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Caregiver Burnout: What Is It and How Can Technology Help?

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. For many people, looking after a loved one with a serious health condition is a choice they gladly make. But that doesn’t make it an easy decision to live with every day. Taking care of […] The article Caregiver Burnout: What Is It and How Can Technology Help?

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Hospital lobby opposes noncompete ban, says ‘now is not the time to upend’ labor markets

Healthcare Dive

The American Hospital Association is pushing the FTC to abandon its proposal to eliminate restrictive covenants. At the very least, the lobby wants physicians and senior executives exempt.

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Public Health Law’s Future Begins in the Classroom

Bill of Health

By Taleed El-Sabawi The use of emergency public health powers by state and local governments during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic led to intense public criticism followed by legislative attempts (include some successes) to strip state executives of this authority. This has led some to ask: is this the end of public health law? What does the future hold?

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Partisan gridlock shouldn’t threaten true value in healthcare

Healthcare Dive

Oak Street CEO Mike Pykosz makes the case for value-based healthcare policy despite potential partisan gridlock in the 118th Congress.

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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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Q&A: Why clinician engagement is key for success with healthcare AI

Mobi Health News

Karley Yoder, general manager and chief digital officer for ultrasound at GE HealthCare, discusses the company's planned acquisition of Caption Health and why thoughtful integration is important for using AI in healthcare.

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Humana exits employer insurance, pivots focus to government plans

Healthcare Dive

The insurer said its employer segment no longer meets Humana’s long-term strategic plans.

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Major coalition of health groups aims to combat health misinformation

Fierce Healthcare

Major coalition of health groups aims to combat health misinformation rking Fri, 02/24/2023 - 11:17

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KLAS Report: SAP in Healthcare 2023

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – A new report from KLAS finds that several midsize and large healthcare customers have broadly adopted SAP’s platform and appreciate how robust the tools can be. – Customer feedback around the tools’ usability, however, is mixed; some report high satisfaction and praise the systems’ configurability, while others report frustration with complex interfaces and the number of clicks.

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Butterfly takes flight: Hand-held ultrasound pushed to the limits to test its use for space missions

Fierce Healthcare

Butterfly takes flight: Hand-held ultrasound pushed to the limits to test its use for space missions agliadkovskaya Fri, 02/24/2023 - 15:22

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ObvioHealth Launches Digital Therapeutics API for Clinical Trials

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – ObvioHealth launches proprietary application programming interface (API) tailored specifically for digital therapeutics (DTx) clinical trials. – ObvioHealth’s API ensures tight integration between the digital therapeutic and the ObvioGo platform, providing sponsors with accurate data to correlate efficacy with adherence to the DTx.

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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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Optum report: Alzheimer's drugs key for payers to watch in Q1

Fierce Healthcare

Optum report: Alzheimer's drugs key for payers to watch in Q1 pminemyer Fri, 02/24/2023 - 16:18

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New Healthcare H2 2022 Data: Reported Breaches Trend Down, But Individuals Affected Skyrocket by 35% to Nearly 29M

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Critical Insight, the Cybersecurity-as-a-Service provider specializing in helping critical organizations Prepare, Detect, and Respond in today’s threat environment releases its H2 2022 Healthcare Data Breach Report, which analyzes ​​breach data reported to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services by healthcare organizations. – The number of data breaches affecting healthcare providers declined in the second half of 2022, consistent with a downward tren

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Ovia Health adds menopause tracking to its family care offerings

Mobi Health News

Users will have access to symptom tracking and educational content, while its enterprise customers can obtain additional on-demand coaching and support.

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VA taps 10 digital health innovators for $20M challenge to reduce veteran suicide

Fierce Healthcare

VA taps 10 digital health innovators for $20M challenge to reduce veteran suicide agliadkovskaya Fri, 02/24/2023 - 17:23

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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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Providence's pivotal move for cybersecurity operations

Becker's Health IT

Providence is building a global IT enterprise by employing thousands of people in Hyderabad, India, to support the U.S.-based operations for multiple functions, including cybersecurity.

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Study: Why employers expect to be offering health coverage for the long haul

Fierce Healthcare

Study: Why employers expect to be offering health coverage for the long haul fdiamond Fri, 02/24/2023 - 14:47

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Lawsuits filed over ransomware attack affecting 3.3 million patients

Becker's Health IT

Los Angeles-based Regal Medical Group and its affiliates are facing multiple lawsuits over a ransomware attack that affected 3.3 million of their patients, HIPAA Journal reported.

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14 rural senators push CMS to extend low-wage hospitals' payment bump in FY2024

Fierce Healthcare

14 rural senators push CMS to extend low-wage hospitals' payment bump in FY2024 dmuoio Fri, 02/24/2023 - 16:34

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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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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, Homeward announce value-based care arrangement

Mobi Health News

The organizations said Medicare Advantage members in 24 counties will have access to the rural provider's services.

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As SNAP benefits wane, food-as-medicine companies carve out a niche in healthcare

Fierce Healthcare

As SNAP benefits wane, food-as-medicine companies carve out a niche in healthcare aburky Fri, 02/24/2023 - 16:56

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ChatCPT, CIO Easy Button, Zoom Setup, and Hospital Discharge – Fun Friday

Healthcare IT Today

Happy Friday! We hope you had a great week and are ready for an even better weekend. It’s time again for another edition of Fun Friday where we offer something fun that will hopefully make you laugh and start your weekend off right. Plus, maybe the absurdity of humor will give you something to think about as well. So, if we were to bring the power of #GPT4 to medicine, would it be called ChatCPT?

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US primary care system suffering from 'chronic lack of adequate support,' scorecard report finds

Fierce Healthcare

US primary care system suffering from 'chronic lack of adequate support,' scorecard report finds dmuoio Fri, 02/24/2023 - 13:24

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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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UCLH stroke pilot to expand to more trusts to reduce health inequalities

Digital Health News

A large-scale pilot for stroke patients has been announced in more NHS trusts to reduce health inequalities following a smaller-scale trial at UCLH.

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Investing in National HIV PrEP Preparedness

NEJM

The limited new funding allocated to the “Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S.” initiative could be a first step toward building a national PrEP program for uninsured and underinsured people, but more action is needed.

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COVID “Long Haulers” Still Struggle with Coverage and Care

Center for Health Insurance Reform

The COVID-19 public health emergency expires this spring, bringing an end to pandemic-related funding, infrastructure, and flexibilities. Meanwhile, millions of people continue struggling to find and pay for effective treatment for post-acute, COVID-related conditions. Karen Davenport provides an update on the progress—or lack thereof—towards covering the ongoing and unique care needs of these COVID “long haulers.

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Health Care Reform and Equity for Undocumented Immigrants — When Crisis Meets Opportunity

NEJM

Basic, high-value medical care remains largely inaccessible to undocumented immigrants. Expansion of the current public health insurance system could narrow gaps.

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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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A Story About Provider Data

Verisys

A Story About Provider Data, And Why It Has Become So Complex While leaving her house to visit her grandson, Sue falls and twists her knee. At the emergency room, the doctors begin a series of tests to discover what’s wrong with her knee. Unfortunately, Sue’s knee injury is complex. It will take months for her to recover, and as she does, Sue will visit multiple clinics and doctors.

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Arkansas health system faces lawsuit regarding its November data breach

Becker's Health IT

A lawsuit alleges that Mena Regional Health System had inadequate cybersecurity practices in place when a November data breach compromised the protected health information of 84,814 people.

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A Story About Provider Data

Verisys

A Story About Provider Data, And Why It Has Become So Complex While leaving her house to visit her grandson, Sue falls and twists her knee. At the emergency room, the doctors begin a series of tests to discover what’s wrong with her knee. Unfortunately, Sue’s knee injury is complex. It will take months for her to recover, and as she does, Sue will visit multiple clinics and doctors.

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Another Double-Digit Increase in Medicare Advantage Spending

HealthIT Answers

By David Burda - I’m starting to run out of clever headlines to tell the same story. Spending on Medicare Advantage plans rose by double digits again in 2021, according to the latest National Health Expenditure data released by CMS in December, and no one seems that interested or willing to do anything about it. The post Another Double-Digit Increase in Medicare Advantage Spending appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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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.