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Strive Health scores $166M to scale value-based kidney care

Mobi Health News

The company will use the funds to support and grow its team, enhance its platform and expand partnerships with payors, health systems and physicians.

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Medicare to broaden coverage of Alzheimer’s drugs after full FDA approval, but with some restrictions

FierceHealthIT

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services outlined plans Thursday to broadly cover a new class of Alzheimer’s drugs once the medications get full approval from the Food and Drug Administration | CMS outlined plans Thursday to broadly cover a new class of Alzheimer’s drugs once the medications get full approval from the Food and Drug Administration.

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Transcarent partners with Andy Roddick's ViewFi for orthopedic and musculoskeletal care

Mobi Health News

Transcarent is led by digital health investor, entrepreneur and Livongo vet Glen Tullman. U.S. tennis champion Andy Roddick cofounded ViewFi.

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Discrimination, racism, violence are common and weighing heavily on healthcare workers, surveys show

FierceHealthIT

A pair of new healthcare workforce surveys outline widespread reports of discrimination, racism and workplace violence perpetuated by patients and coworkers alike. | A pair of polls released this week detail the interpersonal difficulties nurses and other healthcare workers face in the workplace.

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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The State of Healthcare Interoperability: Slow Progress, Fragmented Landscape and Technical Challenges

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Welcome to this three-part series examining healthcare interoperability in the United States and the reasons for its slow progress. In Part 1, we delve into the fragmented healthcare landscape and the technical challenges that impede […] The article The State of Healthcare Interoperability: Slow Progress, Fragmented Landscape and Technical Challenges appeared first on electronichealthreporte

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Linkwell Health Names New Chief Product Officer, Announces Expansion of Popular Targeted Engagement Solutions Product Suite

Digital Health Global

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Linkwell Health, the premier consumer engagement technology company in healthcare, announced today the appointment of Bill Van Wyck as Chief Product Officer. Van Wyck will lead Linkwell’s technology, engagement, and behavior change teams, leveraging his product expertise to enhance and expand the company’s industry-leading healthcare engagement solutions.

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Attack by notorious ransomware group compromises personal data of 8.9M dental patients

FierceHealthIT

Data breaches for the year have reached the high-water mark with the data of nearly 9 million individuals being compromised in a reported cyberattack on one of the country’s largest dental health i | Managed Care of North America posted a notice Friday that between Feb. 26 and March 7, a digital intruder stole the data of 8.9 million people. The cyberattack is the largest of its kind in 2023 to date.

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Do You Understand the Quality of Your Data and the Value Clean Data Can Provide?

Healthcare IT Today

We live in a messy world (and a biased one), so hardly any organization can claim to have data as accurate as they want. According to Mike Noshay, Founder and Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at Verinovum , provenance is “supreme.” In other words, the way to good data is to know how it was collected, who collected it, when events happened and were recorded, and so on.

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Idaho hospital diverts ambulances, turns to paper charting following cyberattack

FierceHealthIT

For more than 24 hours, a hospital in Idaho has been diverting ambulances due to a cyberattack. | Idaho Falls Community Hospital along with adjacent Mountain View Hospital and local clinics are still recovering from a cyberattack that occurred earlier this week.

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The Secret to Supercharging Your Organizations Communications

Effective collaboration among all care team members is critical to delivering better patient outcomes. A key element to achieving effective collaboration is through the implementation of a clinical communication and collaboration platform. In a fast-paced, high-stress and critical environment, people tend to do whatever gets the job done. Therefore will scramble and use the systems, people, or processes around them to get an outcome more quickly - which can often be at the expense of quality.

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SAP S4/HANA transformation: don't forget peripheral systems

LeanIX

SAP S4/HANA transformations are gargantuan undertakings, so it's all too easy to forget about your peripheral systems in your planning. Oliver Dawid, enterprise architect at fashion label Marc O'Polo, explains that your IT landscape must be treated holistically.

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Georgia places troubled insurtech Friday Health Plans into receivership, forcing 40,000 patients to seek new coverage

FierceHealthIT

Georgia places troubled insurtech Friday Health Plans into receivership, forcing 40,000 patients to seek new coverage fdiamond Thu, 06/01/2023 - 13:04

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A Data Network to Tackle Real-Time Eligibility and Claims Along with Many Other Health Data Problems

Healthcare IT Today

Two of the biggest billing problems in U.S. healthcare involve coverage, eligibility and claims. First of all, will the insurer pay for the treatment the doctor requests? Second, how much is covered and how much does the patient have to pay out-of-pocket? Avaneer Health , a company created by a consortium of major payers and health care providers, is trying to solve these problems and other administrative inefficiencies once and for all.

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Why Addressing Stress is the Foundation for Better Health

FierceHealthIT

When it comes to improving population stress levels, there’s one movement that really gives us hope: We can empower individuals with information, tools, and insights to take better control of their | When it comes to improving population stress levels, there’s one movement that really gives us hope: We can empower individuals with information, tools, and insights to take better control of their stress, and improve their overall health and wellbeing.

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Ambiq’s neuralSPOT HeartKit™ enables Real-Time Heart Monitoring AI Applications

Ambiq®, a leading developer of ultra-low-power semiconductor solutions that deliver a multifold increase in energy efficiency, introduces HeartKit, its latest addition to neuralSPOT. This optimized AI model enables running various real-time heart monitoring applications to help users and their healthcare providers quickly identify any irregular events to take necessary actions.

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THINK Surgical miniature robotic system gains FDA clearance

DigitalHealth

A miniature robotic system from THINK Surgical has gained FDA clearance, and will open up robotic-assisted surgery to more knee replacement patients.

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Unlocking the Power of Price Transparency Data

FierceHealthIT

Did you know the average total cost of a knee replacement surgery in the U.S. can range from $14,188 to $49,016? | Over a billion new rates-based data sets are now publicly available via machine-readable files, but these files are hard to use. Learn how to harness the power of this data for a competitive advantage.

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Reveleer Announces Acquisition of MDPortals to Enhance its Comprehensive Risk Adjustment Technology with Real-Time Access to Clinical and Claims Data

Healthcare IT Today

Strengthened Capabilities Allow Payers and Providers to Gain a Holistic View of Member Health at the Point of Care Reveleer , a healthcare technology company using natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence (AI) to empower data-driven healthcare for health plans and risk-bearing providers, announced today it acquired MDPortals , a best-in-class prospective risk adjustment platform.

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UnitedHealthcare nixes prior authorization rule, but docs aren’t happy about what's replaced it

FierceHealthIT

The controversial prior authorization policy for colonoscopies that UnitedHealthcare wanted to put into effect today will not take place, the company said last night

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The 2023 Behavioral Health Industry Report

This report explores current issues in the behavioral health industry in 2023. Topics covered include quantitative statistics describing the overall increase in behavioral health issues, the impact of psychologist and staff burnout, how HIPAA compliance is once again at the top of our minds & much more!

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Men's Health: 5 Chronic Diseases to Manage with RPM

Health Recovery Solutions

June, recognized as Men's Health Month , is an ideal time to explore the unique health challenges faced by men, the importance of preventive care, and the latest advances in chronic disease management. Studies show men are more susceptible to certain chronic health conditions and there are some innovative approaches out there to managing chronic conditions that ensure optimal outcomes beyond the hospital and clinical settings.

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New Bayer Precision Health group to develop digital health solutions

DigitalHealth

A new precision health group from Bayer will aim to bring new digital solutions to market to support consumers having more control over their health.

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Q&A with Michael Hasselberg, CDHO, URMC: “We Absolutely Need to Disrupt Healthcare.”

Health System CIO

ChatGPT isn’t going to replace providers. In fact, Michael Hasselberg, PhD, believes “it’s going to save providers from leaving the profession.” In a recent interview, he talked about his organization’s telehealth journey, how technology can help bridge the gap between supply and demand in behavioral health, and the power of 5G. Source: Q&A with Michael Hasselberg, CDHO, URMC: “We Absolutely Need to Disrupt Healthcare.” on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole on

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BEAMS reduces alarm response times at Leeds Children’s Hospital

DigitalHealth

The Bedside Equipment Alarm Monitoring System (BEAMS) recently installed on a ward at Leeds Children's Hospital has reduced alarm response times.

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Patient Engagement & Cultural Competence Training Roadmap: A Guide to Reducing Staff Burnout

Speaker: Dr. Mauvareen Beverley, Patient Engagement and Cultural Competence Specialist

If you’re a healthcare provider, chances are you have experienced symptoms of burnout yourself or have colleagues who are currently facing extreme career dissatisfaction. One of the many ways to partially alleviate burnout is active patient engagement. By engaging with patients to understand their needs and preferences, healthcare providers can develop treatments tailored to the individual patient.

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Physician Advisor Reviews Improve Patient Outcomes

BHM Healthcare Solutions

Physician advisor (PA) reviews play a crucial role in improving patient outcomes by facilitating various processes within healthcare organizations. PAs act as liaisons between hospital administration, clinical staff, and support personnel to ensure compliance with regulatory issues, advise physicians on medical necessity, and help achieve overall organizational goals related to the efficient utilization of healthcare services.

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New National Treatment Centre Highland deploys Cambric’s Morse EPR

DigitalHealth

Cambric Systems has announced that the National Treatment Centre (NTC) Highland has deployed the Morse Electronic Patient Record (EPR).

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Tenet Healthcare agrees to $30M whistleblower settlement over alleged kickbacks at Detroit Medical Center

FierceHealthIT

Tenet Healthcare has agreed to a $29.7 million civil settlement over whistleblower claims of physician kickbacks in exchange for patient referrals at its Detroit Medical Center subsidiary, the Depa | The DOJ alleged that two Detroit Medical Center hospitals provided the services of mid-level, employed practitioners to 13 physicians in exchange for patient referrals between 2014 and 2017.

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Healthcare Cybersecurity Is Difficult to Maintain, How a Security Operations Center Can Help

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Preston Duren, Vice President of Cybersecurity Operations at Fortified Health Security The need for adequate cybersecurity has never been higher for the nation’s hospitals and health systems. Many factors are in play, including the continuing risk for cyber incidents and ransomware, more stringent requirements to obtain cyber insurance, an increasingly interoperable patient records environment, and potential federal regulations regarding patient privacy.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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Chutes & Ladders—Permanente Medical Group taps new CEO; BCBS gets new VP of brand strategy

FierceHealthIT

Chutes & Ladders—Permanente Medical Group taps new CEO; BCBS gets new VP of brand strategy aburky Thu, 06/01/2023 - 18:46

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Senators Re-Introduce Women’s Telehealth Bill: Tech to Save Moms Act

Telebehavioral Health Institute

JERSEY CITY, NJ – US Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) renewed their commitment to advancing maternal health care by reintroducing the bipartisan Tech to Save Moms Act. This bill is one of ten initiatives under the Black Maternal Health Omnibus Act. It aims to promote the adoption of maternal telehealth and technology to reduce maternal mortality and address ethnic and racial disparities in such outcomes.

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Exploring Israel’s Digital Health Ecosystem: Highlights from Scaleup Summit Tel Aviv 2023

Digital Health Today

Israel is (definitively) open for business and innovation. On April 19-20 a dozen of international companies together with Elis Open Italy met in Tel Aviv for the Mind the Bridge Scaleup Summit Israel, a highly curated, invitation-only format, where globally oriented corporates and scaleups operating in specific verticals can do business, spot technology trends, and benchmark their open innovation approaches.