HIT Consultant

JANUARY 16, 2024

David Ting, founder/CTO at Tausight In November, President Biden signed a new Executive Order – titled “Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence” – that promises to introduce new national AI regulations that focus on safety and responsibility in the use of this revolutionary new technology. Fast on the heels of this high-profile EO, the Biden Administration has already started the process of writing actual standards for the safe use of generative AI by announcing that the U.S.

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MedTrainer

JANUARY 16, 2024

By Brian Williams Companies love to talk about creating cultures that nurture employee growth and happiness. For healthcare organizations, part of that culture centers on compliance. It includes a focus on patient safety, building trust and reputation, boosting revenue, and acting ethically in everything they do. In this blog, we’ll explore how to create a culture of compliance in healthcare and the elements every organization should use as building blocks.

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Compliancy Group

JANUARY 18, 2024

From biotechnology to Electronic Health Records (EHR), the healthcare industry has been and remains a ready and willing adopter of all that technology offers today’s businesses. As technology plays such a pivotal role in healthcare, touching on core aspects of patients’ most confidential information, the industry must properly manage all information.

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YouCompli

JANUARY 16, 2024

I always find it energizing to look back at the past year, and shift focus to what sits at the top of the risk list for the upcoming year. Here are some best practices and tips for both! Insights and Feedback from 2023 Before moving on from 2023, it is important to take time and get feedback from business partners to ensure an “outside-in” perspective is included in your 2024 plan.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

Introduction Group therapy offers a unique and potent avenue for mental health professionals to support multiple clients simultaneously. But navigating the details of billing for these sessions can be a daunting task. Worry not, for this comprehensive guide will illuminate the path to accurate and efficient group therapy billing! Understanding Basics of Group Therapy Billing Differentiate Psychotherapy from Psycho education: Billing depends on the type of service provided.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Nuance Communications, part of Microsoft, announced the general availability of Nuance Dragon Ambient eXperience Copilot for documentation assistance in Epic electronic health records. WHY IT MATTERS Generative artificial intelligence has the potential to free clinicians from administrative tasks and increase clinical efficiencies. After months of collaboration, Nuance's DAX Copilot is available for full Epic EHR integration, the company said Thursday.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 18, 2024

By Timothy Fish Hodgson, Roojin Habibi, and Alicia Ely Yamin In developing the digital symposium, From Principles to Practice: Human Rights and Public Health Emergencie s (which ran from October – December 2023), as editors we endeavored to get scholars, human rights advocates, judges, and policy makers to engage critically with the expert Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies (the PHE Principles), published by the International Commission of Jurists and the Glo

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 17, 2024

The number of active diagnostic radiologists is expected to decline in the next decade as a slight majority become eligible for retirement. 1 Their departure will only worsen an existing gap between growing healthcare needs and a shrinking talent pool to provide them. “This gap between demand and supply of diagnostic radiologists has been going on for a while,” said BreAnne Buehl, Director of Healthcare and Life Sciences Solutions for VMware by Broadcom, a cloud computing and virtual

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Banner Health, based in Phoenix, is one of the largest non-profit health systems in the U.S., serving more than eight million patients across six states in the Southwest. Like many hospitals and health systems, it has been facing many challenges with behavioral health. THE PROBLEM Behavioral health is an interesting story for several reasons, said Jeff Johnson, vice president of innovation and digital business at Banner Health.

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 17, 2024

Payers have new deadlines to issue prior authorization decisions — 72 hours for urgent requests and seven days for non-urgent ones — that should cut back coverage determination limbo for patients.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 16, 2024

By Joelle Boxer Tracy Droz Tragos’ new documentary, “ Plan C ,” follows the work of a grassroots organization dedicated to improving access to the abortion pill by mail in the U.S., while navigating an increasingly restrictive legal landscape. There is no better time to hear the perspectives of these patients, providers, and activists. Just last month, the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

Telehealth is for everyone, and hospitals and health systems must construct a digital equity strategy to better serve patients in the digital and telehealth space to ensure all persons can use telehealth, contended Alexandra Hunter, virtual care consultant at Henry Ford Health in Detroit. The technology and internet space have rapidly proliferated over the last 30 years.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Innovaccer announced Wednesday that it purchased a 100% stake in Cured, adding more than 20 health systems and digital health clients to its portfolio. WHY IT MATTERS As part of the acquisition Cured’s three co-founders – Andrew Sawyer, Ashmer Aslam and Rohit Narayan – will assume leadership roles within Innovaccer. Innovaccer was looking to enhance its focus on improving patient experiences and move from encounter-based care to experience-driven care, said Abhinav Shashank, co

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 18, 2024

Though the number of data breaches declined slightly from 2022, more than 116 million records were exposed last year, according to a new report from a cybersecurity firm.

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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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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 17, 2024

Venture capital firm General Catalyst is making good on its October promise to purchase a health system with about eight months left to spare. | The venture capital firm's deal would make the Ohio nonprofit a wholly owned subsidiary of the recently launched Health Assurance Transformation Corp. The deal still requires regulatory approval.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

To address rural healthcare access disparities, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health office at the National Institutes of Health seeks to create a scalable vehicle platform that can provide advanced medical services outside of a hospital setting. WHY IT MATTERS Rural populations are subject to higher rates of heart disease, cancer, trauma, lung disease and stroke than urban Americans, according to the draft Platform Accelerating Rural Access to Distributed & InteGrated Medical Ca

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 17, 2024

How can providers and payers use AI and machine learning in value-based care and preventative care to forecast the onset of health conditions and alter patient behavior? Ionian Healthcare Consulting’s founder and consultant Matt Cybulsky has some answers.

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 18, 2024

The insurer also lowered its expectations for Medicare Advantage membership growth this year. Humana’s stock dropped 11% in morning trading Thursday to its lowest level since February 2022.

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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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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 16, 2024

Demand remains high for GLP-1 drugs, and the experts at Morgan Health are aiming to support employers in managing that interest with a new report. | Demand remains high for GLP-1 drugs, and the experts at Morgan Health are aiming to support employers in managing that interest with a new report.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2024

A S$20 million grant from the National Research Foundation, Singapore (NRF) has been awarded to Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Imperial College London to develop ways to better protect health data and wearable devices. Imperial's newly opened overseas research centre, Imperial Global: Singapore, is collaborating with NTU Singapore researchers on the IN-CYPHER programme "to tackle existing security challenges and to protect emerging sensing technologies – and their

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Wearables for Metabolic Health study will use Fitbit behavioral and biometric data and laboratory tests to attain insights into metabolic health and disease prevention.

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 17, 2024

Families with employer-sponsored plans missed out on an average of more than $125,000 in earnings over more than three decades as premiums increased, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 17, 2024

As the U.S. | The new program from Bloomberg Philanthropies and major systems like Mass General Brigham, HCA Healthcare and Northwell Health will build new or refurbish existing high schools in 10 urban and rural communities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 17, 2024

As the primary provider of inpatient behavioral health services in the Central Alabama region, Baptist Health is depended upon by its community at large to provide high-quality and continuous care without interruption. THE PROBLEM Staff have been working to resolve two separate but interrelated issues surrounding this imperative service line. "The first issue we needed to address was the ability to efficiently and effectively assess patients who have been deemed at risk for suicidality for

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Digital Health News

JANUARY 19, 2024

HoloCare's surgical hologram technology is to be deployed at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust to help surgeons perform more efficiently and accurately.

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 16, 2024

MedPAC released the data Friday during a contentious meeting where members argued over the efficacy of Medicare Advantage.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 16, 2024

Innovaccer, maker of digital tools for providers, has acquired Cured, a digital marketing and customer relationship management [CRM] platform. | The strategic purchase adds more than 20 health systems and first-time digital health clients to Innovaccer’s current portfolio of customers.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 16, 2024

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Technology is significantly altering the healthcare sector, influencing how and when medical decisions and treatments are made. The healthcare sector demands easily accessible and precise medical data, as well as an automated process to reduce […] The article Upgrading Healthcare Services: Why You Need To Go Digital appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 15, 2024

Lawrence Whittle, President of Verana Health Artificial intelligence (AI) can be a sensitive subject for some healthcare professionals, and rightfully so. It was not too long ago that IBM’s Watson supercomputer won on “Jeopardy!” The hype and hubris that followed led to one of the great all-time examples of technology that some might say over-promoted and under-delivered.

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 17, 2024

The venture firm is following through on its promise to acquire a health system to use as a testing ground, though the deal with Summa is in very early stages.

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