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Patients report acceptance of AI in healthcare, but don’t prefer it

Healthcare Dive

Though some patients believe using AI in healthcare could reduce medical bias and improve diagnostic accuracy, the vast majority would rather see a human for services ranging from diagnosing a rash to managing their diets.

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Achieving Transparency: How to Close a Critical Gap in Healthcare Compliance

Verisys

Achieving Transparency: How to Close a Critical Gap in Healthcare Compliance Continuous Data Monitoring is Key to Patient Safety Employing quality providers results in better patient outcomes. And better outcomes affect your bottom line in many ways: Patient safety and satisfaction Higher reimbursement rates Reputational supremacy Physician attraction and retention However, maintaining a dedicated staff of quality providers, support staff, and reputable suppliers of goods and services can

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HIPAA Compliance Management: The Guardian of Patient Privacy

Compliancy Group

A HIPAA compliance manager serves as the guardian of patient information, overseeing all aspects of adherence to federal regulations within healthcare organizations. They possess not only technical expertise but also comprehensive knowledge of the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare privacy laws. With their guidance, organizations can build a culture that values data protection and ensures patients’ trust and confidence.

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Impacts of Healthcare Working Conditions

American Medical Compliance

The demanding nature of the healthcare profession, combined with numerous occupational hazards, exposes them to significant risks. Ensuring safe working conditions for healthcare workers is paramount not only for their own health and well-being but also for the quality of patient care. An increase in provider well-being correlates to improved patient care.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Emergency and Fire Preparedness in Healthcare Offices: The OSHA Way

Total Medical Compliance Resources

‘Expect the unexpected’ is one phrase that comes to mind when considering how healthcare offices run. An example of an unforeseen event is an emergency and/or fire scenario. These situations can quickly turn a normal day into a life-altering crisis. Data shows there are an average of 5,750 fires reported annually in healthcare facilities, resulting in about $50.4 million in property damage.

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Patients continue to utilize telehealth for mental healthcare: Fair Health

Healthcare Dive

Stakeholders await final post-pandemic telehealth guidelines after mental healthcare utilization increased during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Healthcare Provider Shortage Continues

American Medical Compliance

In recent years, the global healthcare industry has been grappling with a significant challenge: a shortage of qualified healthcare workers. The consequences of this provider shortage are far-reaching, impacting patient care, exacerbating existing disparities, and straining an already burdened system. Provider Shortage Impact on Patient Care This shortage is a worldwide concern, it is not limited to a single country or region but is a global concern.

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Horizon Health gains operational ROI from EHR and telehealth integration

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Horizon Health Services, a behavioral health provider in New York, in November 2019 deployed telemedicine technology with the goal of meeting the demands of patients and the ever-changing world of technology. Then COVID-19 hit. That accelerated the use of telehealth for Horizon and the world. THE PROBLEM In the year after COVID-19 struck, healthcare changed.

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AI-enabled brain imaging company icometrix receives CPT III code

Mobi Health News

The FDA-cleared and CE-marked image analysis software helps providers diagnose and monitor patients with neurological conditions.

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MA beneficiaries more socioeconomically disadvantaged than FFS enrollees, report finds

Healthcare Dive

People who enroll in privately-run MA plans are more likely to be non-white and have lower incomes, according to a white paper from Inovalon and Harvard Medical School.

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Optimizing Medical Waste Management: A Guide to Best Practices

Feeling overwhelmed by medical waste regulations? This comprehensive guide unravels the complexities of medical waste disposal, ensuring you stay compliant and prioritize safety. Inside you'll find: Clear categorization: Learn to precisely classify medical waste for proper handling and disposal. Labeling & Storage: Discover best practices for clear labeling and secure storage of medical waste.

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Houston Methodist nurses use software to boost completions of advance care plans

Healthcare It News

For Texas health system Houston Methodist, the major challenges to obtaining completed advance care directives included the time constraints of primary care physicians in addressing advance care planning with their patients. THE PROBLEM In addition, patients too often crash during a hospitalization with no advance care directives in place to guide care.

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Location, Location, Location – Understanding Health Consumers’ Evolving Definition of Convenience

Health Populi

The definition of “convenience” in the eyes of patients, consumers, and caregivers is multi-faceted, with the concept of “location” shifting both physically and digitally. We learn this in new research from JLL , the global real estate services company. “Why is a real estate services company doing research into consumers’ views on health care?

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HITLAB summit warns that digital health for all will need careful investment

Fierce Healthcare

“Digital health will cease to exist,” read large on the screen behind Merck Global Health Initiative Fund President Bill Taranto at the second annual HITLAB Innovators Summit in New York City. | Columbia University hosted the second annual HITLAB Innovators Summit in New York City where industry insiders trumpeted the potential for digital health interventions while warning of the dangers of unchecked tech implementation.

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Home health industry group sues CMS, HHS over payment cuts

Healthcare Dive

The National Association for Home Care and Hospice said regulators used “an illogical and invalid methodology” in a new payment model.

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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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Transport Accident Commission taps The Clinician to harness patient-generated data

Healthcare It News

A new value-based programme of the Victorian government's Transport Accident Commission has started collecting and analysing patient-reported outcomes and experiences. TAC, which supports people injured in transport accidents, just launched the Enhanced Recovery Program to raise the quality of care and improve the outcomes for their clients. Based on a media release, the programme will leverage The Clinician's ZEDOC platform to gather and analyse PROMs and PREMs.

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NuvoAir, Marpai collaborate to offer cardiopulmonary care to employers

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Marpai will add the respiratory care company's virtual care offerings to its network of value-based care providers for use by self-funded employer health plan members.

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Digital health app users report increased bipolar depression correlated with worsening air quality

Fierce Healthcare

Air pollution shown to increase depression symptoms in individuals with bipolar disorder, a new study published by Cambridge University Press found.

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CMS proposes $375M reimbursement cut to home health agencies

Healthcare Dive

Industry groups argue the payment cuts will exacerbate an already shaky financial situation for home health providers.

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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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Hospitals to receive $9 billion under proposed 340B remedy

Modern Healthcare

Some 1,600 affected 340B-covered hospitals would receive the $9 billion payment that looks to offset the 340B reimbursement reductions the Supreme Court deemed unlawful.

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Patient Focused Features from Online Scheduling to Chatbots

Healthcare IT Today

In this video, Richard Eells, Vice President of Operations Administration at United Digestive, shares how his organization uses the healow suite of apps to handle appointments and other logistical support for multiple providers. healow is a service provided by eClinicalWorks that really changes how a medical practice can change the experience for its patients at scale.

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VA, Stanford Medicine unveil plans to develop new comprehensive cancer center in Palo Alto

Fierce Healthcare

Stanford Medicine and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) unveiled plans Friday to collaborate on a project that will bring a new National Cancer Institute-designated joint cancer care and rese | Stanford Medicine and the VA unveiled plans on Friday to collaborate on a project that will bring a new National Cancer Institute-designated joint cancer care and research center to the VA Palo Alto campus.

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More funding for cultural outreach is imperative to curb procedural Medicaid disenrollments

Healthcare Dive

Investing in appropriate outreach as states resume eligibility checks is both humane and economically efficient, argues Jackie Leung, a public health researcher and professor at Linfield University.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

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.

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Cybersecurity Agencies Warn of TrueBot Malware Campaign Targeting U.S. and Canadian Orgs

HIPAA Journal

A joint cybersecurity advisory has been issued by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), and the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS) warning about a TrueBot malware campaign targeting organizations in the United States and Canada.

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Kronos Reaches $6M Settlement Over Ransomware Attack

Health IT Security

HR management solutions provider Kronos suffered a ransomware attack on its cloud solution in 2021 that impacted many healthcare organizations.

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Hospital outpatient departments charging 'roughly double' for biologics compared to physician offices: report

Fierce Healthcare

Hospital outpatient departments are marking up the prices for biologic medicines more than physician offices, particularly for “innovator biologics” that have clinically equivalent and lower cost a | Consistently higher markups among hospital outpatient departments hamstring potential savings payers may hope to see down the line as more biosimilars become available, warned the Employee Benefit Research Institute.

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Medicare Advantage’s quality bonus program needs reform, Urban Institute argues

Healthcare Dive

The QBP is a significant source of revenue for MA insurers, but generally doesn’t translate to higher quality care for beneficiaries, according to the nonprofit’s new report.

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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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Holon Tackles Provider Burnout With Help From AI Technology

Healthcare IT Today

If you asked a healthcare provider what their biggest challenges were, the list would get long very quickly. One standout, however, is the problem of healthcare burnout, a struggle that healthcare industry leaders and workers alike face every day. In fact, according to new research from Holon Solutions , 79% of healthcare leaders and 77% of healthcare workers see burnout as their biggest challenge.

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Valera Health becomes Humana in-network provider for virtual mental health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Select Humana Medicare Advantage members will now have in-network access to Valera's telemental health offerings.

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Medicare Advantage's quality bonus program needs an overhaul: Urban Institute

Fierce Healthcare

The quality bonus program (QBP) that rewards Medicare Advantage (MA) plans fails to achieve its two main goals: fairly rewarding MA insurers that actually improve quality and encouraging beneficiar | The Medicare Advantage Quality Bonus Program suffers from what some experts call the “Lake Wobegon Effect”: Too many plans are rated above average. A new Urban Institute report suggests some cures.

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FTC intervenes to correct Medtronic’s ‘erroneous assertions’ in antitrust case

Healthcare Dive

The FTC filed an amicus brief because it said Medtronic made “wrong” arguments with “broad implications for antitrust enforcement.

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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.