Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
More ambulance trips are billing for "advanced life support," denoting a higher level of care (and reimbursement). Private insurers' payments for those trips increased 56% between 2017 and 2020, Fair Health found.
Bill of Health
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
By Kaitlynn Milvert. After the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) COVID-19 vaccine mandate for large employers was withdrawn last month , many pronounced private employers to be “on their own” to make decisions about vaccine requirements for their employees. Until one outlier Fifth Circuit decision last week, federal courts have largely agreed.
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Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Roughly a third of nurses surveyed by McKinsey said they're considering quitting their jobs. That's up from 22% in a poll conducted last February.
MRO Compliance
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Clinical Data Release Leader MRO Announces Acquisition of MediCopy. Transaction expands MRO’s clinical data solutions for physician practices and outpatient providers. Norristown, PA, February 22, 2022 – MRO , a leading clinical data acquisition and release platform and the KLAS-rated No. 1 provider of release of information (ROI) solutions, announced today the acquisition of Nashville, TN-based MediCopy, a leading provider of release of information solutions to physician practices and outpatie
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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?
Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Ascension's operating margin in the first six months of its fiscal year fell to 0.2% from 5.7% the year prior as it faced a host of challenges.
HIPAA Journal
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Seattle, WA-based Sea Mar Community Health Centers is facing a class action lawsuit over a cyberattack in which the protected health information of 688,000 individuals was compromised. The breach came to light in June 2021 when files stolen in the attack were posted on the Marketo dark web leak site. Databreaches.net spotted the leaked data on the Marketo data leak site in June 2021 and contacted Sea Mar.
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HIPAA Journal
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
50 healthcare data breaches of 500 or more records were reported to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in January 2022. January was the second successive month where the number of reported data breaches fell, although 38.9% more breaches were reported last month than in January 2020. The protected health information of 2,304,607 individuals was exposed or impermissibly disclosed across those 50 breaches – 22% fewer records than December 2021, and well below the 12-month average of 3.51 milli
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
What You Should Know: – Today, TytoCare has partnered with Alice , Brazil’s first primary care-driven health insurance plan, to expand Alice’s telehealth offerings with at-home medical examinations. – The partnership will mark the first implementation of TytoCare in Brazil. Through the partnership, Alice is offering its members the TytoCare device, enabling seamless digital diagnostics for its members while enabling physicians to offer clinic-quality virtual care.
Dot Compliance
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
If you’ve developed a new pharmaceutical and want to market it to health care providers or the general public, you must take one first, unskippable step: you need to get it approved by the Food and Drug Administration. FDA regulations govern what you can claim about your product and whether you can even sell it at all. For companies that manufacture drugs, biotechnology, and related products, demonstrating the safety and effectiveness of your goods to the FDA’s satisfaction has to be
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Genius Intelligent Endoscopy Module. What You Should Know: – Medtronic and AWS , today announced a partnership to provide underserved communities with artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted colonoscopy technology through AWS’s $40M Health Equity Assistance Program for colon cancer screening. – Amazon Web Services will support the effort to provide Medtronic GI Genius™ intelligent endoscopy modules to facilities that primarily serve communities with low screening rates or where access
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Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
The company had to restructure and delist from stock exchanges in Australia and New Zealand in 2019 after losing contracts in the US.
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
What You Should Know: – Today, Sema4 , a leader in AI-driven clinical data intelligence, announced that they have partnered with BioSymetrics , to accelerate the advancement of drug discovery and new treatments for patients and pharmaceutical companies. – Together the two will leverage Sema4’s Centrellis®, one of the largest and fastest-growing integrated health information platforms that includes approximately 12 million de-identified clinical records, and Elion, BioSymetrics’ pheno
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Each day in healthcare, data becomes more valuable, more useful, and more important to a healthcare organization. It’s easy to see that the future of healthcare rests on the back of data. The problem is that data in and of itself isn’t useful. To really make a difference in healthcare, we need clean, usable data […].
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
What You Should Know: – Today, Wellsky announced the acquisition of TapCloud , a virtual, interoperable, and AI-driven patient engagement platform that allows patients to share symptoms and other health data with providers via virtual visit technology, secure messaging, and remote symptom screening protocols. – Frequent communication between patients, clinicians, and payers is critical to providing quality care and delivering on value-based care.
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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.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Clients can use the platform to meet with a mental health provider and access behavioral health medications.
Center for Health Insurance Reform
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Under the Affordable Care Act, insurers must provide rebates to enrollees when their spending on clinical services and quality improvement, as a proportion of premium dollars, falls below a minimum threshold. Federal regulators have discovered some insurers are gaming the system by misallocating expenses or inflating their spending on providers. Karen Davenport takes a look at how this practice impacts consumers, and explains a new federal proposal to crack down on it.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Medified Solutions Oy will bring to the table its mood and symptom tracking app.
Jane Sarashon
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
There’s more evidence that doctors and patients, both, want to use telehealth after the COVID-19 pandemic fades. Doximity’s second report on telemedicine explores both physicians’ and patients’ views on virtual care, finding most doctors and health consumers on the same page of virtual care adoption. For the physicians’ profile, Doximity examined 180,000 doctors’ who billed Medicare for telemedicine claims between January 2020 and June 2021.
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Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
The company offers telehealth services and at-home lab testing.
Healthicity
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Ada likes to curl up with a good book before bed, like many of us.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
It provides preventive mental health care through its network of psychologists.
Healthcare Compliance Blog
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Two women, one from Colorado and the other from Houston, have been sentenced in federal court for their roles a multi-million dollar Medicare Fraud Scheme. Each woman pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud. The two women conspired with a third individual to submit more than $107.6 million in false and fraudulent claims for durable medical equipment (DME).
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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.
NY Health Law
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
The Supreme Court will hear argument next week in two consolidated cases that will decide what standard applies when a doctor asserts a good faith defense to a criminal prosecution for unlawful drug distribution. The argument on Tuesday, March 1, will address the convictions of two doctors accused of running “pill mills” and seeking to profit in the midst of the national opioid crisis.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Automata aims to scale capacities for life scientists.
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
The telehealth company specializing in managing mental health medication for consumers will expand nationwide and introduce innovative psychiatric offerings Minded, the specialist in prescribing mental health medication online, announces $25 million in seed funding. Investors include Streamlined Ventures, Link Ventures, The Tiger Fund, Unicorn Ventures, Trousdale Ventures, Gaingels, SALT Fund, TheFund, and the founders of […].
Medval Compliance Blog
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that Non-Group Health Plan (NGHP) and Group Health Plan (GHP) Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) recovery debts may be paid using Automated Clearing House (ACH) transactions, offering more convenience and efficiency by allowing payers to utilize their own existing software and accounts payable processes to submit payments electronically.
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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.
McGuire Wood
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
424 Capital has announced it has closed a majority investment with MedHQ. MedHQ , based in Westchester, Ill., is a national provider of human resources and financial management services to healthcare providers. Founded in 2003, the company mainly supports ambulatory surgery centers and physician practices with payroll, tax, benefits, insurance, credentialing and consulting services. 424 Capital , based in Wakefield, Ma., is a invests in lower middle market companies within technology and tech-en
Florida Health Care Law Firm
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
By: Susan St. John. In yet another take-down of an illicit scheme to defraud the Medicare Program and ChampVA, as well as other insurers, Patsy Truglia has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison. He has also had assets forfeited since these assets were acquired with money from his ill-gotten fraud scheme. In total, Mr. Truglia and his co-conspirators collected approximately $18.5 million from Medicare, ChampVA, and insurance using a scheme of telemarketing, telemedicine, and multiple DME p
The HIPAA Blog
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Annual "small breach" reporting deadline is approaching: As you should know if you're reading this blog, when you have a breach of unsecured PHI that affects 500 or more people, you have to report to HHS, as well as local media, when you report to affected individuals.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
During the last two years, U.S. hospitals and health systems have very quickly deployed a lot of telemedicine systems to take care of patients during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Many of these systems were not planned in great detail, and not planned with a great deal of permanence in mind. Telehealth took hold, though, and now healthcare provider organizations face a future of hybrid care – part in-person care and part virtual care.
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In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.
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