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Amazon Care to shut down by year’s end as corporate customers don’t see value

Healthcare Dive

The demise of Amazon Care — a month after Amazon announced plans to acquire One Medical for $3.9 billion — signals that the tech giant has again succumbed to inherent challenges facing outsiders in the healthcare space.

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A new era of engagement: the future of virtual selling to healthcare providers

Healthcare It News

The customer experience and expectations have changed for healthcare providers (HCPs). Live visits have always been central to building relationships with HCPs in medtech, but the global pandemic forced teams to pivot from traditional feet-on-the-street methodology to a new model blending personalization and real-time intelligence into a unique, personalized digital customer experience — one that empowers customers and places them at the center of every interaction whatever their geographi

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Healthcare cost growth trails overall price hikes amid record inflation

Healthcare Dive

Prices in the U.S. economy grew 8.5% in July compared to last year, while prices for medical care increased just 4.8%, according to a tracker from the Kaiser Family Foundation and Peterson Center on Healthcare.

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OptimizeRx AI pilot identifies non-adherence risks

Healthcare It News

Patients can experience unexpected access and affordability barriers that physicians lack visibility into, but by searching for the early indicators of non-adherence, physicians could act to help patients stay on their treatment plans. Rochester, Michigan-based OptimizeRx Corp., which provides care-focused engagement throughout patient journeys and connects more than 60% of U.S. healthcare providers to their patients, launched a pharmaceutical pilot to identify doctors whose patient treatment pl

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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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Cyberattacks refocusing from large health systems to smaller hospitals, specialty clinics

Healthcare Dive

The trend of attacks focusing on a systemic technology used across most providers is one that cybersecurity firm Critical Insights expects to continue throughout the remainder of the year.

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6 strategies to stimulate patient engagement in rehab therapy

Healthcare It News

Sponsor: Net Health Primary topic: Patient Engagement Topic: Patient Engagement Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: 6 strategies to stimulate patient engagement in rehab therapy Region Tag: Global Edition Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Diminishing Patient Privacy Dangers From The Increased Reliance On Telehealth

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The convenience of telehealth, both for the medical professional and the patient, is a strength that can’t be overstated. Telehealth, or telemedicine, empowers patients to have better access to quality care at more affordable prices. As […]. The article Diminishing Patient Privacy Dangers From The Increased Reliance On Telehealth appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Realizing the Dream of AI in Clinical Trials—How to Address Key Challenges

HIT Consultant

Tim Riely VP Clinical Data Analytics at IQVIA. The clinical development process is incredibly time consuming and only yields a success rate of about 10%. One way to reduce the time, cost and success of the clinical development process is to introduce artificial intelligence (AI) into clinical trials and implement AI-driven process automation. The dream of AI in clinical trial execution is for trial functions to run autonomously, like a self-driving car.

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LinkedIn Tip: What Healthcare Professionals Should Know

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. LinkedIn is a real asset for health professionals, especially in the post-COVID-19 period. It is an excellent commercial lever for companies, particularly those in the health sector. You should create the perfect LinkedIn profile to […]. The article LinkedIn Tip: What Healthcare Professionals Should Know appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Alma raises $130M for mental health practice software and more digital health fundings

Mobi Health News

Insurance navigator Fair Square Medicare raises $15 million, AI-enabled prostate cancer care startup Avenda Health scores $10 million, and oncology clinical trial startup Trial Library emerges from stealth with $5 million.

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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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Healthcare Mobile Application Development: Main Types of Medical Apps and Tips for Creating

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The horizon of healthcare mobile application development is expanding through limitless boundaries after the world hits the massive pandemic. Even though it’s the era of tech evolution, healthcare mobile application development has followed an impactful […].

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Breadth and Simplicity of Accessibility in Health IT – Part 3

Healthcare IT Today

The previous articles in this series, Disabilities and Accessibility in Health IT: The Need Is Constant and Automating Accessibility in Health IT , explored the current landscape in accommodating diverse patients and web site visitors in health care. This article explores some important areas I haven’t yet touched on, and ends with an appeal for better web sites for all.

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MDaudit Launches Revenue Integrity Suite to Mitigate High-Impact Denial Risk and Prevent Revenue Leakage

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. MDaudit, the healthcare technology company that harnesses the power of analytics and its proven track record to allow the nation’s premier healthcare organizations to retain revenue and reduce risk, announced today the launch of MDaudit Revenue […].

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How AI Can Help In-Person and Remote Patient Care

HealthIT Answers

By Mansour Khatib - Remember those commercials for LifeAlert? “I’ve fallen, and I can’t get up!” Those cheesy, melodramatic ads became a sort of cultural punchline in the 1990s, but they nonetheless underscored a very important need. The post How AI Can Help In-Person and Remote Patient Care appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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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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Amazon Care to shut down at the end of 2022

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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PHI Exposed in Cyberattacks on Methodist McKinny Hospital and Columbia River Mental Health Services

HIPAA Journal

Methodist McKinny Hospital in Texas has recently announced that its systems have been accessed by unauthorized individuals who removed files containing sensitive data from its systems. The security incident was detected on July 5, 2022, and a third-party cybersecurity firm was engaged to investigate the nature and scope of the incident. The investigation confirmed that the attackers had access to its systems between May 20, 2022, and July 7, 2022, and during that time, files were exfiltrated tha

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Education and Communication as a Catalyst for Technology Adoption

Healthcare IT Today

Today at The Civitas Networks for Health 2022 Annual Conference, a Collaboration with the DirectTrust Summit, I was fascinated by a session that looked at the importance of education and communication for healthcare organizations when it comes to encouraging adoption of technology. For example, this has been an important effort by DirectTrust when it comes to educating users of how and when direct messaging could be used.

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East and North Hertfordshire introduce digital care plans

Digital Health News

East and North Hertfordshire has introduced Nervecentre's digital care plans to Lister Hospital following a successful pilot.

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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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Stress Relief: 19 of our Favorite Ideas for Healthcare Compliance and Auditing Professionals

Healthicity

Mental health is highly important for everyone, including healthcare professionals.

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Two Indicted for Exploiting Adult Day Care Patients in Medicare Fraud Scheme

Med-Net Compliance

A Texas physician and his employee were charged for their roles in a healthcare fraud scheme involving the submission of more than $3.5 million in claims to Medicare. The physician allegedly paid kickbacks to various adult day care companies to gain Medicare beneficiary information under the guise of providing medical services. He, his employee, and other co-conspirators used their access to adult day care facilities to perform a variety of unnecessary medical tests and procedures and order pres

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Russian ransomware gang targeting healthcare organizations

Becker's Health IT

Russian hackers, known as the Karakurt gang, have targeted at least four healthcare organizations in the last three months, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center warned Aug. 24.

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My Office Apps Confirmed as HIPAA Compliant

HIPAA Journal

Compliancy Group has confirmed that My Office Apps Inc. has demonstrated its good faith effort toward HIPAA compliance and was found to have taken all the necessary steps to comply with all appropriate provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). My Office Apps is a developer of business improvement software and automation solutions, including the Kechie Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software as a Service (SaaS) platform.

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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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HIPAA Key Fact: Notice of Privacy Practices for Telehealth

Colington Consulting HIPAA Blog

Our series is designed to explain best practices about HIPAA compliance, HIPAA settlements, and the various requirements an organization must have in place under the HIPAA Security & Privacy Rules.

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Pectus Excavatum [PE] [PEX]

AIHC

Coding and Documentation Guidance Written by: AIHC Blogger. Pectus excavatum is a Latin term that means “hollowed chest.” Pectus excavatum is a congenital condition due to too much growth of the cartilage that joins the ribs to the sternum causing the sternum to grow inward. As the cartilage pushes the sternum inward, the child’s chest appears to be sunken.

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Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: Avista Acquires WellSpring Consumer From Audax

McGuire Wood

Avista Capital Partners has acquired WellSpring Consumer Healthcare from Audax Private Equity, according to a news release. WellSpring , founded in 1999 and based in Sarasota, Fla., markets over-the-counter drug and personal care products to the U.S. and Canadian markets. Avista , based in New York, makes control buyout investments in middle market healthcare companies.

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Subscribe to MPA’s Compliance Newsletter and Stay on Top of Compliance

Health Care Performance

MPA scours OIG, DOJ, FBI, OSHA, & OCR updates so you don't have to. We summarize enforcement trends and deliver the latest compliance and HIPAA developments to your inbox with our Monthly Compliance News Report. Read MPA’s News Report to stay current with compliance news and developments. Then, forward the News Report (or excerpts) to your Board, Compliance Committee, and management team, to keep them informed with little effort.

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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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Health IT Business News

HealthIT Answers

Business news from HITRUST, NextGen Healthcare, HHAeXchange, MRO Corp, Clarify Health, First Databank, EchoNous, Cloudticity, Sapphire Health, Get Well, ScriptDrop, Lyniate, DeliverHealth Solutions, eHealth Technologies, Hallmark Health Care Solutions, ScriptDrop, AKASA, Accord Healthcare and more. The post Health IT Business News appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Biofourmis Raises Additional Funding from Intel Capital in Series D Extension and Names Top Healthcare Leaders to its Board

Healthcare IT Today

Additional funding brings Series D round to $320M total. Trevor Fetter, MBA, senior lecturer on the faculty of Harvard Business School and former longtime Tenet Healthcare chairman and CEO, named to Board. Sachin H. Jain, physician executive with government, pharmaceutical, payer and provider experience, joins Board. Biofourmis , a Boston-based global leader in virtual care and digital medicine, today announced that Intel Capital, the strategic investment arm of chipmaker Intel Corporation, has

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Eliminating Variability in Healthcare

HealthIT Answers

New On Demand Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist: With guest Robbie Hughes, Founder & CEO of Lumeon who started out his career as an aerospace engineer but found his path in healthcare as he worked to bring some of the process and data analysis rigors to healthcare systems. The post Eliminating Variability in Healthcare appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Humana & Cotiviti Settle Class Action Data Breach Lawsuit

HIPAA Journal

Humana & Cotiviti have agreed to settle a class action lawsuit to resolve claims from individuals affected by a 2020 data breach that exposed the PHI of 64,654 individuals. Humana had contracted with Cotiviti to assist with medical record requests to verify the data it reports to the HHS’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In order to provide those services, Cotiviti was provided with the protected health information of certain plan members.

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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.