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State AGs urge Apple to protect consumers’ reproductive health data

Healthcare Dive

Apps holding sensitive health data should be required to delete nonessential information and clearly inform consumers what information they share with parties such as law enforcement, the 10 state attorneys general said.

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The Secret World of mRNA: HDT Bio Corp v. Emcure and Access to Next-Gen mRNA

Bill of Health

By Aparajita Lath. The future of public health in an “RNA world” is on trial in a trade secrecy dispute worth $950 million currently being fought before the District Court of the Western District of Washington, Seattle between HDT Bio Corp. and Emcure Pharmaceuticals. The trade secrets at issue concern an improvement over existing mRNA technology called “self-amplifying RNA” or “saRNA.” saRNA are effective at much smaller doses and lower costs.

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Providence closes 27 retail clinics in Southern California

Healthcare Dive

The healthcare system said the clinics were losing money as they attracted fewer patients. Labor shortages, inflation and an increasingly competitive retail health industry are also to blame.

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MDaudit Strengthens Its Position In the Revenue Integrity Market

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. MDaudit is strengthening its commitment to revenue integrity with several changes that build upon its presence in the revenue cycle management (RCM) market. Among the changes made by the healthcare technology company, which harnesses the […]. The article MDaudit Strengthens Its Position In the Revenue Integrity Market appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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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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Lawmakers object to latest surprise billing rule, call for changes

Healthcare Dive

House Ways and Means Committee leaders “are severely disappointed to find that the August 2022 final rule violates the No Surprises Act in the same ways as before,” they wrote in a letter to regulators last week.

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HIPAA-Compliant Uses of SMS Messaging

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Shannon Flynn is a freelance blogger who covers education technologies, cybersecurity and IoT topics. You can follow Shannon on Muck Rack or Medium to read more of her articles. HIPAA-compliant uses of SMS messaging may not be as common as […]. The article HIPAA-Compliant Uses of SMS Messaging appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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How to Solve the ‘new normal’ EHR Implementation Challenges

HealthIT Answers

By Liza Dzhezhora - Electronic health records have become ubiquitous in the US healthcare industry. However, the work on improving those solutions is in full swing. According to Fact.MD, the EHR market value is expected to reach $41.8bn in 2022 – 2032. What are the key EHR implementation challenges, and how to solve them? The post How to Solve the ‘new normal’ EHR Implementation Challenges appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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State attorneys general call on Apple to beef up privacy protections for reproductive health information

Fierce Healthcare

State attorneys general call on Apple to beef up privacy protections for reproductive health information. hlandi. Tue, 11/22/2022 - 12:32.

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Avoiding Red Flags: Finding the Right Productivity Balance

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by John Wallace, PT, OCS, Senior Vice President of RCM at WebPT. When it comes to the number of patients providers can see in a day, some might think that more is more. After all, more patients should generate more billable services—and thus, more payments. But as organizations balance productivity goals with payer policies, sometimes their version of “enough” patient volume is actually too much.

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MetroHealth System board ousts CEO after investigation reveals $1.9M in unapproved performance bonuses

Fierce Healthcare

MetroHealth System board ousts CEO after investigation reveals $1.9M in unapproved performance bonuses. dmuoio. Tue, 11/22/2022 - 11:29.

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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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A Look at Patient Experience, A New Infection Control Feature, and RPM 2.0 at the CHIME Fall Forum

Healthcare IT Today

At the CHIME Fall Forum conference, we had a chance to sit down with a number of great health IT vendors to learn more about what they’re doing in health IT, what they’d heard at the show, and a new product announcement. Check out these short video interviews to learn more. First up is Sarah Brandt, Associate Principal at Divurgent , who shared with us what she was hearing about patient experience at the conference.

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Advocacy groups press FTC to probe GPOs' role in supply chain shortages

Fierce Healthcare

Advocacy groups press FTC to probe GPOs' role in supply chain shortages. rking. Tue, 11/22/2022 - 16:21.

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Sonrai Analytics secures investment from US firm Eckuity

Digital Health News

Sonrai Analytics has secured funding from Eckuity and plans to use the money to diversify its market segments and strengthen its commercial aspirations.

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Nonprofit health systems' Q3 earnings: Baylor Scott & White, Sutter Health's operations stand tall among the pack

Fierce Healthcare

Nonprofit health systems' Q3 earnings: Baylor Scott & White, Sutter Health's operations stand tall among the pack. dmuoio. Tue, 11/22/2022 - 22:37.

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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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Ipswich Hospital advances stroke care thanks to tech partnership

Digital Health News

A partnership between Visionable and Brainomix is delivering high-quality stroke care for Ipswich Hospital with an AI-powered solution.

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Senate bill seeks to improve Medicare handbook amid spike in marketing complaints

Fierce Healthcare

Senate bill seeks to improve Medicare handbook amid spike in marketing complaints. rking. Tue, 11/22/2022 - 11:09.

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Healthcare fintech PayZen raises $20M, receives $200M credit facility

Mobi Health News

The funding comes a year after the payment startup announced a $15 million Series A.

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Today’s Seniors: Independent and Active

Fierce Healthcare

Today’s Seniors: Independent and Active. ncapone. Tue, 11/22/2022 - 16:28.

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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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Healthcare Data Breach At PA Rehab Center Impacts 130K

Health IT Security

Pennsylvania-based Gateway… read more

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Why Get an Online Nursing Degree?

HIT Consultant

Online education has rapidly gained popularity over the last few years. Online degrees have now become mainstream and are no longer a trend. The COVID-19 pandemic caused students to get confined to their homes, where online teaching became a norm. Students are now better able to understand the benefits of online education and are more willing to get a master of advanced nursing online.

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LPGA Pro Azahara Muñoz Inspires symplr Staff | symplr

Symplr

When symplr announced its golf sponsorship program, pro golfer Azahara Muñoz was among the first brand ambassadors symplr chose. Muñoz has had great success in her professional career, including being named LPGA Rookie of the year in 2010, winning on the LPGA, representing her home country of Spain at two Olympic Games, and competing as a member of Team Europe at four Solheim Cups.

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How to Find the Right Attorney for Your Irregular Behavior Case Before the USMLE or ECFMG

The Health Law Firm

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law If you have received a letter from the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Secretariat or the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) accusing you of "irregular behavior," this is very serious stuff. You need an experienced lawyer to assist you.

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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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Physician Burnout is Rising

American Medical Compliance

Physician burnout is on the rise, and the increase is sharpest among younger primary doctors. A new study conducted by the Commonwealth Fund found that over half of medical practitioners under the age of 55 have reported feeling burned out or stressed. The COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to the rise in stressed doctors. Physicians report taking on more work as a result of the pandemic.

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Health System Ransomware Attack Lingers…

Health Care Performance

CommonSpirit hospitals reported IT issues on October 3 rd with a response that included taking systems offline, including their electronic medical records. CommonSpirit has 140 hospitals in 21 states. According to Healthcaredive.com, based on website information, hospitals in seven states have been impacted. Scheduling issues and procedure delays have been reported.

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Health IT Hires, Appointments, and Who’s Hiring

HealthIT Answers

Latest announcements made from companies and organizations on hiring include Advantum Health, The Institute for Protein Innovation, Cognoa, Blue Health Intelligence, Vida Health, Baszucki Group, Canvas Medical, ONC, Trusted Health, Briljent Health IT, & Healthmark Industries. The post Health IT Hires, Appointments, and Who’s Hiring appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Taking a Moment to be Thankful

Healthicity

It’s that wonderful time of year to pause and express thanks for all the good things in our lives. Let’s do the same thing in our professional lives, including finding ways to be thankful for our compliance programs. As compliance professionals, we sometimes focus on what is going wrong. It’s only natural, as part of our job is to identify non-compliance and correct it.

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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.

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Administrative Simplification Provisions of HIPAA

HealthIT Answers

By Art Gross - The HIPAA Administrative Simplification provisions are in place to provide consistency in electronic communications within healthcare for Protected Health Information. These mandate the usage of standard transactions, code sets, and identifiers for the United States healthcare system. The post Administrative Simplification Provisions of HIPAA appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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'Podnosis': How public-private employer coalitions can force innovation, and how to fix the healthcare system

Fierce Healthcare

'Podnosis': How public-private employer coalitions can force innovation, and how to fix the healthcare system. tcarey. Tue, 11/22/2022 - 10:35.

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Kaiser Permanente employee inappropriately accessed EHR — 8,000 patients affected

Becker's Health IT

Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States notified 8,556 patients that some of their information was compromised due to an employee inappropriately accessing portions of its electronic health records.

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Citing dire finances, Providence shutters 27 Southern California retail clinics

Fierce Healthcare

Citing dire finances, Providence shutters 27 Southern California retail clinics. dmuoio. Tue, 11/22/2022 - 15:49.

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Generative AI for Contracts Is Here: New Tools to Accelerate Drafting and Editing

The emergence of generative AI is reshaping the landscape of contract management, enabling businesses to generate and negotiate legal agreements with greater ease and speed. In this on-demand webinar, Hal Marcus, VP of Product Marketing at Evisort discusses how Evisort's generative AI transforms contract creation and negotiation, empowering legal teams to streamline processes while reducing risk.