Healthcare Dive

JUNE 26, 2023

“Our performance in the third quarter did not meet our overall expectations,” Walgreens CEO Roz Brewer told investors Tuesday morning.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 26, 2023

By Aparajita Lath For over 100 years, policy makers and pharmaceutical manufacturers in the U.S. have debated whether the government should produce drugs and biologics. Until now, private industry has largely won– but that may be changing, due to a recent California initiative. At the turn of the 20 th century, the unregulated U.S. biologics industry saw a series of tetanus contamination incidents.

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Healthcare Dive

JUNE 26, 2023

The deal is likely to face antitrust scrutiny despite minimal geographic overlap between Amedisys and existing UnitedHealth home health business LHC Group, analysts said.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 26, 2023

The relief organization is on the lookout for innovative technologies to help its mission of saving lives and improving quality of life for populations in need, says Carolina Nelson, Project HOPE's LAC regional deputy director.

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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?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 26, 2023

Eighty percent of providers using telehealth in Virginia have seen improvements in their patients’ continuity of care, and 87% feel confident in the quality of care they’re able to offer patients via telehealth, according to a new survey conducted by the Virginia Telehealth Network of more than 10,500 active license healthcare professionals throughout the state.

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Healthcare Dive

JUNE 26, 2023

Liver enzyme elevations in early- and mid-stage testing have led the drugmaker to discontinue development of a medicine known as lotiglipron, dealing a blow to its hopes of catching rivals Lilly and Novo Nordisk.

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Healthcare Dive

JUNE 26, 2023

The take-private proposal from AlbaCore Capital comes after the company has fared poorly on the stock market.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 26, 2023

UnitedHealth Group has once again flexed its muscles and outbid a competitor to pick up another home health asset. | Amedisys on Monday agreed to be acquired by UnitedHealth's Optum unit in an all-cash deal while also scraping a previous all-stock deal offer from previous suitor Option Care Health.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 26, 2023

Rotem Shor, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Medisafe We are at an interesting crossroads when it comes to pharma and digital health. Several years after the first iteration of digital patient solutions was initially launched, many pharma companies are taking a step back to strategically evaluate how they have performed in practice and the impact they have had on both patient and business outcomes.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 26, 2023

Employers give themselves poor marks in terms of providing mental health services to their employees but high scores for supporting initiatives to improve diversity, equity and inclusion among thei | Employers recognize the importance of mental health benefits but feel that they might be falling short in providing them, according to a new survey.

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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.

Center for Health Insurance Reform

JUNE 26, 2023

Happy Pride Month from CHIR! Each June, Pride is an opportunity to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community and honor the ongoing struggle for LGBTQ+ rights—including in health care access. CHIR's Emma Walsh-Alker examines the systemic barriers to health care coverage that the LGBTQ+ community faces, and highlights a few key coverage and access issues that continue to impact LGBTQ+ individuals with private health insurance.

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Digital Health News

JUNE 26, 2023

blueBriX is to supply Yagua Health with its enterprise-scale EHR system, blueEHR, delivering the organisation's first electronic health record.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 26, 2023

More than half of private practice therapists worry about economy, plan to raise rates in 2023, survey finds agliadkovskaya Mon, 06/26/2023 - 12:03

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Symplr

JUNE 26, 2023

HITRUST was founded in 2007 to help organizations prioritize security, manage data and compliance, and mitigate information risk. Today, it is one of the most rigorous and comprehensive security standards, established to safeguard sensitive, especially in the critical realm of healthcare. The HITRUST Assurance Program includes U.S. federal and state regulations and incorporates a risk-based approach to help organizations address security challenges through a comprehensive and flexible framework

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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.

Digital Health News

JUNE 26, 2023

Researchers at King's College Hospital are trialling the GI Genius AI-powered platform to see if it can lead to earlier detection of colorectal cancers.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 26, 2023

For the 117th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we are diving into the Facebook pixel breach that impacted most healthcare organizations! To start off we discuss whether the breach was a big deal or not. Then we take a look at the impact the resulting penalties of the breach have on the industry. Next we share ways healthcare organizations can navigate around these privacy requirements.

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Digital Health News

JUNE 26, 2023

Thanks to an £80k Discovery Award by Longitude Prize on Dementia, Dorothy, Care City and TPXimpact will develop an augmented reality tool for dementia.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 26, 2023

HIPAA enforcement discretion occurs when the Secretary for Health and Human Services (HHS) announces the Department will exercise discretion in the enforcement of HIPAA Rules. The discretion can be temporary or permanent, region-specific or nationwide, or apply to some Rules but not others. Recent examples of when HIPAA enforcement discretion has been announced include: 2023 – Typhoon Mawar in Guam 2022 – Hurricane Ian in Florida and South Carolina 2022 – Kentucky Flooding Public Emergency 2021

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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

JUNE 26, 2023

Beleaguered digital health company Babylon Health finalized plans to go private and will combine with digital therapeutics company MindMaze. | Beleaguered digital health company Babylon Health finalized plans to go private and will combine with digital therapeutics company MindMaze.

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Digital Health News

JUNE 26, 2023

Gloucestershire Hospitals has deployed a new ePMA as part of its Sunrise EPR, and is now setting its sights on achieving HIMSS Stage 6.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 26, 2023

Recent study findings suggest that hospital consolidation is associated with a reduction of inpatient pediatric services during subsequent years—a new data point for policymakers weighing whether a | A recent study found a significant association between hospitals joining a health system and a reduction of inpatient pediatric services within five years.

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Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2023

People love being health-insured, but their negative experiences with health plans create serious burdens on patients-as-consumers. And those burdens impact even more people who are unwell than healthier folks. The 2023 Kaiser Family Foundation Survey of Consumer Experiences with Health Insurance updates our understanding of and empathy for insured peoples’ Patient Administrative Burdens (PAB).

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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.

Becker's Health IT

JUNE 26, 2023

A recent study found the greater disruptions at nearby facilities grave enough to consider hospital ransomware attacks a "regional disaster," and the number of attacks are on track to increase in 2023, NPR reported June 25.

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 26, 2023

The Medicare Advantage insurer allegedly did not disclose active investigations by the Department of Justice to investors when it went public.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 26, 2023

Improving workforce and leadership diversity is a key priority for many healthcare organizations, particularly at the executive levels. | We are putting out the call for nominations to honor minority leaders across the healthcare industry—from physicians to CEOs to researchers and tech company execs—who are shaping the way healthcare of the future will be delivered.

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Becker's Health IT

JUNE 26, 2023

MetroHealth said it discovered that an employee was inappropriately accessing patient records since 2008, cleveland.com reported June 26.

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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.

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Natalia Mazina

JUNE 26, 2023

The Drug Supply Chain Security Act (“DSCSA”) was enacted in 2013 with the goal of creating an interoperable electronic system to trace certain prescription drugs as they are distributed in the United States. The DSCSA’s requires [1] : Product identification (such as a bar code) Product tracing (trading partners, such as manufacturers, wholesalers, and pharmacies must trace the product from creation until dispensing) Product verification (trading partners must establish a system and processes to

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HealthIT Answers

JUNE 26, 2023

Starts on October 8th in Las Vegas - Join the 10,000+ anticipated attendees (including 2,500+ CEOs), 300+ speakers, and 800+ sponsors, all convening at HLTH 2023 to be part of healthcare's preeminent all-inclusive event experience. The post Register for the HLTH 2023 Conference appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Compliancy Group

JUNE 26, 2023

Are you tired of stressing over HIPAA compliance for your healthcare organization? As the healthcare industry grows, so does the need for HIPAA compliance. But keeping up with regulations and ensuring privacy can be daunting for healthcare organizations. However, with Compliancy Group’s innovative HIPAA compliance software, “The Guard,” you can rest easy knowing that your organization is fully compliant.

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Jackson Lewis

JUNE 26, 2023

On June 16, 2023, Nevada’s Governor signed Senate Bill (SB) 370 , which enacts certain protections for consumer health data. The law is similar to Washington’s My Health, My Data Act , which was passed in April. The Future of Privacy Forum prepared a useful chart comparing the Washington and Nevada laws. Nevada’s law becomes operative on March 31, 2024.

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In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.