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In surprise result, Alzheimer’s drug from Eisai, Biogen shows benefit in large trial

Healthcare Dive

The companies said the drug, called lecanemab, met all of its goals in the Phase 3 study. The data are a significant finding and provide stronger support for a much-debated hypothesis for treating Alzheimer’s.

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Sparrow Health System uses pandemic lessons to expand its virtual care strategic plan

Healthcare It News

Sparrow Health System in Lansing, Michigan, began developing a virtual care strategy in October 2019 – well before COVID-19 struck – with the hope of leveraging the technology as a tool to support patient care and the organizational strategy, rather than as a stand-alone strategy in and of itself. Sparrow's initial goal was to launch on-demand, virtual urgent care to increase access and provide another front door into the health system.

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The Fourth Amendment and the Post-Roe Future of Privacy

Bill of Health

By Katie Gu. An April 2021 data privacy bill sponsored by Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has taken on new urgency in the post- Roe Digital Age. The bipartisan bill, The Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, would close the current legal loophole through which the FBI, Department of Homeland Security , Department of Defense , Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement , and the Internal Revenue Service , have repeatedly purchased Americans’ personal and consumer information from

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How one FQHC uses telehealth for primary care, behavioral health and addiction treatment

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Harbor Care Health and Wellness Center in Nashua, New Hampshire, provides primary care, behavioral health and dental services to a population that is either homeless or at risk of homelessness. Harbor Care Health is a Federally Qualified Community Center. FQHCs were established to provide affordable medical services to those in need, regardless of their ability to pay.

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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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NYT investigation finds Providence pressured poor patients to pay

Healthcare Dive

“The result, in the case of Providence, is that thousands of poor patients were saddled with debts that they never should have owed,” The New York Times found.

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How Hospital Authority Hong Kong is working towards sustainable healthcare

Healthcare It News

Hospital Authority has made significant achievements over the past years in digitising its processes and ways of delivering care to patients and communities. For over 30 years, it has invested in developing its clinical management system, which is now considered one of the most advanced systems in the world. Recently, it also began working on projects that contribute to its vision of a smart hospital.

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Fitbit, Google Cloud unveil wearable data analytics service for healthcare

Mobi Health News

Device Connect for Fitbit aims to help healthcare and life science organizations use and analyze data from Fitbit's health-tracking wearables.

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Almost half of Americans have inadequate healthcare coverage, survey finds

Healthcare Dive

Even as the uninsured rate has dipped to a record low, having coverage is not enough to protect consumers from the high-cost of care, Commonwealth Fund researchers found.

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New frontiers in signature capture and digital workflow management

Healthcare It News

Sponsor: Wacom Primary topic: Interoperability Topic: Interoperability Patient Engagement Privacy & Security Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: New frontiers in signature capture and digital workflow management Region Tag: Global Edition Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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eClinicalWorks Invests $100 Million in Microsoft Cloud Services

Healthcare IT Today

As we continue to shift healthcare into a more digital world, it’s important to have a reliable Cloud to back up and store all of the data and digital solutions. But how do you know which Cloud is the right one for your organization? eClinicalWorks (eCW) went through this process a couple of years ago and is so pleased with their decision to go with Microsoft Cloud that they are investing over $100 million in Microsoft’s Azure cloud services.

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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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The evolving future of telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Sponsor: BlueJeans Primary topic: Telehealth Topic: Telehealth Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Sponsor: BlueJeans.

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Mass General Brigham’s plan to slash millions in costs gets green light

Healthcare Dive

The Massachusetts Health Policy Commission required the state’s largest health system to submit a cost-cutting plan, a first for the state board.

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Top 5 Healthcare IT Security Tips You Need To Know

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. With new threats and challenges emerging in the digital world every day, maintaining optimal IT security has become a daunting task for any organization. More than ever before, healthcare organizations are feeling the heat from […]. The article Top 5 Healthcare IT Security Tips You Need To Know appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Repositioning Healthcare Organizations for a Changing Consumer

Healthcare IT Today

This week I had a chance to stop by the S tericycle Communication Solutions user event they called “The Art of Patient Engagement.” I live tweeted the kickoff keynote of the event with Jared Johnson, Founder of the Shift.health content network and author of the Marketing Forward book he just published. Here are some of the key insights and perspectives he shared with the audience.

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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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Has the era of 'hyper-personalized' patient engagement arrived?

Healthcare It News

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Stopgap Senate bill advances, but leaves COVID-19 funding behind

Healthcare Dive

The bill cuts funding for COVID-19 and monkeypox aid but extends two rural hospital programs.

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New Wave of Health Insurers Driving Change for Members and Incumbent Plans

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Venkatgiri Vandali, president of healthcare, Firstsource. A new generation of health insurers has appeared in recent years, gradually gaining momentum in key markets in part by claiming to offer a more modern, digital consumer […]. The article New Wave of Health Insurers Driving Change for Members and Incumbent Plans appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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How healthcare providers are adapting in the era of telehealth, and why radiology was uniquely suited to go hybrid

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Sponsor: LG Electronics Primary topic: Telehealth Topic: Telehealth Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: How healthcare providers are adapting in the era of telehealth, and why radiology was uniquely suited to go hybrid Region Tag: Global Edition Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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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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Kahun raises $8M for AI-enabled clinical reasoning chatbot

Mobi Health News

The startup's first product asks patients questions about their concerns and provides a summary with recommendations for follow-up to the physician.

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Digital pathology picking up among US providers, vendors, report finds

Healthcare Dive

Digital pathology technologies, already popular in Europe, are primed for growth in the U.S., according to a report from KLAS research.

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Effective Digital Transformation In Healthcare: 4 Key Characteristics To Look For In a Risk Adjustment Partner

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Vinitha Ramnathan, senior vice president of product management, Episource. Digital transformation is responsible for a lot of very promising innovations in healthcare. From telemedicine to AI-enabled medical devices to NLP-driven coding, technology is reshaping […].

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Humana Members Impacted by Choice Health Data Breach

HIPAA Journal

Humana has recently announced that the protected health information of 22,767 individuals has potentially been compromised in a security incident and data breach at one of its business associates – Choice Health – which Human used to sell Medicare products on its behalf. On May 18, 2022, Choice Health learned that a Choice Health database was accessible over the Internet, with the investigation confirming the misconfiguration was caused by a third-party service provider.

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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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AI firm TIIM Healthcare gets exclusive IP for Duke-NUS sepsis triaging tech

Mobi Health News

The technology uses heart rate variability measurements to assess the severity of sepsis in ED patients.

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DOJ silent on appeal as UnitedHealth-Change deal close looms

Healthcare Dive

A closed deal would be a major setback for the DOJ, which lost another merger case this year, antitrust legal experts told Healthcare Dive.

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Rockley Photonics Develops Smaller, Powerful Chip for Health Wearables

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Rockley Photonics Holdings Limited , a global leader in photonics-based health monitoring and communications solutions, recently announced that it has developed what it believes to be the world’s first micro-transfer-printed (mTP) silicon-photonics-based laser for commercial applications. – This groundbreaking achievement is expected to allow Rockley to further increase the density and reduce the size of its high-density spectrophotometer chips — which are alr

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Physicians Business Office Reports Data Breach Affecting 196,573 Individuals

HIPAA Journal

Physicians Business Office (PBO), a Parkersburg, WV-based provider of medical practice management and administrative services, has recently disclosed a security incident that occurred in April 2022. PBO detected unusual activity within its network and took immediate steps to isolate the affected systems and prevent further unauthorized access. A third-party computer forensics company was engaged to determine the nature and scope of the breach and assist with the incident response.

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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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Survey: Consumers prefer telehealth over in-person visits for routine, mental healthcare

Mobi Health News

A J.D. Power study indicates telehealth is the preferred method among consumers for receiving certain types of medical care.

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CommonSpirit posts $1.3B full-year operating loss

Healthcare Dive

It’s the latest system to report that pressures from inflation and expenses are outpacing revenue growth.

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Bridge The Health Literacy Gap for Your Patients With These Top Tips

HIT Consultant

Doreen DeGroff, MEDITECH Senior Productor Director, CereCore. According to the National Assessment of Adult Health Literacy , only 12% of adults in the U.S. have proficient health literacy skills. Healthcare is a unique industry because it is wide-ranging yet highly personalized. Health literacy is important for patients, physicians and their communities.

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Monkeypox Phishing Campaign Targets Healthcare Providers

HIPAA Journal

A warning has been issued to the healthcare and public health (HPH) sector about an ongoing Monkeypox phishing campaign targeting U.S. healthcare providers that attempts to steal Outlook, Office 365, and other email credentials. Monkeypox is a highly contagious viral disease caused by a virus from the same family as smallpox. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there have been almost 66,000 cases diagnosed globally in the current outbreak, and more than 25,100 case

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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.