Healthcare Dive
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Many are struggling to afford their private health insurance and are unprepared for a medical emergency, a poll conducted for telehealth provider Babylon showed.
Bill of Health
OCTOBER 26, 2022
By Katie Gu. In the post- Dobbs fight to safeguard reproductive healthcare, a new spotlight has been placed on two existing federal laws: the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA). . Guidance documents issued over the summer by federal agencies emphasize how these laws can be used to protect reproductive health privacy and access.
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Healthcare Dive
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Internal medicine, family practice, clinical psychology, chiropractic and psychology were among the specialties facing the highest turnover in 2021, according to a report from Definitive Healthcare.
Healthcare IT Today
OCTOBER 26, 2022
As most regular readers know, at Healthcare IT Today we go to far too many healthcare IT conferences. Plus, the fall conference season is the busiest time of year for health IT conferences. Just to give you a feel, Colin Hung and myself covered the following conferences: Civitas Networks for Health 2022 Annual Conference, a Collaboration with the DirectTrust Summit.
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Healthcare Dive
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Cigna’s Express Scripts will manage more than $35 billion in annual prescription drug spend for Centene, which will soon be its No. 1 client.
HIPAA Journal
OCTOBER 26, 2022
The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island (ACLU of RI) is taking legal action against the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) and UnitedHealthcare New England (UHC) over an August 2021 data breach that affected more than 22,000 individuals. According to RIPTA, a cyberattack on its systems was detected and blocked on August 5, 2021.
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HealthIT Answers
OCTOBER 26, 2022
By Tammy Hawes - Administrative waste, the excess overhead that occurs primarily due to the complexities between providers and payers including time devoted to billing and reporting, is the largest area of waste and accounts for $266 billion a year. The post Moving Enterprise Systems to the Cloud is Key in Eliminating Waste appeared first on Health IT Answers.
Healthcare Dive
OCTOBER 26, 2022
CFO Steve Filton said that, while he doesn’t believe premium pay will return to pre-pandemic levels in the foreseeable future, a lull in COVID-19 cases could give UHS an opportunity to reduce costs as demand for contract labor drops.
HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 26, 2022
What You Should Know: – AirForce has selected XRHealth , the augmented reality / virtual reality gateway to the healthcare metaverse to evaluate pilots for potential neck injuries. – The Air Medical Unit, one of the highest authorities dealing with airborne conditions, screens pilots before they enter the AirForce and regularly during their service, and has recently started to use the XRHealth AR/VR therapy medical device as a solution to evaluate and monitor neck injuries.
Healthcare Dive
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Value-based care is key to transforming health outcomes and empowering doctors and patients, Texas physician Kevin Spencer argues.
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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.
HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 26, 2022
What You Should Know: – ixlayer , a digital health company on a mission to make health testing more accessible by pairing at-home self-collection testing with digital experiences, announced it is now the platform for CVS Health branded at-home sample collection kits. – Easily accessible to consumers, the easy-to-use kits provide convenient, affordable and quality testing for Vitamin D, Lyme disease, sexually-transmitted infections, and thyroid function – and offer next-best care comm
Healthcare IT Today
OCTOBER 26, 2022
It’s been quite a while since we’ve done a Twitter Roundup and so I thought it would be fun to do one again. This is where we find a couple interesting, thought provoking, or eye popping tweets that you may find interesting and useful. Plus, we add a little commentary to each of them. Today we have an eclectic mix of topics. So much more work to be done #healthtech #healthcare pic.twitter.com/hMdsDUbRRm. — Christopher Brereton (@RootChris) October 26, 2022.
HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 26, 2022
What You Should Know: – Arine – a next-generation medication intelligence company – and Gemini – a drug cost transparency platform – announced an integration that supports Blue Shield of California (Blue Shield) by combining each platform’s unique technology to deliver value-based care. – The collaboration incorporates cost transparency information into Arine’s medication intelligence platform to empower care teams to provide highly personalized, data-driven m
HIPAA Journal
OCTOBER 26, 2022
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has recently provided feedback to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) on the Trade Regulation Rule on Commercial Surveillance and Data Security and has urged the FTC to hold health apps and data brokers accountable for illegal disclosures of health data and unfair or deceptive data practices.
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Healthcare IT Today
OCTOBER 26, 2022
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Hospital Network & Systems Engineer position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Natividad and is in California. Here’s a description of the position: INSPIRING HEALTHY LIVES through community.
HIPAA Journal
OCTOBER 26, 2022
In its October 2022 cybersecurity newsletter, OCR has reminded HIPAA-regulated entities of their obligations with respect to security incidents, including clarifying the breach reporting timeframe and when the clock starts ticking. The number of healthcare data breaches being reported continues to increase. There was an almost 8% increase in reported data breaches of 500 or more records between 2020 and 2021, and a recent Check Point report suggests healthcare data breaches have increased by 69%
Digital Health News
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Millions of people across the globe use the cloud in their everyday life but what benefits could it bring to healthcare? Andrea Downey reports.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 26, 2022
A spokesperson said the company "adjusted staffing levels and other direct expenses caused by current challenges in the economy and market conditions.
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.
Digital Health News
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Steve Barclay has been appointed the new Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, less than two months after leaving the role.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Consumers can use the tests to detect Lyme disease, vitamin D levels, thyroid function and sexually transmitted infections.
Digital Health News
OCTOBER 26, 2022
The next episode of Digital Health Unplugged takes a look on how a shared domain can impact an Integrated Care System (ICS).
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 26, 2022
The health insurer's members will receive free home delivery for common medications through Amazon Pharmacy.
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Med-Net Compliance
OCTOBER 26, 2022
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) has announced that they will be enhancing their focus on potentially preventable hospitalizations of Medicare-eligible skilled nursing facility (SNF) residents. Prior OIG work identified SNFs with high rates of Medicaid enrollee transfers to hospitals for a urinary tract infection (UTI), a condition that is often preventable and treatable in the nursing facility setting without requiring hospitalization.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 26, 2022
The collaboration to deliver the oral antiviral therapy for COVID-19 will launch in the coming weeks.
Jane Sarashon
OCTOBER 26, 2022
What is a “pharmacy” these days? You might have recently walked into a brick-and-mortar retail pharmacy. Or, you might have refilled a prescription to help you manage a chronic condition, online. Or, perhaps, you asked the pharmacist staffing your favorite grocery store Rx counter to give you the latest vaccine to keep COVID-19 variants at-bay.
HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 26, 2022
What You Should Know: – Healthcare system AtlantiCare selected Orbita ’s virtual assistant and conversational AI technology to improve patients’ care access and engagement while automating workloads internally. – AtlantiCare is rolling out the Orbita platform in phases, beginning with web-based digital front door, which went live in September 2022.
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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.
Compliancy Group
OCTOBER 26, 2022
One of the HHS cybersecurity best practices recommends that organizations implement network management processes to improve data security. Network security in healthcare is more important than ever. Healthcare organizations are vulnerable to hacking incidents when they fail to implement network security practices. What is Network Management? Network management is the process of securing and maintaining a network by implementing security practices.
HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 26, 2022
What You Should Know: Evidation , the company that connects directly with individuals to measure health in everyday life, has launched FluSmart, a digital flu monitoring program that brings together individuals, researchers, and public and private organizations to understand flu at its earliest stages. Evidation has developed machine learning detection models to compare flu and COVID and validated and extended this work with collaborators.
HealthIT Answers
OCTOBER 26, 2022
New On Demand Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist: With guest Micha Breakstone, CEO and Co-Founder of Neuralight.ai a company using novel objective and sensitive neurological biomarkers to accelerate neurological trials and increase their success rates. The post Precision Neurology appeared first on Health IT Answers.
HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Shirley H. Lee, CRNP-FNP, MPH, Director of Patient Navigation Program & Nurse Practitioner for Genesis Healthcare Partners. Fear of COVID-19 exposure isn’t the only thing holding patients back from seeking needed care during the pandemic. So are the complexities of navigating life after COVID-19—and it’s a struggle that physicians, who are overworked and burned out, can relate to as well.
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