Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

By Aparajita Lath. The Truth Pill , authored by Dinesh Thakur and Prashant Reddy , is a monumental work that convincingly shows that drug regulation is but a myth in India. In their investigative style, the authors explain drug regulation in India through the lens of history, both Indian and global. The book’s combination of history and contemporary issues makes for an immersive and compelling read.

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Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The explosion of funding during the pandemic was a good thing, but the ongoing market correction is a good thing too as only the best business models will survive, prominent investors argued at HLTH.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The American Medical Association's had offered a blueprint as a call to action to address the divide between the unprecedented levels of digital health funding, partnerships, mergers and acquisitions – and their underwhelming impact, thus far, on healthcare quality improvement. WHY IT MATTERS. The report, Closing the digital health disconnect: Blueprint for optimizing digitally enabled care is composed of six foundational actions recommended by the AMA: Build for patients and clinician

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Gevik Nalbandian, vice president of software engineering, Lyniate. As healthcare providers manage market shifts such as value-based care, increased consumer expectations, staffing shortages, changing reimbursement models, and competition from non-traditional healthcare players including Alphabet, […].

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

By? Ameet Sarpatwari , Avi va Wang , Liam Bendick sen , 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 relevant to current or potential future work in the Division.

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Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The accelerators, announced Monday at the HLTH conference, were developed in tandem with several Google customers, including LifePoint Health and Hackensack Meridian Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Combining research on provider burnout, electronic health record experiences and other data, KLAS researchers address what organizations can do to address staff shortages and patient care. WHY IT MATTERS. Most of the measured contributors to burnout have become less prevalent than they were at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new Provider Burnout and the EHR Experience report from the KLAS Arch Collaborative.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

By Sarah Gabriele. Filters on social media apps such as Instagram and TikTok are great to take silly pictures alone and with friends, and they often give us a good laugh. However, as Dr. Christine Stabler from Penn Medicine writes , they also create an illusion, a perfection that we struggle to live up to every day. This is the case even if almost everyone is well aware that pictures are filtered and carefully selected, and that pictures do not always represent reality.

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Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The tech giant, despite past setbacks, is continuing user testing around a consumer-facing health record. “It’s an ongoing curiosity,” Chief Health Officer Karen DeSalvo told Healthcare Dive at the HLTH conference.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The value-based care model is gaining momentum in the healthcare industry, and it is not hard to see why. After all, value-based care – which rewards healthcare providers with incentives based on the quality of care they provide to patients – has been shown to improve healthcare outcomes and reduces costs for patients. On paper, value-based care should be an easy sell for hospitals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Covenant Health, a health system based in Knoxville, Tennessee, had a problem with telemedicine – a lack of physician specialists needed in rural communities. THE PROBLEM. Covenant Health began its journey with telehealth a decade prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and served as a pioneer in the region in virtual care. The health system's telehealth stroke program was begun in 2012, developing the region's first comprehensive stroke center.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

By Bailey Kennedy. If a government commits a tort, it can be sued — but the United Nations cannot be. That’s because it is generally understood that the UN has absolute immunity , meaning that no national court has jurisdiction over the UN. This immunity is justified on the basis that the UN cannot effectively fulfill its role in the world if it is constantly at risk of being hauled into court around the globe.

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Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The amount of messages Cleveland Clinic providers are answering on the portal has doubled since 2019, prompting the system to start billing for those that require more time and expertise.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Virtual care companies and payer care management also have access to Wolters Kluwer, Health content on Azure. WHY IT MATTERS. The first phase of the partnership focuses on leveraging Wolters Kluwer’s healthcare information products – UpToDate, Lexicomp and Emmi, a personalized education tool – into new applications, like Digital Health Architect.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Most South Koreans are willing to use telemedicine again in the future, especially those living in rural towns and villages, according to a survey report commissioned by the Korea Health Industry Development Institute, an institution affiliated with the Ministry of Health and Welfare. FINDINGS. The said survey was carried out online by Hankook Research in September and involved around 1,700 respondents aged 19 and above.

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HIPAA Journal

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The Governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Wolf, has signed Senate Bill 696 into law, which expands the definition of personal information under the Breach of Personal Information Notification Act that warrants individual notifications to be issued in the event of a data breach. The updated law will take effect on May 2, 2023. The updated definition of personal information now includes medical information, health insurance information, and usernames and passwords.

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Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The company is doubling down on virtual care with its latest health business: a marketplace allowing customers to choose from a network of telehealth providers for a variety of common medical needs.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Salesforce this past week announced the launch of a new customer relationship management product that works with existing electronic health records. WHY IT MATTERS. The Patient 360 for Health CRM platform is designed for cost efficiency and productivity, according to Salesforce. The company boasts of several of its features: Behavioral Health, which it says gives clinicians and case managers tools like interactive health timelines populated with patient health milestones and behavioral events, c

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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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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Epic HIM Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Stoltenberg Consulting Inc. and is remote. Here’s a description of the position: Currently seeking an Epic HIM Analyst for a three-month remote engagement for a client on the East Coast.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

An expert panel will gather during the first day of the event to discuss how digital health can be improved via cross-border collaborations. WHY IT MATTERS. In this session "Cross-Border Collaborations: Improving Digital Health" (20 November, 13:00 - 13:50), speakers from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and beyond will share concrete examples of how governments and healthcare organisations are successfully collaborating across borders to implement various digital health initiat

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Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The ransomware has attacked targets worldwide, including at least one U.S. health group, since it was first identified in mid-August.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

St John of God Health Care adopts online IFC, payments process by EpiSoft. St John of God Health Care has implemented EpiSoft's online Informed Financial Consent and payments process for patients. These features are the latest addition to its epi-me online patient admissions portal, also by EpiSoft. It has also been integrated with the hospital group's web-based PAS.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

From finding the right candidates to keeping them, how hospitals are using AI to address workforce needs. aburky. Fri, 11/18/2022 - 15:25.

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By G.T. LaBorde, CEO, IllumiCare More than half of hospitals in the U.S. are projected to experience negative margins in 2022, with expenses estimated to increase by nearly $135 billion over 2021 levels, according to […]. The article Control The Costs You Can: Empower Providers To Adjudicate Real Costs At Point of Care appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Signing a large EHR vendor as a partner allows cloud companies to expand their reach with providers.

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HIPAA Journal

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The Hive ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation first emerged in June 2021 and has aggressively targeted the health and public health sector (HPH) and continues to do so. From June 2021 until November 2022, the group conducted attacks on more than 1,300 organizations worldwide, generating more than $100 million in ransom payments. Victims in the HPH sector include the public health system in Costa Rica, Partnership HealthPlan of California, Memorial Health System, Missouri Delta Medical Center

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Amazon's latest push into digital health—a virtual clinic for common conditions like allergies and hair loss. hlandi. Tue, 11/15/2022 - 09:18.

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Rinat Akhmetov, product lead and ML solutions architect, Provectus. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is growing across all sectors, and healthcare is no exception. In fact, AI is particularly well-suited to healthcare applications […].

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Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Rushika Fernandopulle discussed how remote work trends are affecting the business, One Medical’s ongoing shift toward risk and its interest in Medicaid.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

The Tasmanian government has recently released a four-year strategy to transform outpatient services across its public health system. Tasmania's Transforming Outpatient Services Strategy seeks to shorten wait times, improve communication, and modernise processes. One focus of the strategy is ICT and virtual care capability under which a Digital Outpatient Management System and eReferral system will be delivered to "modernise and streamline service delivery processes.

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