Wed.Dec 22, 2021

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Combating patient loneliness through conversational AI

Healthcare It News

With disinformation and confusion about COVID-19 on the rise, effective patient engagement is taking on an even greater role. Studies have shown that engaged patients show improved health outcomes and that effective tools can enhance service delivery. But it's not always simply a question of communicating more. Communicating with impact is the real key – and innovators and vendors are exploring the best ways to do so.

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13.6M have signed up for coverage on ACA exchanges during open enrollment so far: CMS

Fierce Healthcare

13.6M have signed up for coverage on ACA exchanges during open enrollment so far: CMS. pminemyer. Wed, 12/22/2021 - 11:41.

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Brainomix secures £16M to expand AI-based platform for biomarker imaging

Mobi Health News

After pioneering in stroke assessment, the investment will be directed to new therapeutic areas for lung fibrosis and cancer.

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Making the telehealth patient experience seamless

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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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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Azalea Health Shows That a Telehealth Platform Needs More Than the Cloud

Healthcare IT Today

There’s fierce competition in the telehealth space, which is good because each company can approach telehealth from different angles and try out a variety of services. Azalea Health is one of the vendors offering a comprehensive electronic health record (EHR) platform with online scheduling, telehealth, payments, and analytics, all in the cloud.

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Duke University accused of 'conspiring' to take over independent physician practice

Fierce Healthcare

Duke University accused of 'conspiring' to take over independent physician practice. dmuoio. Wed, 12/22/2021 - 12:19.

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Consultative Medicine — An Emerging Specialty for Patients with Perplexing Conditions

NEJM

The emerging specialty of consultative medicine is rooted in generalism and aims to integrate the best of the Oslerian diagnostic tradition with the multidisciplinary collaboration and modern technologies needed to tackle uncertain, difficult, or complex diagnoses.

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Fueling the fire: Will digital health investment keep up in 2022?

Mobi Health News

Digital health leaders and execs discuss whether funding will continue at the same rapid pace next year.

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Industry Voices—Using your health plan to achieve your New Year's resolutions

Fierce Healthcare

Industry Voices—Using your health plan to achieve your New Year's resolutions. pminemyer. Wed, 12/22/2021 - 10:00.

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Relief in Sight — Estimated Savings under Medicare Part D Redesign

NEJM

Relief may be in sight for Medicare Part D beneficiaries who currently face high out-of-pocket spending. Redesign of the program is expected to be part of the fiscal year 2022 budget reconciliation currently moving through Congress.

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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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EU adopts harmonised regulation on health technology assessment

Mobi Health News

The new rules aim to improve access to innovative technologies.

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In Clinical Care, What Will Amazon Deliver?

NEJM

Amazon has been rolling out Amazon Care, a service combining telemedicine with some in-home care provided by nurses. What will the retail behemoth’s new venture mean for patients, primary care physicians, and the already fragmented U.S. health care system?

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Medical Malpractice Issues for Telehealth and Technology

Healthcare IT Today

If you think back 10-15 years, the health system of today is quite different than the one we knew then. There’s been an explosion of technology implemented in healthcare. Plus, thanks to COVID, telehealth has exploded too. As is usually, the case, the laws around these technologies haven’t really kept up with the pace of […].

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Tobacco-free Nicotine — New Name, Same Scheme?

NEJM

E-cigarettes that claim to contain “tobacco-free” synthetic nicotine — nicotine that isn’t derived from tobacco — are proliferating. Such products may threaten ongoing public health efforts to reduce e-cigarette use among adolescents and young adults.

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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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Compliance Conversations with CJ Wolf: How to Prevent Suicide

Healthicity

[Trigger warning: Suicide]. Folks, we’re gonna dive into a hard subject today.

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Innovaccer Raises $150 Million Series E Round at $3.2 Billion Valuation, Continues Rapid Growth Trajectory

Healthcare IT Today

The Innovaccer Health Cloud achieves swift adoption as healthcare’s new platform for accelerating digital transformation Company announces new Innovation Accelerators to help customers tackle the most common and high-impact clinical, operational, and financial use cases Innovaccer Inc. announced a $150 million Series E round at a $3.2 billion valuation, driven by rapid customer adoption of […].

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Ensuring Provider Directory Compliance With H.R. 133

Verisys

By Donald Potts and Donovan Schwartz. If you have a provider directory, you probably know about the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 (aka H.R. 133). Passed last December, the Act requires group health plans and health insurance issuers to improve the verification and refresh process of their provider directory systems. The goal is to improve the accuracy and transparency of provider information for consumers and minimize the impacts of unverified data.

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Why Digital Pathology Platform Adoption Will Fail Without Intoperability

HIT Consultant

Coleman Stavish, CTO, Proscia. The global pandemic has cast a spotlight on the impact of digital transformation in healthcare. From ensuring access to care with telemedicine to accelerating vaccine development, technology has rapidly unlocked new sources of value for patients, providers, and researchers alike. While much of this has played out before our very eyes, other advancements have been less visible but equally as significant.

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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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Editor's corner: Fierce Health IT's 10 most read stories of 2021 tracked Google, Amazon and the investment boom

Fierce Healthcare

Editor's corner: Fierce Health IT's 10 most read stories of 2021 tracked Google, Amazon and the investment boom. hlandi. Wed, 12/22/2021 - 13:56.

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Prioritizing COVID-19 Contact Tracing During a Surge Using Chatbot Technology

AJPH

American Journal of Public Health, Volume 112, Issue 1 , Page 43-47, January 2022.

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California will soon require healthcare workers to receive a COVID-19 booster, Newsom announces

Fierce Healthcare

California will soon require healthcare workers to receive a COVID-19 booster, Newsom announces. dmuoio. Wed, 12/22/2021 - 10:44.

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Ten Public Health Tips to Heal From COVID-19 Losses

AJPH

American Journal of Public Health, Volume 112, Issue 1 , Page 5-5, January 2022.

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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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Editor's corner: Fierce Healthcare's 10 most read stories tracked COVID, vax mandates and megadeals

Fierce Healthcare

Editor's corner: Fierce Healthcare's 10 most read stories tracked COVID, vax mandates and megadeals. hlandi. Wed, 12/22/2021 - 11:54.

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Ballroom Icons and the Power to Promote COVID-19 Vaccination Among Black and Brown LGBTQ+ Individuals

AJPH

American Journal of Public Health, Volume 112, Issue 1 , Page 17-20, January 2022.

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A Divisive Ruling on Devices — Genus Medical Technologies v. FDA

NEJM

The FDA has long taken the legal position that regulated devices could also be categorized as drugs. But according to a recent case, products meeting the definition of a device “must be regulated as devices.” The decision comes amid growing challenges to FDA authority.

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Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule for Calendar Year 2022 – CMS Cuts Rates and Extends Telehealth

Health Care Law Brief

On November 2, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued its Calendar Year (CY) 2022 Physician Fee Schedule (“PFS”) Final Rule. In this post, we sample some key highlights from the Final Rule. For more detail, take a look at our previous post , in which we highlight the PFS’s changes to the Physician Self-Referral Law (“Stark Law”) regulations, and stay tuned for future posts in the series further describing the changes made by CMS in its Final Rule.

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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.

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Frontline Organizations Play a Vital Role in Movement Ecosystems; Let’s Fund Them to Thrive

AJPH

American Journal of Public Health, Volume 112, Issue 1 , Page 63-65, January 2022.

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Editor's corner: Fierce Health Payer's top 10 stories of 2021

Fierce Healthcare

Editor's corner: Fierce Health Payer's top 10 stories of 2021. pminemyer. Wed, 12/22/2021 - 13:40.

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Heading Upstream: Strategies to Shift Environmental Justice Research From Disparities to Equity

AJPH

American Journal of Public Health, Volume 112, Issue 1 , Page 59-62, January 2022.

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KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Manchin Blows Up Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’

Kaiser Health News

Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on Acast. You can also listen on Spotify , Apple Podcasts , Stitcher , Pocket Casts or wherever you listen to podcasts. Click here for a transcript of the episode. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) dashed the hopes of President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats for passage of the giant “Build Back Better” bill before the end of the year, when he announced his opposition to the measure in an interview on “Fox News Sunday.”

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Generative AI for Contracts Is Here: New Tools to Accelerate Drafting and Editing

The emergence of generative AI is reshaping the landscape of contract management, enabling businesses to generate and negotiate legal agreements with greater ease and speed. In this on-demand webinar, Hal Marcus, VP of Product Marketing at Evisort discusses how Evisort's generative AI transforms contract creation and negotiation, empowering legal teams to streamline processes while reducing risk.