Healthcare Dive

JULY 7, 2022

A recently disclosed ransomware attack could have exposed patient data from more than 650 healthcare providers.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 7, 2022

A joint security alert has been issued to the healthcare and public health sector by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Department of the Treasury warning about the threat of Maui ransomware attacks. Since May 2021, North Korean state-sponsored cyber actors have been targeting organizations in the U.S. healthcare and public health sector and have been encrypting servers that support electronic medical record systems and dia

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Healthcare Dive

JULY 7, 2022

Rhode Island's second-largest health system said it will develop key partnerships with Brown University and Lifespan to help improve liquidity and operating performance.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 7, 2022

Telehealth was vital to the pandemic response, with much of the enabling technology already in place. Its role in maintaining care and monitoring patient health at a time of shielding, social distancing and remote working anticipated wider benefits.

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Healthcare Dive

JULY 7, 2022

California, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Pennsylvania had the most hospitals receiving top awards. Florida led the pack with 26 facilities designated.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 7, 2022

The following is a guest article by Linda Comp-Noto, Division President, Healthcare Enterprise Operations at Teleperformance. Digital transformation continues to dominate the headlines. Digitizing content helps companies across almost every industry increase efficiency, improve workflow, reduce costs, and raise productivity. For the healthcare industry – an industry that is conservative by nature – undergoing a transformation presents an opportunity to implement digital strategies across the boa

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Mobi Health News

JULY 7, 2022

The cuffless device uses a sensor array over the radial artery to produce a pressure waveform that's used to determine systolic and diastolic blood pressure.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 7, 2022

Noel Alaka, VP of Life Sciences at COTA. What You Should Know: Today, oncology real-world data analytics company COTA announced the appointment of Noel Alaka as Vice President of Life Sciences. As VP of Life Sciences, Alaka will be responsible for helping grow and build partnerships with leading life sciences companies that are looking to adopt real-world data and real-world evidence to help accelerate innovation in treatments for patients facing cancer.

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Digital Health News

JULY 7, 2022

East Cheshire NHS Trust and Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are developing, building and testing a new electronic patient record from Meditech.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 7, 2022

When I watch doctors and nurses on Twitter talk about burnout, one common theme emerges. Another wellness program or yoga room is not going to help. Instead of making clinicians more resilient (they’re already extremely resilient), we need to address the core problems in healthcare that are causing burnout. One of those core causes of burnout is the documentation burden and poorly created EHR interfaces which are built around billing rather than the physician or nurse workflow.

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Digital Health News

JULY 7, 2022

South London and Maudsley has formed a partnership with Virgin Media O2, which will see one of its sites undergo a 5G-connected hospital trial. .

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 7, 2022

Compliancy Group has confirmed that CalystaPro EMR is compliant with the HIPAA Rules and the HITECH Act. CalystaPro EMR is an all-in-one aesthetic-focused EMR system developed by medical aesthetic professionals. The solution includes practice schedules, zoom teleconference, premade aesthetic note templates, digital consents, online invoicing, two-way SMS, e-prescription, and many other features.

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Digital Health News

JULY 7, 2022

Amanda Pritchard said the formation of ICSs "means we need to reduce the size of NHS England and be rigorous about what we do".

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Mobi Health News

JULY 7, 2022

A jury found Balwani guilty on all 12 charges he faced, including ten counts of wire fraud and two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

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Digital Health News

JULY 7, 2022

Alastair Allen, chief technology officer at Better explores what needs to be done in order to achieve integrated care and what the past could be the key.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 7, 2022

Tebra, the result of a recent merger between Kareo and PatientPop, said the equity and debt financing brings its valuation to more than $1 billion.

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Hall Render

JULY 7, 2022

The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (the “Act”) signed into law on December 27, 2020, created a new Medicare provider type called a Rural Emergency Hospital (“REH”). Critical access hospitals (“CAHs”) and rural hospitals with 50 beds or fewer could transition to REH status starting January 1, 2023. On June 30, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released proposed regulations (“Proposed Rule”) addressing the Conditions of Participation (“CoPs”) that a provider wil

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Mobi Health News

JULY 7, 2022

Also, annalise.ai has made key executive appointments to support its global expansion.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 7, 2022

Recent acquisitions will help advance HealthMark’s mission to transform the patient information journey through an efficient, compliant and patient-centric approach to digital health information management. HealthMark Group, a leader in digital health information management, today announced the acquisition of Acton Corporation in Chelsea, Alabama. The deal closed earlier this quarter.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 7, 2022

It offers one flat rate for individual or group counselling.

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Med-Net Compliance

JULY 7, 2022

A federal district judge in Miami sentenced the last of five defendants for his role in a healthcare fraud scheme operated out of a physical therapy clinic. According to court records, the defendants recruited and paid off beneficiaries of Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) health insurance plans, then billed BCBS for services the clinic either never provided or which were not medically necessary.

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MedTrainer

JULY 7, 2022

In order to be successful, it’s important to recognize one’s weaknesses and potential problems. This belief can be applied to countless scenarios, especially in the healthcare industry. Unfortunately, hospital staff already have a lot on their plates, meaning compliance risk management can increase their workload even further. Thankfully, advances in compliance technology have paved the way for digital programs that can help ease this burden.

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Jackson Lewis

JULY 7, 2022

While people may be familiar with many of the rules relating to the admission of service animals into public venues, do the same rules apply when a patient or visitor seeks to enter a hospital, medical office, or other healthcare facility accompanied by a service animal? Most healthcare facilities, particularly hospitals, have “no pets” policies that forbid patients and visitors from bringing animals into the facility.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JULY 7, 2022

Assembly Bill 2080 [1] (“AB 2080”), known as the “Health Care Consolidation and Contracting Fairness Act of 2022,” was approved by the California Assembly on May 26, 2022, and if passed by the Senate and signed into law before the August 31 st recess, will significantly affect healthcare M&A activity in California for a broad spectrum of healthcare providers, payors and other stakeholders. [2] .

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HealthIT Answers

JULY 7, 2022

Value-Based Care Insights Podcast with host Daniel J. Marino. In this episode Dan speaks with Hal Katz, an industry leader in health care law, to discuss how providers can successfully navigate value-based contracting with payers in a mutually beneficial way. The post Decoding Legalese of Value-Based Contracts appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 7, 2022

What You Should Know: – WellNow Urgent Care , one of the country’s fastest-growing urgent care providers has completed the strategic acquisition of Physicians Immediate Care , a Midwest leader in urgent care and occupational health services with 55 locations in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. WellNow currently operates 128 centers across New York, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. – The acquisition follows a period of rapid growth for WellNow, which opened its first location in

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HealthIT Answers

JULY 7, 2022

By Diana Bauza - The Accountable Care Organization Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (ACO REACH) Model is a pilot program designed to replace the current Global and Professional Direct Contracting (GPDC) Model. A model to promote greater health equity among the ACO beneficiaries. The post The ACO REACH Model: Health IT to Support Success appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 7, 2022

What You Should Know: – Caris Life Sciences (Caris), the leading molecular science and technology company today announced an enhanced partnership with Epic to integrate Caris’ market-leading molecular testing portfolio with Epic’s Orders and Results Anywhere (ORA) network. – Caris builds upon its current Genomics Module integration within the nation’s largest electronic health record provider by offering seamless ordering and receipt of Caris molecular profiling res

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HealthIT Answers

JULY 7, 2022

Business news from Sphere, Health Catalyst, Dedalus, Healthcare Outcomes Performance Company, Force Therapeutics, HGS Healthcare, ZeOmega, Norstralla, Citeline, Nextech, Biofourmis, Rimidi, and more. The post Health IT Business News, Financial Edition – July 7, 2022 appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Symplr

JULY 7, 2022

Healthcare operations leaders make tough decisions every day and guide teams in their wake of choices: Will automating this process accelerate patient care yet avoid depersonalization of care delivery? Are we following the best path to deliver on outcomes while not burning out our staff? Have we properly vetted this capital equipment purchase to ensure we are maximizing spend?

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