Bill of Health

MAY 10, 2022

By Angie Swanson-Kyriaco. During opening remarks for Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on December 1, 2021, Justice Amy Coney Barrett stated that the “obligations of motherhood that flow from pregnancy” and the “burden” of parenting are eliminated through adoption. It is no surprise that a conservative, anti-abortion, adoptive parent would have an over-simplified opinion about adoption, expectant parents, and birth parents.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 10, 2022

Michigan's Henry Ford Health System and General Motors partnered to develop a narrow-network insurance product for GM employees called GM Connect Care. THE PROBLEM. Through this product, HFHS aimed to offer innovative care delivery options that would be convenient and cost-effective for GM's members. The initial ask from the employer was a full service clinic staffed on site at GM world headquarters in Warren, Michigan.

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Bill of Health

MAY 10, 2022

By Angela Tucker and Lisa Marie Simmons. This is a story about Oterious and Isell, our Black fathers who wanted us, and the system that prohibited them. ???. When Lisa was born, U.S. Air Force Civil Engineer Isell walked the echoey halls of the hospital, looking for someone who could tell him where his baby was. When he reached the nurses’ desk in the neonatal unit, he was told it was too late: his firstborn, his baby girl, was gone.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 10, 2022

Patients reported issues with hospital staff responsiveness and said their experiences with care transitions out of a hospital setting worsened considerably during the pandemic, according to the watchdog.

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Bill of Health

MAY 10, 2022

By Malinda L. Seymore. Adoption and abortion both rely on concepts of consent, each an exercise in autonomy. Yet in adoption, we rarely consider the constraints on autonomy that often preclude meaningful choice. . When I think of adoption consent, I think of Dawn’s case. She was 18 years old, working part-time as a cashier and living at home with her mother and stepfather when she became pregnant.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 10, 2022

Mental health services captured a larger percentage of remote care and continued to be the top reason for online provider visits in February, according to data from Fair Health.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 10, 2022

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Bill of Health

MAY 10, 2022

By Rickie Solinger. The racial and gender coercions at the heart of adoption clarify the violence inherent in Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s wish to revitalize adoption in America as a substitute for abortion. . The mass practice of adoption, which started in the U.S. in the post-World War II era, pressed white unwed mothers to surrender their babies to a four-faceted cause: preserving the face of white chastity in the era of emergent feminism; bolstering the fraying institutions of white male aut

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 10, 2022

The vendor's revenue grew 11% while expenses climbed 40% year over year, as Amwell invested heavily in research and development for its open architecture Converge platform.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 10, 2022

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Jeff Gartland, CEO, Relatient. As experts in the healthcare industry, we’re all acutely aware of how our health system falls short of consumer expectations. And the gaps in the industry aren’t new – health […]. The article Addressing Healthcare Access Gaps with Technology: 3 Areas To Focus Today appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 10, 2022

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced this week that it had awarded $16.3 million in grant funding to enhance the telehealth infrastructure and capacity of reproductive health clinics throughout the country. HHS used funds available through the American Rescue Plan to award the money to 31 Title X family planning grantees for a 12-month project period starting on May 15, said the agency.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2022

The following is a guest article by Michael Sanky, Global Industry Lead, Healthcare & Life Sciences at Databricks. Across industries like retail, media, and financial services, real-time data can improve the customer experience, boost sales, and help achieve faster solutions to problems. In healthcare, access to real-time data not only has a profound impact on […].

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 10, 2022

The tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by ransomware and other cyber threat actors are constantly evolving to evade detection and allow the groups to conduct more successful attacks. The TTPs employed in the first quarter of 2022 by ransomware gangs have been analyzed and shared by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3).

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Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 10, 2022

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Health Level Seven International (HL7) announces the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC’s) FHIR at Scale Taskforce (FAST) will transition into an HL7 FHIR Accelerator. The FAST project was originally founded to identify […].

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Mobi Health News

MAY 10, 2022

The companies said their long-term goal is to develop and offer more digital health tools "through a multi-partner ecosystem" as well as advocate for reimbursement options.

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Jane Sarashon

MAY 10, 2022

“Telehealth certainly appears to be here to stay,” the AARP forecasts in An Updated Look at Telehealth Use Among U.S. Adults 50-Plus from AARP. Two years after the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, one-half of U.S. adults over 50 said they or someone in their family had used telehealth. In early 2022, over half of those over 50 (the AARP core membership base) told the Association they would likely use telehealth in the future.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 10, 2022

Also: Precision oncology platform OncoHost scores $35 million, home care startup Reverence emerges from stealth with $9.5 million and pediatric behavioral health startup Handspring Health completes a $6.2 million seed round.

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AIHC

MAY 10, 2022

Written by: Melvin Miller, COO The labor shortage is currently one of the biggest issues across industries. Be it restaurants, hospitals, retail, hospitality, and manufacturing – take any sector and you will find that this is perhaps the #1 problem operations managers are facing. In healthcare, the labor shortage is not limited to clinical roles but extends across administrative functions.

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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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HIT Consultant

MAY 10, 2022

What You Should Know: – Osmind , a mental health EHR platform helping clinicians and researchers advance new life-saving mental health treatments, today announced a $40 million Series B investment led by DFJ Growth. The Series B round brings the total amount of funding for Osmind to $57M since the company’s founding in 2020. Justin Kao, partner at DFJ Growth, and the co-founder of Helix, will join the Osmind Board of Directors. – Osmind works with mental health providers of all types

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Modern Healthcare

MAY 10, 2022

China's adherence to a “zero-COVID” strategy, as many other countries loosen restrictions and try to live with the virus, is exacting a growing economic and human cost. Evermore extreme measures have been required to bring outbreaks under control because the omicron variant spreads so easily.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 10, 2022

What You Should Know: – OncoHost , an AI-powered precision oncology platform, today announced a $35M Series C funding round led by ALIVE Israel HealthTech VC , as well as other prominent investors. Additional investors included leading Israeli financial firm Leumi Partners, Israel’s largest pension fund Menora Mivtachim, OurCrowd and other existing investors. – The funding will go towards expanding OncoHost’s ongoing multicenter PROPHETIC trial as well as support its upcoming U.S. co

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2022

Contract Enforcements Tie Cybersecurity to Financial Fraud and Liability The receptionist you yelled at for shopping online could turn you in and get a $900,000 reward. When it comes to compliance, ignoring the contracts you sign – including with Medicare and your insurance policies – can hit you really hard and really fast. How long […].

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HIT Consultant

MAY 10, 2022

Alison Budor, Consultant, Freed Associates. If there’s been a constant in healthcare the past two years, it’s been in the rapidity of change, largely in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Suddenly, healthcare needed to adopt new work models and technologies to provide proper patient care. No wonder healthcare ranked atop all other industries in “new ways of working and processes,” “new tech tools and infrastructure,” and “new staff wellbeing practices,” in a recent survey of 1,200 business leade

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2022

The closing of the company’s B Series follows an oversubscribed $20m A round in 2020. The funding allows Sidekick to accelerate the multi-chronic capabilities of its therapeutics platform. And continue to advance its growing commercial footprint in the United States. International digital therapeutics leader Sidekick Health (www.sidekickhealth.com) today announces that it has raised $55 million […].

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HIPAA Vault

MAY 10, 2022

Good security habits can sometimes feel like extra work – like when you have to jump out of bed to ensure your doors are locked, two seconds after you’ve clicked off the light. Why do you do it? Because you know the little extra effort isn’t too high a price for keeping an intruder out, Continue reading.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 10, 2022

Class action lawsuits have recently been filed against Partnership Health Plan in Northern California and Oregon Anesthesiology Group in response to ransomware attacks and the theft of sensitive patient/plan member data. Partnership Health Plan of California. Partnership HealthPlan of California (PHC) is a non-profit community-based healthcare organization that serves over 550,000 Medi-Cal beneficiaries in Northern California.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

MAY 10, 2022

An ineligible Medicaid provider was arrested in Florida for defrauding Medicaid of more than $68,000. According to a Medicaid Fraud Control Unit investigation, the provider had failed to disclose his former felony convictions that precluded Medicaid from accepting the application. Due to the false statement, he received the funds from Medicaid. The provider had created a business to provide home and community-based services to Medicaid recipients.

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Provider Trust

MAY 10, 2022

Meet Dee. Not only is Dee Murphy the mother of our Director of People Operations, Jodi Murphy, but she is also a nurse with many accomplishments. Jodi has this to say about her mother, “Though she is petite and short in stature, my mother is one of the strongest women I know. She’s utterly enduring and her nursing career is a direct reflection of that.

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Health Care Performance

MAY 10, 2022

The FTC regularly sends out consumer alerts on various scams. Turbo Tax’s “free” tax service and car dealer junk add-on fees are just a couple of recent alerts. Many times, these emails hit the trash bin after reading the subject line. This morning, my inbox had the FTC’s latest alert: Shutting Down Tech Support Scams. This morning was different – I opened the email and read the alert.

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HealthLaw Prof Blog

MAY 10, 2022

James Toomey (Harvard Law School), Too Important for the Bureaucrats: Rethinking Risk and Regulatory Presumptions in Times of Crisis, 47 Am. J. L. & Med. 249 (2021): The posture of American regulation of medicine is negative—we assume that a new.

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