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Updates to Penalties for OSHA Violations

American Medical Compliance

OSHA requires that workplaces comply with the Occupational Health and Safety Act of 1970. This legislation ensures workplace safety. Failure to comply with this act will result in penalties. With each violation of this Act, OSHA gives employers notice of the violation’s nature, strategies to remedy the problem, and a deadline to institute those changes.

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80% of consumers have turned to telemedicine, Rock Health finds

Healthcare Dive

Audio-only and asynchronous telemedicine, which include live phone calls, emails and text messages, were more popular than video chats, the survey found.

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Roundup: Sun Pharma reports IT breach and more briefs

Healthcare It News

Sun Pharma probes cyber breach Indian pharma giant Sun Pharmaceutical Industries has reported an "information security incident," according to PTI. The news report noted that the company has already reported the incident to the authorities and has since isolated its affected IT assets. Presently, the company is investigating the matter while taking appropriate containment and remediation actions in a "controlled" manner to address the apparent cyber attack.

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Walmart Health plans clinic expansion in 2024, pushing into 2 new states

Healthcare Dive

The retail giant plans to open 28 new Walmart Health centers in 2024, bringing the total number of locations to more than 75, as competition heats up in the primary care arena.

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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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My Health Record info comes to new mobile app

Healthcare It News

The Australian Digital Health Agency has come up with its first mobile consumer application for accessing health information on My Health Record. WHAT IT DOES Available on both iOS and Android devices, the my health app has a user-friendly interface where users can quickly view medicine information history, vaccination history and upcoming immunisations, hospital discharge summaries, pathology results, and other records.

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Over 1K residents unionize at Montefiore Medical Center

Healthcare Dive

Residents at New York-based Montefiore are the latest to join CIR-SEIU, a labor union that’s gaining more members as healthcare workers across all roles mobilize in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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FTC bans BetterHelp from sharing consumer data with advertisers, issues $7.8M fine

Healthcare Dive

It’s the latest enforcement action accusing a digital health company of sharing consumer data with advertisers.

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Most primary care telehealth visits don't require in-person follow-up, Epic study shows

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

To explore the efficacy of primary care telehealth, a recent Epic Research study examined the frequency of in-person physician visits that followed 18,636,522 primary care telemedicine appointments. WHY IT MATTERS The dual team study published by Epic found that 60% of the time, the virtual primary care telehealth appointments held between March 1, 2020, and October 15, 2022, did not result in subsequent doctors visits.

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Cleveland Clinic posts $1.2B loss in 2022 as expenses rose

Healthcare Dive

The system joined other hospital operators who faced a challenging 2022, the worst financial year since the pandemic began, hospital consultancy Kaufman Hall has said.

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To ChatGPT or Not to ChatGPT, That is the Question – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this month’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 3/3 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This month’s chat will be hosted by Erica Olenski Johansen ( @thegr8chalupa ) on the topic “ To ChatGPT or Not to ChatGPT, That is the Question. “ It’s revolutionary. It’s captivating. It’s alarming. It’s still rough around the edges and has room to grow.

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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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Developing an effective hybrid care strategy for telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Judd Hollander will offer more detail during his HIMSS23 session "Closing the Gap to Goal for Transformational Integrated Virtual Care." It's scheduled for Tuesday, April 18, from noon-1 p.m. CT at the South Building in room S505.

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AI medical coding company CodaMetrix raises $55M and more digital health fundings

Mobi Health News

Drug-discovery platform TandemAI, sleep-care platform BetterNight, health-monitoring system Xandar Kardian and AR/VR platform Healium also announced funding rounds.

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Ryse Health Secures $6.5M for Type 2 Diabetes Care

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Ryse Health , a healthcare technology company that’s committed to pursuing a world free from chronic diseases and raising the bar on Type 2 Diabetes care raises $6.5M in Series A funding led by Route 66 Ventures. The round also included support from W Health and Healthworx , the innovation and investment arm of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield. – The company plans to use the funding to enable Ryse to continue to grow its team, strengthen its business operations,

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Lawmakers Continue Push for Federal Data Privacy Law

HIPAA Journal

In 2022, the bipartisan, bicameral American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA) was proposed to introduce a new federal data privacy law to replace the current patchwork of privacy laws that exist at the state level. The legislation progressed further than any previous attempt to introduce a federal data privacy law, advancing past the House Energy and Commerce Committee with a vote of 53-2 to the verge of a House vote.

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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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Aledade and Humana Inks 10-Year Value-Based Primary Care Collaboration

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Independent primary care provider Aledade and health insurer Humana announced a ten-year collaboration to connect independent primary care physicians in Humana’s network with the tools they need to thrive in value-based primary care. – Building on their existing relationship, the two companies plan to phase in the 10-year term for current and new state-wide agreements, which include a pathway to full risk.

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Telelactation startup SimpliFed teams up with Nature's One to expand access to affordable organic baby formula

Fierce Healthcare

Telelactation startup SimpliFed teams up with Nature's One to expand access to affordable organic baby formula agliadkovskaya Thu, 03/02/2023 - 13:52

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Walmart Health Center to Add 28 New Locations in 2024

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Walmart announced it will add 28 new Walmart Health centers, with 75+ total locations by the end of the year. This continues our commitment to making quality healthcare more convenient, accessible and affordable for customers in the communities we serve. – The expansion will increase Walmart Health’s footprint into two new states including Missouri and Arizona, deepening our presence in Texas in the Dallas metro area and growing into Houston.

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R-Zero Raises $105 Million Series C to Improve the Indoor Air We Breathe

Healthcare IT Today

R-Zero’s UV-C Technology Improves Indoor Air Quality for Millions of People; Reduces Reliance on HVAC Systems and Chemicals that Harm Environment R-Zero , a global leader in healthy buildings and green buildings, today announced it has closed a $105 million Series C to continue scaling the adoption of its UV-C technology to address a growing health crisis: disinfecting the indoor air we breathe.

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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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Humana, Aledade ink 10-year value-based care partnership

Fierce Healthcare

Humana, Aledade ink 10-year value-based care partnership pminemyer Thu, 03/02/2023 - 15:52

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AI Uncovers Other Patients Like You to Support Doctors

Healthcare IT Today

Outside of common conditions, most doctors see only a few cases of some problem in their entire career. That’s why students and residents gather eagerly around hospital patients who were diagnosed with a rare condition. These doctors can’t compare large numbers of patients with a certain condition to see what works for each patient and why some respond to a treatment that fails on other patients.

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Primary care business Cano Health secures $150M loan as its losses swelled in 2022

Fierce Healthcare

Primary care business Cano Health secures $150M loan as its losses swelled in 2022 hlandi Thu, 03/02/2023 - 08:12

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FTC to bar BetterHelp from sharing health data for ads

Mobi Health News

In a proposed order, the online therapy company would also pay $7.8 million for allegedly sharing consumer data with third parties like Facebook and Snapchat for advertising purposes.

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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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Total Medical Compliance and EmergeOrtho partner to enhance OSHA compliance for North Carolina healthcare practices

Total Medical Compliance Resources

Indian Trail, NC – March 2, 2023 / EINPresswire.com / – Total Medical Compliance (TMC), a leading provider of healthcare compliance solutions, is pleased to announce their partnership with EmergeOrtho. This partnership will provide and enhance EmergeOrtho’s OSHA compliance training to support their healthcare network in federal and state compliance regulations.

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Roundup: Thai researchers develop AI for assessing stroke risk and more briefs

Mobi Health News

Also, Remidio receives a CE mark for its AI tool for detecting referable diabetic retinopathy.

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UnityPoint Health, Presbyterian Healthcare set sights on 40-plus hospital merger

Fierce Healthcare

UnityPoint Health, Presbyterian Healthcare set sights on 40-plus hospital merger dmuoio Thu, 03/02/2023 - 15:31

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Pfizer, Tempus collaborate on cancer drug development

Mobi Health News

The multinational pharma company will access Tempus' AI-enabled data library to further therapeutic development and advance its portfolio in oncology.

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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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Chutes & Ladders—MetroHealth CFO resigns; Henry Ford hires new head of neurology

Fierce Healthcare

Chutes & Ladders—MetroHealth CFO resigns; Henry Ford hires new head of neurology aburky Thu, 03/02/2023 - 15:45

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Somerset County Council goes live with Rio EPR

Digital Health News

The first local authority to deploy an electronic patient record is Somerset County Council, who has gone live with the Rio EPR.

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Trinity Health's MercyOne, Genesis Health System close Midwest health system merger

Fierce Healthcare

Trinity Health's MercyOne, Genesis Health System close Midwest health system merger dmuoio Thu, 03/02/2023 - 12:57

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Evergreen Treatment Services Hacking Incident Affects 21K Patients

HIPAA Journal

Evergreen Treatment Services, a Washington-based provider of addiction treatment services, announced on February 13, 2023, that unauthorized individuals gained access to its IT systems and potentially accessed patient information, including names, addresses, birth dates, Social Security numbers, and treatment information. A third-party cybersecurity firm assisted with the investigation but found no instances of fraud or identity theft; however, as a precaution, the 21,325 affected patients have

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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.