Healthcare It News

MAY 12, 2023

The pace of innovation is picking up as health IT vendors seek to integrate artificial intelligence into their offerings for provider operations, medical testing, patient engagement and other use cases. Aspira Women's Health, Belong.life and Outbound AI are just three companies that have announced new AI-driven technologies, supporting advanced discovery of ovarian cancer, oncology patient engagement and billing administration, respectively.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 8, 2023

The first-quarter report comes weeks after the operator announced its plans to acquire Geisinger Health and form a new nonprofit with the purpose of acquiring and operating other nonprofit systems.

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Bill of Health

MAY 8, 2023

By Chloe Reichel and Seema Mohapatra Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) such as in-vitro fertilization (IVF) face an uncertain future as anti-abortion policymakers and advocates work to restrict access to reproductive care post- Dobbs. Until last summer, modern ART had been performed in the United States with the Constitutional protection for abortion care in the background.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 8, 2023

At FirstHealth of the Carolinas, a health system based in Pinehurst, North Carolina, bed capacity always seemed to be at the forefront of challenges, a not uncommon situation in healthcare. Having more bed capacity is always helpful, but that usually means construction of some sort. FirstHealth staff thought of a way to increase hospital bed capacity without laying a single brick.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 8, 2023

The New York City-based Urban Health Plan used artificial intelligence to improve operational efficiency and patient care and got a handle on its annually high patient no-show rates with cost-effective patient interventions. Higher-than-average missed appointments No-shows are due to multiple factors, including social determinants of health like transportation.

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Bill of Health

MAY 12, 2023

By Valarie K. Blake and Elizabeth Y. McCuskey In vitro fertilization (IVF), like most medical care in the U.S., costs far more than most people can afford out-of-pocket: over $12,500 per cycle, with multiple cycles typically required. But, unlike most other expensive medical care, IVF rarely has insurance coverage to defray the cost. In 2020, only 27% of employers with 500+ employees and 42% of employers with 20,000+ employees covered IVF in their employer plans.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 10, 2023

Augusta University Health launched its Virtual Care at Home program in February 2021 as a direct response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Like hospitals across the nation, it was limited on bed capacity and had throughput issues. THE PROBLEM The program was aimed at supporting the inpatient care team by discharging patients (ages 18 and up) from the medical center a few days earlier to help reduce length of stay and free up beds by providing virtual monitoring 24/7 through nurses, episodic monitoring

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Healthcare It News

MAY 12, 2023

Because mobile devices are generally security weak points for organizations, QR codes that are designed to ease processes such as image file transfers may leave protected health data vulnerable. Sophisticated bad actors can replace a genuine QR code with a clone that redirects users to a similar website where patient and personal data can be intercepted.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 10, 2023

Vaccines, which have been crucial to curbing the threat of the virus, will remain free for the vast majority of people in the U.S., but over-the-counter tests will no longer be covered for most.

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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.

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Bill of Health

MAY 9, 2023

By Judith Daar In February 2023, a Louisville lawmaker introduced a bill that would prosecute women for criminal homicide for having an abortion. The Kentucky Prenatal Equal Protection Act , introduced by Republican Representative Emily Callaway, extends the state’s criminal abortion law to pregnant women for any termination not linked to a life-threatening condition or spontaneous miscarriage.

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MRO Compliance

MAY 12, 2023

HIMSS23: A Look Back to Look Forward The HIMSS Global Health Conference and Exhibit returned in full force to Chicago’s McCormick Place Convention Center during April 2023. Our team attended, presented, and exhibited at the event along with over 35,000 attendees and 1,200 healthcare technology companies. Interoperability and partnerships were two common themes throughout the exhibit hall, during educational sessions, and across a wide variety of industry meetings hosted by MRO.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 12, 2023

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 8, 2023

The medical associations said preventive health services are essential to increase longevity and quality of life, and that medical evidence should dictate preventive care recommendations rather than political considerations.

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Bill of Health

MAY 10, 2023

By Naomi Cahn and Sonia Suter In the aftermath of Dobbs , as barriers to accessing fertility care increase, one area of growing interest is informal (“DIY”) sperm donation, which does not use sperm banks or fertility clinics and thus appears to challenge some of the class and race inequities in access to assisted reproductive technology. First, accessing sperm outside of official channels allows participant to evade any potential regulation of who can access ART.

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MRO Compliance

MAY 9, 2023

Case Study: Banner Health Background Summary Banner Health’s large in-house release of information (ROI) operation sought guidance on how to optimize their ROI. They also recognized the need for a new technology platform to manage ROI requests. Essential priorities to meet this need included increased security and compliance, risk mitigation, comprehensive technology, support services, and the ability to protect their organization with a trusted partner.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 10, 2023

This past week, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said it would temporarily extend telemedicine flexibilities for the prescription of certain controlled medications granted under the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, which is set to expire on May 11. This week, the DEA added some specificity to that promise – allowing an extension of six months, through November 11, 2023, and, in tandem with HHS' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Serv

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 10, 2023

The head of the agency said the models are “ushering in the revolution that many of us were hoping for,” but cautioned that the sector will need to be regulated appropriately.

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MAY 12, 2023

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 8, 2023

A cyberattack on Murfreesboro Medical Clinic & SurgiCenter (MMC) in Tennessee forced the healthcare provider to completely shut down operations for around two weeks to contain to attack and restore its IT systems. It is common for healthcare organizations to perform an emergency shutdown of the network to contain a cyberattack and limit the harm caused, and to operate under emergency procedures with staff recording patient information manually while systems are out of action.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 12, 2023

Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) find important applications in professional training, particularly for doctors. The value and complexity of medical training justify the cost of the head-borne devices. This article explores research at Inteleos to improve the use of augmented and virtual reality, which I’ll talk about together under the commonly used abbreviation XR.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 10, 2023

By selling its Brand New Day and Central Health MA plans, Bright Health, which would no longer be in the insurance business following the sale, intends to focus on its consumer care products, CFO Cathy Smith said.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 11, 2023

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Wonil Gregg, vice president of customer engagement and experience, DCPerform. Whether you’re a customer or a worker, chances are you’re all too familiar with the persistent challenges of stockouts and overstocks across the healthcare […] The article Best Practices for Reducing Stock Outs and Overstocks In the Healthcare Industry appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 9, 2023

NextGen Healthcare has started notifying more than 1 million individuals across the United States about a hacking incident that exposed their protected health information. NextGen Healthcare is an Atlanta, GA-based provider of electronic health records and practice management solutions to doctors and ambulatory care providers. On March 30, 2023, suspicious activity was detected in its NextGen Office system and third-party cybersecurity experts were engaged to conduct a forensic investigation to

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

In Disney’s Big Hero 6 , the protagonist, Hiro Hamada, will get stuck in a problem after working on it for a while because he’s becoming too set in his way of thinking. And he is only able to find the solution thanks to his brother’s, Tadashi Hamada, words ‘find a new angle, look for another way out.’ Health inequality and discrimination is not a new problem in healthcare.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 9, 2023

The Monday lawsuit seeks to remove safety restrictions on mifepristone or, alternatively, prevent further altering of access to the drug.

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