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Will healthcare look different in 2023?

Healthcare Dive

How is healthcare is changing for providers as we enter 2023, and what can we do to prepare?

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The ‘Res Nullius’ Construction of Human Genomic Data

Bill of Health

By Donrich Thaldar. No one domain of the law holds exclusive sway over human genomic data. Instead, genomic data have a multidimensional legal nature , meaning that multiple legal domains — including property law, privacy law, contract law, and intellectual property law — are all applicable. This opens the door for different persons to have rights originating in different legal domains with respect to the same genomic data.

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Digital Solutions Key To Enhanced Population Health Strategies and Improved Care

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Keith Algozzine, PA-C, CEO, UCM Digital Health An essential part of being a healthcare provider, in any capacity, is understanding population health management. This discipline offers a window into the health of a selected […]. The article Digital Solutions Key To Enhanced Population Health Strategies and Improved Care appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over…but It’s Never Over — Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases

NEJM

As he prepares to step down from the NIAID after 54 years, Dr. Anthony Fauci reflects on the evolution of his field and cautions that emerging infectious diseases are truly a perpetual challenge.

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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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State AGs urge Apple to protect consumers’ reproductive health data

Healthcare Dive

Apps holding sensitive health data should be required to delete nonessential information and clearly inform consumers what information they share with parties such as law enforcement, the 10 state attorneys general said.

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The Secret World of mRNA: HDT Bio Corp v. Emcure and Access to Next-Gen mRNA

Bill of Health

By Aparajita Lath. The future of public health in an “RNA world” is on trial in a trade secrecy dispute worth $950 million currently being fought before the District Court of the Western District of Washington, Seattle between HDT Bio Corp. and Emcure Pharmaceuticals. The trade secrets at issue concern an improvement over existing mRNA technology called “self-amplifying RNA” or “saRNA.” saRNA are effective at much smaller doses and lower costs.

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HPH Sector Warned About Lorenz Ransomware Group

HIPAA Journal

The healthcare and public health sector (HPH) has been warned about the threat of ransomware attacks by the Lorenz threat group, which has conducted several attacks in the United States over the past two years, with no sign that attacks are slowing. Lorenz ransomware is human-operated and is deployed after the threat actors have gained access to networks and have exfiltrated data.

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UnitedHealth-Change deal approval faces appeal from DOJ, states

Healthcare Dive

Antitrust experts said it’s surprising regulators took this long to file an appeal, while UnitedHealth slammed the move as “entirely without merit.

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CIO Podcast – Episode 44: Social Determinants of Health with Dr. Jennifer Goldman, DO

Healthcare IT Today

For the 44th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Dr. Jennifer Goldman, DO, Chief of Primary Care at Memorial Healthcare System. In this episode we’re discussing Dr. Goldman’s work in Social Determinants of Health (SDoH). First we dive into what she’s done to integrate SDoH data into the EMR and how she’s kept people from over looking it.

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2022-2023 PCORI Fee Released

Compliance Now

By: Megan Diehl , Manager, Compliance Consulting, MZQ Consulting. The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) fee established by the Affordable Care Act helps fund research to evaluate and compare health outcomes, clinical effectiveness, risks, and benefits of medical treatment and services. The fee is currently in place through 2029. In Notice 2022-59 , the IRS announced that the PCORI fee for plan years ending between October 1, 2022 and September 30, 2023 is $3.00.

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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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Ransomware Attack on Puerto Rico Hospital Affects Almost 1.2 Million Patients

HIPAA Journal

Doctors’ Center Hospital in Puerto Rico has recently notified the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) that it has experienced a hacking/IT incident in which the protected health information of 1,195,220 patients has potentially been compromised. As of November 23, 2022, there is no notification on the hospital’s website so details of the nature of the attack have yet to be made public by Doctors’ Center Hospital, with all current indicators suggesti

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How digital and information officers are shaking up health systems

Healthcare Dive

Healthcare Dive caught up with Providence’s Sara Vaezy and Intermountain’s Craig Richardville just months into their tenure to discuss the challenges and opportunities ahead as patients have come to expect more digital access.

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MDaudit Strengthens Its Position In the Revenue Integrity Market

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. MDaudit is strengthening its commitment to revenue integrity with several changes that build upon its presence in the revenue cycle management (RCM) market. Among the changes made by the healthcare technology company, which harnesses the […]. The article MDaudit Strengthens Its Position In the Revenue Integrity Market appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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2022-2023 PCORI Fee Released

Compliance Now

By: Megan Diehl , Manager, Compliance Consulting, MZQ Consulting. The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) fee established by the Affordable Care Act helps fund research to evaluate and compare health outcomes, clinical effectiveness, risks, and benefits of medical treatment and services. The fee is currently in place through 2029. In Notice 2022-59 , the IRS announced that the PCORI fee for plan years ending between October 1, 2022 and September 30, 2023 is $3.00.

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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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Google rolls out search features that aim to make it easier to sign up for Medicaid, Medicare

Fierce Healthcare

Google rolls out search features that aim to make it easier to sign up for Medicaid, Medicare. pminemyer. Wed, 11/23/2022 - 11:12.

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Providence closes 27 retail clinics in Southern California

Healthcare Dive

The healthcare system said the clinics were losing money as they attracted fewer patients. Labor shortages, inflation and an increasingly competitive retail health industry are also to blame.

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HIPAA-Compliant Uses of SMS Messaging

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Shannon Flynn is a freelance blogger who covers education technologies, cybersecurity and IoT topics. You can follow Shannon on Muck Rack or Medium to read more of her articles. HIPAA-compliant uses of SMS messaging may not be as common as […]. The article HIPAA-Compliant Uses of SMS Messaging appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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877,500 Individuals Affected by Ransomware Attack on Prosthetics & Orthotics Provider

HIPAA Journal

The Rochester Hills, MI-based prosthetics, orthotics, and accessibility solution provider, Wright & Filippis, has recently announced that it was the victim of a ransomware attack on its network. The attack occurred between January 26 and January 28, 2022, and while the attack was detected by the firm’s endpoint security solution shortly after the ransomware was executed, it was not possible to prevent the encryption of certain files on its network.

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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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Walgreens plots 'aggressive' strategy to build out healthcare services, CEO Roz Brewer says

Fierce Healthcare

Walgreens plots 'aggressive' strategy to build out healthcare services, CEO Roz Brewer says. hlandi. Sun, 11/20/2022 - 18:20.

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MetroHealth fires CEO Akram Boutros over almost $2M in unreported bonuses

Healthcare Dive

Boutros has denied all allegations of embezzlement. His lawyer said his firing was “the latest of a series of retaliatory acts” against Boutros after he raised concerns over the “unauthorized hiring of the new CEO.

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Why Consider RLE Surgery To Restore Your Vision

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Vision deterioration is among the common implications of aging, though young people may also experience eyesight problems. Thankfully, innovative corrective procedures have made these problems easy to resolve. While LASIK is a popular option, refractive […].

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HLTH22: 6 Digital Health Executives Share Key Takeaways

HIT Consultant

We reached out to six digital health executives for their key takeaways and reflection from attending the recent HLTH22 conference. Sunny Kumar, MD, Partner at GSR Ventures , a $3B AUM venture firm investing in early-stage digital health companies. The most fascinating element of HLTH 2022 were the concurrent contrasts. Set against a challenging macroeconomic environment with decreases in venture funding and near-daily headlines of large layoffs cutting across the tech ecosystem, the energy and

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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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Learning About Medication Success at #HLTH2022 from Synapse Medicine

Healthcare IT Today

One of the great things about the HLTH 2022 conference is you get a wide range of topics across every part of healthcare. For example, I attended a session on Medication Success that was presented by Franck Tricot, VP, Strategic Partnerships at Synapse Medicine. Tricot gave us a really interesting view into what it takes to do medications properly in healthcare.

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Morgan Health nabs Walmart executive to accelerate strategy around population health

Healthcare Dive

Cheryl Pegus is leaving Walmart’s health division to work as a managing director for JPMorgan’s venture attempting to lower employer health costs.

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How Can AI Help Therapists Better Serve Their Patients?

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The healthcare industry has always been a tough nut to crack. With a large number of patients, each with their own set of symptoms, conditions, and complications, it’s no surprise that doctors and therapists are […]. The article How Can AI Help Therapists Better Serve Their Patients?

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How to Solve the ‘new normal’ EHR Implementation Challenges

HealthIT Answers

By Liza Dzhezhora - Electronic health records have become ubiquitous in the US healthcare industry. However, the work on improving those solutions is in full swing. According to Fact.MD, the EHR market value is expected to reach $41.8bn in 2022 – 2032. What are the key EHR implementation challenges, and how to solve them? The post How to Solve the ‘new normal’ EHR Implementation Challenges appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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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.

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House lawmakers press Biden admin to change latest surprise billing rule

Fierce Healthcare

House lawmakers press Biden admin to change latest surprise billing rule. rking. Mon, 11/21/2022 - 17:18.

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Mayo Clinic income slumps as expenses climb in Q3

Healthcare Dive

Expenses outpaced revenue growth as the Minnesota-based health system became the latest provider to report a recent drop in operating income.

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Lunit, CARPL.ai Partner to Accelerate AI-Powered Medical Imaging

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Lunit signed a global distribution agreement to provide its AI-based radiology solutions for clinical use via CARPL.ai’s platform. Lunit is a South Korean-based AI software company devoted to developing AI solutions for precision diagnostics and treatment support, mainly focused on conquering cancer. – The partnership will deliver Lunit INSIGHT CXR and Lunit INSIGHT MMG for commercial use in the U.S., Australia, Brazil, India, and Singapore.

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Inbound Communication Overlooked as a Way to Improve Patient Experiences

Healthcare IT Today

At the #HLTH2022 Healthcare IT Today stopped by the Relatient booth to get an update on the company’s offerings and to dig a little deeper into the results from the survey they conducted earlier this year with MGMA. Jeff Gartland, CEO of Relatient, spoke with us and revealed that the survey helped identify a gap in the market. It turns out that most patients must still call in to book an appointment if they have questions or would like someone to guide them through the process.

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Best Practices for Sharing Protected Health Information (PHI)

In this ebook, you will learn about the 18 PHI indicators, the legal requirements and penalties surrounding PHI, and how your healthcare teams should securely exchange this data. Key takeaways from this ebook: Gain confidence in identifying PHI. Acquire practical implementation strategies for exchanging PHI within your organization. Emphasize the importance of using compliant communication tools within healthcare teams.