Bill of Health

OCTOBER 25, 2022

By Teneille Brown. We opened up. On the backs of our workers. The country’s gravel, its highways. Paved with dead bodies. That kept the cars and trucks moving. products. Don’t cry for the risks we were asked to take. swaddled in lies. they hushed us like babies. ignoring people of science. when the bough was breaking—broke. Instead, cry, the beloved companies, the nervous CEOs who demanded immunity. not just protection to make reasonable mistakes. in the face of uncertainty, but a Monopoly pass

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 25, 2022

“We’re not just competing among healthcare organizations anymore,” Geisinger Chief Nursing Officer Janet Tomcavage said. “Now we’re really competing with the broader labor market.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 25, 2022

HIMSS is calling on healthcare stakeholders to get involved in two initiatives to help expand access to quality care for underserved and at-risk populations. As part of its Global Health Equity Week, HIMSS (parent organization of Healthcare IT News), is promoting two policy campaigns, at the federal and state level, respectively. The first is focused on protecting access to care via the telehealth flexibilities that have enabled broad expansion and uptake of virtual care since the start of the C

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The past year has been rocky for the startup telehealth provider, as it faced dissatisfied patients and a Justice Department investigation into allegations it overprescribed controlled substances.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The Australian government is investing A$312.6 million (around $200 million) over four years to improve the ICT systems in the aged care sector. It is part of the A$3.9 billion ($2.5 billion) 2022-2023 October budget for implementing aged care reforms to "improve safety, dignity, quality and humanity." WHY IT MATTERS. According to Health Minister Mark Butler, the ICT modernisation budget will help reduce the administrative burden for over 2,000 providers and sustain the existing operat

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 25, 2022

About 2,000 mental health clinician’s at the system’s facilities in Northern California walked off the job in protest of what they said were prolonged waiting times and unmanageable work loads.

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Global digital health funding of $4.6 billion fell 36% from the second quarter to the third quarter this year, according to a new report from CB Insights.

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Medisys Compliance

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Everyone is aware that healthcare is evolving. It is getting harder for doctors to get paid appropriately and on time due to the extremely complex regulatory requirements that vary on a regular basis. These difficulties result in refused claims and failed CMS audits, which carry fines of up to three times the original invoice amount. Sounds something like you have faced before?

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The PBM contract is one of the largest to change hands recently, one analyst said. Centene will drop CVS Caremark in 2024.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This week I read an essay by Health Futures President Jeff Goldsmith which made a case for moving beyond a much-beloved way of thinking about innovation and growth. In his essay, which appeared in The Health Care Blog , author Goldsmith argues that the concept of disruption as having “passed its sell-by date” after mass adoption by those who see it as gospel.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 25, 2022

What You Should Know: – Resilience Lab , a mental health provider enabling communities of clinicians to improve outcomes and access announced that it has joined Aetna as an in-network mental healthcare provider. – Resilience now has in-network partnerships with three of the nation’s largest health insurance carriers, including Aetnea, United Healthcare and Humana, allowing them to serve more than 50 million Americans across five northeast states. – This expansion is a key part

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Addressing health equity starts with meeting patients where they are. This means, for example, offering treatment and medication options that are suited to the patient’s current situation (socioeconomic status, transportation availability, location, etc.). The natural place to capture and display this type of information is in the Electronic Health Record (EHR).

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Michael Galarnyk, AI Evangelist at cnvrg.io. The costs for drug discovery and development are skyrocketing, but AI (artificial intelligence) is introducing new efficiencies to help find effective treatments faster. A study in 2020 concluded that the estimated median capitalized research and development cost per product was $985 million. Contributing factors to this included larger trial sizes, the need to assess health technology, the requirement to provide data on comparative drugs’ effectiven

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HIPAA Journal

OCTOBER 25, 2022

A round-up of healthcare data breaches that have recently been reported to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights and State Attorneys General. Delaware Department of Health and Social Services – Database Misconfiguration. The Delaware Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Developmental Disabilities Services (DDDS) has recently discovered a misconfiguration occurred when creating new user accounts for the division’s client database.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Susan Perlmutter, Chief Revenue Officer, REPAY. The past few years have seen an enormous acceleration in the adoption of technologies that streamline and modernize payments across all industries. As embedded finance becomes more popular and companies begin to embrace automation technologies, there’s a clear opportunity for healthcare providers to embrace digital payments.

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Digital Health News

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has turned to virtual reality to improve clinicians understanding of living with dementia.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 25, 2022

What You Should Know: – Elion , a San Francisco-based independent digital health technology marketplace company, today announced it has raised $3.3M in seed funding from leading digital health investors NEA , Max Ventures , 8VC , AlleyCorp , Charge Ventures and Floating Point , with additional participation from a broad set of healthcare founders and angels. – In addition to the round of funding, Elion has released its beta product to the public.

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Digital Health News

OCTOBER 25, 2022

A new collaboration between xWave and the Royal College of Radiologists will help tackle the imaging backlog with a new digital platform.

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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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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 25, 2022

What You Should Know: – COTA, Inc., an oncology real-world data and analytics company, announced its latest financing by an investment fund managed by Deerfield Management and additional capital from existing investors. – The company will use this new funding to further expand its real-world data platform and services in order to drive more efficient and inclusive drug development in oncology. – Perella Weinberg Partners LP served as exclusive financial advisor and Goodwin Proc

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Home, Sweet Hospital-At-Home? . It depends, I hedge in my latest essay for Medecision. In our bullish and, on its face, compassionate and cost-rational embrace of the migration of acute care from hospital beds to peoples’ living and bedrooms, there are several guardrails to consider beyond sheer payment and reimbursement calculations. Consider, The caregivers for the folks heading home from hospital.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 25, 2022

What You Should Know: – Today, ObvioHealth and Oracle have announced a partnership to enable the rapid collection, integration and analysis of this complex data to get breakthrough therapies to market faster and cheaper within the APAC region. This partnership will integrate ObvioGo, ObvioHealth’s next generation decentralized clinical trial (DCT) platform and mobile app, and Oracle Clinical One Cloud Service, facilitating pharma-grade analytics and reporting that can deliver more timely p

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Healthicity

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Aren’t we all looking for ways to streamline and improve our compliance programs?

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 25, 2022

They will try out wearable technologies to improve health monitoring.

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Med-Net Compliance

OCTOBER 25, 2022

On October 21, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published revisions to the Special Focus Facility (SFF) program , effective immediately. All appropriate staff are to be advised of the revisions within 30 days. According to CMS, while the SFF program has helped facilities improve their compliance and quality, there are some facilities that have not seen the same results.

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HIPAA Journal

OCTOBER 25, 2022

A former employee of Main Line Women’s Healthcare in Bryn Mawr, PA, was discovered to be accessing and photographing patient records using a personal cellphone. The investigation into the breach indicates the records of 804 patients of the OB/GYN practice were accessed and photographed. When the HIPAA violation was detected, the employee was immediately suspended and an internal investigation was launched to determine the extent of the privacy breach and the types of information that had been ob

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This summer, AIVF announced it had raised $25 million in Series A funding.

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Symplr

OCTOBER 25, 2022

To improve patient safety, we must follow the patient. Healthcare incident reporting, also known as event reporting, used to be about tracking adverse events in hospitals. But hospitals are no longer the center of the healthcare delivery universe, patients are. As providers increasingly administer care and services in outpatient or retail clinics, specialty centers, and via telemedicine, our patient safety and quality improvement tools must adapt as well.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 25, 2022

What You Should Know: – Clarius Mobile Health , a leading provider of high-definition wireless ultrasound systems, today announced Clarius Marketplace , a new platform that enables ultrasound innovators to bring their AI-powered software solutions to market faster by integrating with the Clarius ecosystem, which includes 10 wireless ultrasound scanners and advanced Software-as-a-Service. – Clarius members will gain access to solutions designed to streamline ultrasound training, impro

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Dossier

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Authored By: Geir Arnhoff. CEO. Linkedin. On the Brink of a ‘Tripledemic’ and a Plan to Support Healthcare Workers. The New York Times recently ran an article highlighting concerns about increasing cases of COVID-19, the flu, and RSV and the strain they’re putting on pediatric hospitals. COVID cases are rising, and the flu season is starting earlier than usual.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 25, 2022

What You Should Know: – Competition in the provider IT space shows no signs of abating: Early-stage capital, big tech, and scale EMR players continue crowding into more segments. This has significant implications for providers as they transition into a new disruptive period, for software players as they fine-tune go-to-market models for the current environment, and for private equity investors as they look to invest behind winning themes. – A new report by KLAS Research and Bain &

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