Healthcare It News

JANUARY 20, 2022

Artificial Intelligence Connected Health Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Patient Engagement Workflow As ambient technologies improve, additional use cases to leverage voice will emerge – that leaves us with the question of how patients and physicians are responding to voice-enabled tools in their healthcare encounters. Paddy Padmanabhan For a while now, we have been watching how voice-recognition based artificial intelligence tools can improve physician productivity, reduce burnout and impr

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 20, 2022

Black patients were 2.5 times more likely to have one or more negative descriptor such as "noncompliant" or "aggressive" in their EHR compared with White patients, researchers found.

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Compliance Now

JANUARY 20, 2022

By: Jessica Waltman, Principal, Forward Health Consulting. The ACA requires non-grandfathered health plans to pay for “preventive care” on a first-dollar basis, meaning that no copays, coinsurance, or deductibles can be charged for certain services defined as “preventive” under these rules. In the same recent FAQs requiring health plans to pay for the cost of over-the-counter COVID-19 testing, the DOL also provided additional guidance on this rule as it relates to colorectal cancer screening an

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 20, 2022

Support for rapid updates, the limitations of current reimbursement policies, cybersecurity risks as well as a "pressing need" for new regulatory frameworks are among the challenges facing DTx companies, according to researchers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 20, 2022

The nonprofit safety group ECRI Institute published the latest version of its annual health technology hazards report this week, pointing to cybersecurity attacks, supply chain shortfalls and damaged infusion pumps as three of the biggest dangers. The report authors note that many of the culprits are new to the list. "Several of these expand on the key theme from our 2021 list: the need to progress from just trying to cope during the pandemic to building stronger and more resilient processe

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 20, 2022

By Barak D. Richman and Steven L. Schwarcz. Among the many failures to mitigate the harm from COVID-19 in the U.S. has been the failure to meet surging demand for inpatient care. Hospital bed shortages, overwhelmed intensive care nurses, and scarcities of needed medical equipment have been embarrassing but constant features of the American health care landscape.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 20, 2022

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. As the healthcare sector evolves, it has become easier for patients to get real-time information to stay healthy. By leveraging machine learning algorithms and heavy data analytics, AI platforms can provide fast and accurate information […]. The article 5 Technologies The Healthcare Sector Needs To Invest In During 2022 appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 20, 2022

As more data has emerged about telehealth after the initial spike in March 2020, many industry-watchers, providers and patients are seeking to dig into who's using virtual care – and who's eased off. But it's not just about the "who," notes Sanjula Jain, chief research officer at the market analytics company Trilliant Health.

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Modern Healthcare

JANUARY 20, 2022

More than 40 organizations will split $103 million, and a new technical assistance center will share best practices.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 20, 2022

Cyberattacks top list of 2022 health tech hazards alongside supply chain problems, damaged infusion pumps. rtorrence. Thu, 01/20/2022 - 15:20.

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Health Law Checkup

JANUARY 20, 2022

In June, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois held that a medical management company (MPI) violated the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS), False Claims Act, and Illinois False Claims Act by paying a community care organization (HCI) for access to the personal information of HCI clients in order to market Medicare-reimbursed healthcare services to those clients.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 20, 2022

HRSA to distribute $103M to improve mental health of stressed healthcare workforce. rking. Thu, 01/20/2022 - 12:23.

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Healthcare Law Today

JANUARY 20, 2022

On December 21, 2021, New Jersey amended its telemedicine laws via SB 2559. The new changes expressly allow the use of asynchronous store-and-forward telemedicine as a standalone modality, remove prior prohibitions on audio-only modalities, and clarify what constitutes unacceptable “internet prescribing.” The changes are effective immediately.

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Health Law Checkup

JANUARY 20, 2022

CMS has finalized a rule that expands Medicare coverage for telehealth services. This final rule, along with other new rules and waivers by the federal government, state governments and private payors, has significantly expanded access to and coverage of virtual health care services in response to the public health emergency.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 20, 2022

Jason Ausili, Pharm.D., Chief Clinical Officer, FDS Amplicare, now part of EnlivenHealth™. As interoperability provisions from the 21 st Century Cures Act (Cures Act) enter their enforcement phase, pharmacy leaders within the Pharmacy HIT Collaborative (PHIT), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), and pharmacy system vendors met recently to discuss the state of pharmacy interoperability.

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Health Law Checkup

JANUARY 20, 2022

Can a whistleblower successfully allege Medicaid/Medicare fraud if the whistleblower lacked direct access to records related to the alleged fraud? While the appellate circuits are still split on this issue, we look at recent decisions that indicate a possible shift in the Seventh Circuit’s pleading standard.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 20, 2022

Fierce JPM Week: How 23andMe plans to harness its massive database to further its ambitions in drug development. hlandi. Thu, 01/20/2022 - 17:06.

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NCG Medical Blog

JANUARY 20, 2022

The primary function of every medical practice is to provide quality care to its patients. However, every healthcare organization also has a critical secondary function—staying financially healthy. If you’re considering outsourcing your healthcare revenue cycle management, then it’s important to educate yourself on the different types of services that are available and how they could apply to your practice to satisfy your financial needs.

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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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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 20, 2022

CVS Health and Uber Health partner on free medical transportation to reduce barriers to care. rtorrence. Thu, 01/20/2022 - 12:22.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 20, 2022

The pair will research how aging and the environment impact skin, and develop new digital diagnostic tools for dermatology.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 20, 2022

Nearly 4K people may have gotten slightly lower Pfizer COVID-19 dose at a Kaiser Permanente location. agliadkovskaya. Thu, 01/20/2022 - 16:22.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 20, 2022

Berlin startup targets irritable bowel syndrome and other gastrointestinal problems with a digital therapy program.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 20, 2022

Nonprofits AAMC, AAHC say their April 1 merger will 'amplify' academic medicine. dmuoio. Thu, 01/20/2022 - 14:30.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 20, 2022

Also: Truepill launches a COVID-19 test coverage platform for insurers, and 23andMe extends its partnership with GSK.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 20, 2022

Monopoly lawsuit alleges HCA intentionally diverted patients from partner ASCs to its own hospitals. dmuoio. Thu, 01/20/2022 - 11:41.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 20, 2022

The ECRI Institute's annual report from its Device Evaluation Program reflects enduring ramifications of the pandemic and cautions healthcare leaders about maintaining connectivity.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 20, 2022

Fierce JPM Week: How virtual-first plans are tackling the balance between in-person, digital care. pminemyer. Thu, 01/20/2022 - 11:22.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 20, 2022

This news comes less than a month after the company closed its acquisition of health kiosk company Higi.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 20, 2022

States ask for more guidance from HHS on when COVID-19 emergency will end. rking. Thu, 01/20/2022 - 16:52.

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KFF

JANUARY 20, 2022

This tracker will be updated regularly to provide data on U.S. COVID-19 vaccine donation deliveries globally.

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