Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Pharmacies and providers nationwide are struggling to process prescriptions following the attack, while the American Hospital Association is urging hospitals to disconnect from UnitedHealth’s systems.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Living with diabetes is challenging. So is treating it, with a myriad of factors determining or influencing a person’s health. THE PROBLEM In addition, those living with diabetes must take care of themselves by performing daily, monthly, quarterly and yearly tasks to stay ahead of the chronic condition. These include: Checking their feet Reading food labels Walking after meals Taking medication(s) in the right dose at the right time Meeting with a dietitian to assure they have the right nu
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Bill of Health
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
By Kayla Greenstien From 2016 – 2022, I worked in client-facing community support work, focusing on domestic abuse and sexual assault. Throughout this time, I regularly witnessed how the mental health system struggled to respond to non-physical violence in the form of coercive control — an insidious form of abuse that involves intimidation, threats, and manipulation to restrict the autonomy of another person.
MRO Compliance
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, the quest for interoperability has become paramount. While the vision of seamless data exchange promises improved patient care and streamlined operations, the journey is not without its hurdles. Here we explore the three main interoperability challenges that continue to shape the narrative in healthcare.
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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
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
The UnitedHealth-owned healthcare technology company disconnected its systems after detecting an “outside threat,” according to a status update page.
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Bill of Health
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
By Samuel Hatfield Psilocybin and MDMA were recently rescheduled in Australia for clinical use, leading many mental health professionals to question how psychedelic therapy will work in practice. As part of a research team at the University of Sydney, I recently interviewed as number of experts in the field, with the aim of developing a comprehensive taxonomy of matters relating to psychedelic therapy that are or could be regulated.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
By 2030, all Baby Boomers will be over 65 – all as alternative care models emerge. McKinsey estimates $265 billion worth of care services for Medicare patients could shift from traditional facilities to the home by 2025. Instead of thinking of patients as "discharged" once they leave the hospital, which implies care is finished, many healthcare professionals believe it's time to treat home as a fundamental care setting that needs to be well integrated into the care continuum.
Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
The big question coming out of the health insurance earnings season is how much elevated utilization among seniors will carry over into 2024.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Launched to help address health equity challenges facing Black cardiology patients, ChristianaCare said its digital medication adherence platform, developed with Story Health, has delivered significant improvements in outcomes for patients with hypertension and heart failure – two to three times in some key metrics. The health system plans to expand access to more patients.
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Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Investors continue to pour money into generative AI startups and Abridge is riding this wave as it rapidly scales its technology across U.S. health systems. | Along with the funding round, Abridge also announced an enterprise agreement with Connecticut-based Yale New Haven Health System to give thousands of clinicians access to its AI-powered clinical documentation technology.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
A survey by the Cleveland Clinic revealed nearly four in ten respondents had reservations around seeking a second opinion if the provider used AI diagnostic tools.
Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
A mental healthcare provider didn’t have sufficient protections in place before a ransomware attack exposed the protected health information of more than 14,000 people, according to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
China Medical University Hospital is leveraging Google Cloud's generative AI to support its doctors in providing cancer care. A formal collaboration between CMUH and Google Cloud was signed in December last year to use MedLM , a healthcare-specific gen AI based on the large language model, Med-PaLM 2. MedLM, which intelligence has been proven comparable to licensed doctors by scoring 85% on the MedQA-USMLE (United States Medical Licensing Examination), has become the foundation of the CMUH&#
Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.
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Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Change Healthcare is mitigating a "cybersecurity issue" that began Wednesday, and details remain scant. | Change Healthcare is mitigating a "cybersecurity issue" that began Wednesday, and details remain scant.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
Ross' HIMSS24 session, "Tightly Integrating Telehealth for Better Access: Lessons From Northern Light," is scheduled for Tuesday, March 12, 10:30-11:30 a.m. in Room W204A. Learn more and register.
Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
The research found no differences in 30-day hospital readmissions or mortality, but the study’s authors said more analysis on patients’ long-term functioning was needed.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Change Healthcare, a software and data analytics vendor that offers revenue cycle management, clinical decision support and other operations tools, announced Wednesday it took its systems offline due to a cyber incident. "Once we became aware of the outside threat, in the interest of protecting our partners and patients, we took immediate action to disconnect our systems to prevent further impact," the company said in an online incident report.
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Bill of Health
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
Editor’s Note: Congratulations, Bobby, and welcome to the world, baby Stroup! By Bobby Stroup If you give a law student a baby, they’re going to look for legal risk. And if they live in the Bay State , they’re going to want a class on ‘MILK’ (Massachusetts Infant Legal Knowhow). Then, after learning about the relevant law and policy, they’re probably going to want to write a legal blog post.
Natalia Mazina
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
By Bhavesh Desai, PharmD, J.D. DIR fees have been a focus of debate since their implementation and for the past decade, they have been increasingly scrutinized in congress as well as at the state level. The companies (Pharmacy Benefit Manager – PBMs) responsible for reporting true and accurate drug prices to the CMS have used loopholes in legislation to their advantage.
Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Federal regulators are seeking information about the for-profit hospital operator's inpatient admissions and dialysis processes and procedures.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Hospital and health system C-suite executives and health IT leaders know the patient experience is crucial to ongoing success in healthcare. The question is: How to continually improve it? This week's podcast looks at what's on the horizon for the patient experience and seeks to answer that question. Our guest, from Press Ganey Associates, a patient experience consulting firm with 40 years of experience in the field, is Chrissy Daniels, chief experience officer.
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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 News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Brightside Health will be entering into new and expanded payer partnerships to support telemental healthcare access through Medicare and Medicaid, teaming with companies such as Blue Shield of California, CareOregon and Centene.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Fourteen organizations representing providers, payers, consumer technology companies and employers are teaming up to cut through the noise and raise higher standards for finding digital health | Fourteen organizations representing providers, payers, consumer technology companies and employers are teaming up to cut through the noise and raise higher standards for finding digital health solutions that work and are worth the investment.
Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
Under the new definition, hospitals can only receive disproportionate share hospital Medicaid reimbursements for beneficiaries who are primarily insured by the safety-net program.
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
The following is a guest article by Anthony Murray, Chief Interoperability Officer at MRO In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, the quest for interoperability has become paramount. While the vision of seamless data exchange promises improved patient care and streamlined operations, the journey is not without its hurdles. Here we explore the three main interoperability challenges that continue to shape the narrative in healthcare.
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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