Healthcare It News

MAY 19, 2022

Telehealth company Antidote Health is extending its virtual care offerings to include a service focused on mental health issues. Called the Mental Health Clinic, it will offer medication management, as well as treatment for depression, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, PTSD, OCD and insomnia disorder. Antidote Health and its clinicians will use an approach called enhanced, evidence-based care.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 18, 2022

Rand researchers also found wide price variations across states. Florida, West Virginia and South Carolina had relative prices at or above 310% of Medicare prices, according to the report.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 18, 2022

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The healthcare sector has witnessed many transformations and investments over the years, and you can only expect this trend to continue, especially after the difficult lessons from the coronavirus pandemic. Amid the global health crises, […]. The article Key Trends Set To Transform The US Healthcare Sector In 2022 And Beyond appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Bill of Health

MAY 19, 2022

By? Ameet Sarpatwari , Alexander Egilman , Aviva Wang, and ? Aaron S. Kesselheim. Each month, members of the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) review the peer-reviewed medical literature to identify interesting empirical studies, policy analyses, and editorials on health law and policy issues. Below are the citations for papers identified from the month of April.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 20, 2022

Cloud Computing Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Patient Engagement Workforce As a high-flying startup ecosystem comes back down to earth, health systems with the financial resources will be able to double down on their digital transformation efforts. Paddy Padmanabhan Back in 2020, in the immediate wake of the pandemic, we were celebrating the coming of age of digital health – the 25X to 50X increase in telehealth visits, the explosion in VC funding for digital health s

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 16, 2022

The agreement, which covers three experimental vaccines as well as several key patents, makes products sold in 49 low-income countries royalty-free.

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Bill of Health

MAY 16, 2022

By Jack Becker. Discussions about performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) are normally all about physical abilities. They revolve around PEDs that can alter strength, speed, stamina, recovery, and even stability. But if every sport were just a competition of physical traits, they’d be pretty boring. Sports combine physical competition with competition of strategy, technique, and other non-physical components (to varying degrees).

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Healthcare It News

MAY 17, 2022

Policy-makers in the EU are promoting an array of digital health programs, such as the European Health Data Space unveiled earlier this month. But lack of awareness and knowledge could stymy their impact. Kristine Sørensen, a digital health literacy expert based in Denmark says digital health literacy varies across countries, regions — even within families.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 16, 2022

Proposed 2023 plan year average increases on individual and family plans of 17% for MVP Health Care and 12% for Blue Cross Blue Shield in the state buck the national trend of declining ACA exchange premiums.

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MRO Compliance

MAY 18, 2022

Follow the (Medical) Record: MediCopy Founder. Recently, I had the pleasure of interviewing the founder of MRO’s most recent acquisition, MediCopy , during my podcast show, Follow the (Medical) Record. Since the show is focused on following a patient’s medical record throughout the healthcare ecosystem, Elliott Noble-Holt seemed like the perfect guest, especially since he and his team and now a part of the MRO family.

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Bill of Health

MAY 18, 2022

By Bailey Kennedy. With the pain of tax day now a month behind us, it’s worth talking about something that we don’t often associate with the tax code: health. It’s not easy to imagine that the tax code could truly do much to make Americans happier and healthier — but there are ways that it could. Federal and state tax codes could both be reformed in small ways that might encourage Americans to make healthier decisions.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 20, 2022

Digital health company Get Well has partnered with Health Journeys, a publisher of guided imagery and meditation audios, to offer its programs to Get Well's clients, with a special focus on veterans. Health Journeys targets specific behavioral health challenges that military service members face, including anxiety, sleep deprivation, burnout, chronic pain, depression, anger, PTSD, grief, addiction, traumatic brain injury and injury rehabilitation.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 19, 2022

The pandemic has prompted nurses and residents in the state to rethink working conditions and what they will endure. Some have walked off the job, demanding better contracts, and some residents organized for the first time.

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MRO Compliance

MAY 16, 2022

3 Strategies for Virtual HIM Departments: From Reaction to Reality. May 16, 2022. Journal of AHIMA. Over the past two years, hospital departments, including health information management (HIM) departments, have been forced to restructure their operations using remote or virtual teams. During this time, we’ve learned a great deal about how well-managed HIM departments function when relying primarily on virtual teams.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 20, 2022

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. More older adults are embracing technology. According to a Pew Research Center report, 58% of seniors 65 years and above use the internet today. Technology enables seniors to combat loneliness and improve physical and mental […]. The article 5 Essential Tech Tools For Seniors appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 20, 2022

For some health interactions and interventions, health systems deliver care fueled by real-time, real-world data captured through digital health technology. New research being done by the National Institutes of Health centered on precision nutrition is a recent example of how innovations in health IT are driving the way research translates into patient care.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 16, 2022

The first quarter is going to be "one of the worst for most of our providers," Fitch Analyst Kevin Holloran said last week.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 17, 2022

The current cyber environment means that it's often not enough for healthcare delivery organizations to secure their own boundaries – as noted in a Cloud Security Alliance report this week. Health systems must also ensure vendor partners are compliant with privacy and security best practices. Scott Pradels, CEO and cofounder of the virtual care platform Carium, sat down with Healthcare IT News to discuss the importance of effectively evaluating workflow process security and why he beli

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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

MAY 17, 2022

Over the last several years, concern has grown among healthcare professionals over the ways patient data is being used, and just as importantly, how well patients understand what those uses are. However, if a new study is any indication, a minority of consumers understand the extent of the health data being shared, and many have […].

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Healthcare It News

MAY 17, 2022

The pandemic has shone a spotlight on longstanding issues with healthcare inequities due to underlying social determinants of health issues, such as living in a food desert, a lack of reliable transportation and unequal access to care. However, many in health IT contend that healthcare provider organizations can use advanced analytics to surface key insights about their patient populations and take action to ensure all patients have equal access to high-quality care.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 20, 2022

The law includes penalties of up to $10,000 per day for hospitals failing to follow requirements and not taking corrective action, though Gov. Jared Polis asked the state health department to go easy on small, rural hospitals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 16, 2022

A recent study published in the Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare found that telehealth can be safe and effective when it comes to managing high-risk pregnancies. The meta-analysis , which examined 12 studies published in English and Turkish from 2016 through 2021, sought to examine how virtual care apps could affect maternal and neonatal health outcomes, as well as costs.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 17, 2022

Authors of the study said the results raise concerns about worsening health disparities, especially when models can detect self-reported race information where human radiologists can't.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 20, 2022

After four successive months of declining numbers of data breaches, there was a 30.2% increase in reported data breaches. In April 2022, 56 data breaches of 500 or more records were reported to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR). While the number of reported breaches increased month-over-month, the number of healthcare records that were exposed or impermissibly disclosed decreased by 30% to 2,160,194 – the lowest monthly number since October 2021.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 17, 2022

The insurer is accused of failing to disclose the potential negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on its business before its March 2021 IPO.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 20, 2022

The American Medical Association this week, along with Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Joint Commission, announced the launch of a new learning network to help U.S. health systems approach their quality improvement and patient safety practices with health equity top of mind. WHY IT MATTERS. The goal of the Advancing Equity through Quality and Safety Peer Network – which offers a year-long mentorship and networking program – is to improve health outcomes for hist

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Mobi Health News

MAY 20, 2022

On the heels of a $9.2 million Series A, Mahmee CEO and cofounder Melissa Hanna discusses the fragmented maternal healthcare experience in the U.S.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 18, 2022

According to a recent security advisory issued by the Five Eyes Cybersecurity agencies in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, the most common attack vectors used by cyber threat actors for initial access to networks are exploits of public-facing applications, external remote services, trusted relationships, phishing, and compromised credentials for valid user accounts.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 17, 2022

The payer plans to open about 100 new value-based primary care clinics for Medicare patients between 2023 and 2025 through the latest deal.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 19, 2022

The following is a guest article by Melissa Powell, COO at Genesis HealthCare. More and more, best practices in the business world are intruding into the healthcare industry, which should come as no surprise, given that many of the issues are the same. How can resources best be allocated? How can the customer (or patient) […].

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