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Omicron sent COVID-19 back into top telehealth claims in November

Healthcare Dive

Telehealth use rose in every census region in November as patients again avoided medical settings and some became infected with the newest coronavirus variant, according to data from Fair Health.

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We Need to Evaluate Ethics Curricula

Bill of Health

By Leah Pierson. Health professions students are often required to complete training in ethics. But these curricula vary immensely in terms of their stated objectives, time devoted to them, when during training students complete them, who teaches them, content covered, how students are assessed, and instruction model used. Evaluating these curricula on a common set of standards could help make them more effective.

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COVID-19: Vaccine mandate enforced in Austria

Healthcare It News

With rising case numbers in across the DACH (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) region and the rest of Europe, a fully vaccinated status might become compulsory for the use of the EU Digital COVID Certificate (EUDCC) soon – at least in some countries. As of today (1 February) the Austrian COVID-19 vaccine mandate has come into force for all adults – which makes Austria the first EU country to introduce such measure.

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How Twitter Revealed Consumer Health Care Trends in the Pandemic

Health Populi

During the pandemic, millions of people connected with Twitter to share thoughts and feelings about the pandemic…and their health. Three mega-trends bubbled up on the platform for health — telemedicine and virtual care, broadband access, and mental health, discussed in a Birdseye Report Industry Deep Dive into Health from Brandwatch, partnering with Twitter.

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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Staffing firms defend traveling nurse rates as industry groups, Congress push for investigation

Healthcare Dive

Legislators in some states are even looking to cap the rate hospitals can pay agencies for temporary nurses as worker shortages persist across the U.S.

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How to Fairly Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapies

Bill of Health

By Govind Persad, Monica Peek, and Seema Shah. Vaccines are no longer our only medical intervention for preventing severe COVID-19. Over the past few months, we have seen the arrival and wider availability of treatments such as monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), and more recently, of novel oral antiviral drugs like Paxlovid and molnupiravir. The recent Delta and Omicron surges have made these therapies scarce.

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Cleveland Clinic leader: Telehealth now a 'permanent mode' of care delivery

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth encounters have the potential to save $250 billion in healthcare expenditures annually across covered populations, a McKinsey & Company analysis has found. But creating true value from virtual care demands that healthcare providers and health plans design their digital trajectory with intention, says the top exec at The Clinic by Cleveland Clinic, a joint venture combining clinical expertise (Cleveland Clinic) with digital technology (from telehealth vendor Amwell) to give patient

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Congress poised to address mental health crisis — including fining payers for benefit inequities

Healthcare Dive

"If we're going to respond to the behavioral health issues the pandemic has made worse. that will take legislative action," Senate health committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., said.

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There’s More Than Rules in Regulating Concussions

Bill of Health

By Jack Becker. The football world has used a variety of methods to make the sport safer: Compare modern football to football a century ago , when at least 18 people died playing the game in 1905 alone and Teddy Roosevelt had to intervene. In recent years, concussions and brain trauma have become football’s scarlet letter. While leagues have already made changes to prevent brain injuries, there’s more to be done.

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Cancer cases at risk of almost doubling in the MEA region by 2040

Healthcare It News

As of today, there are around 43.8 million people around the world who are within five years of a cancer diagnosis, reports the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC). Yet data shows that less than 30% of low-income countries have access to the right cancer treatment services – compared to 90% in high-income countries. In fact, an estimated 70% of deaths caused by cancer occur in low-to-middle income countries (LMICs).

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Virtua Health offers lessons in creating a Digital Transformation Office, Part 1

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Virtua Health is a nonprofit community health system with five hospitals, seven urgent care centers and 280-plus locations across South New Jersey and Philadelphia. It employs 14,000 people, including more than 2,850 doctors, physician assistants and nurse practitioners, and has more than one million patient encounters per year. Virtua Health had an early start to digital technology that included the implementation of an integrated electronic health record across its inpatient and ambulatory cam

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Healthcare trends of 2022

Healthcare Dive

Providers face staffing shortages and continued pressure on margins while payers are challenged by people who continue to put off care, resulting in a member base that is sicker and has more complex conditions.

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6 Tips For Modernizing Your Medical Practice

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. When running a business, it’s integral to follow the adage, “adapt or face extinction.” Yet, many private practice owners and practitioners are still doing the same things they did a decade ago. The world is […]. The article 6 Tips For Modernizing Your Medical Practice appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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‘Care Anywhere’ is the new normal, according to industry report

Healthcare It News

Today, BCG Digital Ventures (BCGDV), a subsidiary of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), has released a new report that sheds light on predicted healthcare innovations for 2022. With virtual mental health a trend during the exponential growth of remote care, AI and femtech, the survey focuses on three key areas that might increasingly shape future medical care.

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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.

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WVU Medicine uses $781K grant to greatly boost telehealth to rural patients

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

West Virginia is the third most rural state in the nation, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The state is 24,320 square miles and is the only state located entirely in the area known as Appalachia, which faces gaps in educational achievement, employment and income as well as a variety of negative health consequences compared with the rest of the country.

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The pipeline of new antibiotics is drying up. A bill in Congress aims to change that.

Healthcare Dive

Despite the growing threat of drug-resistant bacteria, few new antibiotics are reaching the market because of hurdles that biotech executives and experts say stand in the way.

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3 Ways Tech Can Drive Adoption of Direct Primary Care

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Zak Holdsworth, co-founder and CEO, Hint Health. As physicians work to escape the fee-for-service hamster wheel in which they’re forced to practice medicine today, many are increasingly seeking out new and innovative business models […]. The article 3 Ways Tech Can Drive Adoption of Direct Primary Care appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Cleveland Clinic names new chief data officer

Healthcare It News

Cleveland Clinic this past Friday announced that it has appointed Rohit Chandra, to be its new chief digital officer. WHY IT MATTERS. Starting in mid-February Chandra will oversee the health system's Information Technology Division, and help lead ongoing digital transformation across the Cleveland Clinic. He'll focus on initiatives around artificial intelligence and machine learning, officials said, working to improve access and engagement, and boost patient and provider experience.

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Ensure Continuous Patient Care: How to Avoid Disruptions Due to Ransomware

The industry has seen an increasing pace of ransomware, zero-day, and remote-code execution attacks. Learn how to defend against these against these attacks in this eBook.

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Dozens of U.S. legislators push for telehealth coverage expansion

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Dozens of U.S. senators and representatives urged congressional leadership to safeguard Medicare telehealth services this past Friday. Led by Sens. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, and Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi, the bipartisan group of 45 elected officials published a letter calling for Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to extend expanded coverage of Medicare telehealth services for a set period of time, via February

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Anthem relies on flexible partner-not-build strategy in shift to value

Healthcare Dive

It's a capital-efficient way to achieve growth without being pigeonholed into one approach and differs from the value-based blueprints of peers UnitedHealth and Humana, analysts said.

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3 Trends Driving The Growing Shift To Digital CME

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Diane Bartoli, general manager, epocrates. Over the past decade, there’s been a rapid explosion of innovative technology that has allowed the industry to reimagine our healthcare system and touched nearly every aspect of the […]. The article 3 Trends Driving The Growing Shift To Digital CME appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Successfully operationalizing population health

Healthcare It News

Population health has been a healthcare industry buzzword for over ten years now and organizations have sought to try to transform their structure and organization to achieve the promise of population health. While some have been successful, others have not. Jonas Varnum, Vice President of Population Health at Health Catalyst, discusses how to successfully operationalize population health and missteps to avoid.

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Generative AI for Contracts Is Here: New Tools to Accelerate Drafting and Editing

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.

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HHS study shows fewer video visits for older patients, people of color

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

An issue brief released this week from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation found that although telehealth use increased dramatically during the pandemic, not all patients appeared to have equal access to virtual services. The report , which analyzed data from the Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey from April to October 2021, found that about one in four respondents said they'd used telehealth over the p

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Along with rate increase for MA plans, CMS pitches closer look at social determinants of health

Healthcare Dive

Cowen analysts said the rate increase "should support another year of benefit enhancements & strong enrollment growth," and noted that in recent years the final rate has been higher than what was first proposed.

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COVID Causing Dangerously Long ER Waiting Times

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. U.S. hospitals are struggling to see patients in a timely manner amidst hours-long backlogs. The rise in Omicron variant cases has left many US hospitals unable to cope with the number of patients being admitted, […]. The article COVID Causing Dangerously Long ER Waiting Times appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Digital therapeutics industry is gaining steam, but usability questions still loom

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Virtua Health offers lessons in creating a Digital Transformation Office, Part 2

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

[ Click here for Part 1]. PART 2. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. Virtua Health's successful "get human fast" online engagement platform propelled patients to interact with staff and clinicians expanded to virtual consultations, chatbots and RPM. The enterprise health system created six distinct service lines supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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FDA must improve medical device interoperability through data standards: JAMA

Healthcare Dive

The authors list a range of potential positive outcomes of improved device interoperability, using the experience of the consumer technology and telecommunications industries to make their case.

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Artificial Intelligence Tools Have Immense Potential To Improve Overall Patient Care

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Andrew Pucher, CEO, Dascena, Inc. Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to have a transformative impact on the delivery of healthcare. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to light seemingly insurmountable challenges in the healthcare system […].

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HIMSS Evolves EMRAM to a More Oucomes-Driven Approach

Healthcare IT Today

If you’ve worked in the world of EHR and health IT, then you’re likely familiar with EMRAM (Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model) which was developed and maintained by HIMSS. It’s their flagship maturity model and if you haven’t heard of it, you may have heard a hospital talk about reaching Stage 7 adoption with their […].

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Best Practices for Sharing Protected Health Information (PHI)

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.