Healthcare Dive
JULY 28, 2023
A data breach earlier this year has affected tens of millions of individuals to date, and also compromised the sensitive personal and medical information of Medicare seniors.
Healthcare It News
JULY 28, 2023
Since its go-live in June, St. Peter's Health in Helena, Montana said that it has received feedback that patients are having trouble accessing their health information, scheduling appointments and processing referrals in MyChart. WHY IT MATTERS In June, St. Peter’s patients gained access to MyChart through an Epic Community Connect partnership with SCL Health, which is now part of Intermountain Health.
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Healthcare Dive
JULY 28, 2023
The departure of CFO James Kehoe comes as recent financial results for Walgreens, which is working to transition from a pharmacy chain to a healthcare services company, have underperformed market expectations.
Healthcare It News
JULY 28, 2023
Thammasat University Hospital is embarking on a digital transformation of its elderly care service. The hospital signed a memorandum of understanding with NEC Thailand for the development of a digital platform to digitise all records and treatment plans at Thammasat Thammarak Center. Based on a press release, NEC Thailand will be deploying IoT devices for detecting falls.
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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 Dive
JULY 28, 2023
The lawsuit alleged the health IT vendor monopolized e-prescription drug markets for routing and eligibility through exclusivity agreements, threats and other exclusionary conduct.
Bill of Health
JULY 28, 2023
By Ameet Sarpatwari , Alexander Egilman , and Aaron S. Kesselheim Each month, members of the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) review the peer-reviewed medical literature to identify interesting empirical studies, policy analyses, and editorials on health law and policy issues. Below are the citations for papers identified from the month of June.
Health Care Compliance Brief brings together the best content for health law & compliance professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 28, 2023
Waikato, Thames Hospitals implement Altera's anaesthesia info management system Altera Digital Health announced the launch of its anaesthesia information management system across the Waikato and Thames hospitals of Te Whatu Ora in New Zealand. This comes a year after the company bagged the contract to deliver the anaesthesia solution, the cloud-based Provation iPro.
Healthcare Dive
JULY 28, 2023
Sanford and Fairview explored all options to keep the merger viable, but ultimately were forced to end the process due to a lack of support in Minnesota, Sanford CEO Bill Gassen said.
Fierce Healthcare
JULY 28, 2023
Lobbying groups representing different camps of the healthcare industry have come together to urge the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service (CMS) to reconsider “conflicting regulatory propos | The American Hospital Association, American Medical Association and Blue Cross Blue Shield Association penned a joint letter highlighting "conflicting" prior authorization electronic standards and workflows they say will bring industry confusion and unnecessary burden.
Healthcare Dive
JULY 28, 2023
The payer lost 262,700 Medicaid members in the second quarter, dropping its total Medicaid lives to just over 16 million.
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Fierce Healthcare
JULY 28, 2023
The time is now 90 seconds to midnight, according to the Doomsday Clock, which scientists use to estimate how close humanity might be to blowing itself up with nuclear weapons. | The world hasn't been this close to nuclear war since the Cold War, say experts. Editors of prestigious medical journals sound a call to disarm.
MedTrainer
JULY 28, 2023
Earlier this year, an in-depth OIG investigation resulted in a six-day trial of a former Louisiana health clinic CEO , who was ultimately convicted of Medicaid fraud and sentenced to 82 months in federal prison. The OIG, which stands for the Office of Inspector General , plays a crucial role in identifying the so-called “bad actors” in the healthcare industry.
Fierce Healthcare
JULY 28, 2023
This week, a visitor opened fire at Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center in Portland, killing a security guard and injuring a nurse. | Following increases in both aggression towards nurses and mass shootings, stakeholders are debating whether new tech or old solutions can make a difference.
HIT Consultant
JULY 28, 2023
Renée Jacobs, CHFM, CHC, FASHE, Healthcare Business Development Manager, Distech Controls Ken Watson, Director, Strategic Accounts, Atrius®, Acuity Brands The International Health Care Without Harm organization has stated: “Climate change is damaging human health today and will have a greater impact in the future.” In response to this growing challenge, the U.S.
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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.
Healthcare IT Today
JULY 28, 2023
The following is a guest article by Dave DeCaprio, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at ClosedLoop No matter where you look – from TikTok filters to the latest ChatGPT release – artificial intelligence (AI) has a profound and growing impact on our daily lives. The market for AI is expected to show strong growth in the coming decade; its current value of nearly $100 billion USD is expected to increase twentyfold by 2030, reaching nearly $2 trillion.
HIT Consultant
JULY 28, 2023
What You Should Know: UltraSight , a digital health pioneer transforming cardiac imaging through the power of artificial intelligence, announced that it has been granted FDA clearance for its AI-powered ultrasound guidance technology. The UltraSight real-time AI guidance software can assist medical professionals without sonography experience in acquiring cardiac ultrasound images at the point of care in multiple settings, allowing for more widespread detection of heart disease and providing pati
HIPAA Journal
JULY 28, 2023
The HHS’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is being urged not to implement the proposed standards for prior authorization attachments, as detailed in its December 2022 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPR). In a letter to CMS Administrator, Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, the American Hospital Association (AHA), American Medical Association (AMA), and Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) applauded the CMS for its focus on reforming prior authorization to ensure timely access to care f
Digital Health News
JULY 28, 2023
Breaking out of professional silos and organizational boundaries will be crucial to the success of digital transformation, the new NHS CCIO and CNIO said.
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HIPAA Journal
JULY 28, 2023
The Health 3rd Party Trust Initiative (Health3PT) has published the findings of a recent survey of HIPAA-covered entities and their business associates that explored the current state of third-party cyber risk management in healthcare and identified some of the key challenges faced by HIPAA-regulated entities. Supply chain vendors and service providers introduce risks that need to be identified, managed, and reduced to a low and acceptable level; however, the methods used to manage third-party r
Digital Health News
JULY 28, 2023
Public approval of the NHS “dropped off a cliff” due to pressures leading to lengthy waiting times, The King’s Fund CEO said at Summer Schools 2023.
Healthcare IT Today
JULY 28, 2023
Happy Friday everyone! We hope you had an amazing week and are in for an even better weekend. It’s been a bit of a crazy week for me dealing with some health issues and things, but things are on the up and up. Given the craziness of the week, I knew we had to get in another edition of Fun Friday where we share something funny to start your weekend off right.
Digital Health News
JULY 28, 2023
This Digital Health News industry roundup includes CergenX raising €1.2m in funding for its AI newborn brain screener and a partnership for Nourish.
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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.
Mobi Health News
JULY 28, 2023
Edward Shi and Paras Unadkat, product managers at Google, tell MobiHealthNews what challenges they faced when developing the technology and what future versions of the Watch may include.
Digital Health News
JULY 28, 2023
Digital support of ICBs needs to focus on the goals of the overall system rather than its constituent parts, Digital Health Summer School was told Friday.
Center for Health Insurance Reform
JULY 28, 2023
This month, the Biden administration issued a Request for Information (RFI) on “the scope, prevalence, terms, and impacts” of medical credit cards and other high-cost medical financing products. In a post for Health Affair's Forefront, CHIR's Maanasa Kona explains the RFI and outlines at some of the risks these products pose for patients.
Health IT Security
JULY 28, 2023
Insecure direct object reference (IDOR) vulnerabilities in web applications pose a threat to organizations around the world, CISA warned.
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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.
Modern Healthcare
JULY 28, 2023
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services gave hospice providers a reimbursement bump for next year, along with a warning about fraud and waste.
Mobi Health News
JULY 28, 2023
The company will use the investment to fuel the expansion of its FDA-cleared, AI-enabled surgical navigation platform, Paradigm.
Becker's Health IT
JULY 28, 2023
An employee email account from Sacramento, Calif.-based UC Davis Health was accessed by an unauthorized party, potentially breaching some patients' protected health information.
Compliancy Group
JULY 28, 2023
In the digital age, protecting patient privacy and ensuring the security of sensitive healthcare information is of utmost importance. Healthcare providers increasingly turn to HIPAA compliant document management software to streamline their operations while adhering to strict regulatory guidelines. This article explores the benefits and features of such systems, highlighting how they help maintain HIPAA compliance.
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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.
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