Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

By Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant. Over the course of the pandemic it has been popular to claim that we have “learned lessons from COVID,” as though this plague has spurred a revolution in how we treat illness, debility, and death under capitalism. Management consulting firm McKinsey, for example, writes that COVID has taught us that “infectious diseases are a whole-of-society issue.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The following is a guest article by Paul Ketchel, Chief Executive Officer at MDsave. Cost transparency is a driving force in the American market. Whether consumers are looking to purchase a latte, a plane ticket, or surgery, they increasingly expect to pay an “out-the-door” price– something that includes all labor and materials as well as the finished product or service.

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Jane Sarashon

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

If health is nurtured and made where we live, work, play pray, learn, and shop, the healthcare should be everywhere. That’s the promise, increasingly a reality, of telehealth. We are in the middle of Telehealth Awareness Week , an advocacy program launched by the ATA (American Telemedicine Association) whose mission I share — that #TelehealthIsHealth.

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Delayed procedures and tests were the most commonly reported consequences of healthcare cyberattacks, according to a study from the Ponemon Institute and Proofpoint, a cybersecurity compliance company.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Sparrow Health System in Lansing, Michigan, began developing a virtual care strategy in October 2019 – well before COVID-19 struck – with the hope of leveraging the technology as a tool to support patient care and the organizational strategy, rather than as a stand-alone strategy in and of itself. Sparrow's initial goal was to launch on-demand, virtual urgent care to increase access and provide another front door into the health system.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas in Pittsburg, Kansas, is a federally qualified health center and a not-for-profit corporation. CHC/SEK provides medical, dental, behavioral health, addiction treatment, case management services and pharmacies to all, regardless of ability to pay, and serves about 65,000 patients for more than 220,000 visits per year, making the organization the largest FQHC in Kansas and one of the largest of all rural FQHCs in the United States.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

For Labor Day 2022, I’m thinking about health, vaccines, work (especially returning-to-work), and art. Let’s start with the vaccine news. Called the “first updated COVID-19 booster,” on September 1st the CDC announced the availability and approval for health citizens to get new vaccines which have added Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 spike protein components to the original vaccine formulation.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

According to a survey by the American Medical Association, 93% of physicians felt there was some advantage or a definite advantage to using digital health tools in 2022, compared with 85% in 2016.

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Twins Cities Hospitals Group, which runs four of the affected hospitals, stands to incur more than $20 million a day in extra costs during the three-day strike, according to a statement.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

While most healthcare leaders in the Asia Pacific recognise the value of health data more than their global peers, they are still facing significant challenges in using data effectively, according to Royal Philips' Future Health Index 2022 report. FINDINGS. The report, now in its seventh edition, gathered responses from 2,900 healthcare senior executives across 15 countries with 900 from the APAC region.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an abrupt change to reimbursement of telehealth services, allowing healthcare providers to more broadly expand patient access to virtual care. For the University of Maryland Medical Center health system based in Baltimore, telemedicine services encompass a vast array of tools that help the organization engage patients, monitor symptoms and provide direct care beyond the confines of a physical location.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

By Taleed El-Sabawi, Jennifer J. Carroll, and Bayla Ostrach. Health law and policy in the United States are, in many senses, driven by a desire to control. When that control is enacted to impose anti-scientific but deeply moralized social norms, suffering always follows. Consider, for example, the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , which ended a constitutionally recognized right to abortion.

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Jane Sarashon

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Most doctors see the advantages of digital health tools like telehealth, consumers’ access to their health information, and point-of-care workflow solutions, the American Medical Association found in a survey of 1300 physicians, published in September 2022. The AMA first conducted research with physicians and their views on digital health in July 2016.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Receiving opioid use disorder-related telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with lower odds of overdose and better retention using medications like buprenorphine, according to a study published in JAMA Psychiatry.

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The initiative prioritizes integrating behavioral health services into primary and other specialty care areas as well as community-based settings like schools.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Can you imagine a world in which technology enables physicians and nurses to spend less time in front of a computer and more time with patients? This is the vision of Gareth Sherlock, chief information officer (CIO) at Cleveland Clinic London. He recalls one of the physician leaders at the clinic saying that he dreams of the day when he can sit across from a patient and look them in the eye without requiring any interaction or typing into a PC throughout the consultation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The American Medical Association's digital health research released today shows increased rates of digital health adoption among physicians over the last six years and provides insights into their expectations. "The AMA survey illustrates the importance physicians place on validated digital health tools that improve health while streamlining the technological and administrative burdens faced each day in medicine," said AMA President Dr.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

By Doron Dorfman and Scott Landes. One of the most important lessons from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic needs to be about health surveillance of marginalized health populations — indeed, “who counts depends on who is counted.”. As disability scholars who use data and empirical tools in our work, we want to remind decision makers that advancing just law and policy depends on the systematic collection of accurate data.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This week I had a chance to stop by the S tericycle Communication Solutions user event they called “The Art of Patient Engagement.” I live tweeted the kickoff keynote of the event with Jared Johnson, Founder of the Shift.health content network and author of the Marketing Forward book he just published. Here are some of the key insights and perspectives he shared with the audience.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Device Connect for Fitbit aims to help healthcare and life science organizations use and analyze data from Fitbit's health-tracking wearables.

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The HHS Office of Inspector General found that by loosening emergency use authorization requirements to bring COVID-19 tests to market faster, the agency allowed inaccurate tests to be distributed.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The year 2020 was one of the most challenging years for the healthcare industry. Many healthcare providers had to rethink the way they serve their patients, access systems securely and innovate care services and delivery. During the "The key to effectively harnessing digitisation in healthcare" webinar on 23 June last year, Raj Kurup, Digital Strategy Lead for Healthcare at Equinix Asia Pacific and Chad Rajapakse, Client Account Lead in Health and Public Sector for Accenture Australia,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Beginning this month, Mayo Clinic will onboard a blockchain-integrated platform by Triall for a two-year multi-center pulmonary arterial hypertension trial that includes 10 research sites and more than 500 patients. WHY IT MATTERS. By building an immutable blockchain-registered audit trial with Triall's Veritable Proof API, Mayo Clinic will test end-to-end clinical data integrity – from start-up to post-study evaluations.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

By James Toomey. Many people, including, it seems, most advocates for law reform, assume that older adults are uniquely vulnerable to scams, and indeed that senior scams are a unique social problem demanding a unique legal solution. But in “The Age of Fraud” (forthcoming in the Harvard Journal on Legislation , winter 2023), about which I’ve blogged here before , I reported the results of an empirical study suggesting that, in fact, younger adults were as much as three times more like

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

As we continue to shift healthcare into a more digital world, it’s important to have a reliable Cloud to back up and store all of the data and digital solutions. But how do you know which Cloud is the right one for your organization? eClinicalWorks (eCW) went through this process a couple of years ago and is so pleased with their decision to go with Microsoft Cloud that they are investing over $100 million in Microsoft’s Azure cloud services.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

LifePoint Health announced a partnership with Google Cloud to use its Healthcare Data Engine, and the National Institutes of Health will invest $130 million over four years to accelerate the use of AI in biomedical and behavioral research.

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Envision CEO Jim Rechtin called UnitedHealthcare’s alleged practice “cold, callous and inhumane,” according to a statement released Friday announcing a lawsuit was filed in a Tennessee federal court.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Vibrent Health CEO Praduman "PJ" Jain, who also serves as principal investigator of the NIH All of Us Research Program's Participant Technology Systems Center, joined Healthcare IT News Executive Editor Mike Miliard to talk about the All of Us program, why his company is working with NIH on the initiative, how to ensuring clinical trials represent a broader cross-section of society, and what recent FDA guidance on clinical trial diversity might accomplish.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

CVS Health announced on September 5 that it will acquire Dallas-based Signify Health, a network of 10,000 clinicians across 50 states with more than 50 health plan clients, including CVS's Aetna division, for $8 billion. In order to further CVS's healthcare services strategy, the acquisition of Signify Health adds clinicians that assess patients at home.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

By Sharona Hoffman. During 2013 and 2014, I endured a very difficult 18 months. Both of my parents died, my mother-in-law died, and my husband was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at the age of 55. As I went through all of this, I learned a great deal about getting older, getting sick, facing the end of life, and caregiving. As a result of my personal experiences and my professional background as a Professor of Law and Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University, I wrote a book called Aging w

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