Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2023

A 2019 survey by the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation’s Office of Health Policy found that the highest rates of telehealth visits happened among people with Medicaid (29.3%) and Medicare (27.4%), Black individuals (26.8%), and those earning less than $25,000 (26.7%). With so many of the nation's underserved patients using telehealth services, practitioners and medical organizations must work to understand what these patients need in order to improve the quality of care.

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Healthcare Dive

JUNE 12, 2023

Nonprofits continue to add to payrolls as wage growth remains elevated above pre-pandemic levels, forcing hospital systems to consider cost-saving measures to offset labor costs.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 12, 2023

By Matthew Chun The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in fulfilling its task of ensuring that drugs are safe and effective, has recently turned its attention to the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in drug development. On May 10, FDA published a discussion paper on this topic and requested feedback “to enhance mutual learning and to establish a dialogue with FDA stakeholders” and to “help inform the regulatory landscape in this area.&

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Healthcare Dive

JUNE 12, 2023

Walgreens said it will use the proceeds to pay down debt and support strategic priorities. Option Care is currently under an agreement to buy Amedisys, but Optum recently made a competing bid for the home care company.

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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 12, 2023

Allina Health System announced last Friday it was placing controversial billing practices on hold as it reevaluates its approach. | Allina reportedly had an explicit policy to cancel outpatient appointments for patients with at least $4,500 in unpaid medical debt. It announced last week it was placing that on hold to reevaluate.

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Healthcare Dive

JUNE 12, 2023

CVS Health was one of the first retailers to launch a clinical trials business. But a number of other competitors followed, arguing they could provide easier access and more diverse studies.

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JUNE 12, 2023

The authors said the impacts could be long-lasting, writing, “the findings of this study suggest that these Supreme Court decisions may harm the health of US citizens for years, and possibly decades, to come.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 12, 2023

Uber's healthcare arm has added grocery and over-the-counter pharmacy product delivery to its growing list of services. | The expansion builds on the company's existing work to rethink the logistics of care—improving patient access and experience while simplifying things on the backend for health plans and providers.

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 12, 2023

Dr. Daniel Kraft, founder of Digital.Health and NextMed Health and general partner at Continuum Health Ventures, tells MobiHealthNews how he sees rapidly changing technology shaping digital healthcare.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 12, 2023

It has been well established by studies and research that the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated a growing mental health crisis in the U.S. and around the world. | A recent analysis of the U.S. behavioral health market and massive shifts that have occurred in the past three years point to troubling trends.

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HealthIT Answers

JUNE 12, 2023

The HFMA Annual Conference is the premier event in healthcare finance taking place at the Gaylord Opryland, Nashville on June 25 through 28. We ask around on who was going and why. Meet these people at this year's conference. The post Who’s going to HFMA in Nashville? appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 12, 2023

Prior authorization has been a flashpoint for providers, and, while insurers have taken steps to ease these utilization management protocols, they still play a key role as the industry shifts to va | Prior authorization has been a flashpoint for providers, and, while insurers have taken steps to ease these utilization management protocols, they still play a key role as the industry shifts to value-based care.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 12, 2023

Teri Gatchel-Schmidt, VP, Consulting at SYNERGEN Health Healthcare systems driven by insurers fronting most of their members’ healthcare bills have allowed hospitals to be relatively immune to economic downturns in the past. However, this dynamic began to shift as consumer-directed health plans hit the mainstream. Exaggerated by the rise of the current consumer mentality, even more, patients will be vulnerable to healthcare financial responsibility due to the prevalence of high deductible plans

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 12, 2023

SimplePractice, an EHR and practice management software company, has launched a subscription service for group practice owners to invest in clinicians’ continuing education. | Group practices that subscribe can offer their clinicians CE as an employee benefit and manage their group CE learning and training.

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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 12, 2023

At the HIMSS annual conference, we were blessed to be able to talk to a wide variety of leaders in health IT to hear their thoughts related to what’s happening in healthcare IT for the Healthcare IT Today YouTube channel. One of the questions we asked these health IT experts was “What is a trend that you are keeping an eye on?” Check out all the answers we got to this question and see if maybe you should be paying attention to one of these topics a little more than you are no

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 12, 2023

Healthgrades has collaborated with OutCare Health, a nonprofit focused on LGBTQ+ health equity, to launch a new LGBTQ+ affirming care designation on its site. | The designation identifies providers committed to providing affirming care to the LGBTQ+ community by integrating OutCare’s “OutList,” which is the largest international directory of such providers according to the company.

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Digital Health News

JUNE 12, 2023

Overworked clinicians spend too much valuable time typing up notes. AI and Natural Language Processing could capture their conversations with patients and give them more time to care.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 12, 2023

The American Cancer Society (ACS) and Color Health, a platform for large-scale care delivery, are teaming up to provide access to convenient and accessible cancer screenings through employers and u | The program includes at-home screenings, care navigation services, care advocacy and educational resources. The partnership will also give employers and unions data on their employee or member screening rates.

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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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Digital Health News

JUNE 12, 2023

Voting opens today for elections to three professional advisory panels representing Digital Health Networks, a community of more than 7,000 NHS IT leaders.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 12, 2023

Health systems have made big investments in the past few years to build out "digital front doors" for patients. | Health systems have made big investments to build out "digital front doors" for patients. But in many cases, all these "doors" lead down different hallways, resulting in a fragmented, disjointed experience. Artera launched a solution to help solve this pain point by unifying patient messaging.

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Becker's Health IT

JUNE 12, 2023

As hospitals face a vast array of cybersecurity threats, an effective working relationship between the chief information security officer and CIO becomes even more important.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 12, 2023

For the 116th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we are mixing things up a little bit! In this episode we are taking a look into the future of Health IT and discussing what won’t change 10 years from now. There are 4 main topics of discussion that Colin and I talk about, however if you want to find out what they are you’ll just have to listen to find out.

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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

Center for Health Insurance Reform

JUNE 12, 2023

April showers bring May flowers, and May was abloom with health policy research. Last month, we read about the impact of ending pandemic-related coverage policies, consumer awareness of the resumption of Medicaid renewals, and approaches to tackling rising health care costs in commercial health insurance markets.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 12, 2023

The Pennsylvania-based business administration service provider, Onix Group, was the victim of a ransomware attack on March 27, 2023. When the incident was detected, its network was immediately taken offline to prevent any further unauthorized access; however, the attackers were able to encrypt files on certain systems. The forensic investigation confirmed that access to its systems was gained 7 days before ransomware was deployed and files were encrypted, and during those 7 days the cyber actor

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 12, 2023

The retail giant's customers can purchase Simple HealthKit's at-home tests for sexual wellness, diabetes detection and respiratory health.

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Health IT Security

JUNE 12, 2023

Intellihartx disclosed a data breach impacting 490,000 individuals that stemmed from the Fortra GoAnywhere vulnerability.

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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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Digital Health News

JUNE 12, 2023

CEPI is providing $1.6m to establish a proof-of-concept for the aVaxziPen needle-free vaccine delivery platform to eliminate the need for frozen storage.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 12, 2023

Attorneys representing New Mexico announced on Friday that the state has reached a $500 million settlement with Walgreens for the pharmacy retail giant's alleged involvement in the opioid epidemic. | Walgreens will pay half a billion to the state of New Mexico, while California finalized a $17.3 billion settlement with Walgreens, CVS, Allergan and Teva for their alleged roles in the opioid crisis.

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Digital Health News

JUNE 12, 2023

Experts speak to Digital Health News about the regulation of AI and health technology, including the emergence of the AI and Digital Regulations Service.

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Becker's Health IT

JUNE 12, 2023

Illinois hospital St. Margaret's Health is believed to be the first healthcare facility to close due to a ransomware attack. OSF HealthCare plans to purchase another St. Margaret's facility that has temporarily suspended operaitons.

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