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Amazon will see you now: reading between the lines of the One Medical acquisition

Healthcare Dive

The deal’s near-term ramifications are unlikely to be monumental. But what it represents should be concerning for One Medical’s primary care competitors and larger entities looking to capture a greater slice of the healthcare market.

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Northern Adelaide Local Health Network sets up digital prenatal care platform

Healthcare It News

The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network has digitised its delivery of prenatal care to reduce the administrative burden on its midwives while enabling personalised support to pregnant women. Pregnancy Online Platform NALHN (POPN) was developed in partnership with Personify Care, which has powered the system with digital pathways that deliver information specific to a woman's stage of pregnancy.

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OIG warns of telehealth fraud risks in wake of DOJ crackdown

Healthcare Dive

The special alert to healthcare providers describes how fraudsters recruit and reward practitioners in schemes to exploit the growth of telemedicine.

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UT Austin, MITRE team up on ethical AI initiative

Healthcare It News

The University of Texas at Austin is working with the MITRE Corporation on a new partnership to develop more innovative and ethical artificial intelligence research. WHY IT MATTERS. The project is focused on work already underway by interdisciplinary teams of researchers working as part of UT Austin's Good Systems research grand challenge. Officials say MITRE's investment of $1 million in support of Good Systems will help expand its team expertise and support a greater number of faculty

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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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Teladoc names ex-Providence executive as new COO, filling vacancy

Healthcare Dive

The chief operating officer role has been empty since David Sides departed Teladoc in September to become the chief executive of an ambulatory technology company.

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Vulnerabilities in health data privacy causing tension among patients

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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MaineHealth turned a COVID-19 grant into a permanent telehealth program

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Similar to many health systems across the country, COVID-19 created an urgent need for MaineHealth to take care of patients at a distance to keep patients and care teams safe. THE PROBLEM. "This was relevant to patients in the outpatient setting, who needed to stay connected with their primary care and specialist providers for acute and chronic needs, as well as for patients in the inpatient setting, who were able to receive some of their care virtually," said Lizzy Mulcahy, director o

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Ochsner piloting program to hire Ukrainian nurses

Healthcare Dive

The system will offer eight nurses employment and assist them and their families in getting acclimated to their new communities. Nurses will be committed to their roles for at least two years.

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The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 1 of 5

Health Populi

I’ve returned to the U.S. for a couple of months, having lived in and worked from Brussels, Belgium, since October 2021 (save for about ten days in March 2022). Work and life slow down in Europe in July and August, giving us the opportunity to return to our U.S. home base, reunite with friends and family, and re-join life and living this side of the Atlantic.

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WHO declares growing monkeypox outbreak global health emergency

Healthcare Dive

The decision comes as the U.S. scrambles to slow the spread of the virus.

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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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HC3 Warns of Risk of Web Application Attacks on Healthcare Organizations

HIPAA Journal

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) has issued guidance to help healthcare organizations protect against web application attacks. Web applications have grown in popularity in healthcare in recent years and are used for patient portals, electronic medical record systems, scheduling appointments, accessing test results, patient monitoring, online pharmacies, dental CAD systems, inventory management, and more.

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Theator Raises $39.5M for AI-Driven Surgical Intelligence Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Theator , the first-of-its-kind AI-driven Surgical Intelligence Platform, announced that it has extended its Series A funding round by $24M, bringing the round’s total to $39.5M. – The extension was led by Insight Partners with support from existing investors including Blumberg Capital , Mayo Clinic , NFX , StageOne Ventures , iAngels , and former Netflix Chief Product Officer Neil Hunt.

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Tenet Healthcare Cyberattack Had a $100 Million Unfavorable Impact

HIPAA Journal

A cyberattack and data breach cost Tenet Healthcare $100 million in lost revenue and mitigation costs in Q2, 2022. Dallas, TX-based Tenet Healthcare is one of the largest healthcare providers in the United States, running 65 hospitals and more than 450 healthcare facilities across the United States through its brands and subsidiaries. In April 2022, Tenet experienced a cyberattack that caused major disruption to its IT systems and acute care operations for several weeks.

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Is OhMD HIPAA Compliant?

Compliancy Group

Improved technology and the recent pandemic created new opportunities for healthcare practitioners and their patients to communicate electronically. OhMD has developed a platform rich with features, including two-way texting, video visits, and patient calling. While its features may be impressive, potential users must ask, is OhMD HIPAA compliant? What Makes a Software Tool HIPAA Compliant?

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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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Media Mix Transformation for Pharma Marketers: The Power of CTV & Digital Video

HIT Consultant

Lauren Ohlsson, Lead of Industry Solutions, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare, at VDX.tv. Consumers continue to cut ties with traditional TV and cable services, prompting industries like the prescription pharmaceutical industry to evolve their marketing mix to accommodate emerging media. . Pharma advertisers spend billions on traditional TV advertising, but as streaming services began to experience explosive growth early in the pandemic, advertising strategies had to adapt.

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3 Use Cases for Digital Codes and Standards in Healthcare Infrastructure

HealthIT Answers

By Jonathan Hart - The healthcare sector has always existed at the intersection of innovation and complex problems. It’s an industry that relies on riding the newest waves of digital transformation to continue providing the best possible outcomes for patients and providers alike. The post 3 Use Cases for Digital Codes and Standards in Healthcare Infrastructure appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Health Note Raises $17M for Pre-Clinical Intake Automation Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Health Note , the pre-clinical intake automation platform that uses digital patient intake to prepare clinical notes for providers ahead of patient visits, announced the close of a $17M Series A financing round led by SignalFire. SignalFire is joined by UnityPoint Health , Northwell Health Holdings , the for-profit arm of Northwell Health focused on investment in early stage/growth opportunities, strategic partnerships and the cultivation of internal innovations tha

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Calderdale and Huddersfield uses predictive analytics for mortality data

Digital Health News

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust is using predictive analytics from The Health Information Service to better understand mortality ratios.

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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 Should RPM Vendors Choose Remote Patient Monitoring Device Suppliers?

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Jack Wang , the V ice P resident of AOJ Medical. RPM service and Telehealth are not new topics In the current health care market, and many RPM and Telehealth vendors have already set up services, systems, and applications for specified diseases or target patients. These kinds of vendors also treat remote monitoring devices as a key part of the services, such as different kinds of vital signs monitoring and chronic disease monitoring devices.

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NHS App handles 16million repeat prescriptions over the last year

Digital Health News

The NHS App handled over 16m repeat prescriptions over the past 12 months, as patients look to self manage their health with the digital tool.

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Does Disruption Need to Come from Inside or Outside Healthcare? – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 93

Healthcare IT Today

For the 93rd episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we’re talking about whether disruption needs to come from inside or outside healthcare. We ask the question of whether healthcare needs to be disrupted and whether an outside leader is more capable of disrupting healthcare than someone inside or whether someone’s inside experience allows them to disrupt healthcare more.

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Royal Orthopaedic Hospital to deploy new cloud-based PACS

Digital Health News

The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital will be deploying Edison True PACS - making it the first trust in Europe to move to the cloud-based solution.

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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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Cornerstone AI Raises $5 Million Seed to Solve Healthcare’s Data Problem

Healthcare IT Today

Cornerstone’s Enterprise platform launches to unlock the power of clinical data in a fraction of the time of traditional methods. Today, Cornerstone AI, a new company solving healthcare’s data challenges to improve research and care, publicly launched its first-of-its-kind AI platform. Cornerstone is developing highly intelligent, automated software to accurately and efficiently clean and prepare data in a fraction of the time of traditional methods.

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CMS fix for 340B Supreme Court ruling divides providers

Modern Healthcare

Providers that don't participate in the 340B program say CMS's plan would lead to unfair overpayments to 340B providers.

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FemTec Health scoops up nutrition platform Nutrimedy

Mobi Health News

The women's health company announced it had acquired fertility startup Ava AG last week.

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In a Post-Roe World, Employers Looking to Cover Out-of-State Travel for Abortion Services Have Multiple Options and Plenty of Uncertainty

Center for Health Insurance Reform

Following the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, analyses project up to half of women and girls in the U.S. between the ages of 15 and 44 will live in states that significantly restrict or ban abortion services. The scale and geographic reach of these bans intensifies questions about travel costs and access to these services.

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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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OCR Announces Resolutions to Eleven HIPAA Violations 

Med-Net Compliance

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the resolution of eleven investigations in its Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Right of Access Initiative, bringing the total number of these enforcement actions to thirty-eight since the initiative began. OCR created this initiative to support individuals’ right to timely access of their health records at a reasonable cost under the HIPAA Privacy Rule.

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Study Reveals Top Websites Fail to Follow Password Best Practices

HIPAA Journal

A peer-reviewed study conducted by researchers at Princeton University explored the password policies of the most popular English Language websites and found that only 13% of the websites followed all appropriate best practices. The researchers reverse-engineered the password policies of 120 of the leading websites based on visitor numbers and sought to establish whether password best practices were being followed.

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The Do’s and Don’ts If You Are Under Investigation For Discipline on Your Professional License, Part 2

The Health Law Firm Blog

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law You are reading Part 2 of this blog series. To read Part 1, click here. If you are notified that you are under investigation, DO NOT take the easy way out by immediately relinquishing your license. And DO [.].

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The Evolving Role of Telehealth

HealthIT Answers

Value-Based Care Insights Podcast with host Daniel J. Marino. In this episode Dan speaks with Dr. Alan Kumar, Senior Vice President of Medical Affairs and Chief Medical Officer at Community Healthcare System, t0 discuss the key factors for a successful rollout and how to increase adoption during the ongoing evolution of telehealth. The post The Evolving Role of Telehealth appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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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.