Healthcare It News

JUNE 28, 2022

It is estimated that 50% of the U.S. population has a chronic disease, and caring for them is consuming 86% of healthcare costs. Many organizations still rely on traditional chronic care models characterized by periodic in-person encounters that can be inconvenient, expensive and insufficiently frequent. The question is: How will hospitals provide more robust, timely and cost-efficient care moving forward?

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Healthcare Dive

JUNE 28, 2022

The Lown Institute index, which measures hospitals with metrics such as value and health equity, found that the best performers were often located in smaller communities.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 28, 2022

Multiple class action lawsuits have been filed against the Seattle-based Hearst Health subsidiary, MCG Health, over a data breach that has affected at least 10 healthcare organizations including Indiana University Health, Lenoir Health Care, Phelps Health, and Jefferson County Health Center. The data breach was reported to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights on June 10 as affecting 793,283 individuals, but some affected healthcare organizations have self-reported the breach.

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Healthcare Dive

JUNE 28, 2022

In Louisiana and Utah, judges put temporary holds on abortion bans and set future court dates to litigate the issue. Other states still have trigger laws currently in effect.

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JUNE 28, 2022

While inflation and financial stress is depressing consumer demand for many purchases the “legacy of COVID-19” is having lost-lasting impacts on how people see their homes — especially as sites for health and wellness. GfK highlights the growing interest in wellbeing and device demand in The State of Consumer Technology and Durables 2002 insights from GfK.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 28, 2022

What You Should Know: – Today, an International Trade Commission (ITC) judge issued an Initial Determination that Apple infringed AliveCor’s valid patented technology – a finding that may result in a limited exclusion order that will prohibit the import of infringing Apple Watches into the United States. – AliveCor initially filed its complaint with the ITC in April 2021 , alleging that Apple infringed AliveCor’s patented technology.

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Digital Health News

JUNE 28, 2022

The Plan for Digital Health and Social Care has been published today and shows that £2billion has been allocated to digitise the NHS and social care sector.

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 28, 2022

Cue said it made the decision due to larger economic challenges and the federal government's recent move to divert funding from COVID-19 tests.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 28, 2022

HIPAA Journal has partnered with The Compliancy Group to provide a HIPAA compliance checklist. Complete the form below to view the checklist immediately. The post Free HIPAA Compliance Checklist appeared first on HIPAA Journal.

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Digital Health News

JUNE 28, 2022

The three chairs of the Networks Advisory Panels are the latest guests to join Jordan Sollof on an episode of Digital Health Unplugged. .

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 28, 2022

The startup's data platform aims to help clients like providers and payers understand how social factors are impacting patient health.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 28, 2022

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a security advisory for the healthcare and public health sector warning about three high-severity vulnerabilities in OFFIS DCMTK software. The software is used for examining, constructing, and converting DICOM image files, handling offline media, and sending and receiving images over a network connection.

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Digital Health News

JUNE 28, 2022

Two NHS trusts in the East of England have signed an agreement with medical imaging technology provider Sectra to digitise their pathology services.

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 28, 2022

The startup announced it had raised $63 million equity and debt financing in September.

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Med-Net Compliance

JUNE 28, 2022

An accountant who enabled the owner of a Long Beach hospital to pay more than $40 million in illegal kickbacks to doctors, in exchange for them referring thousands of spinal surgery patients, was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for a tax offense related to the scheme. He was also ordered to pay an $8,000 fine and forfeit $500,000 in proceeds from the scheme.

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Jackson Lewis

JUNE 28, 2022

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic was sudden and devastating, and even as the threat levels subside, the fallout endures. To be sure, the healthcare industry has long been on the forefront of battling the threat to public health posed by COVID-19. While there has been a broad and varied governmental response to the multitude of concerns arising out of COVID-19, a significant component of that has been the enactment and enforcement of laws and rules governing workplace safety—and nowhere more so

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HealthIT Answers

JUNE 28, 2022

New On Demand Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist: With guest Phil Bosua, CEO at Know Labs. Phil has a long and interesting background as an inventor and early producer of apps making over 600 before he moved on to invent the portable scanner “ScanBox” and LIFX – the reinvented wifi-connected color-tunable light bulb. The post Non Invasive Continuous Glucose Monitoring appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Natalia Mazina

JUNE 28, 2022

Earlier this year, a client reported a very smooth scam. Someone called the pharmacy and represented to be a California Board of Pharmacy inspector who was investigating an anonymous complaint against the pharmacy. The so-called “inspector” asked the pharmacy to provide its account number with Cardinal, which the pharmacy staff did. The scammer then contacted Cardinal and placed a large order for Invokana (the cost of around $90,000).

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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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HIT Consultant

JUNE 28, 2022

What You Should Know: ClearSky Health , a network of inpatient rehabilitation facilities is expanding its contract an additional five years with Oracle Cerner to support nine additional facilities in the next 18 months with Oracle Cerner as their EHR supplier. – The partnership to deliver increased continuity, helping clinicians understand a patient’s journey from admission to discharge.

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HealthIT Answers

JUNE 28, 2022

By Sarah Larsen - During the first year of the Covid pandemic, patients missed around 10M potentially life-saving cancer screenings. The CDC encourages health care professionals to minimize delays in testing by continuing routine cancer screening, and helping patients safely access screening through interventions such as navigation (both human and digital).

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 28, 2022

What You Should Know: – Indegene , a technology-led healthcare solutions provider, today announced a partnership with Amwell to facilitate life sciences organizations to connect patients to better quality care and drive better health outcomes. – This partnership will facilitate Indegene to enable life sciences organizations to drive virtual care automation and patient companionship to advance longitudinal care, behavioral health, and other specialty and chronic care segments.

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HealthIT Answers

JUNE 28, 2022

Latest announcements made from companies and organizations on hiring include Pivot Point Consulting, Carium, DispatchHealth, eClinical Solutions, CVS Health, Sesh, epocrates, MobileSmith, VIP StarNetwork, The Bloc, & Duo Health. The post Health IT Hires and Appointments appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Health Law RX

JUNE 28, 2022

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) recently released new guidance (the “Guidance”) to help ensure that individuals may continue to benefit from audio-only telehealth services and clarify for health care providers and health plans how they can provide such services while complying with the HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules (the “HIPAA Rules”).

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 28, 2022

Continuing to deliver new capabilities such as forensic analysis, Asimily will use the funding to accelerate the development of new platform tools and to expand within the healthcare industry. Asimily , a leading risk management platform for IoT devices and web-connected equipment, will accelerate its expansion within the healthcare industry with a strategic investment from MemorialCare Innovation Fund.

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Medisys Compliance

JUNE 28, 2022

Medicare Coverage for Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGMs). On December 28, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule in the Federal Register that addressed the classification and payment of continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) under the Medicare Part B benefit for durable medical equipment (DME). This rule expanded the classification of DME to a larger group of CGMs, regardless of whether the CGMs are non-adjunctive (can replace standard blood glucose monit

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NCG Medical Blog

JUNE 28, 2022

Before a patient even sets foot in your practice, they’ll have an impression or idea of what to expect through your medical practice’s marketing efforts. Whether it’s your practice’s website, social media presence, print advertising, or another initiative, your practice’s marketing efforts can reflect a welcoming, competent, and compassionate environment for your patients to go to for their care.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 28, 2022

Rachael Jones, SVP of Performance Analytics and Quality at Cotiviti. In Florida, where Black residents are three times more likely to be hospitalized or die from asthma-related complications than white residents, one researcher’s efforts to “strip away the jargon” related to asthma treatment strengthened patients’ engagement in a year-long clinical trial.

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Innovaare Compliance

JUNE 28, 2022

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched a new cycle of CMS program audits in February 2022. Even though we’re six weeks from the end of the 2022 cycle, there’s still time to review the new and changed features of the CMS audit protocol (CMS 10717) for CY 2022. For an overview of the protocol changes for CY 2022, please visit our blog- CY 2022 CMS Program Audit Protocol Changes .

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Healthcare Dive

JUNE 28, 2022

Physicians warn that the Supreme Court ruling will have a dire impact on training, ultimately affecting patient care.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 28, 2022

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has recommended that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) establish a feedback mechanism to improve the effectiveness of its data breach reporting process. The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, called for the Secretary of the HHS to create and maintain a list of data breaches involving the unsecured protected health information of 500 or m

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