Tue.Jun 21, 2022

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The cultural and mental health skills that medical and health science students need in today's world

Healthcare Dive

From memorizing facts about illnesses to learning how to perform procedures, every medical and health science university offers curricula and opportunities to ensure that its students hone their hard skills.

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Stemming Supreme Court Rights Reversals

Bill of Health

By James G. Hodge, Jr. Based on the May 2022 leak of an initial draft, most believe the Supreme Court will carry through some rescission of abortion rights later this month through its final opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Already, concerns have arisen over other freedoms the Court may seriously reconsider down the road, including rights to gay marriage , intimacy , contraception , and informational privacy.

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Medicare data errors impede health equity efforts, OIG says

Healthcare Dive

The ability to assess health disparities and improve care delivery in communities of color hinges on the quality of race and ethnicity data that is currently falling short, the report said.

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Healthcare Industry: 5 IT Challenges And How To Overcome Them

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The healthcare industry plays an important role since it impacts people’s lives in various ways. As innovations continue to evolve, they have brought about significant changes in the quality of health services, particularly in delivering […].

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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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As cross-state telemedicine waivers expire, virtual care advocates focus on long-term policy changes

Healthcare Dive

There’s a complication: No one solution to the U.S.’ patchy physician licensing infrastructure has universal buy-in.

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Telehealth with a technician in the home reduces spend by 22% for Scottsdale Physician Group

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In 2018, Scottsdale Physician Group in Scottsdale, Arizona, saw a need that simply was not being met. THE PROBLEM. Some patients were not getting the medical care they needed, when they needed, because of a variety of issues. These patients could be bed-bound, homebound, have little to no support structure, have an inability to access transportation to medical appointments, have infirmities, have high fall risks or more.

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4 Benefits of Managed IT Services In Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The healthcare industry utilizes many technologies to offer a more streamlined service to its patients. Most healthcare providers have shifted to digital means in providing the much-needed medical assistance to whoever needs it. So, a […]. The article 4 Benefits of Managed IT Services In Healthcare appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Walgreens Health Corners network swells with new Buckeye partnership in Ohio

Healthcare Dive

The Health Corner concept, mirroring efforts by retail pharmacy rivals CVS Health and Walmart, is central to Walgreens’ push to capture a greater slice of the care continuum and the corresponding revenue.

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Walgreens clinical trial business looks to engage more diverse communities

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Washington ups pressure on PBMs with more aggressive FTC policy, congressional ask for GAO study

Healthcare Dive

The Federal Trade Commission has voted unanimously to adopt a policy statement to more closely examine fees and rebates paid to PBMs in exchange for preferred coverage for their drugs from payers.

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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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Feeds Are the Keystone To Building Members for Life

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Tal Klein, CMO, Relay Network. Whether they are receiving care for a chronic condition or a more immediate disease, patients undergoing treatment are financially, mentally, emotionally and physically maxed out. As a result, healthcare […]. The article Feeds Are the Keystone To Building Members for Life appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Health systems can go beyond value based care’s ‘low-hanging fruit’

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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May 2022 Healthcare Data Breach Report

HIPAA Journal

May 2022 saw a 25% increase in healthcare data breaches of 500 or more records. 70 data breaches of 500 or more records were reported to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in May 2022, which is the highest monthly total this year and well above the 12-month average of 56.75 data breaches per month. This level of reported data breaches has not been seen since June 2021.

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Understanding the Role of Private Equity in the Health Care Sector

Center for Health Insurance Reform

As private equity involvement in the health care industry increases, policymakers and other stakeholders are sounding the alarm and calling for better regulation to control costs and protect patients. CHIR's Maanasa Kona takes a look at the role of private equity in the health care sector and how it impacts consumers. Continue reading → The post Understanding the Role of Private Equity in the Health Care Sector appeared first on Center on Health Insurance Reforms.

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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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Study: Many digital health startups lack clinical trials, regulatory filings

Mobi Health News

Of the 224 companies analyzed, 98 received a clinical robustness score of zero.

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How to Use HIPAA to Defend Against Common Cybersecurity Attacks

Total HIPAA

While much of the anti-malware technology we have to protect us from hackers has become increasingly more sophisticated, so have attackers’ methods. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), incidents of hacking affecting 500 people or more increased by 45% from 2019 to 2020. If you operate a business that frequently processes electronic protected health information (ePHI), this statistic is certainly something to pay attention to.

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Where Are We At With FHIR? with Joe Gagnon and Dr. Don Rucker from 1upHealth

Healthcare IT Today

It feels like FHIR has gone through all the hype cycles you can imagine in the decade or so that FHIR’s been around. I’ve heard FHIR described as the solution to healthcare’s woes and heard others describe its limitations. We all know the reality is somewhere in between, but where are we at with FHIR […].

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SteadyMD Acquires BlocHealth to Enhance Clinician Licensing & Credentialing

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – SteadyMD , a B2B telehealth infrastructure provider that powers high-quality telehealth patient experiences for leaders and innovators in healthcare acquires BlocHealth , a clinician licensing, credentialing, and payer enrollment platform. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. – With the acquisition of BlocHealth, SteadyMD further improves clinical capacity for the entire online healthcare industry by enhancing its licensing and credentialin

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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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Price Transparency – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 6/21 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by John Lynn (@techguy) from @hcittoday on the topic “Price Transparency” Most of you probably know about the CMS hospital price transparency rule that hospitals must post their pricing in […].

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With Roe v. Wade overturned, telehealth providers brace for impact

Modern Healthcare

With Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, telehealth providers are limited in how much they can help people seeking abortions in states where it’s restricted.

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EDM Healthcare Consulting joins PRSB Standards Partnership Scheme

Digital Health News

EDM Healthcare Consulting has signed up to the PRSB Standards Partnership Scheme to support the seamless availability of information on IT systems.

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Telehealth providers brace for Roe v. Wade ruling

Modern Healthcare

If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, telehealth providers would be limited in how much they can help people seeking abortions in states where it’s restricted.

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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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OIG says Medicare race data is inaccurate and hinders health disparities assessments

Mobi Health News

CMS did not explicitly concur with the OIG's recommendation to develop its own source of race and ethnicity data.

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OIG Work Plan Updates for May 2022: Contracts, Reporting, and Add-On Payments

Healthicity

The OIG has added more items to their Work Plan during May 2022. Let’s take a closer look at the new items.

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West Midlands AHSN supports use of digital chest drainage

Digital Health News

West Midlands Academic Health Science Network is supporting the use of a digital chest drainage tool to speed patient recovery.

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And So It Starts…

Jerri Lynn Ward

…c oming out. This is interesting: Adverse Effects of COVID-19 Vaccines and Measures to Prevent Them. “Recently, The Lancet published a study on the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines and the waning of immunity with time. The study showed that immune function among vaccinated individuals 8 months after the administration of two doses of COVID-19 vaccine was lower than that among the unvaccinated individuals.

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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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‘Clinical satnav’ for doctors should become a mainstream part of the NHS

Digital Health News

A report explores why providing better computerised advice for routine medical decisions will save lives and help to solve problems.

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Vulnerabilities Identified in Welch Allyn Resting Electrocardiograph Devices

HIPAA Journal

Hillrom Medical Device Management has announced that two vulnerabilities have been identified in certain Welch Allyn medical devices. If exploited the vulnerabilities could allow an unauthorized attacker to compromise software security by executing commands, gaining privileges, and reading sensitive information while evading detection. The vulnerabilities affect the following Hillrom products: Welch Allyn ELI 380 Resting Electrocardiograph (versions 2.6.0 and prior).

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Looking at why cross-sector working will help ICSs meet virtual ward targets

Digital Health News

Dr Noel O’Kelly, clinical director at Spirit Health looks at why cross-sector working will help ICSs meet virtual ward target.

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Lunit gets Canadian licenses for AI radiology solutions

Mobi Health News

This follows last year's FDA approvals in the US.

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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.