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Healthcare company bankruptcies up 84% in 2022

Healthcare Dive

Filings rose significantly throughout last year, with about three times more in the fourth quarter than in the first quarter, according to a report from Gibbins Advisors.

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Why integration of medical devices is critical to patient care

Healthcare It News

Connecting medical devices, such as infusion pumps, patient monitoring systems and dialysis machines, to the electronic medical record (EMR) can help maximize resources while providing a pathway to critical clinical information. “Medical devices were seen as only able to deliver a therapy or service. That is changing,” said Donny Patel, vice president, Enterprise Technology at Baxter.

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How technology will shape healthcare in 2023

Healthcare Dive

Experts gave predictions for virtual care, AI, the digital health market and data privacy this year.

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Biotech Companies Are Opening Manufacturing Sites in Africa: Will This Help Vaccine Equity?

Bill of Health

By Sarah Gabriele. Two pharmaceutical giants of the pandemic, Moderna and BioNTech, are taking steps for increasing the manufacturing capacity for the COVID-19 vaccine in Africa. Last March, Moderna announced its plan to set up a manufacturing facility in Kenya to produce messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines, including COVID-19 shots. Similarly, in 2021, BioNTech started planning its own manufacturing plant in Africa, which will be composed of modular shipping containers.

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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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Protect revenues, enhance patient satisfaction and improve access to care with revenue cycle management

Healthcare Dive

Amidst rising inflation, workforce shortages and sharp fluctuations in the demand for high-margin elective procedures, today’s healthcare organizations are facing financial pressures that are nearly unprecedented in scope.

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Seven-Day Ambulatory ECG Monitoring Drives Efficiencies Through Improved Outcomes, Lower Costs of Care

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Robert G. Hauser, MD, FACC, FHRS, chair of the Cardiac Insight, Inc. scientific advisory board. A decade ago, my 72-year-old wife suffered a major stroke while we were attending a medical meeting in France. […]. The article Seven-Day Ambulatory ECG Monitoring Drives Efficiencies Through Improved Outcomes, Lower Costs of Care appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Keck Hospital and School of Medicine of USC makes powerful strides with tele-GI

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Patients requiring upper or lower gastrointestinal diagnostics normally have to present to a hospital or clinic for a tube-based endoscopy. The capacities for these procedures are constrained by infrastructure (rooms, endoscopes, etc.) and expert personnel (doctors, nurses, technicians, administrators). THE PROBLEM. Even without the unparalleled pressure from the pandemic, meeting demand can be costly and is often not available locally at all – especially in rural environments and places s

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Uninsured rate fell for those historically lacking coverage

Healthcare Dive

Researchers in an HHS report said policies like Medicaid continuous coverage and premium tax credits were key to the reduction.

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Where are EHRs headed in 2023?

Healthcare IT Today

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are the central technology pillar for healthcare organizations. EHRs are vital to both clinical and administrative operations. Because of that, we wanted to dedicate an entire article to where EHRs are headed in 2023. We connected with MEDITECH , EPIC , eClinicalWorks , ModMed , NextGen Healthcare , athenahealth , and Elation Health.

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What is ambient clinical intelligence — and how is it transforming healthcare?

Healthcare Dive

Discover how ACI is strengthening patient-provider relationships, reducing burnout and improving care outcomes.

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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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Study: Wearables could help detect patients struggling after traumatic event

Mobi Health News

The research, published in JAMA Psychiatry, found a wearable device could help detect and monitor patients facing poor sleep, pain and anxiety after trauma.

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Home Care Providers of Texas Announces 124K-Record Data Breach

HIPAA Journal

The Dallas, TX-based home help service provider, Home Care Providers of Texas (HCPT), has recently announced that unauthorized individuals gained access to its network and used ransomware to encrypt files. The security breach was detected on June 29, 2022, when staff members were prevented from accessing files. Leading third-party cybersecurity experts were engaged to investigate the incident and determine the nature and scope of the breach and confirmed that the threat actors had access to its

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80% of Healthcare Execs Want Complete Clinical Data From Other EHRs

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Health Gorilla , a Health Information Network and interoperability provider, released it’s inaugural 2023 State of Interoperability report today to understand how healthcare decision-makers are approaching their clinical data strategies in light of patient privacy concerns and new federal regulations. – The study, conducted in collaboration with Flexpa and the Health Management Academy, found that 60% of health systems report duplicative or incomplete da

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In a tough fundraising climate for startups, conversations at JPM 2023 shift to partnerships

Fierce Healthcare

In a tough fundraising climate for startups, conversations at JPM 2023 shift to partnerships. hlandi. Tue, 01/17/2023 - 16:11.

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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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Authenticx Secures $20M to Enhance Customer Experience

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Authenticx , the new standard in healthcare for listening to customer voices at scale, today announced $20M in Series B funding led by Blue Heron Capital with participation from Beringea, 50 South Capital , High Alpha , Mutual Capital Partners , Signal Peak Ventures , Allos Ventures , Elevate Ventures and M25. – The investment comes after a significant year of growth for Authenticx, which saw a 2.5x increase in ARR in 2022 and 64 new employees since July 2021,

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Why Hospital Discharges Take So Long—And What We Can Do To Shorten Them

Healthcare IT Today

Anyone who has had the misfortune to land in the hospital, or care for a relative in one, knows the following frustrating experience: The doctor comes during morning rounds and says the patient is good to go…and hours later, you’re still waiting for the paperwork to get done. I decided to unpack this experience. During conversations with about 20 experts, I learned about the complex plans that go into the simple act of getting a patient out of the hospital.

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Netherlands Cancer Institute to Deploy Proscia’s Pathology Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Proscia® , a provider of digital and computational pathology solutions, announced that the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI), one of the top 10 comprehensive cancer centers in Europe, will deploy its Concentriq® Dx platform. – NKI is transitioning to Concentriq Dx to expand its digital pathology practice, laying the foundation for its pathologists to deliver personalized diagnoses that better inform treatment decisions.

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Ransomware Appears to be in Decline, but Don’t Lower your Guard

HIPAA Journal

While it is difficult to obtain accurate data on the number of ransomware attacks being conducted on healthcare organizations, the available data suggest there has been a decline in attacks across all industry sectors compared to the high number of attacks reported in 2021. Emsisoft recently reported that attacks are leveling off or declining in the industry sectors it tracks, and now a new survey appears to confirm that decline.

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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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Providers press CMS to finalize prior authorization reforms to alleviate major administrative burdens

Fierce Healthcare

Providers press CMS to finalize prior authorization reforms to alleviate major administrative burdens. rking. Tue, 01/17/2023 - 17:00.

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Authenticx Announces $20M in Series B Funding to Enhance the Customer Journey

Healthcare IT Today

Conversational intelligence company receives funding following a year of 100% growth in customers and ARR. Authenticx , the new standard in healthcare for listening to customer voices at scale, today announced $20M in Series B funding led by Blue Heron Capital with participation from Beringea, Indiana Next Level Fund/50 South Capital Advisors, High Alpha, Mutual Capital Partners, Signal Peak Ventures, Allos Ventures, Elevate Ventures and M25.

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CMS: More providers serving as ACOs in 2023 amid new reforms and scrutiny

Fierce Healthcare

CMS: More providers serving as ACOs in 2023 amid new reforms and scrutiny. rking. Tue, 01/17/2023 - 14:25.

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NICE recommends hybrid closed loop tech for diabetics

Digital Health News

NICE has published draft recommendations for type 1 diabetes patients to access hybrid closed loop systems to help them better manage their conditions.

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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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3 Do’s and Don’ts of HIPAA Compliant Text Messaging

HIPAA Vault

…and introducing HIPAA Text! Hackers are surely an interesting bunch. On the one hand, they’re the ultimate attention seekers, who nevertheless don’t want to be known. On the other hand, they’re not naive. They know something about human nature: we all give our attention to what we value. Ask an alien who just landed here. Continue reading.

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Recruiting digital jobs for NHS ‘my biggest challenge’ says Simon Bolton

Digital Health News

NHS Digital's Simon Bolton has told the Health and Social Care Committee that getting the right digital skills into the NHS is his “biggest challenge.".

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Telehealth utilization has declined almost 4%

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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NY state health agency considers nixed COVID vaccine mandate for healthcare workers

Modern Healthcare

A state Supreme Court judge struck down a statewide mandate requiring healthcare workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

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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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CMS data: Medicare Advantage tops 30M

Fierce Healthcare

CMS data: Medicare Advantage tops 30M. pminemyer. Tue, 01/17/2023 - 14:45.

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Welsh government to create unified digital system for maternity services

Digital Health News

A £7m investment from the Welsh government will see a unified, digital system for maternity services across the country be rolled out in the next few years.

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Veterans can get suicide prevention care for free

Fierce Healthcare

Veterans can get suicide prevention care for free. fdiamond. Tue, 01/17/2023 - 10:20.

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December Research Roundup: What We’re Reading

Center for Health Insurance Reform

Happy New Year! The holiday season may be over, but health policy researchers continue to bestow gifts onto our field. In December, we read about disruptions in health insurance coverage, the uninsured population, and gaps in provider network oversight. This roundup will highlight key findings of these articles, as well as their significance for our work.

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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.