HIPAA Journal

APRIL 5, 2023

The dark web is extensively utilized by cybercriminals and is therefore a rich source of information… information that can be leveraged by organizations to improve their cyber defenses. The dark web is used by cybercriminals to buy and sell malware, leak sensitive data, and share vulnerabilities and techniques, techniques and procedures that can be used in cyberattacks, and utilizing that data can help organizations to gain an understanding of the threat actors that are targeting their organizat

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 5, 2023

This is the third article in a series about problems people have taking their medication. The previous article categorized various ways that information technology can help. This article looks at special conditions that weren’t covered in previous articles. Interventions Must Be Tailored Reminders lie at the core of many IT solutions to medication adherence.

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Digital Health News

APRIL 5, 2023

A succinct new guide tells NHS leaders everything they need to know to make digital transformation a success. By Cate McLaurin, director at Public Digital.

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 5, 2023

Fair Health, which recently began tracking audio-only telehealth data, also found that audio-only utilization fell nationally from December to January.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 4, 2023

Dr. Anobel Odisho will offer more detail in the HIMSS23 session "The Power of Automated Care Programs in Improving Outcomes." It scheduled for Tuesday, April 18 at noon – 1 p.m. CT at the South Building, Level 1, room S105 C.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 3, 2023

The following is a guest article by Roni Jamesmeyer, Senior Healthcare Manager at Five9 The healthcare crisis is dominating headlines, with the industry dealing with complicated challenges across multiple areas. After the trials of COVID, physicians continue to face seemingly insurmountable pressure. The average number of patients per primary care doctor is at an all-time high of 20 per day.

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Digital Health News

APRIL 3, 2023

Electronic Patient Records (EPR) are essential to delivering more joined up and integrated care. NHS England’s stated aim is for all hospitals to have an EPR in place by 2025. We know that better use of data and technology has the power to improve the quality of care and reduce the cost of health and care services overall.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 5, 2023

Alyssa Alsheimer, SVP of Marketing and Engagement at Wellframe The first step toward better health outcomes happens when people become proactive about protecting their own health and well-being. Proactive action rarely appears out of nowhere, though — most of us need some inspiration to start thinking about living healthier lifestyles. That’s where health insurance plans have a real opportunity to help.

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 7, 2023

John Glaser, an executive in residence at Harvard Medical School, and Ranil Herath, president at Emeritus Healthcare, address healthcare’s digital transformation and how to successfully adapt to change.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 7, 2023

If you aren’t already, pretend you’re the owner of a successful specialty healthcare practice. Or maybe you’re an administrator for a large regional healthcare system. How would you keep your organization afloat if more than half of your patients suddenly walked out the door and never returned? Improbable as it seems, a recent survey indicates otherwise.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 7, 2023

By Aparajita Lath Two articles published last month in the BMJ analyze the public investment and financing of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, highlighting the extensive government funding that has supported the development of mRNA technology from 1985 to 2022. However, rewards from these government investments are going back into the hands of pharma corporations and shareholders, with little thought given to public needs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 4, 2023

Historically, Lee Memorial Health System, based in Fort Myers, Florida, has had a program to help observe patients who were potentially at risk of hurting themselves while in its facilities. THE PROBLEM This could have been a patient who was confused, either chronically or acutely, or who had other medical or psychiatric concerns. "We would then hire and assign an individual to sit at the bedside with the patient and provide visual and verbal cues to promote safety," said Dr.

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 3, 2023

The date Medicare’s hospital trust fund is expected to run dry has been extended by three years, but stakeholders continue to urge action from Washington to address Medicare’s long-term solvency.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 7, 2023

The partners announced that they are building an integration roadmap so Cognizant can run current and future healthcare platforms on Microsoft Azure – and migrate new and existing clients from on-premise environments to Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. WHY IT MATTERS Cognizant collaborates with Microsoft on various healthcare provider and payer solutions, including interoperability and cost estimation suites in a SaaS environment.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 6, 2023

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Investigational medicines are drugs or treatments not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in the general population. For many patients, especially those with serious illnesses or conditions, these investigational medicines […] The article Navigating the Process For Requesting Investigational Medicines appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 3, 2023

Nurses have been in high demand for years, and especially since the pandemic. As baby boomers continue to age, the demand for bedside nursing continues to increase. In fact, 50% of the current RN workforce is over the age of 50. THE PROBLEM "There is a gap between the number of available jobs and the number of new RN graduates," said Julie Firman, DNP, RN, system chief nurse executive at Baptist Health, a health system based in Montgomery, Alabama.

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 7, 2023

U.S. District Judge John Koeltl rejected UnitedHealth’s argument that New York’s surprise billing law prevents providers from taking legal action against payers for alleged underpayments.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 3, 2023

David Higginson will offer more detail in the HIMSS23 session "Leveraging In-House Machine Learning Innovations for a More Human Touch." It is scheduled for Tuesday, April 18 at 1:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. CT at the South Building, Level 1, room S104.

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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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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 4, 2023

6 megadeals made up 40% of digital health funding in Q1 as smaller startups face rough waters: Rock Health hlandi Tue, 04/04/2023 - 14:40

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 4, 2023

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this month’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 4/7 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This month’s chat will be hosted by John Lynn ( @techguy ) and we’ll be doing a “ #HIMSS23 Preview. “ As the title implies, this will be the last regularly scheduled #HITsm chat that we’re going to do. It seems fitting that we discuss the mecca of health it conferences, HIMSS, as the final #HITsm chat since that’s where so many of the online #HITsm con

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 6, 2023

Both hospital and payer groups came out in support of the rule finalized Wednesday, finding common ground in the need to streamline prior authorization.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 4, 2023

The Victorian Department of Health has chosen Altera Digital Health to implement its HIE solution across the state. Based on a media release, the contract is initially for providing a more complete view of patients' public pathology reports via Altera's dbMotion. The solution is an EHR-agnostic, flexible and interoperable platform that aggregates and harmonises clinical information.

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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

HIPAA Journal

APRIL 6, 2023

New research indicates virtually all U.S. hospitals have been using tracking software on their websites that captures visitor data, including health information, and transfers that information to third parties. The study – published this month in Health Affairs – was conducted by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania. They used the 2019 American Hospital Association (AHA) Annual Survey to identify hospitals and narrowed their study to nonfederal acute care hospitals with an emergen

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 4, 2023

From 'transformative' to 'tremendous fear': Takes on ChatGPT in healthcare at ViVE 2023 hlandi Tue, 04/04/2023 - 06:25

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 4, 2023

Almost 99% of hospital websites include tracking software that transfer data to third parties, including technology and social media companies, data brokers, advertisers and even private equity firms, a new study found.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 4, 2023

Alfred Health, the main healthcare provider in the inner southeast of Melbourne, is now live with Alcidion's Miya Precision modules for improving patient flow and bed management. WHAT IT'S ABOUT Alcidion was initially contracted to implement electronic patient journey boards at Alfred Health in May 2022. Its Miya Flow solution, which is integrated with Alfred's EMR, consolidates and presents an intuitive view of real-time data from various systems, enabling proactive referral managem

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 4, 2023

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Isaac Smith, healthcare content strategist, Medcare MSO. If you are involved in the healthcare industry, you must be familiar with the terms “ASC Coding and Billing” and “Physician Medical Billing.” These two concepts are […] The article ASC Coding and Billing: How Is It Different From Physician Medical Billing appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 6, 2023

The pro-Russian hacktivist group KillNet has continued with its attacks on healthcare organizations in the United States in retaliation for U.S. Congress’s support for Ukraine, and on January 28, 2023, the group launched its biggest wave of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks to date – a coordinated attack on more than 90 healthcare organizations in 48 U.S. states. 55% of the targets were healthcare systems with at least one hospital and lone hospitals with Level I trauma centers.

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 6, 2023

If funding in the next three quarters matches the average funding in the prior three, 2023 is on pace to see the lowest level of digital health funding since 2019, a new report from Rock Health found.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 5, 2023

Jennifer Gaudet Hefele will offer more detail in the HIMSS23 session "Leveraging the Wisdom of Crowds to Measure Healthcare Quality." It is scheduled for Tuesday, April 18 at 3 p.m. – 4 p.m. CT at the South Building, Level 5, room S505.

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