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Yet another survey shows pandemic's persisting toll on healthcare workforce

Healthcare Dive

Over half of the healthcare workers recently surveyed by USA Today and Ipsos Research said they are burned out, and 39% agree with the statement: "The American healthcare system is on the verge of collapse.

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MyMichigan Health joining 80-plus health systems in expanding hospital at home program

Healthcare It News

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Sanofi and GSK, after delays, to seek clearance for COVID-19 vaccine

Healthcare Dive

The companies' vaccine provided strong protection against severe illness in a large clinical trial. The long-awaited results could position it as a booster for people who have received other shots.

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Monthly Round-Up of What to Read on Pharma Law and Policy

Bill of Health

By? Ameet Sarpatwari , Alexander Egilman , Beatrice Brown, and? Aaron S. Kesselheim. Each month, members of the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) review the peer-reviewed medical literature to identify interesting empirical studies, policy analyses, and editorials on health law and policy issues. Below are the citations for papers identified from the month of January.

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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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Teladoc issues strong outlook as 2021 revenue tops $2B

Healthcare Dive

But market uncertainty and expected growth weighted in the back half of 2022 sent the company's stock slumping in aftermarket trading Tuesday.

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4 Ways Geofencing Can Benefit Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. A geofence is a perimeter set virtually, using the global positioning system (GPS) or radio frequency identification (RFID) to create operational boundaries. The software will trigger a predetermined response when a device enters the given […]. The article 4 Ways Geofencing Can Benefit Healthcare appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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CareTeam enables whole-patient care approach with athenahealth EHR

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

CareTeam is a primary care organization that partners with employers to operate on-site, near-site and shared-site clinics for employees. It takes a personalized approach to care, as well as a whole-patient approach. For example, its clinics' providers also are certified health coaches who help patients develop personalized preventative care plans.

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Tips for Getting More Patients To Your Clinic

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Healthcare professionals provide an incredible service across a range of areas. Chiropractors, psychiatrists, dentists, therapists, and addiction services, are just some areas covered by private practitioners. These professionals often train for years at a huge […].

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Tips for HIPAA and OSHA Training for Dental Offices

Compliancy Group

Creating and maintaining a successful dental practice is not easy. Attracting and keeping patients, building an efficient staff, and staying aware of the latest trends takes effort. Keeping your dental office compliant with HIPAA and OSHA regulations is one more thing to juggle. HIPAA and OSHA training for dental offices is an essential part of compliance.

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NCCoE Releases Final Version of NIST Securing Telehealth Remote Patient Monitoring Ecosystem Guidance

HIPAA Journal

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has published the final version of NIST guidance on Securing Telehealth Remote Patient Monitoring Ecosystem (SP 1800-30). Healthcare delivery organizations have been increasingly adopting telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM) systems to improve the care they provide to patients while reducing costs.

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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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OIG and CMS Audits Present New Round of Compliance Concerns for Healthcare Providers

McBrayer Law Blog

Posted In Audit , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) , COVID-19 , Office of Inspector General of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) Since the beginning of the Public Health Emergency, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“ CMS ”) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“ CDC ”) data reflect over 44 million COVID-19 cases, 3 million COVID-19 related hospitalizations, and 720,000 COVID-19 deaths.

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Bayer launches KSA’s first digital platform for pulmonary hypertension management

Mobi Health News

Germany’s Bayer has launched Saudi Arabia’s first “digital hub” to improve management of pulmonary hypertension (PH), it has announced.

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CISA Publishes List of Free Cybersecurity Tools to Advance Security Capabilities

HIPAA Journal

Expanding security capabilities is possible with a tight budget by using free cybersecurity tools and services. Many tools and services have been developed by government agencies, the cybersecurity community, and the public and private sector that can be used to improve defenses against damaging cyberattacks, detect potential intrusions rapidly, and help organizations respond to and remediate security breaches.

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Mental Health, Going Into the 3rd Year of the Pandemic – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 2/25 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Anton C. Bizzell, MD (@drantonbizzell) from @TheBizzellGroup on the topic “Mental Health, Going Into the 3rd Year of the Pandemic.” As a society, we have been dealing […].

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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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Top 6 Medical Practice Management Tips for 2022

NCG Medical Blog

The first couple months of each year present an important time to reflect on how the previous year went for your medical practice and what areas you can optimize or streamline for the future. It’s just as helpful to appreciate the positive aspects of your practice and strategize how you can continue in those areas as it is to recognize which areas need improvement and determine the best course of action to address them.

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What is HIPAA?

HIPAA Journal

What is HIPAA? HIPAA is an acronym for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Among other measures, the Act led to the establishment of federal standards for safeguarding patients´ “Protected Health Information” (PHI) and ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of PHI created, maintained, processed, transmitted, or received electronically (ePHI).

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Omada Health raises $192M for chronic care management tool

Mobi Health News

The company plans to use the new funds to hire more staff and build out its tech.

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Sirona Medical Acquires Nines and Key Personnel

Healthcare IT Today

Sirona Medical will add Nines’ AI-powered algorithms to its novel RadOS operating system and several key personnel to its team Sirona Medical, a software company founded on a deep understanding of both the practice and business of radiology, today announced the acquisition of Nines’ AI capabilities, including ?its clinical data pipeline, machine learning engines, AI […].

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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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FemTec Health launches D2C personalized health product box offering

Mobi Health News

This news comes months after the company closed a $38 million funding round.

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Drug policy 101: Kaiser Permanente’s Approach to Pharmaceutical Detailing

Kaiser Permanente

As patients, providers, and health systems continue to grapple with unsustainably high drug prices in the United States, it is important for policymakers to understand the distinct differences between broad categories of therapies as they examine potential solutions. This brief describes Kaiser Permanente’s approach to providing high quality, unbiased information to prescribers.

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Two Michigan Healthcare Facilities Violated the FLSA Overtime Requirement

Healthcare Compliance Blog

Investigations by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Michigan Division have found that two healthcare facilities violated the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). A total of $259,647 has been recovered for 330 employees from the two employers. At a long term care facility located in Michigan, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division discovered that the facility paid its employees overtime after they worked 12 hours per day instead of after 8 hours in a day or 80 hours in a two

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Capsa Healthcare Announces the Acquisition of Humanscale Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

Capsa Healthcare, a leading innovator in healthcare delivery solutions for hospitals, long-term care, and retail pharmacy providers, announced the acquisition of Humanscale Healthcare, a designer and manufacturer of flexible technology solutions and computing workstations based in New York, NY. Capsa’s purchase of Humanscale Healthcare is the company’s seventh major brand acquisition in the last 11 […].

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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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Zentist Verified as HIPAA Compliant

HIPAA Journal

The automated insurance billing platform provider Zentist has demonstrated the company has implemented a HIPAA compliance program and is fully compliant with all appropriate provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule, Security Rule, Breach Notification Rule, Omnibus Rule, and the HITECH Act. The Zentist platform was developed to simplify and automate insurance revenue cycle management (RCM) for dental practices and eliminate the significant costs a

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Is the Chief Digital Officer as Important as the CEO in Healthcare?

Healthcare IT Today

It is the responsibility of Chief Digital Officers to lead healthcare’s digital transformation. They must align the C-Suite, frontline staff, and the ecosystem of technology suppliers so that there is mutual benefit as they collectively march towards the health system’s digital goals. According to Raj Aggarwal, Chief Growth and Strategy Officer at Panda Health, this […].

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Medical Distancing Is Bad For Your Health

Jane Sarashon

“Social distancing is great. Medical distancing? Not so much,” I observe in Medical Distancing in America: A Lingering Pandemic Side Effect., my essay published this week in Medecision’s Liberate Health blog. Since we learned to spell “coronavirus,” we also learned the meaning and risk-managing importance of physical distance early in the COVID-19 pandemic.

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What is a Healthcare Compliance Officer?

Verisys

As government agencies and national regulatory organizations pass more regulations and the need for healthcare services grows, healthcare compliance officers (HCOs) are more important than ever. Healthcare entities must comply with an increasingly complex and changing set of laws and regulations. The violation of these regulations can compromise patient safety, breach patient privacy, and incur strict legal and financial penalties.

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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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Why The Future of Healthcare Interfaces is Fluid

HIT Consultant

Sajjad Kamal, Healthtech Partner at Global Ventures Nazmus Saquib, HCI & Interfaces Expert. Tools we use to do our daily work have rapidly evolved following deep human-computer interaction (HCI) research. However, when it comes to healthcare, the HCI research has not found its way to healthcare practice. Most healthcare professionals still rely on memory, experience, pen & paper and difficult-to-use healthcare software.

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Please share your insight and support the Coronavirus Response Fund for Nurses

YouCompli

YouCompli is conducting research on how healthcare Compliance functions support the overall wellbeing of their organizations. As a seasoned healthcare compliance professional, your input will be invaluable in helping shape YouCompli’s inaugural report on the ways Compliance helps lessen organizational risk with exceptional regulatory change management. .

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Double G2 Win for symplr Clinical Communications | symplr

Symplr

To Our Valued symplr Customers: It's Time to Celebrate.

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Logan Health Medical Center Cyberattack Affects More Than 213,000 Patients

HIPAA Journal

Logan Health Medical Center in Kalispell, MT, has recently started notifying certain patients that hackers gained access to a file server that housed patient information in “a highly sophisticated criminal attack.”. A security breach of its information technology systems was detected on November 22, 2021, with the initial investigation confirming a hacker had breached its security defenses.

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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.