Tue.May 23, 2023

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Leveraging Mobile Technology in Clinical Trials

HealthIT Answers

By Scott Gray - Digital transformation within the healthcare industry has expanded rapidly throughout the past decade. The adoption of novel technologies has allowed providers to improve their internal processes, deliver more efficient care, and better meet the needs of patients in crisis. The post Leveraging Mobile Technology in Clinical Trials appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Why aren’t we better at sharing transfer of care information?

Digital Health News

Tech suppliers and NHS providers need to work together to improve the sharing of information at discharge. They should begin by embracing the PRSB’s e-Discharge standard, writes Dr Nilesh Bharakhada.

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Pharma-backed report targets federal clinics for benefiting financially from 340B drug discounts

Healthcare Dive

Those grantees on average are reimbursed almost four times more for 340B prescription drugs than what they pay, and make billions in 340B drug margin, according to the report, which was funded by Gilead Sciences.

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A deep dive into PrimaryOne Health's virtual care journey

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

PrimaryOne Health is a federally qualified health center located in Central Ohio and is one of the largest FQHCs in the state. PrimaryOne Health provides comprehensive primary and preventive healthcare services in accordance with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Bureau of Primary Health Care Federally Qualified Health Center Program requirements for uninsured, underinsured and other medically underserved central Ohio residents.

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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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Intermountain posts $549M profit after revenue grew in Q1

Healthcare Dive

The health system’s expenses, though, climbed 44% to $3.7 billion, with a large portion coming from employee compensation and benefits.

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Just Get Connected Already

Healthcare IT Today

When my optometrist notices an odd lesion on one of my eyes, we agreed we should let my PCP know. The optometrist printed his report that I would bring to my next PCP exam, because otherwise my optometrist had no reliable way to transfer the data. This is the burden still faced by three quarters of U.S. clinicians, as estimated by Paul L Wilder, Executive Director of the CommonWell Health Alliance.

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Apria Healthcare Breach Affects Up to 1.8 Million Individuals

HIPAA Journal

Apria Healthcare LLC, a Minneapolis, MN-based provider of home medical equipment for sleep apnea, has recently sent notifications to individuals about a historic data breach. Apria was alerted about unauthorized access to some of its systems on September 1, 2021. According to the breach notification letters, steps were immediately taken to mitigate the incident, and Apria worked with a third-party forensics team and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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Minnesota lawmakers cut nurse staffing ratios from union-backed bill due to Mayo Clinic, industry pushback

Fierce Healthcare

Minnesota lawmakers cut nurse staffing ratios from union-backed bill due to Mayo Clinic, industry pushback dmuoio Tue, 05/23/2023 - 15:14

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Health IT Hires and Appointments

HealthIT Answers

Latest announcements made from companies and organizations on hiring include Avalon Healthcare Solutions, Rhapsody, Diverge Health, HCTec, CereCore, Qualifacts, Edifecs, athenahealth, XSOLIS, Manifest MedEx, ModMed, Medicus IT, Particle Health, Virsys12, Tempus, CareCloud, Angle Health, & MedMinder Systems. The post Health IT Hires and Appointments appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Denials Management Named Most Time-Consuming Task in RCM

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: A new HFMA survey commissioned by AKASA highlights the revenue cycle tasks requiring the most subject matter expertise, according to responses from over 550 CFOs and revenue cycle leaders at hospitals and health systems across the U.S. Denials management not only requires the most subject matter expertise, but it’s also the most time-consuming task within revenue cycle management (RCM) — followed by prior authorization and insurance follow-up.

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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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The Oft Forgotten Benefits of Multi-Cloud in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

I remember the days when cloud was almost a dirty word in healthcare. Most healthcare CIOs probably saw the writing on the wall that cloud was the future, but there was a lot of fear going to the cloud. Now every healthcare organization is not just in the cloud but is multi-cloud. What’s interesting about healthcare’s move to the cloud is that we often forget the benefits of multi-cloud when it comes to things like patient outcomes and clinician experience.

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Why Adopting Value-Based Care Models for Autism Care Is Imperative

HIT Consultant

Daniel Etra, CEO and Co-founder, RethinkFirst We all know the stark reality: rates of mental illness, substance use , and developmental disorders continue to rise in the U.S. and estimates show that 1 in 44 children are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Add to that the ongoing efforts to reduce stigma and it’s no surprise that the increased demand is overwhelming existing resources.

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Walgreens asks federal court to toss 'staggering' $642M arbitration award to Humana

Fierce Healthcare

Walgreens asks federal court to toss 'staggering' $642M arbitration award to Humana hlandi Tue, 05/23/2023 - 16:17

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CMS rule would mandate greater transparency on drug prices

Modern Healthcare

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposes requiring pharmacy benefit managers to disclose drug prices under Medicaid.

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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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CMS proposed rule aims to shed light on prescription drug costs for Medicaid

Fierce Healthcare

CMS proposed rule aims to shed light on prescription drug costs for Medicaid hlandi Tue, 05/23/2023 - 23:18

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Updated Pennsylvania Breach of Personal Information Notification Act Now in Effect

HIPAA Journal

the 2022 update to the Pennsylvania Breach of Personal Information Notification Act (BPINA) is now in effect. The update broadened the definition of personal information to include medical information, health insurance information, and usernames in combination with a password or security question/answer that allows an account to be accessed. The update to BPINA was signed into law on November 3, 2022, and took effect on May 2, 2023.

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Does Your Team Have These Modern Skills to Protect Healthcare Data?

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Ameesh Divatia, Co-Founder and CEO at Baffle Healthcare organizations were early adopters for protecting data in the modern environment — from stringent compliance regulations to the need to share health records between offices securely. However, protecting patient data has grown more complex in recent years with the influx of new regulations, cloud computing and myriad other factors.

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Massachusetts Blues’ contract with Tufts Medicine rewards providers for meeting equity benchmarks

Fierce Healthcare

Massachusetts Blues’ contract with Tufts Medicine rewards providers for meeting equity benchmarks fdiamond Tue, 05/23/2023 - 16:27

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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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Digital Health Unplugged: Cyber security in healthcare

Digital Health News

This episode of Digital Health Unplugged, brought to you in partnership with Specops, focuses on all things cyber security in the NHS and healthcare sector.

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'Podnosis': The food is medicine movement and the top-paid healthcare and payer execs

Fierce Healthcare

'Podnosis': The food is medicine movement and the top-paid healthcare and payer execs tcarey Tue, 05/23/2023 - 13:26

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NHS England online service aims to eradicate hepatitis C

Digital Health News

A new digital service from NHS England and Preventx aims to improve diagnostics for hepatitis C to help reach the goal of eradicating the virus by 2030.

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Celebrity-backed health optimization platform Lifeforce scores $12M

Mobi Health News

The company, cofounded by Tony Robbins and backed by Serena Williams, will use the funds to speed up growth and expand its offerings.

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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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Inhealthcare partners with NHS Scotland to expand remote monitoring

Digital Health News

NHS Scotland's remote monitoring programme is being expanded thanks to a digital platform from Inhealthcare, with blood pressure one of the newest pathways.

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Long-Term Care Update: Indiana Sets Requirements for Temporary Health Care Staffing Agencies

Hall Render

During the COVID pandemic, more and more long-term care providers turned to staffing agencies to fill shifts and staffing shortfalls. Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb recently signed Indiana House Enrolled Act No. 1461 (the “Staffing Agency Law”) into law. The Staffing Agency Law contains several changes to laws that impact Indiana long-term care providers and requires the Indiana Department of Health (“IDOH”) to establish and administer the registration of a temporary health care service agency.

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Health equity efforts get a boost from digital therapeutics

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Cascade Health Announces Venture Funding Round to Build Intelligent Platform for Healthcare Transparency

Healthcare IT Today

Company’s Advanced Generative AI-Powered Cloud Platform Creates Clarity Around Healthcare Pricing, Coverage for Consumers, Employers, Government Agencies, Hospitals, Insurance Companies, and Other Businesses in the Healthcare Industry Cascade Health , an intelligent platform for healthcare transparency, announced it has raised $1.7 million in venture funding led by AlleyCorp with participation from other strategic angel investors.

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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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CMS Accepting Applications for Participation in Revamped Medicare Shared Savings Program

Hall Render

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) is now accepting applications from ACOs to participate in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (“MSSP” or “Program”) for the agreement period beginning January 1, 2024. The application process is split into two phases. Phase 1 of the application submission process opened May 18, 2023, and closes June 15, 2023.

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Cleveland Clinic notches 0.9% operating margin, $336M gain in Q1 2023

Fierce Healthcare

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Insurtech company Bright Health finalizes reverse stock split

Mobi Health News

The company is fighting to stay afloat amid growing losses and instability.

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Industry Voices—Want young people to trust healthcare? Invest in primary care now

Fierce Healthcare

Industry Voices—Want young people to trust healthcare?

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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.