Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Pharmacies and providers nationwide are struggling to process prescriptions following the attack, while the American Hospital Association is urging hospitals to disconnect from UnitedHealth’s systems.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Living with diabetes is challenging. So is treating it, with a myriad of factors determining or influencing a person’s health. THE PROBLEM In addition, those living with diabetes must take care of themselves by performing daily, monthly, quarterly and yearly tasks to stay ahead of the chronic condition. These include: Checking their feet Reading food labels Walking after meals Taking medication(s) in the right dose at the right time Meeting with a dietitian to assure they have the right nu
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Bill of Health
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
By Samuel Hatfield Psilocybin and MDMA were recently rescheduled in Australia for clinical use, leading many mental health professionals to question how psychedelic therapy will work in practice. As part of a research team at the University of Sydney, I recently interviewed as number of experts in the field, with the aim of developing a comprehensive taxonomy of matters relating to psychedelic therapy that are or could be regulated.
MRO Compliance
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, the quest for interoperability has become paramount. While the vision of seamless data exchange promises improved patient care and streamlined operations, the journey is not without its hurdles. Here we explore the three main interoperability challenges that continue to shape the narrative in healthcare.
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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.
Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
The UnitedHealth-owned healthcare technology company disconnected its systems after detecting an “outside threat,” according to a status update page.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
Even in regions where healthcare delivery mechanisms are abundant, demand can be overwhelming while other healthcare operational challenges interfere with patient outcomes. As the digital transformation in healthcare lags behind other industries and value-based care drives provider efficiencies while the government invests in healthcare cost reduction and access measures, health tech is positively overripe for disruption.
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Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Investors continue to pour money into generative AI startups and Abridge is riding this wave as it rapidly scales its technology across U.S. health systems. | Along with the funding round, Abridge also announced an enterprise agreement with Connecticut-based Yale New Haven Health System to give thousands of clinicians access to its AI-powered clinical documentation technology.
Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
A mental healthcare provider didn’t have sufficient protections in place before a ransomware attack exposed the protected health information of more than 14,000 people, according to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Launched to help address health equity challenges facing Black cardiology patients, ChristianaCare said its digital medication adherence platform, developed with Story Health, has delivered significant improvements in outcomes for patients with hypertension and heart failure – two to three times in some key metrics. The health system plans to expand access to more patients.
Natalia Mazina
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
By Bhavesh Desai, PharmD, J.D. DIR fees have been a focus of debate since their implementation and for the past decade, they have been increasingly scrutinized in congress as well as at the state level. The companies (Pharmacy Benefit Manager – PBMs) responsible for reporting true and accurate drug prices to the CMS have used loopholes in legislation to their advantage.
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Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Change Healthcare is mitigating a "cybersecurity issue" that began Wednesday, and details remain scant. | Change Healthcare is mitigating a "cybersecurity issue" that began Wednesday, and details remain scant.
Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
The big question coming out of the health insurance earnings season is how much elevated utilization among seniors will carry over into 2024.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
China Medical University Hospital is leveraging Google Cloud's generative AI to support its doctors in providing cancer care. A formal collaboration between CMUH and Google Cloud was signed in December last year to use MedLM , a healthcare-specific gen AI based on the large language model, Med-PaLM 2. MedLM, which intelligence has been proven comparable to licensed doctors by scoring 85% on the MedQA-USMLE (United States Medical Licensing Examination), has become the foundation of the CMUH&#
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
A survey by the Cleveland Clinic revealed nearly four in ten respondents had reservations around seeking a second opinion if the provider used AI diagnostic tools.
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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.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Fourteen organizations representing providers, payers, consumer technology companies and employers are teaming up to cut through the noise and raise higher standards for finding digital health | Fourteen organizations representing providers, payers, consumer technology companies and employers are teaming up to cut through the noise and raise higher standards for finding digital health solutions that work and are worth the investment.
Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
The research found no differences in 30-day hospital readmissions or mortality, but the study’s authors said more analysis on patients’ long-term functioning was needed.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Hospital and health system C-suite executives and health IT leaders know the patient experience is crucial to ongoing success in healthcare. The question is: How to continually improve it? This week's podcast looks at what's on the horizon for the patient experience and seeks to answer that question. Our guest, from Press Ganey Associates, a patient experience consulting firm with 40 years of experience in the field, is Chrissy Daniels, chief experience officer.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
Ross' HIMSS24 session, "Tightly Integrating Telehealth for Better Access: Lessons From Northern Light," is scheduled for Tuesday, March 12, 10:30-11:30 a.m. in Room W204A. Learn more and register.
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.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
Given the impact that social factors have on overall health, employers can better manage costs and outcomes by embracing deeper, population-level data analysis, according to a new white paper. | Given the impact that social factors have on overall health, employers can better manage costs and outcomes by embracing deeper, population-level data analysis, according to a new white paper.
Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Federal regulators are seeking information about the for-profit hospital operator's inpatient admissions and dialysis processes and procedures.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Change Healthcare, a software and data analytics vendor that offers revenue cycle management, clinical decision support and other operations tools, announced Wednesday it took its systems offline due to a cyber incident. "Once we became aware of the outside threat, in the interest of protecting our partners and patients, we took immediate action to disconnect our systems to prevent further impact," the company said in an online incident report.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Brightside Health will be entering into new and expanded payer partnerships to support telemental healthcare access through Medicare and Medicaid, teaming with companies such as Blue Shield of California, CareOregon and Centene.
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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.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
A survey by the Cleveland Clinic revealed nearly four in ten respondents had reservations around seeking a second opinion if the provider used AI diagnostic tools.
Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
The attack against the University of Vermont Medical Center in 2020 cost the hospital millions of dollars and limited operations for weeks.
Becker's Health IT
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Change Healthcare, part of UnitedHealth Group, reported a "cybersecurity incident" on Feb. 21 that disrupted connectivity and healthcare operations nationwide.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Fans of healthcare price transparency and Grammy Award-winning bands should have their calendars marked for March 5 in Washington, D.C. | The Foo Fighters are joining the fight against price transparency with an upcoming, private concert in Washington, D.C., on behalf of advocacy group Power to the Patients.
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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.
Digital Health News
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
The World Health Organization Tuesday launched its new Global Initiative on Digital Health, designed to aid country-led digital health transformation.
Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
Under the new definition, hospitals can only receive disproportionate share hospital Medicaid reimbursements for beneficiaries who are primarily insured by the safety-net program.
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
The following is a guest article by Kevin Riley , CEO and President at Zyter|TruCare In an era dominated by the complex challenges of chronic diseases, which account for approximately 90% of healthcare costs , a strategic approach to chronic care management (CCM) is essential. This approach should integrate advanced technology with a deep comprehension of healthcare’s fundamental principles, effectively tackling the current challenges and proactively shaping the future of healthcare.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Under the False Claims Act, more than $1.8 billion in settlements and judgments was related to health-related matters in the last fiscal year, about two-thirds of the monetary fraud recoveries by t | Health fraud settlements under the False Claims Act exceeded $1.8 billion last year, according to the Department of Justice. The agency said it is still litigating Medicare Advantage cases against major insurers.
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