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Medicare to collect drug price rebates starting in 2025

Healthcare Dive

The CMS has laid out how it plans to implement a key provision of the Inflation Reduction Act requiring drugmakers to pay rebates on price hikes in Medicare that are greater than inflation.

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Failures of Imagination in Public Health Policy

Bill of Health

By Daniel Swartzman If public health is to prosper, we will need to overcome the after-effects of several failures of imagination. Failing to recognize the threat to liberal democracy from the last 50 years of coordinated conservative political and policy actions. Failing to use litigation against inadequate public health actions, as did the early civil rights and environmental movements.

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Tipping point is in sight: Value-based care is driving meaningful financial results

Healthcare Dive

Strata’s Liz Kirk shares her reflections on value-based care from the 41st annual JPMorgan healthcare conference held in San Francisco.

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HIMSSCast: The Quintuple Aim – why health equity is a critical addition

Healthcare It News

In this podcast, we discuss a new concept that has blossomed from an old one. The old concept is The Quadruple Aim. The new concept? The Quintuple Aim. What's new? Health equity. The guest is Dr. Kedar Mate, president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and a member of the faculty at Weill Cornell Medical College. Earlier this year, Kedar co-authored a JAMA Viewpoint proposing the "Quintuple Aim" for healthcare improvement, which would add a fifth aim: to advance he

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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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HHS readies for PHE wind down, end of pandemic flexibilities

Healthcare Dive

A variety of pandemic-era policies will expire May 11, including those allowing providers to prescribe controlled substances via telehealth without an in-person visit and rules requiring payers to cover COVID-19 testing.

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Pumping New Life into Healthcare Information: The 21st Century Cures Act Drives Unlocks the Power of Data

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Andrew A. Brooks, M.D., chief medical officer, TigerConnect. Information is the healthcare industry’s core, from paper to digital record keeping. Healthcare organizations and physicians have relied on charts, treatment plans and other means of […] The article Pumping New Life into Healthcare Information: The 21st Century Cures Act Drives Unlocks the Power of Data appeared first on electro

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Warning Issued About North Korean Ransomware Attacks on Healthcare Organizations

HIPAA Journal

A joint cybersecurity advisory has been issued by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency (NSA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Republic of Korea’s Defense Security Agency and National Intelligence Service warning of state-sponsored North Korean (DPRK) ransomware attacks on U.S. critical infrastructure organizations.

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DarioHealth Integrates Dexcom CGM Data into Diabetes Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – DarioHealth announced a partnership with Dexcom , the global leader in real-time continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) technology, to integrate its market-leading CGM data into Dario’s multi-chronic condition platform. – Dexcom CGM uses a small, wearable sensor to continuously measure and send glucose levels to a receiver or smart device, enabling people with diabetes to make real-time decisions about their health.

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Editorial: The Three Pillars of HIPAA Compliance

HIPAA Journal

Achieving compliance with the Rules of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) can be a challenge for healthcare organizations and their business associates. The HIPAA Rules were developed to cover healthcare organizations of different types and sizes, so the Rules needed to be flexible to accommodate this diversity. They also needed to be capable of standing the test of time without requiring regular updates in response to changing technology and operating practices.

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Wellstar Expands Enterprise Virtual Reality Training with Moth+Flame

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Wellstar Health System extends its partnership with Moth+Flame to further utilize its virtual reality (VR) training technology. – The VR emotional intelligence training encourages Wellstar’s employees to build composure and gain practical experience in a highly realistic scenario by navigating difficult conversations and testing resiliency in an emotionally charged environment. – The experience helps Wellstar’s workforce development strategie

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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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Interoperability: A Brief History

HealthIT Answers

By Jim Tate - Since the days of Hippocrates, a primary goal of medicine has been the collection of records related to diseases and treatments. Someone along the bumpy trail of history had the clever thought to begin keeping patient specific records. The post Interoperability: A Brief History appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Ibex’s AI-Powered Cancer Diagnostics Solution Obtains CE Mark

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Ibex Medical Analytics today announced that Galenâ„¢ Prostate has become the first standalone AI-powered cancer diagnostics solution to obtain CE Mark under Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices Regulation (IVDR) for supporting pathologists in the primary diagnosis of prostate biopsies. – Galen Prostate is the first standalone AI-based cancer diagnostics product of its kind certified under the IVDR. – During 2023, Ibex plans to migrate additional products, inc

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How the current economic downturn impacts healthcare funding and investor strategy

Fierce Healthcare

How the current economic downturn impacts healthcare funding and investor strategy agliadkovskaya Fri, 02/10/2023 - 10:37

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GE HealthCare to Acquire Caption Health to Expand AI-Guided Ultrasounds

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – GE HealthCare acquires Caption Health, Inc., a privately owned artificial intelligence (AI) healthcare leader that creates clinical applications to aid in early disease detection, using AI to assist in conducting ultrasound scans. – The acquisition supports GE HealthCare’s $3B Ultrasound business by adding AI-enabled image guidance to ultrasound device portfolios.

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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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Q&A: Babylon foresees profitability after SPAC 'mistake'

Mobi Health News

Ali Parsa, CEO and founder of Babylon, discusses what the company learned from going public through merger with a special purpose acquisition company.

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Smile Digital Health Closes $30 Million in Series B Funding to Progress Innovation as World-Leading Health Data Fabric

Healthcare IT Today

The increasing need for interoperability in healthcare has driven significant growth and demand for the company’s data fabric platform and continued innovation in this area. Smile CDR Inc. (doing business as Smile Digital Health (Smile)), a leading FHIR® health data fabric (HDF) and exchange solutions provider, announced the closing of approximately $30 million in Series B growth capital led by existing investors including UPMC Enterprises.

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Albertsons launches app uniting pharmacy, nutrition and telehealth

Fierce Healthcare

Albertsons launches app uniting pharmacy, nutrition and telehealth aburky Fri, 02/10/2023 - 16:29

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Industry news in brief

Digital Health News

This Digital Health News industry roundup covers KareInn's inclusion on the NHS Assured Supplier list and Healistic's plans for a healthcare platform.

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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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Congress told HHS to create a data management system in 2006. It never did.

Modern Healthcare

A 2006 order to HHS from Congress to better integrate U.S. data management systems could have minimized communication failures during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Pill Club reaches $18.3M settlement for alleged Medicaid fraud in California

Mobi Health News

According to the state authorities, the online birth control company billed Medi-Cal for services it didn't provide and dispensed female condoms to beneficiaries who didn't request them.

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How Will IoT and AI Transform the Patient-Doctor Relationship?

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Thomas Serval, CEO and Founder of Baracoda. Healthcare has never been an easy topic to discuss. Whether you’re at the doctor’s office or in the comfort of your home, talking about your health can be overwhelming. Most of us don’t enjoy going to the doctor. The anxiety of a doctor finding something wrong or being embarrassed to ask questions are some of the reasons why people prefer to get in and out at appointments.

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UnitedHealthcare launches rewards program with focus on wearables

Mobi Health News

The rewards program will pay eligible members up to $1,000 per year to complete select tasks tracked via a wearable.

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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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Healthcare AI and Overwhelming Projects – Fun Friday

Healthcare IT Today

We’ve had such an incredible start to 2023 with so much great health IT content, that there hasn’t been any space for our regular editions of Fun Friday. However, we’re going to correct that today. For those not familiar with Fun Friday, it’s a time where we share something funny to hopefully start your weekend off right. Plus, it often highlights some of the absurdity and challenges in healthcare IT.

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Which payer raked in the most cash last year? The answer likely won't surprise you

Fierce Healthcare

Which payer raked in the most cash last year?

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North Korea using ransomware attacks on healthcare as revenue source, Feds say 

Becker's Health IT

North Korean state-sponsored ransomware groups are targeting South Korean and U.S. healthcare organizations with Maui and H0lyGh0st ransomware as a way to raise revenue for the North Korean government, according to a Feb. 9 U.S. government cybersecurity advisory.

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Task force reaffirms 2016 ruling on screening for genital herpes

Fierce Healthcare

Task force reaffirms 2016 ruling on screening for genital herpes fdiamond Fri, 02/10/2023 - 13:59

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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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January Research Roundup: What We’re Reading

Center for Health Insurance Reform

Welcome to another year of health policy research. In the first month of 2023, CHIR reviewed studies on how policies expanding health coverage would impact household spending, surprise medical bills generated by ground ambulance rides, and health care costs associated with substance use disorders. Continue reading → The post January Research Roundup: What We’re Reading appeared first on Center on Health Insurance Reforms.

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Hackers stole patient data in New Jersey hospital ransomware attack

Becker's Health IT

Freehold, N.J.-based CentraState Medical Center is admitting that sensitive patient information was stolen in a December ransomware attack that caused the hospital to divert patients, nj.com reported Feb. 10.

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Choosing the Right Path toward Polio Eradication

NEJM

Continued circulation of wild and attenuated polioviruses suggests that our eradication campaign needs reevaluation. Long-term immunization policies must both protect vaccinees and minimize silent circulation of polioviruses.

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Re:course AI secures $4.3m investment for healthcare training platform

Digital Health News

Re:course AI has secured £4.3m in pre-seed funding which will help it develop its medical training platform which delivers virtual training exercises.

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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.