Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 29, 2022
Galileo is a recently launched telehealth service that delivers 24/7 primary and multi-specialty care in both English and Spanish. It aims to set itself apart with its fully bilingual service offerings. Dr. Jason Chirichigno is Galileo's clinical systems leader. His goal is to help remove language as a barrier for access to healthcare for the 53 million U.S.
Healthcare Dive
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
New findings from JAMA Psychiatry suggest virtual visits were effective in managing certain conditions, like substance use disorders, among Medicare beneficiaries.
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Bill of Health
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
By James Toomey. Many people, including, it seems, most advocates for law reform, assume that older adults are uniquely vulnerable to scams, and indeed that senior scams are a unique social problem demanding a unique legal solution. But in “The Age of Fraud” (forthcoming in the Harvard Journal on Legislation , winter 2023), about which I’ve blogged here before , I reported the results of an empirical study suggesting that, in fact, younger adults were as much as three times more like
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
The year 2020 was one of the most challenging years for the healthcare industry. Many healthcare providers had to rethink the way they serve their patients, access systems securely and innovate care services and delivery. During the "The key to effectively harnessing digitisation in healthcare" webinar on 23 June last year, Raj Kurup, Digital Strategy Lead for Healthcare at Equinix Asia Pacific and Chad Rajapakse, Client Account Lead in Health and Public Sector for Accenture Australia,
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MRO Compliance
AUGUST 30, 2022
Follow the (Medical) Record: Rita Bowen and The Sequoia Project. In this episode, host Don Hardwick interviews Rita Bowen, VP of Privacy, Compliance and HIM Policy at MRO, to learn more about how The Sequoia Project is aiming to identify, prioritize and collaborate on the most pressing challenges to nationwide health information sharing. Rita is currently the Treasurer on the Board of Directors for the Sequoia Project.
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 29, 2022
The investigation comes as a strike by therapists over staffing issues at Kaiser facilities in Northern California enters its third week.
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Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
Vibrent Health CEO Praduman "PJ" Jain, who also serves as principal investigator of the NIH All of Us Research Program's Participant Technology Systems Center, joined Healthcare IT News Executive Editor Mike Miliard to talk about the All of Us program, why his company is working with NIH on the initiative, how to ensuring clinical trials represent a broader cross-section of society, and what recent FDA guidance on clinical trial diversity might accomplish.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 30, 2022
The National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, has provided $23 million to four universities to develop cancer care telehealth centers as part of NCI's Telehealth Research Centers of Excellence initiative. Under the federal Cancer Moonshot initiative, TRACE aims at how best to use and sustain telehealth to provide cancer-related care.
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 30, 2022
Outpatient volumes and surgery times are down, while costly inpatient stays are getting longer, suggesting that patients are sicker, Kaufman Hall said.
Bill of Health
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
By Laura Hannon and Alex Willhouse . An estimated 65 percent of the United States prison population has an active substance use disorder (SUD). Providing comprehensive substance use treatment to incarcerated individuals has been shown to reduce both drug use and crime upon release. Treatment is a critical intervention to prevent opioid overdose deaths, which the CDC estimates increased by 15.4 percent, from 70,029 in 2020 to approximately 80,816 in 2021.
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Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Every year, over 100,000 newborns die and 60,000 suffer lifelong disability because of newborn jaundice. In Asia, it is one of the top ten leading causes of disability in newborns. Jaundice is also a leading cause of hospital readmission after birth in high-income economies. When detected early, treatment of jaundice is easily treated with phototherapy.
Health Populi
AUGUST 29, 2022
The concept that all companies are “health care companies” takes on greater import in the wake of the pandemic. The 2023 Large Employers’ Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey from the Business Group on Health (BGH) found that two in three large employers see their health and well-being strategy as an integral part of their overall workforce strategy.
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 29, 2022
An appeals court ruled it lacked the authority to force OSHA to make certain rules, leaving discretion up to the workplace safety agency, according to court documents.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 30, 2022
Southcoast Health System, based in New Bedford, Massachusetts, has employed a multi-pronged approach to solving different issues through telemedicine. THE PROBLEM. While early goals involved keeping care accessible and safe during the pandemic, staff have worked to focus on continuous improvement and adding programs that would build for long-term value in care delivery.
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Healthcare It News
AUGUST 28, 2022
Before becoming executive director for Mayo Clinic Asia-Pacific, Royston Lek had been involved in work around direct patient care. He was a former COO of an integrated healthcare services company in China and the managing director in Singapore for a similar company that operates across Asia. In holding these executive roles in healthcare services companies, Lek learned about the immense challenges of healthcare providers in delivering care to patients.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 29, 2022
A review of studies published in npj Digital Medicine found diagnostic and triage accuracy varied but was generally low, raising concerns about using symptom checkers as patient-facing tools.
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 31, 2022
Health First’s decision to terminate their agreement — Oscar’s first full-service tech deal — will cause the insurtech to lose out on up to $60 million in revenue this year.
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 30, 2022
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this month’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 9/2 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This month’s chat will be hosted by Erica Olenski Johansen ( @thegr8chalupa ) on the topic “ Back to the Basics: Implications of Interoperability. ”. When #HITsm first began , the initial conversations were rooted in a mission to invite health IT professionals to the larger industry conversation.
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HIPAA Journal
AUGUST 31, 2022
The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) has issued a warning to the healthcare and public health sector (HPH) about one of the most capable and aggressive cybercrime syndicates currently in operation – Evil Corp. The group operates out of Russia and has been operational since at least 2009 and is responsible for the infamous Dridex banking Trojan and several other ransomware and malware variants, including BitPaymer, Hades, Phoenixlocker, WastedLocker, SocGholish, GameOver Zeus
Mobi Health News
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
Receiving opioid use disorder-related telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with lower odds of overdose and better retention using medications like buprenorphine, according to a study published in JAMA Psychiatry.
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 30, 2022
The HHS so far has made over 1 million vials available to jurisdictions, “which is nearly enough to reach the entire population that's most at risk,” Secretary Xavier Becerra said during a call with reporters Tuesday.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 29, 2022
HIMS22 APAC The first HIMSS in-person conference taking place in the Asia-Pacific region since the pandemic will see healthcare changemakers gathering in beautiful Bali from 26 to 29 September 2022. Our reporters will be present to cover discussions on care, data and connectivity, as well as how Indonesia can learn from the lessons of other nations to advance its digital transformation in healthcare.
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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.
HIPAA Journal
AUGUST 30, 2022
The Wilsonville, OR-based home health care service provider and nursing home operator, Avamere Holdings, is facing a class action lawsuit over a major data breach that affected 96 senior living and healthcare facilities and resulted in the exposure of the protected health information of more than 380,000 individuals. The breach occurred Avamere Health Services – a business associate of Avamere Holdings that provides information technology services.
Healthcare IT Today
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
Yesterday, we shared a number of the insights into the health data and interoperability needs in healthcare. Today, we’re going to share insights from our expert community for some of the more classic IT infrastructure needs in healthcare. Charlie Clarke, Senior Vice President of Technology at hc1. In its simplest form, treat infrastructure as cattle, not as a pet.
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 30, 2022
Respirators were one of the first medical devices identified as being in critical shortage during the COVID-19 public health emergency, the agency said.
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
What You Should Know: – A new report from KLAS focuses on healthcare-specific deployments of Microsoft Cloud Technologies, especially Microsoft Azure, which is receiving strong market interest. – This study is meant to help organizations considering Microsoft Cloud technologies understand their current use, the overall customer experience, and the impact of the solutions.
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HIPAA Journal
AUGUST 31, 2022
Salida, CO-based First Street Family Health has suffered a destructive cyberattack, in which files containing patient information were exfiltrated and then deleted from its systems. This method of attack is becoming more common, where data is stolen, deleted, and then threats are issued to publish or sell the data if payment is not made to the attackers, but files are not encrypted using ransomware.
American Medical Compliance
AUGUST 31, 2022
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a statement saying that people no longer need to quarantine if they are exposed to someone with COVID-19. This recommendation also holds for people not fully vaccinated. The CDC guidelines state that exposed people now only need to wear masks while indoors for up to 10 days. They also should test for COVID-19 on day 5.
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 30, 2022
Kochava called the lawsuit “frivolous” and said the FTC was operating under a “fundamental misunderstanding” of its data marketplace business.
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
What You Should Know: – Luna, the leading in-home physical therapy (PT) platform, today announces the launch of a value-based savings program for orthopedic practices to reduce post-acute care costs by 55-70%. – Top orthopedic groups are turning to Luna to reduce costs and deliver this innovative, in-person form of care, including Hoag (Orange County), Resurgens Orthopaedics (Atlanta), and dozens of others.
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