Wed.Aug 30, 2023

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The Cost of Healthcare Credentialing Mistakes

Symplr

Most people are familiar with the saying, “If anything can go wrong, it will,” and there are times when this saying comes true more often than we’d like. This is especially true when something goes wrong in the workplace. When it comes to credentialing issues in healthcare, mistakes that occur during the credentialing or recredentialing of a provider at your facility will impact more than just the bottom line.

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Employers should focus on provider quality to cut low-value care in plans, report finds

Healthcare Dive

In the employer-sponsored insurer market, employers play a “critical” role when it comes to quality and outcomes, according to a report by Morgan Health and Embold Health.

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Digital streaming is a boost for patient education programs

Healthcare It News

Anjali Kataria, Mytonomy CEO and cofounder, says that content streaming and AI can empower patients at home and help hospitals and health systems improve their patient education materials as they reduce the time nurses spend answering questions.

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Humana launches in-home senior care program through CenterWell in Georgia, Louisiana

Healthcare Dive

The program builds on Humana’s acquisition of home-based primary care provider Heal earlier this year, and could eventually expand to 10 additional southern and southwestern states.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Intuition Robotics scores $25M to scale AI care companion for seniors

Healthcare It News

The company will use the funds to meet the growing demand for ElliQ, its conversational AI-powered robot that acts as a companion to seniors.

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GoodRx adds patient insurance information to drug cost platform for providers

Healthcare Dive

The addition of insurance pricing is a key differentiator for GoodRx’s medication comparison platform, an executive said. It should also increase the company’s revenue opportunities.

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Advocate Health in black in first H1 as combined system

Healthcare Dive

The nonprofit hospital operator, which formed last year through the merger of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health, reported an improved 0.6% operating margin.

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Humana launches in-home primary care through CenterWell

Fierce Healthcare

Humana's senior-focused primary care business, CenterWell, is bringing its services into patients' homes. | Humana's senior-focused primary care business, CenterWell, is bringing its services into patients' homes.

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From Reluctance to Resilience: Embracing Cloud Adoption in Healthcare

HIT Consultant

Doug McMillian, Healthcare Strategist at CDW While digital transformation has been on the rise across industries, results can be difficult to see and adoption can take time. Adopting digital solutions is innately important but doing so successfully requires identifying needs and adopting the right approach. Through all the technology transformation that drives innovation in the healthcare industry, the one that underpins it all is cloud adoption.

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CMS suspects auto-renewal process at fault for wrongful Medicaid disenrollments

Fierce Healthcare

In a letter sent to all states (PDF), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ( | As more Medicaid beneficiaries are wrongly kicked off the program, CMS is requiring states to reevaluate its eligibility systems and auto-renewal process.

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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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Can Artificial Intelligence Replicate The Human Touch in Healthcare Provision?

HIT Consultant

Ivor Campbell, CEO of Snedden Campbell Anyone who recalls the ‘turbo’ trend of the 1980s will have a foreboding sense of déjà vu about the sudden ubiquity of artificial intelligence in every aspect of our lives. What began with the Swedish motor manufacturer, Saab, unveiling its 99 Turbo Coupé in 1977, suddenly had manufacturers scrambling for their own version of the latest technological buzzword in everything from alarm clocks to hairdryers.

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Providers can now see patients' insurance coverage in GoodRx's cost comparison tool

Fierce Healthcare

GoodRx has launched a new feature to allow healthcare professionals to see the cost of a patient’s prescription with their insurance. | The feature, embedded in GoodRx's provider solution, surfaces a patient’s coverage and benefits at the point of care with the goal of increasing price transparency and access to drugs.

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Virtual Reality Could Be the Answer For Supporting the Next Generation of Nurses

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Samantha Moyer, senior technology product manager, Wolters Kluwer Health. We have all heard the staggering statistics of the current workforce issues happening across the healthcare industry, and one of the biggest segments facing staffing […] The article Virtual Reality Could Be the Answer For Supporting the Next Generation of Nurses appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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How behavioral health app BeMe is aiming to connect with teens

Fierce Healthcare

In order to address deteriorating adolescent mental health, interventional behavioral health app BeMe Health moved to meet teens where they’re at—online. | In order to address deteriorating adolescent mental health, interventional behavioral health app BeMe Health moved to meet teens where they’re at—online. Amd according to new research, this methodology is proving successful.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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Three Ways Healthcare Organizations Can Improve System Security Right Now

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Dr. Richard Searle, Vice President of Confidential Computing at Fortanix, Inc. Today’s world is increasingly driven by technology and digitalization, and the healthcare industry finds itself at a vital intersection between patient care and data security. The rise of cyberattacks, particularly in the healthcare industry, has shone a spotlight on the significant disparity between the healthcare sector’s commitment to cybersecurity and the continually

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As large employers back away from self-insurance, small- and medium-sized ones embrace it: EBRI

Fierce Healthcare

As large employers take a step back from self-insurance, small- and medium-sized employers are taking a step forward in embracing that coverage option, according to an issue brief by the Employee B | The share of large employers offering self-insurance options to employees steadily declined since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, with it dropping to 72% in 2022, the lowest it’s been since 2010, according to the EBRI.

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Texas Federal Court Issues Fourth Ruling Invalidating Parts of the Administration’s No Surprises Act Regulations

Health Law Advisor

On August 24, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued an opinion and order in Texas Medical Association, et al. v. United States Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”)(“TMA III”). TMA III challenged certain portions of the July 2021 No Surprises Act (“NSA”) interim final rules proposed by the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury, along with the Office of Personnel Management (the “Departments”).

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Health tracking ring company Oura partners with teletherapy platform Talkspace

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Users of Oura's ring will be able to share a report showing their sleep and movement data with Talkspace therapists.

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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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Dr. Temi, The Autonomous Robot Will See You Now

Healthcare IT Today

It seems we’re just at the start of robots in healthcare. We see them moving around supplies. We see robots working in the pharmacy. Plus, we have a long list of robots doing virtual tasks. When I came across the Dr. Temi robot, it was the first application of an autonomous robot to assist nurses and doctors that I’d seen. At the HIMSS annual conference, we sat down with Yaron Yoels, CMO at Temi Robot , to learn more about Dr.

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Regard Launches Chatbot + Clinical Workflow LLM, Powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Regard , a software company developing an artificial intelligence (AI) co-pilot for clinicians to help diagnose medical conditions, announced today that it has expanded its relationship with OpenAI , an AI research and development company. Through this relationship, Regard will release new core product functionalities and a new chatbot, Max, that is built on OpenAI’s large language model (LLM), GPT-4.

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Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

Total HIPAA

What is AI? Artificial intelligence is the science of making machines that can learn, similar to the ways humans do. AI technology can process large amounts of data in ways that humans can’t. Machines and programs that incorporate AI in their design are able to recognize patterns and make decisions based on their experience of a dataset and therefore their ability to predict what would come next in a pattern.

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AmerisourceBergen Rebrands as Cencora

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: AmerisourceBergen Corporation (NYSE: ABC), announced the rebranding of its name and stock ticker change to Cencora, Inc. (NYSE: COR). Under the new name Cencora, the company unifies its 46,000 employees – across several global business segments – under one identity, propelled by a bold vision and purpose-driven approach to creating healthier futures.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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Intuition Robotics scores $25M to scale AI care companion for seniors

Mobi Health News

The company will use the funds to meet the growing demand for ElliQ, its conversational AI-powered robot that acts as a companion to seniors.

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KLAS: Epic EHR Initiatives for Improving EHR Efficiency and User Satisfaction

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: With limited budgets and resources, Arch Collaborative members frequently ask KLAS which of their EHR vendor’s education initiatives and system features are most effective at improving EHR efficiency and satisfaction. Because Epic users make up over 60% of respondents in the Arch Collaborative’s data sample, a new KLAS report evaluates several Epic-specific initiatives and features to help Epic customers determine whether they are worth the investment.

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FBI takes down botnet group targeting healthcare

Becker's Health IT

FBI dismantles Qakbot botnet network responsible for attack on Prospect Medical Group, seizing $8.6 million in cryptocurrency profits.

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CAMHS staff benefit from AI mental health support to improve wellbeing 

Digital Health News

Staff in CAMHS services at NHFT and St Andrew’s Healthcare (STAH) have been using Wysa’s AI mental health app to support their wellbeing and mental health.

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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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How Technology Can Overcome Social Isolation

Healthcare IT Today

The previous article in introduced the topic of social isolation and showed its relationship to the subjective feeling of loneliness. Now we’ll start to look at the use of technology (which has been implicated in making these conditions worse) to try to improve them. Physically Connecting Lonely Individuals mPulse Mobile evaluates patient needs and suggests local resources they can tap, including peer groups.

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Prostate Cancer Research receives sponsorship for patient data platform

Digital Health News

Prostate Cancer Research (PCR) has received sponsorship to support its first of its kind prostate cancer patient data platform and virtual registry.

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How to Secure Healthcare Data

HIPAA Journal

HIPAA-regulated entities must ensure that protected health information (PHI) is safeguarded against unauthorized access, but many covered entities and business associates do not know how to secure healthcare data properly and leave sensitive information exposed. The HIPAA Security Rule The HIPAA Security Rule established national standards to protect individuals’ electronic personal health information (ePHI) that is created, received, used, or maintained by HIPAA-covered entities and their

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Biofourmis CEO steps down a month after global layoffs

Mobi Health News

Kuldeep Singh Rajput's departure comes just one month after the company laid off 120 employees.

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How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics

In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.