Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The congressional report also found a majority of health systems surveyed had been affected by an extreme weather event.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, health systems now provide the majority of telehealth across the country. However, while health system physicians are going back to their office-based routine, patient demand in many cases has started to outstrip the health system supply. Some health systems have contracted with third-party telemedicine vendors that often require patients to go into a separate system that is not well-integrated with the health systems' other technologies.

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The insurer is accelerating the expansion of its primary care chain serving Medicare patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

After declining for six years, the burnout rate among doctors began to spike with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to research by the American Medical Association, Mayo Clinic and Stanford Medicine. By the end of 2021, some 21 months later, the physician burnout rate rose to an unprecedented high. WHY IT MATTERS. The study, published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, found that the prevalence of burnout among U.S. physicians was 62.8% in 2021, compared with 38.2% in 2020, 43.9% in 2017, 5

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The announcement comes on the heels of a restructuring plan and a $934 million operating loss during the first half of this year.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Anish Sebastian, CEO and Co-founder, Babyscripts. As the healthcare industry becomes more interconnected in response to a wide range of economic and societal factors, the landscape is changing for all parties involved, including payers, providers, and patients. In a dynamic time for the industry, here are four of the main factors driving the changes and what they mean for the primary stakeholders: The lines between traditional and digital are blurring.

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

For the third successive month, the number of healthcare data breaches reported to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has fallen, with 49 breaches of 500 or more records reported in August– well below the 12-month average of 58 breaches per month. The 25.75% percentage decrease from July 2022 was accompanied by a significant reduction in breached records, which dropped almost 30% month over month.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

What You Should Know: Zócalo Health , a Latino-founded healthcare service designed for Latino patients, announced that it’s closed on $5M in seed funding to support its launch of virtual primary care services in California, Texas, and Washington this year. The seed funding was co-led by Animo Ventures , Virtue , and Vamos Ventures. The round includes other notable investors including Necessary Ventures , Able Partners , and angel investors Toyin Ajayi, Freada Kapor Klein, Nikhil Krishnan, and Er

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The New York Ambulance Service, Empress EMS (Emergency Medical Services), has confirmed it was the victim of a ransomware attack. The attack was detected on July 14, 2022, and resulted in files on certain systems being encrypted. According to the company’s website notification, steps were immediately taken to contain the incident and third-party forensics experts were engaged to investigate the attack.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

What You Should Know: – McKinsey & Company’s latest report reveals inflation could result in $370 billion in an additional increase above the baseline in healthcare costs by 2027, causing the government, employers and consumers to burden the cost. – The piece showcases the impact healthcare inflation will have over the next five years without immediate action, threatening affordability and access to care for consumers, and posing a material risk to profitability for providers, pa

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The following is a guest article by Robert Horst, Senior Vice President of Partner Engagement at Audacious Inquiry , a PointClickCare Company. Collaboration in healthcare delivers remarkable outcomes. Such was the case at the first ever collaborative conference for health information exchange (HIE), interoperability, public health, and health equity.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Dr. Mona Flores, Global Head of Medical AI, NVIDIA. Make way for the age of software-defined healthcare. Amid a growing shortage of doctors and nurses, hospitals around the world are increasingly turning to AI to improve the quality of care in the face of an aging population. One major undertaking across the healthcare industry is to deliver AI-driven solutions that can improve surgical care – a tall order.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Med-Net Compliance

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

A fire at a Washington nursing home displaced seventy-seven residents and drew a coordinated response from local firefighters. Five residents were transported to local hospitals for further evaluation, according to the local police department. Crews responded to the blaze at about 5:30 p.m. after receiving calls from the facility and its neighbors. There were reports of smoke in the kitchen area and smoke coming from the roof.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The company announced a $200 million Series C round in January.

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McBrayer Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Posted In Compliance , Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure , Medical Spas Medical spas (also known as ‘medspas,’ ‘medispas,’ or ‘esthetic salons’) combine advanced medical esthetic services that would have previously only been found at plastic surgery clinics or dermatologists’ offices (such as Botox injections, laser hair removal, chemical peels, injectable fillers, and acne treatments) with those found in a traditional day spa.

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HealthIT Answers

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

By Ryan Argentieri & Jen Layden - The ONC and CDC are working together to strengthen Public Health Systems, tools, and practices that keep us safe. The post ONC and CDC Working Together appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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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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Compliancy Group

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

ServiceNow is one of the most widely used workflow automation platforms today. With its cloud-based architecture and ability to optimize the flow of information within an organization, it’s used for everything from tracking IT service requests to assisting medical triaging for patients. With the right design, the power of ServiceNow is incredible. But is ServiceNow HIPAA compliant?

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HealthIT Answers

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In case you missed it, this is recent communication from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Subscribe to their email lists to keep up to date on all press and news releases. The post Monday Morning Rounds with CMS appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Acquisition combines the two leading image exchange providers, managing 80 billion images globally and represents a total investment approaching half a billion dollars. Today, Intelerad Medical Systems™ , a leading global provider of enterprise imaging solutions, announced its acquisition of Life Image , one of the largest image exchange networks of curated clinical and imaging data, creating the largest medical image exchange network in the world and laying the groundwork for the elimination of

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HealthIT Answers

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

By Cheryl Cruver - Exacerbated by pandemic-induced burnout, resignations, and even terminations, staffing challenges remain throughout healthcare. Medical records, billing, and compliance are the fastest-growing healthcare white-collar administrative professions, according to the American Hospital Association. The post A Hybrid Approach to Overcoming Coding Staff Shortages appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

For the 97th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we’re talking about our predictions and solutions for the healthcare workforce. Join us as we dive into the different methods we’ve seen or experienced that were effective at keeping people engaged in their organization. Next, we speculate what the healthcare workforce will look like over the next two years.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

What You Should Know: – The Michigan Health Information Network (MiHIN) , the nonprofit state-wide health information network, recently announced that it is partnering with PointClickCare Technologies, the largest post-acute electronic medical record vendor in the country, to advance and deepen healthcare collaboration, care coordination , and interoperability by offering access to real?

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HealthIT Answers

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

New On Demand Healthcare Upside/Down: With guest Zack Robinson, the founding partner of DisclosedRx, a company that aims to improve access to prescription medication and make drug pricing more transparent. The post Don’t Hit the “Easy” Button appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Becker's Health IT

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

From snooping employees to ransomware gangs breaching health systems' IT and communication systems, here are four cybersecurity incidents that Becker's has reported on since Aug. 29.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The startup will use the seed funding to launch services in California, Texas and Washington this year.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Several health systems have faced lawsuits regarding data breach incidents.

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Symplr

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

symplr has officially changed our name from "Vendor Credentialing Service LLC" to " symplr software LLC".

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

­­By Nate Holdren. Every day in the pandemic, many people’s lives end, and others are made irrevocably worse. [1]. These daily losses matter inestimably at a human level, yet they do not matter in any meaningful way at all to the public and private institutions that govern our lives. Our suffering is inconsequential to the machinery of power and to those who compose and operate that machinery.

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