Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 5, 2022
In an increasingly murky legal environment, providers should focus on minimizing and protecting the data they collect, while keeping abreast of shifting abortion legality in their state, experts said.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 5, 2022
One Medical announced is 2nd quarter financial results this week, showing growth in both net revenue and membership. Year-over-year, compared to the three months ending June 30, 2021, the technology-enabled primary care provider posted the following numbers: Net revenue was $255.8 million YOY, compared to $120.4 million in 2021 – a 112% increase.
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Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 5, 2022
Hospitals added about 13,000 jobs in July compared to about 20,000 in June, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 5, 2022
Whether it’s due to high out-of-pocket costs, concerns about side effects, procrastination or other factors, 20-30% of patients don’t act on their new prescriptions, while others do not take medications as prescribed. WHY IT MATTERS. By partnering with Watertown, Massachusetts-based athenahealth, the system’s 145,000 providers can now access automated messaging within their established prescribing workflows to help drive better adherence to prescribed treatment plans.
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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.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 5, 2022
Most healthcare professionals are well aware of the nurse shortage that America faces today. In this HIMSSCast podcast, we'll be digging into this crisis and the role played, both good and bad, by healthcare information technology. Joining Healthcare IT News to discuss this and more is April Kapu, DNP, president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.
MRO Compliance
AUGUST 5, 2022
Use Case: Audit Manager. Background Summary. Leverage technology to automate repetitive and duplicative tasks, ease the burden of volatile staffing levels, and drive a positive financial impact of claim monitoring and adjudication with MRO Audit Manager. With a nearly 58% increase in governmental and commercial payment integrity audits and a 200% year-over-year (YOY) increase in prepayment audits*, the need to innovate is greater than ever before.
Health Care Compliance Brief brings together the best content for health law & compliance professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
MedTrainer
AUGUST 5, 2022
Lakesha Rivera oversees and creates clinical guidelines, policies and procedures, and manages a clinical operations team. The clinical operations team is heavily involved in compliance in regards to trainings, OSHA, and keeping staff up to date. Her organization spanning over 60 practices has been with MedTrainer since 2018. They currently have 1,712 active users in the system.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 5, 2022
What You Should Know: – The index of Healthcare & Life Science equities tracked by Stout was down 16.8% in Q2 2022, which was in line with the S&P 500 decline of 16.4%. – Healthcare & Life Science M&A activity plummeted to 338 deals in Q2 2022 versus 535 in Q2 2021 and a record 565 deals in Q4 2021. The report reveals credit markets likely to tighten, but a healthy level of M&A is expected to continue in the growing and defensive healthcare sector.
HIPAA Journal
AUGUST 5, 2022
First Choice Community Healthcare in Albuquerque, NM, has started notifying certain patients that an unauthorized individual gained access to its network and potentially stole patient data. In a substitute breach notification, First Choice explained that unusual activity was detected within its technological environment on March 27, 2022. A third-party cybersecurity firm was engaged to conduct a forensic investigation and determine the nature and scope of the breach.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 5, 2022
What You Should Know: – Xenex Disinfection Services has announced the 5-year renewal of its U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) contract, which enables federal agencies (including Veterans Affairs and U.S. Department of Defense healthcare facilities) to easily deploy Xenex’s powerful LightStrike™ room disinfection technology. – In addition to federal agencies, the GSA contract supports the procurement needs of eligible state, local, territorial, and tribal governments (includi
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Digital Health News
AUGUST 5, 2022
Advanced experienced issues with a number of health and care products, including its Adastra software which works with 85% of NHS 111 services.
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 5, 2022
Strategic Move Strengthens Clearwater’s Position as Healthcare’s Leading Cybersecurity and Compliance Solutions Provider with Additional Managed Security Services and Compliance Services. Clearwater, the healthcare industry’s top-ranked Security Advisors and Consultants and Compliance and Risk Management Solution provider , announced today that it has completed the acquisition of TECH LOCK, a leading provider of security management, threat detection, incident response, and compliance services.
Digital Health News
AUGUST 5, 2022
Sam Elliott, CEO of Insource Limited explains the importance of a complete and accurate data foundation if the Data Saves Lives strategy is ever to fully function.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 5, 2022
The funds will accelerate expansion to deliver care to Medicare Advantage members in rural Michigan.
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Digital Health News
AUGUST 5, 2022
This industry news round up looks at how AI is being used in Scotland to improve dental health and Sandwell Council's efforts to tackle health inequalities.
Becker's Health IT
AUGUST 5, 2022
A suburban Indianapolis neurology practice is notifying 363,000 patients that their personal health information may have been compromised in a May 20 ransomware attack, Bank Info Security reported Aug. 4.
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 5, 2022
Happy Friday everyone! Are you enjoying this very hot summer? I live in Vegas, so we just call it summer, but Twitter seems to be lighting up that a lot of places are having a hotter summer than normal. I feel for those that don’t have AC when the temperature rises. I hope you’re all doing well and making the most of summer time fun.
Symplr
AUGUST 5, 2022
Nearly 10% of medical claims hospitals submit to payers are rejected or denied—translating to revenue loss of up to $5 million for the average hospital annually. Only 63% of denied claims are recoverable, and the administrative cost of following up on a claim denied by an insurer averages $188 per claim. But medical claim denials often are avoidable.
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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.
Med-Net Compliance
AUGUST 5, 2022
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced the indictment of a physician and his company for defrauding Medicaid by forcing patients to get unnecessary and invasive medical tests. For years, the physician allegedly ran a kickback scheme where he bribed other physicians for patient referrals, subjected some of those patients to tests and procedures that they did not need, and then caused false claims to be submitted to Medicaid for those tests.
HealthIT Answers
AUGUST 5, 2022
Is five a magic number that people will click on to find out what’s on the list? Is it just the right number you think you have the time to read? I don’t know but there are lots of lists out there with 5 things you should know. These got me to click through and I think they were worth sharing. The post Friday at Five – Our Lists of Five Continue appeared first on Health IT Answers.
Health Law Pulse
AUGUST 5, 2022
The US is approaching 7,000 cases, the largest number of any country around the world. Of concern to the Administration is the nearly 80 percent increase in cases over the last 7 days. Of equal concern is the lack of more widespread availability of the vaccine and testing locations. Workplace safety is at the forefront once again, not unlike Covid-19 concerns early on and continuing.
Provider Trust
AUGUST 5, 2022
Meet Liz! Liz Kuehne is our Growth Operations Coordinator. She is our resident Supernatural fan, podcaster, and always cheers us up with her bubbly personality. We are so lucky to have her! Tell us about yourself and what you do for ProviderTrust. I am the Growth Operations Coordinator here at ProviderTrust. I work with the Marketing and Sales team and aid in finding new prospects for the Sales team to reach out to.
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Health Law Checkup
AUGUST 5, 2022
On July 21, 2022, the most high-profile acquisition in the health care space in recent memory was announced, when Amazon publicized the acquisition of One Medical, a primary care organization, for $3.9 billion. Amazon’s interest in the massive US health care industry has been no secret in recent years, but this is undoubtedly their biggest bet to date.
HealthIT Answers
AUGUST 5, 2022
Now on demand, Health Unabashed episode with guest Wendy Lund, Chief Communications Officer at Organon, the most significant health company dedicated to women’s health issues and innovation and hosts Gil Bashe and Gregg Masters. The post Talking About Women’s Health appeared first on Health IT Answers.
Hanys
AUGUST 5, 2022
The New York GEDA Collaborative brings together 15 New York hospitals pursuing Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation. The collaborative ensures older patients receive geriatric-focused, quality care by an interdisciplinary team, resulting in optimal transitions from the ED to other settings. Generously funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation, participating hospitals receive project management and technical support from HANYS and training and implementation assistance from the Geriatric
KFF
AUGUST 5, 2022
This analysis provides an initial look at how PEPFAR is currently defining and approaching sustained epidemic control at the country level.
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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.
Hall Render
AUGUST 5, 2022
A New Jersey statute on hospital property tax exemption was recently upheld by a NJ Superior Court. After more than 5 years of litigation on the state’s hospital property tax exemption statute, the law was signed in February 2021 and provides for a per-day “community service contribution” levied on each licensed bed in certain health care facilities.
Hanys
AUGUST 5, 2022
OPWDD draft strategic plan: An opportunity for questions and feedback. Aug. 11. How germs make people sick. Aug. 11. Standing membership call. Aug.16. Key components of the Medicare outpatient payment proposed rule for CY 2023. Aug. 17. 7 P2P problems hurting your bottom line. Aug. 18. Government relations update call. Aug. 19. CIC® Exam Preparation Study Group.
HIPAA Journal
AUGUST 5, 2022
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has published a list of the top malware strains identified in 2021. Malware is used by threat actors to compromise devices, giving them a backdoor into devices and networks for performing a range of nefarious activities. Malware can also be destructive and be used to sabotage systems, such as wipers that delete all data in systems.
Hanys
AUGUST 5, 2022
The Health Care and Mental Hygiene Worker Bonus program portal launched this week, initiating the process by which healthcare employers will submit claims for bonuses of up to $3,000 per person. As a result of HANYS' advocacy, the list of eligible worker titles has expanded to include housekeeping, maintenance, clerks and other non-clinical staff. The deadline to submit claims for the first vesting period is Sept. 2.
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