Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Addressing the education pipeline is one thing that legislators can focus on to improve nurse and physician shortages, medical school and health system leaders said during a Senate committee hearing.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

A new report from the American Hospital Association Center for Health Innovation explores how retail companies and tech giants like Apple and Google will drive transformational change in healthcare delivery in 2023 and beyond. WHY IT MATTERS With billions of dollars invested this past year, such as CVS Health's purchase of Signify Health , the AHA report highlights retail healthcare companies having grabbed significant market share in primary care, concierge medicine, virtual care and in-hom

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

At issue is the hospitals’ use of the “Meta Pixel” website code, which potentially analyzed, gathered and shared the protected medical data of hundreds of thousands of patients, in violation of HIPAA, according to the suit.

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

With the rise of digital health solutions, the healthcare industry has an opportunity to reimagine care delivery – and the Digital Medicine Society’s Applied Digital Health Ethics course is ready to prepare healthcare professionals for this new future.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The earnings come two days after CHS announced that it experienced a security breach that potentially exposed the health information of 1 million patients.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The acquisition comes on the heels of a thwarted attempt by HCA to purchase the Utah sites last year. The FTC was successful in its attempt to block the deal after it alleged that it would harm patients.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Senate panel launches effort to shore up health workforce and ease crippling shortages rking Thu, 02/16/2023 - 16:52

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

LHC’s delisting, a sign that the deal’s close could be imminent, doesn’t come as a surprise, as the Nasdaq notified the home health provider it wasn’t in compliance with the stock market’s listing standards in January.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Analysis: Medicare Advantage plans more likely to deny inpatient claims pminemyer Thu, 02/16/2023 - 14:16

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Dr. Ty Vachon, CEO & Co-Founder at Oatmeal Health Today, cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States. Sadly, cancer disparities exist, with racial/ethnic minority, low-income, and uninsured populations suffering the greatest burden. That’s why routine cancer screening is critical to addressing cancer disparities as they have the potential to greatly reduce both incidence and mortality rates.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Adventist Health launches reorganization, lays off 52 administrative employees dmuoio Thu, 02/16/2023 - 16:26

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Dr. Ty Vachon, CEO & Co-Founder at Oatmeal Health Today, cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States. Sadly, cancer disparities exist, with racial/ethnic minority, low-income, and uninsured populations suffering the greatest burden. That’s why routine cancer screening is critical to addressing cancer disparities as they have the potential to greatly reduce both incidence and mortality rates.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The October 2022 ransomware attack on CommonSpirit Health has cost the health system more than $150 million to date according to its recent quarterly filing, and the costs are continuing to increase as the investigation into the attack and data breach are ongoing. Healthcare data breaches are the costliest data breaches to resolve. The IBM Security Annual Cost of a Data Breach Report for 2022 suggests healthcare data breaches cost an average of $10.1 million, and across all industries cost an av

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

What You Should Know: – IncludeHealth , a provider of musculoskeletal technology solutions raises $11 million in a recent financing round led by CincyTech , with participation from Tamarind Hill and other investors. – The company plans to use the funding to further expand MSK-OS™, the Company’s remote care platform powered by computer vision.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

At a recent conference, I had a chance to chat with Atul Singh , General Manager, Digital Health at LG Electronics about their virtual care solution with Amwell. It makes a lot of sense why Amwell and LG would want to work together. Many hospitals and healthcare organizations have already installed LG TVs in their organizations or they will as they build new hospitals or update their existing exam rooms.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

What You Should Know: – Joi Women’s Wellness (Joi), a modern, femtech proactive approach to women’s health care, today announced the company’s official nationwide launch and availability of its hormone optimization and peptide therapy treatments, as well as the introduction of a new telehealth platform that provides a goals-based, customizable experience to help women own their health journey and manage the hormone and age–related changes to their bodies. – Joi offers health coaching

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Many patients leave the doctor's office with unanswered questions: survey fdiamond Thu, 02/16/2023 - 08:34

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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.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

What You Should Know: – Deloitte Centre for Health Solutions releases its thirteenth annual report, ‘ Seize the Digital Momentum: Measuring the return from pharmaceutical innovation 2022 ’ that explores the performance of the biopharmaceutical industry (bio Pharma) and its ability to generate returns from investment in innovative new medicines. – Since 2021, much of the world has successfully adjusted to life where COVID-19 is more endemic as vaccines and treatments reduced the risk

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Spanish home care startup Senniors raised $5.6 million, and health benefits company Thatch launched with more than $6 million raised in pre-seed and seed funding.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The Nashville, TN-based health system, Advent Health Partners, has proposed a $500,000 settlement to resolve claims related to a September 2021 data breach involving the protected health information of 61,072 patients. Advent Health Partners detected a breach of its email environment in early September 2021. The investigation confirmed hackers had access to, and potentially stole, the protected health information of patients such as names, Social Security numbers, driver’s license information, d

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

It seeks to use AI to improve the accuracy of an information-extracting method for structuring radiology reports.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Rise Interactive Media & Analytics, LLC The Illinois-based digital marketing agency, Rise Interactive Media & Analytics, LLC, has recently confirmed that hackers gained access to its digital environment on November 14, 2022, and potentially accessed or exfiltrated the data of some of its clients. Rise Interactive has reported the breach to the Department of Health and Human Services as affecting 54,509 individuals, but it is currently unknown how many of its healthcare clients have been

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The American Hospital Association sees nontraditional players like Amazon, CVS Health, Walgreens Boots Alliance and Walmart owning as much as 30% of the primary care market by 2030.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Two Louisiana health are being sued over the use of pixels on their websites, which allegedly captured and impermissibly disclose patient data to third parties such as Facebook and Instagram. New Orleans-based LCMC Health System operates 9 hospitals in Southern Louisiana and Shreveport-based Willis-Knighton Health System operates 5 hospitals in Northwestern Louisiana.

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Digital Health News

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

UK charity, Future Care Capital, is launching two new tools to improve access to digital mental health tools and how medical professionals recommend them.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Ever since Clayton Christensen explained the concept of disruptive innovation in 1995, health care became one of the poster children emblematic of an industry ripe for disruption. Nearly 30 years later, disrupting health care continues to be a theme which, in 2023, seems open for those slow-moving tectonic driving forces to finally re-form and re-imagine health care delivery.

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Elation said it would offer a product that includes Lightning MD's tools in beta starting this summer.

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Digital Health News

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Beamtree UK and Milton Keynes University Hospital have partnered to bring more artificial intelligence technology to the NHS.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The following is a guest article by Steven Manifold, CMO at Ubisense. Many healthcare systems around the world are overburdened. Some face the lingering effects of COVID-19, while others lack funding and staff. Healthcare providers are increasingly turning to technology to help shoulder these burdens, but are fancy tech deployments really the cure or just another placebo?

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