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Merchandising healthcare access: adopting e-commerce techniques

Healthcare It News

As the consumerization of healthcare continues to take shape, the next frontier of healthcare access may well be merchandising healthcare inventory, contended Derek Streat, cofounder and CEO of DexCare, a digital transformation platform vendor.

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The End of Public Health? An Introduction to the Symposium

Bill of Health

By Jennifer S. Bard Teaching public health law over these past three years has meant contending with a series of federal and state court rulings that in different ways have called into question many of what seemed to be the most established principles of public health law.

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Top healthcare trends of 2023

Healthcare Dive

Providers and payers are still grappling with the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, including the winding down of pandemic-era policies, which will have major effects on hospitals and insurers

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VMware ESXi Servers Targeted in Large-Scale Ransomware Campaign

HIPAA Journal

The French Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-FR) has warned about an ongoing ransomware campaign targeting VMware ESXi hypervisors that have not been patched against the critical heap-overflow vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-21974.

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The 2023 Behavioral Health Industry Report

This report explores current issues in the behavioral health industry in 2023. Topics covered include quantitative statistics describing the overall increase in behavioral health issues, the impact of psychologist and staff burnout, how HIPAA compliance is once again at the top of our minds & much more!

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HIMSSCast: The Quintuple Aim – why health equity is a critical addition

Healthcare It News

In this podcast, we discuss a new concept that has blossomed from an old one. The old concept is The Quadruple Aim. The new concept? The Quintuple Aim. What's new? Health equity.

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Judge’s ruling on surprise billing threatens to disrupt arbitration process

Healthcare Dive

The ruling tosses out portions of a final rule and raises questions about the arbitration process providers and payers are currently using to resolve payment disputes related to out-of-network care

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Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Sued for Website Tracking Technology Privacy Violations

HIPAA Journal

A lawsuit has been filed against Cedars-Sinai Medical Center alleging impermissible disclosures of patient data to Google, Meta, and other third parties due to the use of website tracking technologies without either a business associate agreement with the code providers or authorizations from patients.

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How AI-driven patient scheduling can improve health equity

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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FTC’s Proposed Non-Compete Rule: A Step in the Right Direction for Health Care and Biotechnology

Bill of Health

By Aparajita Lath In January, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a new draft rule that would categorically ban non-compete clauses — contractual terms between an employer and an employee that prevent subsequent employment at a competing firm — across the country.

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Streamlined Compliance Facilitates Growth for Multi-Specialty ASC

Learn how SurgCenter of Western Maryland improved compliance and streamlined their employee training process with MedTrainer. Eliminate the risk of lost records and save time with MedTrainer's intuitive platform.

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Tipping point is in sight: Value-based care is driving meaningful financial results

Healthcare Dive

Strata’s Liz Kirk shares her reflections on value-based care from the 41st annual JPMorgan healthcare conference held in San Francisco

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Can Behavioral Health Be Objective and Data-Driven?

Healthcare IT Today

Before microscopes, doctors diagnosed as best they could using external symptoms. Now we test for the presence of specific bacteria, viruses, or lesions.

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Singapore General Hospital shifts to gamified VR nurse training

Healthcare It News

The Singapore General Hospital has started training its nurses in IV cannulation using VR technology.

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98% of Organizations Use a Vendor That Had a Data Breach in the Past 2 Years

HIPAA Journal

Healthcare organizations have been investing in cybersecurity to improve their defenses against increasingly numerous and sophisticated cyberattacks; however, while an organization’s security posture can be improved, it can only be as good as the weakest link.

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HIPAA Compliance Checklist for Mental Health Agencies

Keeping up with compliance can be intimidating, but this checklist can help make your job a little easier! Use this printable checklist to ensure your systems are buttoned up to avoid breaches, HIPAA violations, and other privacy and safety infractions.

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Medicare to collect drug price rebates starting in 2025

Healthcare Dive

The CMS has laid out how it plans to implement a key provision of the Inflation Reduction Act requiring drugmakers to pay rebates on price hikes in Medicare that are greater than inflation

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Unlocking the Future of Health—and Care—with AI

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Jonathan Jesneck , Co-Founder and CTO at Firefly Lab. Unlocking the future of healthcare with Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a hot topic amongst tech and medical professionals alike.

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Hands-on cardiac education pays dividends for patients and others, says Abiomed

Healthcare It News

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Wellness in 2023 Is About Connections, Mental Health and Science – Global Wellness Summit’s 2023 Trends

Health Populi

Consumers’ wellness life-flows and demands in 2023 will go well beyond exercise resolutions, eating more greens, and intermittent fasting as a foodstyle.

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The American Benefits Conundrum: Realigning Healthcare Incentives

Speaker: Chris Wolpert, Founder of Group Benefit Solutions

This webinar with Chris Wolpert will expose the hidden misaligned incentives in the employee benefits space and help you modernize your approach to benefits by leveraging technology and communication.

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GE HealthCare agrees to buy AI imaging firm Caption Health in second acquisition

Healthcare Dive

The GE spinoff plans to pair its ultrasound machines with Caption’s applications for early disease detection

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28% BEC Emails are Opened and 15% Get a Reply

HIPAA Journal

Business Email Compromise scams are the biggest cause of losses to cybercrime. Over the past 5 years, more than $43 billion has been lost to the scams, according to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). In its March 2022 report, the FBI said IC3 had received reports of $2.4

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New Financial Platforms Aim to Fix a Confusing Healthcare Payment System

Electronic Health Reporter

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Payer Plugs Gap with Innovative Alliance

MRO Compliance

Payer Plugs Gap with Innovative Alliance February 6, 2023 Health Payer Specialist And to gather additional contextual data that is not included in the claims data, CareFirst has partnered with Rockford, Ill.-based based FIGmd, a software platform that supports data submission processes within different health systems across the country. The whole idea of FIGmd is that we’re going to be getting clinical information that typically is not shared via claims and it’s a huge gap.

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2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Contract Life Cycle Management Report

Gartner has positioned Evisort in the Visionaries Quadrant of the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contract Life Cycle Management. Read the report to learn why Evisort is a Visionary provider in the market.

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Tenet’s net income tumbled in 2022, but labor expenses show signs of easing

Healthcare Dive

The for-profit hospital operator’s profit fell 55% year over year, according to an earnings report out Thursday

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Editorial: The Three Pillars of HIPAA Compliance

HIPAA Journal

Achieving compliance with the Rules of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) can be a challenge for healthcare organizations and their business associates.

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The Hidden Cost of Managing Prospective Patients

HealthIT Answers

By Ram Krishnan - Coordinating new patient inquiries is a top priority for both solo practitioners and managers of multi-provider behavioral health clinics. Prospective patient management may seem routine but it can be cost-prohibitive, if not handled correctly.

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Why It’s Time for Intelligent Prior Authorization

HIT Consultant

Alina M. Czekai, MPH, VP of Strategic Partnerships at Cohere Health The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently proposed a new rule to advance interoperability and improve the prior authorization (PA) process for Medicare and Medicaid patients.

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