Thu.Feb 02, 2023

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CMS issues 2% MA rate hike for 2024

Healthcare Dive

Trade association AHIP said it was “concerned with the potential adverse impact of the rate notice,” especially in light of other recent regulation seeking to claw back overpayments to MA payers

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Patient data and insights to enable value-based care and improve payment integrity

Healthcare It News

Value-based care is emerging in the healthcare ecosystem, largely due to its ability to offer benefits for everyone from patients to physicians to payers.

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More patients — especially younger ones — are switching providers, survey finds

Healthcare Dive

About 30% of patients selected a new provider in 2021, up from 26% in 2017, according to a new report from Accenture. Gen Zers and millennials were six times more likely to switch providers than older people

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Roundup: NZ names new Health Minister and more briefs

Healthcare It News

Infectious disease doc Verrall named Health Minister A parliament shakeup led by New Zealand's new Prime Minister Chris Hipkins saw Ayesha Verrall taking over health from Andrew Little, who is now handling defence.

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The 2023 Behavioral Health Industry Report

This report explores current issues in the behavioral health industry in 2023. Topics covered include quantitative statistics describing the overall increase in behavioral health issues, the impact of psychologist and staff burnout, how HIPAA compliance is once again at the top of our minds & much more!

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Healthcare industry most common victim of third-party breaches, Black Kite finds

Healthcare Dive

The report comes days after the HHS alerted the sector to a pro-Russian hacktivist group called Killnet, which recently updated its target list to include hospitals and medical organizations in several countries

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Providence forges a new path with a virtual nursing unit

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Virtual nursing is gaining significant momentum as an effective way to redesign and redistribute nursing workload.

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North Queensland GPs get access to Inca's care planning platform

Healthcare It News

The Northern Queensland Primary Health Network is deploying a shared care platform to GPs in North Queensland.

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Digital Health Innovation: The True, Quantifiable Impact On The Industry and Patients

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Dr. Harietta Eleftherochorinou, vice president 0f innovation ventures, IQVIA.

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FTC Issues First Financial Penalty for a Health Breach Notification Rule Violation

HIPAA Journal

The Federal Trade Commission’s Health Breach Notification Rule requires vendors of personal health records and related entities to issue notifications to consumers in the event of a breach of unsecured personal records. The rule took effect in 2009, yet compliance has not been enforced.

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Streamlined Compliance Facilitates Growth for Multi-Specialty ASC

Learn how SurgCenter of Western Maryland improved compliance and streamlined their employee training process with MedTrainer. Eliminate the risk of lost records and save time with MedTrainer's intuitive platform.

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Inovalon Adds All-Payer Claims Management Software To The PointClickCare Marketplace

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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Review of Zebra’s New ET40-HC and ET45-HC Tablets Designed for Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

If you work with devices in healthcare, then you’re likely familiar with Zebra and their line of mobile computing devices. For a number of years, Zebra has had one of the most healthcare focused handheld mobile computing devices the size of a cell phone on the market.

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The Looming End of A Long Redetermination Pause Calls For A Cleareyed Strategy

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Paul Schuhmacher, managing director in the healthcare practice, AArete.

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Hurdle Launches At-Home HbA1c Diagnostic Test to Tackle Diabetes Crisis

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Hurdle , a diagnostics-as-a-service company launches an at-home Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) Test that enables adult consumers to take a simple at-home blood sample to screen and monitor for diabetes.

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HIPAA Compliance Checklist for Mental Health Agencies

Keeping up with compliance can be intimidating, but this checklist can help make your job a little easier! Use this printable checklist to ensure your systems are buttoned up to avoid breaches, HIPAA violations, and other privacy and safety infractions.

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Oxygen Therapy Trend and Outlook for 2023

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Oxygen therapy, or the administration of medical oxygen, has increasingly been used to treat various medical conditions, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cancer, and cystic fibrosis.

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Wildflower Health & HTC Launch Statewide Value-Based Maternity Care Model in NJ

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Wildflower Health and the Healthcare Transformation Consortium (HTC), a collaborative of independent health systems in New Jersey, announced a new partnership to launch a value-based maternity care initiative.

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OSHA Adopts More Aggressive Stance on OSH Act Noncompliance

HIPAA Journal

In late January, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) at the U.S.

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Deciphex Secures €3.9m Funding to Boost Digital Pathology and AI Services

Healthcare IT Today

The company is seeing a ten-fold increase in demand quarterly and this strategic investment will allow them to grow their capacity, increase headcount, further improve services and expand to new markets Deciphex , a leading provider of pathology software and services, announced today a further €3.9m

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The American Benefits Conundrum: Realigning Healthcare Incentives

Speaker: Chris Wolpert, Founder of Group Benefit Solutions

This webinar with Chris Wolpert will expose the hidden misaligned incentives in the employee benefits space and help you modernize your approach to benefits by leveraging technology and communication.

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Co-headline sponsors for Digital Health Rewired 2023 confirmed

Digital Health News

Digital Health is extremely pleased to announce that System C and Graphnet Care Alliance and TPP will once again be co-headline sponsors of Rewired in 2023.

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KillNet, Royal, LockBit: The cybercriminal groups on hospital CISOs' minds

Becker's Health IT

As if healthcare chief information security officers didn't already have enough on their minds, they are now dealing with increasingly sophisticated international cybercriminal and ransomware organizations targeting U.S. hospitals and health systems. Cybersecurity

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Payers, providers clash over scope of CMS review of ACA's essential health benefits

Fierce Healthcare

Payers, providers clash over scope of CMS review of ACA's essential health benefits rking Thu, 02/02/2023 - 17:40

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The New Year Brings New Laws for Pregnant and Nursing Employees

Hall Render

While employers have been subject to a number of laws and regulations impacting pregnant and nursing employees for some time, two new laws expand the rights of pregnant employees and nursing mothers in the workplace, ostensibly filling in gaps left by earlier legislation: the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (“PWFA”) and the Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers Act (“PUMP Act”).

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2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Contract Life Cycle Management Report

Gartner has positioned Evisort in the Visionaries Quadrant of the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contract Life Cycle Management. Read the report to learn why Evisort is a Visionary provider in the market.

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Patients overestimate how well they recall diagnoses, care after discharge: study

Fierce Healthcare

Patients overestimate how well they recall diagnoses, care after discharge: study dmuoio Thu, 02/02/2023 - 16:44

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CMS’s Final Rule on Medicare Advantage Risk Adjustment Data Validation

Health Law Advisor

On February 1, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule outlining its audit methodology and related policies for its Medicare Advantage (MA) Risk Adjustment Data Validation (RADV) program.

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CMS seeks to make quality measures more ‘universal’ in rollout of new program

Fierce Healthcare

CMS seeks to make quality measures more ‘universal’ in rollout of new program rking Thu, 02/02/2023 - 11:51

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President Biden Announces the End of the COVID-19 Emergencies: The Health Care Industry Has Less Than Four Months to Prepare

Health Care Law Brief

After multiple extensions over the past three years, on Monday, January 30, 2023, President Biden announced that the COVID-19 national emergency and public health emergency (“ PHE ”) will officially end on May 11, 2023.

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Top 3 Data Privacy Challenges for Contract Compliance in 2022

The data privacy landscape is quickly becoming fragmented with dozens of new laws. Outdated compliance practices expose businesses to issues that can cost millions of dollars. Download this paper to find out how contract intelligence can help.