Wed.Nov 16, 2022

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Google hasn’t given up on personal health records

Healthcare Dive

The tech giant, despite past setbacks, is continuing user testing around a consumer-facing health record. “It’s an ongoing curiosity,” Chief Health Officer Karen DeSalvo told Healthcare Dive at the HLTH conference.

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New healthcare privacy challenges as online data tracking, sharing methods evolve

Healthcare It News

This past June, a John Doe plaintiff who was a patient at Baltimore-based Medstar Health System filed a class action complaint against Meta Platforms in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiff alleged that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, was using its Pixel tracking technology to access patient information from websites and portals of hospitals and health systems for targeted marketing.

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CommonSpirit posts $400M loss due to higher labor costs, dip in volumes

Healthcare Dive

The health system said its payer mix has softened, as revenue from commercial members dropped compared to the first quarter of last year.

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Taking a patient-centric approach to value-based care

Healthcare It News

The value-based care model is gaining momentum in the healthcare industry, and it is not hard to see why. After all, value-based care – which rewards healthcare providers with incentives based on the quality of care they provide to patients – has been shown to improve healthcare outcomes and reduces costs for patients. On paper, value-based care should be an easy sell for hospitals.

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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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Preventable hospital patient safety events declined over past decade, Leapfrog Group says

Healthcare Dive

Incidents of falls and trauma and of objects unintentionally left in a body after surgery decreased by about 25% since 2012, according to the group that assigns letter grades to hospitals.

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Featured Health IT Job: Epic HIM Analyst

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Epic HIM Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Stoltenberg Consulting Inc. and is remote. Here’s a description of the position: Currently seeking an Epic HIM Analyst for a three-month remote engagement for a client on the East Coast.

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Scaling Disease Screening In Ophthalmology with AI

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Rinat Akhmetov, product lead and ML solutions architect, Provectus. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is growing across all sectors, and healthcare is no exception. In fact, AI is particularly well-suited to healthcare applications […].

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Regulators Need to Pay More Attention to Long-term and Nursing Care

Healthcare IT Today

At some point in our lives—perhaps many points—we will pass through a long-term or post-acute care (LTPAC) facility. But these facilities are afterthoughts in our health care system, and were excluded in particular from the huge digitization of health care triggered in the United States by the 2009 HITECH act and 2010 Affordable Care Act. In this video, you can hear about the technologies and regulations needed in LTPAC from Bill Charnetski, Executive Vice President, Health System Solutions and

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Best Buy invests in remote patient monitoring company Coeus.health

Mobi Health News

The retail giant will tap into Coeus.health's Home Health Hybrid Cloud ecosystem to illustrate to users the benefits of its home health devices. .

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HLTH22 Day 3 News Summary

HIT Consultant

DispatchHealth Raises $330M for Hospital-at-Home Care. DispatchHealth , a provider of in-home medical care raises $330M led by Optum Ventures with support from current investors such as Humana (NYSE: HUM), Oak HC/FT, Echo Health Ventures and Questa Capital. New investors included Adams Street Partners, the Olayan Group, Silicon Valley Bank, Pegasus Tech Ventures and Blue Shield of California.

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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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Astronauts will monitor their health using video game maker Level Ex's ultrasound tool

Mobi Health News

Level Ex announced the details of its participation in the Polaris Dawn space mission at HLTH 2022.

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Edifecs Partners with Empowered-Home to Deliver Automated Prior Authorizations

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Edifecs and Empowered-Home announced a partnership to provide automated prior authorizations to medical associations, Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), Independent Physician Associations (IPAs), medical groups, and home health care agencies. – The Edifecs prior authorization solution combined with the clinical decision support system of patient management software company, Privis Health, forms the backbone of Empowered-Home’s ecosystem.

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Beyond the hospital walls: how digital will revolutionise cancer care

Digital Health News

Dr Majid Kazmi, director of innovation for cancer and surgery and deputy medical director, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, outlines how digital promises to revolutionise cancer care.

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Patent Awarded for Saliva-Based Test to Help Diagnose Concussion

HIT Consultant

Pictured is Quadrant’s Clarifi™ mTBI Saliva Test collection device, which is in the research and development phase. What You Should Know: – Quadrant Biosciences announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has awarded the company and two of its academic partners, the State University of New York Research Foundation and the Penn State Research Foundation, with U.S.

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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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Amazon launches virtual health service with Amazon Clinic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Vivalink Integrates with Garmin, Other Wearables to Address RPM Interoperability

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Vivalink is addressing these RPM interoperability challenges by announcing today that leading wearables and medical-grade devices are integrating with the company’s Biometrics Data Platform. – Now, leading pulse oximeters, blood glucose monitors and sleep monitors by companies like Garmin and Roche are available alongside the Platform to accelerate development and deployment of novel healthcare applications and research.

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Virtual physical therapy provider OneStep using smartphones to determine upper-extremity range of motion

Fierce Healthcare

Virtual physical therapy provider OneStep using smartphones to determine upper-extremity range of motion. aburky. Wed, 11/16/2022 - 13:47.

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Cognoa Appoints Former CMO, Dr. Sharief Taraman as CEO

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Cognoa , a pediatric behavioral health company appoints Dr. Sharief Taraman as Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Taraman previously served as Cognoa’s Chief Medical Officer and brings nearly two decades of clinical specialization in neurodevelopmental conditions, clinical informatics, and business acumen. – Dr. Taraman served as the company’s Chief Medical Officer since 2017, leading clinical evidence generation and regulatory milestones of Canvas Dx and those resu

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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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Medtech startup See-Mode gets Canada’s nod for AI breast, thyroid ultrasound analysis software

Mobi Health News

Its technology helps eliminate manual steps in reporting and interpretation of ultrasound images of breast and thyroid.

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Haystack Oncology Launches with $56M for Post-Op Cancer Detection Tech

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Haystack Oncology (“Haystack”), an oncology company that applies the next generation of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) detection technology raises $56M in Series A financing led by Catalio Capital Management (“Catalio”), which co-founded Haystack through its private equity and structured equity investment vehicles.

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Humana's CenterWell aiming to open at least 30 new clinics next year

Fierce Healthcare

Humana's CenterWell aiming to open at least 30 new clinics next year. pminemyer. Wed, 11/16/2022 - 17:28.

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FDA, MITRE Update Medical Device Cybersecurity Regional Incident Preparedness and Response Playbook

HIPAA Journal

In the event of a cyberattack that impacts the functionality of medical devices, a rapid and effective response is essential to ensure patient safety and the continuity of clinical operations. While healthcare organizations have practiced protocols that can be implemented immediately in the event of a natural disaster such as a hurricane, they tend to be less well prepared to deal with cybersecurity incidents.

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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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Booking Covid jabs on NHS App coming this month says health secretary

Digital Health News

Health secretary Steve Barclay has revealed that there are some big updates coming this month to the NHS App, including the ability to book a Covid jab.

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6 HIPAA Regulated Entities Report Phishing Attacks and Unauthorized Email Account Access

HIPAA Journal

Police Department of the City of New York Reports 21,500-Record Data Breach. Unauthorized individuals have gained access to the email system of the Administrative Fund of the Detectives’ Endowment Association of the Police Department of the City of New York (NYCDEA) and potentially viewed or obtained the protected health information of 21,544 individuals.

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Yet more data underscore the growing risk of suicide among youths

Fierce Healthcare

Yet more data underscore the growing risk of suicide among youths. fdiamond. Wed, 11/16/2022 - 09:16.

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Uncertainty surrounds digital funding of NHS England levelling up scheme

Digital Health News

Funding of NHS England’s levelling up scheme is looking increasingly uncertain ahead of Thursday’s crunch Autumn Statement.

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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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Urban Institute: Most adults unaware of looming Medicaid eligibility redeterminations

Fierce Healthcare

Urban Institute: Most adults unaware of looming Medicaid eligibility redeterminations. rking. Wed, 11/16/2022 - 17:17.

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NHS Forth Valley deploys Morse EPR App for mobile working

Digital Health News

NHS Forth Valley has equipped its community workers with Cambric Systems' Morse EPR, to support them to work more efficiently.

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New Senate bill seeks to add Part D options for PACE beneficiaries

Fierce Healthcare

New Senate bill seeks to add Part D options for PACE beneficiaries. rking. Wed, 11/16/2022 - 15:40.

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Former Pennsylvania Medical Assistant Charged with Stealing Patient Information for Personal Gain

HIPAA Journal

A former employee of Axia Women’s Health in Pennsylvania has been charged in a 39-count indictment for stealing patient information for personal gain. The Upper Moreland Police Department in Montgomery County, PA, uncovered an elaborate scheme involving the theft of the identities of patients, which were used to obtain credit cards and loans, rent high-end apartments, and obtain several thousand dollars worth of furniture.

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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.