Healthcare It News

APRIL 28, 2022

Cost is a major determining factor for patients deciding whether to pick up prescriptions from the pharmacy. When medications are too expensive, patients may abandon them, regardless of how important they are to their health. THE PROBLEM. The impact of non-adherence is dire in terms of patient outcomes, with up to 125,000 avoidable deaths attributed to non-adherence every year, according to a New England Journal of Medicine study.

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 28, 2022

The lab and medtech groups joined a coalition of more than 60 organizations warning congressional leaders the funding expiration puts “the most vulnerable” Americans at risk of losing resources to diagnose new infections.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 28, 2022

Irvine, CA-based Smile Brands, a provider of support services for dental offices, has recently provided an update on the number of individuals affected by a ransomware attack that was discovered on April 24, 2021. The attackers gained access to parts of its system on April 23, 2021, that housed files that contained individuals protected health information, including names, addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, financial information, government-issued ID numbers,

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 28, 2022

Still, those costs were almost entirely offset by members cutting back on healthcare visits, a common trend throughout the pandemic, CEO Joe Zubretsky said Thursday.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 28, 2022

What You Should Know: – Komodo Health , a company delivering patient-level insights by dynamically analyzing the broadest array of data across patients, practitioners, and health systems. today announced a new partnership with AppliedVR , the leader in therapeutic virtual reality (VR) for pain management. – Using Komodo’s technology, AppliedVR will combine its proprietary insights with Komodo’s real-world data to conduct clinical research into the efficacy, cost savings, and health s

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 28, 2022

The biotech's shot would become the first available to children under 6, the last remaining age group currently ineligible for vaccination.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2022

I like to highlight qualitative, disruptive change in my health IT articles. The REVEAL FGS binocular (Figure 1), which allows safer surgeries on brain tumors, meets that criterion on several levels. The binocular is easier to use than previous solutions to the problem and is radically adapted to surgeon’s workflows. And a quantitative change–as a […].

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 28, 2022

Sudish Mogul, Chief Technology Officer of Healthcare Triangle. Across life sciences, experts boldly predict that data is the new currency—and that mobilizing data from clinical trials, wearable devices and even social media will ignite innovation in 2022. But leveraging data for innovation depends not just on data analytics, but also access to the right data and timely analysis.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2022

Yesterday, we took a broad view of RPM (remote patient monitoring) including some of the pressures it faces and the reasons many healthcare organizations are embracing RPM. Today we want to look at some of the challenges that RPM still faces going forward and what it will take to overcome those challenges. As we partially […].

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 28, 2022

What You Should Know: – South Carolina’s largest health system Prisma Health adopts Philips software solutions for patient monitoring and enterprise imaging, helping to drive interoperability and data analytics, and deliver on Quadruple Aim. – The partnership reflects today’s growing trend of long-term strategic partnerships (LSPs) within hospitals and health systems to better manage the cost and complexity of their technology investments over a defined period of time while expanding

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 28, 2022

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 28, 2022

What You Should Know: – Femtech startup Ruth Health providing progressive telehealth and comprehensive care platform built for women by women announced it has raised $2.4M seed funding round led by Giant Ventures , with participation from Citylight VC , Cleo Capital Scout Fund , Crista Galli Ventures , Duro VC , Emmeline Ventures , Gaingels , Global Founders Capital , Pentas Ventures , SOMA Capital , Techstars , Torch Capital , YCombinator , and various strategic angels.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 28, 2022

The virtual care giant reported a $6.7 billion loss in the first quarter, driven by a non-cash goodwill impairment charge related to its 2020 Livongo deal.

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Hall Render

APRIL 28, 2022

A North Carolina dental practice (“Practice”) has been fined $50,000 following a Notice of Final Determination regarding a violation of the HIPAA Privacy Rule. In the Notice of Proposed Determination , the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) stated that a patient visited the Practice in 2013 and 2014 to receive dental treatment.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2022

Four in five U.S. physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. This report provides insightful context for the upcoming annual ATA Conference for 2022 , being held in-person in Boston kicking off May 1st.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

APRIL 28, 2022

A US Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigation in September 2017 found that a Maryland assisted living facility company violated the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The division found the company paid caregivers and technicians less than the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, which is an FLSA violation. Some workers were paid a day rate of $65 per day for 12 hours of work, which is less than $5.42 per hour.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 28, 2022

The startup's offerings include pelvic floor therapy, C-section recovery and lactation consulting.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 28, 2022

What You Should Know: – Intelligent medical optimization company Arine has been awarded has been selected for Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) $40M global program supporting organizations that are developing solutions to reduce health inequities. The latest funding will be used to support NotiSphere’s hiring to expand adoption across the industry and enable scalability to support the rapidly growing number of users. – Arine’s proprietary tech platform analyzes comprehensive dat

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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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Symplr

APRIL 28, 2022

For quality professionals, job number one is jumpstarting healthcare quality initiatives that took a back seat during the height of COVID-19. As hospital staff were stretched thin and supply chains were disrupted—and still are in many places—the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) even temporarily suspended quality reporting requirements for Medicare quality programs in 2020.

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NCG Medical Blog

APRIL 28, 2022

Is your practice constantly having patients not show up for their appointment? No matter how frequently or infrequently this might be happening at your practice, it’s cause for concern and can heavily impact your healthcare revenue cycle if no changes are made to address these no-show appointments.

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Health Care Performance

APRIL 28, 2022

Dr. U. Phillip Igbinadolor, D.M.D. & Associates received a $50,000 civil monetary penalty after his practice disclosed patient PHI in its response to a negative online review. The practice did not respond to the OCR’s data request, did not respond to an administrative subpoena, and did not contest the findings in the OCR’s Notice of Proposed Determination.

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McGuire Wood

APRIL 28, 2022

KKR has announced it has closed its newest fund, KKR North America Fund XIII, with $19 billion. The fund, which will focus on pursuing private equity investments in North America, was oversubscribed. The private equity platform of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) & Co. , which is based in New York, considers investments in all industries, including healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2022

Fathom is the first medical coding automation company to receive investment from a national physician group Fathom, the leader in AI medical coding automation, announced it received a strategic investment from Inflect Health, the innovation hub of Vituity, one of the largest physician-led provider groups in the United States. Fathom will use the investment to […].

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 28, 2022

It plans to develop an in-house cloud platform.

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Florida Health Care Law Firm

APRIL 28, 2022

Medical malpractice statutes and limitations are not straightforward. This ambiguity can serve to protect both the patient and the medical professionals who are doing their best to help their patients with the knowledge and resources that are accessible. The clock starts ticking at the time medical care is provided, but another clock starts ticking on the day the patient realizes there are problems that could indicate malpractice.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 28, 2022

Also, study finds digital physiotherapy app is clinically effective.

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Hall Render

APRIL 28, 2022

The United States Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced a settlement with a dental practice (“Practice”) which has agreed to pay $62,500 to settle potential violations of the HIPAA Privacy Rule, as well as to take corrective action after impermissibly disclosing patient PHI to a political campaign manager and a marketing company for purposes related to a state senate campaign.

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CMS.gov

APRIL 28, 2022

April marks the 10-year anniversary of the start of the agreement period for the first Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (Shared Savings Program) – an ambitious program to reward health care providers for improving health care for people with Medicare. The program now includes 483 ACOs with over 525,000 participating clinicians serving more than 11 million Medicare beneficiaries.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 28, 2022

What You Should Know: – NotiSphere , a healthcare technology startup focused on transforming the medical recall alert process by directly connecting suppliers to recall coordinators at healthcare organizations, today announced a $3.6 million Series Seed round led by Royal Street Ventures , with participation from Okapi Ventures , Stage Venture Partners , Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund , Coelius Capital , Supernode Ventures and Cedars Sinai Health Ventures.

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Kaiser Health News

APRIL 28, 2022

Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on Acast. You can also listen on Spotify , Apple Podcasts , Stitcher , Pocket Casts or wherever you listen to podcasts. The week that Dr. Anthony Fauci declared the pandemic part of covid-19 over was also the week Vice President Kamala Harris and two Democratic members of the Senate tested positive for the virus.

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