Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 12, 2022
The decision to halt new technology agreements doesn’t change Oscar’s financial expectations for 2022, as the insurtech plans to reallocate resources to focus on achieving profitability in its insurance operations next year.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 11, 2022
Patient distraction therapy, long-used by UCHealth with virtual reality and other techniques, and joy are framing the Aurora, Colorado-based health system's first in-app augmented reality experience. Beginning this fall, a patient or visitor will be able to click a button in their UCHealth mobile app and be directed to open their device's camera on a trigger point that will make a dog virtually come alive through AR in the waiting room.
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Bill of Health
AUGUST 11, 2022
By Luciano Bottini Filho. Despite the value of a constitutionally enshrined right to health, such a guarantee, on its own, does not ensure patient rights or a nuanced understanding of patient-centered care. This article will consider the case study of Brazil as an example. Despite Brazil’s recognition of the right to health, this constitutional protection does not set sufficient standards to guide judicial decision-making around patient care.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 9, 2022
According to Deloitte's survey, 49% of respondents said they'd attended a virtual medical appointment as a patient in the past year, while 26% said they'd been to a virtual visit where another person was the patient.
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Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 9, 2022
Patients made greater use of virtual care visits for a second straight month during an upturn in coronavirus cases.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 8, 2022
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Health Care Compliance Brief brings together the best content for health law & compliance professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 10, 2022
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Health Resources and Services Administration, awarded nearly $90 million in American Rescue Plan funding to nearly 1,400 community health centers to advance health equity through better data collection and reporting – as well as nearly $60 million to grow the workforce and increase healthcare access in rural areas.
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 12, 2022
After six years at the helm, Harrison plans to leave his post as president and CEO of Salt Lake City, Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare this fall.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 11, 2022
MarinHealth this week said it will implement a new electronic health record system – a version of Epic developed at University of California San Francisco called APeX. WHY IT MATTERS. APeX stands for Advancing Patient-Centered Excellence – it's an Epic EHR system that was customized at UCSF as an integrated platform to help offer access to patient records across the care continuum, from MarinHealth Medical Network clinics to MarinHealth Medical Center.
HIPAA Journal
AUGUST 11, 2022
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have issued a joint security alert about the Zeppelin ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation, which has extensively targeted organizations in the healthcare and medical industries. Zeppelin ransomware, a variant of Vega malware, has been used in attacks on critical infrastructure organizations since 2019.
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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 12, 2022
WHY IT MATTERS. The EHR integration with the digital prescribing platform enables clinicians to send personalized therapeutic content to their patients throughout recovery. Within their workflows, clinicians can respond to and anticipate patient needs. They can access a central content repository and send patients reading materials, exercise plans, workshops and more.
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 9, 2022
All but two of the seven largest insurers saw profits climb in the second quarter as hospital operators continued to struggle with weak volumes and higher labor costs amid record-high inflation.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 8, 2022
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Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 8, 2022
The following is a guest article by Juliet Bauer, Chief Growth and Marketing Officer at Livi. I’m often asked where I believe digital technology can make the biggest impact in healthcare. My answer? Women’s health. Today, women spend around a quarter of their lives in poor health or disability, compared with one fifth for men. In a health system that has historically been geared towards men, a gender health gap persists where you are more likely to receive poorer medical advice and diagnosis if
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Compliance Now
AUGUST 8, 2022
One of the most well-known components of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is that it requires applicable large employers (ALEs) to either offer affordable, minimum value medical benefits to their full-time employees or pay tax penalties. The ACA defined a plan as being affordable if the lowest-cost, employee-only option costs less than 9.5% of the employee’s household income.
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 8, 2022
The Medical Group Management Association asked the HHS and the CMS to delay enforcement of parts of the statute until six months after any final rule is published.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 12, 2022
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Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 9, 2022
The following is a guest article by Natalie C. Oehlers, Associate Attorney and Carly C. Koza, Healthcare Associate Attorney at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney. While various legislation has been implemented or proposed at both the federal and state levels to standardize and accelerate the development of artificial intelligence (AI), most stop short of addressing the significant ethical challenges that may arise.
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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.
HIPAA Journal
AUGUST 11, 2022
Ransomware attacks are rife, hacking incidents are being reported at high levels, and there have been several very large healthcare data breaches reported so far in 2022; however, our analysis of healthcare data breaches reported in 1H 2022, shows that while data breaches are certainly being reported in high numbers, there has been a fall in the number of reported breaches compared to 1H 2021.
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 10, 2022
Hospitals pushed back on the Patient Rights Advocate report, which found that just 16% of hospitals were fully compliant with the price transparency law.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 10, 2022
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Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 9, 2022
In all of my conversations, people know that I often go back to one basic principle: Follow the Money. It’s amazing how often that explains various behaviors, market dynamics, or trying to understand the why of something that seems unexplainable. However, in healthcare I find this is often dramatically more complicated than people realize. The number of people and organizations that profit off the dysfunction of healthcare is troubling to say the least.
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Center for Health Insurance Reform
AUGUST 12, 2022
Congress is poised to enact the Inflation Reduction Act, a $740 billion reconciliation package that includes sweeping climate change, deficit reduction, and health policy provisions. In her latest Expert Perspective for the State Health & Value Strategies project, Sabrina Corlette reviews the health care changes and their implications for states.
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 12, 2022
Median base salaries for executives at healthcare companies increased by 4.5% in the past year, according to consulting firm SullivanCotter.
Total HIPAA
AUGUST 8, 2022
We recently hosted a webinar, “Annual HIPAA Requirements and Security Standards,” in which we discussed annual HIPAA requirements, document review, and the compliance procedures you need to have in place to prevent breaches and pass audits. . In the webinar, we spoke with Rob Chubbuck, an IT expert and educator, about logging, password standards, annual training and document review requirements, the expanding scope of PHI, and more.
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 10, 2022
When I first heard that Civitas and DirectTrust were collaborating to hold the Civitas Networks for Health Annual Conference and the DirectTrust Summit together, I thought that this is likely going to be one of the greatest gathering of healthcare interoperability professionals that has happened. As the title says, it’s going to be a kind of Woodstock of Healthcare Interoperability people, but the music is replaced with really nerdy conversations about standards, networks, identification,
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Mobi Health News
AUGUST 11, 2022
The startup's tool records and transcribes conversations between providers and patients, and then organizes relevant information about health conditions, symptoms and next steps.
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 10, 2022
Hiring bias, which Cerner denies, resulted in a notable shortfall of Black and Asian hires for certain positions between 2015 and 2019, federal regulators allege.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 9, 2022
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Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 11, 2022
The news recently came out that the TikTok ownwer, ByteDance, has paid $1.5 billion for Amcare Healthcare, one of China’s largest private hospital chains. You might wonder why TikTok’s owner would want to buy a hospital chain. Plus, I can already here the privacy critics coming to complain about TikTok (known for its privacy and tracking issues) owning a healthcare organization.
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