Bill of Health
AUGUST 23, 2022
By Daniel Goldberg. Too often throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers have justified controversial policy choices by stating that the world is not arranged in a way to make certain actions feasible. While practical difficulties matter, permitting such difficulties to exhaust the scope of our ethical obligations is a grave mistake that moves us farther away from a just and equitable world.
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 23, 2022
New filings in a class action lawsuit allege that Philips waited years to disclose the risk of foam used in its sleep apnea machines and respirators, causing illness and injuries.
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Healthcare It News
AUGUST 23, 2022
Despite the much-needed push toward technologies like cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI), a Presido survey found healthcare IT leaders are still struggling with cloud adoption issues. Path to cloud slowed by turnover. The push for digital transformation was accelerated by the pandemic, thrusting healthcare IT leaders into the spotlight and forcing them to fast-track their plans over the past few years.
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 23, 2022
A disproportionate number of those who stand to lose coverage are children and young adults, according to the agency.
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Healthcare It News
AUGUST 23, 2022
Following several major healthcare organizations expanding into advanced home-based care , Philadelphia-based Sena Health will help deliver the Salem Acute Care at Home for patients of Salem, New Jersey-based Salem Medical Center. The hospital-at-home startup has the capacity to provide up to 23 hospital-level services at home for medical conditions that would typically require hospital stays as well as care coordinators that are available 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 23, 2022
The organizations allegedly pocketed Medicaid adult expansion program funds meant to be returned to the state, according to a DOJ release.
Health Care Compliance Brief brings together the best content for health law & compliance professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 23, 2022
The Utah-based nonprofit reported a 46% year-over-year jump in net income for the first six months of the year.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 23, 2022
Sponsor: Veritas/AWS Primary topic: Privacy & Security Topic: Privacy & Security Telehealth Resource Central: On Demand Webinars External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: Expanding and protecting healthcare data in the cloud Region Tag: Global Edition Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed
Electronic Health Reporter
AUGUST 23, 2022
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Technology has revolutionized almost every aspect of life and the pharmaceutical industry doesn’t stay untouched. Between 2010 and 2019, the development and approval of the new drug for sales increased by 60 percent and technology […]. The article Modern Technology: A Transformation of Drug Research appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
HIPAA Journal
AUGUST 23, 2022
The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center has issued a warning about social engineering and voice phishing (vishing) attacks on the healthcare and public health (HPH) sector. In cybersecurity terms, social engineering is the manipulation of individuals by malicious actors to further their own aims. It is a broad term that covers many different types of attacks, including phishing, spear phishing, whaling, baiting, vishing, callback phishing, SMS phishing (smishing), deepfake software,
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Electronic Health Reporter
AUGUST 23, 2022
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Practitioners and hospital administrators understand the need to retain staff and reduce turnover rates. According to a 2016 study published in Frontiers in Psychology, a reduction in staff density harms the quality of treatment and […]. The article Using Technology To Improve Clinical Staff Retention appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 23, 2022
What You Should Know: – Cedars-Sinai Accelerator , today announced its eighth accelerator class of ten new digital health startups. – From digital health mental health services to wearable devices to manage chronic asthma, these innovative healthcare-focused startups are working to transform health and healthcare delivery as part of the Los Angeles-based accelerator program.
HealthIT Answers
AUGUST 23, 2022
With 18% of healthcare workers having left their jobs and another 12% being laid off, what are the solutions for healthcare as a whole? You can’t open a paper, magazine, or watch news and not hear about the crisis that has evolved. This is our Talent Tuesday Workforce edition. The post Talent Tuesday: The Healthcare Workforce appeared first on Health IT Answers.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 23, 2022
What You Should Know: – Oak Street Health , a network of value-based primary care centers for adults on Medicare and the only primary care provider to carry the AARP name, is now welcoming patients at the new Rolling Hills Square center at 7040 East Golf Links Road in Tucson. – This is Oak Street Health’s ninth center in Arizona. Oak Street Health Background.
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Medisys Compliance
AUGUST 23, 2022
Physicians and Healthcare Providers across the US are always in need of excellent attention to their revenue cycle management, which cannot be disregarded in any situation. The new standards and coding revisions, however, may have a detrimental effect on the reimbursement on the claims submitted. Managing this challenging revenue cycle issues by outsourcing medical billing services works out to be a great option for many providers.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 23, 2022
What You Should Know: – David Larsen, healthcare IT and digital health analyst at BTIG published a note highlighting his preview for health-tech Q2 earnings. – Given high inflation rates, costs for traveling nurses, and light volumes in 2Q:22, he is cautious on stocks that sell into the acute care market in the near term. An Overview. According to the report, there are many macro headwinds that continue to affect the HCIT sector and the broader market, including inflationary pricing
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 23, 2022
This week I’m attending the The Civitas Networks for Health 2022 Annual Conference, a Collaboration with the DirectTrust Summit, which I previously described as The Woodstock of Healthcare Interoperability. I’m happy to say that it’s lived up to billing with an incredible group of people who understand the challenges of health data exchange.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 23, 2022
What You Should Know: – Plume , a provider of virtual care services purposefully designed for the health care needs of the transgender community raises $24M in Series B funding led by led by Transformation Capital with participation from General Catalyst and Townhall Ventures. – Plume plans to use the latest round of funding to fulfill its mission to transform health care for every trans life by creating access to high-quality, safe gender-affirming care.
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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.
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 23, 2022
Of all industries, health care above all should provide accessible web sites to support people with disabilities or special needs. Our field deals disproportionately with the elderly and with people who suffer a range of disabilities, physical and mental. Furthermore, the field is getting more and more digital with wellness sites, telehealth, and fitness devices—so making them accessible is crucial to making health care accessible.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 23, 2022
Wes Wright, Chief Technology Officer at Imprivata. From the development of the EMR to the growth of telehealth, the digital environment for healthcare has evolved tremendously over the last few years. So, it’s no surprise that IT spending is set to increase by 12.3% for cloud computing, 9.7% , for digital transformation, and 9.7% for security software this year.
Digital Health News
AUGUST 23, 2022
Matthew Gould, who headed up the now disbanded NHSX, is due to be announced as the director general of the charity, The Sunday Times has reported.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 23, 2022
Sridhar Nemala, co-founder and the Head of AI at Curie AI. There are an estimated 16 million Americans who suffer from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Patients with COPD are frequently prescribed respiratory medication and given at-home treatment strategies designed to improve general wellness and improve airflow. These strategies may include smoking cessation, air quality control, exercise, and stress management.
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HIPAA Journal
AUGUST 23, 2022
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has recently discovered that unauthorized individuals have gained access to one of its information systems. The compromised system contained medical information on all individuals who had been tested for COVID-19 between June 2020 and January 2022, including staff members, visitors, and other individuals, although not inmates.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 23, 2022
Also: Decentralized clinical trial startup Curebase names vice president of clinical operations, and digital opioid use disorder-treatment company Ophelia hires a chief technology officer.
Digital Health News
AUGUST 23, 2022
NICE has issued its first recommendation through its through its Early Value Assessment pilot project for the KardiaMobile 6L.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 23, 2022
Formerly known as IDx, the company received FDA De Novo clearance in 2018 for its IDx-DR system used to detect diabetic retinopathy.
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Digital Health News
AUGUST 23, 2022
Dr Martin Farrier explains why mobilised data is the most valuable tool in healthcare and that this will especially be the case in an ICS context.
Med-Net Compliance
AUGUST 23, 2022
The United States reached a settlement with a not-for-profit healthcare organization headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, which operates nine hospitals in East Tennessee. In a complaint filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, a complainant, who is deaf, alleged that he was denied effective communication under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) during emergency department visits and an in-patient hospital admission at one of the organization’s hospitals.?.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 23, 2022
UnitedHealth Group, CVS and Option Care Health are also in the running, reports say.
The Health Law Firm Blog
AUGUST 23, 2022
By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On June 15, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court said the federal government improperly cut more than $1 billion a year in Medicare reimbursements to hospitals. This came in a ruling that limits regulators’ power to control what the program pays for certain [.].
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