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How Intermountain Healthcare gets top marks for virtual care

Healthcare It News

Telehealth has been operationally implemented within Intermountain Healthcare since 2015, with pilots running for several years prior. As a centralized service, it was possible to engage with a broad consortium of departments such as legal, finance, marketing, compliance and physician affairs to develop models, learn about the nuances of implementing telehealth as an embedded service and engage with clinical leadership on the opportunities.

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Telehealth visits rose in May, mirroring COVID-19 diagnoses

Healthcare Dive

Patients made greater use of virtual care visits for a second straight month during an upturn in coronavirus cases.

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New healthcare uses for existing technologies

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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Does the Right to Health Enhance Patient Rights?

Bill of Health

By Luciano Bottini Filho. Despite the value of a constitutionally enshrined right to health, such a guarantee, on its own, does not ensure patient rights or a nuanced understanding of patient-centered care. This article will consider the case study of Brazil as an example. Despite Brazil’s recognition of the right to health, this constitutional protection does not set sufficient standards to guide judicial decision-making around patient care.

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Bridging Innovation & Patient Care: The Growing Role of AI

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Co-founder & CEO at Tattva.Health

AI is transforming clinical trials—accelerating drug discovery, optimizing patient recruitment, and improving data analysis. But its impact goes far beyond research. As AI-driven innovation reshapes the clinical trial process, it’s also influencing broader healthcare trends, from personalized medicine to patient outcomes. Join this new webinar featuring Simran Kaur for an insightful discussion on what all of this means for the future of healthcare!

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Geisinger's telemedicine program shoots from 20 specialties to more than 70

Healthcare It News

Pennsylvania's Geisinger health system faces several challenges common to the healthcare industry, such as improving access to care, recruiting and retaining providers, and scaling technologies for rapid deployment across multiple campuses and dozens of medical specialties. THE PROBLEM. Serving predominantly rural communities, many of Geisinger's patients experience barriers to getting the care they need.

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Intermountain’s Harrison plans to step down as CEO

Healthcare Dive

After six years at the helm, Harrison plans to leave his post as president and CEO of Salt Lake City, Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare this fall.

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The Biggest Challenge to Lowering Costs in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

In all of my conversations, people know that I often go back to one basic principle: Follow the Money. It’s amazing how often that explains various behaviors, market dynamics, or trying to understand the why of something that seems unexplainable. However, in healthcare I find this is often dramatically more complicated than people realize. The number of people and organizations that profit off the dysfunction of healthcare is troubling to say the least.

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UCHealth leaps into AR for patient engagement and experience

Healthcare It News

Patient distraction therapy, long-used by UCHealth with virtual reality and other techniques, and joy are framing the Aurora, Colorado-based health system's first in-app augmented reality experience. Beginning this fall, a patient or visitor will be able to click a button in their UCHealth mobile app and be directed to open their device's camera on a trigger point that will make a dog virtually come alive through AR in the waiting room.

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Healthcare executive compensation grows in 2022

Healthcare Dive

Median base salaries for executives at healthcare companies increased by 4.5% in the past year, according to consulting firm SullivanCotter.

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Amwell to power CVS Health's virtual care offering

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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HIPAA Compliance 2025: Navigating Regulatory Changes & Industry Trends

Based on comprehensive survey data from diverse healthcare providers, the 2025 HIPAA Benchmark Report delivers actionable intelligence for modern compliance programs. This report examines how organizations are restructuring HIPAA Privacy Programs to address emerging regulatory requirements. Through analysis of staffing models, program operations, and breach management protocols, it provides a clear picture of current best practices.

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CISA Sounds Alarm About Zeppelin Ransomware Targeting Healthcare Organizations

HIPAA Journal

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have issued a joint security alert about the Zeppelin ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation, which has extensively targeted organizations in the healthcare and medical industries. Zeppelin ransomware, a variant of Vega malware, has been used in attacks on critical infrastructure organizations since 2019.

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MarinHealth to roll out UCSF-tailored version of Epic EHR

Healthcare It News

MarinHealth this week said it will implement a new electronic health record system – a version of Epic developed at University of California San Francisco called APeX. WHY IT MATTERS. APeX stands for Advancing Patient-Centered Excellence – it's an Epic EHR system that was customized at UCSF as an integrated platform to help offer access to patient records across the care continuum, from MarinHealth Medical Network clinics to MarinHealth Medical Center.

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Hospitals still fall short on price transparency, consumer group says

Healthcare Dive

Hospitals pushed back on the Patient Rights Advocate report, which found that just 16% of hospitals were fully compliant with the price transparency law.

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Hazelden Betty Ford's Oracle Cerner EHR enables digital therapeutic info

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

WHY IT MATTERS. The EHR integration with the digital prescribing platform enables clinicians to send personalized therapeutic content to their patients throughout recovery. Within their workflows, clinicians can respond to and anticipate patient needs. They can access a central content repository and send patients reading materials, exercise plans, workshops and more.

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Simplify Screening for Excluded Providers

Every health care provider that accepts federal payments must screen for excluded providers. Use this sample Exclusion Screening Checklist and Compliance Policy to evaluate and improve your organization’s compliance with the law. Payments from Medicare, Medicaid, and TriCare trigger screening requirements that may extend to employees, contractors, volunteers, board members, and network providers.

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The Woodstock of Healthcare Interoperability

Healthcare IT Today

When I first heard that Civitas and DirectTrust were collaborating to hold the Civitas Networks for Health Annual Conference and the DirectTrust Summit together, I thought that this is likely going to be one of the greatest gathering of healthcare interoperability professionals that has happened. As the title says, it’s going to be a kind of Woodstock of Healthcare Interoperability people, but the music is replaced with really nerdy conversations about standards, networks, identification,

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The importance of redesigning health services

Healthcare It News

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Five types of entrepreneurship: meaning and defining characteristics

Healthcare Dive

Entrepreneurs have a unique set of characteristics – which do you bring to the medical field?

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Healthcare Provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act: Implications for States

Center for Health Insurance Reform

Congress is poised to enact the Inflation Reduction Act, a $740 billion reconciliation package that includes sweeping climate change, deficit reduction, and health policy provisions. In her latest Expert Perspective for the State Health & Value Strategies project, Sabrina Corlette reviews the health care changes and their implications for states.

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Navigating Payroll Compliance: Future-Proofing Payroll in an Evolving Regulatory Landscape

Speaker: Jennifer Hill

Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.

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Closing the Gender Health Gap: How Digital Technology Can Support Better Women’s Health

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Juliet Bauer, Chief Growth and Marketing Officer at Livi. I’m often asked where I believe digital technology can make the biggest impact in healthcare. My answer? Women’s health. Today, women spend around a quarter of their lives in poor health or disability, compared with one fifth for men. In a health system that has historically been geared towards men, a gender health gap persists where you are more likely to receive poorer medical advice and diagnosis if

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Patient-centered care gets a boost from digital efficiency

Healthcare It News

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Oscar Health pauses full-service tech deals amid implementation woes

Healthcare Dive

The decision to halt new technology agreements doesn’t change Oscar’s financial expectations for 2022, as the insurtech plans to reallocate resources to focus on achieving profitability in its insurance operations next year.

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Survey: Nearly half report virtual care visit in the past year

Mobi Health News

According to Deloitte's survey, 49% of respondents said they'd attended a virtual medical appointment as a patient in the past year, while 26% said they'd been to a virtual visit where another person was the patient.

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The Evolution of Communication in Healthcare Settings

Healthcare communication has evolved from handwritten notes and paper charts to digital tools like EHRs, telemedicine, and AI-powered platforms. This blog explores how these advancements improve patient outcomes, streamline care delivery, and enhance provider collaboration. Learn about the role of mobile health (mHealth) apps, secure messaging, and social media in bridging communication gaps.

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1H 2022 Healthcare Data Breach Report

HIPAA Journal

Ransomware attacks are rife, hacking incidents are being reported at high levels, and there have been several very large healthcare data breaches reported so far in 2022; however, our analysis of healthcare data breaches reported in 1H 2022, shows that while data breaches are certainly being reported in high numbers, there has been a fall in the number of reported breaches compared to 1H 2021.

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Multi-channel clinical trial recruitment technology checklist

Healthcare It News

Sponsor: RingCentral Primary topic: Patient Engagement Topic: Cloud Computing Data Warehousing Patient Engagement Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Sponsor: RingCentral.

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Physician practices seek more time to comply with No Surprises rules

Healthcare Dive

The Medical Group Management Association asked the HHS and the CMS to delay enforcement of parts of the statute until six months after any final rule is published.

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Climate Change Is Not Good for Health and Living Things

Jane Sarashon

There is an image from my childhood, drawn by Lorraine Schneider, which reads “War is not healthy for children and other living things.” As I read through a paper published this week on climate change’s contribution to the burden of chronic disease, I couldn’t help but conjure up Lorraine’s observation from my little girl memory bank.

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Healthcare Vendor Risk Management: Strategies for Protected Data

In healthcare, where patient data protection is paramount, effective vendor risk management isn't just good business—it's essential for maintaining compliance and trust. This comprehensive guide helps healthcare compliance professionals navigate the complexities of third-party vendor relationships in an increasingly interconnected healthcare environment.

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How to Mitigate Ethical Challenges of AI-Driven Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Natalie C. Oehlers, Associate Attorney and Carly C. Koza, Healthcare Associate Attorney at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney. While various legislation has been implemented or proposed at both the federal and state levels to standardize and accelerate the development of artificial intelligence (AI), most stop short of addressing the significant ethical challenges that may arise.

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6 actions payers can take to prepare for the No Surprises Act

Healthcare It News

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Profits climb for major insurers as hospital volumes drop in Q2

Healthcare Dive

All but two of the seven largest insurers saw profits climb in the second quarter as hospital operators continued to struggle with weak volumes and higher labor costs amid record-high inflation.

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Zenith American Solutions Reports Mailing Error that Exposed SSNs of 37,000 Individuals

HIPAA Journal

Zenith American Solutions, a third-party administrator for the Sound Health and Wellness Trust, has recently notified individuals about a mailing error that exposed individuals’ Social Security numbers. According to the breach notification, a mailing was sent to individuals on June 24, 2022, advising them to complete their Personal Health Assessments or Health Profiles to enroll in the 2023 Health Reimbursement Account.

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3 Reasons to Retire Pagers from Healthcare Settings

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.