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How digital and information officers are shaking up health systems

Healthcare Dive

Healthcare Dive caught up with Providence’s Sara Vaezy and Intermountain’s Craig Richardville just months into their tenure to discuss the challenges and opportunities ahead as patients have come to expect more digital access.

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Five Practical Tips for Attracting and Onboarding Healthcare Personnel

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Guilherme Macagnan, CEO, AMX Healthcare If we could go back in time three years and take a look around, it would be easy to point out all of the circumstances that have shifted, grown […]. The article Five Practical Tips for Attracting and Onboarding Healthcare Personnel appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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MetroHealth fires CEO Akram Boutros over almost $2M in unreported bonuses

Healthcare Dive

Boutros has denied all allegations of embezzlement. His lawyer said his firing was “the latest of a series of retaliatory acts” against Boutros after he raised concerns over the “unauthorized hiring of the new CEO.

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HPH Sector Warned About Lorenz Ransomware Group

HIPAA Journal

The healthcare and public health sector (HPH) has been warned about the threat of ransomware attacks by the Lorenz threat group, which has conducted several attacks in the United States over the past two years, with no sign that attacks are slowing. Lorenz ransomware is human-operated and is deployed after the threat actors have gained access to networks and have exfiltrated data.

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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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Centene continues to sell ancillary business units

Healthcare Dive

The sale of Magellan Specialty Health is the latest divestiture in Centene’s plan to sell non-core assets as part of a long-term strategy to improve the company’s profit margin.

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Ransomware Attack on Puerto Rico Hospital Affects Almost 1.2 Million Patients

HIPAA Journal

Doctors’ Center Hospital in Puerto Rico has recently notified the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) that it has experienced a hacking/IT incident in which the protected health information of 1,195,220 patients has potentially been compromised. As of November 23, 2022, there is no notification on the hospital’s website so details of the nature of the attack have yet to be made public by Doctors’ Center Hospital, with all current indicators suggesti

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Google rolls out search features that aim to make it easier to sign up for Medicaid, Medicare

Fierce Healthcare

Google rolls out search features that aim to make it easier to sign up for Medicaid, Medicare. pminemyer. Wed, 11/23/2022 - 11:12.

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Midwest health systems on track to merge

Healthcare Dive

At a time when the pace of healthcare mergers has slowed, Bellin Health and Gundersen Health System are forming a system of 11 hospitals.

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877,500 Individuals Affected by Ransomware Attack on Prosthetics & Orthotics Provider

HIPAA Journal

The Rochester Hills, MI-based prosthetics, orthotics, and accessibility solution provider, Wright & Filippis, has recently announced that it was the victim of a ransomware attack on its network. The attack occurred between January 26 and January 28, 2022, and while the attack was detected by the firm’s endpoint security solution shortly after the ransomware was executed, it was not possible to prevent the encryption of certain files on its network.

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Lunit, CARPL.ai Partner to Accelerate AI-Powered Medical Imaging

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Lunit signed a global distribution agreement to provide its AI-based radiology solutions for clinical use via CARPL.ai’s platform. Lunit is a South Korean-based AI software company devoted to developing AI solutions for precision diagnostics and treatment support, mainly focused on conquering cancer. – The partnership will deliver Lunit INSIGHT CXR and Lunit INSIGHT MMG for commercial use in the U.S., Australia, Brazil, India, and Singapore.

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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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ACA signups top 3M since start of open enrollment, a 17% bump compared to last year

Fierce Healthcare

ACA signups top 3M since start of open enrollment, a 17% bump compared to last year. rking. Wed, 11/23/2022 - 11:58.

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3 Seismic Shifts Transforming Women’s Health – FemTech

HIT Consultant

Leah Sparks, CEO and Founder of Wildflower Health. My company recently celebrated its 10 th anniversary, which prompted me to reflect on the progress of the women’s health sector over the last decade. There has been so much change, so many technological innovations and clinical breakthroughs. And yet, two things haven’t changed all that much. Our outcomes in the U.S. have not improved; in fact they are in decline.

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How a new fertility business hopes to disrupt the traditional investor approach and preserve clinician decision-making

Fierce Healthcare

How a new fertility business hopes to disrupt the traditional investor approach and preserve clinician decision-making. agliadkovskaya. Wed, 11/23/2022 - 13:34.

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Site Enablement Platforms Can Accelerate Clinical Trials by 6  Weeks and Reduce Costs by Over $1M

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Florence HealthcareTM , a clinical research technology company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, recently announced the completion of a year-long third-party study on the impact of Site Enablement PlatformsTM on clinical research timelines and costs. – The study by Marketcap Consulting is the first to compare how traditional site management approaches differ from site-first Site Enablement Platforms.

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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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Inbound Communication Overlooked as a Way to Improve Patient Experiences

Healthcare IT Today

At the #HLTH2022 Healthcare IT Today stopped by the Relatient booth to get an update on the company’s offerings and to dig a little deeper into the results from the survey they conducted earlier this year with MGMA. Jeff Gartland, CEO of Relatient, spoke with us and revealed that the survey helped identify a gap in the market. It turns out that most patients must still call in to book an appointment if they have questions or would like someone to guide them through the process.

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Provider Burnout Has Leveled Out in 2022; Staffing Shortages Rises, KLAS Reports

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know : – Value-based care (VBC) has been established as a priority among healthcare organizations and payers as participants have gained more experience in managing their quality metrics and contracts, ultimately realizing returns on their investments. – For their latest report , KLAS talked to 54 healthcare executives—including CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, CMIOs, COOs, VPs and directors of population health, and VPs of analytics—to gauge how they are moving beyond pay-for-perfo

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Middlesex University leads training course on working with robots

Digital Health News

A new online training course for healthcare professionals, led by Middlesex University, is teaching students about the reality of working with robots.

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There's an 'arms race' in health tech. Who could be the next M&A target?

Fierce Healthcare

There's an 'arms race' in health tech. Who could be the next M&A target? hlandi. Wed, 11/23/2022 - 17:55.

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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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What Physicians Need to Know about Achieving Optimal Practice Performance in Challenging Times

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Matthew Bayley, M.D., Group President at Conifer Health Solutions. Physician practices have been especially hard hit by the pandemic. On the positive side, net patient revenue and provider productivity have started to increase. But those gains have been upended by inflation and skyrocketing costs. A July 2022 report by Kaufman Hall says that total direct expense per provider FTE is up 2.2% quarter-over-quarter and 7% year-over-year.

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Chaotic work conditions during COVID helped foster clinician burnout

Fierce Healthcare

Chaotic work conditions during COVID helped foster clinician burnout. fdiamond. Wed, 11/23/2022 - 13:06.

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Texas health system employees complain of payroll issues following CommonSpirit cyberattack

Becker's Health IT

Employees of Bryan, Texas-based St. Joseph Health are complaining of payroll issues following a ransomware attack against its parent company, Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health, KBTX reported.

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Chutes & Ladders—Geisinger's CIO quietly exits; Amedisys CEO ushered out after low earnings

Fierce Healthcare

Chutes & Ladders—Geisinger's CIO quietly exits; Amedisys CEO ushered out after low earnings. aburky. Wed, 11/23/2022 - 14:09.

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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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Higher labor costs, inflation hindering health systems' abilities to bolster cybersecurity

Becker's Health IT

Cyber risks for hospitals and health systems are higher than other sectors such as banking, technology and telecommunications, yet with hospitals facing financial challenges from increased labor costs, cybersecurity has fallen on the back burner, according to a Nov. 22 report from credit company Moody's.

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The Gratitude Effect

HIPAA Vault

3 Reasons to Celebrate a Perpetual Thanksgiving There’s a fascinating dynamic that happens whenever a gift is given. It abounds at parties and celebrations of all kinds – especially Christmas – but any time an unexpected kindness is shown. It might be as simple as a cup of cold water, a needed item, or a. Continue reading.

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Featured Health IT Job: Director, Digital Health Strategist

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Director, Digital Health Strategist position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by TransForm Shared Service Organization and is an international hybrid position in the Ontario West Region of Canada.

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PayZen Nabs $200M for Personalized, No-Cost Patient Financing

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – PayZen , the fintech company tackling healthcare affordability with personalized, no-cost patient financing solutions raises a $220 million growth round. The round is composed of $20 million in equity financing and a $200 million credit facility led by 7wireVentures , while Viola Credit provided a $200 million warehouse credit facility to support continued market expansion. – PayZen will use the funds to scale its operations and product development as the inte

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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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October 2022 Healthcare Breach Report

Compliancy Group

Each month, we review healthcare breaches posted on the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) online breach portal to determine the leading causes and how the incidents could have been prevented. The OCR publicly posts healthcare breaches that affected 500 or more individuals to ensure that all affected patients know their information could have been potentially compromised.

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The Inspirator

HealthIT Answers

New On Demand Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist: With guest Jeff Ruby, Founder Newtopia, a company using a combination of genetic testing, nutrition, and personal, technology-enabled coaching can change habits that modify life-impacting behavior as a critical part of the solution. The post The Inspirator appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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What Has COVID Ever Done For Us? Here 9 Examples

HIT Consultant

Ivor Campbell, CEO of Snedden Campbell. The early 2020s will be studied by historians as a time of global uncertainty when an unknown pathogen caused a public health emergency that brought the world to the brink. It may also be remembered as a time of unparalleled cooperation and advancement in technologies, prompted by the Covid pandemic , that provided enduring benefits for generations to come.

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Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: Kain Acquires Hospice Care of America

McGuire Wood

Kain Capital has announced it has acquired Hospice Care of America (HCA). HCA, founded in 2004 and based in Kansas City, operates a group of affiliated hospices in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Colorado. Kain , based in New York and founded in 2014, is a private equity firm focused on investments in healthcare services and information technology companies.

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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.