Tue.May 17, 2022

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What can Europe to do bridge the digital health divide?

Healthcare It News

Policy-makers in the EU are promoting an array of digital health programs, such as the European Health Data Space unveiled earlier this month. But lack of awareness and knowledge could stymy their impact. Kristine Sørensen, a digital health literacy expert based in Denmark says digital health literacy varies across countries, regions — even within families.

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Oscar faces shareholder lawsuit alleging it misled investors

Healthcare Dive

The insurer is accused of failing to disclose the potential negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on its business before its March 2021 IPO.

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How advanced analytics can help solve SDOH problems

Healthcare It News

The pandemic has shone a spotlight on longstanding issues with healthcare inequities due to underlying social determinants of health issues, such as living in a food desert, a lack of reliable transportation and unequal access to care. However, many in health IT contend that healthcare provider organizations can use advanced analytics to surface key insights about their patient populations and take action to ensure all patients have equal access to high-quality care.

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Humana expanding primary care clinics through second joint venture with PE firm

Healthcare Dive

The payer plans to open about 100 new value-based primary care clinics for Medicare patients between 2023 and 2025 through the latest deal.

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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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Balancing risk management with scalable costs is 'table stakes' for security strategy

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The current cyber environment means that it's often not enough for healthcare delivery organizations to secure their own boundaries – as noted in a Cloud Security Alliance report this week. Health systems must also ensure vendor partners are compliant with privacy and security best practices. Scott Pradels, CEO and cofounder of the virtual care platform Carium, sat down with Healthcare IT News to discuss the importance of effectively evaluating workflow process security and why he beli

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Study: AI deep learning models can predict race from imaging results

Mobi Health News

Authors of the study said the results raise concerns about worsening health disparities, especially when models can detect self-reported race information where human radiologists can't.

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Consumers May Not Be Well Informed About Uses Of Patient Health Data

Healthcare IT Today

Over the last several years, concern has grown among healthcare professionals over the ways patient data is being used, and just as importantly, how well patients understand what those uses are. However, if a new study is any indication, a minority of consumers understand the extent of the health data being shared, and many have […].

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Patient Flow Challenges Contributing to Provider Burnout

HIT Consultant

Ben Sawyer, VP of Market Development at ABOUT Healthcare, Inc. There has been frequent reporting about the problem of provider workforce shortages within hospitals and health systems and the related burnout experienced when working in high-stress situations during the Covid-19 pandemic. There are pre-existing and contributing patient flow challenges that have been exacerbated by the pandemic, which can lead to burnout, and therefore are worth discussing.

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Cyberattacks Reported by Schneck Medical Center, NuLife Med, & FPS Medical Center

HIPAA Journal

The Manchester, NH-based medical equipment company, NuLife Med LLC, has recently announced it was the victim of a cyberattack in March 2022. Suspicious network activity was detected on or around March 11, 2022, and steps were immediately taken to prevent further unauthorized network access. An investigation was launched to determine the nature and scope of the attack and to allow its network and systems to be restored.

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Character Biosciences Raises $18M to Expand Precision Medicine Platform for Diseases of Aging

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Character Biosciences (“Character”) , a precision medicine platform for diseases of aging raises $18M in a new funding round led by Innovation Endeavors , alongside leading life sciences investors Section 32 and Catalio Capital Management. Formerly known as Clover Therapeutics, the company’s data-driven approach integrates genomics, deep phenotyping and machine learning for target and biomarker discovery. – The company will use the funding to advance the front

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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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Healthcare Supply Chain Software Improves Providers’ Work, Promotes Partnership | symplr

Symplr

When a healthcare organization lacks sufficient supplies of personal protective equipment (PPE), pharmaceuticals, medical devices, medical supplies, services, or blood, massive disruptions to business continuity can ensue. The health system’s ability to provide high-quality patient care can abruptly stop. In the healthcare industry, supply chain management is critical.

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Stress Is Playing A Big Role in Consumers’ Food Habits: Food-As-Medicine Update from IFIC

Health Populi

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated consumers, globally, to take on more DIY roles as well as self-care for health and well-being. In addition, anxiety and stress are mainstream across demographics and have impacted the way people select and consume food, based on findings in the 2022 Food and Health Survey from the International Food Information Council (IFIC).

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AvosLocker Claims Credit for Christus Health Ransomware Attack

HIPAA Journal

The Irving, TX-based nonprofit health system, Christus Health, which operates more than 600 healthcare facilities in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, and New Mexico, has announced it has recently identified suspicious activity in its computer systems and blocked an attempted cyberattack. The prompt action taken by the Christus IT team severely limited the scope of the attack and prevented the incident from impacting its patient care and clinical operations.

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Advancing digital therapeutics for mental health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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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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How Well Do You Know Yourself and the Team You Work With? – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 5/20 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Dalton Patterson (@MrDollyPat) from @CorroHealth on the topic “How well do you know yourself and the team you work with?” At the recent #HITMC Conference in Boston, […].

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Digital Health Adoption Across Communities is Uneven By Rurality, Race, Health Plan, and Gender

Health Populi

While telehealth, mobile health apps, and wearable technology are all growing for mainstream consumers, there are gaps in adoption based on where a person lives, their health insurance plan type, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender. Thanks to the team at Rock Health, we know more about these gaps explained in their report, Startup innovation for underserved groups: 2021 digital health consumer adoption insights, published this week.

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Advancing digital therapeutics for mental health

Mobi Health News

With the need for mental health support growing, could DTx be the key to making treatment more accessible?

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OIG Provides Interim Assessment Report of States’ Background Check Program for LTCs 

Healthcare Compliance Blog

Background checks for employees of long-term care (LTC) facilities are an important safety measure that can help protect some of the facilities’ most vulnerable populations. The National Background Check Program, enacted by legislation in 2010, provides grants to states and territories to assist them in developing and improving systems to conduct federal and state background checks of prospective LTC employees.

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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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CHIR Launches New Resource Center for Policymakers on Public Option Proposals

Center for Health Insurance Reform

With the generous support of Arnold Ventures, CHIR experts have launched a new resource center and newsletter to provide policymakers with a dedicated, independent source of unbiased and comprehensive information on public health insurance options and related proposals that promote affordability and contain costs. Find out more. Continue reading → The post CHIR Launches New Resource Center for Policymakers on Public Option Proposals appeared first on Center on Health Insurance Reforms.

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Doctor Anywhere taps cloud communications provider Vonage for enhanced telehealth service

Mobi Health News

It needed a robust video API to cope with the rising demand for video consultations.

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What Are Some Common Types of Healthcare Software?

MedTrainer

As technology continues to grow more advanced and efficient, it’s continued to weave its way into our daily lives. With a simple press of a button, digital programs can handle all sorts of functions that were previously impossible or incredibly time-consuming. From ordering a meal delivery on your phone to quickly organizing a large amount of information, virtual software has helped people in their day-to-day activities and made many aspects of our life much easier than ever before.

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Health Catalyst Acquires ARMUS; Bolsters Clinical Quality Offering and Outsourced Services

Healthcare IT Today

Health Catalyst, Inc. (“Health Catalyst,” Nasdaq: HCAT), a leading provider of data and analytics technology and services to healthcare organizations, today announced that it has acquired ARMUS Corporation, a Silicon Valley-based clinical registry development and data management technology company. ARMUS provides data abstraction, data validation, data management, data submission, and data reporting services to support […].

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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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Four Key Takeaways from the American Society for Health Care Human Resources Administration Annual Conference

Jackson Lewis

The American Society for Health Care Human Resources Administration (ASHHRA) recently held an incredibly useful conference bringing together healthcare human resources leaders from around the country. Here are four key takeaways from that gathering of thought leaders. Employee Engagement Impacts Patient Care and Revenue. While this may seem self-evident to those on the front lines, there also is data to back this up.

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Understanding Compliance for Healthcare Vendors

Provider Trust

Vendors, suppliers, and third-party contractors (often collectively referred to as “vendors”) are an integral part of the healthcare ecosystem. Our research shows, on average, a hospital with 1,000+ employees also contracts with and/or relies upon an even larger network of vendors. So what does that mean for your healthcare organization’s compliance program?

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Compliance Lessons from the Phillies: Own Your Mistakes and We’ve Got Your Back

Health Care Performance

Alec Bohm, a third overall pick in the 2018 draft, is playing his third season with the Phillies. On April 11, against the Mets, Bohm was playing third base and committed three throwing errors early in the game. In the second inning, the Philadelphia fans mockingly cheered Bohm after a clean fielding play for an out. While walking back to third base, the TV broadcast captures Bohm telling shortstop Didi Gregorius, “I *ing hate this place.”.

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Preparing Your Practice for Telehealth Services

Medisys Compliance

Role of Telehealth During COVID-19. Telehealth has proved to be an effective option to fight the outbreak of COVID-19. Telehealth services played a major role in preventing, diagnosing, treating, and controlling diseases during the COVID-19 outbreak. Even though an extended COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) is scheduled for April 16, 2022, policymakers are thinking about extending telehealth flexibilities on a permanent basis.

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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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Should Your Practice Hire a Medical Scribe? Top 3 Things To Consider

NCG Medical Blog

In today’s ever-evolving world where medical practices are swamped with work, finding solutions that are effective at increasing operational efficiency is vital to success. Depending on which facet of your practice you need to streamline, there are a wealth of options to help reduce your workload and maintain operational excellence.

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Cerebral to stop prescribing most controlled substances

Mobi Health News

Cerebral is halting prescriptions such as Adderall and Xanax for current and new patients.

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Washington State Charity Care Requirements Expanded as of July 1, 2022

Hall Render

In March of this year, the Washington State Legislature passed Substitute House Bill 1616, significantly expanding the state’s charity care law. All acute care hospitals licensed under RCW 70.41 and all psychiatric hospitals licensed under RCW 71.12 are subject to Washington State’s charity care law and are required to have a charity care policy in place that is compliant with the law.

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Misleading, Coercive Language in Bills Barring Trans Youth Access to Gender Affirming Care

Bill of Health

By Arisa R. Marshall. On Friday, a federal judge temporarily enjoined part of a new Alabama law that would make it a felony for physicians to provide gender-affirming care to trans youth. The law had been in effect for less than a week. This is only the most recent development relating to a raft of anti-trans legislation sweeping the country. More than twenty bills that would impose life-changing healthcare restrictions on transgender children have been introduced in statehouses nationwide over

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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.