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Better crisis communications: 5 steps for better patient, staff engagement

Healthcare Dive

Whether trying to convey routine information or respond to once-in-a-blue-moon crises, hospital leaders can turn critical communications into trust and engagement builders.

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Caring for homeless patients with digital health tech

Healthcare It News

Dr. Robert Murry will offer more detail during his HIMSS23 session "Reinventing Street Medicine (and Expanding Reach) with Digital Technology." It's scheduled for Tuesday, April 18, at noon-1 p.m. CT at the South Building in room S105A.

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How To Prepare For Data Disruption In The Healthcare Industry

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Anthony Cusimano, technical director, Object First. There’s no sugarcoating it: cybercriminals are attacking the US healthcare industry. The FBI announced recently that healthcare suffered more ransomware attacks than any other industry in 2022. As […] The article How To Prepare For Data Disruption In The Healthcare Industry appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Creating Active Patients with Engagement

HealthIT Answers

By Gary Hamilton - We all know that today’s patients have expectations that are greatly influenced by industries outside of healthcare. They want instant access to their health information and online tools for scheduling appointments and messaging their provider because they can do similar tasks through retail and banking websites. The post Creating Active Patients with Engagement appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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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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Lower margins, softer liquidity sets the stage for hospital dealmaking in 2023

Fierce Healthcare

Lower margins, softer liquidity sets the stage for hospital dealmaking in 2023 dmuoio Mon, 03/06/2023 - 13:56

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Telehealth use rose at end of last year, Fair Health finds

Healthcare Dive

COVID-19 stayed as the third top telehealth diagnosis nationally and accounted for a larger share of claims in December, Fair Health found.

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Ten Numbers to Mark Three Years of COVID-19

KFF

As we mark three years since the WHO characterized COVID-19 as a pandemic, here are 10 key data points that illuminate the challenges, and progress, made to date.

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Industry Voices—Let's be transparent about hospital price transparency

Fierce Healthcare

Industry Voices—Let's be transparent about hospital price transparency pminemyer Thu, 03/09/2023 - 11:28

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The Wait is Over. Or Is It? DEA’s Proposed Rules Around Telemedicine Prescribing: Initial Impressions and Key Takeaways

Health Law Advisor

On February 24, 2023, the Drug Enforcement Agency (“DEA”) announced proposed permanent rules around prescribing controlled substances via telemedicine that expand the circumstances under which practitioners can prescribe controlled substances without first conducting an in-person medical evaluation of the patient outside of the COVID-19 public health emergency (“PHE”).

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Texas women, denied medically necessary abortions, sue state to clarify exceptions to ban

Healthcare Dive

The lawsuit highlights how abortion bans create a chilling effect for obstetric care, as physicians — worried about legal repercussions — can refuse or delay care to those with complications.

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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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Mercy overhauls its systems for a better patient experience

Healthcare It News

Mercy, a massive health system based in St. Louis, Missouri, has a special patient experience project coinciding with the opening of the Mercy Center for Performance Medicine and Specialty Care. The organization is bringing new capabilities to improve patient experience, lower cost and improve outcomes. Mercy took an experience design approach and developed new capabilities using both its Epic EHR foundational capabilities along with custom-developed systems from its development teams and vendor

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When Crafting Public Health Policy, the Perfect Shouldn’t Be the Enemy of the Good

Bill of Health

By Daniel Goldberg The nirvana fallacy “is the informal fallacy of comparing actual things with unrealistic, idealized alternatives.” Practice and policy guided by the nirvana fallacy discourages any action at all short of a perfect solution. Sound familiar? It’s one justification for pandemic policy inaction in a nutshell. For example, public health officials at virtually every level have resisted implementation or reinstatement of mask mandates in part by arguing that either some percentage of

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A virtual speech therapy trailblazer offers a deep dive into this telehealth treatment

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Approximately 46 million Americans – roughly 14% of the population – experience some form of communication disorder, according to "School Programs in Speech-Language Pathology." Speech language pathologists (SLPs) help address many types of speech and communication difficulties for people of all ages, as explained by Avivit Ben-Aharon, founder and clinical director at Great Speech: Speech sounds – How we say sounds and put sounds together into words.

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House committee latest to launch investigation into PBMs

Healthcare Dive

It’s the most recent action targeting PBMs for allegedly using their market power to raise drug prices, and comes as the Federal Trade Commission also launched a similar investigation.

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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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Roundup: New online mental health, addiction support portal goes live in NZ and more briefs

Healthcare It News

NZ eases access to mental health, addiction support New Zealand's Ministry of Health has officially launched an online portal for accessing the services provided by the Access and Choice programme. The said website puts all Access and Choice primary mental health and addiction services in one place, according to Minister of Health Dr Ayesha Verrall.

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Responding to the Comeback of He Jiankui, ‘The CRISPR Baby Scientist’: Lessons from Criminal Justice Theory

Bill of Health

By Matthew Chun He Jiankui — a high-profile Chinese scientist convicted for conducting unethical gene-editing experiments — has been released from prison and is currently fundraising for his new gene therapy endeavor. As the scientific community grapples with how to respond, theories of criminal justice can provide important perspectives to better inform the conversation surrounding Dr.

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Zocdoc partners with Zaya Care on virtual maternity care access

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Zaya Care, a network of pregnancy and postpartum care that takes insurance, will leverage Zocdoc to broaden access to maternity services. WHY IT MATTERS New parents can now find and book video as well as in-person appointments online with participating Zaya Care maternity providers, including pregnancy acupuncturists, maternal mental health therapists, dietitians, pelvic floor therapists and lactation consultants using Zocdoc.com or the free Zocdoc app.

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California cancels $54M Walgreens contract over company’s decision to not sell abortion pills

Healthcare Dive

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is making good on his threat to no longer do business with Walgreens over abortion pill access, illustrating how the drugstore industry is struggling to navigate shifting state abortion laws.

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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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Inovalon Announces Converged Outreach

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Inovalon, a provider of cloud-based software solutions empowering data-driven healthcare, launches Converged Outreach. This new cloud-based SaaS product is a patient outreach orchestration solution that empowers healthcare organizations to coordinate the analytically-derived patient intervention programs […] The article Inovalon Announces Converged Outreach appeared first on electronichealth

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That’s Criminal: The Choices Fertility Specialists May Have to Make

Bill of Health

By Gerard Letterie Fertility care operates in a delicate emotional space that demands complete trust across the consult table. Trust that decisions will be made with the patient’s best interests. Trust that guidance will be offered exclusive of any other competing influence, be it financial, personal, or convenience. In a post- Dobbs setting, new, restrictive laws may disrupt this delicate equilibrium.

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PII of Lawmakers and Capitol Hill Staff Stolen in DC Health Link Data Breach

HIPAA Journal

The personal information of lawmakers and staffers has been stolen in a cyberattack on the health insurance marketplace, DC Health Link. DC Health Link serves around 100,000 people, including 11,000 Congress members and staffers. The investigation into the data breach is still in the early stages so it is currently unclear how many Congress members and staffers have been affected.

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Biden’s plan to improve Medicare solvency targets prescription drugs

Healthcare Dive

The plan — part of Biden’s 2024 budget proposal set to be released Thursday — would further reduce what Medicare pays for prescription drugs and raise taxes on Americans earning over $400,000.

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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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AGS Health Announces Expansion Into The Philippines

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Revenue cycle management solutions provider AGS Health announced the launch of operations in Manila, Philippines. Serving as a strategic growth partner to more than 100 major healthcare providers across the U.S., the expansion will offer […] The article AGS Health Announces Expansion Into The Philippines appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Featured Health IT Jobs – Senior Epic Application Analyst

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Senior Epic Application Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic and is located in Toppenish, Washington. Here’s a description of the position: YVFWC has a compulsory vaccination policy including the Covid-19 primary series, the organization does not mandate the Covid-19 booster although i

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HC3 Sheds Light on Data Exfiltration Trends in Healthcare Cyberattacks

HIPAA Journal

The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center has issued a security advisory warning about data exfiltration in healthcare cyberattacks, highlighting the extent of the practice and sharing several recommended mitigations. Data exfiltration typically occurs once a threat actor has gained access to a network, elevated privileges, and moved laterally.

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Transcarent to acquire majority of telehealth platform 98point6 for $100M

Healthcare Dive

Transcarent will get 98point6’s self-insured employer business, affiliated physician group and a software license. Meanwhile, 98point6 will rebrand as 98point6 Technologies and focus on licensing its software to third-party providers.

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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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Varjo, machineMD partner to detect brain disorders using VR

Mobi Health News

In an exclusive interview, Varjo and machineMD discuss their partnership to develop Neos, a VR-powered eye-tracking tool that aims to help providers detect brain disorders.

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Know Your Data and How You’ll Use It

Healthcare IT Today

Many healthcare organizations are taking a fresh look at their data, hoping to exploit it better for both clinical outcomes and operations. To the experts at Clearsense , the problems are not so much the shortage of data experts or lack of motivation, but rushing to use data without preparing it adequately or knowing what your business needs are. Charles Boicey, Chief Innovation Officer at Clearsense, calls on organizations to base decisions not just on traditional clinical data, but “ever

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Ransomware Attack Announced by Codman Square Health Center

HIPAA Journal

Codman Square Health Center in Boston, MA, has confirmed that it was the victim of a ransomware attack in November 2022 in which hackers gained access to the protected health information of 10,161 current and former patients. The incident was detected on November 28, 2022, and third-party digital forensics experts were engaged to investigate the security breach and determine the nature and scope of the attack.

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Hacking incident at Michigan surgical group exposes information of 15K patients

Healthcare Dive

It appears that patient information was uploaded to the dark web by ransomware group BianLian, Brett Callow, threat analyst for cybersecurity firm Emsisoft, confirmed to Healthcare Dive.

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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.