Mon.Oct 10, 2022

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Hospitals are hiding prices from patients, advocacy report says

Healthcare Dive

Patient Rights Advocate concluded that some hospitals owned by Ascension and HCA Healthcare are omitting rates for medical services from files made public under new federal rules.

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We All Stand to Benefit from Biden’s $2 Billion Bet on the Bioeconomy

Bill of Health

By Matthew Chun. Business is bustling for biotechnology and biomanufacturing. On September 12, 2022, President Biden signed an executive order , launching a “whole-of-government approach to advance biotechnology and biomanufacturing.” And two days later, he backed it up with a national summit and a $2 billion spending plan. But who stands to benefit from this large commitment of federal money?

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CVS tags Optum exec to lead new healthcare delivery division

Healthcare Dive

Effective Oct. 17, Amar Desai will lead the new CVS unit, and will work to link CVS’ portfolio to develop payer-agnostic products and services.

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Securing the edge: How Advantech and Microsoft are improving healthcare IoT security

Healthcare It News

Sponsor: Advantech Primary topic: Patient Engagement Topic: Patient Engagement Privacy & Security Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Sponsor: Advantech.

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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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Fewer MA plans with Part D earn 4 stars in latest CMS tally

Healthcare Dive

Just over half of plans received four stars or more for 2023, a sharp decrease from 68% last year.

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Windows IoT for healthcare

Healthcare It News

Sponsor: Advantech Primary topic: Privacy & Security Topic: Patient Engagement Privacy & Security Resource Central: On Demand Webinars External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Sponsor: Advantech.

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Telemedicine boosts access, decreases inequities in Montana

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Montana has unique challenges in providing healthcare to its widely dispersed population of just over 1 million people. THE PROBLEM. Out of 56 counties in Montana, 55 are designated as Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs), limiting access to both urgent and routine medical visits. The cost of travel and long distances between healthcare providers and patients are commonly cited reasons for patients to delay or avoid medical care.

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Top 10 FAQs on Outsourcing Mental Health Billing

Medisys Compliance

Does your mind have lingering thoughts about outsourcing mental health billing to a reputed mental health billing company? You’re not alone and wrong for thinking in this direction. We have crafted the top asked questions to ensure that you can make a sound decision. Let’s jump right in, shall we? 1. Is mental health billing expensive? At the very heart of your decision, you’re picking a mental health billing company to streamline your revenue management cycle, skyrocket revenue and decrease the

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Using telemedicine when it makes sense

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

During the pandemic, organisations across private and public healthcare systems have been rethinking their care delivery models. This is one of the major trends Ronald L. Emerson, Global Healthcare Lead at Zoom, shared virtually in the keynote session, "The Rise of Digital First and Decentralized Healthcare," at the HIMSS22 APAC conference.

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Building a Healthier Future with Real Wireless Power

HIT Consultant

Hatem Zeine, Founder, President and CTO of Ossia. One of the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic has been that healthcare facilities need to scale up operations quickly to respond to a public health emergency and that doing so is a significant challenge. In the early days of the pandemic, hard-hit cities like New York and others had to set up mobile hospital units or access additional capacity through military hospital ships. .

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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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HHS Warns HPH Sector About Abuse of Legitimate Software and Security Tools by Threat Actors

HIPAA Journal

It has become increasingly common for threat actors to use living-off-the-land techniques for conducting reconnaissance, privilege escalation, persistence, and moving laterally within networks undetected. The same software and security tools used by network administrators and red team professionals for legitimate purposes are abused and used to conduct attacks on victims’ infrastructure.

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Indian researchers develop smartphone app that predicts optimal insulin amount

Mobi Health News

It is part of an artificial pancreas system that mimics the human body's closed-loop system for insulin production.

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Why Electronic Health Record Interoperability is a Key Step Toward Fair Drug Prices

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Girisha Fernando, Founder and CEO at Lyfegen. Changes are afoot in the way insurers and governments pay for the drugs and treatments patients need-and a big part of that change includes a move towards value-based contracting, with prices set based on the outcome of treatments. With recent legislation allowing Medicare to negotiate prices, it’s likely that the movement will grow , given the high and constantly rising costs of pharmaceuticals, especially gene th

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AI-based voice screening app in Australia can detect Parkinson's diseases, severe COVID-19

Mobi Health News

It uses voice records of people uttering three sounds that are similar to a Hindu meditation chant.

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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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Oxford Health NHS FT goes live with ePMA solution

Digital Health News

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has rolled out Better Meds' ePMA solution to help streamline its pharmacy processes and save staff time.

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Q&A: How personalized medicine could improve cancer treatment

Mobi Health News

Dr. Oliver Bleck, area head of Europe South at Roche, describes the pharma giant's work in personalized medicine.

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CIO Podcast – Episode 41: Reducing Drug Overdoses with Dave Henderson

Healthcare IT Today

For the 41st episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Dave Henderson, CIO at Millennium Health to talk about reducing drug overdoses. We dive into his work on creating the Emerging Threats Intelligence (ETI) Programs and how he got Involvement from the larger community. Next we take a look at the role of technology and data in the making of ETI Programs.

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PointClickCare launches telemedicine service for skilled nursing facilities

Mobi Health News

The cloud-based software company's platform will connect hospitalists with post-acute and long-term care providers.

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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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Digital Health Networks debate on levelling up and convergence

Digital Health News

Digital Health Networks members tackle the issues of levelling up and convergence policies in the NHS for its second debate.

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Alleva scores $12M to grow behavioral health EHR

Mobi Health News

The startup said it will use the Series A funds to continue developing its software.

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CliniSys completes acquisition of Sunquest, Horizon and Apollo

Digital Health News

CliniSys has announced the completion of the combination of Sunquest, Horizon and Apollo business, now known under the CliniSys brand.

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Hospitalwide outages still plaguing CommonSpirit hospitals

Becker's Health IT

Patients and health providers from numerous subsidiaries of Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health have revealed the ongoing effect of the unidentified IT security incident that reportedly began Oct. 3.

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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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Home Is Where the Health Is: An Update on Connectivity, Food, and Retail

Health Populi

Virtually every closed-door meeting I have had in the U.S. with a client group in the past several months has had a line item on the agenda to brainstorm the impact and opportunity of care-at-home, hospital-to-home, or Care Everywhere. This has happened across many stakeholders in the evolving health/care ecosystem of suppliers, including hospital systems, health plans, grocery chains, retail pharmacy, consumer technology, digital health and tech-enabled providers, pharma and medical supply comp

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CTG Acquires Eleviant Tech to Accelerate Digital Transformation Strategy and Portfolio Innovation

Healthcare IT Today

Acquisition Expands CTG’s Global Network of Offshore Delivery Centers and Digital Solutions. CTG (Nasdaq: CTG), a leader in helping companies employ digital IT solutions and services to drive productivity and profitability in the Americas and Western Europe, today announced that it has acquired Eleviant Tech (Eleviant), a privately owned digital transformation company with expertise in mobile, cloud, web, blockchain, robotic process automation (RPA), and artificial intelligence (AI) technologi

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Virginia Home Healthcare Company to Pay $703K in Overtime Back Wages, Damages

Med-Net Compliance

The US Department of Labor obtained a default judgment to recover $703,609 in back wages and liquidated damages for 38 employees who were denied overtime pay by a Virginia home healthcare company and its owner, who also retaliated against workers for cooperating with federal investigators. The judgment follows an investigation by the Department’s Wage and Hour Division that found the employer and the company’s owner willfully failed to maintain accurate records of all hours worked and paid strai

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Wisconsin Department of Health Services Reports Breach of 12,000 Records

HIPAA Journal

A round-up of healthcare data breaches that have recently been reported to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights, state attorneys general, and the media. Wisconsin Department of Health Services: Accidental Disclosure of PHI via Email. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) has recently confirmed that there has been an accidental disclosure of protected health information via email.

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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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QMS 101: Medical Device Validation

Dot Compliance

The process of ensuring medical equipment will operate safely and correctly is known as medical device validation. Regional regulatory organizations and worldwide standards, which frequently overlap when it comes to product needs, determine the requirements for validation and verification. Each manufacturer employee that works on creating medical equipment must complete the necessary training.

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Right-of-access enforcement actions help patients control their health information  

YouCompli

CJ Wolf. MD provides enforcement action summaries for the YouCompli blog. These summaries provide real-world examples of regulators’ response to practices that don’t fully comply with regulations. This month’s article looks at privacy-related incidents. . Imagine you request your complete medical records from a provider, but you only received a portion of those records.

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Going Beyond the AI Hype in Healthcare Marketing ft. Ryan Younger

HealthIT Answers

Now on demand, Hello Healthcare episode with Ryan Younger, VP of Marketing at Virtua Health. Hear Chris Hemphill’s discussion with Ryan Younger about strategies to be more metrics-driven, agile, and better aligned with each consumer. The post Going Beyond the AI Hype in Healthcare Marketing ft. Ryan Younger appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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How Agencies Adopt Business Process Automation In Contingent Staffing | symplr

Symplr

People and processes power contingent talent management (CTM), which covers per diem and locum tenens staff, as well as travel contractors. But is your agency optimizing resources so people are covering the tasks that require human intervention? If so, you can let technology do the rest. Every part of the contingent staffing journey requires basic and repetitive tasks that must be executed correctly but often are not the highest and best use of your recruiting team’s skills and expertise.

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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.