Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Two-thirds of physicians working in emergency departments reported being assaulted in the past year alone, according to a survey.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

By Aaron Steinberg, Ada Lin, Alice Bukhman, LaToya Whiteside, and Elizabeth Matos. The inability of prisons and jails to address the drivers of and treat substance use disorders, especially during the pandemic, is leading to underexplored health ramifications for prisoners, and particularly for prisoners who identify as Black, Indigenous, or other people of color (BIPOC), who already had comparatively poorer health outcomes.

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

J.P. Morgan’s head of healthcare corporate client banking lays out trends to consider as private equity firms snap up physician groups.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

“We are, once again, asking for the law to be followed as Congress intended, and for the challenged provisions to be invalidated,” TMA’s president said.

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The answer to the question are phone calls HIPAA compliant can be dependent on who is making the call, what the call concerns and who the call is to. Before discussing are phone calls HIPAA compliant, it is important to establish who HIPAA applies to. This is because almost two-thirds of complaints about HIPAA violations are rejected because they allege a violation has been committed by a business that is not subject to the HIPAA Rules.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

What You Should Know: – Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that it has awarded $14 million in cloud services and technical expertise to help nearly 90 organizations around the world, ranging from startups and nonprofits to large enterprises, to address health equity challenges through the Health Equity Initiative. – AWS also introduced a new pillar of the program today to improve global equity in access to diagnostics.

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Symplr

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

By Kevin Bonsor, Senior Director of Product Marketing, symplr. This year, symplr was a proud sponsor of the National Association Medical Staff Services (NAMSS) Educational Conference and Exhibition, the first NAMSS conference to be held in person in three years. It was a great opportunity to meet and hear from the hundreds of medical staff services professionals (MSPs) who convened in Nashville for the three-day event.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

What You Should Know: – Digital health company Geneial announces a $2.3M grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute to fund the development of their secure, decentralized platform. – Geneial will use $2.3M NIH award to build private, decentralized data platform facilitating research of genetic diseases. Geneial’s platform will connect researchers of rare genetic diseases with relevant data while preserving patient privacy.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

A recent study found patients using virtual reality while undergoing hand surgery required less anesthesia during surgery.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

What You Should Know: – The American Diabetes Association® announced a new initiative designed to address the urgent public health challenge of preventable amputation called the Amputation Prevention Alliance. Over 135,000 amputations occur every year in the United States, with the majority of those procedures being preventable, but due to challenges in accessing quality care, patients are forced into unnecessary amputations and even death. – The Amputation Prevention Alliance’s work

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Digital Health News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust is expanding a successful remote monitoring service to improve quality of life for heart failure patients.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Leslie Witt, Headspace Health's chief product and design officer, explains how the company's acquisitions are augmenting its mental health offerings and capabilities.

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Digital Health News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The Christie has gone live with its new electronic Patient Reported Outcome Measures (ePROMs) service from Better, which is helping to modernise its EHR.

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

This morning, September 22, 2022, Special Judge Kelsey B. Hanlon, sitting in Monroe County Circuit Court, granted a preliminary injunction against the enforcement of Senate Enrolled Act No. 1 (SB 1) by members of the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana and Prosecutors from Hendricks, Lake, Marion, Monroe, St. Joseph, Tippecanoe and Warrick counties. Notably, the injunction does not appear to be state-wide and therefore likely does not prohibit criminal prosecution in any other county.

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Digital Health News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Our latest roundup features a new EPR at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT), and North West London ICS partnering with InterSystems.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

A recent study found out-of-state telemedicine visits were most common with those who lived near a state border, and were largely for primary and mental healthcare.

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Modern Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

For those without health insurance, the card is set to lower costs significantly, Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak said at a press conference.

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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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Med-Net Compliance

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

A physician pleaded guilty in federal court to falsely certifying that products and tests were medically necessary for more than 2,000 Medicare and Medicaid patients in Missouri whom he never met or examined. From February 2019 to April 2021, certain individuals and entities — including marketing, physician recruiting, and telemedicine companies — developed a scheme that targeted the Medicare and Medicaid programs to obtain millions of dollars in reimbursements from those programs.

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has agreed to settle three HIPAA investigations of potential HIPAA Right of Access violations by dental practices. All three of the investigations were initiated after complaints from patients about the failure of their dental practices to provide them with timely access to their medical records, with one of the cases also involving an allegation of overcharging for a copy of medical records.

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Compliancy Group

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

If any positives resulted from the Covid-19 pandemic and the associated chaos surrounding it, count the accelerated acceptance of telehealth services as one of them. Patients today in underserved areas or with busy schedules can now schedule an appointment with a healthcare provider from the privacy of their home at a time that best fits their needs.

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HealthIT Answers

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

This month's roundup of surveys and reports from around the industry includes Rx adherence better with electronic prescriptions, leveraging AI in hospitals, Alzheimer's and multivitamins, hospital margins continue to drop, physician's seeing digital health benefits, and more RPM in cardiac care since pandemic. The post Studies, Surveys and Reports: What Can We Learn?

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

What You Should Know: – Caris Life Sciences , the leading molecular science and technology company, announced their partnership with Flatiron Health to fully integrate Caris’ molecular testing portfolio with Flatiron’s OncoEMR ®, a cloud-based electronic medical record (EMR) tool. – This partnership streamlines clinical workflows for physicians, delivering critical results directly at the point of care to help them make better treatment decisions for their patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Identity management is one of the top problems HIEs face today. There are numerous complications that happen when you try to ensure the identity of a patient. To better address identity management at SCHIO, Dan Chavez, Executive Director of SCHIO (Santa Cruz Health Information Organization), turned to Verato. We had a chance to catch up with Chavez at the DirectTrust and Civitas conference to learn more about this decision.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

What You Should Know: – Kaufman, Hall & Associates, LLC (Kaufman Hall) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire healthcare management consulting firm Claro Healthcare. – Claro Healthcare is the leading clinical documentation, hospital operations, and mid-revenue cycle improvement platform, blending technology, professional services, and domain expertise to deliver significant return on investment to providers across financial, quality, and compliance metrics. – As

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McGuire Wood

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Waud Capital Partners (WCP) has announced it has completed the sale of GI Alliance (GIA). GIA , based in Southlake, Texas, is a gastroenterology practice management company. Founded in 2018 and formed in partnership with WCP, GIA states that it provides services to nearly 700 independent gastroenterologists operating in Texas, Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Utah and Washington.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Combined company will offer the most comprehensive patient access and engagement solutions in the market. Kyruus , the leader in provider search and scheduling solutions for healthcare organizations, today announced it will acquire Epion Health , a leader in digital patient engagement solutions. The two companies will join forces to offer healthcare organizations and providers a one-stop shop for patient access and engagement solutions.

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Hanys

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The third part of the report Strengthening the Health Care Workforce: Strategies for Now, Near and Far , focuses on recruitment and retention strategies, diversity and inclusion and creative staffing models.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

This week’s Fun Friday entry is a little tough when you think about the shortage of physicians we have right now and how it’s getting worse. It’s crazy how many barriers there are to becoming a physician. One part of this was highlighted by Dr. Glaucomflecken in this video about the electronic residency application service (ERAS).

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Paul Ketchel, CEO of MDsave. Cost transparency is a driving force in the American market. Whether consumers are looking to purchase a latte, a plane ticket, or surgery, they increasingly expect to pay an “out-the-door” price– something that includes all labor and materials as well as the finished product or service. When polled, 66% of Americans indicated that they would shop for care if prices were publicly disclosed.

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