Healthcare Dive
APRIL 21, 2022
Over 80% of respondents see device security as a competitive advantage and almost every company budgeted more money for it this year. However, 80% view the issue as a "necessary evil" imposed by regulators.
Healthcare It News
APRIL 21, 2022
Automation has a major role in transforming the healthcare experience. For example, many hospitals and health systems use automation to ease the burden of staffing shortages and effectively manage and triage patients at scale. One type of automation is chatbots and related technology that can automate the triage and symptom intake process, along with surfacing education and discharge materials.
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Healthcare Dive
APRIL 21, 2022
Defendants — including doctors, medical business executives and fake vaccination card manufacturers — caused nearly $150 million in false billings to federal programs, the DOJ alleged.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 21, 2022
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York announced Thursday that an orthopedic surgeon had been arrested and charged with healthcare fraud. According to a press release , the surgeon, 56-year-old Dr. Elemer Raffai, is accused of allegedly submitting false claims to Medicare in exchange for kickbacks from telemedicine companies.
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Healthcare Dive
APRIL 21, 2022
The Hive group practices double extortion — demanding payment to free data it has encrypted while also threatening to release the unencrypted data publicly.
Bill of Health
APRIL 21, 2022
By James R. Jolin. The United States is facing an organ donation crisis, with massive gaps between supply and demand. Per estimates from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), over 106,000 Americans are currently awaiting this life-saving medical treatment. Further, the burden of this shortage falls unequally: in 2020, while approximately 48% of white patients in need of transplants received an organ, only 27% of Black patients secured one.
Health Care Compliance Brief brings together the best content for health law & compliance professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Healthcare It News
APRIL 21, 2022
Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed
Healthcare Dive
APRIL 21, 2022
Inpatient payment rates for fiscal 2023 released earlier this week also wouldn't adequately cover rising costs, according to the group purchasing organization.
Mobi Health News
APRIL 21, 2022
The proposed acquisition and research partnership will add?? to the biopharmaceutical giant's growing digital capabilities and bolster its efforts "to pave a new era for digital health".
Healthcare Dive
APRIL 21, 2022
The decision comes 24 years after Trinity and Catholic Health Initiatives first agreed to jointly operate the health system that provides services in Iowa.
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HIPAA Journal
APRIL 21, 2022
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a TLP: WHITE flash alert about the BlackCat ransomware-a-s-a-service (RaaS) operation. BlackCat, also known as ALPHAV, was launched in November 2021, shortly after the shutdown of the BlackMatter ransomware operation, which was a rebrand of DarkSide, which was behind the ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline.
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 21, 2022
“The health of our nation is dependent on the health of our mothers.” – Deborah Kilday Despite persistent efforts to reduce maternal pathology and mortality rates nationwide, the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 births continued to rise through 2019 (a year before the global pandemic would impact these data.) Socio-economically marginalized groups continue to […].
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 21, 2022
WELL Health and OSIS announced this week that they had partnered to provide community health centers and Federally Qualified Health Centers more seamless access to patient communications technology. WELL Health, a communications vendor, says it will offer community health centers in the OSIS network discounted access to its technology platform via the OSIS Partner Program.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 21, 2022
What You Should Know: – Seven Bridges , a bioinformatics ecosystem provider, announced it is collaborating with the University of São Paulo (USP) and Google Cloud, as well as the Associação Genomas Brasil (Brazil Genome Association), to assist the DNA do Brasil (DNABr) project in building a reference genome that represents the genetic diversity of the Brazilian population. – The joint effort will advance unbiased precision medicine for underrepresented populations in Brazil through t
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Electronic Health Reporter
APRIL 21, 2022
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Many cyber gangs list ‘medical organizations’ as non-targets. But, that hasn’t stopped them from executing attacks on hospitals, health delivery organizations, pharmaceutical companies, and other entities in the sector. Since 2020, the health sector has […].
HIT Consultant
APRIL 21, 2022
What You Should Know: Today, NexHealth announced its $125M Series C funding, bringing the company’s valuation to $1B for its patient experience platform. – The funding will support the company in advancing its mission to create a more streamlined doctor and patient experience while building the seamless technological infrastructure needed for future health tech entrepreneurs to innovate upon. .
Mobi Health News
APRIL 21, 2022
The company, which uses artificial intelligence to make sense of unstructured clinical information like EHR data, raised $18 million in June 2021.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 21, 2022
What You Should Know: – Reify Health , a leading provider of solutions that empower the clinical trial ecosystem, announced a $220M Series D funding round dedicated to improving diversity in clinical research. The investment comes less than a year after its Series C and brings the company’s valuation to $4.8B. – The Series C found was co-led by Altimeter Capital and Coatue , joined by Dragoneer Investment Group and existing investors ICONIQ Growth , Adams Street, and Battery Ve
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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.
The Health Law Firm
APRIL 21, 2022
By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law Staffing shortages at hospitals across the US are worsening helped along by state boards and other licensing authorities taking months to process nursing licenses, a recent NPR survey claims. As a result, thousands of new nurses who want to help during the COVID-19 pandemic are reportedly getting sidelined by state bureaucratic red tape.
Electronic Health Reporter
APRIL 21, 2022
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Travis Schneider, founder and co-CEO, PatientPop. Running an independent healthcare practice isn’t easy, and few practices have the resources or bandwidth to chase down late payments. While most patients want to pay their bills […]. The article 3 Questions To Ask If Your Practice Has Trouble Collecting Timely Patient Payments appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
HIPAA Vault
APRIL 21, 2022
If you’re like me, you’ve watched more than a few “Cold Case” or “How it Happened” re-enactments in your time. If you’re my wife, you’ve watched a whole lot more. In either case, you’ll recall that dramatic moment when the determined investigators march into the evidence room and pull the dust-covered, archived box of case. Continue reading.
Kaiser Health News
APRIL 21, 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. Click here for a transcript of the episode. In this special episode of KHN’s “What the Health?” podcast, host Julie Rovner talks with Peter Lee, former head of Covered California, the largest state-run marketplace for insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
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Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 21, 2022
There is little doubt that the top challenge facing healthcare in 2022 is staffing. Healthcare organizations around the country are feeling the effects of shortages and workforce instability with both frontline workers and administrative staff. Ironically, organizations are looking to artificial intelligence to help with the situation – a technology once loathed because of fears […].
Health Populi
APRIL 21, 2022
As health care industry stakeholders and policymakers have begun to recognize and address the underlying drivers of peoples’ health, there’s another acronym that is taking hold in health care beyond SDoH: that is ESG, standing for. E nvironment. S ocial, and. G overnance pillars of responsibility and activity. To mark this Earth Day 2022, I’ve written a brief primer on ESG for the health care community published today in the Medecision Liberate Health blog.
Mobi Health News
APRIL 21, 2022
The study out of Boston University Medical Center included 333 Black women.
Healthicity
APRIL 21, 2022
Amore Mio! The opera star belts out a beautiful story of love found and lost.
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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.
Mobi Health News
APRIL 21, 2022
Reify said it will use the investment to focus its tools on increased diversity in clinical trials.
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 21, 2022
NexHealth will expand the team to digitize the patient experience and build new health record integrations to bolster its universal API NexHealth, the premier patient experience platform for patients, doctors, and developers, today announced it has closed $125 million in a Series C financing round led by Buckley Ventures, with additional participation from Lachy Groom, […].
Mobi Health News
APRIL 21, 2022
Also, Intuitive India releases its mobile app for surgeons using the da Vinci RAS system.
The Health Law Firm
APRIL 21, 2022
By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law. On February 23, 2022, a psychiatric practice and its owner agreed to pay $310,874 to resolve allegations they improperly hired and employed a physician who was excluded from federal healthcare programs. The physician who was hired was on the OIG's exclusion list, the "List of Excluded Individuals and Entities" (LEIE).
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