Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Quest Diagnostics' PCR test for monkeypox received emergency use authorization after the FDA issued guidance on how it will evaluate the tests.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas in Pittsburg, Kansas, is a federally qualified health center and a not-for-profit corporation. CHC/SEK provides medical, dental, behavioral health, addiction treatment, case management services and pharmacies to all, regardless of ability to pay, and serves about 65,000 patients for more than 220,000 visits per year, making the organization the largest FQHC in Kansas and one of the largest of all rural FQHCs in the United States.

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The new CEO and president has worked in almost “every operating unit in the organization” since he joined in 1978, according to a statement.

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The Urology Center of Colorado has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit that was filed in response to a 137,820-record data breach that occurred in September 2021. On November 5, 2021, the urology practice sent notification letters to its patients advising them that some of their protected health information was potentially compromised two months previously, between September 7 and September 8, 2022.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Donald Trigg Chief Executive Officer at apree health. What You Should Know: – Vera Whole Health, Inc. and Castlight Health, Inc. appoints former Cerner President Donald Trigg as chief executive officer (CEO). – In addition, the companies have rebranded as apree health that will be combine Castlight’s healthcare navigation platform with Vera’s advanced primary care solutions to improve patient outcomes and transform the healthcare industry.

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The Michigan law firm, Warner Norcross and Judd LLP, has issued notification letters to 255,160 individuals advising them about an October 2021 security breach in which files containing their personal and protected health information were potentially accessed and exfiltrated from its systems. The breach was detected on October 22, 2021. The substitute breach notification does not state when, and for how long, unauthorized individuals had access to its systems.

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Digital Health News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

A new electronic patient record (EPR) called Hive, powered by software company Epic, has gone live across Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT).

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

What You Should Know: – epocrates, an athenahealth, Inc. company that delivers digital clinical decision support to healthcare professionals, today announced the release of Bugs + Drugs, a mobile tool that offers clinicians information about bacteria types and antibacterial susceptibility patterns by ZIP code. – A free feature in the epocrates mobile app, the tool supports clinicians in choosing appropriate empiric antibiotics for each patient at the point of care.

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Jane Sarashon

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Consumers consider health and well-being as an “essential” household spending category based on new research from Accenture. Accenture polled over 11,000 consumers in 17 countries, considering how people are faring amid “widespread uncertainty and personal financial strains,” in the firm’s words. While two in three consumers feel financially stressed, 4 in 5 intend to grow or hold their personal spending on health and fitness steady in the next year.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

What You Should Know: – Ypsomed and Sidekick Health today announced a collaboration to extend Ypsomed’s device and SmartServices offering by implementing a self-injection module in Sidekick’s proven digital therapeutics solution. – The combination of Ypsomed’s devices with Sidekick’s digital health, behavioural economics and gamification expertise will form a unique solution delivering an engaging and personalized patient experience to people with chronic conditions, as well as a tur

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Digital Health News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Dedalus Group has named Rachel Dunscombe as chief industry advisor, where she hopes to drive the positive impact of digitisation on healthcare systems.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Credentialing and licensing platform CertifyOS scooped up $14.5 million, and patient engagement and navigation platform Upfront raised $10.5 million.

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The Michigan law firm, Warner Norcross and Judd LLP, has issued notification letters to 255,160 individuals advising them about an October 2021 security breach in which files containing their personal and protected health information were potentially accessed and exfiltrated from its systems. The breach was detected on October 22, 2021. The substitute breach notification does not state when, and for how long, unauthorized individuals had access to its systems.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

This marks Headspace Health's second acquisition this year. In January, it announced the purchase of Sayana, which offers mental wellness and sleep apps.

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

A recent study has revealed that more than 20% of healthcare organizations experienced an increase in mortality rate after a significant cyberattack and more than half of surveyed healthcare organizations (57%) said they experienced poorer patient outcomes, with almost half reporting an increase in medical complications. The most common consequences of the attacks that contributed to poorer patient outcomes were delays to procedures and tests.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

CHIR is delighted to welcome three new faculty members to our team: Research Professor Linda Blumberg, Senior Research Fellow Karen Davenport, and Assistant Research Professor Vrudhi Raimugia. Continue reading → The post CHIR Welcomes Three New Faculty Members appeared first on Center on Health Insurance Reforms.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The solution screens for plus disease, which is associated with severe ROP.

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Becker's Health IT

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

While the healthcare industry experienced 711 data breaches in 2021, some types of organizations were significantly more likely to have them than others, according to cybersecurity researcher Comparitech.

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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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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

RabbitSign, a Palo Alto, CA-based provider of a free-to-use, unlimited e-signing solution, has been assessed by Compliancy Group’s HIPAA compliance experts who determined the solution is compliant with the HIPAA Rules. RabbitSign was devised and developed during the COVID-19 pandemic as a zero-cost e-signing solution for businesses, non-profits, and government entities, with the company providing the solution for the greater good rather than to maximize profits.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

What You Should Know: – Weave , the all-in-one customer communication and engagement platform for small businesses, today announced new research, The 2022 State of Healthcare Staffing, illustrating the negative impacts the Great Resignation and burnout have had on the healthcare industry and how staffing issues are impacting the patient experience. – The survey looked deeply into how these staffing shortages are impacting different healthcare organizations, why their staff are leavin

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The Health Law Firm Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law I am often contacted by clients who are health professionals or own businesses in the health care industry who have been approached by government agents or investigators regarding possible complaints or charges. In many cases, the individuals involved [.].

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HealthIT Answers

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Business news from QGenda, First Databank, Clarify Health, Aira, Envision, Ordr, Reveleer, Hello Heart, Luna, Honeywell, NextGen Healthcare, and more. The post Health IT Business News – September 8, 2022 appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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The Health Law Firm Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law I am often contacted by clients who are health professionals or own businesses in the health care industry who have been approached by government agents or investigators regarding possible complaints or charges. In many cases, the individuals involved [.].

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HealthIT Answers

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Join us on September 20th for our 7th annual virtual discussion on the current issues driving Interoperability across the healthcare spectrum. Our panelist are Femi Ladega, Paul L. Wilder, and Mari Savickis. The post Annual State of Interoperability Virtual Panel Discussion with Industry Leaders appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

It seems everywhere you look these days you see ads for 5G. It’s the “new thing” when it comes to telecommunications. It reminds me when “the cloud” was first introduced – not many people knew what it really was and yet leading vendors like Microsoft and IBM were pushing it. Cloud was this amorphous “thing” that could magically solve business problems.

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HealthIT Answers

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

By Kathleen Aller - We are moving from a clinic and hospital-based model of health and care led by clinicians to a commercially-driven care system: a colossal experiment being conducted by consumers, and based on market forces. So how do we coevolve with the accelerated evolution of healthcare, in terms of access and management? The post Coevolving with the Evolution of Healthcare Management appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Olio’s platform improves the quality of care while decreasing readmission rates and length of stay by making the engagement between health systems, payers, and post-acute providers easy. Fulcrum Equity Partners (Fulcrum) is pleased to announce a $13M Series A growth investment in Olio Health (Olio), a workflow and collaboration platform for the post-acute care and population health industry with participation from Mutual Capital Partners (MCP).

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McGuire Wood

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Kain Capital has announced it has completed a growth equity investment in MY DR NOW. MY DR NOW , based in Chandler, Ariz., is a provider of primary and specialty care in Arizona. Founded in 2007, the organization states it is Arizona’s largest privately owned primary care group. Kain , based in New York and founded in 2014, is a private equity firm focused on investments in healthcare services and information technology companies.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Company provides bulletproof record matching, record mastering and patient identity automation. ESO, a leading data and software company serving emergency medical services (EMS), fire departments, hospitals, state and federal agencies, today announced it has acquired Occam Technologies. Occam’s powerful EMPI solution provides best-in-class ability to accurately identify patients and share clinical data across the entire patient journey, thus contributing to the best possible care and outcome f

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The Health Law Firm Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law The process of obtaining a nursing or health care professional license is not only challenging, but it’s also time-consuming. If you have a criminal conviction or unique circumstance which may negatively impact your ability to be granted a [.].

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