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California to manufacture its own insulin, Newsom says

Healthcare Dive

Saying the medicine’s high cost “epitomizes market failures,” California’s governor announced a $100 million budget to create a production facility and develop affordable insulin products.

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HIMSSCast: What does the future of AI in healthcare look like?

Healthcare It News

The avenues of artificial intelligence and machine learning research are expanding widely and rapidly. Meta says it plans to tailor its AI explorations by analyzing the structures and networks of the human brain , hoping to map better deep learning algorithms by patterning them on the neural activities of real human cells. Over at Google, meanwhile, one of its top engineers says he's convinced a chatbot he worked with has achieved human-like sentience.

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Change for the Medical Malpractice Compensation System in England?

Bill of Health

By John Tingle. It is fair to say that the British public are generally speaking very proud of our National Health Service in England, and treasure it greatly. The NHS Constitution sets out the seven key principles which guide the NHS in all its activities, and these include: The NHS provides a comprehensive service, available to all. Access to NHS services is based on clinical need, not an individual’s ability to pay.

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The key relationship between health equity and telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Health inequity is the result of the behavior of people. It is not the result of anything natural. It involves structural inequalities in the delivery of care – inequalities that are avoidable. Trying to correct health inequity is part of the job for Toni Land, head of clinical healthcare experience at Medallia, a patient and customer experience management company.

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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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Digital health funding is cooling down

Healthcare Dive

This year’s trajectory suggests overall funding will fall significantly short of last year’s, as investor confidence is shaken by global conflict and inflation concerns, according to a Rock Health report.

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Healthcare's newest pivot: consumer identity as the cornerstone of digital health

Healthcare It News

Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Patient Engagement Smart health systems are realizing that they must think about their sustainable growth strategies in terms of end-to-end user experience. Paddy Padmanabhan Healthcare's newest pivot: consumer identity as the cornerstone of digital health. Smart health systems are realizing that they must think about their sustainable growth strategies in terms of end-to-end user experience.

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Marshfield Clinic creating hospital-at-home program with Dispatch Health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Marshfield Clinic Health System is partnering with DispatchHealth to bring its rural patients in-home medical care. WHY IT MATTERS. Marshfield serves a population in Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula with more than 60 Marshfield Clinic locations and 11 hospitals. With this new collaboration, it will expand access to its patients in rural communities in their homes.

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New York files False Claims Act case against Fresenius in whistleblower suit

Healthcare Dive

The state of New York has formally joined a lawsuit against the major dialysis provider that alleges Fresenius performed thousands of medically unnecessary vascular procedures on kidney disease patients.

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Central Adelaide Local Health Network introduces digital 'pre-hab' for surgery patients

Healthcare It News

The Central Adelaide Local Health Network has launched a new digital programme which aims to help make a patient fit for surgery. The surgical pre-rehabilitation programme dubbed My Prehab was developed in partnership with Health Translation SA, The Hospital Research Foundation, and healthcare tech company Personify Care. According to a media release, it includes a comprehensive health screening questionnaire and provides a personalised checklist of items which patients can discuss with their GP

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Reproductive Governance in a Post-Roe US: The Weaponization of Health Systems

Bill of Health

By Alicia Ely Yamin. I was living and working in Peru in 2001, when Karen Noelia Llantoy discovered she was pregnant with an anencephalic fetus. Llantoy, a minor at the time, became profoundly depressed. Her own physician, a social worker, and a psychiatrist all concurred that she should have a termination, as anencephaly is a fatal brain defect that also poses an unnecessary risk to the mother’s physical health, and the pregnancy was having a severe impact on Llantoy’s mental health.

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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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How AI and NLP can boost care via remote patient monitoring

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Shannon Hastings is the chief technology officer at Project Ronin, where he helps to lead the organization in delivering systems to help cancer patients and clinicians, including remote patient monitoring for cancer patients. Ronin uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing and electronic health records in its work to manage cancer patients.

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Doctors must provide abortions in emergencies, regardless of state law, HHS says

Healthcare Dive

HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra sent a letter to providers Monday that said federal law "protects" clinical judgment providers may take in treating pregnant patients.

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Critical digital systems yet to be implemented across Australia's residential aged care sector: survey

Healthcare It News

The Aged Care Technology Consortium in Australia has noted the dearth of critical digital system implementations across the residential aged care sector in a recent nationwide survey. FINDINGS. The survey, which was conducted in June, gathered responses mostly from facility managers (37%), followed by nursing directors (20%), CEOs (13%) and care managers (7%).

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Your State as a Determinant of Health: Sharecare’s 2021 Community Well-Being Index

Health Populi

People whose sense of well-being shifted positively in the past two years are finding greater personal purpose and financial health, we see in Sharecare’s Community Well-Being Index – 2021 State Rankings Report. Sharecare has been annually tracking well-being across the 50 U.S. states since 2008. When the study launched, Well-Being Index evaluated five domains: physical, social, community, purpose, and financial.

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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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Recent Federal Efforts to Affirm Access to Reproductive Healthcare Services

Compliance Now

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , there have been two notable federal efforts to establish or reaffirm access to women’s reproductive healthcare services. First, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and the Treasury (collectively, the Departments) released a letter at the end of June reiterating health plan responsibilities surrounding access to contraceptives under the ACA.

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Tracking state abortion bans in the US

Healthcare Dive

On Tuesday, abortion became temporarily legal again in Louisiana after a Baton Rouge judge granted a temporary restraining order blocking the state’s trigger ban law.

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In the EU, early patient engagement is a must-have for research projects

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Oklahoma State University Settles HIPAA Case with OCR for $875,000

HIPAA Journal

The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has announced that Oklahoma State University – Center for Health Sciences (OSU-CHS) has agreed to settle a HIPAA investigation stemming from a web server hacking incident and has agreed to pay a financial penalty of $875,000 to resolve potential violations of the HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules.

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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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Supreme Court Rules Employers Can Limit Benefit for Dialysis

Compliance Now

By: Megan Diehl, Manager, Compliance Consulting, MZQ Consulting. The Supreme Court has been the focus of a great deal of the national discourse over the past several weeks. In addition to the cases making headlines, the Court also issued a 7-2 ruling in a case directly related to employer sponsored health plans, Marietta Memorial Hospital Employee Health Benefit Plan v.

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Antibiotic-resistant infections rose in hospitals during pandemic, CDC data shows

Healthcare Dive

Personal protective equipment and staffing shortages; longer patient stays and use of devices like catheters and ventilators; and significant surges in antibiotic use contributed to the rise in infections, according to the CDC.

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Taking digital care to patients with cancer

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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In A Declining Consumer Tech Spending Forecast, Consumer Health Tech Will Grow in 2022: Reading the CTA Tea Leaves

Health Populi

Supply chain challenges, inflation, and plummeting consumer economic sentiment are setting the stage for a decline in consumer electronics revenues for 2022. However, there will be some bright spots of growth for consumer tech spending, for 5G smartphones, smart home applications, gaming, and health technologies, noted in the Consumer Technology Association’s CTA U.S.

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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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GIS + Healthcare is All About Sharing

Healthcare IT Today

Almost all of the healthcare implementations of Geographic Information System (GIS) being discussed at the 2022 Esri User Conference would not be possible if GIS data was not shared so readily by government organizations. When combined, these disparate datasets lead to important health insights that would have been difficult or impossible to obtain using non-GIS methods.

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UnitedHealth to offer some drugs, including insulin, at no cost share in 2023

Healthcare Dive

The new offering is a bid to address inflationary pressures and prevent worse health outcomes down the line, CEO Andrew Witty told investors Friday.

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Report: Digital health funding falls after booming 2021

Mobi Health News

The Rock Health report found U.S. digital health startups raised $10.3 billion in the first half of 2022, putting the year on track to fall short of 2021. But there are some bright spots for the sector.

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Over 10,000 Organizations Targeted in Ongoing MFA-Bypassing Phishing and BEC Campaign

HIPAA Journal

Microsoft has warned of a large-scale phishing campaign targeting Office 365 credentials that bypasses multi-factor authentication (MFA). The campaign is ongoing and more than 10,000 organizations have been targeted by scammers in the past 10 months. Microsoft reports that one of the phishing runs used emails with HTML file attachments, with the email telling the user about a Microsoft voicemail message that had been received.

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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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How AI Can Advance Health Equity

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Sachin Patel, CEO at Apixio. The use of AI in healthcare is gaining fast traction, with the total market expected to grow over 46% CAGR, reaching $96 billion by 2028. While AI has the potential to improve health equity, intrinsic and extrinsic biases that exist from the lack of diverse data exacerbate the problem.

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Transforming virtual care to virtual-first care beyond the pandemic

Healthcare Dive

The rapid expansion of virtual-first healthcare is dramatically reshaping how care is accessed and delivered.

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Study: Wearables can empower patients, but barriers prevent greater adoption

Mobi Health News

Researchers found three themes in their review of studies on wearables: the role of providers and potential benefits to care, driving behavior change and barriers to use.

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Data Brokers and Health Apps Probed Over Privacy Practices

HIPAA Journal

On Friday, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform announced that a probe has been initiated to determine how data brokers and health app companies are collecting and selling individuals’ personal reproductive health data. The probe was initiated as a result of the SCOTUS decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, as members of the committee were concerned that the personal data of individuals seeking reproductive healthcare services may be misused.

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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.