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Congress poised to address mental health crisis — including fining payers for benefit inequities

Healthcare Dive

"If we're going to respond to the behavioral health issues the pandemic has made worse. that will take legislative action," Senate health committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., said.

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HIMSS Evolves EMRAM to a More Oucomes-Driven Approach

Healthcare IT Today

If you’ve worked in the world of EHR and health IT, then you’re likely familiar with EMRAM (Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model) which was developed and maintained by HIMSS. It’s their flagship maturity model and if you haven’t heard of it, you may have heard a hospital talk about reaching Stage 7 adoption with their […].

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Digital musculoskeletal care is booming. Where does the market go from here?

Mobi Health News

Last year, digital musculoskeletal care and physical therapy companies raked in plenty of investor dollars. Startups say the expensive MSK health sector is ripe for innovation.

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Medidata, Parexel Expands Partnership to Enhance Decentralized Clinical Trial Delivery

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Medidata , a Dassault Systèmes company and Parexel , a global clinical research organization (CRO) focused on development and delivery of innovative new therapies to advance patient health extends their 15-year global strategic partnership. This extension includes gaining access to Medidata’s continued innovations in clinical trial technology solutions with its unified platform, support of decentralized clinical trials (DCTs), the myMedidata patient portal, Sensor C

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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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Labcorp launches new digital diagnostics platform

Mobi Health News

Labcorp OnDemand allows patients to choose tests online without a doctor's visit. Depending on the test, they can either collect samples at home or make an appointment at a Lapcorp location.

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Withings grabs health and fitness app 8fit to dig deeper into consumer-centric tech

Fierce Healthcare

Withings grabs health and fitness app 8fit to dig deeper into consumer-centric tech. rtorrence. Fri, 02/04/2022 - 13:55.

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Investment firm will take SOC Telemed private in deal valued at $300M

Fierce Healthcare

Investment firm will take SOC Telemed private in deal valued at $300M. hlandi. Fri, 02/04/2022 - 11:24.

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German data analytics platform Permea closes first deal with NOVENTI

Mobi Health News

German digital health company Temedica aims to provide new healthcare insights from wearables and apps.

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CEO Jain: How SCAN Health Plan went 'viral' during Medicare open enrollment

Fierce Healthcare

CEO Jain: How SCAN Health Plan went 'viral' during Medicare open enrollment. pminemyer. Fri, 02/04/2022 - 14:05.

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Louisiana Woman Arrested for Stealing from Nursing Home Resident

Healthcare Compliance Blog

A Louisiana woman was arrested on January 31, 2022, for allegedly stealing from a resident where she was employed. The woman is charged with 259 counts of access device fraud, 16 counts of identity theft, and four counts of contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile. It is alleged that between November 18, 2021, and December 30, 2021, the woman used a credit card that was stolen from a resident for 259 transactions.

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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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Hospital CEOs: Workforce shortages outweigh financials as top concern in 2021

Fierce Healthcare

Hospital CEOs: Workforce shortages outweigh financials as top concern in 2021. dmuoio. Fri, 02/04/2022 - 13:46.

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Healthcare Dysfunction and Perspectives – Fun Friday

Healthcare IT Today

Happy Friday everyone! We made it through another week and it’s time to get ready for the weekend. We’re happy to bring you another in our series of Fun Friday articles. Hopefully, these will give you a bit of a laugh and that smile can carry you into the weekend. First up is a surprise […].

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HHS reinforces requirements for providers to give equal care to people with disabilities

Fierce Healthcare

HHS reinforces requirements for providers to give equal care to people with disabilities. rking. Fri, 02/04/2022 - 16:11.

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Roundup: Nostos Genomics raises €5M to speed up genetic disease diagnosis, Canary's rapid test achieves CE mark, and more briefs

Mobi Health News

Plus, PrecisionLife announces first close of Series A financing to progress drug discovery.

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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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Director – Information Technology (IT)

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Director – Information Technology (IT) position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Yakima Valley Memorial and is available in Washington. Here’s a description of the position: ROLE SUMMARY […].

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Coding Guidelines for ACP Procedure Codes

Medisys Compliance

Advance care planning (ACP) is the face-to-face time a physician or other qualified health care professional spends with a patient, family member, or surrogate to explain and discuss advance directives. As part of this discussion, physicians may talk about advance directives (ADs) with or without completing legal forms. An AD appoints an agent and/or records the person’s wishes about their medical treatment based on their values and preferences.

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MedStar Health Launches Patient Experience Platform Powered by b.well

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – MedStar Health launches a new patient experience platform, a patient-focused tool that has the most comprehensive product features available in the region to greatly improve the patient experience and access to care, powered by b.well Connected Health , a Baltimore-based digital health platform company focused on re-imagining the consumer healthcare experience and supporting healthcare stakeholders with their digital transformation efforts. – Using a smartph

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New maps set stage for upcoming elections

Hanys

The new congressional redistricting maps were approved by the New York state Legislature and signed by Gov. Hochul this week. They will be in effect for the primary and mid-term elections this year, and remain in place through 2032. GOP officials have filed a lawsuit challenging the new maps.

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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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Great Hill Raises $4.65 Billion for Eighth Growth Buyout Fund

McGuire Wood

Great Hill Partners has announced the completion of its fundraising for Great Hill Equity Partners VIII with total commitments of $4.65 billion. The fund exceeded the original $3.5 billion target. The fundraise process launched in September 2021. Great Hill Partners , based in Boston, seeks to invest in middle market companies in several sectors, including healthcare technology.

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Healthcare AI Solution Provider Codoxo Raises $20 Million in Oversubscribed Series B Funding Round to Meet Explosive Demand for its Healthcare Integrity Suite

Healthcare IT Today

Funding will support expansion into government agencies and Pharmacy Benefit Managers, and growth among traditional healthcare payers as they tackle payment integrity issues Codoxo, a trusted provider of healthcare artificial intelligence solutions, announced it closed a $20 million oversubscribed Series B funding round to support explosive demand for its Healthcare Integrity Suite of solutions that leverage the […].

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Make your voice heard

Hanys

Save the date for our virtual healthcare advocacy day featuring conversations with key legislators March 2.

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PREP Act Liability Coverage Extended to Pharmacists and Interns for Flu Vaccination

Hall Render

On January 5, 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) published an amendment to its Declaration for medical countermeasures against COVID-19 (the “Declaration”) under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (“PREP Act”). Under the amendment, PREP Act liability protections have been extended to eligible pharmacists who order and administer (and qualified pharmacy interns who administer) seasonal flu vaccinations in jurisdictions where the PREP Act applies

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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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Upcoming events

Hanys

Regional state budget briefings: Day one. Feb. 9. Using APIC's IPC Acuity Scale for crisis situations. Feb. 10. Regional state budget briefings: Day two. Feb. 11. Standing membership call. Feb. 15. Leveraging the emergency department to improve antibiotic use. Feb. 16. HANYS government relations update call. Feb. 18. Models of hospital-homecare electronic health record integration.

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Skilled Nursing Update: CMS Enhances Skilled Nursing Visitation Guidance – Visitor Testing, Air Quality Improvements and CMP Funds Available

Hall Render

As questions, concerns and frustration continue for skilled nursing facilities and families on visitation at facilities, CMS released additional recommendations, clarifications and guidance on a host of issues that skilled nursing providers face as they encounter certain visitation scenarios. On February 2, 2022, CMS updated and added several questions and answers in its December 23, 2021 and January 6, 2022 releases titled “Nursing Home Visitation Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)” (collectiv

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State legislative activity

Hanys

This week, the following chapter amendments passed both houses of the Legislature and are now awaiting delivery to Gov. Hochul: Essential support person for hospitalized individuals (A.8751/S.7884). Screening of newborns for genetic disorders (A.8836/S.7694). Reporting on excessive alcohol consumption and opioid overuse data (A.8776/S.7798). Midwifery birth centers (A.8835/S.7835).

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DOJ Recouped $5.6 Billion Under FCA in 2021

Hall Render

Earlier this week, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced that the United States recovered over $5.6 billion from False Claims Act (“FCA”) cases in the federal fiscal year 2021, “the second largest annual total in False Claims Act history” and more than doubling the FCA recoveries for the DOJ from fiscal year 2020.

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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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Spotlight on Long Island Community Hospital

Hanys

Their collaborative task force improved patient satisfaction in the ED, decreasing door-to-care time and improving care quality. Learn more in our Member Spotlight.

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Eight Common Physician Credentialing Mistakes

Verisys

If you find credentialing uninspiring, consider this cautionary tale. In a frequently cited negligent credentialing case , an Illinois jury awarded the plaintiff nearly $8 million dollars when the patient’s foot had to be amputated due to damage caused by the operating physician who had not completed his 12-month podiatric surgical residency and was not board certified.

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Hall Render’s Health Provider News – February 4, 2022

Hall Render

NATIONAL. 11% of US hospitals critically understaffed, 21% anticipate shortages: Numbers by state. AHA, AHCA/NCAL urge White House to investigate staffing agency costs. Are hospitals getting more aggressive against private practices? CMS clarifies COVID-related LTC survey process. CMS cuts payments to 764 hospitals over patient complications. CMS makes nursing home staffing data available for 1st time.

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What the Healthcare Industry Does Not Want CEOs to Know about Medicare for All

HealthLaw Prof Blog

Joel Kupfersmid (Independent), What the Healthcare Industry Does Not Want CEOs to Know about Medicare for All, SSRN (2022): CEOs in non-healthcare industries are silent in the healthcare debate, yet the cost for employee’s healthcare is, on average, 7.6% of.

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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.