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More states propose nurse staffing, ratio laws

Healthcare Dive

Lawmakers in three states are considering legislation around healthcare worker staffing and nurse-to-patient ratios after the pandemic caused the industry to suffer major workforce challenges.

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Pitfalls and opportunities with medical device data aggregation, storage, and consumption/usability

Healthcare It News

Healthcare data is growing exponentially, driven by multiple factors including the prevalence of consumer health devices, connected medical devices, and remote patient monitoring solutions. Aggregating and analyzing the mass amounts of data available can make a significant impact on the outcomes of patients through better insights into the diagnosis and treatment of disease.

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How Healthcare Organizations Can Rise Above the Swelling Payment Epidemic

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Joe McMurray, senior vice president of patient experience, Zotec Partners. A July 2022 report confirmed what most providers have seen coming during this time of rampant inflation: Unexpected healthcare costs can be crippling for […] The article How Healthcare Organizations Can Rise Above the Swelling Payment Epidemic appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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CVS, Rush partner on new ACO for Chicago Medicare patients

Healthcare Dive

Rush University will be the only Chicago-area academic medical center participating in CVS’ first accountable care organization in ACO REACH.

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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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Top 5 Healthcare Marketing Ideas

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Do you know the estimated revenue generated in 2023 from the healthcare industry will be around?$63.9 billion? The healthcare industry is extremely competitive, and survival is often challenging. Medical businesses spend around 10% to 15% of […] The article Top 5 Healthcare Marketing Ideas appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Amazon doubles down on generic drugs with new RxPass subscription

Healthcare Dive

RxPass will run Prime customers $5 per month to fill prescriptions from a list of about 50 generic medications.

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Elevance to acquire Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana

Healthcare Dive

The deal will add 2 million members to Elevance’s rolls and push the insurer into its 15th state.

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2022 Healthcare Data Breach Report

HIPAA Journal

For the first time since 2015, there was a year-over-year decline in the number of data breaches reported to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR), albeit only by 1.13% with 707 data breaches of 500 or more records reported. Even with that reduction, 2022 still ranked as the second-worst-ever year in terms of the number of reported breaches.

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Intermountain Healthcare launches rebrand, ditches ‘care’

Healthcare Dive

The new name reflects the system’s mission to keep people healthy beyond the traditional healthcare setting, Intermountain said.

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Amazon launches $5 monthly subscription for generic drugs

Mobi Health News

RxPass, which will be available to Prime members, will offer generic drugs for common conditions like high blood pressure and anxiety.

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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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Individual Accountability is the DOJ’s Latest Enforcement Focus

Healthicity

If you’ve been around the compliance block a time or two, you’ve heard various messages from enforcement agencies about their intentions to hold individuals accountable for their actions related to alleged corporate crime. It makes sense when you stop to think about it. Organizations don’t make decisions; people do. And rather than leaving shareholders to bear the burden, it does make sense that individuals who were complicit in the organization’s illegal activity are held accountable at a perso

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Insulet reports data breach affecting 29,000 insulin pump users

Mobi Health News

The data breach occurred when the company requested users acknowledge they had received a notice about a recall of the Omnipod DASH Insulin Management System.

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Is AI-Assisted Lung Cancer Diagnosis Right For Your Hospital?

HIT Consultant

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide, with approximately 1.8 million people dying from this disease each year. Most patients are diagnosed after symptoms have appeared and the disease has progressed to an advanced stage (Stage III or IV), which explains the current worldwide five-year survival rate of just 20 percent. In contrast, the survival rate for small lung tumors that are treated at Stage 1A is as high as 90 percent.

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With the X-waiver repealed, officials urge providers to begin prescribing buprenorphine for opioid addiction

Fierce Healthcare

With the X-waiver repealed, officials urge providers to begin prescribing buprenorphine for opioid addiction dmuoio Tue, 01/24/2023 - 14:52

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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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Dexcom Ventures Invests in MedCrypt’s Medical Device Cybersecurity Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – MedCrypt , the proactive cybersecurity solution provider for medical devices and manufacturers, will announce the close of a Series B extension round led by Dexcom Ventures , bringing the company’s total to date to $36.4M. – With support from three major investors, Johnson & Johnson Innovations , Intuitive Ventures , and Dexcom Ventures , MedCrypt continues to lead the way in developing cybersecurity technologies and infrastructure for life-saving me

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Hospital, health system boards saw low turnover, slow diversity gains from 2018-2022, AHA finds

Fierce Healthcare

Hospital, health system boards saw low turnover, slow diversity gains from 2018-2022, AHA finds dmuoio Tue, 01/24/2023 - 10:23

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Protecting Patient Safety in the Face of Ransomware Attacks

HealthIT Answers

By Jim Hyman - Cyberattacks have crossed a critical threshold, and the risks have evolved from merely causing financial loss and damage to physical systems, to affecting people’s health and safety. Not long ago that statement might have been considered hyperbole, but now it is a stark reality. The post Protecting Patient Safety in the Face of Ransomware Attacks appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Is WooCommerce HIPAA-Compliant?

HIPAA Vault

More than ever, commerce lives online. From banking to shopping, we’ve come to expect smooth, streamlined experiences whenever we visit a website. How has that impacted healthcare? How should providers respond?

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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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Lucia Savage Discusses Highlights of the Upcoming Health Datapalooza

Healthcare IT Today

The Health Datapalooza conference is a unique annual event. As the playful name suggests, it’s a somewhat countercultural happening, a place for freewheeling and respectfully critical discussion among health data experts. The conference was launched in 2010 by Todd Park, a ground-breaking technologist who was CTO of HHS at the time and was later promoted to be CTO of the United States.

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Industry Voices—Key to rural hospital survival: Sustainable solutions for patient financial engagement

Fierce Healthcare

Industry Voices—Key to rural hospital survival: Sustainable solutions for patient financial engagement hlandi Tue, 01/24/2023 - 09:47

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Aetion, FDA partner on oncology real-world data

Mobi Health News

The FDA's Oncology Center of Excellence will use Aetion's Evidence Platform to find and analyze sources of real-world data that could be used for research.

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Huma CEO says UK risks falling behind on digital health

Digital Health News

Huma CEO Dan Vahdat has warned that the NHS risks falling behind other countries on adoption of digital health unless it aligns reimbursement.

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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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Blues to press Congress to expand site-neutral payment reforms to more outpatient clinics

Fierce Healthcare

Blues to press Congress to expand site-neutral payment reforms to more outpatient clinics rking Tue, 01/24/2023 - 11:30

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University of Plymouth backs AI-driven digital care companion research

Digital Health News

The University of Plymouth is running a research project trialling Sentai artificial intelligence technology and its ability to help care for older people.

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Industry’s First Male Fertility Platform Posterity Health Raises $7.5M in an Oversubscribed Funding Round Led by Distributed Ventures

Healthcare IT Today

Posterity Health’s funding to accelerate Digital Platform and expedite national expansion Posterity Health , the only digital male fertility center of excellence that offers personalized advice, educational resources, and effective male fertility treatments, today announced an oversubscribed funding round of $7.5M led by early-stage venture capital fund Distributed Ventures.

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Providers jostle to lead way if FDA makes COVID vaccination a yearly jab

Fierce Healthcare

Providers jostle to lead way if FDA makes COVID vaccination a yearly jab fdiamond Tue, 01/24/2023 - 08:46

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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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ERISA 101: The United States’ Hands-Off Approach to Regulating Employer Health Plans

Center for Health Insurance Reform

Amidst growing health care costs, adequate health insurance coverage is increasingly unaffordable for employers and employees. There is a growing focus on the role employer-sponsored plans can play in health care cost containment, but under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), the access, affordability, and adequacy of employer coverage is dictated less by law and regulation and more by individual employers.

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Study: New VR sensory room reduces anxiety in people with intellectual disability

Mobi Health News

Its frequent usage was also found to improve sensory processing.

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Geisinger at Home offers primary care to populations with chronic or complex conditions

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Managed care plans, states can now text Medicaid beneficiaries to warn of enrollment changes

Fierce Healthcare

Managed care plans, states can now text Medicaid beneficiaries to warn of enrollment changes rking Tue, 01/24/2023 - 13:59

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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.