Healthcare Dive
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Ultimately, the goal is to serve hundreds of thousands of seniors and Medicare beneficiaries in value-based arrangements through multiple Medicare Advantage plans.
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Can you imagine a world in which technology enables physicians and nurses to spend less time in front of a computer and more time with patients? This is the vision of Gareth Sherlock, chief information officer (CIO) at Cleveland Clinic London. He recalls one of the physician leaders at the clinic saying that he dreams of the day when he can sit across from a patient and look them in the eye without requiring any interaction or typing into a PC throughout the consultation.
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Healthcare Dive
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
According to the CDC, immunization rates declined across the board beginning in March 2020, but the most significant drop was among children who receive vaccines through the Vaccines for Children program.
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
While most healthcare leaders in the Asia Pacific recognise the value of health data more than their global peers, they are still facing significant challenges in using data effectively, according to Royal Philips' Future Health Index 2022 report. FINDINGS. The report, now in its seventh edition, gathered responses from 2,900 healthcare senior executives across 15 countries with 900 from the APAC region.
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Healthcare Dive
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Texas Judge Reed O’Connor once again ruled against the Affordable Care Act. The health law requires employers to purchase insurance coverage that includes coverage for PrEP medication.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Beginning this month, Mayo Clinic will onboard a blockchain-integrated platform by Triall for a two-year multi-center pulmonary arterial hypertension trial that includes 10 research sites and more than 500 patients. WHY IT MATTERS. By building an immutable blockchain-registered audit trial with Triall's Veritable Proof API, Mayo Clinic will test end-to-end clinical data integrity – from start-up to post-study evaluations.
Health Care Compliance Brief brings together the best content for health law & compliance professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Healthcare IT Today
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
The following is a guest article by Paul Ketchel, Chief Executive Officer at MDsave. Cost transparency is a driving force in the American market. Whether consumers are looking to purchase a latte, a plane ticket, or surgery, they increasingly expect to pay an “out-the-door” price– something that includes all labor and materials as well as the finished product or service.
Compliance Now
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
By: Jessica Waltman, Principal, Forward Health Consulting. The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 (CAA) introduced numerous protections against surprise billing for plan participants that impact group health plans, health insurance issuers, and providers. The federal Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury recently released a document discussing frequently asked questions (FAQs) about these surprise billing protections that provides clarity on a number of topics within
Mobi Health News
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
The new tool measures the diameter of the ventricles of the heart to provide the ratio of the maximum right ventricle diameter compared with the left ventricle. That can help indicate pulmonary embolism severity.
Compliance Now
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
By: Jessica Waltman, Principal, Forward Health Consulting. The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 (CAA) introduced numerous protections against surprise billing for plan participants that impact group health plans, health insurance issuers, and providers. The federal Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury recently released a document discussing frequently asked questions (FAQs) about these surprise billing protections that provides clarity on a number of topics within
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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.
HIPAA Journal
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
The Morristown, VT-based healthcare provider, Lamoille Health Partners, is facing a class action lawsuit over a June 2022 ransomware attack that affected almost 60,000 of its patients. The attack was detected on June 13, 2022, with the investigation confirming the attackers gained access to its network the previous day. Before file encryption, the attackers potentially accessed or acquired documents from its systems that contained names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, health
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Sobha Pisharody, Ph.D., Chief Strategy & Product Officer, InformedDNA. Pharmacogenomics—the study of genetic influences on an individual’s response to therapeutic medications—is an area of personalized medicine that is gaining momentum. Although pharmacogenomics has been around for a while, providers, health plans, pharmacists and legislators are developing a greater appreciation for its potential benefits and applications.
Digital Health News
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Thérèse Coffey has been appointed as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care by the new Prime Minister, Liz Truss, in the latest cabinet reshuffle.
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
David J. Sand, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer of ZeOmega . Pravin Pant, MSHI, VP of Advanced Analytics for ZeOmega. Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a powerful tool for making population health analytics more accurate and interventions more effective. Not all AI-powered pop health tools are created equal, and while many still exhibit different types of bias that limit their ability to accurately identify issues affecting certain populations, we have learned a lot about the sources
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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.
Mobi Health News
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Individuals are also less likely to trust AI-suggested interventions than those recommended by humans.
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
What You Should Know: – XRHealth , the gateway to the healthcare metaverse, announces today that the company adds NeuroReality’s cognitive training to their virtual clinics. – The NeuroReality’s virtual reality neuro rehab, a serious game, is an immersive experience known as Koji’s Quest. NeuroReality’s VR neuro rehab is designed for individuals who suffer from the consequences of stroke and brain injuries, where patients are guided through activities aimed to help regain functionali
Healthcare IT Today
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
The following is a guest article by Melissa Powell, COO at Genesis HealthCare. Healthcare’s future is smart and sustainable, led by tech-driven solutions and human ingenuity. One great success story of sustainable healthcare that combines those forces begins with a nurse who sews. Tami Ochs, an RN at New Jersey’s Overlook Medical Center, helped the facility repurpose 15,000 pounds of surgical blue wrap that was being discarded annually.
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
What You Should Know: – Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) announces it is expanding its virtual care portfolio by offering virtual primary care to some midsize and large employer groups in Illinois and Texas starting January 1, 2023. – HCSC’s virtual primary care program is powered by Teladoc Health , which supplements HCSC’s network of providers to increase convenient, timely access to care.
Speaker: Amy Anderson
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.
Healthcare IT Today
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Despite operating in Canada’s capitated healthcare system where investment in innovation is challenging, the leadership team at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital (Holland Bloorview) in Toronto, Ontario has found a way to make it part of their DNA. Using a collaborative, inclusive, and open approach, Holland Bloorview is blazing a trail and setting an example for other organizations.
Mobi Health News
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Specialty care was significantly more likely to result in concordant diagnoses between telehealth and in-person appointments, compared with primary care.
Digital Health News
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
According to a notice, NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) is looking for a new solution which includes an electronic staff record (ESR).
Hall Render
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
On August 18, 2022, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking allowing for optional alternative procedures for the examination of documents required by the Form I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification. Currently, to complete the Form I-9, employers must physically examine documentation presented by new employees within three business days after the first day of employment to ensure that the documents appear to be genuine and to relate to
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Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.
Healthcare IT Today
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Systems Specialist – Practice Manangement position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Mid-Atlantic Nephrology Associates, PA and is in Baltimore, Maryland. Here’s a description of the position: Mid-Atlantic Nephrology Associates, P.A. is hiring for a Practice Management Systems position.
Med-Net Compliance
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
A 49-year-old Texas physician assistant was arrested and charged for his role in a scheme to defraud Medicaid by working with a suspended medical license. On July 20, 2021, the Texas Medical Board allegedly ordered the immediate suspension of his physician assistant license, deeming him to be a “continuing threat to public welfare.” He was then prohibited from practicing medicine, according to the charges.
Healthcare IT Today
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Company Renamed Access TeleCare. SOC Telemed, the largest national provider of specialty acute care telemedicine, announced its acquisition of Forefront Telecare, a leading virtual behavioral health company serving vulnerable adults nationwide across the care continuum. The acquisition significantly expands SOC Telemed’s existing behavioral health offering, provider network, and clinical capabilities.
Jane Sarashon
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
With today’s announcement that Walmart will partner with UnitedHealthcare in a ten-year collaboration to bring affordable health care to Mainstream Americans, we have yet another huge ripple in the evolving retail health ecosystem. The other Big Healthcare news item this week was CVS Health’s planned acquisition of Signify Health , after much speculation that Amazon and other Big and smaller bidders (including UnitedHealth Group) were keen on acquiring the home/care company over the
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The industry has seen an increasing pace of ransomware, zero-day, and remote-code execution attacks. Learn how to defend against these against these attacks in this eBook.
Compliancy Group
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
When HIPAA was signed into law in 1996, modernizing and streamlining medical records access goals were part of the primary focus of the law. To make that happen, document scanning evolved from simply sending a copy of a paper document through fax to today’s advanced optical character recognition scanners that can almost eliminate the need for paper or film records.
HealthIT Answers
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
New On Demand Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist: With guest Chris O’Brien, CEO at AdhereTech who is working to solve medication adherence challenges with innovative simple connected technology. The post The Smart Pill Bottle Program appeared first on Health IT Answers.
The Health Law Firm
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On August 3, 2022, a study published by the Health Affairs Journal revealed that complex coding structures in the United States are driving up medical billing costs. This is a primary factor helping to make it one of the most expensive countries in the world in which to obtain payment for medical care.
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
What You Should Know: – New York City-based CertifyOS raises $14.5M in Series A funding led by General Catalyst and has received Accreditation from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), a private, non-profit organization dedicated to improving healthcare quality. – CertifyOS delivers API-first credentialing, licensing, and enrollment to payors, health systems and rapidly-scaling digital health companies.
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Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.
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