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Gender pay gap for registered nurses widened during pandemic

Healthcare Dive

The findings come as hospitals face major hurdles recruiting and retaining enough staff two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, and as healthcare workers and unions push for higher wages.

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CIO Spotlight: Interview with Josh Wilda, University of Michigan Health-West

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Medicare premiums will remain unchanged after Aduhelm price cut spurs review

Healthcare Dive

The HHS Secretary had hoped premiums could be cut for seniors sooner rather than later but there are "legal and operational hurdles" to changing premiums midyear, according to a statement released Friday.

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Her First Colonoscopy Cost Her $0. Her Second Cost $2,185. Why?

Kaiser Health News

Elizabeth Melville and her husband are gradually hiking all 48 mountain peaks that top 4,000 feet in New Hampshire. “I want to do everything I can to stay healthy so that I can be skiing and hiking into my 80s — hopefully even 90s!” said the 59-year-old part-time ski instructor who lives in the vacation town of Sunapee. So when her primary care doctor suggested she be screened for colorectal cancer in September, Melville dutifully prepped for her colonoscopy and went to New London Ho

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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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5 ways to future-proof your telehealth program

Healthcare Dive

Leaders have an opportunity to reimagine their telehealth infrastructure with these five best practices.

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CISA Adds 75 Vulnerabilities to the Known Exploited Vulnerability Catalog

HIPAA Journal

Last week, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a further 75 vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerability Catalog. The Known Exploited Vulnerability Catalog is a list of vulnerabilities in software and operating systems that are known to be exploited in real-world attacks. The list now includes 737 vulnerabilities.

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Akili + Roblox Form First of Its Kind Digital Treatment Partnership

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Akili’s EndeavorRx , the first and only FDA-cleared video game ADHD treatment for kids, is uniting with Roblox’s global virtual universes forming a first-of-its-kind partnership. . – Initially, the partnership will establish an exclusive Roblox reward exchange for patients that complete their medically prescribed EndeavorRx treatment.

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Change shares peek at 2023 as UnitedHealth merger trial looms

Healthcare Dive

The data analytics company highlighted its momentum heading into the next fiscal year, outlining what 2023 could look like for the company as a standalone business if its controversial $13 billion merger with UnitedHealth falls through.

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Is It Finally Time for Hospital-at-Home or is Time Up?

HIT Consultant

Karen Conway, VP of Healthcare Value, Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX). All the signs point to a bright and expansive future for hospital-at-home programs, which have been growing steadily since the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) created the Acute Hospital at Home waiver program in November 2020. As of March, nearly 100 health systems and more than 200 hospitals in 34 states had been approved for the program.

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Digital Health in the Metaverse: Three Legal Considerations

Healthcare Law Blog

The metaverse has been described as the “next frontier” and the “new era” of healthcare. Although still a loosely defined and relatively broad term, the “metaverse” generally refers to a shared virtual environment accessed by individuals via the Internet. Individuals generally enter the metaverse through the following four technologies: virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality and extended reality. .

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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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Survey: Patient Trust Not a Barrier to AI Medical Imaging Adoption

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: According to data from Intelerad , patient trust is not a barrier to AI adoption by medical imaging professionals in the U.S. 64% of respondents either trust or are neutral about a diagnosis solely from AI. The Intelerad study of over 1,000 healthcare consumers across the U.S. uncovers the impact of healthcare’s digital transformation on the healthcare consumer in a post-pandemic world.

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Rural health startup Homeward partners with Rite Aid for senior care

Mobi Health News

Rite Aid pharmacists will be able to send patients to Homeward for wellness visits, screenings and risk assessments.

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Multi-stakeholder Data-led Collaboration Helps Drive Health Equity Progress

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Lisa Bari, MBA, MPH, Chief Executive Officer at Civitas Networks for Health. Health equity was a central theme at this year’s ViVE and HIMSS conferences, and it is gaining interest and attention as many in the health IT community ask ourselves what we can do to improve the […].

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Providers urge FTC to probe PBM practices

Modern Healthcare

Providers, patients and senators want the FTC to investigate pharmacy benefit managers. Insurers and PBMs say drug companies are the problem.

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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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Price Transparency is Key to Overall Patient Experience

Healthcare IT Today

The financial and administrative experience is no longer considered separate from the clinical experience by patients. A poor experience after their procedure or visit can have just as much negative impact as a bad visit. Key to a positive experience is price transparency, which is not as challenging to achieve as we first believed – […].

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Digital nutrition startup Culina Health raises $4.75M

Mobi Health News

Culina offers virtual appointments with dieticians who can help users build nutrition plans.

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Email Accounts Compromised at BJC HealthCare & Cooper University Health Care

HIPAA Journal

BJC HealthCare, a non-profit healthcare organization based in St. Louis, MO, has started notifying certain patients that some of their protected health information was stored in email accounts that were accessed by an unauthorized individual. The investigation confirmed that a small number of email accounts of physicians and general practitioners had been accessed between March 4 and March 28, 2022.

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The Final 2023 Notice of Benefit & Payment Parameters: Implications for States

Center for Health Insurance Reform

The Biden administration is advancing new standards and policies for the Affordable Care Act health insurance marketplaces, including tougher network adequacy oversight, standardized benefit designs, and new requirements for insurance brokers. In her latest Expert Perspective for the State Health & Value Strategies project, CHIR's Sabrina Corlette reviews provisions that have particular import for state marketplaces and insurance regulators.

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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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Indian derma startup Clinikally developing AI-driven skin, hair treatment plan

Mobi Health News

It is coming up with its own database of skin and hair profiles and prescriptions.

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CynergisTek Inc. Enters Into A Definitive Agreement To Be Acquired By Clearwater In A $17.7 Million Transaction

Healthcare IT Today

CynergisTek’s Stockholders to Receive $1.25 Per Share in Cash CynergisTek, Inc. (NYSE American: CTEK), a leading cybersecurity, privacy, compliance, and IT audit firm helping organizations in highly regulated industries navigate emerging security and privacy issues, announces it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Clearwater Compliance LLC (collectively with its affiliates, “Clearwater”), […].

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HHS establishes environmental justice office

Modern Healthcare

The office will address environmental health issues facing underserved communities.

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You Play a Vital Role in Protecting the Integrity of the U.S. Healthcare System

AIHC

Written by: Joanne Byron , BS, LPN, CCA, CHA, CHCO, CHBS, CHCM, CIFHA, CMDP, COCAS, CORCM, OHCC, ICDCT-CM/PCS The U.S. health care system relies heavily on third-party payers to pay the majority of medical bills on behalf of patients. Health care insurance fraud is a pressing problem, causing substantial and increasing costs in medical insurance programs.

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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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HRSA: The Robin Hood of the HHS

MedTrainer

The Health Resources and Services Administration is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary federal agency for improving access to health care services for people who are uninsured, isolated, or medically vulnerable. Essentially, they’re like the Robin Hood of the HHS. Our lawyers insist I tell you HRSA is not in fact stealing money from anyone.

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St. Peter’s Health to Deploy Innovaccer Health Cloud for Optimized Care Management

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: St. Peter’s Health , a regional nonprofit healthcare system in Helena, Montana, is moving to the Innovaccer? Health Cloud’s Data Activation Platform to support its mission of providing exceptional and compassionate care that treats the whole person and improves the health, wellness, and quality of life for the communities it serves.

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Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: EW Healthcare Partners to Acquire TherapeuticsMD

McGuire Wood

An affiliate of EW Healthcare Partners will acquire TherapeuticsMD, according to a news release. TherapeuticsMD , based in Boca Raton, Fla., and traded on the NASDAQ under TXMD, develops and commercializes products exclusively for women. Founded in 1907, the company’s products have a therapeutic focus in family planning, reproductive health and menopause management.

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Lightbeam Health Acquires Jvion AI and SDOH Solutions – M&A

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Lightbeam Health Solutions, Inc. , a provider of population health management solutions and services has entered into an asset purchase agreement to acquire the operating assets related to Jvion, Inc., including Jvion’s market-leading AI-enabled prescriptive analytics and social determinants of health (SDoH) solutions. -The strategic partnership combines Lightbeam’s health analytics and outcomes for payers and providers with the Jvion’s predictive technology.

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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.

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symplr Roundtable Explores Health Plan Challenges With No Surprises Act | symplr

Symplr

The No Surprises Act (NSA), which aims to avoid holding patients responsible for the cost of unanticipated out-of-network medical bills, took effect January 1, 2022. Representatives from various health plans shared their challenges in meeting the NSA requirements during a recent symplr payer roundtable.?. The takeaway from the discussion: For payers, NSA compliance will require collaboration with provider organizations, novel workflows, and the right provider data management technology.

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Billing Medicare for ESRD Services

Medisys Compliance

End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) is a medical condition in which a person’s kidneys cease functioning on a permanent basis leading to the need for a regular course of long-term dialysis or a kidney transplant to maintain life. Beneficiaries may become entitled to Medicare based on ESRD. Benefits on the basis of ESRD are for all covered services, not only those related to the kidney failure condition.

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Weekly Health Care Real Estate Briefing: North Carolina Legislators Propose Changes to State CON Program | Affordable Senior Housing Becomes Major Issue in U.S.

Hall Render

Our Health Care Real Estate Briefing is your comprehensive summary of weekly health care real estate highlights happening across the nation. Last week, North Carolina legislators proposed a bill that would alter the state’s Certificate of Need (“CON”) program. If passed, the bill would make it easier for certain providers to open new health care facilities.

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Social Determinants of Health Risks Challenge the Promise of Hospital-to-Home

Health Populi

In the wake of the pandemic and growing consumer preferences, the hospital-to-home movement is gaining traction among health systems. Amidst bullish forecasts for the promise of hospital-to-home discharges, the ability for many patients to make this migration would be a difficult bridge to cross. On the promising front, recent studies reviewed through a meta-analysis published in JAMA found that hospital-to-home programs can be clinically and cost-effective for inpatients discharged from hospita

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Generative AI for Contracts Is Here: New Tools to Accelerate Drafting and Editing

The emergence of generative AI is reshaping the landscape of contract management, enabling businesses to generate and negotiate legal agreements with greater ease and speed. In this on-demand webinar, Hal Marcus, VP of Product Marketing at Evisort discusses how Evisort's generative AI transforms contract creation and negotiation, empowering legal teams to streamline processes while reducing risk.