Bill of Health

MARCH 28, 2022

By James Lytle. Recent guidance from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) encouraged several states to adopt policies that prioritized race or ethnicity in the allocation of monoclonal antibody treatments and oral antivirals for the treatment of SARS-CoV-2. The guidance proved to be highly controversial, prompting two states, Utah and Minnesota, to withdraw their guidance , and leading a third state, New York, to become the subject of two federal lawsuits that challenge the guidance’s l

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 28, 2022

How tools and improved processes can ward off burnout at the source in medical education programs.

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MARCH 28, 2022

Sponsor: Arbela Primary topic: Patient Engagement Topic: Patient Engagement Resource Central: On Demand Webinars External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: How to enhance the patient experience using technology by driving business insights Region Tag: Global Edition Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 28, 2022

Even as cases of the omicron variant plummet, the metrics indicate a "challenging recovery," according to Kaufman Hall's monthly report.

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MRO Compliance

MARCH 28, 2022

Follow the (Medical) Record: Dawn Crump on Audits and Denials. In this episode, host Don Hardwick interviews Dawn Crump, Senior Director Revenue Cycle Solutions at MRO about healthcare claim denials, and strategies for properly managing audits and denials within a health system setting. HealthcareNOW Radio Podcast Network · Follow the (Medical) Record: Dawn Crump, Senior Director Revenue Cycle Solutions at MRO.

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 28, 2022

The drug, found to be ineffective against a coronavirus strain known as BA.2, is no longer authorized for use in 10 states and U.S. territories, a limitation that could be widened further.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 28, 2022

Mike Serbinis, Co-Founder and CEO of League. The COVID-19 pandemic feels like a once-in-a-lifetime event for those of us involved in healthcare, but the patterns of how the crisis affected our industry feel familiar. Stop me if you have heard this before: incumbent players in a broad industry made very slow and fragmented technological advances for years with no real threat to their business.

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Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2022

Foogal, a recipe app designed to support patients’ healthy cooking and eating, launched on 24th March. In its initial version, Foogal addresses several specific diet paradigms: for patients demanding a wellness protocol, an autoimmune protocol, or wanting to address insulin resistance. Foogal got my attention via a tweet @FoogalApp on 25th March.

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Compliancy Group

MARCH 28, 2022

Following a winter of hibernation, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regulators roared to life with the announcement of three settlements and one fine totaling more than $172,000 for violations of HIPAA’s Patient Right of Access and Privacy Rules. Each HIPAA dental fine, as well as the behavioral health fine, were issued for varying degrees of noncompliance.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 28, 2022

The following us a guest article by David Thawley, CEO at HST Pathways. Reducing disparities in care is complex issue, yet a critical one that all players in the healthcare industry should be focused on by leveraging their own unique strategies. Making progress on this challenge will require a multi-pronged approach that includes reducing barriers […].

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 28, 2022

A study in JAMA compared a team-based empowered-care approach to diabetes management to the standard of care, and to other empowered-care approaches.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 28, 2022

Recently, we shared news about the growing feature set under development as part of Google Health’s Care Studio, most recently its “Conditions” feature which summarizes patient conditions and uses NLP to link related information like labs or medications to those condition listings. This week we learned that MEDITECH plans to embrace Care Studio, specifically by […].

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 28, 2022

Researchers said studying each component individually with a larger and more diverse population would be good for a follow-up.

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Modern Healthcare

MARCH 28, 2022

California's 7 million students and school employees are getting free at-home COVID-19 tests to help prevent outbreaks at their school when they return from spring break.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 28, 2022

This new round of funding will go towards building the company's online pharmacy and its geographical footprint.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

MARCH 28, 2022

An Illinois licensed practical nurse (LPN) was convicted and sentenced for failing to administer lifesaving measures to a resident in a nursing home in 2017. The woman, 45, pleaded guilty to an amended charge of Reckless Conduct (Class A Misdemeanor). The original charges of Criminal Neglect of a Long-Term Care Facility Resident Resulting in Death, and Criminal Neglect of a Long-Term Care Facility Resident Resulting in Injury were vacated as terms of the LPN’s guilty plea.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 28, 2022

The algorithm analyses EHR data and learns treatment patterns of type 2 diabetes patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 28, 2022

For the 29th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Ray Lowe, Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer at AltaMed, during the HIMSS 2022 conference in Orlando. Along with talking about some of the high level leadership experience of Lowe, we also dove into the legacy application and […].

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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

MARCH 28, 2022

The EEG helmet device will be used to study the effects of space flight on brain activity.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 28, 2022

Telehealth or telemedicine refers to providing healthcare using telecommunications technology. For example, doctors may provide consultation and diagnosis remotely for various health concerns, including urinary incontinence. There were multiple studies and programs for treating incontinence using telehealth, and many showed positive outcomes. One initiative was an 8-week course given to some participants with moderate incontinence symptoms.

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McGuire Wood

MARCH 28, 2022

Kelso & Co. has sold Refresh Mental Health to Optum, according to Axios. Refresh Mental Health , based in Jacksonville Beach, Fla., is the parent company of mental health practices located throughout the United States. The company states that it has more than 300 locations in 37 states. Kelso & Co. , based in New York, specializes in supporting management buyouts.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 28, 2022

What You Should Know: – Healthcare revenue cycle management platform provider nThrive today announced it has rebranded, FinThrive ™, which will be formally launched through a pending rebrand. The new name signals the Company’s intention to break the cycle of inefficiency associated with traditional RCM technologies, while designing a modern software approach that empowers stakeholders across healthcare’s financial ecosystem.

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Symplr

MARCH 28, 2022

March 30 is Doctors’ Day, marked annually to recognize these dedicated professionals who apply their expertise and continuous training to make pivotal decisions that heal, save lives, and ultimately improve healthcare. They work long hours sacrificing time with loved ones, often putting their own well being at risk for others. And in the wake of the ongoing pandemic, physicians’ patient loads are growing and patients’ acuity levels are increasing.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 28, 2022

Healthcare data is notoriously vulnerable to hacking. The pandemic has stretched industry resources thin, and data quality and security are suffering as a result. In addition, the rise in mobile applications, the adoption of mobile workstations, and the ease with which organizations can now expand into cloud accounts have made the industry more vulnerable than ever before.

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Total Medical Compliance Resources

MARCH 28, 2022

Numbers of new cases of COVID-19 infections are at the lowest they have been in months. In fact, many states, as well as counties, are easing restrictions such as mask mandates indoors. These decisions are based on new tools created by the CDC to reduce risk of exposure and possibly infection and to reduce the burden this pandemic has placed on especially the hospital system.

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Hall Render

MARCH 28, 2022

Our Health Care Real Estate Briefing is your comprehensive summary of weekly health care real estate highlights currently happening across the nation. News about the senior housing industry continues to dominate headlines. In fact, there were very few articles on anything but the senior housing industry. From a legislative perspective, state and federal legislators seem to be focused on minimum staffing requirements for senior housing facilities, along with for-profit ownership groups that sipho

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AIHC

MARCH 28, 2022

Written by: AIHC Blogger This article provides educational information related to fighting unreasonable denials by working through a complex payer appeals process. This information is not all-inclusive and the article is a truncated version of Lesson 3 from our Certified Outpatient Clinical Appeals Specialist (COCAS SM ) training program. The complex Medicare appeals process is used to demonstrate the importance of appealing claims denied in an audit.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 28, 2022

What You Should Know: – Altibbi , the Middle East’s largest AI-based digital health platform raises $44 million in Series B fund funding led by Foundation Holdings, Hikma Ventures and existing investors Global Ventures and DASH Ventures. The Series B round marks the largest single financing round for a regional Digital Health company. – Raising more than $50M in funds since its founding in 2011, Altibbi’s diverse shareholder base also includes high-profile investors Endeavor Catalyst

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 28, 2022

A new bill has been proposed by a bipartisan pair of senators that aims to improve the cybersecurity of the healthcare and public health (HPH) sector, in light of the recent warning from the White House about the increased threat of Russian cyber threats. Last week, President Biden and the White House issued a warning about the increased risk of Russian cyberattacks on critical infrastructure, including potential attacks on the HPH sector in response to the sanctions recently imposed by the Unit

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Medisys Compliance

MARCH 28, 2022

Providers always want to provide the right care to the patient as quickly as possible, while the health plans want to ensure treatment choices are appropriate, legitimate, and cost-conscious. The definition of appropriate and legitimate treatment has been updated constantly by insurance carriers creating a lot of issues for providers. American Hospital Association (AHA) recently conducted a survey on how providers are managing prior authorizations. 940 out of 1,000 providers saw delays in care d

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