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Patient sues CommonSpirit over ransomware attack

Healthcare Dive

A Washington state man alleged his personal health information is now in the hands of cybercriminals and is seeking to bring a class action suit against the health system.

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Report confirms racial disparities in patient access to their health data

Healthcare It News

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT examined the National Cancer Institute's latest annual health information trends survey to identify racial and ethnic disparities in patient portal offers, access and use. WHY IT MATTERS. Since 2003 the NCI's Health Information National Trends Survey has collected nationally representative data about the American public’s knowledge of, attitudes toward and use of health-related information in an effort to create more effective he

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Hospital margins improve modestly in November as expenses dip

Healthcare Dive

The monthly upturn in operating margins, identified in a new report from Kaufman Hall, is a bright spot in an otherwise difficult year for the nation’s hospitals.

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Lessons in Health Data Privacy from the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act

Bill of Health

By Katie Gu. The past may hold important lessons for our uncertain future of health privacy for patients, physicians, and hospitals in the face of abortion subpoenas post- Dobbs. . In returning the legality of abortion back to states, the Supreme Court’s decision has paved the path towards greater surveillance of sensitive health data contained in patient medical records.

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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 rolling out new integrated health app this year

Healthcare Dive

The app is available to a select number of Teladoc’s existing clients this month, with full market availability expected later this year.

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Teladoc unveils new app integrating services for primary care and mental health, expands Spanish language offerings

Fierce Healthcare

Teladoc unveils new app integrating services for primary care and mental health, expands Spanish language offerings. hlandi. Thu, 01/05/2023 - 16:07.

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Ransomware Attack at Fitzgibbon Hospital Affects 112,000 Patients

HIPAA Journal

Back in June 2022 , HIPAA Journal reported on a cyberattack on Fitzgibbon Hospital in Marshall, MO, after being contacted directly by a spokesperson for a threat group called DAIXIN Team, who claimed responsibility for the attack. That individual said the hospital’s systems had been compromised and 40GB of data had been exfiltrated, which included files containing patient names, dates of birth, medical record numbers, patient account numbers, Social Security numbers, and medical and treatment in

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GE’s new healthcare spinoff nabs Amazon executive as CTO

Healthcare Dive

On the heels of its market launch, medical device maker GE HealthCare has announced that longtime AWS executive Taha Kass-Hout will join the company.

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Commonwealth Fund: Medicare inpatient spending concentrated among 2 systems in most regions

Fierce Healthcare

Commonwealth Fund: Medicare inpatient spending concentrated among 2 systems in most regions. rking. Thu, 01/05/2023 - 15:07.

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Lifespan names new CFO

Healthcare Dive

Peter Markell will assume his new role Jan. 30 and will work alongside Lifespan’s newly appointed president and CEO John Fernandez.

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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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How mental health made the 'remarkable transition' to virtual: study

Fierce Healthcare

How mental health made the 'remarkable transition' to virtual: study. fdiamond. Thu, 01/05/2023 - 15:21.

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M&A: Rendever Acquires AARP’s Alcove Virtual Reality Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Rendever , the company pioneering the future of aging through VR acquires AARP’s Alcove , a popular consumer VR platform publicly available to families at home through their own VR headsets. – The Rendever team has been co-developing Alcove with AARP since 2020. By bringing Alcove in-house, Rendever is amplifying its reach through an integrated ecosystem of products that enable a better aging experience for seniors worldwide, regardless of where they live.

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Walgreens, CVS Health say they plan to sell abortion pills following FDA determination

Fierce Healthcare

Walgreens, CVS Health say they plan to sell abortion pills following FDA determination. pminemyer. Thu, 01/05/2023 - 16:38.

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C2i Genomics & AstraZeneca Partner to Advance Cancer Therapy

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – C2i Genomics , a cancer intelligence company, today announced a strategic collaboration with AstraZeneca , a global life sciences and pharmaceutical leader. – The two companies have collaborated to evaluate the potential of whole-genome minimal residual disease (MRD) testing across solid cancers. – Expanding on a completion of AstraZeneca’s accelerator BeyondBio SCALE program for start-ups and a successful technology validation, C2i Genomics and AstraZen

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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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Northern Light Health inks strategic collaboration with Optum

Fierce Healthcare

Northern Light Health inks strategic collaboration with Optum. pminemyer. Thu, 01/05/2023 - 15:55.

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Liver Cancer Awareness – Here’s What You Need to Know in 2023

HIT Consultant

Justin Chen Li, CEO of Helio Genomics. By the end of 2022, nearly 42,00 new cases of primary liver cancer will be diagnosed in the United States. In fact, liver cancer incidence rates have more than tripled since 1980, marking an increased need for better detection and diagnosis. We might not talk about liver cancer as much as we do breast or lung cancer, but it’s a real threat to millions of Americans – and we need to continue spreading awareness.

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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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NuraLogix Unveils Telehealth Platform Performing Continuous Health/Vital Signs During Video Calls

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – NuraLogix , global pioneers of contactless health monitoring whose technology can take over 30 medical-grade health vitals using any video-enabled device, unveils Anuraâ„¢ Telehealth, a platform that performs continuous health and vital sign measurements while on a video call. – This is the latest addition to its AnuraTM platform that uses conventional video cameras to extract facial blood flow information to accurately calculate a host of medical vitals and hea

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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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Volta Medical raises €36M for AI cardiac ablation software and more digital health fundings

Mobi Health News

Cancer care platform Onc.AI, data analytics company Porter and virtual care platform KeyCare also closed funding rounds.

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Cyberattacks Reported by Heartland Alliance and CentraState Medical Center

HIPAA Journal

The Chicago, IL-based social justice and human rights organization, Heartland Alliance, announced on December 15, 2022, that it was the victim of a cyberattack. The security breach was discovered on January 26, 2022, and prompt action was taken to secure its systems to prevent further unauthorized access. A leading third-party cybersecurity firm was engaged to investigate the incident.

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Walgreens posts $3.7B loss in Q1 on opioid settlement but boosts sales outlook in 2023

Fierce Healthcare

Walgreens posts $3.7B loss in Q1 on opioid settlement but boosts sales outlook in 2023. hlandi. Thu, 01/05/2023 - 12:02.

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Urgent Patching Required to Fix Critical Citrix, Netgear, and Zoho ManageEngine Vulnerabilities

HIPAA Journal

Vulnerabilities have been discovered in Citrix solutions, Netgear routers, and Zoho ManageEngine products that require immediate patching. One of the Citrix vulnerabilities is being actively exploited by an APT actor, and it is likely that attempts will be made to exploit the Netgear and Zoho flaws on unpatched devices. Citrix Gateway and Citrix ADC Vulnerabilities Being Actively Exploited.

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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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Greater Manchester launches remote-monitoring service for heart patients

Digital Health News

Patients in Greater Manchester waiting for cardiac surgery are to be supported through remote monitoring technology from Docobo.

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Healthcare Workforce – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Check out our communities predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media.

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Crescendo Health launches to capture more patient data for clinical trials

Mobi Health News

The startup, which also announced a $3.4 million raise, aims to collect longitudinal patient data for research.

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HEE report states digital tech will play ‘vital role’ in supporting NHS

Digital Health News

A report published by Health Education England (HEE) states digital technologies will play a vital role in supporting the NHS workforce with future demands.

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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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Economic uncertainty puts pressure on cybersecurity chiefs

Becker's Health IT

Inflationary pressures and a murky economic future are putting pressure on cybersecurity officials' relationship with their vendors, The Wall Street Journal reported Jan. 4.

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The ROI of Healthcare Compliance: A symplr Value Proposition | symplr

Symplr

No health system wants to make headlines for compliance penalties and fines. Managing risk and meeting compliance standards to keep patients safe—and stay out of the news—is challenging and costly. In fact, to adhere to more than 600 regulatory requirements, an average-sized hospital spends $7-9 million per year on administrative activities associated with compliance.

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New Jersey hospital still recovering from December cybersecurity incident

Becker's Health IT

Freehold, N.J.-based CentraState Medical Center is no longer diverting patients to other facilities after a Dec. 30 IT security issue caused the hospital to experience technical problems, but some outpatient services are still affected, Asbury Park Press reported Jan. 4.

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Roundup: Lunit INSIGHT CXR comes to Brazil and more briefs

Mobi Health News

Also, AI cancer treatment software provider PVMed scores $14M in Series A funding.

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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.