Thu.Aug 18, 2022

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Electronic data sharing between physicians and public health agencies rare, new ONC data finds

Healthcare Dive

Fewer than one in five primary care physicians electronically exchanged patient health information with public health agencies in 2019, according to a new report from the Office of the National Coordinator.

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NSF and Amazon award $1M for healthcare AI integrity

Healthcare It News

Duke University and the University of Connecticut are two of 13 recipients receiving funding through the third round of Fairness in AI program funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation and Amazon. WHY IT MATTERS. The accepted proposals set goals to improve access to underserved patients and to improve patient care in high-stakes hospital settings.

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CDC, amid criticism for COVID-19 response, plans reorganization as public health threats grow

Healthcare Dive

The shakeup includes the creation of new offices, staffing moves and steps to expedite data releases, CDC director Rochelle Walensky informed staff on Wednesday.

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CommonWell, MEDITECH, TEFCA, and QHINs

Healthcare IT Today

The topic of TEFCA and QHINs has been an extremely important one in the world of healthcare IT and particularly when it comes to healthcare interoperability. In many ways, it’s setting the national infrastructure for healthcare interoperability going forward. So, we should be paying attention. As we continue to learn about how the industry is responding to TEFCA and which organizations are planning to apply to be a QHIN, we thought it would be valuable to sit down with CommonWell and a C

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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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Employer health costs expected to rise 6.5% next year, report finds

Healthcare Dive

The predicted rise, while a jump from the year prior, is still far below the 9.1% Consumer Price Index, a figure reflecting inflation.

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Using Data-Driven Fintech Tools to Tackle the Healthcare Affordability Crisis

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Chiranjib Gupta, Chief Risk Officer at PayZen. We are witnessing a healthcare affordability crisis in America. Reading the headlines, it doesn’t take long to encounter some horror story of medical costs running rampant: an uninsured woman saddled with bills in the tens of thousands for a complicated birth, a life-saving medication costing a patient hundreds of dollars per vial, the list goes on.

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Webinar: Sept 21, 2022: How to Complete Your 2022 Risk Assessment

HIPAA Journal

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires HIPAA-covered entities and their business associates to complete a risk assessment. The purpose of the risk assessment is to identify and evaluate all risks and vulnerabilities to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic protected health information (ePHI).

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Favor Teams Up with imaware to Offer Discrete At-Home STI Tests to Women and People Who Menstruate

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Digital health solutions company imaware today announced its collaboration with Favor (formerly The Pill Club), the leading integrated digital healthcare platform, to offer at-home sexually transmitted infections (STI) testing for it’s more than 220K patients across the country. – This custom, one-of-a-kind test kit goes beyond existing at-home STI tests on the market to provide women and people who menstruate with a more comprehensive and accurate picture of

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Health IT Business News, Financial Edition – August 18, 2022

HealthIT Answers

Business and financial news including from Amwell, CVS, Availity, Diameter Health SpenMend, VIE Healthcare Consulting, Velatura Services, Lyniate, Salvo Health, InteliChart, ThedaCare, Qventus, and Biofourmis. The post Health IT Business News, Financial Edition – August 18, 2022 appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Virtual clinical supervision startup Motivo Health raises $14M

Mobi Health News

The startup connects new mental health providers with supervisors to complete their licensure requirements. The new funding brings its total raise to $16.3 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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Vyne Announces CEO Succession

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Vyne, an industry-leading software company providing revenue cycle, information exchange and secure communication solutions across healthcare markets, announces that Steve Roberts, who currently serves as president for Vyne Dental, has been named CEO of Vyne.

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Roundtable: Tackling the tricky problem of digital exclusion

Digital Health News

As healthcare digitisation accelerated during the early phases of the pandemic, so too did the issue of digital exclusion. And, as a recent Digital Health roundtable with Virgin Media O2 Business discussed, it’s a complicated, deepening and multi-faceted problem with no one solution. Claire Read reports. In the early phases of the pandemic, when the […].

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PEPFAR Reauthorization: Side-by-Side of Legislation Over Time

KFF

This brief identifies time-bound PEPFAR authorities and also provides a detailed side-by-side comparison of PEPFAR’s authorizing legislation over time.

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Roundup: Fred launches third-party apps marketplace and more briefs

Mobi Health News

Also, scientists from the University of South Australia have developed tiny fibre sensors for remote patient monitoring.

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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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Integration issues cause East Lancashire to delay EPR go live

Digital Health News

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) has delayed the planned go live of their new electronic patient record (EPR) system due to integration issues.

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Digital Marketing and Analytics Company Files Lawsuit Against FTC Over Alleged Privacy Violations

HIPAA Journal

A lawsuit has been filed against the Federal Trade Commission by an Idaho-based digital marketing and analytics company, which is alleged to have violated the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Act with its data practices. Kochava’s primary business unit provides mobile advertising attribution through customizable software tools, which are provided under the software-as-a-service model.

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AI algorithm helps Somerset clinicians detect lung cancer faster

Digital Health News

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust has used a ground-breaking artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to detect lung cancer from x-rays faster.

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39 Hall Render Attorneys Recognized by Best Lawyers

Hall Render

34 Hall Render attorneys were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America ® 2023. Hall Render is proud to congratulate the following attorneys. S. Allan Adelman, Shareholder, Best Lawyers Since 2008. Brian C. Betner, Shareholder, Best Lawyers Since 2019. Jeffrey L. Carmichael, Shareholder, Best Lawyers Since 2022. Lawrence K.

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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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Japanese DTx app maker CureApp to receive $51M investment from Carlyle

Mobi Health News

The new funds will be used to support the rollout of its hypertension DTx app.

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New Podcast: Talking with a Nephrology Compliance and Auditing Specialist

Healthicity

Many healthcare billing and coding experts employ a wide range of knowledge.

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Home health agencies make legal case against CMS' proposed cuts

Modern Healthcare

CMS could consider a policy more like the one it used to correct for overpayments to nursing homes, home health leaders said.

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Roundup: Indonesian digital pharmacy Lifepack raises $7M in Series A funding and more briefs

Mobi Health News

Also, CureApp is getting $77 million in investment from the Sawai Group as part of their license deal.

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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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CMS proposes mandatory Medicaid, CHIP quality reporting

Modern Healthcare

States would have to track Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program quality metrics starting in fiscal 2024.

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Nursing Home Provider to Pay over $5.5M in Civil False Claims Settlement

Med-Net Compliance

An Indiana provider of skilled nursing and long-term care services has agreed to pay $5,591,044.66 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims to the Medicare program. In 2017, a former employee of a hospice services company doing business with the nursing home provider filed a sealed civil complaint or “whistleblower” lawsuit under the False Claims Act in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana.

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Employees intentionally leaked data in 25% of healthcare breaches: study

Becker's Health IT

A quarter of healthcare data leaks were intentionally caused by employees, according to a recent global survey of 1,300 health IT professionals by software company Soti.

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Incredible Health Raises $80M Series B, Reaching $1.65 Billion Unicorn Status as the Leader in Healthcare Hiring

Healthcare IT Today

Funding to fuel national expansion and continued innovation in nurse hiring amid widespread industry shortages and upheaval. Incredible Health , the fastest-growing career marketplace for permanent healthcare workers, today announced it has secured $80 million in Series B funding, bringing the company’s valuation to $1.65 billion. Now the highest valued tech-enabled career marketplace in healthcare, Incredible Health has radically transformed not only how nurses are hired but the experience of n

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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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PT Team Member Spotlight: Meet Jordan

Provider Trust

Meet Jordan! Jordan Stewart is a graphic designer on our marketing team. They started their career with us as an intern in 2020 and has continued to be a valued team member here at ProviderTrust! Tell us about yourself and what you do for ProviderTrust. I’m ProviderTrust’s resident Graphic Designer! I help handle anything visual (graphics, assets, etc.

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Healthcare Professionals: Do You Know How to Prepare For, and Respond To, a Medicaid Audit Request?

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 Florida healthcare providers servicing Medicaid patients are at a higher risk for audits than anywhere else in the country. Unfortunately, the unfortunate truth is that Florida has become synonymous with healthcare fraud. As a result, auditing and subsequent overpayment demands are some very real possibilities.

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COVID-19 Tests With Inaccurate Results

American Medical Compliance

Many people use rapid at home COVID-19 tests to ensure that they have not contracted the virus. However, many medical officials are expressing concerns over the accuracy of test results. Receiving one negative test result does n0t necessarily mean that someone doesn’t have COVID-19. According to the FDA, people conducting at home tests should perform multiple COVID-19 tests over the course of several days.

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Doctor Acquitted in $85 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme Requests Reimbursement of Legal Expenses

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 August 12, 2022, a doctor acquitted in a $85 million Medicare fraud scheme filed a motion in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York requesting prosecutors cover the legal fees and expenses she incurred. Mayura Kanekar, a Brooklyn-based doctor, claims the government knew she was unaware of the scheme but arrested and prosecuted her anyway.

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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.