Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 11, 2022
The tech giant’s healthcare program for employers, Amazon Care, plans to include Ginger’s behavioral healthcare services as an optional add-on for clients.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 11, 2022
Patient distraction therapy, long-used by UCHealth with virtual reality and other techniques, and joy are framing the Aurora, Colorado-based health system's first in-app augmented reality experience. Beginning this fall, a patient or visitor will be able to click a button in their UCHealth mobile app and be directed to open their device's camera on a trigger point that will make a dog virtually come alive through AR in the waiting room.
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Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 11, 2022
The lawsuit threatened to again expose millions of patients to surprise out-of-network bills.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 11, 2022
MarinHealth this week said it will implement a new electronic health record system – a version of Epic developed at University of California San Francisco called APeX. WHY IT MATTERS. APeX stands for Advancing Patient-Centered Excellence – it's an Epic EHR system that was customized at UCSF as an integrated platform to help offer access to patient records across the care continuum, from MarinHealth Medical Network clinics to MarinHealth Medical Center.
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Bill of Health
AUGUST 11, 2022
By Luciano Bottini Filho. Despite the value of a constitutionally enshrined right to health, such a guarantee, on its own, does not ensure patient rights or a nuanced understanding of patient-centered care. This article will consider the case study of Brazil as an example. Despite Brazil’s recognition of the right to health, this constitutional protection does not set sufficient standards to guide judicial decision-making around patient care.
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 11, 2022
The index analyzes cumulative environmental factors at the individual census tract-level so local public health officials “can identify and map areas most at risk for the health impacts of environmental burden,” the HHS said.
Health Care Compliance Brief brings together the best content for health law & compliance professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 11, 2022
The startup's tool records and transcribes conversations between providers and patients, and then organizes relevant information about health conditions, symptoms and next steps.
HIPAA Journal
AUGUST 11, 2022
Ransomware attacks are rife, hacking incidents are being reported at high levels, and there have been several very large healthcare data breaches reported so far in 2022; however, our analysis of healthcare data breaches reported in 1H 2022, shows that while data breaches are certainly being reported in high numbers, there has been a fall in the number of reported breaches compared to 1H 2021.
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 11, 2022
The news recently came out that the TikTok ownwer, ByteDance, has paid $1.5 billion for Amcare Healthcare, one of China’s largest private hospital chains. You might wonder why TikTok’s owner would want to buy a hospital chain. Plus, I can already here the privacy critics coming to complain about TikTok (known for its privacy and tracking issues) owning a healthcare organization.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 11, 2022
Researchers found remote patient monitoring use among Medicare beneficiaries increased from 91 claims per 100,000 enrollees in February 2020 to 594 claims per 100,000 enrollees in September 2021.
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HIT Consultant
AUGUST 11, 2022
What You Should Know: – Ellipsis Health and Ceras Health today announced a partnership that will integrate Ellipsis Health’s breakthrough technology that uses the human voice as a biomarker for mental health and wellbeing into Ceras’ clinical monitoring platform. – This integration will combine Ellipsis Health’s AI and deep learning technology with Ceras Health’s clinical monitoring and health data analytics platform, enabling real-time severity scores for anx
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 11, 2022
Cleerly, the company creating a new standard of care for heart disease, announced that it has closed a Series C financing round of $223 million. This new funding brings the total raised by the fast-growing health care company to $279 million, which includes its Series B round in 2021. “At Cleerly, we are passionate about our mission to create a new standard of care for heart disease,” said James Min, MD, FACC, FESC, MSCCT, CEO and founder of Cleerly.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 11, 2022
What You Should Know: – FundamentalVR has raised an additional $20M to significantly accelerate medical skill-transfer and increase surgical proficiency through its world-leading medical simulation platform, Fundamental Surgery. – The funding was led by EQT Life Sciences investing from the LSP Health Economics Fund 2 and joined by prior investors Downing Ventures.
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 11, 2022
Acquisition adds to company’s recent growth in high-technology pharmacy solutions and further accelerates the company’s commitment to Smart, Connected Care – offering a customizable platform to optimize IV workflow. BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, announced today it has acquired MedKeeper, a provider of modern, cloud-based pharmacy management applications.
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HIT Consultant
AUGUST 11, 2022
What You Should Know: – Abridge, the leader in medical conversation artificial intelligence (AI), today announced an oversubscribed $12.5M Series A-1 led by Wittington Ventures. – The round also had participation from all existing investors including Union Square Ventures , Bessemer Venture Partners , Pillar Venture Capital , and UPMC Enterprises , and new investors including Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio, and Whistler Capital.
Modern Healthcare
AUGUST 11, 2022
“The current conditions of this pandemic are very different from those of the last two years,” said the CDC's Greta Massetti, an author of the guidelines.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 11, 2022
Also, engineers from the University of Hong Kong have come up with a tiny biosensing platform for personalised health monitoring.
Digital Health News
AUGUST 11, 2022
Jacob Haddad from AccuRx explores why the health system should rethink its current approach to patient initiated follow up (PIFU).
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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.
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 11, 2022
Healthcare is in a really fascinating place right now especially given some of the craziness that’s happening in the world. We see a lot of things happening and they are often hard to reconcile. This is particularly true in the world of healthcare M&A. Plus, this applies to healthcare organization M&A and also health IT company M&A.
Digital Health News
AUGUST 11, 2022
Advanced are in the early stages of an investigation into the recent cybersecurity attack to discover the cause and whether patient data has been accessed.
Healthicity
AUGUST 11, 2022
Healthcare Compliance and Auditing folks — we get it.
Digital Health News
AUGUST 11, 2022
A randomised control trial by Stafford & Surrounds CCG and HN has led to a 35% reduction on average in A&E attendances in the area.
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Healthcare Law Blog
AUGUST 11, 2022
The Office of the Inspector General (“OIG”) recently issued Advisory Opinion 22-08 (the “Advisory Opinion”), concluding that the provision of limited use smartphones by a federally qualified health center (“FQHC”) to existing, low-income patients (the “Arrangement”) lacked the intent required to violate the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”) [1] and was not likely to generate remuneration prohibited under the federal Civil Monetary Penalties Law prohibiting inducements to health care program
Health Care Performance
AUGUST 11, 2022
A surgeon tweeted a selfie of himself operating on a patient while wearing a bike helmet. A dentist texted a video of himself extracting a tooth while standing on a hoverboard. A nursing home contracted with a chicken farm for medical records shredding services. No, I’m not making these up. They actually happened. These are all potential HIPAA violations.
HealthIT Answers
AUGUST 11, 2022
Business news from Surescripts, CarePayment, DrFirst, ELLKAY, QGenda, Vital, Infermedica, Experity, H1, Elevance Health, CenTrak, Clarify Health, Hallmark Health Care Solutions and more. The post Health IT Business News – August 11, 2022 appeared first on Health IT Answers.
MedTrainer
AUGUST 11, 2022
“Credentialing is just a lot of paperwork. And it’s constant.”. That’s what one of our new customers told us recently, and we hear the sentiment a lot. Regulatory compliance in healthcare , and credentialing in particular, can be a tedious, manual process that takes hours of concentration. Unfortunately, credentialing can also take several rounds of trial and error. ??.
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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.
HealthIT Answers
AUGUST 11, 2022
By Micky Tripathi & Steven Posnack - As our nation transitions to a digital healthcare system, our stakeholders are discovering new opportunities for using health information technology to advance health care delivery, public health, and research to improve people’s lives. The post E Pluribus Unum appeared first on Health IT Answers.
Becker's Health IT
AUGUST 11, 2022
More than 18,000 patients of Tacoma, Wash.-based MultiCare Health System may have been affected by a data breach that targeted third-party post-acute care company Avamere Health Services.
HealthIT Answers
AUGUST 11, 2022
By Gil Dror - The monkeypox outbreak has accelerated with more than 3,000 cases in the US (according to CDC data) and the vaccine nationwide has been hamstrung by logistical and technical errors. The World Health Organization has declared the monkeypox outbreak to be a global health emergency. The post How COVID-19 Has Prepared Us for the Monkeypox Vaccine Rollout appeared first on Health IT Answers.
Hall Render
AUGUST 11, 2022
Hall Render is pleased to announce Sadie Zurfluh has joined the firm in its Milwaukee office. Sadie represents health care and non-profit clients in the structuring, negotiating and closing of real estate transactions. Her work includes leasing, due diligence, entitlements, acquisitions and financing. Sadie’s experience prior to joining Hall Render includes real estate, land use, condemnation and municipal litigation, which gives her a broad and unique perspective on real estate risk management
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