Modern Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

For the first time, the federal government aims to impose staffing minimums at nursing homes, an estimated 75% of which would need to hire more nurses.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Covenant Health expanded its high acuity care hospital-at-home program in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Tuesday. WHY IT MATTERS A suite of electronics is enabling patients from Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center facility and now Parkwest Medical Center with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pneumonia, cellulitis and more to recuperate at home, according to a local WATE ABC6 report.

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The departure of Brewer, a veteran of retailers Starbucks and Walmart, comes as Walgreens looks to beef up its leadership roster with healthcare executives.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Patrick J. Kennedy, former U.S. Representative, and Nawal Roy, founder and CEO of Holmusk, discuss how the pair is using experience and data to create a policy guide for lawmakers.

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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Amir Dan Rubin will leave the primary care chain later this year after leading the company since 2017, according to an email sent Thursday to One Medical employees.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Acquisition Further Strengthens Experity’s Position as the Leading Urgent Care Teleradiology Provider Experity , the national leader in on-demand healthcare solutions, has acquired OnePACS, a SaaS PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication Systems) platform purpose-built for teleradiology. OnePACS is the only PACS platform to offer a fully location-agnostic, distributed multi-user, cloud-based PACS with a cloud-based modality worklist and its own automated structured reporting solution with both

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Digital Health News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Real-world data has shown that shorter treatment and waiting times for mental health conditions could help the NHS and improve treatment outcomes.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

As more and more cell and gene therapies come to the market, these high-cost drugs are set to have a major impact on cash-strapped Medicaid programs, according to a

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Rosalind Brewer What You Should Know: – Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) CEO Rosalind Brewer is stepping down as CEO and a member of the board after only two years, as of August 31, 2023. Roz Brewer served as Chief Executive Officer of WBA since March 2021. – The Board of Directors has appointed Ginger Graham, current Lead Independent Director of WBA, as the Company’s interim CEO.

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Digital Health News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

PureHealth has signed an agreement to acquire Circle Health Group, the UK’s largest independent operators of hospitals, in a deal valued at $1.2 billion.

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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.

Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Bicycle Health announced a partnership with Albertsons Companies to make prescriptions of buprenorphine injections available to patients. | The buprenorphine extended release injections, known as Sublocade, will be available across 17 states with the goal of expanding. The virtual care provider and pharmacy's collaboration hopes to increase access to vital medications for opioid use disorder, which can be hard to come by.

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Digital Health News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

At an EGM on Thursday members of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics (FCI) passed a motion of no confidence in the leadership of the Board of Trustees.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Happy Friday everyone! Another week has almost come and gone and you know that that means. It means it’s time for another edition of Fun Friday where we let our hair down and try to entertain you to kick off the start of your weekend. Plus, sometimes humor is a great way to inspire and put things into perspective. This week’s edition of Fun Friday comes from one of the top healthcare CIOs in the country, Aaron Miri ( @AaronMiri ) Not only is he a great CIO, but he keeps the work

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Digital Health News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Digital Health’s monthly roundup of contracts and go lives features LNWH going live with its new Oracle Health EPR and NHS Wales rolling out HealthPathways.

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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Rosalind Brewer will step down as CEO of Walgreens, kicking off the search for her replacement, the pharmacy chain announced Friday morning.

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Digital Health News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

An NHS England pilot at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals involving embedding PIFU has helped to avoid 29,000 appointments in one year.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Computer vulnerabilities, threats, and security practices are similar in every industry. But health care presents particular challenges, discussed in this video with John Wilson, Director of Sales, SLED and Healthcare at SolarWinds and Scott Pross, Vice President of Technology, Monalytic , a SolarWinds company. Wilson and Pross make up part of the new dedicated team that SolarWinds has put together for healthcare.

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The San Francisco, CA-based law firm, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, is facing a class action lawsuit over a ransomware attack and data breach that was detected on March 13, 2023. The law firm determined that part of its network had been compromised by an unauthorized third party, which gained access to a file share that was used to store client files.

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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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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Members of the value-based care company Castell will have full access to Headspace's behavioral health services, including coaching and therapy.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Much of the growth experienced by Medicare Advantage over the last two decades can be attri | Beneficiaries switching from fee-for-service Medicare to Medicare Advantage more than tri-pled between 2006 and 2022. Conversely, switching from MA to traditional Medicare decreased.

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HealthIT Answers

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The healthcare industry is not in short supply of changes that need to be made. This week's Friday at Five highlights some industry reports lighting the way for better health data exchange, patient experience, health equity, interoperability, and social determinants of health to name a few. The post Friday at Five – Industry Reports appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The power and potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in the healthcare industry are unparalleled. The use of automated technology systems like digital workflows, orchestration and storing of data digitally is helping to shape their application, enabling far greater personalization of treatment for patients and greater efficiency and speed of clinical trials.

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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Healthcare mergers and acquisitions are in no short supply as providers, health tech companies, retailers and other industry players look to expand their businesses and gain a competitive edge. | Wellstar merges with Augusta University Health System, Centene sells off its U.K. hospital group, NextGen Healthcare sale rumors and more merger and acquisition news from the month of August.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Kuldeep Singh Rajput What You Should Know: – Biofourmis founder and CEO Kuldeep Singh Rajput has quietly resigned as CEO, according to the company’s spokesperson. The company has appointed private equity investor General Altantic’s Ben Wanamaker as interim CEO. – Rajput’s abrupt exit comes after the Boston-based virtual care and digital medicine company laid off 120 employees. – Founded in 2015, Biofourmis discovers, develops, and delivers clinically validated software-ba

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

A HIPAA compliant home office is a working environment set up to support HIPAA compliance when a covered entity, business associate, or a member of either’s workforce works from home. Because of the different functions that can be performed from – and services that can be provided by – a home office, the requirements for HIPAA compliance can vary considerably.

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Compliancy Group

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Social media platforms have become an integral part of our daily lives. With millions of people actively using platforms like Facebook to connect and share information, it’s crucial to consider the implications of using such platforms in professional contexts – especially in fields that require strict adherence to patient privacy regulations. In the healthcare industry, where patient confidentiality is paramount, the question arises: Is Facebook HIPAA compliant?

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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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MedTrainer

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Spending 20+ years as a compliance officer means that I’m often thinking about compliance — even at birthday parties. And that’s when I realized birthdays and compliance have a lot in common. You can’t go beyond a year ( + a day for leap year ) without having a birthday or completing your Bloodborne Pathogen (BBP) training if your job tasks include duties that can be anticipated to have the potential for exposure to BBP and other potentially infectious materials (OPIM).

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The Health Law Firm Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law, and Hartley Brooks, Law Clerk, The Health Law Firm On May 18, 2023, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed a U.S. district court's decision to deny U.S. Nursing Corporation a new trial. The [.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

What You Should Know: – Better Life Partners , a virtual and in-person, community-embedded, whole-health solution for individuals and populations with substance use disorders (SUD) raises $26.5M in Series B funding round. – The round is co-led by aMoon and existing investor F-Prime Capital with participation from existing investor,406 Ventures.

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McGuire Wood

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

TPG has announced it will acquire a majority stake in Crowe Healthcare Consulting from Crowe LLP. Crowe LLP , with its corporate headquarters in Chicago, is a global public accounting, consulting and technology firm. Following completion of the transaction, Crowe Healthcare Consulting will be rebranded as Kodiak Solutions. Crowe LLP will retain a minority ownership stake in the business.

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In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.