Healthcare It News

MAY 25, 2022

Building on its effort to battle social isolation and support aging-in-place, the New York State Office for the Aging (NYSOFA) is delivering voice-operated smart technology into the homes of more than 800 older adults. NYSOFA is working with local offices for the aging and partners to identify older adults who would most benefit from the technology: ElliQ by Intuition Robotics, which is described by the company as a proactive and empathetic care companion.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 25, 2022

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Technology has improved the patient-doctor relationship dramatically since healthcare organizations have embraced its versatility and effectiveness. But, while technology is an effective method for improving the patient’s healthcare experience, it is not the only area […].

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 25, 2022

The complaint alleges the nonprofit system used a number of anticompetitive practices to inflate healthcare prices at a cost to Wisconsin businesses.

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Bill of Health

MAY 25, 2022

By Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research. As a federal program to serve meals to all U.S. public school students during the COVID-19 pandemic ends on June 30 , the consequences of unpaid school meal debt will resurface for the millions of students nationwide facing food insecurity. New data released on LawAtlas.org capture details of state unpaid school meal policies and reveals sparse and variable protections for students who cannot pay for meals at school.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 25, 2022

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. It is astonishing how the healthcare system has changed progressively over the past few decades. Devices, applications, and gadgets help bridge the gap between novel solutions and broad use. Consistent upgrades in the technology that […]. The article Tech Tools That Could Change the Dynamics of Healthcare appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 25, 2022

Civica, which was founded in 2018 by a group of hospitals to lower pharmaceutical prices, has tapped Ned McCoy to serve as its new president and chief executive officer, effective June 1.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 25, 2022

One day after the U.S. began releasing supplies of an approved Bavarian Nordic shot, Moderna said it's beginning development of its own vaccine against the virus.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 25, 2022

According to the review by cybersecurity and VPN company Surfshark, 10 of the apps collected coarse location data.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 25, 2022

A 2019 IRS notice expanded the list of medications and health services that some plans may cover pre-deductible, including those used to treat chronic conditions.

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Compliancy Group

MAY 25, 2022

In Chile, Law 20,584 provides data privacy rights for patients. Law 20,584, the equivalent to HIPAA, was passed in 2012. The law requires that all information contained in patient files or documentation of medical treatments be treated as sensitive data. . The law also requires that healthcare professionals maintain the confidentiality of patient data.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 25, 2022

Srulik Dvorsky, TailorMed CEO and Founder. New patients at a cancer center in Michigan receive a 79-page handbook when their treatments commence. The handbook includes needed advice on what to eat and the side effects of chemotherapy drugs. One double-sided page features information about how to navigate the financial aspects of cancer treatment, including who to contact for help with medical bills.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2022

The following is a guest article by Christine Schuster, RN, MBA, is President & CEO of Emerson Hospital in Concord, Mass. Our community hospital deliberated for years on whether and how to implement telehealth in our ambulatory practices. It was as complicated as it was controversial. And then the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in March 2020 and […].

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HIT Consultant

MAY 25, 2022

Kristy Berry (left) and Carly Stockdale (right). What You Should Know: – BestLife Holdings, a portfolio of personalized preventative healthcare and age management solutions, announces its formation with a combined equity round of over $50M. Notable investors have partnered with BestLife including PrimeTime Partners’ founders, Abby Levy, the co-founder of Thrive Global with Arianna Huffington, and Alan Patricof, founder of Greycroft Partners and Apax Partners, who also joined the board as a

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Sharps Compliance

MAY 25, 2022

Sharps Compliance’s semiannual scholarship contest is accepting essays and applications until Friday, May 27. Three scholarships ($1,500, $1,000, $750) will be awarded to three college students majoring in a healthcare-related field. Below is this semester’s topic: Proactive Strategies in Long-Term Care to Prevent the Spread of Future Variants of COVID-19.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 25, 2022

Tom James, Healthcare Cloud Services and Solutions Leader at 2nd Watch. You don’t need another story urging you to “get to the cloud.” That’s old news for healthcare executives, who’ve long understood the necessity of rebooting the way their organizations operate in the digital era. In a recent McKinsey study , 19 of the 22 healthcare leaders the company interviewed described digital healthcare solutions as “highly relevant” or “relevant” to their businesses.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2022

The dilemma is heart-rending. With COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations rising, the FDA approved two drugs—Paxlovid from Pfizer, and molnupiravir from Merck and Ridgeback—to treat the illness that is killing so many and rendering others permanently disabled. Yet in the United States, many patients can’t get the drug, or even figure out which pharmacy near them […].

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HIT Consultant

MAY 25, 2022

What You Should Know: – This week at AWS Summit, Washington D.C., Deloitte discussed its use of AWS Private 5G and Wickr secure technology to enable the National Emergency Tele-Critical Care Network (NETCCN) – a virtual rapid health assistance solution that allows defense teams to connect with medical teams remotely. NETCCN is managed by the US Army’s Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), which is an integral part of the U.S.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 25, 2022

For the past 15 years, Verizon has been publishing annual Data Breach Investigation Reports (DBIR), with this year’s report confirming just how bad the past 12 months have been. Verizon described the past 12 months as representing an unprecedented year in cybersecurity history. “From very well-publicized critical infrastructure attacks to massive supply chain breaches, the financially motivated criminals and nefarious nation-state actors have rarely, if ever, come out swinging the way they did o

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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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HIT Consultant

MAY 25, 2022

What You Should Know: – BeeKeeperAI , a company powering AI-powered solutions that will help to redefine the future of healthcare today announced its expanded collaboration with Microsoft. – The collaboration will allow algorithm developers and healthcare data stewards to access BeeKeeperAI, operating in the Microsoft Azure confidential computing (ACC) environment, through the Azure Marketplace.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 25, 2022

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Mobi Health News

MAY 25, 2022

The program comes a week after the digital mental health company replaced its CEO.

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Jane Sarashon

MAY 25, 2022

With peoples’ anxiety about COVID-19 at its lowest point since 2020, folks are most anxious in spring 2022 about current global events and the safety of their families, based on the latest Healthy Minds study from the American Psychiatric Association (APA). Morning Consult conducted the poll for the APA in March and April 2022 among 2,210 U.S. adults.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

MAY 25, 2022

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) has excluded a Louisiana man from participation in federal healthcare programs due to his ownership interest in seven Louisiana nursing homes that OIG previously excluded. The Louisiana Department of Health revoked the facilities’ licenses to operate as nursing homes due to multiple violations of state law that left seven residents dead and hundreds of others neglected and vulnerable following Hurricane Ida in Au

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Jane Sarashon

MAY 25, 2022

We’re all about food and cars and our technology, looking at the 2022 Axios Harris Poll 2022 Reputation Rankings published this week. I’ve curated the logos of the top 30 companies based on the Poll’s survey of 33,096 U.S. adults conducted in March and April 2022. The survey assessed peoples’ awareness of companies that either “excel or falter in society,” according to the study methodology.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2022

Having launched a care model centered around nurse practitioners, Greater Good Health’s latest funding round will broaden its reach and breadth of value-based care capabilities Greater Good Health, the company redefining value-based care through the first primary care model centered around nurse practitioners, today announced that it has secured a total of $13 million in funding since […].

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Total HIPAA

MAY 25, 2022

As an insurance agent, you may be wondering how the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) impacts your business. The law aims to protect patient privacy, and as a provider of health insurance plans, you are required to adhere to its guidelines. In this blog post, we will discuss what to expect during a HIPAA risk assessment for insurance agents and how Total HIPAA can support you in this process.

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YouCompli

MAY 25, 2022

Jay P. Anstine, JD is a compliance professional and consultant in Colorado. He is writing a series of articles on compliance culture for the YouCompli blog. This post establishes a working definition of compliance culture and puts it in the context of overall healthcare priorities. Last I checked, Google serves up ~113 million results for – compliance culture healthcare.

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Total Medical ComplianceHIPAA

MAY 25, 2022

Most malware that is delivered as an email attachment is usually a Word (.docx) or Excel (.xlsx) file. Cybersecurity threat analysts have recently discovered that PDF attachments are now becoming more popular to distribute malware. Since many people have been trained to be suspicious of opening Word and Excel files, they are not as cautious about opening a PDF.

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McGuire Wood

MAY 25, 2022

Enhanced Healthcare Partners (EHP) had announced it has completed a strategic investment in Howard J. Chudler & Associates (HCA). HCA , based in Covina, Calif., and founded in 1983, is a behavioral therapy services provider for people with autism and intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). EHP , with offices in New York and Salt Lake City, is a healthcare-focused private equity firm that makes minority and majority investments in founder- and entrepreneur-led lower middle market c

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Symplr

MAY 25, 2022

One in eight women in the U.S. will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime, and on average nationwide, a woman is diagnosed with the disease every two minutes. To help in the fight to end breast cancer, symplr is partnering with Susan G. Komen® for a company-wide fundraising challenge that kicked off on May 27.?.

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