Healthcare Dive
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
According to the CDC, immunization rates declined across the board beginning in March 2020, but the most significant drop was among children who receive vaccines through the Vaccines for Children program.
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Can you imagine a world in which technology enables physicians and nurses to spend less time in front of a computer and more time with patients? This is the vision of Gareth Sherlock, chief information officer (CIO) at Cleveland Clinic London. He recalls one of the physician leaders at the clinic saying that he dreams of the day when he can sit across from a patient and look them in the eye without requiring any interaction or typing into a PC throughout the consultation.
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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Beginning this month, Mayo Clinic will onboard a blockchain-integrated platform by Triall for a two-year multi-center pulmonary arterial hypertension trial that includes 10 research sites and more than 500 patients. WHY IT MATTERS. By building an immutable blockchain-registered audit trial with Triall's Veritable Proof API, Mayo Clinic will test end-to-end clinical data integrity – from start-up to post-study evaluations.
Healthcare IT Today
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
The following is a guest article by Paul Ketchel, Chief Executive Officer at MDsave. Cost transparency is a driving force in the American market. Whether consumers are looking to purchase a latte, a plane ticket, or surgery, they increasingly expect to pay an “out-the-door” price– something that includes all labor and materials as well as the finished product or service.
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!
Healthcare Dive
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Delayed procedures and tests were the most commonly reported consequences of healthcare cyberattacks, according to a study from the Ponemon Institute and Proofpoint, a cybersecurity compliance company.
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
While most healthcare leaders in the Asia Pacific recognise the value of health data more than their global peers, they are still facing significant challenges in using data effectively, according to Royal Philips' Future Health Index 2022 report. FINDINGS. The report, now in its seventh edition, gathered responses from 2,900 healthcare senior executives across 15 countries with 900 from the APAC region.
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HIPAA Journal
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
The Urology Center of Colorado has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit that was filed in response to a 137,820-record data breach that occurred in September 2021. On November 5, 2021, the urology practice sent notification letters to its patients advising them that some of their protected health information was potentially compromised two months previously, between September 7 and September 8, 2022.
Healthcare Dive
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Ultimately, the goal is to serve hundreds of thousands of seniors and Medicare beneficiaries in value-based arrangements through multiple Medicare Advantage plans.
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, the only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center in Washington state, will use the funds to establish the Stuart and Molly Sloan Precision Oncology Institute and accelerate the center's precision oncology research. WHY IT MATTERS. Fred Hutch’s work in precision oncology integrates fundamental biology, technology, immunology, data science and clinical experience into strategies to prevent, detect and treat cancer.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas in Pittsburg, Kansas, is a federally qualified health center and a not-for-profit corporation. CHC/SEK provides medical, dental, behavioral health, addiction treatment, case management services and pharmacies to all, regardless of ability to pay, and serves about 65,000 patients for more than 220,000 visits per year, making the organization the largest FQHC in Kansas and one of the largest of all rural FQHCs in the United States.
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HIPAA Journal
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
The Morristown, VT-based healthcare provider, Lamoille Health Partners, is facing a class action lawsuit over a June 2022 ransomware attack that affected almost 60,000 of its patients. The attack was detected on June 13, 2022, with the investigation confirming the attackers gained access to its network the previous day. Before file encryption, the attackers potentially accessed or acquired documents from its systems that contained names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, health
Healthcare Dive
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Envision CEO Jim Rechtin called UnitedHealthcare’s alleged practice “cold, callous and inhumane,” according to a statement released Friday announcing a lawsuit was filed in a Tennessee federal court.
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
CVS Health announced on September 5 that it will acquire Dallas-based Signify Health, a network of 10,000 clinicians across 50 states with more than 50 health plan clients, including CVS's Aetna division, for $8 billion. In order to further CVS's healthcare services strategy, the acquisition of Signify Health adds clinicians that assess patients at home.
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Healthcare IT Today
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
The following is a guest article by Itay Bochner, Director of Malware Analysis at OPSWAT. Patients can’t get their medicine, psychiatrists can’t add reports to the system and provide their professional opinion in court, and only last week was the medical helpline number 111 restored. The manual logging of patient records is resulting in piles of paper documentation, which doctors are saying could take months to input into the online system once it’s restored.
Healthcare Dive
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
The findings could be evidence of overutilization designed to drive up profits, the senior author of the study published in JAMA Health Forum said.
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Chief nursing informatics officer at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, Kevin Percival, sees the emerging field of nursing informatics as “fundamental to the enhancing of patient experience” His role is to provide leadership for digital transformation across the trust on behalf of nurses, midwives, and allied health professionals (AHPs).
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
The Federal Trade Commission is scrutinizing Amazon's Prime business model, and has also reviewed the tech giant's other potential deals, such as the acquisition of Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Studios and a new deal with iRobot which makes autonomous vacuums, for anti-trust violations. That doesn't necessarily mean Amazon's recent $3.9 billion purchase of San Francisco-based One Medical , which provides membership-based telehealth and in-person care, will be challenged (as was the case w
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.
MRO Compliance
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
FIGmd, an MRO Company, Provides APP Reporting with PerformancePathway™ for ACOs. End-to-end technology and service solution lifts the burden of clinical data extraction, patient deduplication, measure validation, and eCQMs/MIPS CQMs submission for ACOs. NORRISTOWN, Pa., Sept. 8, 2022 – FIGmd, an MRO company, announces the latest release of PerformancePathway for ACOs, an end-to-end technology and service solution that successfully provides Electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQMs) and MIPS CQ
Healthcare Dive
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Multiple groups representing doctors oppose Medicare payment reductions at a time when physician practices face escalating costs.
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is inviting patients and their families, providers, clinicians, consumer advocates, healthcare professional associations, individuals serving underserved communities and all CMS stakeholders serving populations facing disparities in health and healthcare to submit public comments by November 4. CMS is asking for public input on accessing healthcare and related challenges, understanding provider experiences, advancing health equity and assessing the
Mobi Health News
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Individuals are also less likely to trust AI-suggested interventions than those recommended by humans.
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Jane Sarashon
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
For Labor Day 2022, I’m thinking about health, vaccines, work (especially returning-to-work), and art. Let’s start with the vaccine news. Called the “first updated COVID-19 booster,” on September 1st the CDC announced the availability and approval for health citizens to get new vaccines which have added Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 spike protein components to the original vaccine formulation.
Healthcare Dive
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
A small proportion of providers that billed for telehealth — 1,714 out of 742,000 — posed a high risk of fraud or abuse to Medicare in COVID-19’s first year, regulators found.
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed
Mobi Health News
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
The new tool measures the diameter of the ventricles of the heart to provide the ratio of the maximum right ventricle diameter compared with the left ventricle. That can help indicate pulmonary embolism severity.
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HIPAA Journal
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Birmingham, AL-based Henderson & Walton Women’s Center (HWWC) has recently notified 34,306 patients that some of their protected health information may have been compromised as a result of a hacker gaining access to the email account of one of its employees. HWWC said the forensic investigation of the data breach confirmed the attacker did not gain access to the email server and the breach was confined to the email account of one employee.
Healthcare Dive
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Cybersecurity professionals say healthcare payments processing firms are particularly vulnerable to information technology breaches and ransom demands.
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
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Mobi Health News
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
The company will maintain its patent right for the technology.
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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.
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