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Walgreens, VillageMD on track to open 200 co-branded clinics this year

Healthcare Dive

It's the latest sprint in an ongoing race among drugstore chains to build out nationwide medical clinics, as consumers increasingly look for low-cost, convenient care options close to the home after two years of the pandemic.

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Michigan Avenue Primary Care integrates EHR, telehealth and scheduling

Healthcare It News

COVID-19 has created another health crisis in this country – a massive increase in depression and other mental health issues associated with being isolated. Further, the opioid crisis has worsened with an increase in addiction. THE PROBLEM. For Michigan Avenue Primary Care in Chicago, the most pressing need near the beginning of the pandemic was to find a way to adopt telemedicine as the primary service model during the COVID-19 lockdown, especially for mental health patients who suddenly

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FTC to vote on investigation into PBMs' drug pricing practices

Healthcare Dive

The agency's commissioners will weigh Thursday whether to investigate PBMs and their relationship to drug prices and "practices that may disadvantage independent or specialty pharmacies," according to the meeting agenda.

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Picking Research Projects That Matter

Bill of Health

By Leah Pierson. Academia often treats all areas of research as important, and two projects that will publish equally well as equally worthy of exploring. This, I believe, is misguided. Instead, we should strive to create an academic culture where researchers consider and discuss a project’s likely impact on the world when deciding what to work on. Though this view is at odds with current norms in academia, there are four reasons why a project’s potential to improve the world should be an explic

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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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FTC fails to get enough votes to launch study into PBM practices

Healthcare Dive

Numerous pharmacists urged commissioners to probe the practices of PBMs, which they allege harm their independent pharmacies and threaten to drive them out of business.

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Tech difficulties pose telehealth barriers for patients of color

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A systematic review of 28 studies published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association this week found that telehealth-delivered interventions for patients of color were mostly effective when it came to treating and managing many conditions. However, technological difficulties were the main barriers to effective telehealth consultation.

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Roundup: Royal Melbourne Hospital enables remote heart device interrogations, Mater adopts QuestManager, and more briefs

Healthcare It News

Royal Melbourne Hospital introduces remote heart device interrogation amid lockdowns. The Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH), a public hospital in Victoria has turned to remote interrogations of cardiac implanted electronic devices (CIED) to continue checking up on patients amid COVID-19 lockdowns. Remote device interrogation kiosks have been set up at local pharmacies where patients can show up and connect their devices.

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FDA digital health chief talks new role with agency, AI tech

Healthcare Dive

Bakul Patel, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health's chief digital health officer, will help FDA meet its 2022-2025 strategic priorities and set regulatory policies for the new technologies such as AI and machine learning.

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Healthcare IT Awards Season

Healthcare IT Today

Maybe it’s that time of year as we lead into the busy HIMSS and ViVE health IT conferences that are just around the corner, but there have been a number of interesting health IT awards programs given and announced. Here’s a look at a few of them that caught my eye. Congratulation to the Q4 […].

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7 New Technologies For Improving Vision

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Good vision keeps you safe and connects you with your surroundings. Thanks to new technology, you can enhance your vision without risking health. Vision-enhancing technology isn’t just for people with eye problems; you can also […]. The article 7 New Technologies For Improving Vision appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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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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What it will take to weed out AI bias in healthcare

Mobi Health News

Experts on a panel hosted by the Digital Medicine Society and the Consumer Technology Association discuss how healthcare organizations can utilize artificial intelligence without amplifying inequities.

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Fine Balance Between Empowering Patients and Offloading Tasks

Healthcare IT Today

Life is a tricky balance and is often about perspective. For example, when you go into the grocery store these days you now see all of these self check out options. It’s easy to see why stores like self check-out. They only have to have 1 person there covering multiple checkout stations. That’s a lower […].

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Teladoc Health Launches Chronic Condition Management Solution

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Teladoc Health , today announced the launch of Chronic Care Complete, a first-of-its-kind chronic condition management solution to help individuals improve their health outcomes while living with multiple chronic conditions. – The solution provides members with a unified, comprehensive experience that leverages connected health monitoring devices, access to health coaches and support from physicians and mental health specialists.

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3 Health IT Charts from David Chou

Healthcare IT Today

If you’re not following David Chou on Twitter, you should be. He’s been CIO at multiple organizations and he’s constantly sharing interesting info that’s useful to others in healthcare IT. You have to ignore some of his bad NBA fandom, but otherwise it’s good stuff. To see what I mean, check out these 3 health […].

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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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H1 acquires research recommendation platform Faculty Opinions

Mobi Health News

The healthcare professional networking and data company said the deal will give its users access to the latest research in biology and medicine.

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FTC votes against investigation into PBM business practices

Modern Healthcare

The Federal Trade Commission voted 2-2 against studying how the business practices of pharmacy benefit managers effect independent pharmacies.

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Digital neurotherapeutic startup MindMaze raises $105M

Mobi Health News

The financing comes on the heels of a $125 million raise from October.

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Indiana Home Health Agency Charged with Violating Fair Labor Standards Act

Healthcare Compliance Blog

An Indiana home health agency that operates two home health facilities violated the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) when it issued workers separate checks at “straight time” for hours worked at each facility. The home health agency should have combined hours worked at each facility and paid employees overtime at a time and one-half rate when they exceeded 40 hours in a week.

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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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Folx's new CEO Liana Douillet Guzmán on tech's role in improving LGBTQIA+ care

Mobi Health News

Douillet Guzmán will be taking the reins from Folx founder A.G. Breitenstein.

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Biden admin wants to replace the public charge rule

Modern Healthcare

The Biden adminsitration's version of the rule would not consider Medicaid use during permanent residency determinations.

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Spry unveils movement health self-assessment tool

Mobi Health News

It gauges a user's bodily readiness to engage in a certain physical activity.

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A Brief Summary of the OIG Work Plan Updates for January 2022

Healthicity

The OIG added plenty of items to their Work Plan for January.

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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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Digital Fitness Platform – FitOn – Announces $40M in New Funding & Acquisition of Peerfit

Healthcare IT Today

No. 1 fitness app expands its reach in healthcare and wellness by acquiring the fitness benefit platform Peerfit. FitOn, the No. 1 fitness app and digital fitness platform, announced today it has raised $40M in new funding and is expanding its reach in healthcare and wellness through the acquisition of Peerfit, a corporate wellness leader. […].

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Akili's video-gamed base therapeutic could help children with attention function

Mobi Health News

The PLOS ONE study included 25 children between the ages of 8 and 12 with ADHD.

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Improving Patient Collections Post Pandemic

Medisys Compliance

Healthcare organizations has been hit hard by the global coronavirus pandemic. Now as every sector has started recovering from the pandemic, many healthcare providers are finding it difficult to bounce back and improve the cash flow and collection at their medical practices. According to recent annual report from ‘Trends in Healthcare Payments’, the average medical practice writes off over $30,000 in unpaid medical bills each year.

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Elizabeth Dole Foundation & Cerner Launch Clinical Council

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – In partnership with Cerner Corporation , the Elizabeth Dole Foundation, today announced the launch of the Inclusive Care Clinical Council, a group of healthcare experts, leaders and stakeholders who will assess the impact of the Foundation’s Inclusive Care efforts and guide how it can be expanded to healthcare systems. – The goals of the Clinical Council are to generate a dialogue around assessing the system-wide impact of inclusive care , identify how inclusi

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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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CPA HIPAA Breach Exposes Data for 6200+

Compliancy Group

A Connecticut CPA cyberattack has earned a place on HIPAA’s “ Wall of Shame” after possibly exposing the protected health information (PHI) of at least 6,215 individuals. Fiondella, Milone & LaSaracina (FML), of Glastonbury, CT, reported the hacking incident to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights on January 14, 2022.

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Podcast: Owner’s Outlook: Vaccine Mandate for Construction Workers at Health Care Facilities – Diagnosing Health Care

Health Law Advisor

In this episode of the Diagnosing Health Care Podcast : The Supreme Court recently upheld the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) vaccine mandate, which requires recipients of federal Medicare and Medicaid funding to ensure that employees, including third- party contractors, are vaccinated against COVID-19. The Court’s decision has clear implications for owners of health care facilities and their contractors with active construction work in 2022 and beyond.

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Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: Avista to Acquire Probo Medical From Varsity Healthcare

McGuire Wood

Avista Capital Partners has announced it will acquire Probo Medical from Varsity Healthcare Partners (VHP). Probo , based in Fishers, Ind., is a supplier of refurbished diagnostic imaging equipment. Founded in 2014, the company’s set of services include equipment sales, part sales, equipment rentals, depot repair service, equipment installation and de-installation, and field-based repair service.

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Roundup: ExSeed Health closes £2.5M seed round, ‘Amazon’ of cannabis firm Cansativa scores $15M funding, and more briefs

Mobi Health News

Also, digital menopause start-up Bia Care expands NHS partnership.

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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.