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HCA lowers full-year guidance, citing ongoing labor challenges

Healthcare Dive

Heightened spending on salaries and benefits is primarily related to the ongoing use of contract labor, though the system is also adjusting wages to stay competitive, CEO Sam Hazen said on a Friday call with investors.

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The Need to Go Back to Basics in Patient Safety

Bill of Health

By John Tingle and Amanda Cattini. In the hustle and bustle of our daily professional lives, it is sometimes all too easy to forget about the basics. In terms of health care practice and patient safety, these underpinning basic, foundational concepts include the need for proper patient communication strategies. The consequences of failures in patient communication can be devastating.

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Humana to divest majority stake in Kindred hospice arm to PE firm for $2.8B

Healthcare Dive

The sale doesn't come as a surprise, as the payer expressed its intent to sell a majority stake in Kindred's hospice and community care arms when it finished snapping up the homecare company last year.

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Can tech help patients only have to tell their story once?

Healthcare It News

78% of consumers say they want a choice of how they interact with providers, according to a survey by IT vendor Talkdesk. In part, that means they don't always want to have to call and sit on hold to get a healthcare issue resolved. If a patient can only get so far in a healthcare interaction before hitting a wall and having to make that dreaded call, then the healthcare organization has failed them, contends Patty Hayward, vice president of industry strategy for healthcare and life sciences

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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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2021 Saw Record Numbers of DDoS Attacks on the Healthcare Industry

HIPAA Journal

A new report from Comcast Business indicates 2021 was another record-breaking year for Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. 9.84 million DDoS attacks were reported in 2021, which is a 14% increase from 2019, although slightly lower than the previous year when 10.1 million attacks were reported. The slight decline in attacks was due to several factors. 2020 was a particularly bad year as it was a full lockdown year where employees were working remotely and students were learning from hom

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Study: VR comparable to guided imagery for reducing procedural pain, anxiety in kids and young adults

Mobi Health News

However, researchers found that participants' tendencies toward anxiety or pain catastrophizing affected which intervention worked better.

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Mayo Clinic Partners with VUNO to Develop AI-Driven Precision Oncology Solutions

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Mayo Clinic has signed a research agreement with VUNO , a global medical artificial intelligence (AI) company to develop advanced AI-driven precision oncology solutions to deliver precision oncology care. – Through this research agreement, VUNO will establish a collaboration with Mayo Clinic to develop innovative AI and machine learning solutions for more precise diagnosis, prognosis and treatment stratification in cancer. – This collaborative agreement

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Major Gaps Still Exist Between Medical Billing Practices and Patient Preferences

Healthcare IT Today

For many years, patients have made it clear that they want their medical bills to be more predictable and more convenient. To be sure, providers have made some progress in that direction, but less than you might think. In fact, a new survey from InstaMed suggests that there is still a significant disconnect between what […].

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Northwell Health Selects Teladoc Health to Improve Virtual Care Across Enterprise

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Northwell Health , New York’s largest healthcare provider has signed a partnership agreement with virtual care provider Teladoc Health to deliver connected virtual care and expand care delivery to patients both inside and outside the four walls of the health system. The new enterprise strategy will leverage Teladoc Health’s collaboration with Microsoft, improving clinical teamwork and communication among Northwell clinicians. – Leveraging Teladoc Health’s virt

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Netsmart Expands the CareFabric Platform to Support Physical Therapy, Rehabilitation and Wellness Providers

Healthcare IT Today

Netsmart announces the addition of TheraOffice®, an industry-leading practice management platform for physical therapy and rehabilitation practices to the Netsmart portfolio. This addition expands the Netsmart CareFabric® platform to deliver workflows for therapy providers to better connect to all venues of healthcare. “Therapies are delivered in coordination with the continuum of provider markets Netsmart has historically supported,” said […].

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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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AI algorithm estimates gestational age of fetus on par with trained sonographer

Mobi Health News

New research published in NEJM examined the use of an AI algorithm in Zambia and North Carolina.

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DOJ Expands Lawsuit Alleging Disability Discrimination in Access to Surgical Care 

Healthcare Compliance Blog

The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed an amended complaint in the US District Court for Arizona to add an eyecare management company as a co-defendant in its lawsuit against an eyecare center. The amended complaint alleges that the two eye companies discriminate against patients who, because of their disabilities, need assistance transferring from their wheelchairs for eye surgery.

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HealthifyMe introduces CGM, smart diagnostics-connected fitness plan

Mobi Health News

It provides personalised nutrition and fitness strategies and smart nudges.

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Tech Talk, Leadership, and Medioctrates – Fun Friday

Healthcare IT Today

Happy Friday everyone! I hope you’ve had a great week and are preparing for an even better weekend. I’ve been traveling so much lately that I can’t wait to be home for a weekend with my kids. Enough about me, let’s get to another edition of Fun Friday where we share something funny we found […].

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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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Amwell expands into MSK, dermatology care and more digital health briefs

Mobi Health News

Also: Mount Sinai Innovation Partners launches a BIPOC-focused fund, and Carbon Health acquires more clinics in Southern California.

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Compliance Carl Meets the Inspector General and Makes it Weird

Healthicity

It’s not every day that you get to meet your hero.

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What the New CMS Staff Turnover Data Means for Nursing Homes

HIT Consultant

Ben Tengelson, VP of Data Science at IntelyCare. To make it easier for families and caregivers to evaluate the quality of nursing homes, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regularly publishes data on its “ Care Compare ” website. Anyone can go to the site and search for a facility to find COVID updates, quarterly quality scores, and information on inspections, penalties, ownership, and more.

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Call for submissions: HANYS' 2022 Community Health Improvement Award

Hanys

2021 CHIA honoree Northwell Health inspired us with their dedication to delivering large-scale COVID-19 testing and vaccines in vulnerable communities. What community health programs are you proud of? Nominate your facility for our 2022 CHIA by June 6.

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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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Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: CD&R Acquires Kindred at Home Divisions for $2.8 Billion

McGuire Wood

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) will acquire the hospice and personal care divisions of Humana’s Kindred at Home (KAH) subsidiary for about $2.8 billion, according to a news release. The transacted divisions include patient-centered services for hospice, palliative, community and personal care. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter.

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Upcoming events

Hanys

HANYS' activities during AHA's Annual Membership Meeting. April 25 and 26. HANYS government relations update call. April 29. Understanding HIPAA's marketing restrictions. May 3. Medicare post-acute care and inpatient psychiatric facility proposed rules. May 3. Successfully implementing communication resolution programs. May 5. Standing membership call.

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Health Provider News – April 22, 2022

Hall Render

NATIONAL. 21 top management risks in healthcare for 2022. $1B joint venture sets sights on ASCs, medical office buildings. 3 hacker gangs targeting hospitals. CMS revises surprise-billing arbitration process. GAO investigating private equity ownership of nursing homes. Healthcare Orgs Struggle With Software Supply Chain Risk Management Policies. Healthcare workers warn of the harms of consolidation.

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Spotlight on Samaritan Medical Center

Hanys

Their outpatient management program for mild to at-risk COVID-19 patients helped them facilitate safe discharges and free up acute care beds for those in need. Learn more in our Member Spotlight.

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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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Rethinking Funding for Scientific Innovation

Bill of Health

By Matthew Bauer. Academic science laboratories typically survive by applying for private- and government-funded grants. This model of funding scientific innovation is being flipped on its head with the creation of the Arc Institute in Palo Alto. Research labs no longer need to apply for highly competitive processes for grants. Instead, the Arc Institute aims to put science first, by funding its scientific investigators’ salaries and research costs for 8 years.

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Summit explores health equity in New York

Hanys

Featuring speakers from HANYS and several member organizations, the 2022 Population Health Innovation Summit will highlight programs and partnerships across New York that promote and drive equity in population health and explore how they address care disparities. Learn more about the June 9 summit, including in-person and virtual attendance options.

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Northwell to expand virtual care offerings through Teladoc partnership

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Northwell Health, New York's largest healthcare provider, announced Friday that it had partnered with Teladoc Health to expand patient care delivery within and beyond its brick-and-mortar facilities. According to the organizations, the strategy will also use Teladoc's relationship with Microsoft to boost clinical teamwork and communication. "Teladoc Health is poised to help Northwell Health evolve its virtual care strategy through continued innovation that naturally extends its infr

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2022 Coding Updates for Principal Care Management (PCM)

Medisys Compliance

Basics of Principal Care Management (PCM). In the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule final rule issued in November 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) added four new CPT codes (99424, 99425, 99426, and 99427) in the category of Principal Care Management (PCM) to replace the two previous PCM codes (HCPCS codes G2064 and G2065). These new PCM codes are intended to reimburse physicians for the additional work they do caring for high risk, complex patients.

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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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Roundup: Docty setting up 100 telehealth kiosks in India and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Docty targets to set up 100 telehealth kiosks in three Indian states. Telehealth firm Docty has disclosed its plan to open 100 digital health kiosks across the states of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and Maharashtra over the next six months. The company aims to improve healthcare access in rural and impoverished urban communities through its Gali Gali Mein Digital Clinic initiative, which currently operates in over 20 locations.

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US Rep. Gaetz’s Diagnosis of What’s Driving Insulin Costs Misses the Root Cause

Kaiser Health News

“The price of insulin increases as waistlines increase.” Rep. Matt Gaetz on Twitter, March 31, 2022. At the end of March, after the House passed a bill that would cap the cost of insulin at $35 per month for insured consumers, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) tweeted about why he voted against the legislation. “Insulin price increases have more to do with increased consumer demand than the bad behavior of Big Pharma, which I am quick to condemn,” Gaetz wrote.

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How Can A Plaintiff Prove Warnings Causation? The Ninth Circuit Wants To Know

Drug & Device Law

The Ninth Circuit has certified a question to the California Supreme Court on the learned intermediary doctrine that immediately caught our attention: In a failure-to-warn claim against a prescription medical product manufacturer, is the plaintiff required to show that a stronger warning would have altered the physician’s decision to prescribe the product?