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How tight nursing home capacity is bottlenecking hospital operations

Healthcare Dive

Large hospital operators reported increasing lengths of stay and difficulties discharging patients in the first half of 2022. The answer to why lies in a perennially stressed post-acute care chassis driven to the brink by COVID-19.

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Digital health cannot deliver on its promise without patient activation

Healthcare It News

When it comes to changing patients’ health behaviour, simply providing them with information is not enough. "There’s a big gap between knowledge and intention," said Dr Praveen Deorani, senior data scientist at the Singapore Ministry of Health in his session " Data-driven Approach for Patient Activation and Behaviour Change.

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SCOTUS won’t hear challenge to health worker vaccine mandate

Healthcare Dive

In January, the high court upheld the CMS rule mandating that healthcare workers be vaccinated against COVID-19 at medical facilities that receive federal funding.

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EHNAC and CARIN Alliance launch new accreditation program

Healthcare It News

The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission and The CARIN Alliance have partnered to bring both the CARIN Code of Conduct and EHNAC’s criteria review process to health plans, health systems, EHR vendors and others for reporting to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on their data practices and privacy protections. WHY IT MATTERS.

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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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How a former Walgreens exec is tackling health equity at Michigan’s largest health system

Healthcare Dive

Carlos Cubia has been charged with tackling inequity both within Beaumont-Spectrum Health and the community it serves. Here’s what he’s doing first.

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The importance of data for clinical decision-making

Healthcare It News

"If we're genuine about changing patient experience we have to make sure we collect data and make the clinical decisions as close to the data collection as possible," said AJ Missaghi, CTO of Healthcare and Life Sciences at Dell Technologies. During his session, " Healthcare Industrial Revolution," sponsored by Dell Technologies, Missaghi argued it was important that healthcare leaders use insights from data to bring new levels of efficiency to patient care.

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Data Resilience Requires More Than An Annual Check Up

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Stephen Manley, CTO, Druva. The biggest healthcare innovation in the last twenty years is … data. Every day, healthcare organizations use data to operate more efficiently, improve patient care, and advance medical research. Over […]. The article Data Resilience Requires More Than An Annual Check Up appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Trinity Health posts $1.4 billion net loss in 2022 as contract labor costs hit ‘unprecedented highs’

Healthcare Dive

The Michigan-based system's contract labor costs ballooned 123% compared to the prior year as it struggled with labor shortages.

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Branding Dreams

Bill of Health

By Dustin Marlan. Advertisers are trying to market to us while we dream. This is not the science fiction of the film Inception or the series Black Mirror , but instead a troubling — and potentially illegal — new reality. To begin, consider three recent examples of dream advertising: Molson Coors ran an experiment in connection with its 2021 Super Bowl advertising campaign.

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BCBS: Racial disparities in maternal health complications increased during pandemic

Healthcare It News

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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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Cybersecurity Awareness Month Focuses on 4 Key Behaviors

HIPAA Journal

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month – a 19-year collaborative effort between the government and industry to improve awareness of cybersecurity in the United States, led by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA). 2022 Cybersecurity Awareness Month – See Yourself in Cyber. The theme of this year’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month is See Yourself in Cyber , where the focus is on the actions that everyone should take to impro

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Nodal, a platform connecting intended parents with surrogates, raises $4.7M

Healthcare It News

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Report: Digital health funding drops again in Q3

Mobi Health News

According to Rock Health's analysis, startups raised $2.2 billion across 125 deals, making Q3 the lowest quarter by dollars raised since Q4 2019.

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Access and inclusion for underserved populations are imperatives for digital health

Healthcare It News

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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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Healthcare Leads in Data Innovation, Lags in Talent Retention

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Splunk Inc., the data platform leader for security and observability, in collaboration with the Enterprise Strategy Group , today released the Economic Impact of Data Innovation 2023, a global research report that quantifies the economic benefits of mature data practices. – The report reveals the most data-savvy companies are increasing profits by 9.5%, are 2.9 times more likely to beat the competition to market, and are twice as likely to exceed financial exp

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Data Breaches Reported by Neurology and Fertility Centers in Nevada and California

HIPAA Journal

Neurology Center of Nevada Cyberattack Impacts 11,700 Patients. The Neurology Center of Nevada (NCNV), in Henderson, NV, has confirmed a data security event was detected on July 17, 2022, which rendered certain computer systems inaccessible. Prompt action was taken to secure its systems and an investigation was launched to determine the nature and scope of the security breach, with assistance provided by third-party cybersecurity experts.

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Accommodations Increase Clinical Trial Participation for Patients of Color, Survey Reveals

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – In a recent patient-centric survey, SubjectWell found that accommodations for all patients, including free treatment and study compensation, increase interest in clinical trial participation – particularly for patients of color. – However, overall, using value-based messaging, adding education to the recruiting process and reducing friction to participation – are universally impactful , not just for diverse populations, and that certain barriers affected white

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It’s Mental Illness Awareness Week: “What I Wish I Had Known” About Mental Health

Health Populi

It’s Mental Illness Awareness Week : annually NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness , devotes the first week of October to advocate for people facing managing a mental illness every day and to raise public consciousness on the pervasiveness of mental illness in America. Mental Illness Awareness Week: Oct. 2-8, 2022. This year, NAMI’s key themes address the over-arching message of “What I wish I had known,” each day looking into: Monday Oct. 3: Stigma.

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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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Rochester RHIO Advances Interoperability Using Best-in-Class Direct Secure Messaging

Healthcare IT Today

Effective Health Information Exchange (HIE) requires a secure and reliable Health Information Service Provider (HISP) infrastructure to provide HIPAA-compliant delivery of healthcare information. Thanks to the regulations included as part of meaningful use, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) and the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), every healthcare provider using certified electronic health record technology (CEHRT) has access to Direct Secure Messaging.

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Acurable raises €11M to expand at home sleep apnea testing device internationally

Mobi Health News

The UK-based wearable medical device company plans to use the funds to expand in Europe and North America.

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First Pitchfest winner TestCard strikes a deal with Roche

Digital Health News

TestCard's app ClearScreen will be added to Roche's cobas pulse system's open digital ecosystem, improving the speed and accuracy of point-of-care testing.

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Sanofi and TrialSpark partner to accelerate tech-driven drug development

Mobi Health News

The alliance will expand Sanofi's trek into tech-based drug discovery and development platforms.

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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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Burning Up and Burned Out? Addressing Patient Burnout Amidst a Burned-Out Industry – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this month’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 10/7 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This month’s chat will be hosted by Erica Olenski Johansen ( @thegr8chalupa ) on the topic “ Burning Up and Burned Out? Addressing Patient Burnout Amidst a Burned-Out Industry.” As an industry, we have our work cut out for us.

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Babylon and Bupa extend partnership for digital health services

Digital Health News

Digital health company Babylonand Bupa have announced they are extending their existing partnership agreement for a further three years.

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Healthcare’s Inflection Point and the Way Forward – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 98

Healthcare IT Today

For the 98th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we’re joined by a special guest host, Anders Brown, Managing Director at Tegria. It was awesome to be able to sit down with Anders Brown to get his first hand experiences dealing with the topic we are discussing in this episode: healthcare’s inflection point and the way forward. We first dive into the widespread and painful issues that exist in healthcare.

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Sonara Health raises $3M for digital methadone management platform

Mobi Health News

The startup plans to use the seed funding to continue developing its platform and partner with more opioid treatment programs.

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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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Cybersecurity and Compliance: A Match Made in Risk Management Heaven

Healthicity

Hackers and phishing and spam – oh my! With frightful risks around every (digital) corner.

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LifeBridge Health to pay $9.5M to settle data breach lawsuit

Becker's Health IT

Baltimore-based LifeBridge Health has agreed to pay $9.5 million to settle a lawsuit over a May 2018 data breach that compromised the protected health information of 530,000 patients, Top Class Action reported Oct. 3.

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CVS Health signs definitive agreement to sell bswift to Francisco Partners

Mobi Health News

The San Francisco-based investment firm purchased bswift to propel long-term growth.

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CommonSpirit IT security incident disrupts hospital operations

Becker's Health IT

Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health was the victim of an IT security incident that is impacting its facilities across the country, Kitsap Sun reported Oct. 3.

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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.