Healthcare Dive

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Increases in healthcare utilization and insurance coverage were offset by lower government spending on COVID-19, according to new CMS data.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 14, 2022

By Myrisha S. Lewis. Despite religious and ethical objections, assisted reproductive technology (ART), including in vitro fertilization and egg freezing, manages to flourish in the United States, with some states and companies even creating regimes for its insurance coverage. However, reproductive genetic innovation — a term I use to refer to the combination of assisted reproduction with genetic modification or substitution — has yet to receive the same acceptance.

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Healthcare Dive

DECEMBER 14, 2022

States risk driving away healthcare providers who are reluctant to work where their practices will be restricted, according to a Commonwealth Fund analysis.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2022

From the distant past of the 1990s up to just a few years ago, many healthcare technologists have predicted that telemedicine would make it into the mainstream of healthcare delivery. Well, today, thanks to many factors surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine has finally made it into the mainstream. And now that it is being so robustly used across the country, the big question is: What's next?

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Healthcare Dive

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Marsh assumed her new role on Dec. 5, and will be responsible for developing and implementing diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, according to a release.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In states with abortion bans, maternal and infant death rates are significantly higher, study finds. hlandi. Wed, 12/14/2022 - 07:33.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2022

CareFirst Administrators (CFA) has notified 14,538 individuals about a phishing attack on its revenue cycle management vendor, Conifer. CFA was one of several healthcare organizations to be affected by the incident. A security breach was identified by Conifer in late March, with the investigation determining several Microsoft 365 had been accessed by unauthorized individuals between March 17 and March 22, 2022.

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Healthcare Dive

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Still, the ongoing pandemic, influenza and RSV cases are causing capacity issues that pose a major near-term risk to labor costs.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 14, 2022

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Senior Technical Analyst, Delivery Services position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by TransForm Shared Service Organization and is located in Windsor, Canada. Here’s a description of the position: Position Summary.

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Healthcare Dive

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation is currently operating 33 models studying potential improvements in healthcare payment and delivery.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Dr. Ernest Darkoh-Ampem, co-founder of BroadReach Group. At this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, the topic of the COVID-19 pandemic and its destructive impact was central to many of the discussions that took place. Among them, was the issue of vaccine hesitancy around the world, especially in underdeveloped nations such as those in Africa. According to Africa CDC, as of September 2022, Africa, the second most-populated continent, has only vaccinated 21% of its people; an inadequate number

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Medisys Compliance

DECEMBER 14, 2022

A quick fix to end the drips threatening your profitability, let’s pack our minds with awareness when it comes to the new CPT codes. Every hospital has financial leakage due to some reason, which costs a significant amount of money. But it’s time you stop worrying about these process and system issues because you already have much to be concerned about, such as rivalry and new trends.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2022

What You Should Know: – The latest study from Ibex Medical Analytics and the Institut Curie , published in Nature , demonstrates how AI implementation across pathology labs can significantly improve the outcome of cancer care. – The study analyzed Ibex’s AI-based quality control solution for breast biopsy review on over 15,000 slides over a diverse cohort.

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HealthIT Answers

DECEMBER 14, 2022

By Guy Yehiav - IoT adoption across healthcare has created unprecedented volumes of data to leverage for improved patient outcomes. The power of that data is wide-ranging from treating traumatic injuries to monitoring medical device performance and confirming HIPAA compliance. The post Insights to Action: Unlocking the Value of Healthcare IoT Data for Improved Patient Outcomes appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Michael Sheeley, Co-founder & CEO of Nurse-1-1. I met Mark Cuban once. Our conversation didn’t last very long. It was at a medical conference a few years ago. Cuban felt like a great guy to approach with an idea for a healthcare startup. We were both investors in an automation software startup called Zoba , and I of course knew him from his role on the popular entrepreneurial reality TV series Shark Tank.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 14, 2022

CMS proposes new Medicare Advantage and Part D reforms on prior authorization, marketing. rking. Wed, 12/14/2022 - 17:09.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It is rare that a company will agree to sit down to answer tough questions, but Clarify Health was up for the challenge. Healthcare IT Today sat down with Keith Florance, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Payers at Clarify Health at the recent #HLTH2022 conference. We grilled him with 3 questions about the state of the healthcare industry.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Oracle Cerner has ambitions in national public health tech as software giant reports better-than-expected Q2 results. hlandi. Wed, 12/14/2022 - 10:12.

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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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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Members of the community health network will now have access to LetsGetChecked's suite of offerings via the PatientsLikeMe platform.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Last-minute Senate bill seeks to extend value-based care doc bonus for another 2 years. rking. Wed, 12/14/2022 - 16:06.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The following is a guest article by Blake Walker, CEO at Inbox Health. The dreaded healthcare bill: patients’ anxiety rises the second it lands in their mailbox or inbox, and practices find the process of managing patient billing arduous. The feeling is mutual, but the responsibility is on practices and billing teams to find a solution. As patients take on a greater share of healthcare costs, they are also more selective of the providers they choose.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Rural hospital closures have spillover effects for other nearby facilities, researchers warn. dmuoio. Wed, 12/14/2022 - 16:22.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Automation cuts costs and improves productivity, and it is as important in cybersecurity as it is in manufacturing. Many labor-intensive security tasks can be automated to allow network defenders to do more in less time, including monitoring, port scanning, vulnerability scanning, and patching. There is a wide range of security tools that can be used to automate tasks to allow security teams to identify and address vulnerabilities more quickly and rapidly detect intrusions and investigate suspic

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Healthcare sector adds jobs through fall but still faces elevated quit rates: Fitch Ratings. dmuoio. Wed, 12/14/2022 - 13:07.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has announced a settlement has been reached with a Californian dental practice to resolve multiple HIPAA violations that were identified during investigations of a complaint about impermissible disclosures of protected health information on the review platform Yelp. New Vision Dental is a Californian general dental practice with offices in South Pasadena and Glendora.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Signify Health, Ardent Health Services expand partnership into accountable care. pminemyer. Wed, 12/14/2022 - 13:03.

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Digital Health News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The iRefer Clinical Decision Support (CDS) tool has been rolled out across the East Midlands Imaging Network (EMRAD) to improve radiology referrals.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 14, 2022

CDC tallies deaths from long COVID with new code. fdiamond. Wed, 12/14/2022 - 15:03.

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Digital Health News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Clinical psychologist Dr Lloyd Humphreys is leaving ORCHA to join Cogniss and help launch a no-code digital health platform.

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 14, 2022

I’m in Florence, Italy, this week, working on Slow Food as medicine and finding myself contemplating spirituality, health and wellbeing as I walk the streets of this grand city of the Renaissance. Imagine my surprise, yesterday, walking through the city center by the glorious Duomo, the great dome of the cathedral named Santa Maria dell Fiore, with the beautiful Baptistry built just across the piazza.

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