Wed.Dec 15, 2021

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UnityPoint Health pins hopes on interoperable digital health platform for patients

Healthcare It News

It comes as a surprise to no one that healthcare's digital landscape is fragmented and siloed with numerous point solutions. UnityPoint Health, a health system based in Des Moines, Iowa, is well aware of this. THE PROBLEM. "Patients want digital health tools, but they do not want 100 of them," said Matthew Warrens, chief digital innovation officer at UnityPoint Health.

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Acknowledging The Price of Avoidable Health Expenses: Strategies To Lower Such Spending

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By John Guiliana, DPM, MS, medical director of podiatry, ModMed. The flaws in our healthcare system that have bloated the cost of care to nearly one-fifth of the United States gross domestic product are too […]. The article Acknowledging The Price of Avoidable Health Expenses: Strategies To Lower Such Spending appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Epic enables location services with Mapquest integration

Healthcare It News

System1, a Los Angeles-based marketing platform company, announced this week that Epic Systems had selected its Mapquest for Business services to provide mapping, navigation and geolocation functionality. Company representatives say MapQuest’s location and mapping data will help patients find nearby or conveniently located clinicians. It will also assist home health providers in getting to their destinations efficiently.

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Doxy.me leak exposes provider data to third parties

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A CyberScoop report published on Friday found that the telehealth provider Doxy.me had allowed third parties to access data about providers via its virtual waiting room. According to reporter Tonya Riley, the company appeared to be sharing the URLs of public waiting rooms with Google, Facebook and the marketing vendor HubSpot. An issue, as Riley explained, is that providers choose the names of their waiting rooms – and they often include their name or the name of their practice.

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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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Is this a bubble? Digital health execs on funding in 2021

Mobi Health News

Digital health companies raised a lot of money this year. Executives and company leaders weigh in on the big funding numbers and the effects on the industry.

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Precision dosing can create safer and more effective medication

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Featured Health IT Job: Advanced Clinical Client Training Specialist

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Advanced Clinical Client Training Specialist position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by MEDITECH and is in Massachusetts. Here’s a description of the position: As a MEDITECH trainer, you are […].

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Managed care can help states address health equity. Here's how states are taking advantage of the option

Fierce Healthcare

Managed care can help states address health equity. Here's how states are taking advantage of the option. agliadkovskaya. Wed, 12/15/2021 - 18:01.

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Sheba Medical Center’s ARC Innovation Center Raises Over $110M in 2021

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Sheba Medical Center , Israel’s largest hospital, today announced that over $110 million was raised in 2021 by six companies from its ARC Innovation Center. All companies are based on technology invented and developed out of Sheba, with Sheba MedTech startups raising over one billion dollars over the last decade. ARC Innovation Center Background.

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CMS actuaries: Healthcare expenditures spiked 9.7% in 2020 amid COVID-19 response

Fierce Healthcare

CMS actuaries: Healthcare expenditures spiked 9.7% in 2020 amid COVID-19 response. pminemyer. Wed, 12/15/2021 - 16:28.

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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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Bayhealth Taps Syapse’s Real-World Data Platform to Optimize Oncology Data

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Syapse , a real-world evidence company that informs cancer care, announced a partnership with Bayhealth – central and southern Delaware’s largest healthcare system. – Bayhealth will leverage Syapse’ multi-source real-world data platform to bring the latest in cancer diagnostics and treatments to Delaware patients, so that they can receive evidence-based care and match to potentially life-saving clinical trial opportunities.

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Moody's: Outlook stable for insurers in 2022, but COVID-19's effects could linger

Fierce Healthcare

Moody's: Outlook stable for insurers in 2022, but COVID-19's effects could linger. pminemyer. Wed, 12/15/2021 - 13:27.

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Phoenix Children’s New “On-Demand Booking” Tool Puts Referring Doctors, Patients in the Appointment-Scheduling Driver’s Seat

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by David Higginson, Chief Innovation Officer at Phoenix Children’s. “If I can book a restaurant or car repair online, why can’t I book a doctor’s appointment?” Frustrated patients across the country ask this question every day. At Phoenix Children’s, we set out to change the inefficient dynamic that has […].

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Industry Voices—How prior authorization can disrupt medically necessary care

Fierce Healthcare

Industry Voices—How prior authorization can disrupt medically necessary care. pminemyer. Wed, 12/15/2021 - 13:40.

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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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Wheel Integrates with GoodRx for Real-Time Medication Pricing & Discounts

HIT Consultant

v. What You Should Know: – Wheel , the digital health company putting great care within everyone’s reach, today announced a new integration with GoodRx , America’s digital resource for healthcare, to help people save on their prescription costs and follow their treatment plans. Now Wheel clients and their millions of patients can seamlessly access discounts on medications at more than 70,000 pharmacies nationwide.

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CMMI seeking safety-net providers for new wave of models that focus on health equity

Fierce Healthcare

CMMI seeking safety-net providers for new wave of models that focus on health equity. rking. Wed, 12/15/2021 - 16:52.

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PT Team Member Spotlight: Meet Mike Rosen

Provider Trust

Meet Mike Rosen! Mike is one of our co-founders and has been here since the very beginning! Lovingly known inside the PT walls as Mayor Mike, his knowledge, passion, and collection of dad jokes make him an irreplaceable member of ProviderTrust. Tell us about yourself and what you do for ProviderTrust. I am one of the co-founders along with Chris Redhage and Andrew Luers.

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LAN survey: 40% of health payments tied to alternative payment models in 2020

Fierce Healthcare

LAN survey: 40% of health payments tied to alternative payment models in 2020. rking. Wed, 12/15/2021 - 15:21.

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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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Equity must be embedded in the overall health ecosystem

Mobi Health News

Mayealie Adams, managing director of government and external affairs at Philips, discusses the future of policy around telehealth and maternal care.

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Wheel teams up with GoodRx to integrate medication pricing information into its virtual care platform

Fierce Healthcare

Wheel teams up with GoodRx to integrate medication pricing information into its virtual care platform. hlandi. Wed, 12/15/2021 - 07:12.

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Jolly Good to study VR therapy for chronic pain in Japan

Mobi Health News

The research targets people with complex regional pain syndrome, post-stroke pain, and other pain-induced conditions.

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UnitedHealth pushes back deadline for Change Healthcare acquisition to April

Fierce Healthcare

UnitedHealth pushes back deadline for Change Healthcare acquisition to April. pminemyer. Wed, 12/15/2021 - 18:30.

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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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HelloBetter therapy course for diabetes and depression now available on prescription

Mobi Health News

Germany adds another online psychology course to its DiGA directory that complements available mental health tools.

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Humana, Centene sue pharma companies over alleged scheme to squash HIV drug competition

Fierce Healthcare

Humana, Centene sue pharma companies over alleged scheme to squash HIV drug competition. pminemyer. Wed, 12/15/2021 - 10:52.

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GoodRx, Wheel team up on medication discount effort

Mobi Health News

Wheel providers will now be able to give their patients a GoodRx coupon for their medications.

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Big data startup Innovaccer nabs $150M, catapults to $3.2B valuation

Fierce Healthcare

Big data startup Innovaccer nabs $150M, catapults to $3.2B valuation. rtorrence. Wed, 12/15/2021 - 10:50.

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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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Innovaccer scores $150M, HealthCare.com closes $180M round and more digital health fundings

Mobi Health News

Also: Health education platform Lecturio brings in $45 million, and peer support startup Pace raises $13 million.

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Centauri Health Solutions Adds Clinical Data Exchange Capabilities with Acquisition of Secure Exchange Solutions

Healthcare IT Today

Centauri Health Solutions (“Centauri”), an innovative healthcare technology and services company, announced today that it acquired Secure Exchange Solutions (“SES”), a Rockville, Maryland-based health information technology provider focused on physician connectivity and clinical data exchange. This addition expands Centauri’s comprehensive healthcare technology solutions, which already include Risk Adjustment, Quality, Medicaid and Disability Eligibility and Enrollment, […].

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Hims & Hers appoints 10 new members to its Medical Advisory Board and other digital health hires

Mobi Health News

Also: Dr. Jennifer Peña joins K Health as CMO, and Megan Callahan is appointed COO of Happify Health.

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Planned Parenthood Los Angeles Data Breach Coincides with Spotlight on Roe v. Wade

HIPAA & Health IT

According to this article , 2021 has been a “particularly dire year” for health care data breaches. So, it may not seem shocking that a hacker gained access to the protected health information of approximately 400,000 Planned Parenthood Los Angeles patients in October. What is unusual about this particular hacking incident is its timing. Planned Parenthood Los Angeles published Notice of the incident on Wednesday, December 1, 2021, the same day the U.S.

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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.