Events - Health Care Compliance Brief

Hospital adverse event rates decline over a decade, JAMA study finds

Healthcare Dive

JULY 12, 2022

Reductions in the rate of harm to patients were statistically significant, but researchers in an accompanying editorial warned that adverse event rates are still too high.

Hospitals

Proteomic tests empower better detection and prevention of severe cardiovascular events

Healthcare Dive

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Proteomic tests can arm providers with insights to better predict, monitor and prevent severe CVD events. Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death.

Providence to hold virtual mass hiring event for registered nurses

Healthcare Dive

AUGUST 24, 2022

New hires stand to get sign-on bonuses of $5,000 to $10,000, according to a Linkedin post.

Nurses

Patients of color disproportionately suffer adverse health events, regardless of hospital safety ratings

Healthcare Dive

JUNE 7, 2023

Rather than suggesting problems with individual hospitals, the data points to a “systemic issue impacting the quality of care for Black and Hispanic patients and those with public insurance plans,” according to a new Leapfrog report.

Hospitals

You’re Invited: Innovate Through Data Virtual Summit

Speaker: Logi Analytics

Join us on October 19th & 20th for Logi Spark 2021, the premier event dedicated to helping application teams create engaging state-of-the-art analytics. At this free virtual event, your team will learn practical tips from the pros to help turn your product roadmap into a reality and generate value for your end users.

Ascension reports systems, clinical operations disrupted amid apparent 'cybersecurity event'

Fierce Healthcare

MAY 8, 2024

Ascension disclosed Wednesday that it has detected “unusual activity” on some of its technology networks that it believes “is due to a cybersecurity event.” | The Catholic health giant said it detected "unusual activity" Wednesday and "immediately" activated remediation processes, including hiring a third-party cybersecurity firm. (..)

Adverse events increased after hospitals acquired by private equity, study finds

Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 27, 2023

A hospital’s acquisition by a private equity firm is linked to a rise in adverse events despite the pool of lower risk patients they tend to admit, according to a Medicare Part A claims analysis pu | Hospital-acquired adverse events among Medicare beneficiaries were 25% higher within the three years after a private equity acquisition compared to control (..)

Hospitals

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FDA FHIR Pilot Automates Adverse Events Reporting and Validation with Cedars-Sinai and the VA Through eHealth Exchange

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The following is a guest article by Jay Nakashima, President at eHealth Exchange An FDA project aims to make it as easy as possible for clinicians to report adverse drug events and share important clinical data with public health agencies to investigate the event.

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Top healthcare conferences to plan for in 2025

Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Covering topics from digital health to financial management, these are some of the notable events and dates for executives at hospital systems, payers and technology firms to watch.

Hospitals

Ransomware attacks on healthcare impact nearly five times more sensitive data: report

Healthcare Dive

APRIL 30, 2024

Twenty percent of a typical healthcare organization’s sensitive data holdings are affected in a ransomware encryption event, compared with just 6% for an average organization.

Ransomware

Google plans to boost Medicaid information during redeterminations

Healthcare Dive

MARCH 15, 2023

Google also shared an a updated version of its medical artificial intelligence that can answer clinical questions at an “expert” level at its annual healthcare event on Tuesday.

Medicaid

Medicaid Medicaid

Health sector causes 10% of greenhouse gas emissions, report finds

Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The congressional report also found a majority of health systems surveyed had been affected by an extreme weather event.

Preparing for the future: Hospital climate resilience plans challenged by cost, uncertainty

Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

As extreme weather events caused by climate change ramp up in frequency, hospitals are struggling with financial and data challenges in disaster planning.

Hospitals

Medicaid redeterminations will restart Saturday. Here’s what we know

Healthcare Dive

MARCH 31, 2023

States can begin disenrolling ineligible beneficiaries from Medicaid on April 1, in an event the CMS has called the biggest health coverage transition since the first ACA open enrollment.

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Top healthcare conferences in 2024

Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 4, 2023

From digital health events to payer and provider summits, here are upcoming healthcare conferences for the organized executive to keep in mind.

Securing healthcare: Communication tools provide critical connections and more efficient operations during emergencies

Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Dealing with natural disasters, severe weather events, active shooters, mass casualties and other external events requires hospital staff to coordinate with multiple outside agencies but communicating with stakeholders can be a challenge.

Hospitals

Physicians say prior authorization rules harm patients, AMA survey finds, as CMS works toward new policy

Healthcare Dive

MARCH 14, 2023

Over a third of physicians said the requirements led to a serious adverse event for one of their patients, such as hospitalization, permanent impairment or death, the survey found.

Hospitals

Hive takedown puts ‘small dent’ in ransomware problem

Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Experts don’t expect that, or any isolated event, to ultimately diminish the persistent threat and forces that propel ransomware activity.

Ransomware

Securing healthcare: Communication tools provide critical connections during emergencies

Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Dealing with natural disasters, severe weather, active shooters and other events requires hospital staff to coordinate with multiple outside agencies. But communicating with stakeholders can be a challenge.

Hospitals

The Need to Go Back to Basics in Patient Safety

Bill of Health

APRIL 22, 2022

A root cause of some Never Events errors in the National Health Service (NHS), such as those involving wrong site surgery (surgical procedures being performed on the wrong patient, or the wrong limb), is poor patient and health care provider communication.

COVID-19

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UpDoc to develop conversational, assistant-directed AI providers

Healthcare It News

JANUARY 8, 2024

Stanford Healthcare has also used machine learning models to coordinate in-patient care and reduce clinical deterioration events. She explained the site-specific validation used to ensure the ML model's effectiveness in predicting clinical deterioration events, like unplanned ICU transfers, within a six- to 18-hour window.

Health Outcomes

Health Outcomes Doctors Hospitals

8 experts on leveraging AI in healthcare

Healthcare Dive

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Healthcare organizations must carefully vet AI tools, address patient concerns and keep an eye on standards and regulation, according to industry experts who spoke at a Healthcare Dive virtual event.

The impacts of climate change on the right to health in the United Kingdom

Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Climate change and health inequalities in the UK Climate change causes extreme weather events that impact health. Families in lower income brackets are also overexposed to the financial consequences of flood events. While extreme weather events directly place health and lives at risk, climate change also deteriorates health indirectly.

COVID-19

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Real-time messaging brings patients’ distant loved ones closer

Healthcare It News

JUNE 7, 2024

Learn how TigerConnect helps Bethany Children’s Health Center: Send and receive real-time messages, pictures and videos to inform patients’ families about their child’s progress in therapy and upcoming events Plan patients’ discharge and continued care with families for better outcomes and fewer readmissions Improve the satisfaction (..)

What the New York City Marathon Can Teach Us About Equitable Access to Vaccines

Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

In imagining how such a reconciliation might work, the article looks at a current embodiment of such a reconciliatory scheme: the allocation of participation slots at a highly subscribed event, the New York City Marathon. Yes, the analogy has an apples-and-oranges quality to it. working a fluid station at a race). something else?)

Public Health

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5 sessions to look out for at HIMSS23 APAC

Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

For the second year in a row, the event is taking place in Indonesia – and if you haven't heard, there’s a little bit of a digital revolution happening in the country's healthcare sector. HIMSS23 APAC is happening in two weeks. Here are my picks for five sessions not to miss at this year’s conference.

COVID-19

COVID-19 Hospitals Doctors

The Light Collective amplifies its call for patient data rights

Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

"This is why it is imperative that public attention be drawn to the upcoming World Patient Safety Day, an event highlighting the patient communities’ current struggles from the patients themselves," according to The Light Collective.

HIPAA

HIPAA Hospitals World Health Governance

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in Manhattan: reports

Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 4, 2024

UnitedHealth Group abruptly ended its investor day event on Wednesday morning as new reports surfaced that the CEO of its health plan division had been fatally shot. UnitedHealth Group abruptly ended its investor day event on Wednesday morning as news reports surfaced that the CEO of its health plan division had been fatally shot.

Hira 'paused' following budget recall

Healthcare It News

AUGUST 21, 2024

The National Event Management Service is also live, providing near real-time notification of death events. It is now providing access to health information on My Health Record, including National Health Index details and vaccination records.

Governance

Governance Public Health

NHS COVID Pass recognised as equivalent to EU certificate

Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

As well as facilitating safe travel, the certificates are being used in 20 EU members states for domestic purposes, such as accessing large events, restaurants, cinemas and museums. A recent European Commission report said that more than 591 million EUDCCs have now been generated. ON THE RECORD.

COVID-19 Vaccine

COVID-19 Vaccine COVID-19 Public Health Governance

Several EU nations set to mandate vaccination for COVID passes

Healthcare It News

JANUARY 5, 2022

Sweden also brought in new legislation in December requiring citizens to have a COVID passport at all events with more than 100 people. Germany followed in November with a rule requiring all workers to show proof of a negative test, vaccination, or recovery from COVID.

Public Health

Public Health Governance World Health

How AI and machine learning can help predict SDOH needs

Healthcare It News

JANUARY 18, 2022

As an example, Genesis Physicians Group conducts individual interviews or surveys around SDOH and social needs that are highly connected to risk of future adverse events that aren't easily incorporated into off-the-shelf predictive models. There are some instances where a custom model might not offer improved accuracy.

Medicaid

Medicaid Medicaid COVID-19 Patient Satisfaction

Epic at HIMSS23: Cosmos innovations, new MyChart features, interoperability and more

Healthcare It News

MARCH 29, 2023

Epic's plan for the 2023 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition next month is to showcase all the ways the company is helping health systems and other care providers, says Erika Koch, project manager on the company's events team.

Nurses

Nurses Hospitals

Healthcare conferences to put on your calendar for 2024-2025

Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Looking for healthcare events in the fall of 2024 and 2025? Here's our roundup of some of the top events in healthcare scheduled in the fall of 2024 and 2025. We rounded up some of the top conferences, both virtual and live, that are on the calendar.

Monash's clinical AI collab with India's Apollo Hospitals and more briefs

Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

The institutions also plan to set up a multinational event on health AI research. $8M Apollo Hospitals will provide access to its database of de-identified health data from over 200 million patients, which could be used to train AI algorithms to potentially detect major diseases such as cancer, heart disease, and diabetes.

Hospitals

Hospitals Health Outcomes Governance

Encouraging seniors to flex their brains and social muscles

Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Health plans can help by matching members with local social clubs and events based on their interests. To meet those demands, health plans can offer a wide variety of free health events where members can interact with each other,” said Vince Pozinski, Head of Government Product, Optum Health Solutions. Digital options.

Medicare

Medicare Medicare Governance

France to enable rapid market access for digital therapeutics

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Speaking at the HealthTech Innovation Days (HTID) event in Paris earlier this month, French President Emmanuel Macron announced: “We are also creating an immediate access procedure for market access for innovative products, the same way as in Germany.

Public Health

Public Health Health Insurance Doctors Governance

CVS Health now tracks extreme heat to warn at-risk patients with personalized resources

Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 1, 2024

CVS Health has launched an environmental health impact program to help vulnerable Americans during extreme weather events. Using advanced environmental data analytics and patients' medical and pharmacy data, CVS Health offers timely excessive heat alerts and outreach to at-risk patients up to a week before the event.

Solving the 'empathy gap' with social media analytics

Healthcare It News

MARCH 2, 2022

An inside look at the innovation, education, technology, networking and key events at the HIMSS22 Global Conference & Exhibition in Orlando. " It's scheduled for Thursday, March 17, from 4-5 p.m. in Orange County Convention Center WF4. HIMSS22 Coverage. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Twitter: @kjercich.

COVID-19

COVID-19 Doctors

Reinventing South African Trade Unions to Protect the Health of Informal Workers in the Face of Climate Change

Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

However, informal workers enjoy fewer regulatory protections and their workplaces are particularly vulnerable to the impact of environmental events. As temperatures continue to rise, workplaces must adapt to protect the health of workers. This increases workers’ vulnerability to heat-related illnesses, such as heat stress.

Public Health

Common Problems in Psychedelic Science, and How to Fix Them

Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

There is emerging evidence that adverse events resulting from psychedelic substances are both common and underreported. of serious adverse advents in ketamine trials for depression were not reported in the resulting studies, and 94% of these events occurred in the ketamine rather than the placebo groups. For example , 41.5%

ATA hosts series this week on the value of virtual care

Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Register for each event individually. The series concludes Thursday with conversations on asynchronous telehealth, how digital healthcare transformation affects patient access and remote monitoring.

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Digital Health unveils draft programme for Rewired25

Digital Health News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Digital Health has unveiled the draft programme for its Rewired 2025 event which will take place at the NEC in Birmingham.

Epic to showcase new CRM system and more at HIMSS22

Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

" "We’re always excited to see our customers," said Erika Koch from the Events and Design team, "and it will be nice to reconnect in person." "It orchestrates all the personalized reminders, education at home, remote monitoring, consumer devices and telehealth visits a patient might need."

COVID-19

COVID-19 Hospitals

Hospital adverse event rates decline over a decade, JAMA study finds

Proteomic tests empower better detection and prevention of severe cardiovascular events

Trending Sources

Providence to hold virtual mass hiring event for registered nurses

Patients of color disproportionately suffer adverse health events, regardless of hospital safety ratings

You’re Invited: Innovate Through Data Virtual Summit

Ascension reports systems, clinical operations disrupted amid apparent 'cybersecurity event'

Adverse events increased after hospitals acquired by private equity, study finds

FDA FHIR Pilot Automates Adverse Events Reporting and Validation with Cedars-Sinai and the VA Through eHealth Exchange

Top healthcare conferences to plan for in 2025

Ransomware attacks on healthcare impact nearly five times more sensitive data: report

Google plans to boost Medicaid information during redeterminations

Health sector causes 10% of greenhouse gas emissions, report finds

Preparing for the future: Hospital climate resilience plans challenged by cost, uncertainty

Medicaid redeterminations will restart Saturday. Here’s what we know

Top healthcare conferences in 2024

Securing healthcare: Communication tools provide critical connections and more efficient operations during emergencies

Physicians say prior authorization rules harm patients, AMA survey finds, as CMS works toward new policy

Hive takedown puts ‘small dent’ in ransomware problem

Securing healthcare: Communication tools provide critical connections during emergencies

The Need to Go Back to Basics in Patient Safety

UpDoc to develop conversational, assistant-directed AI providers

8 experts on leveraging AI in healthcare

The impacts of climate change on the right to health in the United Kingdom

Real-time messaging brings patients’ distant loved ones closer

What the New York City Marathon Can Teach Us About Equitable Access to Vaccines

5 sessions to look out for at HIMSS23 APAC

The Light Collective amplifies its call for patient data rights

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in Manhattan: reports

Hira 'paused' following budget recall

NHS COVID Pass recognised as equivalent to EU certificate

Several EU nations set to mandate vaccination for COVID passes

How AI and machine learning can help predict SDOH needs

Epic at HIMSS23: Cosmos innovations, new MyChart features, interoperability and more

Healthcare conferences to put on your calendar for 2024-2025

Monash's clinical AI collab with India's Apollo Hospitals and more briefs

Encouraging seniors to flex their brains and social muscles

France to enable rapid market access for digital therapeutics

CVS Health now tracks extreme heat to warn at-risk patients with personalized resources

Solving the 'empathy gap' with social media analytics

Reinventing South African Trade Unions to Protect the Health of Informal Workers in the Face of Climate Change

Common Problems in Psychedelic Science, and How to Fix Them

ATA hosts series this week on the value of virtual care

Digital Health unveils draft programme for Rewired25

Epic to showcase new CRM system and more at HIMSS22

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