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Texas judge throws out piece of surprise billing rule in win for providers

Healthcare Dive

The ruling tosses out the part of the rule that instructs arbiters must begin with the presumption that the qualifying payment amount, or median in-network rate, is the appropriate out-of-network amount to be paid to providers.

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Do you know your end-of-life treatment preferences? Your loved ones may not

Healthcare It News

The COVID-19 crisis has made it more clear than ever that a medical emergency can strike at any time – sometimes, with dire consequences. And in situations when a patient can't communicate their preferences around end-of-life or emergency treatment, their family members and other stakeholders would ideally have easy access to those decisions to share them with their medical team on their behalf.

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Rhode Island's largest health systems abandon merger after FTC sues to block union

Healthcare Dive

Lifespan and Care New England's boards decided "not to pursue litigation," according to a joint statement released Wednesday.

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Feds release final guidance on telehealth, RPM security

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence published its final guidance this week on securing telehealth and remote patient monitoring ecosystems. The guide is intended, according to NCCoE, to help identify risks associated with RPM architecture and ensure healthcare organizations are partnering with appropriate telehealth platform providers.

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Optimizing Medical Waste Management: A Guide to Best Practices

Feeling overwhelmed by medical waste regulations? This comprehensive guide unravels the complexities of medical waste disposal, ensuring you stay compliant and prioritize safety. Inside you'll find: Clear categorization: Learn to precisely classify medical waste for proper handling and disposal. Labeling & Storage: Discover best practices for clear labeling and secure storage of medical waste.

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One Medical partnering with Connecticut health system, but stock drags on high MLR

Healthcare Dive

CEO Amir Dan Rubin told analysts in a call Wednesday that COVID-19 headwinds continue, including staffing shortages, a lag in return to care and reduced revenue from testing.

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Healthcare Needs Deep, not Surface Automation

Healthcare IT Today

Healthcare needs more automation, but not the kind that just robotically repeats a process over and over. That would just lead to factory medicine. Instead, what healthcare needs is deep automation that can adapt in real-time to changing circumstances and that helps to personalize the care for each individual patient. Deep automation reduces the burden […].

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Force Therapeutics and Xealth Integrate to Drive Remote Care Management

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Force Therapeutics and Xealth are partnering to bring remote management of postoperative recovery and care plans into clinicians’ EHR workflows. – The Force platform delivers provider-prescribed digital education and video content for patients recovering from injury or surgery at home. The partnership integrates the Force platform with a provider’s electronic health record, enabling care teams to view clinically relevant metrics within the patient’s ch

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The Role of Information Technology Services In Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Health information technology is a booming industry with so much potential for growth. Naturally, IT services have continued to become more and more important to this industry as time goes on. Health information technicians are the […]. The article The Role of Information Technology Services In Healthcare appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Current Health and Zoom Partner to Enable Equitable Care in the Home

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Current Health – a care-at-home technology platform that was recently acquired by Best Buy – announced a new integration with Zoom , which will allow patients to more easily connect with their care teams, regardless of bandwidth connectivity or language barriers. – As part of the partnership, Zoom will provide Current Health customers with enhanced video communications platform capabilities that expand their ability to deliver safe and effective virtual care s

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Viz.ai's cerebral aneurysms algorithm scores FDA clearance

Mobi Health News

The technology will be included in the Viz Intelligent Care Coordination Platform.

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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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Sanofi, GSK to seek authorization for COVID-19 vaccine

Modern Healthcare

Late-stage trials found that two doses of the vaccine were about 58% effective in preventing infection and 75% effective in preventing moderate to severe disease, the companies said in a statement.

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Papercuts Don’t Have to Hurt – Removing Antiquated Paper Processes in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

I was pretty struck by the title of a session at the upcoming HIMSS 2022 conference in Orlando, “Papercuts don’t have to hurt: How to gain physician adoption.” It’s happening Wednesday, March 16th at 4:45–5:05pm in the Spotlight Theater, booth #8240. Janell Goff, RT, Project Manager at Singing River Health System, and Dessiree Paoli, Solutions […].

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Health tech startup MiyaHealth secures $5M funding for Indonesia, Malaysia rollout

Mobi Health News

It also plans to bring its chronic disease management app to Europe.

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Free download: How to Perform a Compliance Training Program Effectiveness Review

Healthicity

One of the critical elements of an effective compliance program is education and training.

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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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Story Health scores $22.6M for cardiology expansion

Mobi Health News

This Series A round comes roughly after the company launched with $4 million in seed funding.

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January 2022 Healthcare Breach Report

Compliancy Group

Each month, we review healthcare breaches to determine the leading cause and how the incidents could have been prevented. We do so by examining the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) online breach portal. The OCR publicly posts healthcare breaches that affected 500 or more patients to ensure that all affected patients know their information could have been potentially compromised.

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March 1 Is Deadline for Reporting PHI Breaches Affecting Fewer Than 500 People

Healthcare Compliance Blog

All covered entities must report any Protected Health Information (PHI) breaches to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). If the breach affected more than 500 individuals, then the organization has 60 days to report the incident. If the breach affected less than 500 individuals, the organization may report the breach annually. The annual deadline for reporting 2021 small healthcare data breaches to HHS is March 1, 2022.

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NeuroFlow Secures Deal with Aflac, Targets Growth in Employee Benefits Space

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – This week, NeuroFlow announced a long-term deal with Aflac to provide the supplemental insurer’s employers with the technology platform. – NeuroFlow’s app will be offered for self-care, providing tailored educational content, resources, and a ‘Response Services’ team if users are deemed at-risk.

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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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Avoid Licensure Pitfalls to Open the Door to Telehealth Opportunities | symplr

Symplr

Gaining medical licensure in multiple states and practicing across state lines has been a regulatory burden for providers for years, but it's become an especially important issue during the COVID-19 pandemic because of the rapid rise of telehealth. Like everything with healthcare, adopting telehealth isn’t as simple as installing Zoom on your office laptop: One of the key issues is licensure.

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Story Health Secures $22.6M for AI-Driven Virtual Specialty Care Platform Across Cardiology

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Story Health , a health technology and services company that extends specialty care into patient’s homes raises $22.6M in Series A funding co-led by Northpond Ventures and B Capital Group. The round also included participation from new investor LRVHealth and existing investors Define Ventures and General Catalyst , bringing the company’s total funding to approximately $27M. – The Story Health platform empowers specialists through intelligent embedded clinical

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Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: Caduceus Invests in ScriptDrop

McGuire Wood

Caduceus Capital Partners has announced it has completed an investment in ScriptDrop. ScriptDrop , based in Columbus, Ohio, is a developer of a prescription delivery platform. The technology allows pharmacies to electronically request delivery on behalf of patients, with the company using a courier network to take prescriptions from the pharmacy to patients.

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Omada Health Raises $192M to Expand Digital Therapeutics for Chronic Disease

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Omada Health , a chronic care integrated healthcare provider, today announced its $192M in Series E funding round led by Fidelity Management & Research Company with participation from aMoon , existing investors Perceptive Advisors , Wellington Management , Civilization Ventures , and others. – Omada Health will utilize the funding to accelerate hiring at all levels to meet growing customer demands, a technological roadmap for care and coaching personalizat

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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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WellSky® to Acquire TapCloud to Bolster Patient Engagement Technology That Improves the Patient Experience and Lowers Costs

Healthcare IT Today

Together, the healthcare technology companies will foster patient-provider collaboration, identify and manage social determinants of health, and help providers succeed in value-based care WellSky, a global health and community care technology company, announced today that it intends to acquire TapCloud, a virtual patient engagement technology company that helps patients, caregivers, and clinicians communicate crucial information in […].

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Benchling Acquires Overwatch Research to Accelerate Breakthroughs for Biopharma Companies

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, R&D Cloud pioneer Benchling announced it has acquired Overwatch Research to accelerate in vivo research. – The acquisition will create the industry’s first comprehensive, cloud-native in vivo solution – a critical component of drug discovery and development – drastically accelerating the time it takes biopharma companies to bring products to market.

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Clinical Data Release Leader MRO Announces Acquisition of MediCopy

Healthcare IT Today

Transaction expands MRO’s clinical data solutions for physician practices and outpatient providers MRO, a leading clinical data acquisition and release platform and the KLAS-rated No. 1 provider of release of information (ROI) solutions, announced today the acquisition of Nashville, TN-based MediCopy, a leading provider of release of information solutions to physician practices and outpatient providers. […].

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Healthcare Is A Cyber Criminal’s Dream, But It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way

HIT Consultant

Vidya Murthy, Chief Operating Officer at MedCrypt. Healthcare is a cyber criminal’s dream. It presents the intersection of a data treasure trove, weak security posture, limited resources, complicated supply chain, and patient care delivery. When faced with having to pick a priority to optimize for, healthcare will, of course, always pick delivering healthcare.

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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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Sino Group delivers Belun's remote monitoring devices to COVID-hit care homes in Hong Kong

Mobi Health News

Hong Kong is currently dealing with a fifth wave of coronavirus infections.

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Deadline for Physicians, Advance Practice Providers and Teaching Hospitals to Review Sunshine Act Data Approaching

Hall Render

As required by the Physician Payments Sunshine Act (“Sunshine Act”), by March 31, 2022, manufacturers of many drugs, medical devices, biologicals and other medical supplies, as well as applicable group purchasing organizations (“GPOs”), will report to CMS payments made and other investment interests given in 2021 to physicians, teaching hospitals and — for the first time — a variety of advanced practice providers.

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Emergency Rule Facilitates Medication-Assisted Treatment in Florida

Florida Health Care Law Firm

Effective immediately, Florida’s Department of Children and Families promulgated an emergency rule with the hope of facilitating Medication-Assisted Treatment for those suffering from opioid use disorders. The crisis in Florida has been devastating. Deaths and overdoses due to opioid use in the state has increased by 37% percent over the past three years.

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Podcast: Interoperability: The Provider Perspective – Diagnosing Health Care

Health Law Advisor

New from the Diagnosing Health Care Podcast : One of the long-term goals of the interoperability and information-blocking rules is to give health care providers a much more comprehensive view of a patient’s entire continuum of care. In this episode, Andrea Darby , the Vice President of IT Integration – Applications for OhioHealth, offers a provider’s perspective on their role in a health care ecosystem that is striving to achieve much-needed interoperability.

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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.