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Abortion clinics go mobile, seeking flexibility amid patchwork state restrictions

Healthcare Dive

Advocates are hoping the mobile clinic model will accelerate access to abortions, especially for those in states where the procedure is outlawed.

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An Ob/Gyn Reflects on Dobbs: ‘The Time Has Passed for Neutrality’

Bill of Health

By Samantha DeAndrade. Last week, in response to a petition written by myself and colleagues, the American Board of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ABOG), which is headquartered in Texas, reversed its decision to pursue in-person board certification exams. In light of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health , my colleagues and I held grave concerns about traveling to Dallas, Texas for this credentialing exam.

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Geisinger appoints first chief wellness officer

Healthcare Dive

As the Pennsylvania regional health system’s first chief wellness officer, Susan Parisi will oversee the system’s mental health, professional fulfillment and well-being strategies.

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EMR systems shift nurses’ attention away from patients

Healthcare It News

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise has published a white paper on optimising the care pathway for better outcomes in hospitals. In the paper, we outline the current situation in digital health and map out a vision to free up time for patient care. The widespread implementation of EMRs has allowed collaboration between doctors, reduced medical errors, and created the data points required for analytics which will provide an in-road for artificial intelligence work in the future.

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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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Medicare Advantage plans make inflated dialysis payments, study says

Healthcare Dive

The study, published in Health Affairs, said large chains in the consolidated dialysis sector have the market power to negotiate higher MA reimbursement.

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AI-powered telehealth improves PT care at Essen Health Care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Essen Health Care, a medical group in New York City, has a Center of Excellence for Pain with physical therapy, pain specialists, neurology and orthopedic specialists. It serves patients with acute and chronic issues in need of physical therapy. In addition, it serves many elderly house call patients, due to pandemic restrictions, who have functionally deteriorated due to a lack of physical activity.

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A transition to patient-centered care requires a mental shift

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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CMS calls for public input to improve Medicare Advantage

Healthcare Dive

The agency wants feedback from a variety of voices on how it can strengthen the popular but increasingly controversial program.

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Q&A: Why mental health chatbots need strict safety guardrails

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Protecting and advancing healthcare for LGBTQ+ communities

Healthcare Dive

It’s time to introduce equity to the LGBTQ+ healthcare experience.

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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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Meta Facing Further Class Action Lawsuit Over Use of Meta Pixel Code on Hospital Websites

HIPAA Journal

Meta is facing another class action lawsuit over the unlawful collection and sharing of health data without content. The lawsuit was filed in the Northern District of California on behalf of plaintiff, Jane Doe. The lawsuit alleges Meta and its companies, including Facebook, have been collecting the sensitive health data of millions of patients without obtaining express consent and have used the information to serve individuals with targeted advertisements.

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Clinically Validated Vital Signs for Mental Health

Healthcare IT Today

Remote patient monitoring is everywhere in healthcare today. We see that in our ever expanding list of remote patient monitoring companies. It’s not a reach to say that healthcare and startup companies are working hard to monitor every piece of your health remotely. Everyone sees the potential of having access to your health data in an ongoing basis in order to assess deterioration of your health or even recovery from a disease or surgery.

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Tougher Enforcement of the Contraception Mandate on the Horizon

Compliance Now

By: Jennifer Berman, CEO, MZQ Consulting. On July 28, 2022, the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury (the “Departments”) issued new FAQs clarifying their interpretation of the ACA’s requirement that non-grandfathered health plans provide contraception to participants at no cost. The new FAQs were issued in response to President Biden’s recent Executive Order on reproductive health.

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Is Shopify HIPAA Compliant?

Compliancy Group

Shopify is a popular eCommerce platform, but are you selling goods or services to patients? If so, you must ensure that the eCommerce platform you use to sell to patients is HIPAA compliant. Is Shopify HIPAA compliant? What Makes a Software Tool HIPAA Compliant? When it comes to software, there are certain indications of the tool’s HIPAA compliance.

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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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Dialysis consolidation bad for Medicare Advantage plan health, study says

Modern Healthcare

The consolidated dialysis market allows the largest companies to negotiate higher payments from Medicare Advantage insurers.

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Can We Reach Health 4.0 in the Next 3-5 Years?

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – According to a new report from Allison + Partners , 57% of respondents said it will be possible to achieve “Health 4.0” in the next 3-5 years. – The report illustrates that the biggest hurdles include legislative and regulatory policy, lack of tech talent, and little understanding of health technologies and that the opportunities outweigh the challenges.

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RLDatix Acquires Galen Healthcare Solutions

Healthcare IT Today

Best in KLAS solutions provider broadens RLDatix’s capabilities across governance, risk and compliance while helping organizations meet complex data regulatory requirements. RLDatix, the international leader in governance, risk and compliance (GRC) solutions for healthcare, announced today the acquisition of Galen Healthcare Solutions (Galen), the market leader in implementation, optimization, data migration and archival solutions for HIT systems.

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Diagnostic Robotics raises $45M for AI-enabled care management and more digital health fundings

Mobi Health News

Also: Real-world evidence company Syapse raises $35 million, and senior care tech platform Safe scores $9 million.

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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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NHS England launches remote monitoring initiative for heart failure

Digital Health News

NHS England is seeking early adopters for its Managing Heart Failure @Home scheme which will use remote monitoring technology to support patients.

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Fertility company Kindbody adds surrogacy services with latest acquisition

Mobi Health News

The deal with Alternative Reproductive Resources is Kindbody's third so far this year.

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Northern Lincolnshire and Goole replace data warehouse

Digital Health News

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust is replacing its data warehouse, with Insource as its strategic data management partner.

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From Cancer Screenings to Prenatal Care, the Latest Challenge to the Affordable Care Act Threatens Availability of Free Preventive Services

Center for Health Insurance Reform

The ACA requires that most insurers and employers cover a set of preventive health services at no cost to enrollees. Estimates suggest that more than 150 million people have access to over 100 services such as cancer screenings, contraception, and vaccines without any out-of-pocket costs. A case pending in federal court threatens to cut off consumers' access by allowing insurers to impose cost-sharing on these services or, in some cases, cease covering them altogether.

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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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CIO Podcast – Episode 36: Digital Transformation with Kathy Azeez-Narain

Healthcare IT Today

For the 36th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Kathy Azeez-Narain, Chief Digital Officer at Hoag. We dive into the current state of Digital Transformation in healthcare and examine how it’s progressing. She shares some lessons she’s learned from American Express about digital strategy. We then discuss how marketing plays into your digital strategy.

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Is Your Website HIPAA-Compliant?

HIPAA & Health IT

If you are a HIPAA-covered entity or business associate, you likely know that patient PHI may only be created, received, maintained, and transmitted as permitted by the HIPAA Security Rule and the HIPAA Privacy Rule. Yet you may not have focused on your company’s website as a place where PHI is collected and transmitted. If you are subject to HIPAA, you should continually assess your website data practices.

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CMS Enhances Nursing Home Rating System with Staffing and Turnover Data

Med-Net Compliance

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services launched its enhanced Nursing Home Five-Star Quality Rating System which integrates data nursing homes report on their weekend staffing rates for nurses and information on annual turnover among nurses and administrators. CMS research shows that higher nurse turnover is associated with lower quality of care.

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OIG Investigates Medicare Payments From Skilled Nursing Facilities

MedTrainer

Medicare and Medicaid services are the backbone for supporting elderly and disabled Americans. However, there have been many cases of individuals and parties abusing Medicare regulations for their own financial gain — and medical professionals and organizations within the healthcare industry are among them. However, no violations are invisible when the OIG is on the case.

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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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Bystander Intervention Training for Healthcare Providers

American Medical Compliance

Bystander Intervention Training for Healthcare providers is designed to educate healthcare personnel (HCP) on how to intervene when witnessing sexual harassment in the workplace. Sexual harassment occurs when a person is subject to unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, or other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature to such an extent that it alters the conditions of the person’s employment and creates an abusive working environment.

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3 Barriers to Advance Care Planning for Sexual and Gender Minority People

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – In a national survey and in interviews, sexual and gender minority people reported experiencing discrimination in healthcare and concerns about support for their end-of-life decisions. – Advance care planning (ACP) can help support patients in making decisions and promoting better care at the end of life. But sexual and gender minority (SGM) patients are likely being left out of conversations around ACP, a new study suggests.

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Bystander Intervention Training

American Medical Compliance

Bystander Intervention Training is designed to educate employees on how to intervene when witnessing sexual harassment in the workplace. Sexual harassment occurs when a person is subject to unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, or other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature to such an extent that it alters the conditions of the person’s employment and creates an abusive working environment.

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U.S. Government Renews Coronavirus Public Health Emergency, Extending Health Benefits for Americans

The Health Law Firm

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On July 15, 2022, the United States once again renewed the COVID-19 public health emergency, allowing millions of Americans special access to free tests, vaccines, and treatments. The public health emergency was initially declared in January 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic began.

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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.