Bill of Health

MARCH 10, 2023

By Heather Payne and Jennifer D. Oliva Gas appliances’ health impacts pose a grave danger to tenant health and safety. In a forthcoming article , we argue that the mere presence of natural gas appliances in the home renders a dwelling uninhabitable due to their potential health harms. We further contend that tenants should invoke the implied warranty of habitability to eliminate the continued exposure to natural gas appliance-generated indoor air pollutants.

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 10, 2023

The Washington-based nonprofit system also posted a $1.7 billion operating loss in the same period.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 10, 2023

The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center has issued a security advisory warning about data exfiltration in healthcare cyberattacks, highlighting the extent of the practice and sharing several recommended mitigations. Data exfiltration typically occurs once a threat actor has gained access to a network, elevated privileges, and moved laterally.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 10, 2023

What You Should Know: – Medidata announced that Allucent , a contract research organization (CRO) bringing innovation to biopharma companies, is expanding the global use of Medidata’s Clinical Cloud to advance its end-to-end clinical trial operations offering. – The agreement expands Allucent’s existing utilization of Medidata technologies.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 10, 2023

Codman Square Health Center in Boston, MA, has confirmed that it was the victim of a ransomware attack in November 2022 in which hackers gained access to the protected health information of 10,161 current and former patients. The incident was detected on November 28, 2022, and third-party digital forensics experts were engaged to investigate the security breach and determine the nature and scope of the attack.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 10, 2023

What You Should Know: – ReKlame Health , a provider of culturally competent, affordable and empathetic behavioral healthcare for BIPOC communities, announced that it has joined Cigna as an in-network mental healthcare provider in New York, New Jersey, and Florida. – ReKlame is now in-network with all of the nation’s leading insurance plans, including Optum, United Healthcare, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, Oxford and Oscar.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 10, 2023

Ajayi discusses the challenges Medicaid and other underserved patients face when accessing the healthcare system – and how the startup approaches expansion into new markets.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 10, 2023

In mid-February, Community Health Systems filed a report with the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) confirming it had been affected by a security incident involving its secure file transfer software, Fortra’s GoAnywhere MFT. The Clop ransomware gang claimed responsibility for the attack and claimed to have exfiltrated data from around 130 users of the software.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 10, 2023

This week I’ve been blessed to be able to attend the Qualtrics X4 conference focused on experience management. This user conference brings together Chief Experience Officers from multiple industries with healthcare playing a major part. (Side Note: Colin is covering the event from a marketing and patient experience perspective on HITMC as well) The event is particularly interesting because their product literally forces us to listen to patients and employees.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 10, 2023

A lawsuit has been filed against Maternal & Family Health Services (MFHS) in Pennsylvania which alleges the healthcare provider failed to protect patient data and did not send timely breach notifications. In January 2023, MFHS, one of the largest healthcare providers in the state, notified approximately 461,000 current and former patients about a security breach.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 10, 2023

Feds shut down tech investor Silicon Valley Bank, major investor in health tech, biotech companies fdiamond Fri, 03/10/2023 - 14:49

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NEJM

MARCH 10, 2023

Medicare could soon be compelled to cover antiobesity medications, which intensifies the need to address questions of effectiveness and cost among its beneficiaries.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 10, 2023

Medicaid health plans try to protect members—and profits—during unwinding pminemyer Fri, 03/10/2023 - 13:44

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 10, 2023

The following is a guest article by Suzanne Arroyo, Senior Content Strategist, and Christopher Ryan, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at Avionté. With large-scale nursing strikes happening across the nation, o ne thing is for certain: nurses feel overworked. The global pandemic has only amplified a growing problem – there aren’t enough RNs to care for a continuous rise in patients.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 10, 2023

These are the major challenges hospital executives expect to face this year fdiamond Fri, 03/10/2023 - 15:47

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Digital Health News

MARCH 10, 2023

Piyush Mahapatra has always wanted to fix things. That's why he became a surgeon - and it's also why he is a fierce advocate of clinically-led digital transformation, writes Jennifer Trueland.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 10, 2023

The telehealth company, Cerebral Inc., has confirmed that pixels and other tracking technology on its website resulted in the impermissible disclosure of the personal and protected health information of 3,179,835 patients. Cerebral is a fully remote telehealth provider that provides access to mental health services, including online therapy, mental health assessments, and visits with clinicians to treat mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, and insomnia.

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Digital Health News

MARCH 10, 2023

The latest Digital Health news industry round-up includes an award for Mendelian to develop its AI solutions and a pilot for a prehabilitation programme.

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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.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 10, 2023

New female-led, encrypted period tracker app Embody to launch this summer agliadkovskaya Fri, 03/10/2023 - 14:34

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 10, 2023

Born out of Mass General Brigham, and led by healthtech veterans, CodaMetrix empowers health systems to use Artificial Intelligence to prevent revenue setbacks driven by manual coding inefficiencies Overhauling medical coding is now crucial for health systems grappling with physician burnout, billing backlogs and claim denials, skilled labor shortages, and a graying medical coding workforce AI-powered, multi-specialty, autonomous medical coding eliminates human intervention, reduces coding costs

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Digital Health News

MARCH 10, 2023

A collaboration between Neuromersiv and Askham Village will see the former's virtual reality products trialled with the latter's stroke patients.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 10, 2023

Industry Voices—Pharmacists play key role in advancing health equity, pharmacoequity pminemyer Fri, 03/10/2023 - 14:21

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 10, 2023

The platform was built at Redesign Health with March of Dimes' Innovation Fund contributing to its seed round.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 10, 2023

Senators urge CMS to close 'loopholes' in payer price transparency rule pminemyer Fri, 03/10/2023 - 16:12

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 10, 2023

What You Should Know: – Clinical telemedicine company Beam Healthcare has landed a significant investment from Decathlon Capital Partners. Details of the revenue-based funding investment were not disclosed. – Beam Healthcare plans to utilize the funding toward expanding into new geographic markets and continuing its investment into the development of enhanced patient care programs.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 10, 2023

Viz.ai also announced an agreement with Bristol Myers Squibb to identify patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2023

As our homes and health care services continue to converge, we can see signposts of direct-to-consumer strategies from the pillbox (where DTC is a mature thing) to clinical care in peoples’ hands (and on their preferred technology platforms). Some examples this week make this point, which taken together demonstrate the portfolio of ways more people – as health consumers and caregivers – can engage in their health, well-being, and clinical care.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

MARCH 10, 2023

Along with “Health Policy Valentines,” February brought a host of new health policy research. This month, we read about trends in medical and pharmacy spending, the relationship between health systems’ financial performance and amounts paid by commercial plans, and mental health provider network adequacy. Continue reading → The post February Research Roundup: What We’re Reading appeared first on Center on Health Insurance Reforms.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 10, 2023

Political headwinds grow against CMMI accelerated approval drug price model rking Fri, 03/10/2023 - 16:16

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Digital Health News

MARCH 10, 2023

Learn more about the challenges and huge opportunities presented by Smart Medical Devices on a dedicated stage at Digital Health Rewired 2023.

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