Fri.Apr 08, 2022

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Microdosing at Work: Business and Legal Implications

Bill of Health

By Vincent Sliwoski. In light of the widespread cultural and business culture adoption of microdosing, private sector employers should reconsider the implications of a blanket prohibition on workplace use of controlled substances. Microdosing is the practice of ingesting subperceptual amounts of psychedelic drugs, such as psilocybin mushrooms or LSD.

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Medicare finalizes policy limiting coverage of Biogen Alzheimer's drug

Healthcare Dive

Treatment with Aduhelm would only be covered for patients enrolled in a clinical trial under the policy, which largely follows a draft proposal released in January.

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What AI Changes Will We See In Big Pharma This Year?

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Shannon Flynn is a freelance blogger who covers education technologies, cybersecurity and IoT topics. You can follow Shannon on Muck Rack or Medium to read more of her articles. Artificial intelligence (AI) has had major impacts in the health care […].

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FDA clarifies cybersecurity recommendations for device makers in new guidance

Healthcare Dive

The draft guidance, which replaces a 2018 document, sets recommendations for how medical device companies should approach cybersecurity in premarket submissions.

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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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Reimagining and streamlining military healthcare

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Centene's former longtime leader Michael Neidorff dies

Healthcare Dive

Neidorff transformed the St. Louis-based insurer into a formidable player in the healthcare sector during his 26 years at the helm.

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'Appropriate' transition period for COVID-19 test EUAs when public health emergency ends

Healthcare Dive

The FDA is planning to give holders of EUAs for COVID-19 diagnostics and other devices 180 days notice of its intent to end their authorizations, in anticipation of U.S. public health emergency declarations stopping.

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How Technology Is Improving Success Rates In Drug Clinical Trials

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Most people don’t realize that it can take up to 15 years and an average of $1 billion to $2 billion dollars just to get one drug developed, pass clinical trials and ultimately approved by […]. The article How Technology Is Improving Success Rates In Drug Clinical Trials appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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'Interesting anomaly': Hospital M&A fell to record low in Q1

Healthcare Dive

Hospital M&A activity in the first quarter bucked last year's trends as both the amount and size of deals shrank, according to Kaufman Hall.

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Walmart Health's Florida centers will be the first to use Epic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Walmart Health announced this week that it would open its first centers in the state of Florida over the next few months. The five Walmart Health locations in North and Central Florida will also be the first to use Epic technology, said the company. "Two years after the launch of Walmart Health, we continue evolving and growing to make health care even more accessible to the communities we serve," said Dr.

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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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Data Breaches Reported by WV and CO Healthcare Providers and NJ Medical Billing Administrator

HIPAA Journal

Charleston Area Medical Center Breach Affects 54,000 Patients. Charleston Area Medical Center (CAMC) in Charleston, WV, has recently announced it was the victim of a phishing attack in which the email accounts of some of its employees were accessed by unauthorized individuals. The email accounts were compromised between January 10 and 11, 2022. CAMC discovered the unauthorized access on January 10, steps were immediately taken to secure the affected accounts, and a leading cybersecurity forensic

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AmerisourceBergen Launches $150M Corporate Venture Fund

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – AmerisourceBergen , a global healthcare solutions company, announced the establishment of AB Health Ventures , a dedicated corporate venture capital fund that will invest in and partner with emerging healthcare startup companies working to transform healthcare for people and animals globally. – AB Health Ventures will build on AmerisourceBergen’s ongoing commitment to delivering innovation for its customers.

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Is Signal HIPAA Compliant?

Compliancy Group

Signal is an open-source free-to-use messaging app that proudly proclaims its security and privacy features. With all of these security and privacy features, the question remains: Is Signal HIPAA compliant? HIPAA Compliant Software Usage. Under HIPAA, any application or software company whose product “touches” (creates, receives, maintains, or transmits) protected health information (PHI) is considered to be a business associate.

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Arterys Receives FDA Clearance for Next-Gen Cardiac MRI App

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Arterys , the world’s leading vendor-neutral artificial intelligence (AI) platform, has announced several new modules to its already robust Cardio AI clinical application and an additional FDA AI clearance based on deep learning. – Cardio AI is a comprehensive, cloud-based post-processing solution that leverages AI and deep learning to provide extremely accurate, automated, fast, repeatable analysis of cardiac MRI images.

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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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Consumer Experience is a Top Priority at Adventist Health

Healthcare IT Today

The pandemic has cast a harsh light on the unequal distribution of care. Instead of hiding from the reality, leading healthcare organizations like Adventist Health are addressing the problem head-on by adopting technologies and practices that prioritize access to care. Adventist has partnered with GetWell, Kyruus, VisitPay, and Tonic Health for example, to provide consumer-like […].

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PathAI and GlaxoSmithKline Partner to Accelerate Research and Drug Development

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – PathAI and GSK announced a multi-year strategic artificial intelligence (AI) partnership today with a focus on accelerating research and- building drug development programs in oncology and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). – As part of the partnership, GSK will leverage both PathAI’s expertise and models to advance GSK’s proprietary AI models and focus on designing better models to deliver improved treatment options for patients with cancer and NASH. ̵

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IntelyCare Secures $115 Million Series C Financing Led by Janus Henderson Investors

Healthcare IT Today

IntelyCare’s advanced technology platform addresses the nation’s growing healthcare labor challenges by placing nursing professionals in increasingly distributed care settings IntelyCare, the leading tech-enabled nurse staffing platform for healthcare organizations in the United States, today announced it has secured $115 million in a Series C financing round led by Janus Henderson Investors, a leading global […].

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FemTech Startup Conceive Raises $3.7M for Outcomes-Oriented Fertility Solution

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Conceive , a New York City-based femtech startup on a mission to transform fertility, today that the public beta of its integrated solution is now live. – The company’s launch is fueled by a $3.7M seed round led by Kindred Ventures, with participation from Founder Collective, Great Oaks, and 40+ founders and angels.

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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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Titanic Disasters, Business Continuity, and Kubernetes!

HIPAA Vault

The second in our series on business continuity for healthcare. by Stephen Trout When the ill-fated passengers of the Titanic agreed to an exciting ocean voyage, we understand how they might’ve taken a few things for granted – business continuity-wise. They’d been hearing, after all, that this new colossus of a ship was “unsinkable” – Continue reading.

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3 Important Security Efforts and 2 Threats to Work On and Watch for in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

Coming out of the HIMSS conference, one of the top topics at the conference was cybersecurity. Maybe it was the lingering impact and effects of ransomware incidents that hit so many healthcare organizations or maybe it was the growing complexity of IT systems that are being deployed, but cybersecurity seemed to be on everyone’s mind. […].

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Olive exaggerates cost savings; Happify Health reports DTx curbs anxiety in psoriasis patients; and other digital health briefs

Mobi Health News

Axios' Erin Brodwin published a new investigation which discovered healthcare automation startup Olive is exaggerating its capabilities and only uses "rough estimations" to gauge its cost savings.

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5 takeaways from HHS' environmental justice strategy

Modern Healthcare

The department has put an increased focus on racial and economic disparities, but stops short of addressing the industry's own emissions

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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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Addiction care startup Eleanor Health scores $50M

Mobi Health News

The company announced it had raised $20 million in Series B funding in May last year.

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Lawsuit Filed against Iowa Assisted Living Facility for Lack of Care, Wrongful Death  

Healthcare Compliance Blog

A lawsuit has been filed against an Iowa assisted living facility for wrongful death, negligence, dependent adult abuse, breach of contract, and for failing to provide management and oversight of staff. Also named in the suit is a former registered nurse (RN) who worked at the facility. The suit arises from the death of a resident in September 2020, and was filed by the executor of the estate, who is the deceased’s nephew.

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Medicare Telehealth Billing Guidelines for 2022

Medisys Compliance

Telehealth is witnessed high and low acceptance during COVID-19 pandemic last year, and it might play a key role in care delivery in 2022. During pandemic, guidelines has been loosened for more acceptance of telehealth services as in-person care may not be available all the time. CMS has updated the Telehealth Services List to show minor changes due to various activities, such as the CY 2022 MPFS Final Rule and legislative changes from the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021.

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Let’s Talk About Fax – Fun Friday

Healthcare IT Today

It’s that time again. It’s Friday when we let our hair down and get ready for the weekend. We have a little bit of fun. This week’s Fun Friday comes from the great team at DirectTrust who put out a new parody video called “Let’s Talk About Fax.” I find it really interesting that DirectTrust […].

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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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How the Pandemic, Inflation and Ukraine Are Re-Shaping Health Consumers – Learnings from dunnhumby

Jane Sarashon

Too many dollars, stimulated by an influx of COVID-19 government stimulus, are chasing too few goods in economies around the world. Couple this will labor, material shortages, and disrupted supply chains, the exogenous shock of the Ukraine crisis amplifying cost increases and shortage driving higher prices for food and commodities, and global consumers are faced with strains in household budgets.

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LionBird, AmerisourceBergen launch new venture funds focused on health startups

Mobi Health News

LionBird's new fund launches with $85 million, and AmerisourceBergen reveals a $150 million venture fund.

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HHS OCR Issues Annual HIPAA Reports to Congress

Health Law Advisor

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently submitted two reports to Congress setting forth the HIPAA breaches and complaints reported to OCR during calendar year 2020 as well as the enforcement actions taken by OCR in response to those reports. HIPAA covered entities should be aware of the trends identified in these reports and should examine their own compliance in these areas.

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The Quest for Evidence in Value-Based Care | symplr

Symplr

Value-based care and the resulting payments based on meeting quality measures is a relatively new model to supplant fee for service (FFS), but it’s growing in popularity among payers and providers. In a recent survey of 102 healthcare executives, half said value-based payment will be the dominant revenue model in the next five years and the majority already had at least 25% of their revenue tied to value-based payments.

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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.