Thu.Jun 16, 2022

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Apple Watch monitoring features for AFib, Parkinson's cleared by FDA

Healthcare Dive

With the new feature, atrial fibrillation patients may have an easier way to track the frequency of the condition over time and see whether lifestyle changes may have positive effects.

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Medical School Curricula Should Reflect Disease Burden

Bill of Health

By Leah Pierson. Medical students spend a lot of time learning about conditions they will likely never treat. This weak relationship between what students are taught and what they will treat has negative implications for patient care. Recently, I looked into discrepancies between U.S. disease burden in 2016 and how often conditions are mentioned in the 2020 edition of First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 , an 832 page book sometimes referred to as the medical student’s bible.

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Expiration of healthcare subsidies will have domino effect, leading to higher prices and increased medical debt

Healthcare Dive

Millions of Americans will experience dramatic price increases, become uninsured and likely accrue medical debt, GetInsured’s Heather Korbulic argues.

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Building a seamless patient experience in the United Arab Emirates

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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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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AdventHealth aims to bring more competition to Asheville as it files new hospital application

Healthcare Dive

The health system plans to build the facility about nine miles from Mission Hospital, the only other acute care hospital in the area.

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Consumers Intend to Invest in Technology — With Budget and Value in Mind

Health Populi

Consumers continued to invest in and use several technologies that supported self-care at home in 2021, with plans to purchase connected health devices, sports and fitness equipment in the next year. But these purchases will be made with greater attention to budget and value consumer mindsets firmly focused on (and stressed by) inflation. The 24th Annual Technology Ownership & Market Potential Study from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) tells us that Americans in 2022 will have to m

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How IoT Data Integration Helps Deliver Improved At-Home Healthcare in 2022

HIT Consultant

Patricia (Pat) Black, Director of Technical Solutions at Cardinal Peak. When it comes to your health and treatment, hospitals leverage a variety of sensors and instruments to collect the necessary information to monitor and diagnose your health status. With essential health data integrated into one platform, healthcare professionals are able to quickly and easily monitor critical care parameters, which allows them to make decisions and deliver the best possible patient care. .

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Anthem launches Wellpoint health plan, Carelon health services brands

Healthcare Dive

The payer announced the move, meant to streamline its brand portfolio and reduce complexities, ahead of a corporate rebranding scheduled for later this month.

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ResMed Acquires MEDIFOX DAN for $1B; Expands Healthcare SaaS Business

Healthcare IT Today

ResMed (NYSE: RMD, ASX: RMD) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire privately held MEDIFOX DAN, a German leader in out-of-hospital software solutions for providers in major settings across the care continuum, from Hg, a leading software and services investor. MEDIFOX DAN’s clinical, financial, and operational solutions are mission-critical for those out-of-hospital care providers, including […].

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WSJ: Digital mental health company Cerebral under investigation by FTC

Mobi Health News

According to the Wall Street Journal's reporting, the Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether the startup was involved in deceptive or unfair marketing or advertising practices.

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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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ONC and OCR Release Updated Security Risk Assessment Tool

HIPAA Journal

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) have released a new version of the HHS Security Risk Assessment (SRA) Tool. The HIPAA Security Rule requires HIPAA-regulated entities to conduct a comprehensive, organization-wide risk analysis to identify the risks and vulnerabilities to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic protected health information (ePHI

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Culture is a Leadership Imperative at Redox

Healthcare IT Today

At most companies, a strong corporate culture is a by-product of leadership rather than the result of a conscientious effort. Smart companies are realizing this must change as retaining tech talent becomes more challenging. Niko Skievaski, Co-Founder & President at Redox is doubling down on his culture-building efforts to ensure the company can continue to […].

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Almost 1.3 Million Patients of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Affected by Eye Care Leaders Data Breach

HIPAA Journal

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center has confirmed that the protected health information of 1,290,104 patients was compromised in a data breach at its electronic medical record vendor, Eye Care Leaders. Eye Care Leaders said it detected a breach on Dec. 4, 2021, and disabled the affected systems within 24 hours. Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center said it received the final results of the forensic investigation on April 19, 2022.

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Do We Misunderstand the Scope of the Interoperability Need?

Healthcare IT Today

For quite a while now I’ve had this cognitive dissonance in my head about healthcare interoperability. On the one hand, I’d see all these announcements about the success of interoperability projects and the literally millions and billions of health records and data that’s being shared. On the other hand, we all have seen and experienced […].

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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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San Diego Family Care Agrees to $1 Million Settlement to Resolve Class Action Data Breach Lawsuit

HIPAA Journal

San Diego Family Care, a Californian provider of medical, dental, & mental health services, has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit filed by patients affected by a data breach in 2020. The data breach that sparked the lawsuit was announced by the healthcare provider in May 2021 and was reported to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) as affecting 125,500 patients, although the total was later revised to 154,513 patients.

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Aidoc raises $110M to expand AI-enabled imaging platform

Mobi Health News

The round comes nearly a year after the company announced a $66 million Series C.

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Oklahoma AG Announces Settlement with Medical Supply Company

Med-Net Compliance

Attorney General John O’Connor announced that a former Oklahoma-based medical supply company has agreed to pay $363,116 to resolve allegations that the company violated the Oklahoma Medicaid False Claims Act by inflating prices and shipping charges of durable medical equipment. The company provided durable medical equipment and other services to Oklahoma Medicaid beneficiaries through a program administered by the Oklahoma Department of Human Services Developmental Disabilities Services Division

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Bangladeshi startup Doctor Koi scores seed funding to expand digital prescription tool

Mobi Health News

The company plans to bring its technology to 10,000 more doctors in the country.

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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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2 Texas hospital networks infected by malicious code

Becker's Health IT

The IT networks at San Antonio, Texas-based Baptist Medical Center and New Braunfels, Texas-based Resolute Health Hospital were infected by malicious code that allowed an unauthorized user to access the personal health information of some patients.

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Presentation Preparation Training for Healthcare Providers

American Medical Compliance

Presentation Preparation Training for Healthcare Providers is designed to educate healthcare providers (HCP) on how to plan, develop, write, and deliver an effective presentation. Presenting is often very nerve-racking and strenuous for many people. Properly preparing is a great way for employees and employers to feel ready and able to deliver outstanding presentations, as well as conquer any nerves they may have.

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What is Privacy?

HealthIT Answers

By Matt Fisher - Privacy is an important topic of discussion, consideration, deliberation, or any other word that can be used to say it is front and center. The focus on privacy has been growing as technology expands and creates more data. Privacy is so important though because there needs to be an understanding of what should happen with data. The post What is Privacy?

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Presentation Preparation Training for Dental Healthcare Providers

American Medical Compliance

Presentation Preparation Training for Dental Healthcare Providers is designed to educate dental healthcare providers (DHCP) on how to plan, develop, write, and deliver an effective presentation. Presenting is often very nerve-racking and strenuous for many people. Properly preparing is a great way for employees and employers to feel ready and able to deliver outstanding presentations, as well as conquer any nerves they may have.

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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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Breaking Down the Implications of New No Surprises Act Regulations

HIT Consultant

Lynne Rinehimer, Esq, GRC Sales Engineer and Compliance SME for symplr. The importance of the No Surprises Act (NSA) cannot be overstated, as surprise medical bills have long been burdensome for patients in the U.S. healthcare system. In fact, more than half of all U.S. consumers have received an unexpectedly large medical bills. The purpose of the No Surprises Act is to prevent surprise out-of-network bills, often for emergency services.

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Presentation Preparation Training

American Medical Compliance

Presentation Preparation Training is designed to educate employees on how to plan, develop, write, and deliver an effective presentation. Presenting is often very nerve-racking and strenuous for many people. Properly preparing is a great way for employees and employers to feel ready and able to deliver outstanding presentations, as well as conquer any nerves they may have.

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Intelerad & DiA Imaging Analysis Partner to Empower Echocardiography Labs with AI

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Intelerad Medical Systems and DiA Imaging Analysis , a leading global provider of AI-based ultrasound software solutions, today announced a new partnership to offer DiA’s LVivo Seamless AI-based cardiac ultrasound software solution as part of Intelerad’s cardiac imaging solutions, IntelePACS. – This collaboration will empower Intelerad’s 2,000 global customers to access critical key measurement results for their echo studies, as well as will improve the effici

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Understanding 3-Day Payment Window for Outpatient Billing

Medisys Compliance

What is 3-Day Payment Window? Medicare’s 3-day (or 1-day) payment window applies to outpatient services that hospitals and hospital wholly owned or wholly operated Part B entities furnish to Medicare beneficiaries. The statute requires that hospitals bundle the technical component of all outpatient diagnostic services and related non-diagnostic services (for example, therapeutic) with the claim for an inpatient stay when services are furnished to a Medicare beneficiary in the 3 days (or, in the

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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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Sanofi Taps Yseop to Accelerate Medical Writing and Reporting Processes

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Yseop , an artificial intelligence (AI) software company and pioneer in Natural Language Processing (NLP) , today announced that Sanofi , the global healthcare company, has chosen to scale its natural language generation (NLG) capabilities with Yseop. – Sanofi will use the platform to accelerate its clinical study submission processes and bring new treatments to patients faster. – Sanofi plans to continue to expand the use of the Yseop platform to a wide

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A Step-by-step guide to Medical Device Quality System Management

Dot Compliance

Maintaining compliance with safety and quality standards is a significant issue in medical device manufacturing. Millions of dollars are lost by manufacturers every year due to regulatory non-compliance issues and related lawsuits. We continuously hear of infractions and warnings issued to companies for lack of regulatory compliance. Moreover, the increased incidences of diagnostic errors have given rise to further regulation and standardization of diagnostic equipment, as well as the ongoing ev

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K Health, Mayo Clinic Platform Launches Personalized Hypertension Treatment Algorithm

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Clinical AI-powered healthcare company K Health announced today a new collaboration with Mayo Clinic’s digital healthcare initiative, Mayo Clinic Platform , which harnesses new knowledge, solutions and technologies to improve patients’ lives. – Primary Care clinicians practicing on K Health’s virtual platform are now able to use a predictive model based on real-time insights from Mayo Clinic’s de-identified medical data to treat hypertension more accurat

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It’s Your Call June 2022

Total Medical Compliance Resources

HIPAA: TRUE OR FALSE: It is a good idea to respond to a patient who posts an issue or a negative review online so everyone can see that your practice is helpful and caring. A: FALSE! Even though it is the patient who posts information about their visit or health condition, if your practice’s reply acknowledges that they’re a patient and/or provides more information about them or their condition, it is a breach of their PHI.

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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.