Wed.Jan 22, 2020

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Income Inequality is Fostering Mis-Trust, the Edelman 2020 Trust Barometer Observes

Health Populi

Economic development has historically built trust among nations’ citizens. But in developed, wealthier parts of the world, like the U.S., “a record number of countries are experiencing an all-time high ‘mass-class’ trust divide,” according to the 2020 Edelman Trust Barometer. For 20 years, Edelman has released its annual Trust Barometer every year at the World Economic Forum in Davos, recognizing the importance of trust in the global economy and society.

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Verily Study Watch picks up new 510(k) for irregular pulse monitoring

Mobi Health News

A newly published notice from the FDA suggests a new capability for the Alphabet subsidiary's clinical research wearable.

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VA seeing substantial growth in telehealth, key patient engagement tools

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The U.S. Department of veterans affairs has been making major investments in innovating its technology and infrastructure in recent years. There's the massive electronic health record modernization , of course, but also everything from a new National Artificial Intelligence Institute to an Apple Health Records rollout to a project focused on tablet-based telehealth.

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Lark Health rolls out behavioral health coaching targeted at patients at risk for chronic conditions

Mobi Health News

The tool lets individuals focus on weight management, smoking cessation, stress management and overall health.

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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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Investors poured $4B into healthcare AI startups in 2019

FierceHealthIT

Interest in artificial intelligence soared in 2019, with AI startups raising a record $26.6 billion, according to a new report. Investors poured $4 billion into companies working on AI in healthcare across 367 deals in 2019, according to technology market intelligence company CB Insights' latest AI global funding report.

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Humana to allow members to connect hundreds of wearables to Go365 wellness program 

FierceHealthIT

Humana is teaming up with health data company Validic to allow its members to connect a slew of wearable devices to the insurer’s Go365 wellness program.

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Providence St. Joseph Health acquires Health Management Resource from Merck, CVS publishes 2020 health predictions and other digital health news briefs

Mobi Health News

Also: Hims and Hers expands to all 50 states; VC firm Freestyle Capital offers Meru to portfolio companies.

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Lloyd Dean will become the sole CEO of CommonSpirit Health

FierceHealthIT

Lloyd Dean will become the sole CEO of Chicago-based Catholic hospital giant CommonSpirit Health after the organization announced the retirement of co-CEO Kevin E. Lofton on Wednesday.

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Telemedicine’s Reimbursement Outlook for 2020

GlobalMed

Telemedicine reimbursement is always changing. Regulations and rules fluctuate between states, payers and services; ambiguity seems the norm rather than the exception, which can create a significant barrier to virtual care adoption. At the same time, telehealth has become embedded in the healthcare landscape and many providers find the advantages outweigh any headaches in securing payment.

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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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Gender gap averages more than $36K for physicians starting their careers, new study finds

FierceHealthIT

Male physicians starting their careers are paid an average of $36,600 more than their female colleagues, according to a new study.

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Can Facebook Place Itself At The Center of Health Data Collection?

Healthcare IT Today

This is the tale of a quiet effort by Facebook to take over (more of) our lives, in this case by sliding laterally into the healthcare business and collecting data on our medical habits. What I’m about to share draws on a story appearing in The Atlantic laying out how Facebook might be able to […].

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Amazon files trademarks for its pharmacy business in overseas markets

FierceHealthIT

Tech giant Amazon may be looking to expands its prescription drug delivery business outside the U.S. Amazon has filed to trademark its pharmacy business in several international markets including Canada, Australia, and the U.K.

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Q&A with CIO Nader Mherabi, Part 1: “To Excel, You Have to Be Highly Digitalized.”

Health System CIO

For organizations like NYU Langone, digital isn’t a buzzword; it’s a philosophy of leveraging technology to improve patient care, make processes more efficient, and reduce costs, says CIO Nader Mherabi. For organizations like NYU Langone, digital isn’t a buzzword; it’s a philosophy of leveraging technology to improve patient care, make processes more efficient, and reduce costs, says CIO Nader Mherabi.

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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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Costs of prior authorizations increase for physicians' practices at an 'alarming' rate

FierceHealthIT

The cost of prior authorization requirements on physicians' practices has continued to increase—up 60% in 2019 to manually generate a request to insurers. The just released CAQH 2019 Index, which concluded that the healthcare industry can save $13.3 billion on administrative waste through automation of eight transactions including prior authorizations, said the medical industry could see potential annual savings of $454 million by transitioning to electronic prior authorizations.

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Providers Often Fail At Tracking Diagnostic Testing and Specialty Referrals

Healthcare IT Today

An industry workgroup research group has concluded that despite the availability of HealthIT tools, many organizations don’t have a comprehensive, useful view of their diagnostic testing and specialty referral processes. The group’s work focused on identifying gaps, failure points or breaks in their diagnostic testing and specialty referral processes, addressing these gaps, then using health […].

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As prescriptions for stimulants to treat ADHD increased, so did pharma payments to doctors, study finds

FierceHealthIT

As prescriptions for stimulants, such as those used to treat ADHD in children, increased, so did payments to the doctors who often care for children and adolescents, a new study found.

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Featured Health IT Job: Director, Revenue Cycle System & Training

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Director, Revenue Cycle System & Training position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Stratum Med, Inc. and is available in Illinois. Here’s a description of the position: Carle […].

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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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Centene-WellCare merger clears final regulatory hurdles, paving the way for closure this week

FierceHealthIT

Centene and WellCare have cleared the final regulatory hurdles and now expect their merger deal to close this week.

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10 Most Popular All-Time HealthStream Blog Posts in 2019

HealthStream

Here are the 10 most popular HealthStream blog posts in 2019, regardless of when they were published. Most appear to be connected back to nursing and its intersection with lifelong learning.

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Moody's: The trends set to impact payer, provider finances in 2020 

FierceHealthIT

Moody’s Investors Service released its look at trends to watch in 2020 and weighed the potential credit implications across multiple sectors of the healthcare industry, including payers, providers and pharmaceutical companies.

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Entering the EA Management Suite Market: A LeanIX Perspective on Forrester’s Q1 2020 Now Tech Report

LeanIX

It’s worth looking at the advice given in Forrester’s recently published Now Tech: Enterprise Architecture Management Suites, Q1 2020. Why? Forrester emphasizes that EA professionals are increasingly relying on enterprise architecture management suites (EAMSes) to accomplish six primary challenges: modeling, strategy translation, risk management, financial management, insights and change management.

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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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Louisiana ends Medicaid contracts for Humana, UnitedHealthcare, others due to poor bidding process

FierceHealthIT

Louisiana rescinded Medicaid managed care contracts to UnitedHealthcare, Humana and two other insurers because of problems with the bidding process

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Tips to Improve Your Practice’s Insurance Billing in the New Year

TheraNest

Insurance billing is never anyone’s favorite aspect of running a private practice, but is a necessary part of the process. The start of a new year is the perfect time to brush up on your know-how so that you can put your practice in the best position to thrive this year. Staying fresh in your understanding of the entire insurance claim submission cycle will help you to keep on top of your practice’s billing and avoid unnecessary delays in cash flow.

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What is the clinical value of mHealth for patients?

mHealth Insight

An interesting paper asking “What is the clinical value of mHealth for patients?” has been published in Nature by Simon P. Rowland (Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London), J. Edward Fitzgerald (KPMG International), Thomas Holme (Department of trauma and orthopaedic surgery, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS) and Alison McGregor (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford). mHealth Insights. “Despite growing interest

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Questions prompt potential privacy expansion in interop rule

Morning eHealth

Where’s the telehealth rule?

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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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How to Claim Good-Faith Transition Relief From IRS Penalty Assessments

ACA Times

2 minute read: Good-faith transition relief. It’s a term used by the IRS for waiving ACA penalty assessments on employers that can provide legitimate reasons for missing a reporting requirement by the mandated deadlines. What that entails, however, is a little more involved than what you might think. As a reminder to employers in conjunction with the Employer Shared Responsibility Payment (ESRP), the ACA’s Employer Mandate , Applicable Large Employers (ALEs) (organizations with 50 or more full-t

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Health Data Outside HIPAA: Simply Extending HIPAA Would Be a #FAIL

E-CareManagement

Some have called on policymakers to extend HIPAA to cover mHealth apps and other online platforms. In the latest post in our series — “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Sharing? Privacy? Both?” — Deven McGraw and I argue that extending HIPAA is not a viable solution. In summary: HIPAA’s rules were not designed to address privacy risks introduced by widespread personal information collection and use in the modern digital ecosystem.

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Avalere: 37% of ACOs now take on financial risk

FierceHealthIT

A new analysis found that 37% of accountable care organizations take on downside financial risk, as the Trump administration’s push for providers to take on more risk makes its impact.