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Healthcare worker pay satisfaction lowest across all industries, survey finds

Healthcare Dive

Just half of healthcare employees surveyed by management firm Qualtrics said they believe they’re paid fairly for the work they do, the lowest score across 27 industries analyzed.

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Whole person care gets a boost from value-based contracts

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Nonprofit hospitals may evade noncompete ban enforcement, experts say

Healthcare Dive

There is still ambiguity over whether the noncompete clause ban would apply to nonprofit systems, which make up about half of all the hospitals in the U.S.

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2023 forecast: Balancing patient privacy and data sharing

MRO Compliance

2023 forecast: Balancing patient privacy and data sharing January 19, 2023 Healthcare IT News Harmonizing HIPAA with interoperability, third-party compliance and data usability are among the priorities this year for Rita Bowen, a member of the Sequoia Project board of directors and MRO vice president.

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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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Hackers are Using AI Tools such as ChatGPT for Malware Development

HIPAA Journal

There are many benefits of using AI in healthcare , including the acceleration of drug development and medical image analysis, but the same AI systems that benefit healthcare could also be used for malicious purposes such as malware development. The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) recently published an analyst note summarizing the potential for artificial intelligence tools to be used by hackers for this purpose and evidence is mounting that AI tools are already being abuse

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Study: Telehealth use linked to lower cancer care costs

Mobi Health News

A study published in JAMA Network Open found that oncology care via telehealth was associated with time, travel and cost savings among cancer patients.

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Q&A: Early-stage funding bolstered health tech in 2022

Mobi Health News

Jonathan Norris, managing director for business development in Silicon Valley Bank's healthcare practice, explains why early-stage investments continued last year even as overall funding fell.

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Employers should carefully weigh benefits of high-deductible health plans: study

Fierce Healthcare

Employers should carefully weigh benefits of high-deductible health plans: study fdiamond Fri, 01/20/2023 - 07:19

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Editorial: Benefits of HIPAA for Healthcare Professionals

HIPAA Journal

It has been almost 27 years since the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was signed into law, more than 2 decades since the Privacy Rule was enacted, and this February will be the 20 th anniversary of the HIPAA Security Rule. This article is the second in a series that explores the benefits of HIPAA, focusing on some of the ways that HIPAA has benefited healthcare professionals.

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Iterative Health, Gastro Health partner over AI-enabled GI care and precision medicine R&D

Fierce Healthcare

Iterative Health, Gastro Health partner over AI-enabled GI care and precision medicine R&D aburky Fri, 01/20/2023 - 13:55

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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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The Misadventures of Ada: ICD-10 Cartoon, "Blaze of Glory" V91.07XA

Healthicity

Ada’s resolution to try new things in 2023 starts with a bang as she dips her toe into competitive water skiing! Has she ever water skied before? Of course not – but should that stop her? (Probably).

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New Blues network spinout Lucet aims to simplify mental health benefits for payers

Fierce Healthcare

New Blues network spinout Lucet aims to simplify mental health benefits for payers pminemyer Fri, 01/20/2023 - 15:28

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OIG, in a Departure, Approves Hospital Provision of Nurse Practitioner Services

McBrayer Law Blog

Posted In Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , Health Care Law , Hospitals , Nurse practitioners (NP) , Office of Inspector General of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) Traditionally, the Office of the Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“OIG”) would take a hard stance on any arrangements that might involve some form of remuneration from a hospital to a referring physician, but the winds of change may be blo

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Vulnerability Management and Remediation Deficiencies Identified at Alabama VA Medical Center

HIPAA Journal

An inspection of information security at Tuscaloosa VA Medical Center in Alabama by the VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) uncovered deficiencies in three of the four assessed security control areas. The OIG inspection covered configuration management, contingency planning, security management, and access controls, with deficiencies identified in configuration management, security management, and access controls.

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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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8 Executive Key Takeaways from JP Morgan Healthcare Conference

HIT Consultant

Mike Serbinis , CEO of League JPMorgan was buzzing this year. Part of that is post-Covid return to conference excitement. Part of that is the fact that healthcare has never been more important. While the economy was challenged in 2022, investors are ready to do business in healthcare. The stakes are getting higher and the opportunity in front of us is massive.

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268K people who died from COVID-19 in first 2 years of pandemic not included in official tally: study

Fierce Healthcare

268K people who died from COVID-19 in first 2 years of pandemic not included in official tally: study fdiamond Fri, 01/20/2023 - 14:35

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Veradigm Announces Strategic Investment in Holmusk

Healthcare IT Today

Veradigm Inc. , formerly Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc., announced today an investment in Holmusk , a global behavioral health real-world evidence and data analytics company, as part of Holmusk’s $45 million series B financing round. The round was led by Veradigm, with participation from current investors including Heritas Capital, Health Catalyst Capital, Novartis (dRx Capital), and Northwell Holdings, the venture investment arm of Northwell Health, as well as other previous investors.

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Aledade, Mark Cuban's drug company and a handful of others are public benefit corporations. Could it be the Rx to improve healthcare?

Fierce Healthcare

Aledade, Mark Cuban's drug company and a handful of others are public benefit corporations. Could it be the Rx to improve healthcare?

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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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A Different Look at Data Management and Data Sharing with DBSync

Healthcare IT Today

When I attended the PointClickCare Summit , I met Sanjeev Shetty, President & COO at DBSync. They were in the partner area of the conference and had created a really interesting middleware solution to be able to better manage all your data across a multitude of applications. While this is a very familiar problem in healthcare, it was interesting to learn how this problem happened in a lot of other industries as well.

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Digital Health’s monthly roundup of contracts and go lives

Digital Health News

Digital Health’s monthly roundup covers the end of 2022 and start of 2023, and includes OxfordVR and BehaVR combining and GOSH deploying Sectra technology.

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Increased Cyber Budget Calls for Healthcare to Invest in Digital Identity

Fierce Healthcare

Increased Cyber Budget Calls for Healthcare to Invest in Digital Identity jpiatt Fri, 01/20/2023 - 14:38

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Radar Healthcare partners with Circle Health Group

Digital Health News

Circle Health Group is deploying risk management and compliance software from Radar Healthcare to improve patient safety at its private hospitals.

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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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Study: Telehealth use linked to lower cancer care costs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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NHS Providers guide focuses on making best use of EPRs

Digital Health News

NHS Providers has published its sixth guide for trust leaders, based around electronic patient records (EPRs), as part of its Digital Boards programme.

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MA Medical Device Company Reports Healthcare Data Breach, 29K Impacted

Health IT Security

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Navigator Guide FAQs of the Week: Post-enrollment Issues

Center for Health Insurance Reform

The open enrollment period has officially ended in most states. After signing up for 2023 coverage, enrollees may have questions about the ins and outs of health insurance and access to care. We’re spotlighting some of the post-enrollment questions and answers on our Navigator Resource Guide. Continue reading → The post Navigator Guide FAQs of the Week: Post-enrollment Issues appeared first on Center on Health Insurance Reforms.

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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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Sources of Innovation in Gene Therapies — Approaches to Achieving Affordable Prices

NEJM

Prices charged for gene therapies are exceptionally high, even though the key innovations supporting their development have been heavily driven by academic and other research institutions.

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Health system CEO turnover rose in 2022 as more executives feel the strain from burnout

Fierce Healthcare

Health system CEO turnover rose in 2022 as more executives feel the strain from burnout dmuoio Fri, 01/20/2023 - 14:19

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Regulating Reproductive Medicine in a World without Roe

NEJM

The real-world impact of Dobbs was immediate, but its consequences extend far beyond abortion care, as states gear up to expand protections for “potential life” without the limits imposed by Roe and Casey.

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5 health systems that reported a cyberattack in the last 30 days

Becker's Health IT

From EHR shutdowns to technical problems related to an IT security issue, here are five hospitals and health systems that have been affected by a cybersecurity incident since Dec.

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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.