HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The French Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-FR) has warned about an ongoing ransomware campaign targeting VMware ESXi hypervisors that have not been patched against the critical heap-overflow vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-21974. VMware issued a patch on February 3, 2021, to fix the vulnerability; however, hundreds of VMware ESXi virtual machines are still vulnerable to the exploit and are now being attacked.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Wilmington, Delaware-based ChristianaCare has agreed to a $47.1 million settlement resolving illegal kickback allegations flagged by its former chief compliance officer, Ronald Sherman. | The agreement is the largest False Claims Act settlement in Delaware's history and paves the way for future cases against hospitals that provide private physician groups with free services from their employees, legal counsel said.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

By Katherine Macfarlane and Irina Manta Since fall 2021, when most colleges and universities reopened their campuses to in-person activities, it has become increasingly difficult for faculty and students with disabilities to obtain reasonable accommodations to teach or attend class remotely. Remote accommodations were granted freely during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, but in 2021, the in-person aspect of teaching and learning was suddenly deemed essential, and at many institutions, r

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine says GPT-4 correctly diagnosed 52.7% of complex cases compared to only 36% of medical journal readers.

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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 Dive

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The lawsuit alleges UnitedHealth used nH Predict to deny claims for Medicare Advantage seniors, despite the algorithm’s determinations being overturned in more than 90% of appeals.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 26, 2023

Data from the new hospital-at-home platform will be accessible through Orlando Health's Epic electronic health records through a multi-year agreement with the connected health and digital therapeutics company. WHY IT MATTERS Orlando Health – a non-profit health system with 18 hospitals and emergency rooms with five in development serving the southeastern United States – is expected to launch the new advanced remote patient monitoring capabilities in early 2023.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Home health technologies will have an increasingly larger role to play in healthcare delivery as the silver tsunami of the aging population strain the system. And if more consumers embrace preventative care that can easily be done in the home. It's important to understand that home health technologies are leveraged in home health settings by clinicians for home health patients, and at-home or home-based health technologies are diagnostic and/or screening tools that can be used in non-clinica

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

“Do personal health trackers belong in the doctor’s office?” Software Advice wondered. “Yes,” the company’s latest consumer survey found, details of which are discussed in a report published on their website. Unique to this study is the patient sample polled: Software Advice surveyed 876 patients in September 2023 to gauge their perspectives on wearable tech and health.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

What You Should Know: STAT Health emerges from stealth to introduce a 24/7 in-ear wearable that measures blood flow to the head to better understand symptoms such as dizziness, brain fog, headaches, fainting, and fatigue that occur upon standing. These are common symptoms for illnesses like long COVID, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), and other orthostatic (caused by standing) syndromes that affect more than 13 milli

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The following is a guest article by Kate Barecchia, Global Data Privacy Officer at Imperva. For many of us, change is hard. In cybersecurity, change is essential to defeat two of the most common causes of data breaches: the ever-evolving attack styles of hackers and human error. New products and features designed to protect data from the latest attack vectors and human errors are released regularly.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

JANUARY 18, 2023

Health insurance is becoming increasingly unaffordable for employers and workers alike. In the second in their blog series assessing policy options to shore up employer-sponsored insurance as a source of coverage, CHIR experts Linda Blumberg, Sabrina Corlette and Jack Hoadley tackle a policy that economists and budget forecasters predict would have the biggest impact: hospital price regulation.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

CVS Health beat the Street on both earnings and revenue in the third quarter, reporting $2.3 billion in profit. | By comparison, the company reported a $3.4 billion loss in the third quarter of 2022 as it paid out its part in a global settlement over the opioid crisis.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 25, 2023

This excerpt from the new book titled “ We Want Them Infected ” is printed with permission from Jonathan Howard, MD and Redhawk Publications. By Jonathan Howard On June 29, 2021, Dr. Harriet Hall penned an essay on the website Science Based Medicine titled “A New COVID-19 Myth?” in which she wrote: A correspondent suggested I should have known that the pandemic was over months ago.

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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

Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The tech giant revealed it created an LLM optimized for diagnostic reasoning with the ability to generate a differential diagnosis or assist clinicians in coming to a diagnosis.

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 30, 2023

The bill mirrors California’s nurse staffing law which took effect in 2004 and outlines exactly how many patients a nurse in specific hospital units can care for at one time.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 6, 2023

A long-running investigation into the practices of obtaining consent from Facebook and Instagram users to use their personal data for advertising purposes has resulted in a €390 million ($414 million) financial penalty for Meta for violations of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) launched an investigation into Meta and its subsidiaries following two May 25, 2018 complaints from the privacy and data rights campaigner, Max Sch

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 21, 2023

CHICAGO – In a vast, integrated health ecosystem, the future is high-tech and high-touch, "right in line with this year's HIMSS23 theme, "Health that connects, tech that cares," said. Dr. Telita Crosland, Lieutenant General, director of the Defense Health Agency. Crosland described the agency's virtual-first, data-driven focus for the next three years as a "fundamental shift" on Wednesday.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 23, 2023

This past year may very well have been the year the "new normal" was sealed for healthcare – one that includes a lot more telehealth, remote monitoring and other virtual care than ever before. Technology has became culturally accepted as an integral part of the patient experience as telemedicine gained popularity. As healthcare providers look ahead to 2023, being at the forefront of what's next in telehealth and strategically integrating the technology necessary to stay there

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HealthIT Answers

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

We rounded up thoughts on why 88% plan to increase their third-party technology investments in 2023-2024 according to a Redox sponsored survey, Buyer Mindsets: Health Technology Perspectives from Clinical and Clinical IT Leaders. The post Providers are Budgeting for Third-Party Tech Investments Says Survey appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Digital Health News

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Palantir and Accenture have been chosen as the winner of the £480m Federated Data Platform procurement, with an announcement expected imminently.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 25, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Sr. Solution Architect – Radiology position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by e4 Services and is in Alabama. Here’s a description of the position: e4 is a Healthcare Consulting firm based in Philadelphia established in 2006.

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Speaker: Jack Clough, Chief Growth Officer

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.

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Kaiser Health News

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A recent Federal Trade Commission civil lawsuit accusing one of the nation’s largest anesthesiology groups of monopolistic practices that sharply drove up prices is a warning to private equity investors that could temper their big push to snap up physician groups. Over the past three years, FTC and Department of Justice officials have signaled they would apply more scrutiny to private equity acquisitions in health care, including roll-up deals in which larger provider groups buy smaller gr

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Nabla, maker of an autonomous clinical AI scribe, has joined forces with Kaiser Permanente to roll out its tool to 10,000 doctors in Northern California. | The AI tool will be available to 10,000 Kaiser Permanente doctors in Northern California across all care settings and specialties.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

By Nina Kohn and Irina D. Manta This month, New York became the latest to join the growing list of states that have ended their requirements for routine masking in hospitals and other healthcare settings. In response, at least one of the state’s largest hospital systems is throwing off the mask despite the continued high level of virus transmission in New York City and most of the rest of the state.

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Digital health stakeholders said that AI will be used next year to help ease administrative tasks for providers, improve clinical trial participation and increase transparency in healthcare.

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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.