Mon.Aug 14, 2023

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AdventHealth sues MultiPlan for alleged ‘cartel’ with health insurers to fix prices

Healthcare Dive

The health system alleges providers have lost at least $19 billion per year as a direct result of MultiPlan’s anticompetitive agreements with major payers, including UnitedHealth, Aetna and Elevance.

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Climate-Resilient and Accessible Architecture

Bill of Health

By Abhishek Kumar and Kavya Poornima Balajepalli Climate change is the gravest threat currently faced by human civilization, and our architecture must internalize this reality of our time. Knowing that the best way to protect people from climate chaos is by tackling inequality , it is critical that our built environment integrate universal design, as lack of accessibility has cascading and compounding impact on vulnerable communities, and especially persons with disabilities.

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PE healthcare deals dropped to years-low levels in Q2

Healthcare Dive

The amount of private equity deals decreased 23.7% compared to the first quarter this year. However, Q2 deal volume was still 12.3% higher than the average quarterly deal count pre-pandemic, according to a report from PitchBook.

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Mae, Molina Healthcare of Virginia partner to support Black expectant mothers

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The partnership will allow Molina's Virginia-based Medicare and healthcare marketplace members access to culturally competent maternal health experts.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

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?

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Microsoft-Epic partnership yields EHR cloud solution

Healthcare Dive

Mount Sinai Health System is the first provider to implement Azure Large Instances, which scales database capacity to the level needed for health record workloads.

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Amazon Pharmacy's latest move aims to ease access to affordable insulin

Fierce Healthcare

Amazon has been focused on ways to make prescription drugs more affordable for consumers as it works to carve out a piece of the retail pharmacy market. | Amazon Pharmacy will automatically apply drug manufacturer-sponsored coupons on more than 15 insulin and diabetes care brands during online check-out. With the coupons, many insulin brands are available to eligible customers starting at $35 a month with free delivery.

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How to Solve The Talent Shortage in Healthcare, Whether It’s Urban, Suburban or Rural

HIT Consultant

Khue Tran, Chief Strategy Officer at Azalea Health One of the most pressing issues in healthcare today is the growing talent shortage of qualified medical professionals. These critical staffing talent shortages could jeopardize communities’ access to care and result in dire consequences. The staffing shortage existed before the pandemic , but it’s only worsened during the past few years.

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Rebuilding trust to empower the future of healthcare

Healthcare Dive

See how the latest in AI can move the conversation back to the forefront with clinical documentation that writes itself—all within the EHR—so clinicians can focus on their patients.

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iCAD, Google Health Expand Integration of AI Breast Cancer Screening

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: iCAD, Inc., a global medical technology leader providing innovative cancer detection and therapy solutions, today announced it signed an amendment to its development and commercialization agreement with Google Health , which will enable iCAD to integrate Google’s AI technology with its ProFound Breast Health Suite Secondlook for 2D Mammography for use worldwide upon regulatory approval as an independent reader for breast cancer screening for 20 years. iCAD signed a strategi

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Chutes & Ladders—Cleveland Clinic hires first chief analytics officer; Express Scripts exec to work with independent pharmacies

Fierce Healthcare

Chutes & Ladders—Cleveland Clinic hires first chief analytics officer; Express Scripts exec to work with independent pharmacies ntong Mon, 08/14/2023 - 10:37

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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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Nashville General Hospital Deploys Oracle Health EHR

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Safety net hospital Nashville General Hospital today announced a strategic partnership with Oracle Health to implement its CommunityWorks EHR platform. Oracle Health’s CommunityWorks will replace multiple systems with one united EHR that will enable clinicians to access patient records from the 150-bed hospital and more than 20 outpatient and clinic settings across the county.

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CIO Podcast – Episode 60: Patient Engagement with Rich Temple

Healthcare IT Today

For the 60th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Rich Temple, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, at Deborah Heart and Lung Center to talk about patient engagement! To kick off this episode we talk about how patient engagement has changed over time from when Temple first started out in health IT to what it is today.

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UnitedHealth Group acquisition of EMIS close after provisional clearance

Digital Health News

UnitedHealth Group's proposed £1.2 billion acquisition of EMIS is close after the Competition and Markets Authority provisionally cleared the purchase.

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Post-Pandemic Trends Influencing Digital Transformation

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Lynne Bell, Vice President, Vertical Markets at Spectrum Enterprise Digital transformation in the healthcare industry has been propelled by technology advancements, evolving regulations, and changing patient expectations. When the pandemic brought about rapid change, leading healthcare organizations needed to quickly embrace and adopt digital health strategies and modern technologies to meet shifting employee and patient needs.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

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.

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HomeLink Healthcare named on NHS SBS Framework Agreement

Digital Health News

HomeLink Healthcare has been named as a supplier on NHS Shared Business Services’ (NHS SBS) Patient Discharge and Mental Health Step Down Beds Services Framework Agreement. It means that NHS partners are now able to procure the HomeLink Healthcare Discharge to Assess and Virtual Wards solutions directly.

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A Look at the Nobi Smart Lamp

Healthcare IT Today

One of the cool products we saw a demo of at the HIMSS conference this year was the Nobi smart lamp. Roeland Pelgrims, CEO at Nobi , took the time to demo the smart lamp to us and tell us more about what makes the Nobi smart lamp special. Pelgrims shared that the goal of Nobi is to empower older adults. That’s why they believed that smart technologies like the Nobi smart lamp must be hidden and designed for life.

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Johns Hopkins Medicine Confirms More Than 310,400 Individuals Affected by MOVEit Hack

HIPAA Journal

Last month, Johns Hopkins Health System announced it was investigating a cyberattack and data breach, which was reported to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights by Johns Hopkins Health System and Howard County General Hospital as affecting more than 5,500 individuals. Hackers (Clop) exploited a zero day vulnerability in the MOVEit Transfer file transfer solution and exfiltrated data and attempted to extort money from the victims.

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July Research Roundup: What We’re Reading

Center for Health Insurance Reform

CHIR’s summer reading list includes the latest health policy literature. In July, we read about the disparities in medical debt burdens, policy interventions to reduce choice errors in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace, and the affordability of Marketplace health insurance under subsidy expansion.

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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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Records of 4 Million Coloradans Compromised in MOVEit Transfer Attack

HIPAA Journal

The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF), which oversees the state’s Medicaid program and the Child Health Plan Plus (CHP+) program, has recently confirmed that the protected health information of 4,091,794 individuals was compromised. The attack occurred at IBM, one of its vendors, and involved the MOVEit Transfer application that was used by IBM for file transfers.

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CMS unveils ACO REACH makeover

Modern Healthcare

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services aims to boost provider takeup of the ACO REACH program.

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Vanderbilt University Medical Center Investigated by OCR over Disclosure of Transgender Patients’ Medical Records

HIPAA Journal

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is being investigated by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) over the disclosure of the medical records of transgender patients to Tennessee Attorney General, Jonathan Skrmetti. VUMC provided the medical records of transgender patients to AG Skrmetti after receiving civil investigative demands for the data as part of an investigation into potential medical billing fraud.

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Mae, Molina Healthcare of Virginia partner to support Black expectant mothers

Mobi Health News

The partnership will allow Molina's Virginia-based Medicare and healthcare marketplace members access to culturally competent maternal health experts.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

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.

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Health Call digital solution aims to reduce waiting lists

Digital Health News

In a bid to tackle the problem of lengthy NHS waiting lists, Health Call has launched a digital waiting list validation tool.

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WSJ Asserts Women Own This Summer and That The Economy Proves It. But Health Care? Not So Much.

Health Populi

This weekend’s Wall Street Journal Saturday/Sunday edition featured a big story on the economic force of women in the summer of 2023, termed “the women’s multiplier effect” — that women’s spending is a powerful force in the U.S. economy (and as it turns out, in Sweden’s economy as well). The article was titled, “Women Own This Summer.

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HCA notifies 11 million patients affected in data breach

Becker's Health IT

HCA Healthcare is sending out letters to 11.27 million patients affected in a July data breach.

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Akili announces 27% growth of EndeavorRx prescriptions in Q2

Mobi Health News

The company also announced its intentions to seek FDA approval for its over-the-counter product for adults with ADHD, EndeavorOTC.

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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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ChristianaCare's CISO receives cybersecurity honor

Becker's Health IT

Anahi Santiago, chief information security officer at Newark, Del.-based ChristianaCare, received the Routhy Award, recognizing her success within cybersecurity.

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Jessica L. Gustafson, Robert S. Iwrey, and Clinton Mikel Named as 2023 Michigan Super Lawyers

Health Law Attorney

The Health Law Partners, P.C. congratulates Jessica L. Gustafson, Esq. , Robert S. Iwrey, Esq. , and Clinton Mikel, Esq. on their selection as 2023 Michigan Super Lawyers in Health Care law. Super Lawyers, part of Thomson Reuters, is an attorney rating service whose selection process includes independent research, peer nominations, and peer evaluations.

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Industry Voices—Why hiring clinician executives is critical for all businesses

Fierce Healthcare

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, M.D., recently released guidance that the workplace can positively and nega | Companies in every industry need to increasingly look at the health of both the business as well as employees, and leaders with clinical experience can help.

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Monday Morning Rounds with CMS

HealthIT Answers

In case you missed it, this is recent communication from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Subscribe to their email lists to keep up to date on all press and news releases. The post Monday Morning Rounds with CMS appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics

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.