Healthcare It News
MAY 8, 2023
The New York City-based Urban Health Plan used artificial intelligence to improve operational efficiency and patient care and got a handle on its annually high patient no-show rates with cost-effective patient interventions. Higher-than-average missed appointments No-shows are due to multiple factors, including social determinants of health like transportation.
Healthcare Dive
MAY 8, 2023
The first-quarter report comes weeks after the operator announced its plans to acquire Geisinger Health and form a new nonprofit with the purpose of acquiring and operating other nonprofit systems.
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Bill of Health
MAY 8, 2023
By Chloe Reichel and Seema Mohapatra Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) such as in-vitro fertilization (IVF) face an uncertain future as anti-abortion policymakers and advocates work to restrict access to reproductive care post- Dobbs. Until last summer, modern ART had been performed in the United States with the Constitutional protection for abortion care in the background.
Healthcare Dive
MAY 8, 2023
Violence prevents nurses, doctors and other professionals from providing uninterrupted, quality patient care, argues Andrew Thum, the director of nursing workforce operations at Jefferson Health in Philadelphia.
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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MAY 8, 2023
At FirstHealth of the Carolinas, a health system based in Pinehurst, North Carolina, bed capacity always seemed to be at the forefront of challenges, a not uncommon situation in healthcare. Having more bed capacity is always helpful, but that usually means construction of some sort. FirstHealth staff thought of a way to increase hospital bed capacity without laying a single brick.
Healthcare Dive
MAY 8, 2023
The medical associations said preventive health services are essential to increase longevity and quality of life, and that medical evidence should dictate preventive care recommendations rather than political considerations.
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Healthcare Dive
MAY 8, 2023
The medical credit card industry has expanded in recent years as healthcare providers promoted the cards to patients, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said in a report.
HIPAA Journal
MAY 8, 2023
NationsBenefits Holdings, LLC, a provider of supplemental benefits, flex cards, and member engagement solutions to health plans and managed care organizations, has confirmed that it has been affected by a security breach involving Fortra’s GoAnywhere MFT file transfer solution. The hackers behind the attack – the Clop ransomware group – gained access to NationsBenefits data on January 30, 2023, and exfiltrated that information from the GoAnywhere MFT solution.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 8, 2023
UnitedHealth extends its hot streak as the most profitable payer in Q1 pminemyer Mon, 05/08/2023 - 13:28
Healthcare IT Today
MAY 8, 2023
5G means much more to healthcare than just faster cellular speeds. 5G is a technology that can help improve both patient and staff experience WITHOUT the need for extensive training or changes to workflows. If implemented smartly, 5G also represents a rare opportunity to future-proof healthcare facilities. To find out more about 5G and how it can be successfully deployed in healthcare, the team at Healthcare IT Today did a deep dive into this topic with: Stuart Samples, Chief Technology Officer
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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.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 8, 2023
Digital health companies making a long-term play for the $100B weight loss drug market hlandi Mon, 05/08/2023 - 06:53
HIT Consultant
MAY 8, 2023
What You Should Know: A new report released by TytoCare , a virtual care company enabling accessible, high-quality primary care from home, revealed insights into how health plans and organizations can drive virtual care engagement. While key elements that patients value in virtual care offerings include cost and time savings, and the ability to reduce Emergency Department (ED) or urgent care visits, people want to see doctors they trust or and are more likely to adopt virtual care when recommend
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 8, 2023
A 'reckoning' in healthcare: The climate crisis and what the industry can do about it agliadkovskaya Mon, 05/08/2023 - 18:13
HIT Consultant
MAY 8, 2023
What You Should Know: Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai found that applying machine learning models to data collected passively from wearable devices can identify a patient’s degree of resilience and well-being. The study, published in JAMIA Open , supports the use of wearable devices, such as the Apple Watch, to monitor and assess psychological states remotely.
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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 8, 2023
WIth judge's ruling, some employers may cut off no-cost preventive care: survey fdiamond Mon, 05/08/2023 - 12:49
HIT Consultant
MAY 8, 2023
What You Should Know: Today, Samsung announced today its Irregular Heart Rhythm Notification feature of the Samsung Health Monitor App has been cleared by the FDA. With this new feature, Galaxy Watch users can be alerted when heart rhythms suggestive of atrial fibrillation (AFib) – a type of arrhythmia – are detected. The Irregular Heart Rhythm Notification works with the app’s existing on-demand Electrocardiogram function to proactively monitor heart rhythms suggestive of AFib, and will be intr
Mobi Health News
MAY 8, 2023
According to an audit by the Office of the Inspector General, Medicare improperly paid for $580 million of psychotherapy care, including $348 million of telehealth services, during the first year of the COVID-19 public health emergency.
HIT Consultant
MAY 8, 2023
Ophir Ronen, CEO of CalmWave, Inc. What You Should Know: Healthcare providers face the difficult challenge of coping with an ever-increasing workload while still providing high-quality patient care and trying to retain their staff. As the CEO of CalmWave, Inc., Ophir Ronen is an expert in both patient outcomes and staff retention who understands the importance of leveraging AI technologies to reduce alarm fatigue and deliver more efficient quiet care.
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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.
Healthcare IT Today
MAY 8, 2023
Tegria , a leading healthcare consulting and technology services company, today announced the acquisition of Sisu Healthcare IT Solutions , a highly regarded MEDITECH certified hosting and services firm headquartered near Duluth, Minn. With the addition of Sisu’s team of experts, Tegria deepens its established hosting, technical solutions and managed services offerings to support MEDITECH clients.
HIT Consultant
MAY 8, 2023
Trent Sanders, VP, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Kyndryl US The U.S. healthcare industry has hit an important inflection point. The global pandemic highlighted an increased need to deliver quality patient care. However, outdated, legacy technology is straining many health systems, and in some cases, exaggerating existing problems such as rising operational costs and high rates of attrition.
Healthcare IT Today
MAY 8, 2023
For the 54th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Natalie Pageler, MD, CMIO at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health to talk about patient information privacy! To kick things off, Pageler shares some of the unique challenges that exist with data privacy for children. Then we shift into the roles healthcare organizations and patients/parents have in keeping information private.
Fierce Healthcare
MAY 8, 2023
HHS' proposed HTI-1 rule draws criticism for what's excluded—electronic prior authorization aburky Mon, 05/08/2023 - 16:18
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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.
Center for Health Insurance Reform
MAY 8, 2023
Washington, Colorado, and Nevada are partnering with private health insurance carriers to offer new "public option" plans. In a post for the Commonwealth Fund's To the Point blog, CHIR's Christine Monahan and Madeline O'Brien compare state approaches to selecting insurance carriers to offer the new state plans.
HIPAA Journal
MAY 8, 2023
Brightline, a provider of virtual behavioral and mental services to families, has confirmed it was affected by the cyberattack on Fortra’s GoAnywhere MFT file transfer solution, which saw a zero-day vulnerability exploited in attacks on 130 organizations over a 10-day period starting on January 18, 2023. While the Clop threat group conducts ransomware attacks, ransomware was not used in these attacks.
Becker's Health IT
MAY 8, 2023
Hospital ransomware attacks can also constrain resources at nearby facilities and should be considered a "regional disaster," a May 8 study in JAMA Network Open found.
Health Populi
MAY 8, 2023
Using the Internet and mobile health apps are as mainstream as swiping left for a date and researching features in a new car, based on the Digital 2023 Global Overview Report from Meltwater. The broad coverage of this kind of research can’t be accomplished by just one entity, and Meltwater acknowledges the partners who brought them to this research-party: these included data.ai, GSMA Intelligence, GWI, Locowise, Ookla, PPRO, SemRush, Similarweb, Skai, and Statista.
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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
MAY 8, 2023
At HIMSS23 over 40 leaders, innovators, and experts stopped by the Healthcare IT Today booth to offer their unique insights and expert opinions on-camera. It was fantastic to hear their diverse perspectives on the current state of our industry. Here are three of those interesting conversations. More Focus on Equity a Welcome Trend at HIMSS23 – Divurgent Christopher Kunney, Senior VP of Digital Acceleration at Divurgent had a lot of interesting insights to share about equity in healthcare.
HIPAA Vault
MAY 8, 2023
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Health Law Advisor
MAY 8, 2023
As health care entities around the country face staffing shortages, hospitals have started to turn to apps to fill nursing shifts. New apps allow hospitals to engage nurses as independent contractors to fill open shifts, allowing nurses to bid on shifts and select hours that match their schedule. Apps allow nurses to work as independent contractors and engage directly with the hospital as opposed to employees of the hospital or a nursing staffing agency that then engages on their behalf to staff
Health IT Security
MAY 8, 2023
Rising password breaches… read more
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In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.
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