Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
The health insurer sees Medicare Advantage as an area for future growth, despite selling the division for $3.7 billion earlier this week. Cigna’s CEO called the sale a “win-win” on a call with investors Friday.
Bill of Health
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
By Eiko I. Fried and Michiel van Elk Much optimism has been expressed about the potential of psychedelics to treat mental health problems such as suicidal ideation, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder. This optimism goes hand in hand with a notable increase in research publications, investments from pharmaceutical companies, patent filings, media exposure, as well as shifts in political and legislative landscapes.
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Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
The Renton, Washington-based nonprofit health system will refund millions to settle allegations it skirted charity care obligations between 2018 and 2023.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago has been working through a “cybersecurity matter” since Wednesday that has led the organization to take its phone, email and Epic MyChart systems offline, accor | Illinois' largest pediatric care provider said it took down its systems preemptively on Wednesday, leading to disruptions across its hospital and other locations.
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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?
Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Programs could begin some medication treatment via telehealth under the rule, which the agency argues will remove transportation barriers and expand access to care.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
The pandemic acted as a catalyst, propelling virtual care to the forefront of healthcare delivery. | The pandemic acted as a catalyst, propelling virtual care to the forefront of healthcare delivery.
Health Care Compliance Brief brings together the best content for health law & compliance professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Optum Perks is rolling out a new telehealth solution that aims to make it easier for patients to secure their prescriptions at a low cost. | Optum Perks is rolling out a new telehealth solution that aims to make it easier for patients to secure their prescriptions at a low cost.
Becker's Health IT
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Learn about the recent cybersecurity incident at Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and how they are working to minimize disruptions and address patient need.
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
As we continue to push the world of healthcare forward with innovation and digital transformations, it’s important to remember to do so safely. All of our progress is for naught if we can’t use any of it without breaking regulations or if it puts our patient’s safety at risk. This leaves us with one very important question. How can professionals in Health IT foster innovation and drive digital transformation within healthcare organizations while balancing the need for regulato
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
When Florida Blue announced this week that it’s partnering with Sanitas Medical Center in Jacksonville to deliver primary care, officials with the company considered it in keeping with a healthcare | Among the primary care services to be offered at Sanitas Medical Center in Jacksonville are onsite pharmacy dispensing, chronic condition management, mental health services, labs and imaging.
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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.
Symplr
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Supply chain management in healthcare has evolved from straightforward purchasing into a profession where cost, quality, and safety intersect to form a complicated framework of responsibilities. As the healthcare industry has grown, so too has the area of responsibility for the supply chain manager, and vendor compliance management has become crucial to keep healthcare organizations secure.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Renton, Washington-based Providence has cut a deal to refund or erase $157.7 million in medical care payments following allegations and a lawsuit from its home state’s attorney general that the lar | The nonprofit health system's deal with the Washington State Attorney General over allegations it billed patients who may have qualified for charity care is "the largest resolution of its kind in the country.
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
A Crop of New Investors Joins Existing Financiers such as AI Powerhouse NVIDIA Artisight, Inc. , a smart hospital platform powered by industry-defining artificial intelligence to provide virtual care, quality improvement, and care coordination solutions, announced today that it raised $42 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round. Multiple new strategic and client health system investors participated in the round, as well as full participation from Series A investors, including chipma
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
The company's new product, Visage Ease VP, will allow users to examine diagnostic images in an immersive world via Apple's augmented reality headset.
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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.
The Health Law Firm
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law Have you received a letter or e-mail from the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) organization accusing you of "Irregular Behavior" on a Step Exam? The USMLE Secretariat, the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) and the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG), have recently been contacting many different applicants who have taken a Step examination and, without good
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
While promising opportunities are arising for healthcare chief financial officers, there may also be formidable challenges ahead. | While promising opportunities are arising for healthcare CFOs, there may also be formidable challenges ahead. This insight comes from a BDO Healthcare CFO outlook report, which reveals that approximately 80% of healthcare CFOs expect improved profitability in 2024 after experiencing a similar upturn in 2023.
Digital Health News
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Pharmacy2U is now able to see patients about six common ailments, to help relieve pressure on busy GPs, with the NHS Pharmacy First service.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
The Cigna Group beat the Street on both profit and revenue in the fourth quarter, where it reported $1 billion in earnings. | The Cigna Group beat the Street on both profit and revenue in the fourth quarter, where it reported $1 billion in earnings.
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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.
Digital Health News
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Acurable's AcuPebble has been trialled at the University of Warwick to determine if it can help speed up the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnoea.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Artificial intelligence can help identify easy to miss patients who might be good candidates for a palliative or hospice care referral, a recent pilot at Mass General Brigham (MGB) revealed. | The pilot at Newton-Wellesley Hospital relied on an AI-driven tool from Radial. Over the course of the pilot, 9% of 1,522 MSSP ACO patients were recommended for a consult by the tool and 40 got inpatient palliative consults with the potential to generate notable savings for the ACO.
Digital Health News
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, one of the UK’s largest, has selected Nervecentre’s next-gen EPR to drive forward its digital capabilities.
HIPAA Journal
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
The LockBit ransomware gang has added Chicago’s Saint Anthony Hospital to its data leak site and is demanding a ransom payment of almost $900,000 from the nonprofit hospital to prevent the release of the stolen data. Earlier this week, Saint Anthony Hospital confirmed that it was still investigating the attack, which was detected on December 18, 2023.
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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.
Digital Health News
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Medichecks and My Menopause Centre have partnered opening up access to diagnostic blood testing for the latter's patients.
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
The following is a guest article by Tom Magnotta, COO & President at Apixio Albert Einstein famously said , “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” This quote lies at the heart of integrity, a powerful concept that applies equally critically in the healthcare payments environment as it does in daily life.
Digital Health News
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Today's briefing covers the use of AI to create personalised cancer therapies and the UK Sepsis Trust welcoming new NICE sepsis guidelines.
HIPAA Journal
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has ordered South Carolina-based Blackbaud to implement a raft of security measures and enforce its data retention policies to ensure that customer data is not retained any longer than it is needed. Blackbaud is a customer relationship management software provider, whose software is used by 35,000 fundraising entities, including many nonprofit healthcare organizations to increase philanthropic revenue.
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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.
HealthIT Answers
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
By Art Gross - The healthcare industry faces rising cybersecurity risks that threaten patient safety and care. According to HHS, large healthcare data breaches are up 93% from 2018 to 2022, increasingly involving ransomware. The post Securing Healthcare from Cyber Threats: An HHS Strategy Update appeared first on Health IT Answers.
HIPAA Journal
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
SparkPost is not HIPAA compliant because the terms and conditions of the now rebranded service prohibit violations of “any legal, regulatory, self-regulatory, governmental, statutory requirements of codes of practice”. As SparkPost lacks the safeguards to comply with HIPAA, any use of the service that discloses Protected Health Information (PHI) would be a violation of HIPAA.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Talkspace, an online therapy company, has teamed up with Bicycle Health, a virtual opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment provider, to expand access to care for their patient populations through refer | For Talkspace patients, the partnership will increase access to opioid use disorder specialty care, including medications. For Bicycle Health patients, the partnership will increase access to therapists specializing in areas outside substance use disorder.
American Medical Compliance
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
One of the leading causes of pregnancy-related maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality globally is still hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP). The following Comprehensive Management of Maternal Hypertension Training is designed to educate healthcare providers on hypertension. What you will learn: Risk factors for developing hypertensive disorders during pregnancy Diagnostic criteria for hypertensive disorders during pregnancy Pharmacological management of hypertension in pregnancy Signs
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In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.
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