Healthcare It News

JUNE 20, 2022

Healthcare provider organizations and clinicians are fortunate that telehealth has gone mainstream as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Telehealth opens up many new avenues to expand access to care, streamline the delivery of care, create new workflows and improve patient outcomes. Hopefully the Congress and state legislatures will act soon to ensure the temporary reimbursement expansions for telemedicine will continue after the public health emergency ends.

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Healthcare Dive

JUNE 22, 2022

Spending due to inequities that drive late diagnoses and comorbidities is only expected to rise over the next few decades without intervention, according to research from Deloitte.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 22, 2022

By David Gindler & Jasper L. Tran. Has the worldwide distribution of COVID-19 vaccines been impacted by patent rights? David Gindler , head of IP at Milbank LA, and Jasper L. Tran , senior associate at Milbank LA, argue that the story is much more complicated — making vaccines involves much more than waiving patents, they explain. The following article, which is adapted from the authors’ conversation with Vanderbilt Law Review podcast editor Jacob Goodman on Hot Topics in Intellectual Proper

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Electronic Health Reporter

JUNE 20, 2022

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Healthcare is something that’s been around for a while, especially in the western world, but as with all things, digitalization is omnipresent and something that’s unavoidable. In this article, we’ll explore how digitalization is affecting […].

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 18, 2022

A shocking statistic was revealed at the session on ' Climate Crisis: Healthcare’s Responsibility to Our Planet' at the HIMSS22 European Conference on Thursday (16 June ). According to a report from the NGO, Healthcare without Harm , around 4.4% of the world’s net greenhouse gas emissions come from the healthcare sector – double those from the airline industry.

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Healthcare Dive

JUNE 24, 2022

As it currently stands, 26 states are deemed certain or likely to end abortion rights, making abortion effectively illegal in half of the country, according to the Guttmacher Institute.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JUNE 20, 2022

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Digital health is a rapidly growing field. As it expands, so must the security of medical devices, especially in an increasingly vulnerable digital space. While the various features and advantages of the connections in healthcare […]. The article 6 Best Practices For Medical Device Security appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 18, 2022

“I want to convince you in the next few minutes that I’m part of the solution, not necessarily just a problem,” Graham Prestwich, public and patient engagement lead, Yorkshire and Humber Academic Health Science Network, told delegates at the HIMSS22 European Conference. He was representing the voice of patients in the session ‘From Patient Engagement to Patient Empowerment’ in which a panel of experts discussed how citizens could be more included in digital health t

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Healthcare Dive

JUNE 23, 2022

“Nurses cannot provide the health care that they know they're capable of because of their working conditions,” said Robert Bruno, one of the report’s authors and a professor at the University of Illinois.

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MRO Compliance

JUNE 24, 2022

Follow the (Medical) Record: Don Hardwick on the Tate Chronicles. In this episode, we hear from host Don Hardwick, but this time as a guest on the Tate Chronicles, a Healthcare NOW Radio show revolved around healthcare technology. Don and Jim discuss release of information. HealthcareNOW Radio Podcast Network · Follow the (Medical) Record: Don's interview on The Tate Chronicles.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JUNE 21, 2022

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The healthcare industry plays an important role since it impacts people’s lives in various ways. As innovations continue to evolve, they have brought about significant changes in the quality of health services, particularly in delivering […].

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 24, 2022

There's nothing about a person's day that doesn't have an impact on their weight – and that's why the team at the Weight Management Center at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist needs to be able to interact and engage with patients as much as possible. The evidence from the organization's classic behavioral interventions shows that the more often staff engage patients, the better the patients do.

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Healthcare Dive

JUNE 24, 2022

Through the waiver granted by the CMS on Thursday, Colorado can use federal funds to set up a government-run health plan, a long-held progressive healthcare goal.

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MRO Compliance

JUNE 24, 2022

Fast Focus: ROI Staffing. Background Summary. ADP Research Institute recently conducted a 17-country survey to determine what workers love (or hate) about their jobs¹. ADP’s report is the most timely and extensive research available. The Institute concluded that workers in today’s economy value flexibility over money. The majority want companies with solid corporate ethics and values.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JUNE 21, 2022

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The healthcare industry utilizes many technologies to offer a more streamlined service to its patients. Most healthcare providers have shifted to digital means in providing the much-needed medical assistance to whoever needs it. So, a […]. The article 4 Benefits of Managed IT Services In Healthcare appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 22, 2022

Designed in collaboration with Luma Health, the new technologies aim to improve the care experience and boost satisfaction for patients – and help providers increase appointment-based revenue. Change Healthcare on Wednesday introduced its new Patient Engagement suite, showcasing new tools, developed with Luma Health, to help patients better navigate the care continuum and improve revenue cycle management for providers.

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Healthcare Dive

JUNE 23, 2022

The lawsuit identified at least 644 hospital systems or “medical provider web properties” from which Facebook allegedly knowingly receives patient data to create targeted advertising both on and off Facebook’s website.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 22, 2022

My dad walked into the waiting room to greet his next patient and made a bad pun (is there any other kind?) about the patient’s name. I rolled my eyes, but people loved it. Their doc knew them well enough to joke around with them. Relationships are essential to healthcare. For patients, caring relationships create […].

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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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Electronic Health Reporter

JUNE 21, 2022

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Tal Klein, CMO, Relay Network. Whether they are receiving care for a chronic condition or a more immediate disease, patients undergoing treatment are financially, mentally, emotionally and physically maxed out. As a result, healthcare […]. The article Feeds Are the Keystone To Building Members for Life appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 24, 2022

Rebecca Pinn, director of innovation strategy at EPAM Continuum, specializes in creative thinking about experience design. She also recently had an extended hospital stay that gave her time to do some thinking about some ways patient-facing technologies could be tailored to enable a much more humane and comfortable experience for inpatients and the clinicians who care for them.

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Healthcare Dive

JUNE 22, 2022

Solv Health CMO Robert Rohatsch contends that digital healthcare transformation will help GPs finally get back to what most of us really want to do in the first place — keep patients healthy.

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 20, 2022

Equip CEO and cofounder Kristina Saffran discusses the virtual eating disorder treatment startup's nationwide expansion and why the space needs more research and innovation.

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Health Populi

JUNE 20, 2022

When high-deductible health plans became part of health insurance design in America, they were lauded as giving patients “more skin in the game” of health care payments. The theory behind consumer-directed care was that patients-as-consumers would shop around for care, morph into rational consumers of medical services just as they would do purchasing autos or washing machines, and shift the cost-curve of American health care ever downward.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 23, 2022

Throughout Denver Health's pandemic vaccination efforts, the struggle was getting people who did not already have patient records with the health system into the system efficiently without burdening the call centers. THE PROBLEM. As the safety net health system for Denver Metro, Denver Health vaccinated many people who were not regular patients.

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Healthcare Dive

JUNE 21, 2022

From memorizing facts about illnesses to learning how to perform procedures, every medical and health science university offers curricula and opportunities to ensure that its students hone their hard skills.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 24, 2022

Usually we do a Fun Friday entry, but today didn’t seem like a great day to do a Fun Friday. Although, when I saw this image shared by Aaron Miri, I thought it was the perfect middle ground of something that’s eye opening and might give you something to think about as you head into the weekend. The world of #Healthcare #IT ??????? pic.twitter.com/wIMPsSJScn. — Aaron Miri (@AaronMiri) June 22, 2022.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 22, 2022

A lawsuit has been filed against Meta that alleges the social media giant has been knowingly collecting patient data from hospital websites via the Meta Pixel tracking tool, and in doing so has violated the privacy of millions of patients. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. Northern District of California and alleges violations of state and federal laws related to the collection of patient data without consent.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 21, 2022

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Healthcare Dive

JUNE 22, 2022

The justices declined to take up the case, leaving intact a lower court ruling that backed the 2014 CMS regulation requiring swift return of overpayments.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 24, 2022

The following is a guest article by Dr. Neecey Hudson, PhD – Founder & Chief Scientist at Hood Medicine Initiative. Pandemic preparedness has now become a paramount concern across the globe. From vaccine supply chain logistics to hospital capacity management, many nations have failed to provide competent response measures that equitably protect their citizens and reduce the spread of infection, while low and middle-income countries (LMICs) are facing enormous challenges to do so.

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