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3 questions for Dr. Alan Kadish, Touro University President

Healthcare Dive

Between new locations, expanding programs and an ever-growing list of community service initiatives, Touro University is becoming one of the nation's leaders in medical and health science education in myriad ways.

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Telehealth can play a vital role in reducing carbon emissions

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth's potential to bridge the services gap for people without ready transportation access has been well-documented. Less explored, however, is virtual care's possible role in reducing carbon emissions, specifically by allowing patients to connect with providers without relying on a car. The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center built a dashboard to estimate the environmental impact of the medical facility's telehealth offerings.

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ACA-related coverage enrollment tops record at nearly 36M

Healthcare Dive

The expansion of health coverage to more Americans reflects pandemic-related policy efforts, but some of those flexibilities are set to expire this year.

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Walmart launches telehealth program aimed at diabetes

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Walmart Health's telehealth company MeMD launched a virtual care diabetes program this past week aimed at helping individuals improve management of the disease. The initiative, known as the Walmart Health Virtual Care Diabetes Program, was developed for employers and payers as a standalone offering or as part of a comprehensive telehealth program.

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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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Air ambulance provider latest to sue over surprise billing ban

Healthcare Dive

The central issue of the new lawsuit is the guidance the federal government has provided to third-party arbiters.

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How UCHealth's Virtual Health Center has enabled innovation, scaled capability and capacity

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, University of Colorado Health had been developing multiple virtual care systems over several years. THE PROBLEM. Aurora, Colorado-based UCHealth created its Virtual Health Center, which provided a virtual urgent care system, Safety View virtual sitter program and virtual ICU system, and centralized telemetry monitoring services.

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TEFCA can help patients to access medical records

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Health Equity and Health Disparities with Scott Afzal

Healthcare IT Today

One of the glaring problems that’s appeared much more clearly in healthcare the past couple years is health equity and health disparities. It’s a multi-faceted problem that’s not going to be solved over night. In many ways, it’s engrained in many parts of our system. To address it is going to take a consistent effort […].

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Key Revenue Cycle Trends for 2022 and Beyond

AIHC

Written by: Melvin Miller, COO Tech, investments, efficiency, patient experience, underpayment recovery, and coding automation are some of the themes that will drive the revenue cycle market momentum in 2022 and beyond. Coming at the back-end of a long period of adversity due to COVID-19 and an already challenging economic environment for hospitals and healthcare systems, we see a new wave of consolidation, invention, and innovation.

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How the Life Sciences Industry Can Boost Diversity and Inclusion Efforts

HIT Consultant

Although it is well established that diversity improves outcomes and drives excellence, implementing diversity lags behind in many industries, including life sciences and healthcare. Diversity is lacking across the entire field, from academic research to clinical work, composition of the workforce, and medical practice. This leads to worse health outcomes and fewer professional opportunities for underserved demographics, such as racial and ethnic minorities, women, and people with disabilities.

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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 Business of Giving Patients Control of Their Health Data – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 87

Healthcare IT Today

For the 87th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about The Business of Giving Patients Control of Their Health Data. It’s easy to say that patients should have access to their data. ONC and other legislation have made it clear that patients have a right to their data. While that’s clear, the business […] For the 87th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about The Business of Giving Patients Control of Their Health Data.

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Withings Health Solutions Launches Enhanced Remote Patient Monitoring Solution

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Withings Health Solutions unveils its RPM (Remote Patient Monitoring) Solution, designed to place the patient experience back at the heart of telehealth. Benefitting both the patient and the provider, Withings RPM solution tackles the challenges that are causing friction for care teams and patients when it comes to long-term medical requirements. – Led by Antoine Robilard, Withings Health Solutions is delivering a dual approach for patients and providers, by

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Hello Heart scores $70M to grow digital hypertension management service

Mobi Health News

The round comes nearly a year after the company announced it had raised $45 million in Series C financing.

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UCSF Health & Tia Partner to Open Flagship Women’s Clinic in SF

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – UCSF Health , and women’s healthcare provider Tia announced a partnership to transform women’s healthcare in the Bay Area — while also demonstrating a model for how a traditional health system and an upstart can work together to improve health outcomes and experiences for 51% of the population. – The flagship Tia Clinic will provide Bay Area women with a first-of-its-kind medical home designed to make every woman feel seen, heard and cared fo

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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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Fujitsu begins research to develop AI for early pancreatic cancer detection in Japan

Mobi Health News

The AI tech can spot signs of pancreatic cancer from non-contrast CT images.

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Imagene Raises $21.5M to Expand Image-Based Biomarker Detection for Precision Medicine

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Imagene AI , an emerging leader in the field of AI-based precision medicine for cancer, today announced it raised $21.5 million, comprising $3M in seed funding led by Blumberg Capital and an $18.5M Series A round led by renowned technology-driven cancer medicine investors Larry Ellison, Dr. David Agus, and AI imaging space pioneer Eyal Gura. – The use of AI-based molecular testing in cancer diagnostics is revolutionizing patient care by offering a new level of

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6 HIPAA-Regulated Entities Report Email Account Breaches and the Exposure of PHI

HIPAA Journal

6 data breaches have recently been reported by HIPAA-regulated entities that have collectively resulted in the exposure and potential theft of the protected health information of tens of thousands of individuals. La Casa de Salud, New York. The Acacia Network, a New York City-based human services organization, has recently notified the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights about an email account breach that was detected on July 17, 2020.

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Hello Heart Raises $70M to Expand Heart Health Solutions

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Hello Heart , the only digital therapeutics company focused exclusively on heart disease, announced a $70M Series D funding round led by Stripes to support its rapid growth in the employer market. – The funding round will specifically support the increase in employer market demand for Hello Heart’s technology as a focus on heart health sharpens.

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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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Withings rolls out new remote patient monitoring program

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Rochester Regional Health Taps TytoCare for On-Demand Virtual Visits

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Rochester Regional Health, an integrated health system serving western New York, the Finger Lakes, and beyond, announced it has selected TytoCare , an all-in-one modular device and examination solution for AI-powered , remote medical exams. On-demand virtual visits via TytoCare are available starting today for Rochester Regional patients. – The integration of the TytoCare solution into Rochester Regional’s current telehealth appointments enhances the health sy

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Webinar: May 19, 2022: 6 Secret Ingredients to HIPAA Compliance

HIPAA Journal

Achieving and maintaining compliance with all provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Rules can be a challenge for healthcare providers, health plans, healthcare clearinghouses, and business associates of HIPAA-covered entities. Fortunately, help is at hand. On May 19, 2022, Compliancy Group will be hosting a webinar and will be sharing its secret HIPAA ingredients, and attendees will discover how to cook up compliance.

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Withings rolls out new remote patient monitoring program

Mobi Health News

Withings announced its B2B division, which included its first remote patient monitoring offering, in 2019.

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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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U.S. pediatricians' group moves to abandon race-based guidance

Modern Healthcare

In a new policy announced Monday, the American Academy of Pediatrics said it is putting all its guidance under the microscope to eliminate “race-based” medicine and resulting health disparities.

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University of Sydney researchers create sensor bracelet for hand-impaired persons

Mobi Health News

The device allows them to use handheld controllers to play video games.

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Florida Behavior Analyst Arrested for Falsifying Timesheets to Defraud Medicaid

Healthcare Compliance Blog

A behavior analyst who was employed by a Florida home health agency has been arrested for Medicaid fraud. The man provided behavior analyst services for three Medicaid recipients, all of whom had disabilities. Two of the recipients were children. The parent of one of the children noticed incorrect information on a Medicaid online portal and reported it.

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Women's healthcare provider Tia expands brick-and-mortar footprint and more digital health briefs

Mobi Health News

Also: Dental startup VideaHealth scores FDA clearance for its cavity-detection algorithm, and Headspace Health adds to its executive team.

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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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Almost 2.6 Million Patients Sad as Smile Brands Breach Grows

Compliancy Group

A ransomware breach of Smile Brands that was first discovered in April 2021 now appears to have affected the protected health information (PHI) of at least 2,592,494 individuals according to an update filed with the Maine Attorney General’s office. Smiles Direct, an Irvine, California-based provider of support services for dental offices, discovered the breach on April 24, 2021, one day after cybercriminals accessed parts of their system.

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Cerebral CMO defends company’s prescribing practices

Mobi Health News

"We have made mistakes, and I'll admit we'll continue to make mistakes and to learn," says CMO David Mou.

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Syllable Raises $40 Million Series C Led by TCV to Improve the Patient Experience with Intelligent Voice Solutions for Health System Call Centers and Medical Practices

Healthcare IT Today

AI-enabled healthcare automation leader Syllable today announced a $40 Million Series C funding round to further improve the patient experience with intelligent voice solutions for health system call centers and medical practice offices. Funding was led by growth equity firm TCV with participation from existing investors Oak HC/FT, Section32, and Verily and will be used to further […].

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Accurate Payment Posting Leading to Improved Billing Efficiency

Medisys Compliance

Basics of Payment Posting. Payment posting is an integral part of the revenue cycle management (RCM) of any healthcare organization. As the name suggests, payment posting involves posting the payments and their reconciliation. The billing team will post the received and denied payments into billing software against the submitted claim. If you have an efficient payment posting team, they will uncover trends behind claim denials, will find out non-covered services, and requirements of prior author

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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.