Health Data Specialists, LLC (HDS). With expertise in Epic, Siemens and Cerner platforms, HDS has provided healthcare information technology consulting services to more than 300 hospitals and health systems – making it an excellent match for the services HPG offers.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 28, 2022

What You Should Know: – Linus Health launches the first iPad-based cognitive screening platform able to detect cognitive decline such as dementia years before the human eye could ever do so. – Linus is now offering a solution to empower PCPs to not only pinpoint cognitive issues in just minutes but also leverage AI to provide patients with evidence-based early interventions.

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Healthcare Blog

JULY 28, 2022

In our last blog, we discussed how important customer support is for the implementation, staff adoption, and use of policy management software. When faced with making an investment into a software solution, it can be tempting to try and go lean to cut costs and speed roll-out efforts — especially in light of how important policy management is in healthcare. .

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HIT Consultant

JULY 28, 2022

What You Should Know: – Caption Health and Heartbeat Health today announced a partnership that will enable providers to offer their patients earlier access to cardiovascular care than ever before possible. – Together, the partners are increasing access to early cardiac evaluations and care by providing these two innovations as a value-based bundle for health providers, payers, and value-based care organizations.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 28, 2022

As we look into the future, we’re seeing how what was needed in the past isn’t what the healthcare facility of the future is going to need. This was the topic of discussion in our recent podcast and we asked the Healthcare IT Today community what they thought the healthcare facility of the future would look like. Today we’ll share a number of responses about the facility itself and tomorrow we’ll share a look at the technology that will be needed in the healthcare facil

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HIT Consultant

JULY 28, 2022

What You Should Know: This week, AmerisourceBergen announced plans to launch DTx Connect , a fully integrated ordering, dispensing and fulfillment platform that aims to facilitate patient access to physician-ordered digital therapeutics and diagnostics. – Several developers plan to pilot DTx Connect, which aims to reduce barriers that physicians and patients face across the ordering and fulfillment of digital therapeutics and diagnostics.

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Modern Healthcare

JULY 28, 2022

An OIG audit outlined millions in uncollected overpayments, holes in internal accounting system

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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.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 28, 2022

It follows the clearance for connecting Hailie with AstraZeneca's Symbicort inhaler.

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Digital Health News

JULY 28, 2022

North East Ambulance Service is extending its NHS England-funded telemedicine project, to support faster, more effective stroke care in the region.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 28, 2022

The company reported a $3 billion noncash goodwill impairment charge during Q2. Revenue increased 18% year-over-year to $592.4 million.

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Medical Gas Compliance

JULY 28, 2022

Every facility manager faces different challenges, and although we typically share similar goals, some facilities get stuck with high fixed expenditures, while others have trouble finding the most efficient HVAC system for their building's needs. Preventive maintenance that gets ignored can cause repairs to be put on hold. Deferred maintenance - waiting for future budgets or funds to become available - can create costly consequences and increase the chances of significant problems down the road.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 28, 2022

Most Americans are confident about their knowledge of cybersecurity according to a recent AT&T survey of 2,000 Americans, yet bad cyber hygiene and poor password practices are still commonplace. The survey was conducted by OnePoll on behalf of AT&T and found that 70% of respondents felt they were knowledgeable about cybersecurity with 69% saying they were confident in their ability to be able to identify suspicious websites at a glance, yet the average person still lands on a suspicious

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 28, 2022

During the AHIP Annual conference in Las Vegas, I had a chance to sit down with David Schweppe, Chief Analytics Officer at MedeAnalytics , to learn more about what he was hearing at the conference and how MedeAnalytics can help the payer community. In the interview below, I asked Schweppe what he’s seen that he knows works for the AHIP payer end user.

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Med-Net Compliance

JULY 28, 2022

A 62-year-old resident (Resident 1) at a Washington DC nursing home was charged with bludgeoning to death his 80-year-old roommate (Resident 2) with a metal bed rail, according to police and court documents. Police said the attack occurred February 21, 2022, in a fourth-floor room at the facility. Resident 2 died March 20 at a hospice center in Maryland.

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Healthicity

JULY 28, 2022

HHS OIG Special Fraud Alerts are not very common.

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The Health Law Firm

JULY 28, 2022

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On June 15, 2022, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it has sued three nursing homes in Ohio and Pennsylvania, citing their “grossly substandard skilled nursing services.” The False Claims Act (FCA) complaint against the American Health Foundation (AHF), its affiliate AHF Management Corporation, and three nursing homes alleges the facilities fraudulently billed the Centers for Med

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American Medical Compliance

JULY 28, 2022

Recent research shows that great healthcare disparities exist for members of the LGBTQ+ community. A study produced by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that LGBTQ+ individuals face discrimination and stigma from family and community members. Also, they are more likely to be discriminated against in the workplace, receive substandard healthcare, and be denied healthcare as a result of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

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Health Law RX

JULY 28, 2022

Chapter 2022-60, Laws of Florida ( [link] ), that went into effect July 1, 2022, allows registered pharmacy technicians to seek certification to provide immunizations and become “Certified Registered Pharmacy Technicians.” These pharmacy technicians will be allowed to administer all of the vaccines listed by the CDC in the Adult Immunization Schedule or recommended by the CDC for international travel, as well as any vaccines authorized by the FDA under an emergency use authorization or by the F

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The Health Law Firm Blog

JULY 28, 2022

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law Throughout my decades of representing health care professionals, I have seen cases where an economic competitor of a physician generated false sexual harassment complaints to eliminate competition. I have seen cases where an ex-employee invented false allegations of [.].

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