Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

As the consumerization of healthcare continues to take shape, the next frontier of healthcare access may well be merchandising healthcare inventory, contended Derek Streat, cofounder and CEO of DexCare, a digital transformation platform vendor. By combining healthcare and e-commerce technologies and strategies, healthcare provider organizations can dramatically improve digital discovery of, and access to, care for patients, he said.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Providers and payers are still grappling with the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, including the winding down of pandemic-era policies, which will have major effects on hospitals and insurers.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

By Aparajita Lath In January, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a new draft rule that would categorically ban non-compete clauses — contractual terms between an employer and an employee that prevent subsequent employment at a competing firm — across the country. Banning non-compete clauses may help to promote competition and innovation in biotechnology and health care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Before the widespread adoption of telemedicine technology, there were several problems that hindered the delivery of healthcare services for most healthcare organizations. THE PROBLEM One of the main problems was access to healthcare, particularly with working families and those with chronic conditions. Many people lacked convenient access to medical care and providers, making it difficult for them to receive the care they needed.

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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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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In this podcast, we discuss a new concept that has blossomed from an old one. The old concept is The Quadruple Aim. The new concept? The Quintuple Aim. What's new? Health equity. The guest is Dr. Kedar Mate, president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and a member of the faculty at Weill Cornell Medical College. Earlier this year, Kedar co-authored a JAMA Viewpoint proposing the "Quintuple Aim" for healthcare improvement, which would add a fifth aim: to advance he

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The following is a guest article by Jonathan Jesneck , Co-Founder and CTO at Firefly Lab. Unlocking the future of healthcare with Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a hot topic amongst tech and medical professionals alike. Leaps and bounds have been made since the term was first applied in medicine in the mid-1950s , but it wasn’t until the late 2000s that developments using AI in a variety of healthcare fields started to happen.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In 2019, Cleveland-based University Hospitals saw an opportunity to use automation and digital care technologies to improve patient engagement, clinical care and outcomes. THE PROBLEM Ultimately, the health system was looking for ways to improve patient engagement first and foremost and then wanted to see how it could use automated tools to improve outcomes.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The Singapore General Hospital has started training its nurses in IV cannulation using VR technology. A team of SGH nurses, together with Serious Games Asia and sensor solutions developer Microtube Technologies, developed an immersive gamified training module called IV NIMBLE (Nursing Innovation in Mobility-based Learning) to enhance nurses' training.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The CMS has laid out how it plans to implement a key provision of the Inflation Reduction Act requiring drugmakers to pay rebates on price hikes in Medicare that are greater than inflation.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

A lawsuit has been filed against Cedars-Sinai Medical Center alleging impermissible disclosures of patient data to Google, Meta, and other third parties due to the use of website tracking technologies without either a business associate agreement with the code providers or authorizations from patients. In the summer of 2022, an investigation into the use of these technologies revealed almost one-third of the top 100 hospitals in the United States had used pixels and other tracking code on their

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Before microscopes, doctors diagnosed as best they could using external symptoms. Now we test for the presence of specific bacteria, viruses, or lesions. Dr. Thomas Young, chief medical officer and founder of Proem Behavioral Health , is convinced that psychiatry and behavioral health are also entering an age where objective data collected from the body will drive diagnoses and treatment.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

At a Heart Recovery Advocate Day held on February 3 at Abiomed's Danvers, Massachusetts, headquarters, patients shared their stories of heart recovery, toured the facility, participated in lab demonstrations and had the opportunity to meet the operators who made their left ventricular assist devices, right ventricular assist devices and lung-assist devices.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Deal activity is expected to slow in the first half of 2023 amid staffing-related margin pressures, liquidity constraints and a difficult PE fundraising market, according to the market data firm.

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Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven

HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Healthcare organizations have been investing in cybersecurity to improve their defenses against increasingly numerous and sophisticated cyberattacks; however, while an organization’s security posture can be improved, it can only be as good as the weakest link. Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting the supply chain in their attacks, as these are usually the weakest links in the security chain.

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Electronic Health Reporter

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Bob Chin, chief information officer, PayMedix Employers who shift more healthcare insurance payments to employees to keep costs down risk increasingly discontented employees who struggle with growing out-of-pocket (OOP) costs compounded by a flood […] The article New Financial Platforms Aim to Fix a Confusing Healthcare Payment System appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Strata’s Liz Kirk shares her reflections on value-based care from the 41st annual JPMorgan healthcare conference held in San Francisco.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Consumers’ wellness life-flows and demands in 2023 will go well beyond exercise resolutions, eating more greens, and intermittent fasting as a foodstyle. It’s time for us to get the annual update on health consumers from the multi-faceted team who curated the Global Wellness Summit’s annual report on The Future of Wellness 2023 Trends.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Business Email Compromise scams are the biggest cause of losses to cybercrime. Over the past 5 years, more than $43 billion has been lost to the scams, according to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). In its March 2022 report, the FBI said IC3 had received reports of $2.4 billion in losses to BEC attacks in the last year across almost 20,000 reported attacks, and attacks are continuing to increase.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Linking Oak Street with CVS assets could drive new patients to Oak Street. It could also help Aetna retain more MA members and drive greater use of CVS’ pharmacy and PBM, management said Wednesday.

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Electronic Health Reporter

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Andrew A. Brooks, M.D., chief medical officer, TigerConnect. Information is the healthcare industry’s core, from paper to digital record keeping. Healthcare organizations and physicians have relied on charts, treatment plans and other means of […] The article Pumping New Life into Healthcare Information: The 21st Century Cures Act Drives Unlocks the Power of Data appeared first on electro

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Achieving compliance with the Rules of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) can be a challenge for healthcare organizations and their business associates. The HIPAA Rules were developed to cover healthcare organizations of different types and sizes, so the Rules needed to be flexible to accommodate this diversity. They also needed to be capable of standing the test of time without requiring regular updates in response to changing technology and operating practices.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

VitalSight is a new tool for remote patient monitoring (RPM) from OMRON , a company that offers a wide range of health devices for blood pressure, respiratory problems, and more. RPM is the order of the day for health care. Monitoring, together with providing data-based guidelines for patient behavior, is a crucial component of telehealth and a key building block of value-based care, where an improvement in the patient’s condition is more important than the number of clinical visits.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The health insurer’s national formulary considers Amylyx Pharmaceuticals’ Relyvrio to be "experimental, investigational or unproven for any use,” and now does not recommend covering it.

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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.