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Teladoc shares on upswing as it sets up for ‘achievable’ growth

Healthcare Dive

The vendor lowered its fourth-quarter and full-year outlooks on Wednesday. But industry watchers cheered Teladoc for setting up obtainable Q4 growth coming out of pandemic highs.

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The Supreme Court Threatens to Undermine Vaccination Decisions Entrusted to the States

Bill of Health

By Donna Gitter. In 2021, the Supreme Court articulated in Tandon v. Newsom a legal principle that threatens to upend over a century of legal precedent recognizing the authority of state governments to ensure public health by mandating vaccines. The ruling lays the groundwork for courts to force states to include religious exemptions to mandatory vaccines whenever they include secular exemptions, such as medical ones.

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After CommonSpirit ransomware attack: Why healthcare M&A is a ‘huge’ cybersecurity risk

Healthcare Dive

The cybersecurity incident comes three years after the health system’s megamerger, which potentially made it vulnerable to an attack, security experts say.

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Health equity is making progress, but more action is needed

Healthcare It News

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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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Walmart adds new health clinics in Florida

Healthcare Dive

The 16 new locations will open by the fall of 2023, the retail giant announced Wednesday.

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More than half of all states have expanded access to Medicaid, CHIP postpartum coverage

Healthcare It News

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Should You Keep RCM in House or Leverage RCM As a Service?

Healthcare IT Today

One of the hottest topics we hear talked about at Healthcare IT Today has to do with revenue cycle management (RCM). COVID and other financial pressures have driven RCM to the top of many healthcare organization’s strategic priorities. Most healthcare organizations operate on thin margins and so effective RCM is essential for them to continue their operations.

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Low admissions lead to $42M net loss for CHS, despite lower contract labor spend

Healthcare Dive

Falling admissions, Hurricane Ian and an unfavorable payer mix contributed to the net loss, outpacing an effort by CHS to reduce contract labor expenses in the third quarter.

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Adoption of Passwordless Authentication Grows But Poor Password Practices Persist

HIPAA Journal

Passwords are an inexpensive and convenient form of authentication. While passwords can provide a high degree of protection, in practice they are a weak point that is commonly exploited by threat actors to gain access to internal networks and sensitive data. Brute force attacks are conducted to guess weak passwords, credential stuffing attacks succeed because people reuse passwords on multiple platforms, and employees divulge their passwords by responding to phishing emails.

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Baxter warns hospitals to stop using connected incontinence pads over interference risk

Healthcare Dive

The interference may affect insulin pumps, fetal monitors, telemetry devices, bladder scanners and infusion pumps.

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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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Benefits Of Hiring HIPAA Compliant Billing Company For Your Radiology Center

Medisys Compliance

The medical billing services at your radiology center can get monotonous and become an overwhelming burden, which seems to never come to an end. Due to the time-consuming secondary processes, the core operations which are the pillars to grow the firm may be put on hold. This sounds super-scary for a radiology center who has a growing vision and mission.

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Teladoc stock rises after posting narrower loss in Q3

Mobi Health News

The virtual care giant reported revenue of $611.4 million, a 17% year-over-year increase, and a net loss of $73.5 million in the third quarter.

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Sutter Health & Ada Integrate to Deliver AI Support for Mental Health

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Sutter Health extends its partnership to global digital health company Ada – creators of the world’s most popular symptom assessment app to integrate digital triage into the mental health service, Scout by Sutter Health ™ to help deliver AI-powered mental health support to young people. – As many as half of all mental disorders begin by age 14.

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Establishing Value-Based Care Across Behavioral Healthcare

HealthIT Answers

By Ram Krishnan - Today, behavioral health providers want to deliver effective treatment that brings hope and healing to patients. They also want to be reimbursed well and quickly so they can invest in the best resources and personnel. Value-based care can help providers achieve both. The post Establishing Value-Based Care Across Behavioral Healthcare appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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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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Tempus Launches Real-World Data-Driven Program to Accelerate Precision Oncology Research

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Precision Medicine company Tempus announced the launch of Tempus+ , a program connecting medical centers across the U.S. like Stanford Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, and UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, to advance cancer research and provide access to Tempus’ library of more than five million de-identified research records. – Tempus’ data library and data analytics platform, Lens , can now be used by researc

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Doctors Love Alerts Until They Don’t

Healthcare IT Today

You can imagine the EHR Product Manager that had the great idea to alert physicians to a drug to drug interaction or an allergy issue. It seems obvious that an alert like this is going to help doctors provide better care to their patients. Who wouldn’t want a notification that something they were doing had a potential issue, right? This sounds great until you get into the nitty gritty details.

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HealthJoy Raises $60M for Healthcare Navigation Platform to Reduce HR Burden

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – HealthJoy , a healthcare navigation platform that drives benefits satisfaction, improves care outcomes, improves employee satisfaction and reduces HR burden raises $60M in Series D funding led by Valspring Capital with participation from new investors Endeavour Vision and CIBC Innovation Banking. Existing investors US Venture Partners, GoHealth co-founders Brandon Cruz and Clint Jones, Health Velocity Capital, Nueterra Capital and Epic also participated in this roun

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Long Term Care Update: CMS Revises Criteria for its Special Focus Facility Initiative

Healthcare Law Blog

On October 21, 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced changes to its Special Focus Facility (SFF) program, including new steps to address nursing home facilities that fail to graduate from the SFF program in a timely manner, or “yo-yo” back into non-compliance after graduating from the SFF program. These changes are consistent with the Federal government’s goal of improving safety and quality of care for the nation’s roughly 1.5 million nursing home residents.

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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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Medidata Expands Sensor Cloud Network

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Medidata , a Dassault Systèmes company, and Boehringer Ingelheim, today announced a five-year renewal of their collaboration in the wider area of electronic data capture. The agreement extends the use of Rave EDC for Boehringer Ingelheim’s clinical trials worldwide and includes myMedidata, Medidata’s suite of patient-facing technologies focused on enhancing patient centricity and diversity in decentralized clinical trials (DCTs). – The agreement spotligh

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NeuroFlow Closes $25M Growth Investment

Healthcare IT Today

Company secures growth capital to expand its footprint and accelerate integration between payers, providers, and referral partners to meet the growing demand for mental health care. NeuroFlow , the market leader in behavioral health integration technology, has secured $25 million in growth capital, led by SEMCAP Health. With SEMCAP Health as a new strategic partner and investor, the company will continue to expand its groundbreaking referral network and deepen its relationships with payors and

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Population health company Color Health acquires mental health platform Mood Lifters

Mobi Health News

The acquisition will allow Color Health to provide behavioral and mental health treatment at scale.

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Only One in Five Organizations Follow the 3-2-1 Rule for Data Backups

HIPAA Journal

The healthcare industry is an attractive target for cybercriminals and data thieves. Healthcare organizations store vast amounts of sensitive data that can be easily monetized. Large health systems are often targeted due to the high ransoms that can be demanded, as the recent attack on CommonSpirit Health demonstrated; however, attacks are conducted on healthcare organizations of all sizes.

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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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YouTube expands credible health information labels to providers

Mobi Health News

Licensed healthcare professionals can apply to make their content eligible for health source information panels. The features previously only applied to organizations like educational institutions, hospitals and public health departments.

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UKCloud in liquidation after being struck with winding up order

Digital Health News

UKCloud has been placed into liquidation after a winding up order was made against the firm and its parent company, Virtual Infrastructure Group.

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Hauntingly Good Auditing Horror Stories

Healthicity

The wonderful world of auditing often brings up situations that are complex, complicated, and downright scary.

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Hospital for Special Surgery spins off virtual MSK platform

Mobi Health News

HSS announced it raised $21 million in Series A funds to launch the new company.

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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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Wearable Tech for Health Tracking, Online Dating and Banking: Exploring the “Fluidity” of Peoples’ Data Privacy Views

Health Populi

“The security of online data is the top consideration for consumers across many forms of online activities including email, search, social media, banking, shopping and dating”… and using health apps. A new poll from Morning Consult, explained on their website, explains that For Consumers, Data Privacy Has a Fluid Definition. Those privacy nuances and concerns vary by activity, shown in the first chart here from the study.

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Roundup: Singular Health gets 510(k) for 3Dicom MD and more briefs

Mobi Health News

Also, Cabrini Technology is adding medical device cybersecurity to its service offerings.

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Preparing for the worst: How some CIOs are using tabletop games to simulate ransomware attacks

Becker's Health IT

Health CIOs and chief information security officers are preparing for ransomware attacks with something more commonly associated with hobby shops than hospitals: tabletop games.

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Aster MIMS ties up with Medtronic to elevate stroke care via telehealth

Mobi Health News

Partner hospitals will be provided with telemedicine support and resources to mobilise critical stroke patients.

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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.