Healthcare Dive
JUNE 1, 2022
Consumers are overpaying for generic drug prescriptions by as much as 20% due to pharmacy benefit manager practices like copay clawbacks and spread pricing, researchers found.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 1, 2022
River Valley counseling Center's Holyoke Clinic in Holyoke, Massachusetts, always was trying to make ends meet with its technology. THE PROBLEM. Its efforts to revamp and improve its technology were merely trial and error. Staff were putting band-aids on their technologies, struggling to figure out what the root of the issues were when disruptions would occur.
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Healthcare Dive
JUNE 1, 2022
Gagan Singh is replacing Gerry Lewis, who during his time as CIO oversaw layoffs and the outsourcing of tech support in Ascension's technologies team.
Healthcare It News
JUNE 1, 2022
Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed
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MRO Compliance
JUNE 1, 2022
Information You Need to Know about a HEDIS Audit from Revenue Cycle Experts. Each year HEDIS rating criteria is updated, meaning your organization needs to stay up-to-date on the latest news and trends for HEDIS compliance audits. Below we explore some common questions about HEDIS and review important information your team should know now and in the future.
Healthcare Dive
JUNE 1, 2022
Kaufman Hall's new findings reverse trends from March, when hospitals posted a modest rise in patient volumes and temporary expense reliefs.
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Healthcare IT Today
JUNE 1, 2022
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 6/3 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by John Lynn (@techguy) from @hcittoday on the topic “Do Patients Want Their Health Info?” Many patients have worked really hard in order to access their health data. The government […].
Mobi Health News
JUNE 1, 2022
Also: Mental health chatbot Woebot Health brings on Moses Ike as the company's first chief financial officer, and digital neurotherapeutic maker MindMaze announces a slew of new leadership hires.
HIPAA Journal
JUNE 1, 2022
Microsoft has issued a security advisory and has provided workaround to prevent a zero-day vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT) from being exploited. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2022-30190 and has been dubbed Follina by security researchers. According to Microsoft, “a remote code execution vulnerability exists when MSDT is called using the URL protocol from a calling application such as Word.”.
Compliancy Group
JUNE 1, 2022
As technology evolves, companies try new products in an effort to improve their business operations. One such technology that has been rapidly adopted is e-signature tools. But, did you know as a healthcare organization that these tools need to meet specific HIPAA standards? HelloSign is a popular e-signature product, but is HelloSign HIPAA compliant?
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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.
HIT Consultant
JUNE 1, 2022
What You Should Know: – Ordr , a company making the complex problem of securing every connected device — from traditional IT devices to newer and more vulnerable IoT, IoMT or OT — simple, today announced it has raised an additional $40M. The funding round was co-led by Battery Ventures and Ten Eleven Ventures , with participation from new investor Northgate Capital and continuing investors Wing Venture Capital , Unusual Ventures , Kaiser Permanente Ventures , and Mayo Clinic.
HIPAA Journal
JUNE 1, 2022
BD has issued security advisories about two vulnerabilities that affect certain BD Pyxis automated medication dispensing system products and the BD Synapsys microbiology informatics software platform. BD Pyxis – CVE-2022-22767. According to BD, certain BD Pyxis products have been installed with default credentials and may still operate with those credentials.
HIT Consultant
JUNE 1, 2022
Yoni Ashar, Ph.D., Clinical Advisor at Lin Health. More than 50 million adults in the United States – more than 20% – suffer from chronic pain, and more than 19.6 million adults have pain that interferes with their lives more days than not. The estimated cost of chronic pain is $635 billion – more than heart disease and cancer combined – due to the number of days missed from work, treatment costs, and other factors.
Healthcare IT Today
JUNE 1, 2022
Rising Threat of Data Breaches and Ransomware Attacks Drives Need for Complete and Accurate Real-Time Information About Devices and Their Risks Ordr has raised an additional $40 million to meet the growing need for organizations to understand, manage, and secure the growing number of connected devices in their environment, including Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), […].
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HIT Consultant
JUNE 1, 2022
Nursing homes care for the elderly, people with disabilities, or those who are terminally ill. However, abuse can take many different forms in nursing homes and can devastatingly impact the residents. It’s especially true if the abuse is not reported or if it’s not taken seriously. The elderly and those with dementia are especially at risk for abuse, as they may not be able to communicate their needs or recognize when they’re being mistreated.
Mobi Health News
JUNE 1, 2022
The AI platform can predict a person's risk of having a stroke or a heart attack in the next five years.
HIT Consultant
JUNE 1, 2022
What You Should Know: – Hint Health , a direct primary care (DPC) provider raises $45M led by Banneker Partners and Frist Cressey Ventures , bringing the company’s total funding amount to $60M. – The investment will support the growth of Hint’s operating system technology for core customers and an expansion of its national DPC network, Hint Connect.
Healthcare IT Today
JUNE 1, 2022
For the 89th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about Healthcare GIS (Geographic Information System Mapping). After spending a couple days at the healthcare focused event put on by Esri, I came to realize with more depth all that GIS could offer healthcare. Plus, Healthcare GIS is much more than maps and includes […] For the 89th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we're talking about Healthcare GIS (Geographic Information System Mapping).
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.
Health Populi
JUNE 1, 2022
A new Chevy Equinox SUV, a year in an MS program in kinesiology at Pacific Lutheran U., or health care for a family of four. At $30,260, you could pick one of these three options. Welcome to this year’s 2022 Milliman Medical Index , which annually calculates the health care costs for a median family of 4 in the U.S. I perennially select two alternative purchases for you to consider aligning with the MMI medical index.
Center for Health Insurance Reform
JUNE 1, 2022
Colorado is moving quickly to set the rules for state public option-style plans, ahead of their launch in the 2023 plan year. CHIR’s Christine Monahan discusses recent rulemaking on “Colorado Option” premium reduction targets and the state’s Section 1332 Waiver Amendment Application. Continue reading → The post Colorado Announces Premium Rate Reduction Targets for Public Option Plans appeared first on Center on Health Insurance Reforms.
Mobi Health News
JUNE 1, 2022
The company plans to use the funding to hire new team members and invest in its technology.
Modern Healthcare
JUNE 1, 2022
Inpatient rehabilitation facilities told CMS that home health acts as an extension of care, not a substitute.
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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.
Mobi Health News
JUNE 1, 2022
The investment will be used for its Asia-Pacific expansion while leveraging Metro's presence.
Healthcare Compliance Blog
JUNE 1, 2022
The US Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division has published updated Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) guidance for employers and workers. The additional resources were provided to help inform workers of their rights to take leave for serious mental health conditions, and for employers to better understand how to comply with the FMLA. The National Institute of Health estimates that?
YouCompli
JUNE 1, 2022
CJ Wolf, MD provides enforcement action summaries for the YouCompli blog. These summaries provide real-world examples of regulators’ response to practices that don’t fully comply with regulations. This month’s article looks at interstate licensing actions. The United States has a nursing shortage. Before the COVID pandemic, many openings were due to retiring nurses coming to the end of a long career.
Provider Trust
JUNE 1, 2022
Organizations across the healthcare continuum have experienced several workforce trends that are creating gaps in license monitoring and verifications. Many of these trends evolved in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but show no signs of slowing despite a wavering rate of hospitalizations. Hospitals and health systems continue to find themselves desperately searching for available frontline nurses to relieve their exhausted staff and make up for vacant positions due to burnout.
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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.
HIT Consultant
JUNE 1, 2022
What You Should Know: – Today, Oracle announced that all required antitrust approvals have been obtained for its proposed $28.3B ($95 per share) acquisition of Cerner , including European Commission clearance. – Oracle expects to complete the tender offer promptly following the expiration of that offer at midnight Eastern time on June 6, 2022.
Medisys Compliance
JUNE 1, 2022
Basics of Good Faith Estimates. Starting on January 1, 2022, the No Surprises Act (NSA) protects uninsured or self-pay individuals from many unexpectedly high medical bills. The Good Faith Estimate shows the costs of items and services that are reasonably expected for patients’ health care needs for an item or service. The estimate is based on information known at the time the estimate was created.
Health Law Attorney
JUNE 1, 2022
HIPAA itself does not contain a private right of action for individuals following unauthorized disclosures of medical information. Yet, HIPAA does not prohibit individuals from seeking remedies through state or other law. Each U.S. state’s tort law system can potentially allow individuals to pursue reparations when they are harmed by a data breach. With the rise of data breaches, private citizens (read – plaintiffs attorneys) are increasingly seeking to take legal action through state laws, lead
Hall Render
JUNE 1, 2022
Hall Render attorney Ritu Kaur Cooper has been elected to serve a one-year term on the American Health Law Association (“AHLA”) Board of Directors beginning July 1, 2022. “I am honored to be selected by my peers to serve on the AHLA Board,” Ritu said. “AHLA has played an integral role in my growth as an attorney, and I look forward to the opportunity to help guide this organization and bring industry leaders together to advance how we are able to best serve our clients.”.
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