Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 6, 2024
OneBlood, which serves hundreds of hospitals in the southeastern U.S., had to implement manual methods for processing blood after the cyberattack, which reduced its capacity.
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 6, 2024
A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court decision that struck down key parts of legislation aimed at reforming surprise medical billing. | A federal appeals court upheld a lower court decision that struck down key parts of legislation aimed at reforming surprise medical billing.
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Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 6, 2024
The 5th Circuit Court’s decision vacates instructions that arbiters should first consider the qualifying payment amount in deciding payments over contested out-of-network bills. Providers argued that unfairly advantaged insurers.
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 6, 2024
FDA releases roster of digital health advisory committee, chaired by American College of Cardiology innovation officer ebeavins Tue, 08/06/2024 - 10:26
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Let's discuss the trusty pager—an old favorite that’s losing its shine in hospitals and clinics. While once a staple in hospitals and clinics, pagers now present significant limitations that hinder rather than facilitate communication among healthcare professionals. Healthcare professionals are constantly on the move, and they need communication tools that can keep up with their fast-paced lives.
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 6, 2024
The health system has made a series of hospital divestitures this year as it seeks to pay down debt and refocus its portfolio on ambulatory surgery centers.
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Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 6, 2024
UnitedHealthcare will launch a national program Oct. 1 for physicians to override traditional prior authorization requirements. | Physician practices in good standing will be able to skip prior authorization for some services, the insurer recently announced.
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 6, 2024
Heidi Health automates note-taking with a high degree of customization: Clinicians can create highly detailed templates to capture the measures needed in their disciplines, or enlist the help of the Heidi team to create templates. Clinicians can add extra information after the patient interview. Different levels (brief versus detailed) can be chosen.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 6, 2024
What You Should Know: – A new McKinsey survey reveals that the healthcare industry is increasingly recognizing the potential of generative AI (gen AI) to revolutionize patient care and operational efficiency. – While a majority of healthcare organizations are exploring or implementing gen AI solutions, concerns about risks and challenges remain.
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 6, 2024
This week on “Podnosis” we're discussing a new payment model that could affect thousands o | This week on “Podnosis” we're discussing a new payment model that could affect thousands of hospitals across the country. It's called TEAM, and it stands for Transforming Episode Accountability Model. It's a mandatory bundled payment program that covers five common procedures.
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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 6, 2024
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Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 6, 2024
The country’s four historically Black medical schools have received a total of $600 million in an investment by Bloomberg Philanthropies. | The funding will go to Meharry Medical College, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Howard University College of Medicine and Morehouse School of Medicine. The foundation also gave seed funding to help start a new medical school at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans -- a collaboration between Xavier and Ochsner Health.
Becker's Health IT
AUGUST 6, 2024
Change Healthcare begins notifying individuals affected by massive data breach following February ransomware attack. 250 individuals in Texas receive letters.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 6, 2024
What You Should Know: – Brightside Health , a telemental health company released research demonstrating the potential of large language models (LLM) in predicting mental health crises. – The study, published in JMIR Mental Health , compared the performance of OpenAI’s GPT-4 to human clinicians in identifying patients at risk of suicide.
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Becker's Health IT
AUGUST 6, 2024
Hospital and health system vendors continue to be targeted in cyberattacks in 2024, creating data breaches that ultimately affect healthcare organizations.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 6, 2024
Meghan Gaffney, CEO and co-founder, Veda Payers place many resources—including time, personnel, and money—into maintaining provider networks for their plans and members. What is the intended goal after negotiating and contracting with networks? An accurate and comprehensive provider directory containing in-network clinicians and specialists that members can effectively use to “find a doctor” when they need care.
Symplr
AUGUST 6, 2024
Healthcare procurement is the process of sourcing goods and equipment for clinicians, hospitals, and other healthcare settings. Inadequate supply chain management can negatively impact profitability at best and severely limit your ability to care for patients at worst.
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 6, 2024
Hims & Hers launched a virtual weight management program in December, adding injectable weight loss drugs in May, and that investment is quickly paying off. | Hims & Hers launched a virtual weight management program in December, adding compounded GLP-1 medications in May, and that investment is quickly paying off.
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Digital Health News
AUGUST 6, 2024
Workforce and training are “significant barriers” to delivering a frontline digitised service, according to an NHS Confederation report.
Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 6, 2024
Steward Health Care has made "significant progress" on deals to sell five Massachusetts hospitals and its physician group to enable the facilities to remain open under new operators, an attorney fo | Steward Health Care has made "significant progress" on deals to sell five Massachusetts hospitals and its physician group to enable the facilities to remain open under new operators,
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 6, 2024
After 10x Revenue Growth in 2023, a Funding Round Led by Threshold will Enable Freshpaint to Expand the Reach and Capabilities of its Category-Creating S oftware Today Freshpaint , the Healthcare Privacy Platform creator, announced a $30.7 million Series B financing round led by Threshold with additional participation from new investor SignalFire and existing investors Intel Capital, Y Combinator, and Zero Prime.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 6, 2024
What You Should Know: – Phenomix Sciences , a precision medicine biotechnology company, released findings from a new survey revealing a growing demand for personalized obesity care. – The survey of 475 patients explored attitudes toward weight management, treatment preferences, and information sources. Key Findings: Patients Seek Medical Guidance: A majority of respondents (66%) prefer guidance from healthcare providers to manage weight loss, highlighting the need for a more clinical
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Download our 30-minute webinar where we delve into real-life examples of HIPAA violations and preventative measures every organization should know! You will learn: The critical factors that lead to HIPAA violations and how to identify them. Three compelling real-life cases of organizations that faced severe HIPAA penalties. Proven strategies to safeguard YOUR organization against HIPAA violations.
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 6, 2024
As most of you know, at Healthcare IT Today, we generally try to stay away from clinically focused topics. We’re not clinicians and we don’t even try to play one on TV. We focus on technology and the use of technology in healthcare. However, we’re certainly seeing a blurring of the lines when it comes to pure health IT solutions and medical devices.
Jane Sarashon
AUGUST 6, 2024
With 70 different clinical trials for GLP-1 drugs in process with the FDA, payers — and other stakeholders in the health care ecosystem — have the semaglutide-SENSE top of mind, based on my ongoing updating of this fast-moving market space. For overall market context on pace-of-growth in adoption, check out this chart from a JAMA Health Forum research letter on Prescription Fills for Semaglutide Products by Payment Method , published August 2nd.
HealthIT Answers
AUGUST 6, 2024
By Kim Boyd - If you are or may become an actor under the information blocking rules, understanding these new criteria is imperative to protect your organization from information blocking non-compliance. There will be more enforcement of the information blocking rule on the horizon, so compliance is more important than ever. The post ONC HTI-2 Proposed Rule: Navigating Information Blocking Compliance appeared first on Health IT Answers.
Medisys Compliance
AUGUST 6, 2024
Navigating the complexities of internal medicine billing can be especially challenging for small practices. Limited resources, frequent updates in billing regulations, and the need for precise coding make it difficult to manage billing in-house. This article explores the various internal medicine billing services available for small practices and emphasizes the need for professional billing service providers to ensure financial stability and compliance.
Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson
Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.
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