Wed.May 04, 2022

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Telemedicine reached disadvantaged communities during pandemic, study finds

Healthcare Dive

The results surprised Johns Hopkins University researchers, who said it contrasted with earlier findings showing an inverse link between socioeconomic status and use of telemedicine in the pandemic.

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Misplaced Skepticism on Accountability for War Crimes Against Health Care in Ukraine

Bill of Health

By Leonard Rubenstein. Russian attacks on hospitals, ambulances, and health workers in Ukraine — including more than 180 attacks confirmed b y the World Health Organization, and double that number reported by the Ministry of Health — have gained global attention. In one case, viral photos document the evacuation of pregnant women, including one on a stretcher who later died, from a maternity hospital in Mariupol destroyed by Russian shelling.

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Banner Health invests in surgery center firm Atlas Healthcare Partners

Healthcare Dive

The investment from Banner will help Atlas scale and "grow into a larger national partner for other health systems," the companies announced Tuesday.

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How one grant can enhance care delivery and health education across the board

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In 2020, the Federal Communication Commission's telehealth grant program awarded Decatur County Memorial Hospital in Greensburg, Indiana, $698,603 for remote patient monitoring equipment, a patient telehealth platform, network upgrades, tablets and mobile hotspots. The aim was for the hospital to provide a variety of telehealth options, including remote patient visits to reach a wide range of patients; rehabilitation assessments using telehealth for physical, occupational and speech therapie

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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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Biogen CEO to step down as company pulls back from Alzheimer's drug

Healthcare Dive

Michel Vounatsos, Biogen's CEO since 2017, will be replaced as the company "substantially" eliminates the commercial workforce around Aduhelm, which has generated paltry sales in the face of resistance from insurers and doctors.

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ACP, ATA, ORCHA announce new framework supporting health app safety

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The American College of Physicians, the American Telemedicine Association and the Organization for the Review of Care and Health Applications announced a new framework this week aimed at helping healthcare professionals and patients make informed decisions about digital health tools. The Digital Health Assessment Framework will help analyze technologies including mobile apps and web-based tools used by professionals and consumers.

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The ways the Defense Health Agency works to get servicemembers care

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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HHS Information Security Program Rated ‘Not Effective’

HIPAA Journal

An audit of the Department of Health and Human Services conducted for the HHS’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) to assess compliance with the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA) in the fiscal year 2021 has seen the agency’s security program rated ‘not effective’, as was the case in fiscal years 2018, 2019, and 2020.

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EHR-Enabled Autonomy: Optimization Strategies for Success

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Devan Griner, MD, is board-certified plastic surgeon at Peak Plastic Surgery, based in Provo, Utah. He uses the all-in-one cloud suite from AdvancedMD. Before the pandemic, many private practice physicians faced significant pressure to merge or consolidate with large health systems for survival. Many stayed the course and […].

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AliveCor launches heart health management program and more digital health briefs

Mobi Health News

Also: Pediatric behavioral health company Brightline partners with a youth health education nonprofit to develop teen programs, and digital fitness startup FitOn launches courses for seniors and people with chronic conditions.

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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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Regulated Medical Waste Disposal Solutions for Schools

Sharps Compliance

K-12 schools may generate a variety of regulated medical wastes (RMW) in their on-site health clinics and from staff/student need for EpiPens and diabetes management devices. These wastes shouldn’t be mixed with regular trash or placed in recycling containers. Instead, they must be disposed of according to federal, state, and local regulations.

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Axuall’s CEO Talks Why Health Administrators Should Adopt Robotic Process Automation

HIT Consultant

Charlie Lougheed, CEO & Founder, Axuall. Axuall’s CEO & Founder, Charlie Lougheed shares why health administration teams should embrace the power of robotic process automation (RPA). Built with leading healthcare systems, Axuall is a workforce intelligence company powered by a national real-time practitioner data network. The technology enables healthcare systems, staffing firms, telehealth, and health plans to dramatically reduce onboarding and enrollment time while also providing uniqu

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Cerebral to pause controlled substance prescriptions for new patients

Mobi Health News

The suspension comes as the digital mental health company faces increasing pressure over its prescription practices, particularly for ADHD medications.

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Even When IVF Is Covered by Insurance, High Bills and Hassles Abound

Kaiser Health News

After years of trying to have a baby without success, Brenna Kaminski and her husband, Joshua Pritt, decided to try in vitro fertilization. Only 15 states require insurance to cover fertility treatments, and Florida, where Kaminski and Pritt live, isn’t one of them. Still, the couple’s insurance, from Pritt’s job at an energy company, did — putting them among the fortunate minority of Americans whose insurance plan covers the pricey fertility procedure.

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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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Futura Healthcare: Reducing Labor Costs Without Cutting Staff

Healthcare IT Today

Despite losing staff to the Great Resignation and early retirement, many healthcare organizations are facing higher labor costs. Why? Because of the increased reliance on agencies to bolster remaining staff. Controlling this cost and even weaning off of agencies is possible through a disciplined, evidenced-based approach to staffing. Futura Healthcare is helping its provider clients […].

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Cerebral pauses Adderall, Ritalin prescriptions for new patients

Modern Healthcare

Digital mental health tech company Cerebral isn’t writing prescriptions of Adderall and Ritalin to new patients amid a recent flurry of criticism of its business practices.

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Hello Heart Closes $70M Series D Funding Following Significant Increase in Employers Market Demand for Heart Health Solutions

Healthcare IT Today

The Financing round was led by growth equity firm Stripes, and marks Hello Heart’s leadership in cardiovascular digital therapeutics and proven ability to close gaps in heart health – the number one cause of death in the U.S. Hello Heart, the only digital therapeutic that focuses on heart health, announced that it has raised $70 […].

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ADA Cybersecurity Attack

Total Medical ComplianceHIPAA

In the past week the American Dental Association has confirmed that they fell victim to a cybersecurity event. There is a banner posted on the home page of the website alerting their members of this continuing situation and asking for their patience as the issue is resolved. News outlets are consistently reporting the following information related to the incident: Web-based chat, email and telephone services were all impacted.

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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 Delays but Finalizes Changes on Network Adequacy

C&M Health Law

The final rule implementing “Contract Year 2023 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Programs” is now available for review, and set for publication in the May 9, 2022 Federal Register. The final rule adopts the proposed change that requires initial and service area expansion applicants to submit their proposed contracted networks during the application process.

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Arcadia & Datavant Partner to Accelerate Whole-Person Care & Biopharma Research

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Arcadia and Datavant today announced a partnership to enable de-identified connectivity of Arcadia’s electronic health record data for life sciences research and commercial analytics. – This partnership will unlock fresh insights to accelerate whole-person care and biopharma research, extending Arcadia’s leadership in empowering a data-driven transformation of healthcare. – Datavant will allow clients to connect Arcadia data to other types of Real World

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Navigating Prior Authorizations: 5 Tips to Make Them Easier

NCG Medical Blog

As you and the staff of your medical practice know very well, there are countless steps, factors, and processes required to keep your operations running smoothly and efficiently in order to deliver great care to your patients.

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3 Senior Living Providers Merge to Form Curana Health

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Three leading organizations that provide healthcare services to senior living communities – Elite Patient Care, Provider Health Services, and AllyAlign Health – have joined forces to form Curana Health. Curana Health’s mission is to improve the health, happiness, and dignity of senior living residents. The Curana Health ACO is a value-based care program for original Medicare beneficiaries. – The combined Curana Health organization spans 26 states and over 1000

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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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Establishing a regulatory change management process 

YouCompli

Repeatability and relationships are key to helping your healthcare organization mitigate risk. You know your healthcare organization’s goals: to save and improve lives while delivering healthy financial returns. As a compliance officer, you’re integral to achieving these goals. Implementing strong regulatory change management practices can help you contribute to your organization’s success by mitigating risk.

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Up-and-Coming Women in PE to Know: Caroline Stevens

McGuire Wood

McGuireWoods has long been an avid supporter of the advancement of professional women. As part of our initiative seeking to expand the leadership of women in private equity, we are continuing our series of profiling women leaders in private equity. We are hopeful that this series will serve to inspire other women to pursue their careers in private equity in a way that best challenges and motivates them, which these impressive women have all done.

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Keeping clean to reduce M&A antitrust risk: Three tips for clean teams during due diligence

Health Law Checkup

Increased consolidation in the healthcare sector continues to draw media attention and antitrust scrutiny from a variety of regulators including the Federal Trade Commission, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice and state attorneys general.

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Sign up for MPA's Virtual HIPAA Training!

Health Care Performance

HIPAA is a lot! MPA's e-course makes it easier to keep up with privacy, security, breach notification, and social media. Sign up for MPA's Virtual HIPAA Training Course.

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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.

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Digital therapeutics firm Sidekick lands $55M in Series B round

Mobi Health News

The firm plans to expand its chronic disease treatments across more therapeutic areas.

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ADA Cybersecurity Attack

Total Medical ComplianceHIPAA

In the past week the American Dental Association has confirmed that they fell victim to a cybersecurity event. There is a banner posted on the home page of the website alerting their members of this continuing situation and asking for their patience as the issue is resolved. News outlets are consistently reporting the following information related to the incident: Web-based chat, email and telephone services were all impacted.

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World Password Day 2022 – Password Tips and Best Practices

HIPAA Journal

Thursday, May 5, 2022, is World Password Day. Established in 2013, the event is observed on the first Thursday of May with the goal of improving awareness of importance of creating complex and unique passwords and adopting password best practices to keep sensitive information private and confidential. Passwords were first used to protect accounts against unauthorized access in computing environments in the 1960s.

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Salusive Health Announces Breach, Same Day They Close For Good

Compliancy Group

On April 29, 2022, Salusive Health, doing business as myNurse, alerted patients of a cyberattack – and that it was closing its doors. The cyberattack in question allowed unauthorized access to patient data, although there is no evidence that the information has been shared, posted, or misused. Details of the Salusive Health Breach. According to the breach notice received by patients affected by the Salusive Health breach, the incident was discovered on March 7, 2022.

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Generative AI for Contracts Is Here: New Tools to Accelerate Drafting and Editing

The emergence of generative AI is reshaping the landscape of contract management, enabling businesses to generate and negotiate legal agreements with greater ease and speed. In this on-demand webinar, Hal Marcus, VP of Product Marketing at Evisort discusses how Evisort's generative AI transforms contract creation and negotiation, empowering legal teams to streamline processes while reducing risk.