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Hospitals struggle with evacuations, lack of water in Hurricane Ian’s wake

Healthcare Dive

Thousands of nursing home and hospital patients have been moved to other facilities as recovery efforts continued Sunday.

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Digital health cannot deliver on its promise without patient activation

Healthcare It News

When it comes to changing patients’ health behaviour, simply providing them with information is not enough. "There’s a big gap between knowledge and intention," said Dr Praveen Deorani, senior data scientist at the Singapore Ministry of Health in his session " Data-driven Approach for Patient Activation and Behaviour Change.

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The Struggle to Survive in the Pandemic Prison

Bill of Health

By Jamal Spencer and Monik C. Jiménez. Prisons, jails, and other carceral facilities have been core sites of the COVID-19 pandemic, from initial outbreaks in Chinese prisons to some of the largest outbreaks in the U.S. The uniquely dangerous physical conditions within carceral facilities (i.e., overcrowding, poor ventilation, and lack of sanitation); a high prevalence of chronic diseases among incarcerated people; and high levels of physical movement through facilities, resulted in environmental

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Data Resilience Requires More Than An Annual Check Up

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Stephen Manley, CTO, Druva. The biggest healthcare innovation in the last twenty years is … data. Every day, healthcare organizations use data to operate more efficiently, improve patient care, and advance medical research. Over […]. The article Data Resilience Requires More Than An Annual Check Up appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Optimizing Medical Waste Management: A Guide to Best Practices

Feeling overwhelmed by medical waste regulations? This comprehensive guide unravels the complexities of medical waste disposal, ensuring you stay compliant and prioritize safety. Inside you'll find: Clear categorization: Learn to precisely classify medical waste for proper handling and disposal. Labeling & Storage: Discover best practices for clear labeling and secure storage of medical waste.

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Providers now required to share greater scope of patient data

Healthcare Dive

As of Thursday, the amount of data that healthcare entities must share to comply with sweeping information blocking regulations has increased, despite providers saying they’re not ready for the change.

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EHNAC and CARIN Alliance launch new accreditation program

Healthcare It News

The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission and The CARIN Alliance have partnered to bring both the CARIN Code of Conduct and EHNAC’s criteria review process to health plans, health systems, EHR vendors and others for reporting to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on their data practices and privacy protections. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Monthly Round-Up of What to Read on Pharma Law and Policy

Bill of Health

By? Ameet Sarpatwari , Liam Bendicksen , Alexander Egilman , and ? Aaron S. Kesselheim. Each month, members of the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) review the peer-reviewed medical literature to identify interesting empirical studies, policy analyses, and editorials on health law and policy issues. Below are the citations for papers identified from the month of August.

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SCOTUS won’t hear challenge to health worker vaccine mandate

Healthcare Dive

In January, the high court upheld the CMS rule mandating that healthcare workers be vaccinated against COVID-19 at medical facilities that receive federal funding.

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Digital engagement must put patients at the center of care

Healthcare It News

By Luciano Brustia, Regional Managing Director, Asia Pacific for InterSystems. Digital engagement is part of life in almost every industry. Consumers expect to interact with their suppliers digitally, and healthcare is now catching up. But healthcare is different. The “customer” data we collect is far more complex and difficult to interpret.

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Study: Few randomized clinical trials have been conducted for healthcare machine learning tools

Mobi Health News

A review published in JAMA Network Open evaluated 41 RCTs of machine learning interventions. None of the studies fully followed CONSORT-AI standards, a set of guidelines developed for clinical trials evaluating medical interventions that include AI.

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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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Abortion Bans Threatening Pregnant Patients’ Lives Are Unconstitutional

Bill of Health

By James G. Hodge, Jr., Jennifer Piatt, Erica N. White, Summer Ghaith, Madisyn Puchebner, and C. McKenna Sauer. Following the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , which overturned the constitutional right to abortion, laws went into effect in multiple states that restrict when abortions may be provided, including during potentially life-threatening emergencies.

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How tight nursing home capacity is bottlenecking hospital operations

Healthcare Dive

Large hospital operators reported increasing lengths of stay and difficulties discharging patients in the first half of 2022. The answer to why lies in a perennially stressed post-acute care chassis driven to the brink by COVID-19.

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Singapore's Ministry of Health expands virtual ward pilots

Healthcare It News

The Office of Healthcare Transformation under Singapore's Ministry of Health has tied up with the nation's three public healthcare clusters to scale their pilot home hospitalisation programmes. These programmes – National University Health System’s NUHS @ Home, Singapore General Hospital’s SGH @ Home and Yishun Health Medical Home – are now providing eligible patients with general medical conditions, such as skin infections, urinary tract infections, and COVID-19,

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New Digital Health Command to rise in Victoria

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A new Digital Health Command will be established in Victoria as part of the state government's latest hospital infrastructure project. According to a media release, this facility will enable the Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH) and Royal Women’s Hospital (RWH) to support regional, rural and smaller metropolitan services that care for patients locally through virtual care and specialist clinician-to-clinician consultation.

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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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Branding Dreams

Bill of Health

By Dustin Marlan. Advertisers are trying to market to us while we dream. This is not the science fiction of the film Inception or the series Black Mirror , but instead a troubling — and potentially illegal — new reality. To begin, consider three recent examples of dream advertising: Molson Coors ran an experiment in connection with its 2021 Super Bowl advertising campaign.

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CommonSpirit Health says it experienced ‘IT security incident’ in multiple regions

Healthcare Dive

Details are still emerging on the incident, which is impacting multiple divisions of the 140-hospital system and causing patient procedures to be rescheduled in some areas.

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DEI in patient education improves engagement, lowers costs

Healthcare It News

Incorporating diversity into channels and platforms like Emmi, Wolters Kluwer Health's patient-facing personalized education tool leveraged by providers, payers and partners, is about empowering and encouraging patients to be part of their healthcare decision-making, said Evan Heigert, brand and creative director overseeing patient engagement across Wolters Kluwer Health.

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Corrective Action Plans: Leveling the Audit Playing Field with CAPs

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Dana Finnegan, MDaudit. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has made no secret of its intentions to crack down on fraud, abuse, and waste, throwing more budget dollars into audits, heightening program […]. The article Corrective Action Plans: Leveling the Audit Playing Field with CAPs appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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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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Proposed Amendments Would Make Foreign Investment in India’s Biological Resources Easier

Bill of Health

By Aparajita Lath. Indian lawmakers are currently debating proposed amendments that would make it easier for foreign investors to research and develop products from native biological resources, such as plants. India is one of the 17 internationally recognized mega biodiversity countries , and hosts four of the 35 globally recognized biodiversity hotspots.

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Removing the complexity from healthcare payments

Healthcare Dive

The healthcare industry has made significant strides in care quality improvement, but its approach to submitting and paying claims is still overly complex.

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MIT, MGH create VR system to advance physical therapy at home

Healthcare It News

MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital researchers created a motion and muscle engagement monitoring system for unsupervised physical rehabilitation, which could help with injuries and better mobility for the elderly and athletes, they say. WHY IT MATTERS. Disability conditions benefit from physical rehabilitation, but there aren’t enough physical therapists to go around.

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Telehealth and RPM on the Montana frontier

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

One Health, based in Hardin, Montana, is a family of Federally Qualified Health Centers that provides integrated primary care to rural and frontier communities in Montana and Wyoming. It has 12 clinics spanning from the Canadian border to the Montana/North Dakota border to northern Wyoming. The service area (though not continuous) covers a region roughly equivalent to the states of New York, New Jersey and Vermont – combined.

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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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Federal Failures to Protect Incarcerated People During Public Health Crises

Bill of Health

By Rachel Kincaid. As the COVID-19 pandemic persists, and as we face the reality that future pandemics are coming (or have already begun ), it’s a fitting time for the United States to take stock of how the carceral system has exacerbated the harms of COVID-19, and for policymakers to seriously consider what can and should be done differently going forward.

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CommonSpirit’s ‘IT security incident’ was likely cyberattack, security experts say

Healthcare Dive

Moving systems offline and interrupting access to electronic health records is viewed as a defensive move, experts told Healthcare Dive.

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The importance of data for clinical decision-making

Healthcare It News

"If we're genuine about changing patient experience we have to make sure we collect data and make the clinical decisions as close to the data collection as possible," said AJ Missaghi, CTO of Healthcare and Life Sciences at Dell Technologies. During his session, " Healthcare Industrial Revolution," sponsored by Dell Technologies, Missaghi argued it was important that healthcare leaders use insights from data to bring new levels of efficiency to patient care.

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How utilizing technology could ease senior care at home

Mobi Health News

Panelists and speakers explored the use and adoption of technology for senior living at the Seniors and Caretakers: Living Independently event.

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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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LifeBridge Health Agrees to $9.5 Million Settlement to Resolve 2016 Data Breach Claims

HIPAA Journal

LifeBridge Health Inc. has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit to resolve claims from patients affected by a data breach that was discovered in 2018. The total value of the settlement is $9.475 million, which includes an $800,000 fund to cover claims from class members. In March 2018, LifeBridge Health discovered a malware infection that provided unauthorized individuals with access to a server that hosted its electronic medical records, patient registration, and billing systems.

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Telehealth use rose overall in July, report finds

Healthcare Dive

Telehealth use increased in the West, Midwest and South in July while it fell in the Northeast, according to Fair Health’s monthly telehealth data out Monday.

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The changing nature of global healthcare consumerism amid COVID-19

Healthcare It News

Global experts shared their perspectives on the shift of healthcare consumer demands and expectations worldwide. The keynote session, "Care isn't What it Used to Be: The Need to Elevate Consumer Experience ," at HIMSS22 APAC was joined by Dr Vas Metupalle, CMO at Meta Health, Dr Manish Kohli, Beyond Horizon Health CEO and senior advisor of Albright Stonebridge Group; Benedict Tan, SingHealth's Group Chief Digital Strategy Officer and Chief Data Officer; and Kevin Percival, Chie

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Report: Digital health funding drops again in Q3

Mobi Health News

According to Rock Health's analysis, startups raised $2.2 billion across 125 deals, making Q3 the lowest quarter by dollars raised since Q4 2019.

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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.