Healthcare It News

APRIL 22, 2024

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the Sequoia Project on Monday announced the launch of Common Agreement Version 2.0, an update to the document most recently released this past November. ONC also published new Participant and Subparticipant Terms of Participation, which set forth the requirements that participants must agree to and comply with to exchange data under the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 22, 2024

Today, most remote patient monitoring services are billed under four Current Procedural Terminology codes. These codes can be split into two categories to help understand their uses. There are two RPM device monitoring codes – 99453 and 99454 – and two timed RPM management service codes – 99457 and 99458. CPT 99453 covers the time it takes to enroll patients in RPM and get them set up on their devices.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 22, 2024

The role of nurse informaticists has expanded to include deciding which technologies can best support evolving care delivery models, says MaryAnn Connor, senior director of nursing informatics, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 22, 2024

Digitalisation in healthcare holds the promise of optimising processes and expanding access to care. In some European countries such as Slovenia, Croatia, Estonia, Poland and Hungary, patients can access national portals that contain their prescriptions, referrals, discharge letters, etc. In other countries such as Belgium and Spain, patients can access regional portals.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 22, 2024

Cloud-based technology has enabled one healthcare provider's swift transition to a new cancer treatment guideline. The private Sydney Adventist Hospital (the San) in Sydney's north is an early adopter of the NSW Cancer Institute's guideline for anticancer drug dosing in kidney dysfunction (ADDIKD). Initially published in 2022, the evidence-based guideline on eviQ standardises the measurement of kidney dysfunction to provide more appropriate dose recommendations compared to existing c

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 22, 2024

What You Should Know: – The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), along with The Sequoia Project, Inc., a Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE), has released Common Agreement Version 2.0 (CA v2.0). What is the Common Agreement? The Common Agreement establishes a set of common rules and technical standards for secure health information exchange across different health information networks (HINs) and their users.

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 22, 2024

Nurses will play an integral role as virtual care becomes a more widely adopted care model.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 22, 2024

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is hoping to improve Medicaid enrollees’ access to care through a final rule that better compensates caregiving roles. | CMS released a series of final rules Monday, including Medicaid access regulations that some groups worry will cause providers to close.

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Becker's Health IT

APRIL 22, 2024

Hackers gained entry to Change Healthcare's IT systems nine days before the ransomware attack on the UnitedHealth Group subsidiary, The Wall Street Journal reported April 22.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 22, 2024

Simple HealthKit is bringing chronic condition diagnostics to front porches across the country via a new partnership with Amazon. | Consumers can now buy Simple HealthKit’s at-home tests for diabetes (HbA1c), respiratory wellness and sexual wellness and have it shipped to their door through Amazon.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2024

The following is a guest article by Dr. Guillermo Diaz, Chief Medical Information Officer at Los Angeles Department of Health Services – Ambulatory Care Network , and Ali Modaressi, CEO at Los Angeles Network for Enhanced Services (LANES) When Alex was brought into L.A. General’s emergency room, the hospital’s care team documented a number of indicators that appeared to be related to a neurological issue.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 22, 2024

The $4 trillion healthcare industry is a data-rich sector, and every healthcare player is trying to find a way to use information to drive better decisions, whether in the clinic or the boardroom.< | The $4 trillion healthcare industry is a data-rich sector, and every healthcare player is trying to find a way to use information to drive better decisions, whether in the clinic or the boardroom.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2024

For the 73rd episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Michael Restuccia, CIO at Penn Medicine to talk about health IT projects! We kick off this episode by discussing the project Restuccia is currently devoting most of his time to. Then we talk about what area of health IT he finds concerning and is keeping an eye on.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 22, 2024

UnitedHealth Group provided an update late Monday on its analysis of the data accessed in the cyberattack on Change Healthcare, and said it identified files that contain personal and health informa | UnitedHealth Group provided an update late Monday on its analysis of the data accessed in the cyberattack on Change Healthcare, and said it identified files that contain personal and health information.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 22, 2024

Cambron Carter, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Pearl The synergy of artificial intelligence (AI) and medical imaging has opened new horizons for healthcare. AI-mediated computer vision has been in use in oncology for more than 20 years; however, its arrival in other medical fields, notably dentistry, is more recent. Dentistry is particularly notable here, because while relatively few people have seen an oncologist, almost everyone sees a dentist at least every few years.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 22, 2024

Headspace has launched direct-to-consumer text-based mental health coaching to expand its reach beyond employer customers and capture the cash-pay healthcare market. | Headspace is entering the direct-to-consumer mental health coaching market, broadening its reach beyond its model of contracting with health plans and employers.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2024

Company Releases First Product: Generative AI-Powered Staffing Marketplace for Healthcare and will use Funds to Accelerate Further Product Development and Conduct Phase Three Safety Testing for its LLM Hippocratic AI , the company building the first safety-focused Large Language Model (LLM) for healthcare, today announced the close of a $53 million Series A funding round at a $500 million valuation, bringing total funding to $120 million.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 22, 2024

The Biden administration will finalize a controversial nursing home staffing rule today that includes the more stringent requirements floated in last September’s proposal, Vice President Kamala Har | Later today the federal government will finalize the more stringent version of the Nursing Home Minimum Staffing rule floated last year, Vice President Kamala Harris' office said Monday morning.

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Digital Health News

APRIL 22, 2024

Digital identity is crucial for security and enabling digital transformation in healthcare, Imprivata's Dr Sean Kelly told Digital Health News.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 22, 2024

Dan Torrens, CEO of eHealth Technologies Patient data interoperability sounds like industry jargon, but it’s a vital piece of providing timely and accurate patient care. Since 1996, when the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) became law, there have been good advances in patient data interoperability, but as a whole, the industry has not embraced them.

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Digital Health News

APRIL 22, 2024

Imperial College London students on the Digital Health Leadership Programme can now apply for professional registration from FEDIP.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 22, 2024

A Seattle jury determined that Providence had underpaid thousands of its hourly employees by denying second meal breaks during long shifts and rounding down the minutes they clocked in for a shift. | A verdict reached last week could see up to $220 million paid out to over 33,000 of the system's hourly employees. Providence said it plans to appeal the decision.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 22, 2024

The Swiss pharmaceutical firm, Octapharma Plasma, is dealing with a cyberattack that has affected systems at 190 plasma donation centers in 35 U.S. states. Those centers have been temporarily closed while the company responds to the attack and works on bringing the affected systems back online. Octapharma identified suspicious activity within its network on April 17, 2024, and confirmed that an unauthorized third party had breached its network and disrupted certain parts of its operations.

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Becker's Health IT

APRIL 22, 2024

Federal judge recommends dismissing class-action lawsuit against CommonSpirit Health over 2022 cyberattack due to lack of evidence linking breach to bank fraud.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 22, 2024

Cigna has announced a new multiyear initiative that aims to invest in improving youth mental health. | Cigna has announced a new multiyear initiative that aims to invest in improving youth mental health.

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