Wed.Oct 12, 2022

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Walmart steps into clinical trials, joining rivals Walgreens, CVS

Healthcare Dive

The new division could become a valuable stream of revenue for Walmart as drug companies look for potential participants in clinical trials and studies.

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What Are The Three Kinds of Healthcare Providers In Florida?

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. There are three main types of healthcare providers: doctors, nurses, and pharmacists. Each profession has unique skills and responsibilities when it comes to providing care for patients. This article will take a closer look at […]. The article What Are The Three Kinds of Healthcare Providers In Florida?

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Family glitch fix for ACA premium subsidies finalized

Healthcare Dive

The new rule extends premium subsidies to previously ineligible dependents of workers with employer-sponsored coverage.

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Tips For Hospital Admins To Enhance Healthcare Efficiency

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Did you know that automating healthcare administrative tasks can save up to 3 hours a day for the teams? Additionally, it improves work-life satisfaction by approximately 40%. There is no secret that the healthcare industry […]. The article Tips For Hospital Admins To Enhance Healthcare Efficiency appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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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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Intermountain taps Mandy Richards to serve as chief nursing executive

Healthcare Dive

Richards comes to the health system from Hartford Healthcare, after spending the bulk of her career at Allina Health.

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Everything You Need To Know About Setting Up An MRI Machine In Your Clinic

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. MRI machines are some of the most important – and expensive – pieces of equipment in any clinic or hospital. And while they offer a wealth of diagnostic opportunities, setting one up is no easy […]. The article Everything You Need To Know About Setting Up An MRI Machine In Your Clinic appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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How to Choose A Smart Movement Fitness Tracker

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. A modern activity tracker is not just a pedometer, it is a smart device designed to increase your attention to the risks that affect your health. Fitness bracelet, sports bracelet, smart bracelet – it doesn’t […]. The article How to Choose A Smart Movement Fitness Tracker appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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34K-Record Data Breach Reported by Aesthetic Dermatology Associates

HIPAA Journal

Pennsylvania-based Aesthetic Dermatology Associates has recently confirmed that its network has been accessed by unauthorized individuals who potentially viewed and/or acquired files containing the personal and protected health information of 33,793 current and former patients. The cyberattack was detected on August 15, 2022, when suspicious activity was detected within its network.

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Caregiver Burnout: What Is IT And How Can Technology Help?

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. For many people, looking after a loved one with a serious health condition is a choice they gladly make. But that doesn’t make it an easy decision to live with every day. Taking care of […]. The article Caregiver Burnout: What Is IT And How Can Technology Help?

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5 Signs It’s Time To Consider Outsourcing your Radiology Billing Services

Medisys Compliance

Let’s agree to the fact that Radiology Billing Services is not a glamorous work and fun to cover. Even for an experienced radiologist it can be stressful and overwhelming. The medical billing procedure used to be rather simple, but it has evolved into a complex web of factors today. Today, it has evolved into a workflow and system that calls for subject matter experts in a wide range of areas, including CPT coding, holding payers accountable, ICD-10 coding, claim filing, technology, payer contra

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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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Babylon to sell its California independent physician association business

Mobi Health News

The company said the sale of Meritage Medical Network will allow it to focus on its digital-first, value-based care contracts.

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Cybersecurity Awareness and Enabling Multi-Factor Authentication

HealthIT Answers

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Throughout the month we will be asking our experts to help us navigate cybersecurity in healthcare. This week they are offering their two cents on enabling multi-factor authentication. Follow all month at #BeCyberSmart. The post Cybersecurity Awareness and Enabling Multi-Factor Authentication appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Proscia Unveils New Enhancements to its Digital Pathology Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Proscia® , a leading provider of digital and computational pathology solutions, has introduced the next version of its Concentriq® Dx platform for primary diagnostic workflows, which is CE-marked under IVDR. – The release brings together new features and a compelling user experience to help even the largest laboratory networks transition to 100% digital diagnosis.

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Nordic Consulting Acquires Healthcare Consulting Company Hygeian

Healthcare IT Today

Nordic’s sixth acquisition will expand its presence in the UK and Middle East. Nordic Consulting , a global health and technology consulting company, announced today that it has acquired Hygeian , a healthcare consulting company supporting public and private sector clients across the United Kingdom and the Middle East with advisory services, change management, flexible resourcing, and filling fixed-term and specialist roles.

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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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FOLX Health Raises $30M, Launches Expert-Led Support Groups for LGBTQIA+ Community

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – FOLX Health , the first digital healthcare service provider designed by and for the medical needs of the LGBTQIA+ community, today announced $30M in new financing led by 7wireVentures , with participation from new investor Foresite Capital and existing investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners , Define Ventures, and Polaris Partners. – Lee Shapiro, Managing Partner of 7wireVentures and former Chief Financial Officer of Livongo Health, will join FOLX Healt

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Folx Health scores $30M to add mental health support

Mobi Health News

The virtual care startup for LGBTQ+ patients will also use the investment to expand its recently launched enterprise offering.

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Redesign Health Lays Off 20% of Staff in Restructuring Move

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Redesign Health , a company that builds other healthcare startups, laid off 67 employees, or about 20% of its workforce, Fast Company reports. The cuts come roughly a month after Redesign raised $65 million in Series C funding. – A spokesperson for Redesign confirmed the layoffs, calling the cuts a “restructuring move.

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Healthcare Insights and Perspectives from Mac McMillan

Healthcare IT Today

Healthcare IT Today has been a partner with the HCP Conferences for a while now, but this week was the first time I was able to attend in person. The event has a unique reverse expo format where the health IT professionals sit at tables and the vendors go around visiting the tables. It was a well run event with some really great health IT professionals and vendor sponsors.

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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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U.S. clears updated COVID boosters for kids as young as 5

Modern Healthcare

The Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which recommends how vaccines are used, also signed off.

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Cerner Millennium EPR issue now resolved following national outage

Digital Health News

Downtime and performance issues with Cerner Millennium electronic patient record systems, causing a national outage last night, have now been resolved.

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A Variety of Voices Needed Throughout All Sectors of Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Lori Smith, Senior Vice President of Talent at hc1. Improving Care Means Better Representing Everyone We Ultimately Serve. As the medical community continues to develop value-based care models and focuses more on care coordination, healthcare organizations must also strive to become even more patient-centered, promoting improved care across the continuum.

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Rewired Pitchfest invites scale ups to apply for 2023 contest

Digital Health News

Applications for our 2023 Rewired Pitchfest competition are now open and for the first time since its launch, it will be open to digital health scale ups.

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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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FDA clears updated COVID boosters for kids as young as 5

Modern Healthcare

There’s one more step before parents can bring their kids in for the new shot: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which recommends how vaccines are used, must sign off.

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Norfolk and Norwich uses digital solutions for personalised follow-ups

Digital Health News

Norfolk and Norwich has introduced new digital solutions to transform its patient follow-up pathways in line with NHS England targets.

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The Patient as Prescription Drug Payer – The GoodRx Playbook

Health Populi

Patients have more financial skin-in-their-healthcare-games facing high-deductibles and direct out-of-pocket costs for medical bills…including prescription drugs. I collaborated with GoodRx on a “yellow paper” discussing The Health Consumers as Payer , with implications and calls-to-action for pharma and life science companies. You can download the paper at this link.

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Redesign Health lays off 67 employees in 'restructuring move'

Mobi Health News

The company let go of 20% of its workforce last week.

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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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At CommonSpirit, big IT problems and little info

Becker's Health IT

Despite EHR outages, canceled appointments and delayed surgeries at its hospitals across the nation, Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health has been slow to release details on the massive IT security incident.

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United Health Centers of the San Joaquin Valley Proposes Settlement to Resolve Data Breach Lawsuit

HIPAA Journal

United Health Centers of the San Joaquin Valley (UNC) has proposed a settlement to resolve a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of patients affected by its August 2021 Vice Society ransomware attack. The attack in question saw the ransomware actors gain access to its network and exfiltrate files that contained patient information such as names, Social Security numbers, medical record numbers, dates of birth, and treatment information, with the information copied from its systems between August

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Centralized Staffing for Your Health System | symplr

Symplr

Competing, high priorities in healthcare workforce management— costs, staff satisfaction, and patient experience —are tipping the needle toward use of centralized staffing for many health systems. In centralized healthcare staffing, a central office manages scheduling and staffing rather than individual units. In the early days of centralized staffing, about a decade ago, hospitals simply set up an office with a direct line to organize call-ins for nurses and other healthcare professionals to he

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Cybersecurity Best Practices: HIPAA Data Loss Prevention

Compliancy Group

Handling patients’ protected health information is something healthcare providers do every day. Because of its sensitive nature, extra precautions must be taken to safeguard PHI. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recommends ten practices that anyone handling PHI needs to implement, the fourth of which is HIPAA data loss prevention. What is HIPAA Data Loss Prevention?

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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.