Healthcare It News

JANUARY 27, 2023

Research shows that apathy is a significant challenge for people living with dementia. They lose the ability to take initiative, which has an enormous effect on their emotional and physical wellbeing. This makes the disorder much harder to treat. THE PROBLEM Andrus on Hudson, based in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, serves and cares for individuals ("residents," to reflect the environment in which they receive care) who have various types of dementia.

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 27, 2023

In a lawsuit filed Thursday, Cigna alleged that Amy Bricker’s appointment to chief product officer of CVS’s consumer segment places the payer’s trade secrets at risk and violates her noncompete agreement.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 27, 2023

SDOH startup Spatially Health partners with Florida ACO amid new CMS rules on equity agliadkovskaya Fri, 01/27/2023 - 13:40

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 27, 2023

The notorious ransomware group, known as the Hive, has impacted some of the nation’s most critical industries.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 27, 2023

Elizabeth Bailey, managing director at RH Capital, discusses the women's health investment landscape after the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade.

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 27, 2023

The operator cited widespread inflation and continued effects from the COVID-19 pandemic as potential drags on its guidance this year.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 27, 2023

CVS Health launches initiative with Meharry Medical College, Sinai Chicago aiming to reduce disparities in marginalized communities agliadkovskaya Fri, 01/27/2023 - 12:25

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 27, 2023

Even an ‘Internal Breach’ is a Breach According to an announcement on its website , Alabama-based DCH Health Systems fired an employee for accessing and viewing over 2,500 patient records “without a legitimate business need related to the employee’s job duties.” The notice said the breach was discovered “during a routine privacy audit.” The records that may have been accessed and viewed without authorization include names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, dates of

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 27, 2023

Majority of patients repeatedly provide duplicate health information, Carta Healthcare survey finds aburky Fri, 01/27/2023 - 16:21

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 27, 2023

The latest reductions mark the third round of job cuts at the company in less than a year.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 27, 2023

What You Should Know: – Smile CDR Inc. (doing business as Smile Digital Health) (“Smile”), a FHIR® health data fabric (HDF) and exchange solutions provider raises $30M in Series B growth capital led by existing investors including UPMC Enterprises. – Founded in 2016, Smile’s HDF platform uses industry-leading HDF architecture and ONC-compliant, event-driven FHIR APIs to allow healthcare providers, payers and IT vendors to build secure, composable and scalable data i

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 27, 2023

'I cry and no one cares': Medscape survey shows doctor burnout, depression is getting worse agliadkovskaya Fri, 01/27/2023 - 15:35

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 27, 2023

What You Should Know: – AKASA™ , the leading developer of AI for healthcare operations, released findings from a survey conducted on its behalf by YouGov. – The findings highlight how patients with high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) suffer the downstream effects of a complex medical billing process, including surprise medical bills, inaccuThe findings highlight how patients with high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) suffer the downstream effects of a complex medical billing process,

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 27, 2023

FDA panel approves path toward one-shot yearly COVID vaccine fdiamond Fri, 01/27/2023 - 09:17

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 27, 2023

What You Should Know: – Tia , the modern medical home for women, announced that it is teaming up with Cedars-Sinai , one of California’s leading health systems, to expand access to primary and specialty care for women across Los Angeles. Together, the two healthcare leaders will provide and enhance high-quality physical, mental and reproductive healthcare for more than 100,000 women throughout the Los Angeles region. – The deal — which includes opening multiple clinics througho

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 27, 2023

Viemed Healthcare, Inc. , a respiratory care and technology-enabled home medical equipment services company, announced that it has made a strategic investment in ModoHealth , a value-based care and patient management platform connecting payors, patients, and post-acute providers. ModoHealth expects to use the proceeds of the investment to fund the expansion of its proprietary patient management network, which combines clinical tools, remote patient monitoring, data analysis and patient-centric e

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 27, 2023

What You Should Know: – TRIPP , the award-winning global XR wellness company, announced an investment and partnership in Equa Health , the company bringing a clinically validated approach to mindfulness training. – Through the partnership, TRIPP will leverage Equa Health’s mindfulness approach, developed over 15 years with research from Carnegie Mellon University, to launch a series of clinically validated meditations in virtual reality.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 27, 2023

The funds will help the company grow its platform and scale partnerships with life science companies and healthcare systems.

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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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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 27, 2023

HCA Healthcare closes out 2022 with revenue gains, lingering capacity constraints dmuoio Fri, 01/27/2023 - 12:42

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 27, 2023

This is the third article in the ‘Benefits of HIPAA’ series, this time around exploring how the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and its subsequent amendments have benefited patients. The first article in the series explored how HIPAA has benefited healthcare organizations and the second covered the key benefits of HIPAA for healthcare professionals.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 27, 2023

Cigna sues CVS, former exec Amy Bricker over noncompete agreement pminemyer Fri, 01/27/2023 - 12:20

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 27, 2023

While the Hive ransomware operation was infiltrating servers, exfiltrating data, and demanding ransom payments from their victims, their activities were being observed from within. The FBI has had access to Hive’s ransomware servers since July 2022 and was learning about the group’s methods and has been helping victims recover without paying the ransom.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 27, 2023

Senators introduced bills to reform PBMs after stalling out in last Congress rking Fri, 01/27/2023 - 15:23

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Digital Health News

JANUARY 27, 2023

A whitepaper from Proximie has highlighted the patient safety issues the NHS is experiencing and how data collection could improve the situation.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 27, 2023

Pearl Health clinches $75M backed by a16z to scale up value-based care tech hlandi Fri, 01/27/2023 - 17:00

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

JANUARY 27, 2023

A federal judge is poised to gut one of the most popular provisions of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) preventive services requirement, potentially cutting off millions of peoples’ access to crucial care such as flu shots and cancer screenings. In a post for the Commonwealth Fund, CHIR researchers look at states that have codified the ACA’s preventive service requirement, identifying gaps and opportunities to bolster state-level protections.

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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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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 27, 2023

Kaiser Permanente earmarks $25M for gun violence prevention research, collaboration dmuoio Fri, 01/27/2023 - 09:34

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 27, 2023

Earlier this month, a lawsuit was filed against The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, OH, alleging third-party tracking code had been added to its website that was transmitting sensitive patient data to Meta and other third parties, without obtaining authorization from patients. An investigation by The Markup last summer revealed one-third of the top 100 hospitals in the United States had Meta pixel tracking code on their websites, several of which were confirmed as having added the code to their p

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Health IT Security

JANUARY 27, 2023

UCHealth and UCLA Health… read more

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 27, 2023

What You Should Know: – Innovaccer Inc. announced that UpStream Health care, one of the fastest-growing value-based primary healthcare provider solutions in the country, has entered into a multi-year partnership agreement to more than double its population on Innovaccer’s cloud-native platform over the next year, and will use it to scale UpStream’s unique value-based care model nationwide. – The expanded relationship between the two companies comes on the heels of UpStream’s recent $

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