HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 15, 2023

Tift Regional Medical Center in Georgia has started notifying 180,142 patients that their personal and protected health information was compromised in a cyberattack that was detected on or around August 16, 2022. According to the notification letters, there was no encryption of systems, access was not gained to its electronic medical record system, and the network remained available to staff and patients.

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Healthcare Dive

AUGUST 15, 2023

Regulators lowered enrollment minimums for accountable care organizations in the program, which allows providers to form groups to manage care and costs for fee-for-service Medicare enrollees.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 15, 2023

There is a lot of emphasis on how social determinants of health data – strongly linked to patient outcomes – are used in real-world healthcare scenarios with many researchers focusing on a lack of standardization and the roadblocks it presents to health equity. Because it was unclear if SDOH data are collected routinely and would facilitate exchange if captured in a structured format, the Office of the National Coordinator for Healthcare IT used nationally representative survey data

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Healthcare Dive

AUGUST 15, 2023

Amazon began automatically applying manufacturer coupons for some drugs in March, and is now adding new discounts for diabetes-related products.

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Electronic Health Reporter

AUGUST 15, 2023

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Marvin Luz, senior director of revenue services, Greenway Health. Nearly all medical practices face the complex challenge of ensuring patient satisfaction while maintaining the engagement and well-being of their staff. The reputation and success […] The article Front Office Strategies to Increase Patient Satisfaction appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare Dive

AUGUST 15, 2023

The amendment expands the original licensing agreement to 20 years and could allow the AI system to serve as a second reader.

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Healthcare Dive

AUGUST 15, 2023

The deal comes weeks after Definitive announced layoffs.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 15, 2023

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men, women, and people of most racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. One person dies every 33 seconds in the U.S. | MedArrive is teaming up with Heartbeat Health to connect Medicaid members with virtual cardiology care in their homes.

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Healthcare Dive

AUGUST 15, 2023

The Boston-based health system posted an improvement in revenue and operating income after it was placed on a financial improvement plan by the state last year.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 15, 2023

What You Should Know: New research released today by next-generation healthcare SaaS company HealthEdge reveals that only 45% of healthcare consumers are fully satisfied with their health insurance. In a survey of more than 2,800 participants, an overwhelming 55% of beneficiaries want more from their health plan — signaling shortcomings in payers’ ability to provide personalized care.

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AUGUST 15, 2023

As the laboratory services giant continues its acquisition streak, hundreds of employees will be let go at the Boston-based academic health system.

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AUGUST 15, 2023

Recent study data suggest hospitals in more competitive healthcare markets do not demonstrate clear post-surgery outcome improvements across several high-risk procedures—a thorn in the side of thos | A review of over 2.2 million Medicare claims across 10 different high-risk surgeries found mixed results when comparing hospitals in competitive and uncompetitive markets.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 15, 2023

What You Should Know: Luna, the leading provider of in-home, in-person physical therapy, has unveiled Luna Labs, a dedicated Artificial Intelligence (AI) division to enhance patient care. The founding 5 person engineering group will be organized under co-founder, Chief Technology Officer, and former Uber engineer Ryan Gaffney. Focusing on driving healthcare delivery and efficiency, Luna Labs will create new AI products, including automated conversational tools to quickly assist patients and ther

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 15, 2023

The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center has published guidance on multifactor authentication (MFA) that explains why MFA is important for security, some of the problems that can arise from implementing MFA, and how threat actors can successfully bypass MFA controls. Multifactor authentication involves a knowledge factor, a possession factor, and an inherence factor for authentication – something someone knows, has, and is unique to the user.

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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 News - Telehealth

AUGUST 15, 2023

According to E.U. project Label2Enable's Petra Hoogendoorn, there is demand from both patients and doctors for centrally filtered and recommended healthcare apps.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 15, 2023

An adoption model methodology is nothing new in the healthcare industry. HIMSS, for example, built their Healthcare Maturity Models to provide clear adoption and implementation pathways for various technologies and capabilities that health systems need. What the market had been lacking, however, is a tried-and-true framework that could address the revenue cycle management needs of healthcare finance leaders.

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Digital Health News

AUGUST 15, 2023

NHS trusts across the West Midlands are now able to access and share cancer registry data through InterSystems HealthShare, a shared care record project.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 15, 2023

There are so many things to talk about in healthcare – both in terms of new technology and ideas as well as problems that we need to fix – but there is so little time to do so. We can’t talk about healthcare 24/7, the best we can do is pick the most important things for today and leave the rest for the future. But how do we decide which ones are the most important topics that need our attention now?

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 15, 2023

Performance Health Technology (PH Tech), an Oregon-based provider of data management services to health insurers, is being sued by individuals who had their protected health information (PHI) compromised in a recent cyberattack. The attack on PH Tech was conducted by the Clop hacking group, which exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Progress Software’s MOVEit Transfer file transfer solution.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 15, 2023

The following is a guest article by Shawn Henners, Electronic Business Process Manager, Montgomery County Hospital District The Montgomery County Hospital District (MCHD) is a local government agency that coordinates indigent healthcare, and provides 9-1-1 emergency medical services and public health services for Montgomery County, Texas — our mission is to care for the indigent while ensuring long-term stability through fund development.

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Digital Health News

AUGUST 15, 2023

A new partnership involving Devon Partnership NHS Trust will introduce Censeo, a digital mental health assessment tool from Psyomics, to its services.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 15, 2023

Healthcare commercial intelligence company Definitive Healthcare bought data analytics startup Populi in a $52 million all-cash deal, the company announced Monday. | Healthcare commercial intelligence company Definitive Healthcare acquired data analytics startup Populi in a $52 million cash deal, the company announced Monday.

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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.

Mobi Health News

AUGUST 15, 2023

The company's revenue increased in Q2 of this year to $13.1 million compared to $10.7 million in the first quarter but was still below the $18.3 million reported in Q2 2022.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 15, 2023

As regulators review Kaiser Permanente’s proposed acquisition of a respected health system based in Pennsylvania, healthcare experts are still puzzling over how the

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Digital Health News

AUGUST 15, 2023

London Northwest University Hospital is preparing for the go-live of its new Cerner EPR system on Friday August 18, the trust said in a statement.

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 15, 2023

The collaboration will allow MedArrive's members, including Medicaid beneficiaries, to access 24/7 cardiology services from their homes.

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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

AUGUST 15, 2023

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS FT is working with Proximie on a virtual training course exploring thoracic robotic-assisted surgery.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 15, 2023

Authored by: Cain A. Hayes, President and CEO of Point32Health | Learn how Point32Health, a leading New England health services company, is addressing health inequities and empowering healthier lives through collaboration and innovation.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 15, 2023

Nick Dua, Founder and CEO at Together by Renee Captivating innovations like smartphones, the internet, and social media have swept across the globe, reshaping the contours of society in their wake. Today, artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare brings both breathtaking promises and daunting uncertainties. Neither hype nor panic is helpful. What we need is a sober analysis of the real, practical, and immediate solutions AI can offer to genuine healthcare challenges we face today.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 15, 2023

A limited, but growing, number of healthcare providers are announcing policies to charge patients for electronic messages sent to clinicians. | This week on "Podnosis," we take a closer look at the challenges with new email policies, and the importance of diverse investors and founders.

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