Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The following is a guest article by Kate Barecchia, Global Data Privacy Officer at Imperva. For many of us, change is hard. In cybersecurity, change is essential to defeat two of the most common causes of data breaches: the ever-evolving attack styles of hackers and human error. New products and features designed to protect data from the latest attack vectors and human errors are released regularly.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The acquisition, which closed without a challenge from regulators, gives Amazon a footprint in primary care and reinvigorates the company’s long-held plans to sell healthcare services to employers.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

By Sharona Hoffman As state and federal public health authority erodes, employers may increasingly find themselves playing a central role in promoting public health. For example, during the COVID-19 pandemic, many employers either incentivized or required employees and customers to be vaccinated and/or masked even in the absence of federal and state mandates.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

LHC will become part of UnitedHealth’s health services arm Optum to help deliver integrated care, as demand for home and community care increases.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Baptist Memorial will deploy LockDeep's advanced telehealth technology throughout its system of 22 affiliate hospitals. WHY IT MATTERS The collaboration utilizes LookDeep's Clinical Action Platform, built on modern SOC2 Type II audited software, to provide Baptist Memorial's nurses, therapists, doctors and others with a way to continuously monitor patients at every moment of their hospital journey, according to the announcement.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Jennifer Bollinger will be the first to serve in the newly created position within nonprofit Sutter Health.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A judge said Cigna “would suffer irreparable harm absent a temporary injunction” and that it was “inevitable” that the employee, Amy Bricker, would share or use Cigna’s trade secrets while at CVS.

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Rapid RV/LV uses AI to calculate the ratio between the right and left ventricles, an indicator of pulmonary embolism severity.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

January is usually one of the quietest months of the year for healthcare data breaches and last month was no exception. In January, 40 data breaches of 500 or more records were reported to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights, the same number as in December 2022. January’s total is well below the 53 data breaches reported in January 2022 and the 12-month average of 58 data breaches a month.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Costly discharge delays highlight need for more downstream care options, New York group's analysis shows dmuoio Wed, 02/22/2023 - 12:48

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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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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

What You Should Know: – BrightInsight announced that ixlayer has joined the BrightInsight Ecosystem , a network of more than 20 of the world’s leading healthcare and technology companies driving growth and adoption of digital health solutions. – The BrightInsight Ecosystem of partners collaborates to solve healthcare’s biggest challenges to drive digital innovation, adoption and engagement.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Hospital lobby urges FTC to withdraw or add healthcare exceptions to sweeping noncompete ban dmuoio Wed, 02/22/2023 - 15:55

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MedTrainer

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Raghu Reddy, MBA, says his peers do not realize how much time and money they are wasting sticking to paper processes. He calls it a missed opportunity. Reddy is the Chief Administrative Officer at SurgCenter of Western Maryland , where he is responsible for the overall strategic direction and operational management of the multi-specialty Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC).

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

What You Should Know: – In the IT advisory space, many firms perform well, but the breadth of their expertise varies—some firms offer many services, while others focus on a specific area. KLAS’s latest report examines the breadth of firms’ validated services as well as client satisfaction and performance consistency. – To provide better transparency into IT advisory services, KLAS has broken them into the following four segments: IT planning and assessment, revenue cycle optimi

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Google Cloud, Redox team up to accelerate data interoperability for health plans, providers and digital health startups hlandi Wed, 02/22/2023 - 08:03

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A lawsuit has been filed against Freehold Township, NJ-based CentraState Healthcare System over its December 2022 ransomware attack, a few days after the health system started sending notification letters to around 617,000 affected patients. The lawsuit alleges CentraState Medical Center was negligent for failing to implement adequate and reasonable safeguards to protect the sensitive data of its patients.

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Healthcare Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Nursing policy management is essential to ensuring quality patient care, yet creating and maintaining health policy presents a significant challenge for most healthcare facilities. Nursing policy protects the patient who receives care and the nurse who gives it. Nursing policy management establishes guidelines for procedures, stipulates the standards of care given, and provides a safe healthcare environment.

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Becker's Health IT

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A report from cybersecurity company Cynet found that 94 percent of chief information security officers suffer from work-related stress, with 65 percent saying the stress compromises their ability to protect their organizations from attacks.

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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.

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

They will offer online mental well-being support to AIA Singapore's corporate employee clients.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Court temporarily bars former Cigna exec Amy Bricker from taking role at CVS pminemyer Wed, 02/22/2023 - 14:35

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

There’s widespread consensus that payments to Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs) are a mess. These programs, which care for more than 30 million of the nearly 64 million Medicare enrollees , operate on the cutting edge of health care and suffer serious problems in data collection and billing. A recent article of mine explored how CMS is using AI to find suspicious payments that deserve investigation.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Role of resiliency in weathering COVID pandemic weighed in VA mental health study fdiamond Wed, 02/22/2023 - 13:26

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Lead Data Architect – Healthcare position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Vytalize Health and is remote in the US. Here’s a description of the position: Lead Data Architect – Healthcare (Remote) About Our Company Vytalize Health is a leading value-based care platform for seniors that has raised over $70 million in

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Multiple news outlets reported late Wednesday the Federal Trade Commission wouldn't sue to block the deal, but it would continue its investigation.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

New procurement model needed to alleviate healthcare challenges jpiatt Wed, 02/22/2023 - 15:00

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The Copenhagen-based digital health company will work with Novartis to build digital health tools for chronic conditions where they see unmet needs and the potential for disease progression.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Study: Protection from prior COVID infection almost as good as vaccines fdiamond Wed, 02/22/2023 - 15:03

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NEJM

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In this episode of “Intention to Treat,” a study participant and a long-time investigator of hallucinogenic drugs for psychiatric conditions illuminate the effects of psilocybin in patients with depression.

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Digital Health News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Jump has been awarded a £690,000 contract from NHS England to develop a healthcare-specific carbon engagement tool designed to support NHS Net Zero efforts.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Chartis Group: Medicare Advantage's growth is slowing.

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