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Teladoc hit with class-action suit alleging it misled investors

Healthcare Dive

The complaint accuses the company, along with CEO Jason Gorevic and CFO Mala Murphy, of downplaying competition in the telehealth sector that stifled growth in mental health and chronic care businesses.

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COVID-19 changed consumers' interaction with healthcare

Healthcare It News

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Reconciling fatigue to transform the future of medical education

Healthcare Dive

Telemedicine. Virtual learning experiences. Remediation gaps. Born out of the pandemic, these innovations present opportunities for a medical education community currently faced with obstacles.

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Interoperability: Best Practices in Patient Amendments to Protected Health Information

MRO Compliance

Interoperability: Best Practices in Patient Amendments to Protected Health Information. June 6, 2022. Journal of AHIMA. Since April 2003, patients have had the right to request amendments to protected health information (PHI) contained within the designated record maintained by a covered entity (CE) or its business associates. As patients have become more engaged in their care, the number of requests for amendments has increased.

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Optimizing Medical Waste Management: A Guide to Best Practices

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.

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Leapfrog raises concerns about CMS proposal to suppress patient safety data

Healthcare Dive

The CMS is the only source for this data, and without it the public will not have information on preventable complications such as bed sores, inpatient falls that result in a broken hip, or sepsis, Leapfrog executives said.

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For El Camino Hospital, the pandemic was a springboard into broad virtual care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, California, is located near Silicon Valley, home to self-driving cars and robots that deliver food. So there is an expectation for tech-enabled healthcare. THE PROBLEM. Deborah Muro, CIO at El Camino Hospital, actually would receive calls from leaders of high-tech companies asking why the hospital had not adopted a tech-enabled care system.

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Olympus puts telecollaboration and advanced content management on the digital health stage at HIMSS22 Europe

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the scale of the opportunity to leverage innovative digital tools that can optimise patient care with the help of enhanced connectivity and the improved sharing of information and expertise between stakeholders. Systems that enable collaboration also support hospitals as they manage the challenge of health care professionals’ burnout – a situation that has been worsened by the pandemic.

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Healthcare payrolls recovering, still lag pre-pandemic levels

Healthcare Dive

Hospitals led growth in healthcare jobs in May as the industry slowly rebuilds its pandemic-shaken workforce.

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Healthcare Ransomware Attacks Increased by 94% in 2021

HIPAA Journal

Ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations increased by 94% year over year, according to the 2022 State of Ransomware Report from cybersecurity firm Sophos. The report is based on a global survey of 5,600 IT professionals and included interviews with 381 healthcare IT professionals from 31 countries. This year’s report focused on the rapidly evolving relationship between ransomware and cyber insurance in healthcare. 66% of surveyed healthcare organizations said they had experienced a ransom

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To Realize the Promise of Connected Healthcare, Embrace Edge Computing

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Bridget Meuse, Industry Strategist at Akamai. The evolution of connected healthcare, already well underway, got a major boost during the COVID pandemic. The shift to remote healthcare service delivery, together with the expansion of the Internet of medical things (IoMT), went into overdrive with the arrival of SARS […].

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

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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Aledade scores $123M for value-based care and more digital health fundings

Mobi Health News

Also: Drug discovery platform Insilico Medicine raises $60 million, Women's virtual care startup Visana Health brings in $2.6 million and digital reproductive care clinic Choix scoops up $1 million.

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Geisinger Plans to Transition Its Entire Digital Portfolio To Amazon Web Services

Healthcare IT Today

Anytime a health system moves its whole set of applications to an outside cloud vendor, it’s good to give that deal an extra look. Such a deal is especially visible and noteworthy, though, when it involves an organization as large and influential as Geisinger. What’s going on is that Geisinger is taking what could be […].

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Apple reveals medication tracking feature and more health updates

Mobi Health News

The tech giant also announced a new atrial fibrillation history feature and sleep stage tracking.

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Is Google Workspace HIPAA Compliant?

Compliancy Group

The ease of use of Google products has made it a popular choice for businesses across all industries. Google Workspace, formerly referred to as G Suite, consists of several Google products, including Gmail, Calendar, Meet, and Drive. As a healthcare organization, ease of use shouldn’t be the only determining factor when choosing what software platforms to use. .

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

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.

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Why Health Plans Must Have Next-Gen CAPS Technology for Digital Transformation

HIT Consultant

Sagnik Bhattacharya Chief Operating & Product Officer HealthEdge. Core Administrative Processing Systems (CAPS) operate as the brains behind a health plan’s business. These systems are critical to the smooth functioning of a health plan. Today, many payers run on decades-old CAPS systems built on legacy technologies. This can be a serious drawback.

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Microsoft Announces End of Support for Internet Explorer

Total HIPAA

Internet Explorer was once one of the biggest players in the browser game, but now it’s coming to its end of days. Starting June 15, 2022, Microsoft will end support of Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11), the last major version of Internet Explorer, and will discontinue the security updates used to maintain it. . Microsoft says customers should move to Microsoft Edge with IE mode.

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Rocket VR Health Launches VR Mindfulness Program for Cancer Patients

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Rocket VR Health , a digital therapeutics company developing immersive therapy programs launches a new study in partnership with Dr. Linda Carlson, Enbridge Research Chair in Psychosocial Oncology at the University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine. – The first-of-its-kind study will assess the feasibility of a virtual reality guided mindfulness (VRGM) intervention program in adult cancer patients with chronic cancer-related pain (CRP).

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Empower the Patient: How eCOAs Amplify the Patient Voice

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Melissa Mooney, director, eCOA Solutions Engineering, IQVIA. Patient centricity has quickly become the biggest buzzword in medicine and clinical research – but it is much more than a trend. Patient centric clinical research allows […]. The article Empower the Patient: How eCOAs Amplify the Patient Voice appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Everything You Wanted to Know About FACIS, but Didn’t Know to Ask

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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Insilico Medicine Raises $60M, Launches AI-powered Drug Discovery Robotics Laboratory

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Insilico Medicine , an NYC-based clinical-stage end-to-end artificial intelligence (AI)- driven drug discovery company raises $60 million in Series D financing from a syndicate of global investors with expertise in investing in the biopharmaceutical and life sciences sectors. – Insilico is also launching a new state-of-the-art robotics lab and fully robotic biological data factory.

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Fujifilm Australia to carry Annalise's CXR decision support solutions

Mobi Health News

Two variants of the Annalise CXR Edge products will be offered in Australia.

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Jasper, Scaling a Human Touch for People Dealing with Cancer, Now With Walgreens

Health Populi

Each year, the first Sunday in June marks National Cancer Survivors Day. This year’s NCSD occurred two days ago on Sunday, 5 th June. When you’re a cancer survivor, or happen to love one, every day is time to be grateful and celebrate that survival of someone who has come through a cancer journey. We all know (or are) people who have survived cancer.

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Study: Electronic symptom tracking improves cancer patients' quality of life, physical function

Mobi Health News

If patients reported severe or worsening symptoms, their care teams were alerted.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

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.

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Active Shooter Incident at Oklahoma Hospital

Healthcare Compliance Blog

A disgruntled patient purchased a rifle, and three hours later walked onto the second floor of a medical office building in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and began shooting. He fatally shot two orthopedists, a medical receptionist, a bystander, and then himself, in less than ten minutes. The patient had blamed his orthopedic surgeon for continuing back pain, claiming the surgery had been botched.

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HealthStream Acquires CloudCME

Healthcare IT Today

HealthStream expands its presence as a market leader in healthcare continuing education and continuing medical education management with the acquisition of another powerful application specifically designed for healthcare organizations and their workforce HealthStream (Nasdaq: HSTM), a leading provider of workforce and provider solutions for the healthcare industry, today announced the completion of its acquisition of the […].

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LumaPay Launches for Patients to Pay Med Bills in An SMS Text

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Luma Health today announced the launch of LumaPay , a new service for healthcare systems that provides patients a better and more transparent financial journey. – LumaPayâ„¢ lets patients pay bills from anywhere via text as the inaugural module of LumaFinancial, which provides better, simpler, and more transparent financial journeys.

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Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: Sheridan Sells Dermatologists of Central States to SkyKnight

McGuire Wood

Sheridan Capital Partners has announced the sale of Dermatologists of Central States (DOCS) to SkyKnight Capital. DOCS , headquartered in Cincinnati, is a provider of management services to dermatology practices in the Midwest and Southeast United States. The organization has a presence in seven states: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

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Ensure Continuous Patient Care: How to Avoid Disruptions Due to Ransomware

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.

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M&A: Bain Capital Acquires Majority Stake in LeanTaaS

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Private equity firm Bain Capital has acquired a majority stake in the company in LeanTaaS , a leading provider of cloud software solutions for optimizing hospital operations and capacity management that will enable LeanTaaS to accelerate its rapid growth trajectory. – LeanTaaS’ cloud-based iQueue solutions help hospitals transform their approach to care delivery and improve capital and scarce resource decision-making by optimizing the utilization of critical a

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Weekly Health Care Real Estate Briefing:

Hall Render

Our Health Care Real Estate Briefing is your comprehensive summary of weekly health care real estate highlights happening across the nation. 1. The North Carolina Senate passed a bill that partially repeals its Certificate of Need (“CON”) law for facilities in rural areas and for certain medical specialties. The bill is headed to the House of Representatives per Carolina Journal. 2.

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Aledade Raises $123M to Expand Value-Based Primary Care

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Aledade , a Bethesda, MD-based provider of value-based primary care raises $123M in Series E funding to support investments in value-based care for more seniors covered by Medicare Advantage (MA) and innovation that improves patient care and increases medical cost savings, including expanded offerings through its new health services subsidiary, Aledade Care Solutions (ACS).

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Immigration Bureaucracy Threatens 11-Year-Old’s Spot on Transplant Lists

Kaiser Health News

Nicolas Espinosa’s hopes for his 11-year-old daughter, Julia, are basic and profound: He wants her to stay alive and perhaps be able to eat normally someday. And she might, if she can get three organs transplanted — and if the U.S. immigration system doesn’t get in the way. In a case that reflects the significant and often-heartbreaking failures in how the U.S. welcomes newcomers to the country, the Espinosas are confronting not just the nation’s complicated and expensive healt

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

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.