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Period tracker Flo launches anonymous mode amid post-Roe privacy concerns

Healthcare Dive

The company, which has a dominant market share with 48 million monthly users and has faced regulatory scrutiny over privacy in the past, originally pledged to release the mode shortly after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

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YouTube, KFF partnering on health equity streaming content

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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5 Strategies to Grow and Retain Your Practice’s Patient Base

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Travis Schneider, chief corporate development chair, Tebra. In a digital-first world, it is more important than ever for physicians to implement strategies that meet patients where they are. To grow and retain a patient […]. The article 5 Strategies to Grow and Retain Your Practice’s Patient Base appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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The Feds Crack Down on Sham Insurance: New Court Order to Protect Consumers from Deceptive Marketing

Center for Health Insurance Reform

Last month, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) took action against Benefytt Technologies, finding the company relied on deceptive websites, high-pressure sales tactics, and misleading information to push consumers into enrolling in junk plans, and then made it difficult for consumers to cancel their coverage. CHIR’s prior research on the marketing of junk plans shows that these tactics are neither new nor unique.

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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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5 Tips for Hiring and Retaining Medical Practice Staff

HIT Consultant

John V. Guiliana, DPM, MS, Medical Director of Podiatry at ModMed. Finding the right employees for your medical practice and keeping them happy can be challenging enough during normal times. Add in the realities related to the COVID pandemic, including staffing shortages and “the great resignation,” and busy physicians can be at a loss to keep their practices fully staffed with qualified people.

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Mind The Gap – How to Effectively Bridge the Divide Between Paper and Digital

Digital Health News

The National Health Service is on a journey to embrace digital health, which is key to its strategy as it recovers from the Covid-19 pandemic and plays an important part in the NHS Long Term Plan published in 2019.

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North West London ICS partners with InterSystems

Digital Health News

InterSystems will be delivering its HealthShare Health Connect Cloud interoperability service to North West London ICS to improve healthcare services.

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Epic Integrates with Milliman MedInsight for its Value-Based Performance Management Module

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Epic forms strategic partnership with Milliman MedInsight to offer advanced analytics to Epic customers. – As part of the strategic partnership, Milliman MedInsight will integrate with Epic’s new Value-Based Performance Management module. – Epic customers will be able to leverage the unparalleled expertise of two leading healthcare technology companies to build the foundation for population health improvement strategies.

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The Promise and Potential of Applied A.I. in Healthcare

HealthIT Answers

By Sridhar Nemala - Applied artificial intelligence is changing the way clinicians diagnose and treat patients. AI will never replace clinicians, but it is already empowering decision-making. Advances in data collection and analysis are making a real-world impact on the treatment of chronic, underdiagnosed conditions, such as. The post The Promise and Potential of Applied A.I. in Healthcare appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Five tips to start an investigation off right

YouCompli

Sharon Parsley, JD, MBA, CHC, CHRC, writes a monthly series on compliance officer effectiveness for the YouCompli blog. Over the course of my career in compliance, I have been involved in hundreds of investigations. Some of them went well and were brought to a logical and timely conclusion. Many of them ended up taking numerous unpredictable twists and turns, but eventually got to a rational outcome.

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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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Health IT Business News, Financial Edition – September 15, 2022

HealthIT Answers

Business and financial news from Clearwater, CynergisTek, Learnsoft, iQure Pharma, Upfront Healthcare, BrightInsight, Lyniate, V?lenz, Inovalon Inc.,100Plus, SeamlessMD, MobileSmith Health, Medicomp Systems, Enzee Health, AmeriPro Health, Interlad Medical Systems, and more. The post Health IT Business News, Financial Edition – September 15, 2022 appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Clinikally secures $500,000 pre-seed funding to expand digital derma platform

Mobi Health News

The Indian derma startup is also working to optimise its platform.

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Hertfordshire Partnership uses digital mental health assessment platform

Digital Health News

A partnership between Hertfordshire Partnership University and Psyomics will open up more timely support for adults with mental health conditions.

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FBI warns about unpatched and legacy devices

The HIPAA Blog

FBI Warns About Unpatched and Legacy Devices: Virtually all data storage and usage systems have vulnerabilities to hackers; it's just a matter of time and effort before some hacker finds a way to hack in.

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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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It’s Your Call September 2022

Total Medical Compliance Resources

OSHA: If we have an employee less than a year, are we obligated to keep their medical records ? No, the medical record can be given to the worker upon termination if they were employed less than a year. Medical records would include medical and employment questionnaires, laboratory tests, pre-employment exams, first aid records, treatment descriptions and prescriptions, medical opinions, progress notes, and recommendations.

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FBI says hackers are targeting healthcare payment processors

Becker's Health IT

The FBI issued an alert Sept. 14 about an increase in cybercriminals targeting healthcare payment processors in an attempt to hijack the payments.

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DOJ & OIG Ramp Up Enforcement and Oversight to Combat Telemedicine Fraud

Hall Render

On September 2, 2022, the Office of the Inspector General (“OIG”) published a study assessing potential Medicare program integrity risks related to the proliferation of telehealth services during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. OIG identified 1,714 providers with billing practices deemed “high risk” to the Medicare program. These providers billed approximately 500,000 beneficiaries and received $127.7 million in Medicare fee-for-service payments.

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Podcast: Owner’s Outlook: HCA’s Clint Russell on Health Care Construction Pricing and Innovation – Diagnosing Health Care

Health Law Advisor

In this episode of the Diagnosing Health Care Podcast : Since the beginning of 2022, prices for construction services and materials have seen significant increases. How have these increases impacted the advancement of both new and ongoing health care construction projects? On this episode of our Owner’s Outlook series, hear from special guest Clint Russell , Vice President of Capital Deployment – Construction and Equipment at HCA Healthcare.

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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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Impending Hospital Closure Rattles Atlanta Health Care Landscape and Political Races

Kaiser Health News

ATLANTA — Like many neighborhoods in cities across the country, Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward is changing. Condo buildings and modern minimalist homes punctuate city blocks of low-income housing. Many longtime residents of the historic neighborhood where Martin Luther King Jr. was born have been priced out and pushed to other parts of town. Atlanta Medical Center, a 460-bed Level 1 trauma center, will be the next fixture to change.

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More on Comparative Warnings

Drug & Device Law

A little over a year ago, we discussed one of the best decisions we had ever read on why comparative risk claims – premised on a manufacturer’s alleged failure to warn that a competing product was supposedly “safer” – are both statistically invalid and practically impossible. That decision, Nelson v. C.R. Bard, Inc. , 553 F. Supp.3d 343 (S.D. Miss. 2021), explained at length both how product “comparisons,” if based on the FDA’s voluntary “MAUDE” adverse event reporting system are inherently sus

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Warrantying Health Equity

HealthLaw Prof Blog

Heather Payne (Seton Hall University), Jennifer D. Oliva (University of California), Warrantying Health Equity, 70 UCLA L. Rev. (Forthcoming): The United States is experiencing a significant rise in the prevalence of asthma and other debilitating respiratory and cardiovascular ailments that.

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Patient Access to Health Device Data: Toward a Legal Framework

HealthLaw Prof Blog

Charles Duan (Cornell University), Christopher Morten (Columbia University), Patient Access to Health Device Data: Toward a Legal Framework, SSRN (2022): The connected at-home healthcare device industry is booming. Wearable health trackers alone constituted a $21 billion market in 2020, anticipated.

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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.