Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

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. By combining healthcare and e-commerce technologies and strategies, healthcare provider organizations can dramatically improve digital discovery of, and access to, care for patients, he said.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

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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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

By Daniel Swartzman If public health is to prosper, we will need to overcome the after-effects of several failures of imagination. Failing to recognize the threat to liberal democracy from the last 50 years of coordinated conservative political and policy actions. Failing to use litigation against inadequate public health actions, as did the early civil rights and environmental movements.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Before the widespread adoption of telemedicine technology, there were several problems that hindered the delivery of healthcare services for most healthcare organizations. THE PROBLEM One of the main problems was access to healthcare, particularly with working families and those with chronic conditions. Many people lacked convenient access to medical care and providers, making it difficult for them to receive the care they needed.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

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. The guest is Dr. Kedar Mate, president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and a member of the faculty at Weill Cornell Medical College. Earlier this year, Kedar co-authored a JAMA Viewpoint proposing the "Quintuple Aim" for healthcare improvement, which would add a fifth aim: to advance he

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In 2019, Cleveland-based University Hospitals saw an opportunity to use automation and digital care technologies to improve patient engagement, clinical care and outcomes. THE PROBLEM Ultimately, the health system was looking for ways to improve patient engagement first and foremost and then wanted to see how it could use automated tools to improve outcomes.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The Singapore General Hospital has started training its nurses in IV cannulation using VR technology. A team of SGH nurses, together with Serious Games Asia and sensor solutions developer Microtube Technologies, developed an immersive gamified training module called IV NIMBLE (Nursing Innovation in Mobility-based Learning) to enhance nurses' training.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

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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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

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. Leaps and bounds have been made since the term was first applied in medicine in the mid-1950s , but it wasn’t until the late 2000s that developments using AI in a variety of healthcare fields started to happen.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

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. VMware issued a patch on February 3, 2021, to fix the vulnerability; however, hundreds of VMware ESXi virtual machines are still vulnerable to the exploit and are now being attacked.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

At a Heart Recovery Advocate Day held on February 3 at Abiomed's Danvers, Massachusetts, headquarters, patients shared their stories of heart recovery, toured the facility, participated in lab demonstrations and had the opportunity to meet the operators who made their left ventricular assist devices, right ventricular assist devices and lung-assist devices.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

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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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Before microscopes, doctors diagnosed as best they could using external symptoms. Now we test for the presence of specific bacteria, viruses, or lesions. Dr. Thomas Young, chief medical officer and founder of Proem Behavioral Health , is convinced that psychiatry and behavioral health are also entering an age where objective data collected from the body will drive diagnoses and treatment.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

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. In the summer of 2022, an investigation into the use of these technologies revealed almost one-third of the top 100 hospitals in the United States had used pixels and other tracking code on their

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

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FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Mental health conditions continued to dominate telehealth diagnoses last year as the federal government worked to protect telehealth provisions during the COVID-19 public health emergency now set to end.

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Electronic Health Reporter

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Bob Chin, chief information officer, PayMedix Employers who shift more healthcare insurance payments to employees to keep costs down risk increasingly discontented employees who struggle with growing out-of-pocket (OOP) costs compounded by a flood […] The article New Financial Platforms Aim to Fix a Confusing Healthcare Payment System appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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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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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Consumers’ wellness life-flows and demands in 2023 will go well beyond exercise resolutions, eating more greens, and intermittent fasting as a foodstyle. It’s time for us to get the annual update on health consumers from the multi-faceted team who curated the Global Wellness Summit’s annual report on The Future of Wellness 2023 Trends.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

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FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The forecast comes as its competitor, Centene, expects to lose as many as 2.2 million Medicaid members when pandemic protections end and states to resume eligibility checks.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

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. Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting the supply chain in their attacks, as these are usually the weakest links in the security chain.

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Electronic Health Reporter

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Andrew A. Brooks, M.D., chief medical officer, TigerConnect. Information is the healthcare industry’s core, from paper to digital record keeping. Healthcare organizations and physicians have relied on charts, treatment plans and other means of […] The article Pumping New Life into Healthcare Information: The 21st Century Cures Act Drives Unlocks the Power of Data appeared first on electro

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

According to reporting by the Wall Street Journal, CVS is closing in on an agreement to acquire the primary care chain for $10.5 billion including debt.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

No hospitals in HCA Healthcare, Tenet, Providence and UPMC systems were fully compliant with federal price transparency rules, according to a new analysis.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Pittsburg, PA-based Highmark Health, the second largest integrated delivery and financing system in the U.S., has recently announced that an unauthorized individual has accessed the email account of one of its employees following a response to a phishing email. After the employee clicked the link in the email and disclosed their credentials, the account was accessed remotely by an unauthorized third party who potentially viewed and exfiltrated emails and attachments from the account.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

What You Should Know: – DarioHealth announced a partnership with Dexcom , the global leader in real-time continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) technology, to integrate its market-leading CGM data into Dario’s multi-chronic condition platform. – Dexcom CGM uses a small, wearable sensor to continuously measure and send glucose levels to a receiver or smart device, enabling people with diabetes to make real-time decisions about their health.

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HealthIT Answers

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

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. The post The Hidden Cost of Managing Prospective Patients appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Linking Oak Street with CVS assets could drive new patients to Oak Street. It could also help Aetna retain more MA members and drive greater use of CVS’ pharmacy and PBM, management said Wednesday.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

A joint cybersecurity advisory has been issued by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency (NSA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Republic of Korea’s Defense Security Agency and National Intelligence Service warning of state-sponsored North Korean (DPRK) ransomware attacks on U.S. critical infrastructure organizations.

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