Healthcare It News

MAY 20, 2022

Cloud Computing Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Patient Engagement Workforce As a high-flying startup ecosystem comes back down to earth, health systems with the financial resources will be able to double down on their digital transformation efforts. Paddy Padmanabhan Back in 2020, in the immediate wake of the pandemic, we were celebrating the coming of age of digital health – the 25X to 50X increase in telehealth visits, the explosion in VC funding for digital health s

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 20, 2022

The law includes penalties of up to $10,000 per day for hospitals failing to follow requirements and not taking corrective action, though Gov. Jared Polis asked the state health department to go easy on small, rural hospitals.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 20, 2022

For some health interactions and interventions, health systems deliver care fueled by real-time, real-world data captured through digital health technology. New research being done by the National Institutes of Health centered on precision nutrition is a recent example of how innovations in health IT are driving the way research translates into patient care.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 20, 2022

Rhode Island's largest health system tapped an interim leader as it searches for a permanent successor to Timothy Babineau, who is stepping down at the end of this month.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 20, 2022

Digital health company Get Well has partnered with Health Journeys, a publisher of guided imagery and meditation audios, to offer its programs to Get Well's clients, with a special focus on veterans. Health Journeys targets specific behavioral health challenges that military service members face, including anxiety, sleep deprivation, burnout, chronic pain, depression, anger, PTSD, grief, addiction, traumatic brain injury and injury rehabilitation.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 20, 2022

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. More older adults are embracing technology. According to a Pew Research Center report, 58% of seniors 65 years and above use the internet today. Technology enables seniors to combat loneliness and improve physical and mental […]. The article 5 Essential Tech Tools For Seniors appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 20, 2022

After four successive months of declining numbers of data breaches, there was a 30.2% increase in reported data breaches. In April 2022, 56 data breaches of 500 or more records were reported to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR). While the number of reported breaches increased month-over-month, the number of healthcare records that were exposed or impermissibly disclosed decreased by 30% to 2,160,194 – the lowest monthly number since October 2021.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 20, 2022

On the heels of a $9.2 million Series A, Mahmee CEO and cofounder Melissa Hanna discusses the fragmented maternal healthcare experience in the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 20, 2022

What You Should Know: – Tempus , an $8B precision medicine company, announced the launch of a new psychiatric real-world data program to leverage real-world data to inform mental health treatment. . – Tempus N+ is a collaboration between provider institutions across the country and Tempus to build an infrastructure for data-driven research – providers can seamlessly and securely contribute molecular and clinical data, and in turn, their clinicians and researchers can access a collect

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Mobi Health News

MAY 20, 2022

The startup, which offers remote assessments for conditions like ADHD and dyslexia, emerged from stealth Friday with a total of $4.2 million in funding.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 20, 2022

What You Should Know: – Today, Polygon Networks , a leading blockchain and scaling solution, announced a partnership with Tokenology and MSP Recovery to deliver LifeChain – a new healthcare claims platform. – LifeChain will leverage blockchain technology to solve healthcare’s biggest problems, including fraud, inefficiency in payments and antiquated processes.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 20, 2022

An emergency directive has been issued by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to all federal agencies, requiring them to take steps to address two vulnerabilities in certain VMware products that are likely to be rapidly exploited in the wild, and two previous vulnerabilities in VMWare products that were disclosed in April which are being exploited by multiple threat actors, including Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actors.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 20, 2022

Harris, a global vertical market software provider, expands in California with the acquisitions of Innovative Medical Management, LLC (IMM) and MedBill IQ, LLC. Together, IMM and MedBill IQ, with its Conexem Software product suite, offer full-service practice management, electronic health records and revenue cycle management services and software solutions focusing on Workers’ Compensation, Personal Injury, […].

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Mobi Health News

MAY 20, 2022

Also: Pear Therapeutics reported $2.7 million in revenue for its first quarter compared with $1.3 million in Q4 2021.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 20, 2022

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 20, 2022

A midwestern health system is partnering with a university to build a blockchain-based app focused on rewarding patients for complying with their regimen. Among the key goals of the project is to see whether the app can provide the rewards while still meeting consumer privacy and protection laws. The project is being conducted jointly by […].

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

MAY 20, 2022

A Montana nurse suspected of illegally obtaining opiates from four healthcare facilities in three communities recently appeared for arraignment on an indictment, according to the US Attorney’s Office. The indictment alleges that the nurse unlawfully obtained oxycodone from a Montana community hospital from March 2021 to June 2021. Additionally, she is suspected of unlawfully obtaining oxycodone and hydrocodone from a health and rehabilitation center from August 2021 to November 2021, unlawfully

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 20, 2022

Happy Friday everyone! I hope you had a great week as we start to inch closer to summer. It’s that time again for another edition of Fun Friday. That’s right. We slip away from the health IT content we usually publish and share something funny and entertaining with you. We hope we can put a […].

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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.

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Compliancy Group

MAY 20, 2022

When looking into what to offer to increase your revenue, HIPAA is a good place to start. Your MSP’s service offerings should reflect the needs of the largest sector of the economy, healthcare. The best way to increase MSP revenue services is by offering HIPAA compliance services to your clients. What is HIPAA and How Can You Help Your Clients Comply?

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Hanys

MAY 20, 2022

St. John's Episcopal Hospital and St. Barnabas Hospital recently earned Certification in Person-Centered Care from Planetree International with support from HANYS. Learn more about their transformation journeys in our latest blog post.

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Dot Compliance

MAY 20, 2022

Dot Compliance continues to offer 14-days of free access to its quality and compliance solutions to ensure fast and cost effective QMS adoption. Our world has changed. From the way we work to the way businesses are run, our places of work are vastly different than they were a decade ago. Another area that has undergone significant changes is how businesses approach technology deployments.

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McGuire Wood

MAY 20, 2022

NovaQuest Private Equity has closed its newest fund, NovaQuest Private Equity Fund II, with $500 million, according to a news release. The fund was closed at its hard cap, exceeding the initial target of $425 million. NQPE is a private equity firm that invests in lower middle market healthcare services and technology companies primarily in North America.

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NCG Medical Blog

MAY 20, 2022

Your medical practice likely dedicates a portion of your budget to medical supplies, prescription medications , various pieces of equipment, and other pertinent materials needed to deliver great care to your patients. These healthcare assets are critical to your medical practice since working without them can burden your staff and slow everything down.

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Hanys

MAY 20, 2022

Standing membership call. May 24. Using rapid PDSA cycles to ease staffing crises. May 25. Health information management user group meeting. May 26. HANYS government relations update call. May 27. 2019 Medicaid DSH audit kick-off webinar. June 2. Standing membership call. June 7. Condition critical: The emergency department liability experience. June 8.

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Hall Render

MAY 20, 2022

On May 10, 2022, CMS published its proposed revisions to the Inpatient Prospective Payment System for 2023. CMS proposed two changes that would affect reimbursement for graduate medical education (“GME”) programs at teaching hospitals. First, CMS proposed to update the way that it calculates direct GME (“DGME”) payments for fellows in some training programs, responding to the court’s decision in Milton S.

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Hanys

MAY 20, 2022

Hosted by ACOG and Postpartum Support International, the May 24 webinar will provide an overview of perinatal mental health screening, assessment, treatment and referral pathways through the lens of culturally informed care and best practices for treating perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.

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Hall Render

MAY 20, 2022

NATIONAL. 5 things to know about HHS OIG’s patient harm report. $15 million program will tackle behavioral health barriers in LTC. AMA, organizations launch effort to apply equity lens to patient care. AHA responds to report on hospitals’ requested price hikes to insurers. AHA asks HHS to continue the public health emergency until conditions stabilize.

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Hanys

MAY 20, 2022

Through partnership with community and faith groups, particularly those disproportionately affected by COVID-19, they're providing timely and relevant information to support informed decision-making. Those collaborations helped RRH reach 240,000 people across the five counties they serve. Learn more in our Member Spotlight.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 20, 2022

Several hospital telehealth vendors enjoyed great success in 2020 as they benefitted from unprecedented demand for their IT and services during the pandemic. But as lockdown restrictions were lifted and the strain on hospitals’ in-house capacity across the ICU and other acute care wards eased into the second half of 2021, were the vendors able to maintain their growth?

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Hanys

MAY 20, 2022

Recently, the following bills passed both houses of the Legislature and are now awaiting delivery to Gov. Hochul: Facility fee notification (A.3470-C/S.2521-C). Opioid antagonists for take home use (A.348-A/S.2976-A). RHCF notification during disease outbreak (A.6052/S.1785-A). Please see our summary chart for a complete list of bills of interest that have passed both houses during the 2022 legislative session.

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