Bill of Health

OCTOBER 4, 2023

By Alma Beltrán y Puga More than 30 years have passed since women gathered for the Fifth Feminist Latin American Meeting in Argentina and launched the September 28 th Campaign in favor of decriminalizing abortion in the region. The initiative, however, remains painfully relevant, as still today most countries in Central America and the Caribbean prohibit abortion even in cases of sexual violence and instances where the pregnant woman’s health (and, potentially, life) is at stake.

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The Milwaukee-based health system plans to buy the remaining 50% stake in Network Health, which offers commercial and Medicare plans in 23 Wisconsin counties.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Portland, Oregon-based OCHIN announced its entrance into acute care this week with a full-service inpatient electronic health record system that supports interdisciplinary care plans and clinical care coordination in an effort to focus on helping smaller hospitals nationwide. WHY IT MATTERS In its announcement Tuesday, the nonprofit, health equity-focused national provider network said it analyzed gaps in rural healthcare delivery and is launching OCHIN Epic for acute care to provide patients wi

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The progressive lawmakers sent a letter Tuesday to top antitrust regulators urging heightened attention to the $3.3 billion transaction, which is currently under investigation by the Department of Justice.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 4, 2023

By Wendy E. Parmet, Elaine Marshall & Alisa K. Lincoln* Last June, in Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), the Supreme Court ruled that universities could not consider race in admitting students. In support of that decision, the Court dismissed the relevance of data about the varied experiences of racial groups, insisting that admissions decisions must be based solely on the experiences and merits of individual applicants.

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 4, 2023

From digital health events to payer and provider summits, here are upcoming healthcare conferences for the organized executive to keep in mind.

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The Grand Blanc, Michigan-based health system is investigating whether some of its data is available on the dark web.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Nabla, maker of an autonomous clinical AI scribe, has joined forces with Kaiser Permanente to roll out its tool to 10,000 doctors in Northern California. | The AI tool will be available to 10,000 Kaiser Permanente doctors in Northern California across all care settings and specialties.

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Expense management will be key for nonprofit hospitals as high labor costs are likely contribute to weaker margins in 2023 and 2024, according to a new report from Fitch Ratings.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Women's health needs more innovation and investment, particularly in maternal care. | Research shows that the U.S. is facing a maternal health crisis. Diana Health partners with hospital and health system leadership to restructure their women’s health programs with a clinical redesign of labor and delivery.

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Kaiser Permanente workers began striking at hundreds of locations this morning in the largest strike in the industry's history after contract negotiations failed to produce a new agreement.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 4, 2023

WellTheory, a platform focused on reducing autoimmune disease symptoms, has unveiled an enterprise product for employers and payers looking to offer autoimmune care. | The new offering aims to tackle the hidden costs and productivity impacts of untreated autoimmune diseases. It will include a community-based program that gives members access to events, tools, experts and peers for support.

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HealthIT Answers

OCTOBER 4, 2023

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Throughout the month we will be asking our experts to help us navigate cybersecurity in healthcare. We start with phishing, still the most prevalent cybersecurity threat in healthcare. The post Cybersecurity Awareness Month Week 1: Phishing appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Mental health provider Brightside Health is partnering with Centene, Optum, Lucet, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas and other payers to serve 50 million people in Medicare and Medicaid. | Brightside Health announced expanded partnerships with major health payers including Centene, Optum and Lucet on Thursday.

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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.

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The OntarioMD Digital Health Conference, a gathering of the digital health community in the province of Ontario in Canada, returned in-person for the first time since the pandemic. The conference was well attended and featured notable Canadian healthcare author + journalist Andre Picard as the opening keynote. Canada Healthcare May See Significant Benefit from AI In his opening speech, Picard focused on the role artificial intelligence (AI) may play in Canada’s healthcare system.

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Electronic Health Reporter

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Just one generation ago, wearable tech sounded like science fiction. Things have changed profoundly since then. Walk down any street and you’ll pass people wearing all kinds of personal technology. One in five Americans now […] The article The Expanding World of Personal Technology appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 4, 2023

More than half of therapists report experiencing burnout this year, a new survey has found. | At a time when Americans are increasingly seeking mental health treatment and there is a behavioral health workforce shortage, three-quarters of respondents who have experienced burnout say they are hesitant to take on more acute patients.

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Electronic Health Reporter

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. In the vast landscape of healthcare, underserved hospitals often face unique challenges in attracting and retaining qualified medical professionals. With limited resources and remote locations, these facilities must devise innovative strategies to overcome the odds […] The article 5 Ingenious Strategies Utilized by Underserved Hospitals to Recruit Medical Professionals appeared first on elec

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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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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced Tuesday that he is reviewing two pending health system mergers under a recently passed state law that gave his office additional authority to dete | The Froedtert Health-ThedaCare and St. Luke's Duluth-Aspirus Health merger deals announced earlier this year will be subject to Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison's newly granted oversight authority.

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Members of Mount Sinai Solutions' employer or union customers will receive $110 in Fresh Funds for grocery deliveries after undergoing surgery or giving birth.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The following is a guest article by Sam Manjarres, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Identity Security at WatchGuard The healthcare industry is increasingly in the crosshairs of cybercriminals. In 2022, as cyberattacks globally rose by 38% year-on-year, healthcare became the third-most-attacked industry (behind government and education), recording an increase of 74% and reporting up to 1,463 incidents per week.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The adage “you are what you eat” seems to be the operative mindset behind $3.3 million in grants being awarded to nine community organizations by Florida Blue through its Florida Blue Foundation.

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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.

HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 4, 2023

What You Should Know: – The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has awarded Acentra Health (formerly CNSI) a three-year, $52.3M contract to support claims adjudication, provider access, data analytics, and visualization for its Financial Services Center (FSC). – The FSC contract includes the implementation of healthcare claims adjudication software based on Acentra Health’s eCAMS HCE™ platform to adjudicate, process and prepare for payment healthcare claims submitted by provider

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Digital Health News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The most successful start-ups in the NHS will be those that see their relationship with the health service as a partnership, Professor Joe Harrison said.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 4, 2023

What You Should Know: Elation Health , the clinical-first technology company powering innovation in primary care, today announced general availability of the industry’s first unified EHR and billing solution built to support high-value primary care. In an industry of overly complex software, Elation’s all-in-one technology is already delivering beyond the clinical experience to financial success in support of strengthening America’s fragile primary care system.

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Digital Health News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The CardMedic translation app is to be rolled out to maternity services at North East London Integrated Care System to improve healthcare equality.

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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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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 4, 2023

What You Should Know: H1 , the leading source of truth for global Healthcare Professional, clinical, scientific, and research information, today announced the launch of GenosAI, a new generative AI tool seamlessly embedded into its clinical trial intelligence platform, Trial Landscape, to analyze and respond to all types of complex inquiries. Trial Landscape allows sponsors to identify new sites, centers of excellence, and investigators with diverse patients; evaluate site and PI patient recruit

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The autism care provider will use the funds to scale nationally and deepen its investments in technology, clinical decision support, data capture and research.

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Digital Health News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust is streamlining surgical pathways and tackling waiting lists with an innovative digital population health dashboard.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Healthcare technology company Commure plans to merge with Athelas, a provider of healthcare workflow automation software, to grab a bigger piece of the health system market. | Healthcare technology company Commure plans to merge with Athelas, a provider of healthcare workflow automation software, to grab a bigger piece of the health system market. The deal is backed by a $70 million investment from General Catalyst.

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