Wed.Mar 01, 2023

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Playing the Long Game for Public Health Law

Bill of Health

By Lance Gable At the start of 2023, public health law in the United States faces two obvious structural shortcomings that need to be addressed: the inadequate fit between public health emergency powers and longer-lasting emergencies, and the increased susceptibility of public health law to dilution through political and judicial action. Legal powers worked largely as designed during the first months of the pandemic, adapting flexibly to the challenges posed by a novel pandemic infectious diseas

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Why regulators didn’t challenge Amazon-One Medical deal, despite data concerns

Healthcare Dive

The ecommerce giant's $3.9 billion buy of primary care company One Medical closed last week without a challenge from the FTC, even as consumer protection groups and regulators aired worries about the tie-up.

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Featured Health IT Job: Healthcare Data 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 Healthcare Data Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York. Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collabor

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Oak Street Health posts $510M loss, outlines risks to CVS acquisition

Healthcare Dive

Along with regulatory oversight and concerns about physician attrition due to the transaction, the merger could disrupt Oak Street by hurting relationships with its business partners — including Humana, according to a financial filing.

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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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The Hidden Barrier to Better Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Josh Miller, Co-Founder & CEO at Gradient Health. As a global society, we have never spent more on healthcare. We have never been more informed. We’ve never been more advanced. Yet there is a great divide between what we have accomplished scientifically, and what patients actually get access to. This is not something spoken about a lot, because the focus is of course on developing life-saving medical devices and diagnostics.

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Bright Health chases cash after overdrawing credit facility

Healthcare Dive

Bright is required to maintain at least $200 million in the account, but overdrew its credit due to costs associated with discontinuing its health insurance exchange business, according to CEO Mike Mikan.

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Lilly to lower insulin prices by 70%

Healthcare Dive

The pharma company has long been under pressure over the high cost of insulin — scrutiny that has recently ramped up in the U.S.

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Detroit Pistons Selects Progyny for Value-Based Family Building Care

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Progyny , a fertility benefits company pioneering value-based care, announced that they have partnered with the Detroit Pistons, to provide comprehensive, equitable family building care for employees and their families. – Through this partnership, the Detroit Pistons will have access to equitable and comprehensive family building care that its diverse workforce requires.

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Gross margins in MA market returned to pre-pandemic levels by end of 2021, report finds

Healthcare Dive

The analysis of insurer markets in 2021, the latest year of available annual data, sheds light into the varied financial performance of insurers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Bright Health staring down bankruptcy, needs to raise $300M, execs say

Fierce Healthcare

Bright Health staring down bankruptcy, needs to raise $300M, execs say pminemyer Wed, 03/01/2023 - 14:40

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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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Hospitals start year on better financial footing after challenging 2022, Kaufman Hall says

Healthcare Dive

Volumes, emergency department visits, discharges and total revenues fell for hospitals in January while labor expenses rose, according to the report.

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Fully Automated Medical Scribes Using AI

Healthcare IT Today

As most of you know, I’m a huge fan of all the efforts going on to improve the physician documentation process. It’s a burden that’s burning out physicians. One of the biggest efforts out there right now is called Ambient Clinical Voice. The biggest player in this right now is Nuance (now part of Microsoft) and their DAX product (They like to call it ambient clinical intelligence). 3M through MModal is playing in this space as well.

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M&A: ArisGlobal to Acquire Amplexor Life Sciences

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – ArisGlobal , the leading provider of life sciences software designed to automate core drug development functions, acquired Amplexor Life Sciences , a global provider of regulatory, quality, and safety software solutions. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. – This combined product ecosystem provides a new opportunity for life sciences companies, bringing together best-in-breed solutions to form a cohesive solution serving customers’ regulat

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Survey Reveals a Majority of Americans Are Uncomfortable with AI in Healthcare

HIPAA Journal

A recent survey conducted by the Pew Research Center found a majority of Americans are uncomfortable with their healthcare providers using artificial intelligence tools to aid the diagnosis and treatment, indicating a need to improve education on the benefits of AI in healthcare. 60% of respondents expressed discomfort with the use of AI in care settings, with 39% of respondents saying they are comfortable with their care providers relying on AI for medical care. 38% of respondents believe AI wi

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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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OpenText Partners with Bayer to Digitize B2B Operations

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Global tech anchor, OpenText ™ announced its collaboration with healthcare and agricultural leader, Bayer, to simplify its digital operations. – This partnership echoes the current trend which sees legacy companies adopting more robust digital solutions to elevate their businesses and free up time to focus on other priorities. – Bayer has strategically chosen OpenTextTM Business Network Cloud Enterprise, which will be tapped for strategic B2B integration

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Precision medicine company Tempus inks 3rd major pharma deal, securing nearly $1B revenue boost

Fierce Healthcare

Precision medicine company Tempus inks 3rd major pharma deal, securing nearly $1B revenue boost hlandi Wed, 03/01/2023 - 11:32

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Mayo’s Lucem Health Launches AI-Driven Early Disease Detection Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Lucem Health™ today announced the availability of its new early AI-driven disease detection solutions, Lucem Health Reveal that leverages existing EHR data to identify patients who may be at a higher risk of serious or chronic disease. – Reveal solutions surface previously undiscovered insights in readily available clinical data that can help provider organizations deliver greater clinical value for patients and more financial value to the organization.

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BCBSA: Broader site-neutral payment policies would save $471B over 10 years

Fierce Healthcare

BCBSA: Broader site-neutral payment policies would save $471B over 10 years dmuoio Wed, 03/01/2023 - 14:20

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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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PathGroup Expands Operations with Proscia Concentriq Dx

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – PathGroup , one of the largest providers of anatomic, clinical, digital, and molecular pathology services in the United States, is expanding its operations with Proscia’s software platform ( Concentriq® Dx ) to further enhance the delivery of faster, higher quality results for millions of patients, helping to better inform treatment decisions. – PathGroup currently supports more than 15,000 referring physicians and over 200 hospital customers with divers

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Google's Pixel Watch adds fall detection

Mobi Health News

The wearable uses its motion sensors to determine if the user has taken a hard fall and can contact emergency services if they don't respond.

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Eli Lilly Cuts Insulin Prices by 70%, Caps Patient Costs at $35 Per Month

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Eli Lilly and Company today announced price reductions of 70% for its most commonly prescribed insulins and an expansion of its Insulin Value Program that caps patient out-of-pocket costs at $35 or less per month at participating retail pharmacies. – The historic price cut makes it easier to access Lily insulin for Americans who may have difficulty navigating a complex healthcare system that may keep them from getting affordable insulin.

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High profile Palantir and Foxglove debate to close Rewired 2023

Digital Health News

Palantir's UK boss and the director of Foxglove will go head-to head in the closing debate at Rewired on how the NHS can benefit from technology and data.

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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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Cleveland Clinic closes Q4 strong but ultimately logs $1.2B net loss for 2022

Fierce Healthcare

Cleveland Clinic closes Q4 strong but ultimately logs $1.

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We Are All Health Consumers Now – Toluna’s Latest Look at Consumers’ Health & Well-Being

Health Populi

The challenging financial climate at the start of 2023 is impacting how people, globally, are perceiving, managing, and spending money on health and well-being, based on the latest (Wave 21) Global Consumer Barometer survey conducted by Toluna, a sister company of Harris Interactive. Globally, one-third of health citizens the world over are confronting greater stress levels due to the higher cost of living in their daily lives.

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House oversight panel launches new probe into major PBM tactics

Fierce Healthcare

House oversight panel launches new probe into major PBM tactics rking Wed, 03/01/2023 - 15:09

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Guy’s and St Thomas’ delays £450m EPR go live to ensure safety

Digital Health News

Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust has delayed the go live of its new electronic patient record to allow more time to launch the system safely.

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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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Staying Competitive in an Expanding Medicare Advantage Market

Fierce Healthcare

Staying Competitive in an Expanding Medicare Advantage Market jpiatt Wed, 03/01/2023 - 10:38

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Medication-Associated Diethylene Glycol Mass Poisoning — A Preventable Cause of Illness and Death

NEJM

Gambia recently faced a medication-associated diethylene glycol mass poisoning — the latest of numerous such events over the past 80 years. Why do such tragedies continue to happen, and what can be done to prevent them?

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GoodRx revenue sinks in fourth quarter

Mobi Health News

The digital health company reported $184.1 million in revenue for Q4, a 14% decline from the same period in 2021.

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Northwest Permanente P.C. subsidiary, XR startup launch CPR training with holographic patients

Fierce Healthcare

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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.