Healthcare It News

APRIL 25, 2024

San Francisco-based Augmedix has launched what it says is the first fully-automated, generative AI-powered medical documentation software for emergency departments, and it's already in use at one of the biggest health systems in the country. Known as Augmedix Go, the ambient documentation tool for EDs leverages automatic speech recognition and natural language processing and was developed in partnership with physicians at four HCA Healthcare hospitals, the company said Wednesday in announcin

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 25, 2024

The nonprofit is transferring ownership of two Caritas Clinics and shutting one down.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 25, 2024

The Joint Commission this week announced its new Telehealth Accreditation Program for eligible hospitals, ambulatory and behavioral healthcare organizations. The program, with an effective date of July 1, is designed to offer updated and more streamlined standards to help organizations offering telehealth services put structures and processes in place to help deliver safer and higher quality virtual care WHY IT MATTERS The new Telehealth Accreditation Program was developed, the commission says,

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 25, 2024

The health system made progress on controlling expenses by cutting contract labor costs and insourcing physicians, but costs still dragged on earnings.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 25, 2024

Amae Health launched in January 2022 to improve care for individuals with severe mental illness through a community-based, integrated approach. | Amae Health, which opened its first outpatient clinic in Los Angeles 18 months ago, closed a $15 million series A round to fuel its growth as it plans to open new clinics in four markets.

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 25, 2024

Despite business growth in the first quarter, Molina reiterated its prior 2024 guidance out of caution that it won’t be able to reprocure the contested contracts.

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 25, 2024

About 1% of UPMC's total workforce will be impacted by the reductions, according to a spokesperson.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 25, 2024

A pair of academic studies published this week painted an unflattering picture of the impact of hospital mergers and acquisitions on healthcare prices and regulators' track record of stepping in to | Two academic studies published this week sought to characterize cross-market deals and whether the FTC is taking a strong enough stance on blocking uncompetitive deals.

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 25, 2024

The for-profit health system’s revenue rose by more than 10% in the first quarter.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 25, 2024

Evernorth's Accredo arm will make a Humira biosimilar available to patients with no out-of-pocket costs, the company announced Thursday. | Evernorth's Accredo arm will make a Humira biosimilar available to patients with no out-of-pocket costs, the company announced on Thursday.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 25, 2024

Several class action lawsuits have been filed against City of Hope National Medical Center, a National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated cancer treatment and research center, over a recently disclosed data breach that exposed the protected health information of more than 827,000 individuals. City of Hope National Medical Center identified suspicious activity within its network on October 13, 2023, and the forensic investigation confirmed there had been unauthorized access by a third party betwee

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 25, 2024

What You Should Know: – Intermountain Health , a healthcare provider, has been awarded a $1.9 million grant from Colorado’s Opportunity Now program. – The grant will be used to launch Pathfinders, an innovative initiative designed to address workforce shortages in the healthcare sector. Opportunity Now Colorado Grant Fuels Innovation The Opportunity Now Colorado grant program is a Colorado government initiative designed to foster job creation and empower the state’s workf

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 25, 2024

Wheel's BabySat virtual telehealth services platform will enable caregivers to obtain a prescription for the baby tech company's pulse oximetry sock.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 25, 2024

What You Should Know: – Stellar Sleep , a provider of digital solutions for chronic insomnia management, announced a significant upgrade to its app today. – These new features aim to further empower users to track their sleep patterns and access personalized content designed to improve sleep quality and duration. Impact of Chronic Insomnia Chronic insomnia, characterized by sleep issues occurring at least three nights a week for three months or more, affects over 25 million Americans

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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.

Wyatt Law Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

By: Margaret Young Levi On April 22, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a Final Rule entitled HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 25, 2024

What You Should Know: – Medical Informatics Engineering (MIE) , a leader in occupational health IT solutions, today announced a significant investment from Serent Capital , a growth-focused private equity firm. – The strategic investment fuels MIE’s continued innovation and strengthens the company’s position in the occupational health software market.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 25, 2024

Wheel's BabySat virtual telehealth services platform will enable caregivers to obtain a prescription for the baby tech company's pulse oximetry sock.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 25, 2024

What You Should Know: – FDB (First Databank) , a leading provider of drug knowledge solutions for healthcare professionals, announced today that its FDB Targeted Medication Warnings™ has received the new Toolbox designation from Epic Systems Corporation. – The recognition places FDB’s solution within the Medication Dosing Decision Support Toolbox category of Epic’s new Showroom , a platform allowing healthcare providers to access applications from third-party developers.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 25, 2024

Owlet is bringing its infant vitals monitoring product directly to caregivers through a new partnership with popular telehealth engine, Wheel, it announced Thursday. | Parents can now get a prescription for Owlet's FDA-cleared infant monitoring device through its just-launched telehealth platform, BabySat, powered by Wheel. The company intends to safeguard its rapid access prescriptions through a rigorous provider verification process.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 25, 2024

What You Should Know: – UnitedHealth Group , the parent company of the Optum health services division, announced the closure of its Optum Virtual Care business , Endpoints News first reports. Optum Virtual Care offered 24/7 access to virtual consultations with board-certified physicians and nurse practitioners across all 50 states. – On April 18th, Optum Virtual Care employees were informed of the shutdown, with some reportedly having last days in July according to a Seeking Alpha ar

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 25, 2024

Epitel received 510(k) clearance for two remote monitoring offerings and Curio Digital Therapeutics received clearance for its postpartum prescription digital therapeutic.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2024

The following is a guest article by Troy Hawes, Managing Director at Moss Adams The recent cybersecurity attack against Change Healthcare caused dramatic disruptions to one of the nation’s largest prescription processors. On the morning of February 21, 2024, a ransom group, BlackCat, directed a cyberattack at Change Healthcare, owned by healthcare conglomerate UnitedHealth.

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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.

HIPAA Journal

APRIL 25, 2024

Politzer and Durocher, PLC, which does business as Optometric Physicians of Middle Tennessee (OPMT), has recently reported a hacking incident to the HHS Office for Civil Rights involving the personal and protected health information of 29,000 individuals. The Lebanon, TN-based eye clinic chain said it detected unauthorized access to its network on March 25, 2024.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 25, 2024

The ODU-led team will assess the commercial viability and feasibility of digital environments for people who are visually impaired.

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Digital Health News

APRIL 25, 2024

Last year saw a total of 34,000 medication errors made, including 21 incidents leading to patient death, and a further 27 leading to serious harm.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 25, 2024

Kaiser Permanente disclosed that it has begun notifying millions of its health plan members that the company was hit with a data breach in mid-April.

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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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Becker's Health IT

APRIL 25, 2024

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente is notifying current and former patients that it shared information with third-party advertisers, TechCrunch reported April 25.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 25, 2024

Women's health company Tia unveiled key leadership changes as it ramps up its focus on operations and expanding its clinics. | Tia co-founder Carolyn Witte, who served as CEO since the company's founding eight years ago, is transitioning to chairwoman of the board and co-founder Felicity Yost is stepping in as interim CEO.

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Becker's Health IT

APRIL 25, 2024

Healthcare cybersecurity budgets and teams have grown significantly since 2019 as threats become more pronounced, according to an April 2024 report from Moody's Investors Service.

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Digital Health News

APRIL 25, 2024

Application programming interfaces (APIs) have a hugely important role to play in the sharing of healthcare data. However, too often they fail to gain traction and users end up disillusioned. An in-person roundtable, held at Digital Health’s Rewired show in Birmingham last month, discussed how the NHS can get more from APIs and ensure they promote interoperability.

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