Wed.Jun 22, 2022

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Inequities in healthcare cost nearly $320B annually, new research shows

Healthcare Dive

Spending due to inequities that drive late diagnoses and comorbidities is only expected to rise over the next few decades without intervention, according to research from Deloitte.

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Change Healthcare unveils new patient engagement tools

Healthcare It News

Designed in collaboration with Luma Health, the new technologies aim to improve the care experience and boost satisfaction for patients – and help providers increase appointment-based revenue. Change Healthcare on Wednesday introduced its new Patient Engagement suite, showcasing new tools, developed with Luma Health, to help patients better navigate the care continuum and improve revenue cycle management for providers.

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The doctor's visit of the future will be like having coffee with a friend. Here's why

Healthcare Dive

Solv Health CMO Robert Rohatsch contends that digital healthcare transformation will help GPs finally get back to what most of us really want to do in the first place — keep patients healthy.

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COVID-19, Patents, and Trade Secrets

Bill of Health

By David Gindler & Jasper L. Tran. Has the worldwide distribution of COVID-19 vaccines been impacted by patent rights? David Gindler , head of IP at Milbank LA, and Jasper L. Tran , senior associate at Milbank LA, argue that the story is much more complicated — making vaccines involves much more than waiving patents, they explain. The following article, which is adapted from the authors’ conversation with Vanderbilt Law Review podcast editor Jacob Goodman on Hot Topics in Intellectual Proper

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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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SCOTUS rejects UnitedHealth appeal of Medicare Advantage overpayment rule

Healthcare Dive

The justices declined to take up the case, leaving intact a lower court ruling that backed the 2014 CMS regulation requiring swift return of overpayments.

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Creating Conversations: Improving Access, Treatment, and Compassion for Clinician Health & Wellbeing

Healthcare IT Today

My dad walked into the waiting room to greet his next patient and made a bad pun (is there any other kind?) about the patient’s name. I rolled my eyes, but people loved it. Their doc knew them well enough to joke around with them. Relationships are essential to healthcare. For patients, caring relationships create […].

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Meta Sued over the Scraping of Patient Data from Hospital Websites

HIPAA Journal

A lawsuit has been filed against Meta that alleges the social media giant has been knowingly collecting patient data from hospital websites via the Meta Pixel tracking tool, and in doing so has violated the privacy of millions of patients. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. Northern District of California and alleges violations of state and federal laws related to the collection of patient data without consent.

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Tenet launches joint venture with urology network as system further scales ASC business

Healthcare Dive

Under the terms of the deal, Tenet subsidiary USPI will acquire a portion of the network’s ownership stake in new and established facilities in Maryland, Colorado and Arizona.

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The 2022 US Health System Report Card: Pretty Terrific If You Live in Hawaii or Massachusetts

Health Populi

The best U.S. states to live in for health and health care are Hawaii, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Washington, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Maryland… Those are the top health system rankings in the new 2022 Scorecard on State Health System Performance annual report from the Commonwealth Fund. If you live in Mississippi, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Texas, Missouri, Alabama, Georgia, or Arkansas, your health care and outcomes are less likely to be top-notch, the Fund’s research concluded.

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Epic to join TEFCA — 'One of our more significant interoperability projects'

Healthcare Dive

Epic is interested in joining the new nationwide data-sharing framework due to its private-sector-friendly nature and focus on privacy, an interoperability lead at the EHR vendor told Healthcare Dive.

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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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Turning Challenges Into Opportunities: 5 Trends in Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Ed Macosky, Chief Innovation Officer at Boomi, the intelligent connectivity and automation leader. The COVID-19 pandemic emphasized the importance of being prepared for the worst case scenario. In the healthcare industry, organizations with deeply ingrained cultures of preparedness weathered the crisis better than those that did not have […].

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Newly merged BHSH system names diversity chief

Healthcare Dive

Carlos Cubia is charged with driving the company "toward its goals of transforming health for the communities it serves, improving health and health equity, and fostering a culture of belonging.

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Cambridgeshire and Peterborough support exercise app for mental health

Digital Health News

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust's charity, Head to Toe, has provided funding for a mental health service to trial an exercise app.

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5 HIPAA-Regulated Entities Announced Hacking Incidents that Exposed PHI

HIPAA Journal

PHI of Almost 69,000 Individuals Compromised in Hacking Incident at Comstar. Comstar, a Rowley, MA-based provider of ambulance billing, collection, ePCR Hosting, and client/patient services, has discovered an unauthorized third-party gained access to some of its servers which housed files that contained individuals’ personally identifiable and protected health information.

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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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Sharps Compliance’s Scholarship Contest Winners Announced

Sharps Compliance

Sharps Compliance has announced the winners for its fall 2022 scholarship contest, which it holds twice a year. College students studying a healthcare-related field can submit an essay and application for a chance to win a $1,500, $1,000, or $750 scholarship. Below are the Fall 2022 winners: Prize. Name. School. First. Matthew C. Stephen F Austin State University.

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B2B telehealth company SteadyMD acquires credentialing platform BlocHealth

Mobi Health News

SteadyMD announced a $25 million Series B raise in March 2021.

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Wisconsin Courts Cannot Compel Providers to Give Treatments Below the Standard of Care

Hall Render

On May 25, 2022, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals reversed the circuit court’s ruling which granted an injunction compelling a Wisconsin health system to administer Ivermectin to a patient with COVID-19. The appellate court found that the circuit court erred in granting the injunction because the Petitioner could not identify any viable legal claim or show sufficient evidentiary support upon which to base his request for relief.

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Deep Longevity launches deep learning-powered online psych test

Mobi Health News

The web service estimates a user's psychological age and creates a personalised mental health programme.

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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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Michigan Registered Nurse Pleads Guilty in COVID-19 Vaccination Record Card Fraud

Med-Net Compliance

A registered nurse from a veteran’s hospital in Detroit pleaded guilty to charges related to COVID-19 vaccination record cards fraud. According to court records, the woman admitted to stealing or embezzling authentic COVID-19 vaccination record cards from the hospital—along with vaccine lot numbers necessary to make the cards appear legitimate—and then reselling those cards and information to individuals within the metro Detroit community.

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Clinical trial software startup Florence Healthcare raises $27M

Mobi Health News

Florence announced it had raised $80 million in its Series C round in May 2021.

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SteadyMD Acquires BlocHealth to Bolster Its Clinician Licensing and Credentialing Capabilities

Healthcare IT Today

SteadyMD Strategically Acquires BlocHealth’s Team, Technology, and Products to Expand Clinical Capacity for the Company and Healthcare Organizations SteadyMD, a B2B telehealth infrastructure provider that powers high-quality telehealth patient experiences for leaders and innovators in healthcare, is pleased to announce its recent strategic acquisition of BlocHealth, a leading clinician licensing, credentialing, and payer enrollment platform.

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SERI researchers develop AI tools for screening kidney disease, predicting age using eye photos

Mobi Health News

Both RetiKid and RetiAge use AI deep learning algorithms to screen for health conditions in retinal images.

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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 systems want the government to help 'shoulder the burden' of cyberattacks

Becker's Health IT

Cyberattacks on healthcare entities boomed during the pandemic, and health systems are now turning to the federal government to provide more security for what they consider critical national infrastructure, Politico reported June 22.

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Getting the Best out of Algorithms in Health Care

HealthIT Answers

By Kathryn Marchesini, Jeff Smith, & Jordan Everson - The same basic technology that can predict what movie you might want to watch, what song you might want to listen to, or what item you might want to buy online, can also predict the onset of diseases, forecast costs of care, and recommend treatment options for your doctors, nurses, and pharmacists.

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Is telehealth getting a new lease on life?

YouCompli

Through 2019, telehealth was mainly for rural patients living far from healthcare providers. Then came COVID and the Public Health Emergency (PHE) declaration from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Since 2020, a series of rolling 90-day waivers opened telehealth to everyone, temporarily. Thanks to a recent surge in COVID cases, the current PHE extends to October 2022.

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Encouraging Regulatory Compliance

HealthIT Answers

By Matt Fisher - Concerns about the scope of compliance with a growing host of regulations in healthcare are mounting. It is fully acknowledged that healthcare is subject to a myriad of regulations that often create confusing, if not contradictory requirements for organizations. The post Encouraging Regulatory Compliance appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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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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Expanding Operations to India

Verisys

Hyderabad, India / Louisville, KY, June 16, 2022 — Verisys Corporation, a leader in health care data and technology providing turn-key workforce management for some of the largest health systems in the U.S., announced the expansion of operations in India through a wholly-owned subsidiary, Verisys Global Private Limited, located in Hyderabad. . Verisys Global Pvt Ltd. incorporated on February 23, 2022.

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HHS Issues Guidance on HIPAA and Audio-Only Telehealth

HealthIT Answers

The HHS, through its Office for Civil Rights, is issuing guidance on how covered health care providers and health plans can use remote communication technologies to provide audio-only telehealth service when such communications are conducted in a manner that is consistent with. The post HHS Issues Guidance on HIPAA and Audio-Only Telehealth appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Elimination of Certificates of Medical Necessity (CMNs) and Durable Medical Equipment Forms (DIFs)

Medisys Compliance

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is discontinuing Certificates of Medical Necessity (CMNs) and DME Information Forms (DIFs) effective January 1, 2023. You can update your billing team on this crucial announcement and prior January 1, 2023 can submit CMN and DIF forms or their electronic claim data elements with the claims (if required).

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May 2022 Healthcare Breach Report

Compliancy Group

Each month, we review healthcare breaches to determine the leading cause and how the incidents could have been prevented. We do so by examining the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) online breach portal. The OCR publicly posts healthcare breaches that affected 500 or more patients to ensure that all affected patients know their information could have been potentially compromised.

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Generative AI for Contracts Is Here: New Tools to Accelerate Drafting and Editing

The emergence of generative AI is reshaping the landscape of contract management, enabling businesses to generate and negotiate legal agreements with greater ease and speed. In this on-demand webinar, Hal Marcus, VP of Product Marketing at Evisort discusses how Evisort's generative AI transforms contract creation and negotiation, empowering legal teams to streamline processes while reducing risk.