Is the Federated Data Platform too expensive to cancel?
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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Sticking with a hugely expensive plan to develop a ‘mythical beast’ of a fighter plane in the 1960s did not end well for the government of the day.
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3 myths sabotaging healthcare innovation
Healthcare Dive
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Health systems are rethinking how they engage with patients. Read on to break into innovation.
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Cigna hit with second suit over claims automation software
Healthcare Dive
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
The lawsuit was filed in Connecticut and seeks class action status to represent all consumers nationwide who had claims reviewed by PxDx.
L.A. Care must pay $1.3M settlement over data breaches that violated HIPAA: HHS
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
L.A. | L.A. Care, which provides coverage for about 2.9 million people in Medicaid, Medicare, and Affordable Care Act plans, was ordered to shore up its data protection systems.
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.
FTC settles first case on privacy, security of genetic information with 1Health.io
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
The FTC alleged 1Health.io failed to protect sensitive genetic and health data of consumers and deceived them about its privacy and security practices.
A Categorical No to Categorical Accommodation Denials Related to COVID-19?
Bill of Health
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
By Katherine Macfarlane and Irina Manta Since fall 2021, when most colleges and universities reopened their campuses to in-person activities, it has become increasingly difficult for faculty and students with disabilities to obtain reasonable accommodations to teach or attend class remotely. Remote accommodations were granted freely during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, but in 2021, the in-person aspect of teaching and learning was suddenly deemed essential, and at many institutions, r
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Boston Children's Hospital rolls out hybrid 5G network as it plans to unify on Epic
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Boston Children's Hospital recently announced its plans to transition to a unified Epic electronic health record. Similar to Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health and Pittsburgh-based UPMC , Boston Children's – which currently uses both Epic and Cerner PowerChart – says it plans to make the migration to a single Epic platform across all its care sites in 2024.
Inside Kaiser Permanente’s labor relations breakdown
Healthcare Dive
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
Kaiser Permanente’s novel labor approach allowed for decades of stability, but over a dozen sources familiar with the situation said fractured relationships are straining current negotiations.
Consumers Continue to Spend on Technology, Seeking “A Happy, Healthy Connected Life”
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 10, 2023
Most U.S. consumers will continue to spend their disposable incomes on connected consumer devices, but will be looking for more balance in their digital lives according to Deloitte’s fourth annual 2023 Connected Consumer Survey. In this year’s update, the Deloitte Center for Technology, Media & Telecommunications found that most households use five key digital devices daily: above all, smartphones, followed by laptop and desktop computers, tablets, and computer monitors.
FTC sues PE-backed anesthesia provider for monopolistic roll-ups, price setting
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Federal regulators have accused a major Texas-based anesthesia provider and its parent private equity firm of a decade-long, three-pronged scheme to suppress competition and drive-up prices. | U.S. Anesthesia Partners and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, its private equity backer, have "cost Texans tens of millions of dollars more each year" by suppressing competition over the course of a decade, the regulator alleges.
Ensure Continuous Patient Care: How to Avoid Disruptions Due to Ransomware
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Autistic Screen Time: Swipe Left on Stigma
Bill of Health
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
By Maxfield Sparrow I am an autistic person who has been using the internet as a social prosthetic device since 1983. I was born in 1967 and began therapy in 1972, so the iPad didn’t exist and the only screen time parents worried about was the five channels of broadcast television available twenty hours a day. TV was fine, but my real passion was books.
Healthcare IT Regulations – What Needs to Be Added and What Needs to Be Removed
Healthcare IT Today
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
There are a lot of rules and regulations in place in the world of healthcare. These are put into place in order to protect patients and organizations. However, the world of healthcare is constantly changing and evolving as we come up with new ideas and solutions. Have the regulations done the same though? Or are there areas that are missing regulations?
Advocate Health, Mount Sinai among 10 big health systems in Transcarent provider network
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
The Transcarent platform integrates directly through the care pathway of each of the 10 health systems it is partnering with, including scheduling and pre- and post-care, support services and same-day payment for providers. WHY IT MATTERS Transcarent says the ecosystem will provide the employees of national self-insured employers with faster access to verified high-quality digital or in-person care, higher-quality care, and affordable and predictable costs with full transparency.
Oracle to launch generative AI tools integrated with EHR
Healthcare Dive
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
The clinical digital assistant, which will be available in the next year, will automate notetaking and suggest next steps, like scheduling labs or follow-up appointments.
Generative AI for Contracts Is Here: New Tools to Accelerate Drafting and Editing
Advertiser: Evisort
The emergence of generative AI is reshaping the landscape of contract management, enabling businesses to generate and negotiate legal agreements with greater ease and speed. In this on-demand webinar, Hal Marcus, VP of Product Marketing at Evisort discusses how Evisort's generative AI transforms contract creation and negotiation, empowering legal teams to streamline processes while reducing risk.
Nurses Hacking for Health, Addressing Burnout, Workplace Violence, and AI
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
Three in four nurses working in hospitals care about the success of their institution — “they show up and gown up…yet only 57% feel a sense of ownership in their hospitals, leaving leaders to expect 100% quality to be delivered by about half of the nursing workforce.” This is the key finding in a study from PRC on the implications of nurses’ dis-engagement from their work.
How Amazon's $4B investment in AI company Anthropic impacts healthcare
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Amazon announced this week that it would invest up to $4 billion in artificial intelligence company Anthropic as the AI arms race heats up. | Amazon announced this week that it would invest up to $4 billion in artificial intelligence company Anthropic as the AI arms race heats up. The collaboration introduces more competition and more options for healthcare teams looking to innovate using different approaches or to get more tactical with their AI strategy, one health IT expert said.
On Searching for the Unknown with Unspeakable Names: Searching PubMed for Disability Research
Bill of Health
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
By P.F. Anderson and LaTeesa James PubMed special queries are master search strategies on common, important, but challenging health topics, which are usually peer-reviewed. Disability certainly qualifies as a common, important health topic that is challenging to search – and yet, no PubMed special query exists for it. This oversight is concerning. Put simply, it’s important that disability as a topic is easily identifiable in the scholarly record.
The Key to a Competitive Edge in Life Sciences: The Network
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 17, 2023
Matt Roberts, Healthcare Practice Leader at Juniper Networks The life sciences industry sits at the cross-section of virtually all the technological advancements driving today’s economy. Not only is it steeped in cutting-edge chem-bio research and development, it relies heavily on advanced computing infrastructure to support massive data analytics and modeling.
Best Practices for Sharing Protected Health Information (PHI)
Advertiser: Celo
In this ebook, you will learn about the 18 PHI indicators, the legal requirements and penalties surrounding PHI, and how your healthcare teams should securely exchange this data. Key takeaways from this ebook: Gain confidence in identifying PHI. Acquire practical implementation strategies for exchanging PHI within your organization. Emphasize the importance of using compliant communication tools within healthcare teams.
MeldRx Is Making Healthcare App Development and FHIR Data Access Easy
Healthcare IT Today
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
When someone wants to create a healthcare app, they often think that getting the data they need to make their app work will be easy. They assume that there must be some easy EHR API they can tap into that will provide them with the data access they need. Or maybe they hear about this new more modern FHIR standard that will give them access to that data.
Hospitals share differing medical prices online versus over the phone, secret shopper survey finds
Healthcare Dive
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
The study raises new questions about the dependability of hospital pricing, and builds on a mountain of research finding wide variance in pricing between different hospitals — and within the same facility.
Providers are Budgeting for Third-Party Tech Investments Says Survey
HealthIT Answers
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
We rounded up thoughts on why 88% plan to increase their third-party technology investments in 2023-2024 according to a Redox sponsored survey, Buyer Mindsets: Health Technology Perspectives from Clinical and Clinical IT Leaders. The post Providers are Budgeting for Third-Party Tech Investments Says Survey appeared first on Health IT Answers.
Oracle Health integrates generative AI, voice tech into EHR system to automate medical note-taking
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Software giant Oracle has integrated generative AI services into its Cerner electronic medical record system as health IT companies race to harness this cutting-edge tech for providers. | Software giant Oracle has integrated generative AI services into its Cerner EHR system as health tech companies race to harness this cutting-edge tech for providers.
HIPAA: Why It Matters to Your Practice
Advertiser: Abyde
85% of practices are not complying with the government’s HIPAA standards. The large majority of practices are likely trying to protect patients’ information, but they may not be doing all that they need to meet government requirements. Not complying with HIPAA has definite drawbacks, with one major one being massive fines. The government can fine up to 1.5 million dollars for a single HIPAA breach incident - an amount that would put most small practices out of business.
What the New York City Marathon Can Teach Us About Equitable Access to Vaccines
Bill of Health
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
By Ana Santos Rutschman What can the New York City Marathon experience teach those reflecting on ways to increase equity in the transnational allocation of scarce vaccine doses? Quite a lot, it turns out. I explore this analogy in a recently published article in the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics ( JLME ), Increasing Equity in the Transnational Allocation of Vaccines Against Emerging Pathogens: A Multi-Modal Approach.
We need to bring the public with us on NHS data says Ming Tang
Digital Health News
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
NHS England’s chief data and analytics officer Ming Tang has said at HETT 2023 that the NHS must bring the public along with it when it comes to NHS data.
Digital Twins: What Healthcare Organizations Can Learn from Other Industries
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Aaron Schroeder, Director, AI Solutions & Head of AI Center of Excellence at TTEC Digital Digital twins are helping organizations make more informed decisions. These analytical tools use real-time data to represent a product or process, creating a realistic simulation that can be used to test, monitor, or predict outcomes for its real-world counterpart.
The one code Congress must support: G2211
Healthcare Dive
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
Presidents of the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American College of Physicians argue for reforms in the national physician payment system.
The 2023 Behavioral Health Industry Report
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This report explores current issues in the behavioral health industry in 2023. Topics covered include quantitative statistics describing the overall increase in behavioral health issues, the impact of psychologist and staff burnout, how HIPAA compliance is once again at the top of our minds & much more!
Google announces funding for AI-enabled digital health projects
Mobi Health News
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Fifteen projects, including eight digital health initiatives, received $3 million in cash, Google Cloud credits and technical assistance.
CMS urged to change GLP-1 drug coverage determination
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
Healthcare organizations are continuing to push the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to rethink its coverage policy for anti-obesity medications. | Critics say that the view CMS has of certain anti-obesity medications is outdated and could be covered under Medicare Part D.
Symposium Introduction: Addressing Technoableism: Reforming Infrastructure and Disability Representation
Bill of Health
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
By Ashley Shew Far too often, when people write and talk about technology and disability, stories are deeply shaped by ableism. Often when devices are painted as “solving the problem of disability” or “empowering disabled people,” they suggest that being disabled is itself a problem, and that people should try to be as nondisabled as possible. But pretending to be nondisabled is not a great way to live — to be in hiding or denial, to not give your body and mind the rest they deserve, to hurt you
Remote monitoring in care homes reduces hospital admissions finds study
Digital Health News
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
A new independent study has confirmed that the remote monitoring of care home residents can help reduce the need for emergency hospital admissions.
Streamlined Compliance Facilitates Growth for Multi-Specialty ASC
Advertiser: Medtrainer
Discover how MedTrainer solved an unmet need for SurgCenter of Western Maryland, reducing the time and effort it took to monitor and remind staff about crucial annual training. Learn how this intuitive platform helped increase training completion and save staff time, leading to increased efficiency, fewer human errors, and greater overall satisfaction.
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