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Solving the 'empathy gap' with social media analytics

Healthcare It News

The COVID-19 pandemic added unprecedented levels of stress to an already-strained provider community – leading to high rates of burnout and waves of resignation. At the same time, notes Fran Ayalasomayajula, president of the social impact organization REACH, it's important to acknowledge another pervasive problem in the healthcare industry: the so-called empathy gap.

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Anesthesiology practices get paid more when backed by private equity, study finds

Healthcare Dive

Staffing firms appeared to negotiate significantly higher prices for anesthesia services, the study authors concluded, raising concerns that such price inflation could lead to higher insurance premiums and patient cost-sharing.

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How to fight back against public health mis- and disinformation

Healthcare It News

One of the lasting lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic is the insidious and corrosive power of mis- and disinformation to undermine public health efforts. On the website for its COVID-19 Health Communication Playbook , MITRE offered just a few examples of the online epithets that bombard credulous social media users: "Some of these new vaccines will rewrite your DNA.

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Biden discusses drug prices, mental health services in annual address

Healthcare Dive

The president also announced a "test to treat" program that would allow people to receive a COVID-19 test at a pharmacy and immediately receive free antiviral pills, such as Pfizer's Paxlovid or Merck's molnupiravir.

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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 The Queen Elizabeth Hospital reduced patient waitlist times by 71% with digital patient pathways

Healthcare It News

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Adelaide, South Australia, has reduced how long patients have to wait for their endoscopy or colonoscopy procedures through digital patient pathways. WHY IT MATTERS. Since 2008, the 303-bed teaching hospital has provided care to endoscopy patients through its Direct Access Colonoscopy (DAC) programme. This programme seeks to give accelerated care access to eligible, lower-risk patients.

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Tenet ditches plan to spin off Conifer

Healthcare Dive

The company's decision to retain Conifer in-house closes the chapter on a long process over the uncertain future of the subsidiary that first began in 2017.

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The Best Practices For Securing Confidential Patient Data

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Milica Vojnic, business development associate, Wisetek. Cybercrimes are on the rise across the Internet and the healthcare sector is certainly no different in terms of the risks. This is why storing patient data […]. The article The Best Practices For Securing Confidential Patient Data appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Audio-only telehealth benefits patients in need, study finds

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A recent University of California study of telehealth implementation at community health centers found that although phone visits were beneficial to historically marginalized patients, continued virtual care use depends on increased technological resources. The study, published in SSM - Qualitative Research in Health , took a closer look at the rollout of telemedicine at two federally qualified health centers serving primarily Chinese and Latino immigrants.

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New Updates to Surprise Billing Independent Dispute Resolution Process

Compliance Now

By: Megan Diehl, Manager, Compliance Consulting, MZQ Consulting. Last week, a federal judge for the Eastern District of Texas invalidated a portion of the independent dispute resolution (IDR) process outlined in the interim final rules for the No Surprises Act (the Act). The Act, which applies to plan years that take effect on or after January 1, 2022, prohibits providers from charging “out-of-network” rates for emergency care, air ambulance services, and all care by an “out-of-network

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HHS Warns of Potential Threats to the Healthcare Sector

HIPAA Journal

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) has issued a warning to the U.S. health sector about potential cyber threats that could spill over from the conflict and affect U.S. healthcare organizations. HC3 said the HHS is unaware of any specific threats to the Health and Public Health (HPH) Sector; however, it is clear that allies on both sides of the conflict have cyber capabilities and there are fears that there could be cyberattacks on t

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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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How to Choose a HIPAA Compliant Vendor

Compliancy Group

The vendors you choose to help run your business will determine your business success level. Ultimately, your vendor’s vulnerabilities are your vulnerabilities, which is why HIPAA emphasizes the importance of business associate compliance. Business associate vendors must be compliant with HIPAA standards. So how do you ensure that you are choosing HIPAA compliant vendors?

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Paying a Ransom Doesn’t Put an End to the Extortion

HIPAA Journal

The healthcare industry has been extensively targeted by ransomware gangs and victims often see paying the ransom as the best option to ensure a quick recovery, but the payment does not always put an end to the extortion. Many victims have paid the ransom to obtain the decryption keys or to prevent the publication of stolen data, only for the ransomware actors to continue with the extortion.

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Massachusetts General Hospital to Co-Develop VR Digital Therapeutic for Stem Cell Patients

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Massachusetts General Hospital (“MGH”) announced a research agreement with Rocket VR Health , an emerging digital therapeutics company developing clinically validated virtual reality therapies that enhance the quality of life of cancer patients, their families and their caregivers. – The research will study the effects of daily Virtual Reality Therapy’s effect on patients during their entire hospital stay.

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6 Ways The Right Education Can Improve Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Education is at the core of every successful profession. It provides you with the tools, knowledge, and experience that positively influence the outcomes of your work. However, some industries heavily rely on pedagogy more than […]. The article 6 Ways The Right Education Can Improve Healthcare appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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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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Medical Waste Management & Disposal in Home Health Care Settings

Sharps Compliance

Home health care in the United States is experiencing a period of rapid growth and change. While providers and payers seek to improve outcomes while controlling costs, patients are receiving more advanced levels of in-home care. For example, “hospital at home” programs provide care that has traditionally required hospitalization. Industry analysts expect home infusion therapy to expand at a compound annual growth rate of 7.9% through 2030.

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Federal Regulators Stop Planned Buyout Of Change Healthcare By UnitedHealthGroup

Healthcare IT Today

Just days before the deal was set to close, the US Department of Justice has filed a suit against UnitedHealthGroup to halt its planned acquisition of Change Healthcare, arguing that it could hurt competition between commercial health plans and undercut the market for claims processing technology. The suit was joined by Minnesota Attorney General Keith […].

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HIPAA Rights

HIPAA Journal

The Health Insurance Accountability and Portability Act (HIPAA) introduced multiple HIPAA rights. Some of the rights were introduced directly via the text of the Act, but the majority followed later in the Privacy Rule. Unfortunately, the failure to comply with Privacy Rule HIPAA rights is one of the leading reasons for complaints to the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

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Big Health CCO Gabriela Perez on what's next for the digital therapeutics space

Mobi Health News

Big Health's new chief commercial officer discusses her new role, what she's learned from her background in digital health and how to make it easy for patients to access digital therapeutics.

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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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Healthcare Disinfection Systems from R-Zero at #HIMSS22

Healthcare IT Today

I don’t think any of us should be surprised that healthcare disinfection systems are going to be showing their products at the HIMSS Annual conference in Orlando. COVID-19 has pushed the disinfection and safety priorities of every healthcare organization to the top of the list. One of the disinfection vendors that will be at HIMSS […].

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DarioHealth, Sanofi U.S. ink $30 million agreement for DTx adoption

Mobi Health News

The agreement also allows the companies to develop new or improved tools for Dario's chronic condition management platform.

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The OIG's Modernization Efforts: What Our Expert Learned at the Roundtable Event

Healthicity

The OIG Wants Your Feedback on How to Improve.

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Truepill taps Sid Viswanathan as next CEO and other digital health hires

Mobi Health News

Also: Dr. Jay Bhatt becomes executive director of Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, and Owkin names two new executives.

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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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Validic’s Integrated RPM Platform Now Available on Epic App Orchard

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Validic today announced that its remote patient monitoring (RPM) platform, Validic Impact , is available on the Epic App Orchard. – Through the App Orchard, organizations using Epic can easily integrate Validic’s solution into their existing user workflow. Platform-First Approach to RPM and Condition Management.

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GLEAMER scores FDA 510(k) for AI-enabled fracture detection

Mobi Health News

The BoneView software detects potential fractures in X-rays and submits them to radiologists for validation.

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Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: Sheridan and Morgan Stanley Recap SpendMend

McGuire Wood

Sheridan Capital Partners and Morgan Stanley Capital Partners (MSCP) have completed a recapitalization of SpendMend, according to a news release. SpendMend , based in Grand Rapids, Mich., provides tech-enabled solutions intended to optimize the cost cycle. Founded in 1993, the company serves healthcare organizations including hospitals, pharmacies and suppliers.

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Amrita University launches wearable health monitoring device

Mobi Health News

The non-prick device can measure blood glucose and monitor blood pressure without pressure cuffs.

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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.

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Federal Court Strikes Down Portions of the No Surprises Act

Health Law Attorney

On February 23, 2022, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division, issued a Memorandum Opinion and Order , [1] which served to strike down certain portions of the federal No Surprises Act (“NSA”) related to the independent dispute resolution (“IDR”) process for resolving payment disputes between out-of-network providers and group health plans and health insurance issuers (hereafter, “insurers”).

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Social Determinants of Health: Finding the Solutions Beyond the Buzzword

HIT Consultant

Jeff Maxwell, EVP of Healthcare Solutions at NextHealth Technologies. Health plans are on a constant quest to learn what they can do to help their member populations. Unfortunately, there is a scarcity of practical information for health plans to act upon when scanning media coverage and internet sites that purport to provide helpful guidance. For example, the World Health Organization actually describes social determinants of health , or SDoH, as “non-medical factors that influence health outco

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No Surprises Act’s Regulation Establishing QPA as Presumptive Payment Amount Vacated by District Court

Health Care Law Brief

We previously noted that the No Surprises Act (NSA) regulation’s establishment of the presumption that the qualifying payment amount (QPA)—generally, the median payment by the plan to providers in the region—is the appropriate payment amount in arbitrations between plans and providers under the NSA did not appear to comport with the NSA. In a recent case brought by the Texas Medical Association challenging the established presumption, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of

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Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act Is Coming for Hospitals, Long-Term Care Providers

HIPAA & Health IT

Attention hospitals, clinics, retirement homes and other long-term care providers! If you are collecting fingerprints to authenticate access to a medication dispensing system, then you need to be paying attention to Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). For more information, please check out this post on Fox’s Privacy Compliance & Data Security.

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Generative AI for Contracts Is Here: New Tools to Accelerate Drafting and Editing

The emergence of generative AI is reshaping the landscape of contract management, enabling businesses to generate and negotiate legal agreements with greater ease and speed. In this on-demand webinar, Hal Marcus, VP of Product Marketing at Evisort discusses how Evisort's generative AI transforms contract creation and negotiation, empowering legal teams to streamline processes while reducing risk.