Bill of Health

AUGUST 10, 2023

By Christi Guerrini, David Gurney, Steve Kramer, CeCe Moore, Margaret Press, and Amy McGuire State legislators have enacted a flurry of genetic privacy bills that will strengthen the privacy and security practices of direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies and give customers more control over their data. What they might not realize is that these bills could be interpreted in ways that limit law enforcement’s ability to use a new technique that helps identify violent criminals and human rema

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Healthcare Dive

AUGUST 10, 2023

CEO Jeff Tangney attributed the company’s slowdown to “post-COVID upsell weakness,” while also reducing Doximity’s revenue guidance for fiscal year 2024.

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Compliance Now

AUGUST 10, 2023

By: David Mordo, Senior Compliance Consultant, MZQ Consulting With the ongoing issue of Medicaid redetermination taking place across the nation, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Treasury, and the Department of Labor (collectively, the Agencies) are strongly encouraging group health plan sponsors to extend special enrollment periods for individuals who are losing coverage under Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

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Healthcare Dive

AUGUST 10, 2023

Star ratings bonuses jumped 30% from 2022 to 2023 to reach $12.8 billion, according to the KFF, as the Medicare program faces a growing spending crisis.

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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

HIT Consultant

AUGUST 10, 2023

What You Should Know: Movano Health (Nasdaq: MOVE), a purpose-driven healthcare solutions company at the intersection of medical and consumer devices and makers of the Evie Ring , announced the formation of its Medical Advisory Board. The initial panel is composed of healthcare industry subject matter experts in women’s health, mental health, and sleep, who will serve as trusted advisors to the Evie team regarding the development of its medical-grade smart ring for women and provide insights to

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Healthcare Dive

AUGUST 10, 2023

The investment aims to reduce “bottlenecks in nurse training” that stakeholders say hamper recruitment efforts.

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Healthcare Dive

AUGUST 10, 2023

Continuing financial pressures could keep deal-making low in the second half of the year, but M&A could heat up in early 2024, a new KPMG report finds.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 10, 2023

Mantra Health, a digital mental health provider for higher education, is joining forces with adolescent-focused Charlie Health to broaden access for students seeking higher levels of care. | The partners will connect college and university students who require a higher level of mental health care to Charlie Health’s virtual intensive outpatient program.

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Healthcare Dive

AUGUST 10, 2023

Rebounding volume, including increased demand for elective surgeries, boosted toplines for HCA, Tenet, CHS and UHS in the second quarter.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 10, 2023

4 in 5 health plan execs are significantly concerned about rising GLP-1 utilization and costs, according to a newly | 4 in 5 health plan execs are significantly concerned about rising GLP-1 utilization and costs, according to a newly released survey from Virta Health.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 10, 2023

Source: Stanford Children’s Health What You Should Know: Students from Stanford University School of Engineering robotics team designed robotic puppies, known as ‘The Pupper Robots,’ that helps calm and distract young pediatric patients during routine and complex procedures at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. The University robotics team 3D printed 30 pups to interact and play with kids at the hospital’s family resource center, Story Corner.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 10, 2023

Sutter Health logged a $29 million operating income (0.8% operating margin) and $265 million bottom line for the quarter ended June 30, thanks in part to higher patient volumes and their accompanyi | The California nonprofit system's 0.8% operating margin and $265 million net income are clear improvements over the previous year's performance.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 10, 2023

What You Should Know: Only 57 percent of healthcare organizations use data to make business decisions, despite 90 percent of healthcare leaders agreeing that access to quality data is critical to organizational performance, according to a new report by Arcadia. The Current State of Healthcare Analytics Report insights come from a pulse survey on the current state of healthcare analytics platforms conducted by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and Arcadia.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 10, 2023

In a major effort to combat healthcare inequalities in the Philadelphia region, Independence Blue Cross is teaming up with 12 large health systems in the region to target 15 medical tests that may | Independence Blue Cross, and 12 large healthcare systems announced today that they’ve formed a coalition to eliminate racial bias in 15 commonly used clinical tools.

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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

HIT Consultant

AUGUST 10, 2023

What You Should Know: Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered mental health screening pioneer Aiberry (pronounced “I” + “berry”) unveiled a new version of the Aiberry platform specifically designed to meet the needs of corporate wellness platform users. Easily integrated with all leading corporate wellness platforms, Aiberry uses an AI-powered therapeutic assistant, “Botberry,” to conduct a conversation to detect mental health disorders by analyzing what is being said, the speech patterns being use

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 10, 2023

Rochester Regional Health is using a measured and practical approach to data interoperability. They have focused their efforts on data that clinicians want to use, that fits their workflow, and can be seamlessly incorporated into their Epic system. They started with lab data and this integration, on its own, is having a positive impact on patient care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 10, 2023

Standalone e-prescribing platform formally launched This week, health tech startup Telecare launched the first standalone electronic prescribing platform in Australia. Called RxPad, this cloud-based, mobile-friendly platform digitises the process of writing up, signing off, and posting prescriptions. It allows doctors to prescribe without having to log into any practice management software.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 10, 2023

What You Should Know: Only 57 percent of healthcare organizations use data to make business decisions, despite 90 percent of healthcare leaders agreeing that access to quality data is critical to organizational performance, according to a new report by Arcadia. The Current State of Healthcare Analytics Report insights come from a pulse survey on the current state of healthcare analytics platforms conducted by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and Arcadia.

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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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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 10, 2023

At 11.59 pm on August 9, 2023, the transition period for ensuring telehealth services are fully HIPAA-compliant came to an end. Healthcare providers must now ensure that their telehealth services are provided using platforms that are fully compliant with the HIPAA Rules. The enforcement discretion policy was initiated for telehealth in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 10, 2023

John Nebergall, COO at Consensus Cloud Solutions Despite assertions that healthcare is “burned out on talking about burnout,” the HIMSS 2023 presentations that have kept attendees talking long after the sessions ended included those that use automation to relieve workforce pressures. From ways to support smarter, more seamless discharge to remote check-ins with tonsillectomy patients, use cases for automation ramped up considerably during the pandemic.

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Digital Health News

AUGUST 10, 2023

Holly Health has partnered with Age UK Lewisham and Southwark to provide mental and physical health coaching for people aged 50-70+ across the UK.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 10, 2023

What You Should Know: Microsoft announced that Epic clients, starting with Mount Sinai Health System can use Microsoft Azure Large Instances to run the large Epic electronic health record (EHR) database at up to 50 million database accesses per second. Through close collaboration with Accenture, Mount Sinai continues to migrate many of its workloads to Azure and now has the largest production instance of Epic running on Azure in the world.

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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 10, 2023

AI Start-up Pioneering Generative AI for Healthcare Receives $13M in Early Funding, Adds Industry Luminaries as Advisors, and Kicks off Use Cases for Health Insurance Plans and Provider Systems GenHealth.ai , a game-changing generative AI startup, is pushing the boundaries of AI in healthcare. The new company spun out of healthcare interoperability leader 1upHealth three months ago and secured $13M in funding, co-led by Craft Ventures and Obvious Ventures.

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Becker's Health IT

AUGUST 10, 2023

Prospect Medical Holdings, a 16-hospital system based in Culver City, Calif., and its hospitals are still feeling the effects of a cybersecurity incident that took place Aug. 3, The Record reported Aug. 9.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 10, 2023

What You Should Know: The UnitedHealthcare Accelerator program, announced its fifth cohort of 10 digital health startups to participate in its four-month collaborative mentorship-driven program. Selected startups will receive guidance from UnitedHealthcare and Optum executive, fundraising support, and $50k in capital. 90% of this year’s companies were founded by women and / or people of color.

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Digital Health News

AUGUST 10, 2023

HealthNet Homecare has launched an app to help patients manage their medication digitally, and reduce medication delivery queries for healthcare staff.

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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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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 10, 2023

The Ottumwa Fire Department in Iowa has recently fired employees for alleged violations of the HIPAA Rules and other misconduct. The City of Ottumwa launched an investigation of three members of the fire department, two of whom have been terminated and one left the department in lieu of termination for “behaviors that violated department rules, safe practices, and the values and standards of the City of Ottumwa”.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 10, 2023

Primary care company Cano Health is exploring a sale as its cash dwindles and plans to lay off 700 employees, or 17% of its workforce, the company announced Thursday. | Primary care company Cano Health is exploring a sale as its cash dwindles and plans to lay off 700 employees, or 17% of its workforce, the company announced Thursday.

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Digital Health News

AUGUST 10, 2023

Kalium Health, a Cambridge University spinout developing an at-home blood potassium test, has gathered enough data to prepare for clinical evaluation.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 10, 2023

Drug shortages are rife across hospital and health system pharmacies and forcing most pharmacists to rely on alternatives that drive costs and sometimes impede care, particularly when it comes to c | Over half of health system pharmacists say they've been at least moderately impacted by drug shortages, and nearly all say they've had to get creative with dispensing and purchasing.

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