Wed.Mar 29, 2023

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Techquity: Getting Healthy Through Equity-by-Design

Health Populi

The U.S. spends more on health care than any other nation in the world. Yet Americans’ health outcomes rank relatively low compared with other wealthy peer nations on Planet Earth, manifesting a low return-on-investment for this huge financial spend. Nowhere is this more evident than in America’s place in equity compared with nine countries, shown in the graph on health care system performance from The Commonwealth Fund’s perennial study, Mirror, Mirror – the latest versi

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Epic at HIMSS23: Cosmos innovations, new MyChart features, interoperability and more

Healthcare It News

Epic's plan for the 2023 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition next month is to showcase all the ways the company is helping health systems and other care providers, says Erika Koch, project manager on the company's events team. In paying homage to its Wisconsin campus in the booth – including some of its artwork and penchant for fireplaces and cozy seating – the goal is to welcome any and all to not only learn about the latest product innovations, but to come and t

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AHIP, AHA join forces in amicus brief to SCOTUS False Claims Act case

Healthcare Dive

The groups argue the expansion of the FCA would threaten the “legitimate business activities of every government contractor, hospital, healthcare provider, health insurance provider, and grant recipient in the nation.

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What learning home dialysis can offer patients

Healthcare It News

Dr. Shelly Nash will offer more details during the HIMSS23 session "Creating Technology to Empower Patients and the Home Dialysis Experience." It is scheduled for Wednesday, April 19, at 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. CT at the South Building, Level 4, room S406 A.

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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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Hospital margins stabilizing after year in negatives, Kaufman Hall says

Healthcare Dive

Expenses were still high in February, though rising prices for goods and services were more to blame than costly labor, according to the report.

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Personify Care's digital patient pathway project to go SA-wide

Healthcare It News

Health IT company Personify Care has bagged a A$5.6 million ($3.7 million) contract from SA Health to extend its digital patient pathways project across the entire state over the next two years. THE LARGER CONTEXT The project started in 2021 as a proof of concept between Personify Care and the Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN) with support from the SA government's Go2Gov programme.

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Could more options push patients back to primary care?

Mobi Health News

Panelists at ViVE 2023 discussed the future of preventive medicine as retail chains and virtual care players push into the space and more patients avoid primary care altogether.

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Warren calls on CMS to finalize MA payment change

Healthcare Dive

Insurance and provider lobbies called on the CMS to delay the rule earlier this month, saying the methodology was flawed and arguing the 30-day comment period didn't give them enough time to analyze the proposed changes.

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Everyone is Waiting for Something at ViVE2023

Healthcare IT Today

The top story ViVE2023 wasn’t a major product launch, new legislation, or a mega-merger. Instead, the entire industry seems to be waiting for better times to arrive. Vendors are waiting for the economy to turn around. Providers are waiting for labor costs to stabilize. Investors and funders are waiting for companies to show more market traction. Only must-do projects and must-have solutions continue to have momentum.

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UnitedHealthcare to begin reducing prior authorizations this summer

Fierce Healthcare

UnitedHealthcare to begin reducing prior authorizations this summer pminemyer Wed, 03/29/2023 - 17:02

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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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Generative AI Takes On Administrative Burdens

Healthcare IT Today

One of the most frustrating burdens on health care workers today is the drag of administrative tasks. New AI technologies that interpret and generate natural human speech (illustrated most famously in ChatGPT) can remove more of the burden of such tasks. According to Stead Burwell, co-founder and CEO of Outbound AI , a well-tuned AI agent can do many tasks at 50-80% the cost of human workers.

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Signify Health CEO says CVS deal will 'turbocharge' home health provider's roadmap

Fierce Healthcare

Signify Health CEO says CVS deal will 'turbocharge' home health provider's roadmap hlandi Wed, 03/29/2023 - 19:57

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Inato Raises $20M to Make Clinical Trials More Inclusive

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Inato , a technology platform that connects pharma companies (trial sponsors) with community-based trial sites raises $20M in new funding (A2) led by Cathay Innovation with participation from existing investor Obvious Ventures and new investors La Maison and Top Harvest Capital. Inato works with many of the top 30 pharmaceutical companies worldwide to make clinical trials more inclusive. – The new funding will fuel Inato’s continued product innovation, interna

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Hacking Incidents Reported by Atlantic General and Lawrence General Hospitals

HIPAA Journal

A round-up of data breaches that have recently been reported to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights, state Attorneys General, and the media. Atlantic General Hospital – Ransomware Attack Atlantic General Hospital (AGH) in Berlin, MD, has recently reported a ransomware attack to the Maine Attorney General that has affected up to 30,704 individuals.

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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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Amazon Pharmacy adds feature to automatically include manufacturer coupons

Mobi Health News

The online pharmacy is partnering with GSK, Kaléo, Novo Nordisk and Dexcom to include coupons for their brand-name medications.

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Survey Shows the Terrifying Truth About America’s Healthcare Affordability Crisis: Patients Put off Care for Years due to Costs

Fierce Healthcare

Survey Shows the Terrifying Truth About America’s Healthcare Affordability Crisis: Patients Put off Care for Years due to Costs mteefey Wed, 03/29/2023 - 19:41

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South Korea clears Sky Labs' cuffless blood pressure monitoring feature

Mobi Health News

The company targets to receive a similar clearance from the US FDA by yearend.

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Exec Hires: Elucid Appoints Andrew Miller as CTO

HIT Consultant

Andrew Miller, CTO at Elucid What You Should Know: – Elucid, Inc. , a medical technology company providing physicians with AI-powered imaging analysis software to assess cardiovascular disease, has hired Andrew Miller as its chief technology officer (CTO). – As CTO, Andrew will lead the technology strategy and oversee the engineering team’s execution.

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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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Bipartisan Senate bill aims to take on Medicare Advantage up-coding practices

Fierce Healthcare

Bipartisan Senate bill aims to take on Medicare Advantage up-coding practices rking Wed, 03/29/2023 - 17:02

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Telehealth Utilization Declined 76% Nationally from 2020 to 2021

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – From 2020 to 2021, telehealth utilization declined 76 percent nationally while, during that same period, retail clinic utilization increased 51 percent nationally. – Retail clinic growth had the greatest increase among all alternative places of service studied—retail clinics, urgent care centers, telehealth and ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs)—as well as emergency rooms (ERs), in a new FAIR Health white paper containing the sixth annual edition of FH® Healthc

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Clinical Medicine, 2023

NEJM

This first article in a series describes the history of artificial intelligence in medicine; the use of AI in image analysis, identification of disease outbreaks, and diagnosis; and the use of chatbots.

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CareRev Expands Flexible Healthcare Staffing into Delaware

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: CareRev , a technology platform reimagining healthcare staffing by connecting hospitals and health systems with local nurses and other healthcare professionals for daily shifts, announced its expansion into Delaware with a partnership with Beebe Healthcare. Beebe will utilize CareRev’s technology to identify and hire qualified local Delaware talent to support their full-time hospital staff and ultimately improve patient safety and outcomes.

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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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Mobiquity report reveals top engagement mechanisms for apps

Digital Health News

A new report from Mobiquity has revealed the top mechanisms for encouraging patient engagement when designing healthcare apps to support chronic conditions.

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How to Prepare for a Medical Gas Shutdown

Medical Gas Compliance

Every smooth-running healthcare facility has a time when they need to shut down some part of their medical gas system for maintenance or installation. The effect of this downtime is that many departments in the building are taken out of their comfort zone. Here are some ways to make the process easier for everyone involved.

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New framework eases procurement of remote patient monitoring solutions    

Digital Health News

NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) has announced the second iteration of a framework that enables ICSs to procure remote patient monitoring solutions.

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Featured Health IT Job: PACS Administrator at Natividad

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the PACS Administrator (Hospital Software Analyst II) at Natividad position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Natividad and is in Salinas, California. Here’s a description of the position: Inspiring Healthy Lives through Community At Natividad, our dedication to the people of Monterey County is at the heart of everything we do R

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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.

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New mental health services mapping tool launched

Digital Health News

A new mapping tool from the Association of Mental Health Service Providers will help stakeholders identify gaps in provision.

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Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

NEJM

The editors announce both a series of articles focusing on AI and machine learning in health care and the 2024 launch of a new journal, NEJM AI, a forum for evidence, resource sharing, and discussion of the possibilities and limitations of medical AI.

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GetZeN expands its workplace mental wellbeing platform

Digital Health News

The GetZeN platform has expanded, offering its human insights product to more corporate companies to enable them to support employee wellbeing.

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Partnerships, community engagement can enrich healthcare data

Mobi Health News

During a discussion at ViVE 2023, panelists emphasized the need to interrogate data and know how it could be biased.

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Generative AI for Contracts Is Here: New Tools to Accelerate Drafting and Editing

The emergence of generative AI is reshaping the landscape of contract management, enabling businesses to generate and negotiate legal agreements with greater ease and speed. In this on-demand webinar, Hal Marcus, VP of Product Marketing at Evisort discusses how Evisort's generative AI transforms contract creation and negotiation, empowering legal teams to streamline processes while reducing risk.