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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

By James René Jolin and Susannah Baruch On July 13, 2023, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Opill (norgestrel) as the first daily oral contraceptive available for non-prescription use in the U.S. While the timeline for availability and price of Opill will ultimately be set by its manufacturer, Perrigo, this recent move represents a significant step forward in improving access to contraceptive health care.

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The survey from the Commonwealth Fund comes after regulators finalizing a rule this spring that aims to cut back on deceptive or misleading advertising for MA plans after beneficiary complaints more than doubled between 2020 and 2021.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Virtual reality made significant improvements in patient experiences. It has turned resistors at Hoag Hospital into champions, says Thomas Hutchinson, executive director of digestive health and experiential reality, and neurosurgeon Dr. Robert Louis.

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Details are scant on what a final package could specifically include. But the goal is to scale results Best Buy and Geisinger have achieved at that system to other operators, according to a Best Buy Health executive.

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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As at-home healthcare becomes more tech-driven—think wireless biosensors and connected blood pressure cuffs—it creates more logistical challenges for providers. | Geisinger's pilot program with Best Buy's Geek Squad resulted in quicker access to care, better adherence to care plans and more positive outcomes for chronic care patients, the organizations said.

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The partnership, which Walgreens plans to launch in ACO REACH in 2024 and Medicare Advantage in 2025, is the retail giant’s first significant move in the healthcare space since CEO Roz Brewer departed earlier this month.

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Cerner is facing “near-term headwinds” as the health software vendor transitions customers to cloud subscriptions, management said on a recent earnings call.

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HealthIT Answers

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

By Kelly Johnson - If you’re like me, you quickly grew tired of the phrase “new normal” in 2020. While this largely referred to changes we made in our everyday lives to stop the spread of COVID-19, the unfortunate reality is that many healthcare organizations are now facing their own new normal. The post It’s Time to Bring AI into Your Business Office appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The settlement comes after state regulators levied a $55 million fine against the health plan last year for alleged operational deficiencies, including failure to address a backlog of over 9,000 prior authorization requests.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

What You Should Know: Bold , a Los Angeles-based healthy aging platform raises $17M in Series A funding led by Rethink Impact , with participation from Samsung Next and existing investors Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Bio + Health , Khosla Ventures , GingerBread Capital , and Primetime Partners. The latest funding, bringing its total amount raised to $27M.

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Feeling overwhelmed by medical waste regulations? This comprehensive guide unravels the complexities of medical waste disposal, ensuring you stay compliant and prioritize safety. Inside you'll find: Clear categorization: Learn to precisely classify medical waste for proper handling and disposal. Labeling & Storage: Discover best practices for clear labeling and secure storage of medical waste.

Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

GoodRx is teaming up with Walgreens to offer further discounts on 200 drugs at its pharmacies. | GoodRx is teaming up with Walgreens to offer further discounts on 200 drugs at its pharmacies.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Constance Sjoquist, Senior Healthcare Analyst with RazorMetrics Large employers report that the biggest threat to self-funding medical coverage is the increasingly high cost of pharmacy claims. In their annual Health Benefits Priorities survey, MBGH found that employers consider pharmacy costs extremely problematic. Ninety-one percent of employers cited million-dollar treatments approved by the FDA, and 89% pointed to specialty drug spending as a top threat.

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Health Law Advisor

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

On August 30, an official at the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released one of the most significant announcements made at the federal level concerning marijuana reclassification. In a letter dated August 29, 2023, Rachel Levine (HHS Assistant Secretary for Health), provided a formal recommendation to Anne Milgrim (Agency Administrator) at the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to reclassify cannabis from a Schedule I drug to a Schedule III drug under the Fe

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Dana D’Ambrosio, M.S., BCBA, LBA, Director, Clinical Development at RethinkFutures In a society where so many want more—more money, more time off, more adventure—few stop to question the logic of insatiably wanting “more.” Perhaps, no place does the consequence of wanting more negatively impact people than with healthcare treatments. Medication use, for example, shows clear dose-response curves, where over-use can have fatal consequences ; negative consequences and death also can result from too

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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.

Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The Apple Watch Series 9 allows users to log and access healthcare data, and to control the Watch by double-tapping their index finger and thumb.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Rich Steinle, Carium CEO Despite positive proof points, the expansion of virtual care and remote patient engagement strategies – including RPM – continues to be hampered by misconceptions among potential users and misalignment of financial incentives among providers and payers. It’s time to take a look at some of the myths holding back the adoption of virtual care and remote patient engagement tools and limiting progress toward achieving the interconnected goals of the Quintuple Aim.

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Digital Health News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Strata Health's electronic referral platform is now being used in the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Card Board to streamline patient referrals.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The drugstore chain and tech-enabled digital health platform will support providers in helping their patients transition to home after being discharged from the hospital.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In a recent survey, Surescripts found growing support for pharmacists to prescribe a select number of medications to patients, thus easing the workload on physicians. Technologies like direct messaging and record sharing is making this possible. Physician Shortage Physicians everywhere are overworked. This is especially true in primary care where there are not enough physicians to meet the growing patient demand.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

One-half of clinicians working in the U.S., doctors and nurses alike, are considering leaving their current role in the next two to three years. That 1 in 2 clinicians is significantly greater than the global 37% of physicians and nurses thinking about leaving their roles in the next 3 years, according to the report Clinician of the Future 2023 from Elsevier.

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), is seeking feedback on how health data privacy can be improved while also supporting the need for medical research. Over the past few years there has been a proliferation of new technologies that collect, store, and transmit health information, including wearable devices, smart devices, and health and wellness apps.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

NextGen Healthcare Shareholders to Receive $23.95 Per Share in Cash, a 46.4% Premium to Unaffected Stock Price Transaction to Accelerate NextGen Healthcare’s Growth and Innovation as the Trusted Advisor to Healthcare Providers NextGen Healthcare, Inc. , a leading provider of innovative, cloud-based healthcare technology solutions, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Thoma Bravo , a leading software investment firm.

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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.

Total HIPAA

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Who does this apply to? In the extensive world of rules and regulations related to HIPAA, it’s crucial to have a clear grasp of specific rules for both legal and ethical reasons. Section 45 CFR § 160.402 is often referred to as the “Common Agency Provision.” This rule serves as a central reference point for organizations that are subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

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MedTrainer

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

MedTrainer retains its #1 ranking for usability, earning a total of seven Fall 2023 G2 awards. As the largest and most trusted software marketplace, G2 is visited by more than 80 million software buyers each year. Quarterly, G2 evaluates and ranks the products based on authentic peer reviews. MedTrainer has held the top spot in the healthcare learning management system Usability Index for four quarters in a row, in addition to earning awards for Easiest Admin and Best Meets Requirements.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

What You Should Know: Substance use disorder has far-reaching impacts across society, and healthcare workers are not immune. In some cases, healthcare worker addiction can lead them to use prescription drugs intended for patients or steal them to be sold for personal benefit. A recent survey sponsored by Invistics, acquired by Wolters Kluwer Health earlier this year, found that despite 98% of healthcare executives agreeing that drug diversion occurs in hospitals, nearly four in five healthcare e

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The Texas Medical Liability Trust (TMLT) has reported a data breach to the Maine Attorney General on behalf of itself and its affiliates, Texas Medical Insurance Company, Physicians Insurance Company, and Lone Star Alliance, Inc., a Risk Retention Group that has affected 59,901 individuals. Suspicious activity was detected within its IT environment on October 12, 2022.

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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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Digital Health News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Flo Period Tracker, MyFitnessPal and BetterMe were the three most downloaded wellness apps in April 2023, according to a study from Tipalti.

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Seymour, IN-based Schneck Medical Center has settled a lawsuit with the Indiana attorney general, Todd Rokita, over a 2021 ransomware attack and data breach that affected 89,707 Indiana residents. Schneck Medical Center has agreed to pay a penalty of $250,000 to resolve alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and state laws and will implement additional safeguards to prevent further data breaches.

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Digital Health News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The North West Ambulance Service has seen positive results from its hypertension pilot which involves sharing data with primary care networks.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Advil has launched the Advil Pain Equity Project, a multiyear commitment to help address pain inequity and racial bias in the diagnosis and treatment of pain. | Advil will be awarding grants to the Morehouse School of Medicine and BLKHLTH, a nonprofit focused on health equity, to support the development of patient resources and a course on pain equity for medical students.

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