Healthcare It News

JULY 5, 2022

St. Luke's University Health Network realized it needed technology that could help expand care across its 14 hospitals throughout Eastern Pennsylvania and Western New Jersey spanning both urban and rural areas. THE PROBLEM. The organization was looking for a way to not only expand network coverage but also to reduce time to consult. It also wanted to expand access to care whenever patients needed it, which St.

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Healthcare Dive

JULY 8, 2022

Changes to the Medicare Shared Savings Program would give some accountable care organizations more time to ramp up to performance-based risk and updated quality reporting.

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MRO Compliance

JULY 6, 2022

Compliance with new patient right of access rule: Five things to know. July 1, 2022. Compliance Today. Disruption is the new normal. As a global civilization dealing with a worldwide pandemic, we’ve adapted to shifting guidelines, researched dubious news proclamations, and discovered a newfound appreciation for the routine. These three skills converge to support compliance professionals as they monitor HIPAA Right of Access Rule guidelines, research new enforcement actions, and hold steadfast to

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 7, 2022

A joint security alert has been issued to the healthcare and public health sector by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Department of the Treasury warning about the threat of Maui ransomware attacks. Since May 2021, North Korean state-sponsored cyber actors have been targeting organizations in the U.S. healthcare and public health sector and have been encrypting servers that support electronic medical record systems and dia

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Healthcare It News

JULY 8, 2022

Ann Mond Johnson is one of the top telehealth experts in the country. As CEO of the American Telemedicine Association, her work covers every aspect of this technological delivery of healthcare that has gone mainstream because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this informative podcast, Johnson talks about the hybrid model that may be the future of telehealth, what will be necessary to establish telehealth as a permanent modality in care delivery, current telehealth policy priorities and challenges, an

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Healthcare Dive

JULY 5, 2022

The U.S. healthcare system can’t take much more employee turnover without compromising care. Overwhelmed and overworked, many healthcare workers don’t feel safe and supported, Qualtrics’ CMO argues.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 4, 2022

A major data breach has been reported by the Greeley, CO-based accounts receivable management company, Professional Finance Company Inc. (PFC) which is believed to have affected 657 of its healthcare provider clients. According to the PFC website, the company is one of the nation’s leading debt recovery agencies, and its client list includes many healthcare providers, retailers, financial organizations, and government agencies.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 8, 2022

Sponsor: Concord Technologies Primary topic: Interoperability Topic: Interoperability Patient Engagement Privacy & Security Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: Bridging the gap between paper workflows and automated information delivery Region Tag: Global Edition Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Healthcare Dive

JULY 8, 2022

CMMI has taken initial actions to address existing bias, and has started developing a guide to screen and mitigate bias in existing and future models, according to a new article in Health Affairs.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 7, 2022

The cuffless device uses a sensor array over the radial artery to produce a pressure waveform that's used to determine systolic and diastolic blood pressure.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 7, 2022

The following is a guest article by Linda Comp-Noto, Division President, Healthcare Enterprise Operations at Teleperformance. Digital transformation continues to dominate the headlines. Digitizing content helps companies across almost every industry increase efficiency, improve workflow, reduce costs, and raise productivity. For the healthcare industry – an industry that is conservative by nature – undergoing a transformation presents an opportunity to implement digital strategies across the boa

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Healthcare It News

JULY 5, 2022

Sponsor: CareSignal Primary topic: Population Health Topic: Innovation Pulse Patient Engagement Population Health Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: Behind the scenes of one of the largest remote patient monitoring implementations and evaluations in the U.

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Healthcare Dive

JULY 8, 2022

The sector added about 57,000 jobs in June, compared to about 15,000 in May, according to preliminary data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Ambulatory services and hospitals saw the largest gains.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 6, 2022

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Department of the Treasury, and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) have issued a joint cybersecurity advisory about MedusaLocker ransomware. The MedusaLocker threat group appears to operate as a ransomware-as-a-service operation, where affiliates are recruited to conduct the attacks for between 55 and 60% of any ransom payments they generate.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 5, 2022

Happify Health chief strategy officer Chris Wasden discusses the company's partnership strategy, the business environment for digital therapeutics and how to encourage physician uptake.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 8, 2022

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Healthcare Dive

JULY 6, 2022

Of 230.9 million in-network claims reported, 42.3 million claims were denied, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of CMS data.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 6, 2022

Google has announced that it will be taking steps to improve privacy protections for users of its services. Google has long advocated for a comprehensive, national privacy law covering consumer data to ensure there is consistency across the entire country, rather than relying on a patchwork of state-level privacy laws. The American Data Privacy and Protection Act that was recently introduced could see national privacy law introduced, but until ADPPA or equivalent consumer data privacy regulation

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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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KFF

JULY 8, 2022

Firearms recently became the number one cause of death for children in the United States, surpassing motor vehicle deaths and those caused by other injuries. This brief examines how gun violence and other types of firearm deaths among children and teens in the United States compare to rates in other large and wealthy countries.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 5, 2022

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Healthcare Dive

JULY 6, 2022

Cases ranged from improper psychiatric treatment to providing false Medicare claims and illegal kickback schemes.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 6, 2022

More than 80% of cancer patients and survivors who responded to the survey were willing to use the majority of remote interventions, like oral medications delivered to the home, electronic informed consent and wearables.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 7, 2022

The American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA) aims to introduce national privacy and data security protections for consumer data. Here we explain what ADPPA compliance will entail. The Need for a Federal Consumer Data Privacy Law. Despite many U.S. tech firms being among the largest worldwide collectors and processors of consumer data, the U.S. lacks a federal data privacy and protection law, and instead there is a patchwork of privacy laws covering each of the 50 states.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 6, 2022

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Healthcare Dive

JULY 5, 2022

The rural emergency hospital designation is expected to help prevent facility closures and maintain access to crucial healthcare services.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 6, 2022

The tech giant said the update will also apply to places like counseling centers, domestic violence shelters and addiction treatment facilities.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 8, 2022

We’ve been talking about the “hospital room of the future” for a while now. I guess it’s safe to say the future is here in many regards. However, when I recently sat down with Jeff Fallon, Chairman and CEO at eVideon he was more excited about the industry than he’s ever been before. In fact, he talks about how things are different today than they have been in the past (Partial Spoiler Alert: One example is the EHR data is there to trigger actions).

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HIT Consultant

JULY 7, 2022

Noel Alaka, VP of Life Sciences at COTA. What You Should Know: Today, oncology real-world data analytics company COTA announced the appointment of Noel Alaka as Vice President of Life Sciences. As VP of Life Sciences, Alaka will be responsible for helping grow and build partnerships with leading life sciences companies that are looking to adopt real-world data and real-world evidence to help accelerate innovation in treatments for patients facing cancer.

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Healthcare Dive

JULY 6, 2022

Telehealth use overall rose nationally and in every region following two months of decline, according to Fair Health’s monthly tracker.

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Becker's Health IT

JULY 5, 2022

More than 600 healthcare organizations have been affected by a February data breach on accounts receivable management company Professional Finance Company's network.

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