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The New Healthcare Truths of 2022

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Mike Noshay, MSE, Founder and Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer at Verinovum. This time last year, we healthcare leaders were excited to be looking ahead to 2021 and leaving 2020 firmly behind us. But our dreams of putting the pandemic in the past were put on pause. Now, […].

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Investors poured record-breaking $29.1B into digital health startups. Will the momentum continue in 2022?

Fierce Healthcare

Investors poured record-breaking $29.1B into digital health startups. Will the momentum continue in 2022? hlandi. Mon, 01/10/2022 - 12:17.

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23andMe receives FDA clearance for genetic test for prostate cancer marker

Mobi Health News

The test reports on the G84E mutation in the HOXB13 gene, which studies have shown increase a person’s risk of developing prostate cancer.

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JPM 2022: Aledade scoops up advance care planning startup Iris Healthcare to build out health services unit

Fierce Healthcare

JPM 2022: Aledade scoops up advance care planning startup Iris Healthcare to build out health services unit. hlandi. Mon, 01/10/2022 - 20:53.

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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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mPulse Mobile Acquires HealthCrowd, Receives Growth Investment

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: mPulse Mobile , a leader in conversational AI and digital engagement solutions for the healthcare industry, released 2 major announcements: – acquired HealthCrowd , a leading communications platform-as-a-service innovator focused primarily on the Medicaid market. – received a growth investment from PSG, a leading growth equity firm partnering with middle-market software and technology-enabled services companies.

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Facing understaffed hospitals, California temporarily allows asymptomatic workers to return after positive COVID test, exposure

Fierce Healthcare

Facing understaffed hospitals, California temporarily allows asymptomatic workers to return after positive COVID test, exposure. dmuoio. Mon, 01/10/2022 - 13:27.

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Insurers must cover at-home COVID-19 tests starting Jan. 15 under new CMS directive

Fierce Healthcare

Insurers must cover at-home COVID-19 tests starting Jan. 15 under new CMS directive. rking. Mon, 01/10/2022 - 16:18.

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How Abu Dhabi’s ADQ is creating the UAE’s largest healthcare platform

Mobi Health News

The UAE-based asset owner and investor has announced it is to consolidate several healthcare companies within Pure Health.

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JPM22: Teladoc projects $2.03B in 2021 revenue, up from previous guidance, after stock plummeted last year

Fierce Healthcare

JPM22: Teladoc projects $2.03B in 2021 revenue, up from previous guidance, after stock plummeted last year. rtorrence. Mon, 01/10/2022 - 10:54.

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Binah.ai rolls out new contactless blood-pressure-monitoring system

Mobi Health News

Users can tap into the system to measure their blood pressure, heart rate, heart variability rate and more.

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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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JPM 2022: Intermountain Healthcare, SCL Health merger 'will not drive up healthcare costs,' execs promise

Fierce Healthcare

JPM 2022: Intermountain Healthcare, SCL Health merger 'will not drive up healthcare costs,' execs promise. dmuoio. Mon, 01/10/2022 - 11:48.

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Patient monitoring company VitalConnect scoops up $39M

Mobi Health News

The company plans to use the funding to expand its commercial team, scale operations and develop new products.

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JPM 2022: Staffing expenses led to an extra $440M in operating costs in 2021 for AdventHealth

Fierce Healthcare

JPM 2022: Staffing expenses led to an extra $440M in operating costs in 2021 for AdventHealth. rking. Mon, 01/10/2022 - 08:43.

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Sanofi taps Exscientia for a deal worth up to $5.2B

Mobi Health News

This news comes just months after Exscientia went public.

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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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HHS: Nearly 14M people enroll on ACA's exchanges ahead of Jan. 15 deadline

Fierce Healthcare

HHS: Nearly 14M people enroll on ACA's exchanges ahead of Jan. 15 deadline. rking. Mon, 01/10/2022 - 11:41.

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CIO Podcast – Episode 24: Ed Marx on the COVID Wave and Employee Challenges

Healthcare IT Today

For the 24th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Ed Marx, Chief Digital Officer at Tech Mahindra Health and Life Sciences and Former CIO at Cleveland Clinic and a number of other organizations. In this episode, Marx shares insights into what he’s hearing from CIOs when it […].

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JPM 2022: R1 RCM picks up AI software firm Cloudmed in $4.1B all-stock deal

Fierce Healthcare

JPM 2022: R1 RCM picks up AI software firm Cloudmed in $4.1B all-stock deal. hlandi. Mon, 01/10/2022 - 10:48.

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New online platform for doctors launches in India

Mobi Health News

MConnekt assists healthcare practitioners to find clients and optimise workflow.

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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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There were fewer M&A transactions in 2021, but they were greater in size: analysis

Fierce Healthcare

There were fewer M&A transactions in 2021, but they were greater in size: analysis. agliadkovskaya. Mon, 01/10/2022 - 15:53.

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Castlight Health and Vera Whole Health to Combine to Pioneer and Scale Value-Based Care in Commercial Market

Healthcare IT Today

Castlight Health, Inc. (“Castlight”) (NYSE: CSLT), a leading healthcare data and navigation company, and Vera Whole Health, Inc. (“Vera”), a pioneer in advanced primary care, today jointly announced an agreement under which the companies will combine. The combined company will integrate Castlight’s market-leading technology with Vera’s purpose-built clinics, health care professionals and strategic partnerships with local […].

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Aduhelm price drops prompts Becerra to rethink hike to Part B 2022 premiums

Fierce Healthcare

Aduhelm price drops prompts Becerra to rethink hike to Part B 2022 premiums. rking. Mon, 01/10/2022 - 10:44.

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3.7 Million Affected By FlexBooker Breach

Compliancy Group

FlexBooker is an online appointment scheduling platform that services small businesses across several industries, including the healthcare industry. On December 23, 2021, FlexBooker disclosed that it had suffered a breach that resulted in the theft of sensitive data, some of which has been posted to the dark web. According to reports from Have I Been Pwned, the FlexBooker breach has affected 3,756,794 users thus far.

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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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JPM 2022: Humana execs try to soothe skittish investors as new MA enrollment projections disappoint

Fierce Healthcare

JPM 2022: Humana execs try to soothe skittish investors as new MA enrollment projections disappoint. pminemyer. Mon, 01/10/2022 - 16:21.

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South Carolina Man Arrested for Fraud and Exploitation of Vulnerable Adult

Healthcare Compliance Blog

A South Carolina man has been arrested for financial transaction card fraud and exploitation of a vulnerable adult who was a resident of a nursing home. It was discovered after a South Carolina Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (SCMFCU) investigation revealed that while the man was employed at a South Carolina nursing home, he illegally obtained a resident’s debit card.

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Medically Home Secures $110M to Expand Hospital-At-Home Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Medically Home today announced a new, $110M round of funding from strategic investors including Baxter International Inc., Global Medical Response (GMR) and Cardinal Health who will each have representation on the company’s Board. Cardinal Health, Mayo Clinic and Kaiser Permanente are providing additional capital on top of their previous investments, demonstrating confidence in the growing expansion of the model nationwide. – The Medically Home model unl

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COVID-19 Impacts and Outcomes on Hospital Margins in 2021: Increased Activity in Hospital Transactions in 2022?

Healthcare Law Blog

In its December Hospital Flash Report , Kaufman Hall identified and reviewed the continued, negative impact of COVID-19 on hospital operating margins. After a dramatic drop in hospital margins during the height of the pandemic in 2020 and early 2021, hospitals experienced a fluctuation of decreasing and increasing margins in the latter-half of the year.

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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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R1 Acquires Revenue Cycle Company Cloudmed for $4.1B

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – R1 , a leading provider of technology-driven solutions that reduce friction in healthcare, has just acquired CloudMed , a leader in Revenue Intelligence™ for healthcare providers in a $4.1B cash deal. – Upon closing of the transaction, current R1 shareholders will own approximately 70% of the combined company on a fully diluted basis and Cloudmed equity holders will own approximately 30%.

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JPM 2022: Centene execs tout strong MA enrollment period—though work remains on star scores

Fierce Healthcare

JPM 2022: Centene execs tout strong MA enrollment period—though work remains on star scores. pminemyer. Mon, 01/10/2022 - 10:31.

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What Is the Anti-Kickback Statute?

Florida Health Care Law Firm

Gifts from another healthcare business or professional may seem harmless enough. They may actually be nothing more than a gesture that says, “Thank you for your time,” or “Thank you for recommending me.”. But the federal government may not agree that these gifts are harmless if you are in the healthcare industry and the gift is a thank you for a referral for a patient who paid for care or services with Medicare or Medicaid.

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Vista Equity Partners invests in healthcare communication software company TigerConnect

Fierce Healthcare

Vista Equity Partners invests in healthcare communication software company TigerConnect. rtorrence. Mon, 01/10/2022 - 17:00.

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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.