Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Credentialing bottlenecks cause delays that can soon add up to a multi-million dollar headache.

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HealthIT Answers

OCTOBER 23, 2023

By Art Gross- In such an intense and impactful field, it’s completely understandable that healthcare professionals often find themselves wanting to share experiences or seek support from colleagues. However, they must navigate a delicate balance due to the stringent regulations imposed by HIPAA. The post Maintaining HIPAA-Compliant Communication Amongst Colleagues appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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MRO Compliance

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Evolving the ROI Process with a Focus on Digitization In August 2023, For the Record Magazine published a guest article co-authored by Anthony Murray, CISSP, and me. The article is entitled Release of Information: The Digitization of ROI , and includes valuable insights into pivotal shifts in the ROI landscape and how these changes affect HIM teams.

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Medisys Compliance

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Introduction Healthcare providers in the United States often face a complex and time-consuming process when it comes to submitting insurance claims and collecting payments. In an effort to streamline this intricate task, many providers turn to insurance billing companies. These companies specialize in facilitating the insurance billing process, either by completely outsourcing the billing function or by providing additional expertise to supplement in-house billing staff.

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Artificial intelligence and virtual care technologies are increasingly being adopted by hospitals to ease resource strain, but managing new tools adds “a heavy operational burden” for IT teams.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

To track the use of web-based patient portals and smartphone applications by patients seeking their health information, the U.S. Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT released an analysis of Health Information National Trends Survey data, which regularly gathers data on many aspects of health communications. WHY IT MATTERS There are a number of highlights in ONC's new publication, Individuals’ Access and Use of Patient Portals and Smartphone Health Apps by Catherine Strawley

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The emergence of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting surge in the adoption of telemedicine are helping address patients’ needs without major signs of safety concerns, according to a study by Kaiser Permanente. WHY IT MATTERS The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, analyzed more than 1.5 million adult patients at Kaiser Permanente Northern California in 2021, and compared treatment and follow-up visits among primary care telemedicine (video and telepho

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Big questions hang over the California health insurer's bold experiment — having five vendors carry out PBM functions previously performed by one — that could threaten BSCA's expected savings.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 24, 2023

By Roojin Habibi, Timothy Fish Hodgson, and Alicia Ely Yamin Today, as the world transitions from living in the grips of a novel coronavirus to living with an entrenched, widespread infectious disease known as COVID-19, global appreciation for the human rights implications of public health crises are once again rapidly fading from view. Against the backdrop of this burgeoning collective amnesia, a project to articulate the human rights norms relevant to public health emergencies led to the devel

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

By creating food and nutrition insecurity screening within Tufts Medicine’s Epic electronic health record and patient engagement system, the new Tufts University Food is Medicine Institute in Boston and its team of medical, science, technology and health policy collaborators hope to further food is medicine science. They also aim to figure out how to address food and nutrition accessibility within the healthcare system.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The Defense Health Agency has awarded Amwell and Leidos a new contract to develop a hybrid care technology platform for the Military Health System's "Digital First" efforts. WHY IT MATTERS Through the deal, the Amwell Converge platform will be deployed to help DHA care teams deliver more seamless "in-person, virtual and automated" healthcare services for the MHS, officials say.

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 27, 2023

On average, organizations were shut down or unavailable to provide services for 14 days to due to ransomware attacks from 2016 through mid-October this year, according to cybersecurity research firm Comparitech.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 27, 2023

By Adithi Iyer In my last piece , I discussed the hypothetical successor of 23andme — a tissue-based direct-to-consumer testing service I’ve called yourtissueandyou — and the promise and perils that it might bring in consumer health information and privacy. Now, as promised, a closer look at the “who” and “how” of protecting the consumer at the heart of direct-to-consumer precision medicine.

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Explore essential topics in this ebook, including what constitutes PHI and how to identify it using 18 indicators. Gain insights into the importance of safeguarding PHI to protect patient privacy and learn about the severe consequences of HIPAA violations. Discover practical strategies for securely exchanging PHI within your healthcare organization, including assessing risks and implementing effective safeguards.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Healthcare organizations can now prevent protected health information collected by their marketing channels from reaching destinations where organizations do not have a business associate agreement, according to WebMD Ignite and Freshpaint. WHY IT MATTERS For healthcare organizations, the use of cookies, tracking technologies, digital advertising and analytics tools that other industries use to drive growth presents serious privacy risks and technical challenges.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Gary Hamilton, CEO of patient engagement technology vendor InteliChart, believes three things about virtual care that, he says, deserve more attention: Telehealth services can offer healthcare providers the opportunity and capability to reach broader populations – and they can serve as disease prevention tools for these populations. Telemedicine tools can help ensure physicians and their care teams better manage patient care, and the associated workflow, to help their patients stay their h

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The Cigna-owned pharmacy benefit manager colluded with rival Prime Therapeutics to overcharge pharmacies, according to a lawsuit filed last week.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 25, 2023

By Vincent Joralemon A $70 million deal struck between a venture capital firm and a prominent psychedelic advocacy organization suggests that funding for psychedelic research may increasingly rely on nonprofit and commercial partnerships. As the commercial appeal of these substances grows , this might serve as a promising model to channel the resources of for-profit entities toward this field.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Users of Helpful can now access a loved one's benefit information about their New York-based health plan and select medical records through its app.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2023

NUS Medicine to introduce holographic GI module The Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) has tied up with GigXR, a California-based provider of holographic healthcare training, to introduce a new mixed reality-based (MR) training module for treating and diagnosing acute gastrointestinal diseases. GigXR's HoloScenarios: Gastrointestinal module on the Gig Immersive Learning Platform presents a holographic simulation of a clinical setting featur

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Black people, young adults and women, especially those of reproductive age, would see the biggest coverage gains, according to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 23, 2023

By Camila Gianella Between August and mid-October 2023, media reports documented a string of tragedies: six Peruvian girls between the ages of 10 and 13 were raped by relatives, resulting in unwanted pregnancies. Initially, health workers denied the girls access to abortion, and ultimately one died during labor. Health workers and other bureaucrats denied these girls access to therapeutic abortion on different grounds: Some withheld access to information or asked for the authorization of the par

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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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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

DUOS uses large language models to leverage social determinants of health and enhance care-navigation access for Medicare beneficiaries. Feedback from platform users improves the artificial intelligence, said Karl Ulfers, cofounder and CEO.

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MRO Compliance

OCTOBER 23, 2023

A New Frontier: ACOs and the Shift to Electronic Clinical Quality Measures Healthcare quality reporting is evolving, and accountable care organizations (ACOs) are at the forefront of this change. In 2025, ACOs will be required to shift from traditional quality reporting via the CMS Web Interface to electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs), marking a significant transition in their reporting process.

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Numerous studies have outlined how high medical costs affect uninsured individuals, but healthcare prices are straining household budgets regardless of insurance type, according to the Commonwealth Fund.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The approval of Leqembi by the Food and Drug Administration marks an exciting turning point for Alzheimer’s disease. | The approval of Leqembi by the FDA marks an exciting turning point for Alzheimer’s disease. There are big questions around costs, access, risk and efficacy in certain populations. The most urgent, overarching question is: How can we find patients who will benefit from the drug before their condition progresses outside of the treatment window?

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