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Healthcare employers must urgently address burnout, surgeon general warns

Healthcare Dive

Systems should address burnout systemically, and a priority is seeking and responding better to feedback from front-line workers, according to a Monday advisory from U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy.

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New York State Office for the Aging deploys AI robots as companions for older adults

Healthcare It News

Building on its effort to battle social isolation and support aging-in-place, the New York State Office for the Aging (NYSOFA) is delivering voice-operated smart technology into the homes of more than 800 older adults. NYSOFA is working with local offices for the aging and partners to identify older adults who would most benefit from the technology: ElliQ by Intuition Robotics, which is described by the company as a proactive and empathetic care companion.

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6 Reasons Collaboration Can Benefit Patient Health

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Technology has improved the patient-doctor relationship dramatically since healthcare organizations have embraced its versatility and effectiveness. But, while technology is an effective method for improving the patient’s healthcare experience, it is not the only area […].

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New Data Reveal Sparse Protections for Students Who Cannot Pay for Meals at School

Bill of Health

By Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research. As a federal program to serve meals to all U.S. public school students during the COVID-19 pandemic ends on June 30 , the consequences of unpaid school meal debt will resurface for the millions of students nationwide facing food insecurity. New data released on LawAtlas.org capture details of state unpaid school meal policies and reveals sparse and variable protections for students who cannot pay for meals at school.

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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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Millions of people counting on Congress to protect telehealth access

Healthcare Dive

Patients in communities across the nation who have come to rely on telehealth have been left waiting and wondering if they will be able to receive the virtual care they need once the COVID-19 public health emergency has ended.

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Is telemedicine an answer to physician burnout and staffing shortages?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

With the huge initial swell in the use of virtual care in the rearview mirror, many industry experts – from health plans to big tech and practicing clinicians – are considering whether a doubling down on telehealth is just what the doctor ordered for the future of patient care. Many clinicians are hungry for new opportunities that allow them to continue to serve patients without dealing with long-standing administrative burdens and the aftermath of burnout from COVID-19 in their hosp

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Tech Tools That Could Change the Dynamics of Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. It is astonishing how the healthcare system has changed progressively over the past few decades. Devices, applications, and gadgets help bridge the gap between novel solutions and broad use. Consistent upgrades in the technology that […]. The article Tech Tools That Could Change the Dynamics of Healthcare appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Employees cause more cyber breaches in healthcare than other industries, report finds

Healthcare Dive

Employees were responsible for 39% of healthcare breaches last year. That's compared to 18% across all industries, according to new Verizon research.

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AI and IoT device connects with concierge platform for RPM

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Healthcare workflow technology company Braidio has partnered with health IT vendor BlueSemi with the aim of creating a preventive home-health and telehealth ecosystem. BlueSemi's primary product is a handheld device called EYVA, which measures six vitals, including blood glucose, without requiring a pinprick for blood. By integrating the device with Braidio's My Health Concierge platform, the companies will be attempting to encourage positive behavioral change.

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Internal Audits Help Combat Payer Risk

MRO Compliance

Internal Audits Help Combat Payer Risk. May 26, 2022. For The Record. For a smooth-running revenue cycle, tap into the immense powers of this best practice tool. Wonder Woman has a golden lasso. Captain America has an impenetrable shield. Thor has a lightning hammer. Just as these magical tools bolster superheroes’ defenses, insights gleaned from internal audits are your organization’s superpower to prevent revenue recoupment and drive down risk.

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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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Flaws in the Textualist Argument Against the CDC Mask Mandate

Bill of Health

By Stefan Th. Gries, Michael Kranzlein, Nathan Schneider, Brian Slocum, and Kevin Tobia. In Health Freedom Defense Fund, Inc. v. Biden , the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida ruled that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s transit mask order , which was issued to stem the spread of SARS-CoV-2, exceeds the agency’s statutory authority, and struck down the mandate through a nation-wide injunction.

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Healthcare spending could drop $11.4B next year if ACA premium subsidies expire, research finds

Healthcare Dive

The looming coverage cliff would also hit providers financially, according to a new report. President Joe Biden has pushed Congress to extend the more generous financial aid provided by the American Rescue Plan.

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Re-examining National Health Expenditures

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Ken Perez, vice president of healthcare policy and government affairs, Omnicell, Inc. Discussions about the cost of healthcare in the United States often take the form of debates, pitting one sector against the other. […]. The article Re-examining National Health Expenditures appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Ambulatory surgery center's virtual care platform helps boost productivity and patient satisfaction

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Surgical Center at?Columbia Orthopaedic Group in Missouri, like so many ambulatory surgery centers across the country, do procedures today that are far more complex than those it did five years ago. THE PROBLEM. "In the past, we haven't worried as much about coordinating care across the patient journey, from preoperative education to surgical aftercare," said Andrew Lovewell, administrator.

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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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Digital transformation helps healthcare organizations confront big challenges

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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AHA urges DOJ to probe Medicare Advantage plans that deny care

Healthcare Dive

The hospital lobby is pushing the Justice Department to go beyond the recommendations in a new report from the HHS OIG and punish Medicare Advantage organizations that routinely deny coverage to beneficiaries.

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Over 850,000 Individuals Affected by Partnership HealthPlan of California Cyberattack

HIPAA Journal

In March 2022, Partnership HealthPlan of California (PHC) announced that third-party forensic specialists had been engaged to help restore the functionality of its IT systems following a cyberattack. PHC has now confirmed in a breach notification to the Maine Attorney General that the protected health information of 854,913 current and former health plan members has potentially been stolen, making this one of the largest healthcare data breaches to be reported so far this year.

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6 EHR Optimization Tips

Healthcare IT Today

One thing I’ve learned in 16 years writing about health IT and particularly focused on EMR (now EHR if you prefer), is that the EHR still impacts so many things in the life of a clinician. Yes, hospitals and health systems have 1000s of health IT solutions that they have to manage, upgrade, secure, etc. […].

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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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Betting on ‘Golden Age’ of Colonoscopies, Private Equity Invests in Gastro Docs

Kaiser Health News

Mariel needed a new gastroenterologist. Having just moved back to San Antonio, the 30-something searched for a doctor to manage her Crohn’s disease, an inflammatory bowel condition that is successfully managed with medications and lifelong monitoring — including regular colonoscopies. Mariel booked an appointment and learned she would be on the hook for a $1,100 colonoscopy — about three times what she had paid for the same test in a different state.

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Advocate Aurora faces lawsuit over all-or-nothing contracting

Healthcare Dive

The complaint alleges the nonprofit system used a number of anticompetitive practices to inflate healthcare prices at a cost to Wisconsin businesses.

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SAC Health Theft Incident and Multiple Ransomware Attacks Reported

HIPAA Journal

Social Action Community Health System (SAC Health) has recently notified 149,940 patients that documents containing their protected health information were stolen in a break-in at an off-site storage location where patient records were stored. The break-in was discovered on March 4, 2022, with the subsequent investigation confirming on April 22, 2022, that six boxes of paper documents had been stolen from the facility, which included files relating to patients served by SAC Health in 1997 and be

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AWS' new accelerator cohort will focus on health equity and more digital health briefs

Mobi Health News

Also: Anumana receives FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for its ECG-based algorithm designed for early detection of pulmonary hypertension, and AI-enabled imaging companies Aidoc and Gleamer partner.

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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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RPM Platform Learnings from UK Being Brought to the US

Healthcare IT Today

One of the most interesting people I met at the HIMSS 2022 conference this year was João Bocas. If you’re on Twitter, then you’ve probably seen him tweeting from his account @WearablesExpert where he shares great digital health content. One thing I love about Bocas is that he brings a great international perspective to the […].

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Medtech companies keep supply, staffing challenges in check even as recession risks loom, analysts say

Healthcare Dive

Companies are coping with factors such as supply disruptions, staffing shortages, inflation and foreign-exchange hurdles, according to analysts at William Blair.

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Study Identifies Risks Associated with 3rd and 4th Party Scripts on Websites

HIPAA Journal

A recent study by Source Defense examined the risks associated with the use of third- and fourth-party code on websites and found that all modern, dynamic websites included code that could be targeted by hackers to gain access to sensitive data. SOurce Defense explained that websites typically have their own third-party supply chains, with those third parties providing a range of services and functions related to site performance, tracking and analytics, and improving conversion rates to generat

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Study: VR therapeutic reduces pain intensity long term, compared with sham app

Mobi Health News

The study was supported by AppliedVR and used its system for treating chronic lower-back pain. The tool received FDA De Novo clearance last year.

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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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What is HIPAA Chile?

Compliancy Group

In Chile, Law 20,584 provides data privacy rights for patients. Law 20,584, the equivalent to HIPAA, was passed in 2012. The law requires that all information contained in patient files or documentation of medical treatments be treated as sensitive data. . The law also requires that healthcare professionals maintain the confidentiality of patient data.

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Rollback of pandemic protections to test Medicaid managed care organizations

Healthcare Dive

At question is whether insurers will be able to shift Medicaid members who lose coverage to subsidized marketplace plans.

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Protected Health Information (PHI): Everything You Need to Know about HIPAA and PHI

Total HIPAA

What is Protected Health Information (PHI)? The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ( HIPAA ) is a 1996 federal law that regulates privacy standards in the healthcare sector. In the early 1990s, it became clear that computers and digital records would play a large role in storing health data and that something should be done to protect sensitive information.

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Analysis: Nine of 20 popular period tracking apps use data for third party ads

Mobi Health News

According to the review by cybersecurity and VPN company Surfshark, 10 of the apps collected coarse location data.

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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.