Fri.Dec 16, 2022

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Healthcare leaders expect turbulent operating environment next year

Healthcare Dive

Staffing challenges and high inflation are expected to continue into 2023, along with affordability issues for patients, shrinking margins and continual supply chain disruptions, according to a survey from Deloitte.

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HIMSSCast: Predicting what's next for health IT, mobile tech and health system finances

Healthcare It News

What does 2023 hold for healthcare technology, as innovation continues at rapid speed, policymakers and regulators try to keep up with the pace of change – and health systems large and small deal with significant budgetary shortfalls that could hamper their ability to build out their digital transformation efforts? It's anyone's guess what the next dozen or so months hold for value-based care, telehealth and remote monitoring, digital therapeutics, cybersecurity, artificial intelli

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Centene again shakes up C-suite

Healthcare Dive

The changes come as the insurer outlined its financial expectations for next year ahead of its investor day on Friday.

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Digital Therapeutics Alliance applauds bill to guide public Rx coverage

Healthcare It News

The Medicaid and CHIP Access to Prescription Digital Therapeutics Act seeks to expand care options that can help improve health outcomes and quality of life for those facing barriers to healthcare. The Digital Therapeutics Alliance this week encouraged legislators to support its efforts to broaden access to DTx. WHY IT MATTERS. For those with chronic and mental health conditions covered by Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program, reimbursement for digital platforms and app

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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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Author Q&A: Hilary Wething on US Paid Sick Leave Policy Impacts

Bill of Health

By Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research. Hilary Wething, PhD, is an assistant professor of public policy and a Jackman-McCourtney Early Career Professor at Penn State University. Her research examines the relationship between economic volatility and labor market policy, household decision-making, and social safety-net programs. Dr.

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Q&A: How retail healthcare, telehealth trends could evolve in 2023

Mobi Health News

Sanjula Jain, senior vice president of market strategy and chief research officer at Trilliant Health, discusses the future of virtual care and how emerging retail players will affect the industry.

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Most Important Factors for Improving Cyber Resilience

HIPAA Journal

Cyberattacks have increased in volume and sophistication to the point where it is inevitable that a successful attack will be experienced by all healthcare organizations at some point in their lifespan. Healthcare organizations can hope for the best, but it is vital to plan for the worst and take steps to ensure that the damage caused is kept to a minimum.

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2023 forecast: Health tech tools begin constructing the Alzheimer's treatment plan

Fierce Healthcare

2023 forecast: Health tech tools begin constructing the Alzheimer's treatment plan. aburky. Fri, 12/16/2022 - 17:17.

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Headspace Health lays off 4% of staff and more digital health briefs

Mobi Health News

Click Therapeutics received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for a prescription digital therapeutic for episodic migraine, and Superior HealthPlan announced a home care partnership with MedArrive and Brave Health.

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2023 forecast: Pharmacists push to take on a greater role in patient care

Fierce Healthcare

2023 forecast: Pharmacists push to take on a greater role in patient care. pminemyer. Fri, 12/16/2022 - 12:39.

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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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OCR Settles Another HIPAA Right of Access Case

Colington Consulting HIPAA Blog

On December 15, The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced another settlement of their HIPAA Right of Access Initiative. According to the information released through the OCR Listserv, "Health Specialists of Centra.

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2023 forecast: 7 immediate and long-term priorities for hospital leaders

Fierce Healthcare

2023 forecast: 7 immediate and long-term priorities for hospital leaders. dmuoio. Fri, 12/16/2022 - 18:10.

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Greenway Health Launches Greenway Engagement Model

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Greenway Health has launched its new client engagement program, the Greenway Engagement Model (GEM) , designed to strengthen Greenway’s trusted advisor relationship with clients and support a more successful healthcare technology journey for Greenway clients through intentional interaction and strategic support. – The GEM program provides a dedicated client support team and creates a client feedback program aimed at improving the user experience, creatin

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The Misadventures of Ada: ICD-10 Cartoon, "Something Borrowed, Something Blue" Z63.1

Healthicity

Ada’s big day is here! Wedding bells are ringing and she’s ready to walk down the aisle. The only audit she has to do today is: something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue. Check, check, check, and check!

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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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Walgreens Find Care Offers Dementia Patients with Personalized Playlists

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Music Health Inc. announced that its music wellness app, Vera, is now available through Walgreens Find Care ® to provide people living with different forms of dementia with convenient and affordable access to personalized music from their computers and smart devices. – Vera is a new app that supports caregivers by offering the person in their care a custom-made “soundtrack of their lives” that can trigger long-lost memories which may temporarily improve cognit

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Trial of ultrasound-based Alzheimer's treatment begins

Mobi Health News

The study follows the pioneering discovery in 2015 when ultrasound was used to clear protein markers for Alzheimer's.

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Industry Voices—Innovative mental healthcare practices are hampered by access challenges, administrative burdens

Fierce Healthcare

Industry Voices—Innovative mental healthcare practices are hampered by access challenges, administrative burdens. hlandi. Fri, 12/16/2022 - 08:14.

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MedCognetics receives FDA 510(k) clearance for breast cancer screening software

Mobi Health News

QmTRIAGE analyzes 2D full-field digital mammography to flag abnormalities for radiologists' review.

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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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U.S. Health Insurance Coverage and Financing

NEJM

The United States has a patchwork system of health insurance coverage, in which people’s access to coverage and services varies with their birthplace, age, job, income, location, and health status.

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Industry Spotlight: Esther Gathogo, Senior Performance Improvement Leader, Oracle Health

Digital Health News

Curiosity and the desire to make a difference have always been guiding forces for Esther Gathogo. At Oracle Health, she is digitising pathways to standardise care and transform information into something meaningful, a process that has huge potential to improve health outcomes.

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Centene expects to earn at least $137.4B in revenue for 2023

Fierce Healthcare

Centene expects to earn at least $137.4B in revenue for 2023. pminemyer. Fri, 12/16/2022 - 16:16.

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TPP boss Hester takes pot shot at ‘artificially inflated’ hospital EPR prices

Digital Health News

Frank Hester, CEO of TPP, has accused NHS bosses of wasting hundreds of millions on over-priced IT systems, claiming that his company offers ‘another way’.

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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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Q&A: How retail healthcare, telehealth trends could evolve in 2023

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Enhancing one of the oldest shared care records: the Care and Health Information Exchange extends into care homes

Digital Health News

Covid-19 gave new urgency to the need for fast, secure access to medical records across health and social care boundaries. Keycloak, an open source identity and access management solution by Orion Health, means care home staff in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight can use the shared care record, releasing time to care for residents.

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Revaluing Primary Care — Going Beyond RVU Increases

NEJM

A recent change in Medicare reimbursement for evaluation-and-management codes hasn’t had a substantial effect on some primary care physicians, particularly those working in academic medical centers.

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The three challenges facing the NHS

Digital Health News

Lord Victor Adebowale CBE, chair and co-founder of Visionable, explains why we will have an NHS fit for purpose if three key challenges are overcome.

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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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Roundup: Aktivolabs snaps up $10M in Series A funding and more briefs

Mobi Health News

Also, a Thai language speech recognition AI has been deployed for screening depression in Thailand.

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Digital Health’s monthly roundup of contracts and go lives

Digital Health News

Digital Health’s monthly roundup of contracts and go lives covers a Kooth and Help for Heroes collaboration and a partnership for Strasys and Silico.

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Misdiagnoses in EDs lead to 250K deaths a year: study

Fierce Healthcare

Misdiagnoses in EDs lead to 250K deaths a year: study. fdiamond. Fri, 12/16/2022 - 13:12.

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Healthcare Cybersecurity Measures Must Go Beyond Perimeter Security

Health IT Security

An uptick in cyberattacks… read more

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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.