Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 23, 2024
The Joint Commission announced Tuesday a new set of accreditation standards for telehealth and remote patient monitoring companies. | A third-party healthcare accrediting organization will offer a new program for telehealth and remote monitoring platforms to build patient trust and ensure high-quality virtual healthcare.
Health Care Dive
APRIL 23, 2024
The rule places more stringent staffing requirements on nursing homes than those initially proposed and offers exemptions for certain providers. Still, interest groups on all sides slammed the rule, calling it either too stringent or lax.
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Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 23, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted 3-2 Tuesday to issue a final rule striking new noncompete agreements for all workers and phasing out existing noncompetes for all but senior executives acro | The final rule, which does not apply to nonprofits, forbids noncompete contracts for all new hires and winds down existing noncompetes for all employees who are not senior executives.
Health Care Dive
APRIL 23, 2024
The FTC estimates the final rule would lower healthcare costs by $194 billion over the next decade, while freeing up physicians to more easily move between employers.
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Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 23, 2024
More than 1,600 Blue Shield of California members have registered for a musculoskeletal (MSK) program through the payer's digital health platform since its launch in January. | Less than 2,000 members have registered for musculoskeletal health programs through the Blue Shield of California digital platform, but the insurer hopes to see growth ramp up soon.
Healthcare It News
APRIL 23, 2024
Providence, a 52-hospital health system based in Renton, Washington, views digital innovation as an important vehicle to overcoming industrywide challenges and transforming care delivery for the betterment of the communities it serves. Many of the virtual care and digital health systems in development, as well as those pursued over the past several years, are geared toward addressing three macro challenges healthcare currently faces: workforce shortages and burnout; hospitality capacity and thro
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Health Care Dive
APRIL 23, 2024
More than 20 screenshots of potentially stolen patient data were posted on the dark web for about a week, the insurer said Monday.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 23, 2024
Alaffia Health, a health tech business that works with payers and third-party administrators to minimize fraud and help clinicians conduct reviews more efficiently, has raised $10 million in series | Alaffia Health's revenue has increased 4x in the last year. Here's how its AI tools help payer partners save money and be more efficient.
Healthcare It News
APRIL 23, 2024
Andrew Schultz, PatientPoint chief product and strategy officer, shows how the technology works as a communication hub between the waiting room, exam room, infusion suite and the back office.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 23, 2024
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments tomorrow morning in a case highlighting the clash between federal emergency care requirements and state laws banning abortion services. | The top court will hear from the Department of Justice and the state of Idaho on how EMTALA requirements may or may not conflict with state abortion bans, and whether the federal emergency care law was meant to apply to abortion care.
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Health Care Dive
APRIL 23, 2024
Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Edward Markey sent letters last week to the Steward Health Care’s top lenders, asking for modified loan terms to help keep hospitals open.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 23, 2024
If you’re feeling ill, you might want to see a female physician. | Medicare patients who are women tend to have better outcomes when they see female physicians than male doctors, and male patients can benefit too. A new report looks at possible reasons for such differences.
Health Care Dive
APRIL 23, 2024
HIPAA-covered entities will be barred from disclosing patient records on abortion, IVF or other reproductive healthcare that could be used in an investigation.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 23, 2024
Interoperability mandates from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have required major investments by health plans in recent years and will continue to be critical in informing ove | Facing new CMS mandates, MVP Health Care Chief Strategy Officer offers considerations to align your compliance strategy with innovation goals.
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Health Care Dive
APRIL 23, 2024
In two final rules issued Monday, the CMS also moved to crack down on financing gimmicks used by states and hospitals to increase federal Medicaid funding — though not until 2028.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 23, 2024
Medical debt collection is a highly sensitive and complex process made more challenging given today’s inflation and rising delinquency rates among patients’ broader consumer debt load. | Inflation has made medical debt collection more challenging. New kinder, gentler strategies are making the process more effective and cost-efficient. Learn more.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 23, 2024
What You Should Know: – Healthcare technology leader DrFirst has joined forces with medication adherence company PatchRx to tackle a major healthcare challenge: medication non-adherence. – The strategic collaboration aims to improve patient health outcomes and reduce healthcare costs associated with patients not taking their medications as prescribed.
Home Health Care
APRIL 23, 2024
BrightStar Care has built a reputation as one of the home care industry’s innovators. Past examples of the home care franchise company’s pioneering spirit include its investment in small-home senior living residences and its educational partnership with Chamberlain University. On Tuesday, the Gurnee, Illinois-based BrightStar announced its latest innovation effort, which will include an expansion of its clinical capabilities.
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HIT Consultant
APRIL 23, 2024
What You Should Know: – With smart ring market leadership within its sights, Ultrahuman has today announced plans to open a manufacturing facility poised to accelerate its production capacity. – The UltraFactory will be located in Indiana. It opens within the next six months and will be the launchpad for Ultrahuman’s next phase of growth.
Home Health Care
APRIL 23, 2024
This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership On Tuesday, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) officials vehemently backed the thought process behind the “80-20” wage mandate in home- and community-based services (HCBS). Providers and advocates, on the other hand, continued to argue that the policy could be disastrous. During a press call Tuesday, CMS stuck with the theme that, in general, the status quo in Medicaid needed to be disrupted.
The Rand Blog
APRIL 23, 2024
In the digital age, tradeoffs—like displaying our faces and fingerprints—are all but required simply to function in society. But the technology charged with securing our information, protecting what we have given up in these trades against theft, fraud, and other potential harms, doesn't always work.
Meditech
APRIL 23, 2024
Following the recent ransomware attack on Change Healthcare , many healthcare organizations are rightly reviewing and considering their cybersecurity posture — and that of their EHR vendor. At MEDITECH, we work to meet or exceed all industry-standard security best practices in our corporate operations and in the products and solutions that we develop and deploy.
Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator
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Health Populi
APRIL 23, 2024
Three trends underpin health consumers’ evolving demands for service: spending more but getting less satisfaction and innovation; trusting health care with data but underwhelmed by the use of that personal information; and, growing “shopping” behavior seeking quality, availability, proximity, cost, and options across channels for health care.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
APRIL 23, 2024
While CMS has a target of getting 100% of Medicare beneficiaries into value-based payment (VBP) programs–such as accountable care organizations–by the end of the decade, implementing VBP in practice will be challenging. An editorial by Navathe et al. (2024) in Health Affairs provides some key considerations. Providers forego certain revenue for uncertain ‘bonus’ payments. “One flaw is built into many VBP incentive designs: They require participants to forgo revenue
HIT Consultant
APRIL 23, 2024
What You Should Know: – Deciphex , a leading digital pathology company based in Dublin, Ireland, has announced a collaborative effort with Novartis , a prominent multinational pharmaceutical corporation. – The strategic partnership focuses on developing innovative artificial intelligence (AI) solutions aimed at revolutionizing preclinical pathology assessments within the drug discovery and development process.
Speaker: Dr. Ugo Uwaoma, MD, MBA
Due to the impact of COVID-19, integrating telehealth software into practices and organizations has become the new normal. In turn, this has increased the effectiveness of collaborative healthcare by strengthening communication amongst healthcare workers and helping combat the woes of burnout. Communication between patients and healthcare providers has also improved, allowing patients to reach their providers easily and decreasing turnaround time.
HKLaw
APRIL 23, 2024
Holland & Knight Health Dose is an in-depth weekly dose of legislative and regulatory insights to keep stakeholders abreast of happenings in Washington, D.C., impacting the health sector.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 23, 2024
What You Should Know: – Ensemble Health Partners , a provider of end-to-end revenue cycle outsourcing (RCM) for healthcare organizations, has announced a significant expansion of its partnership with Microsoft. – The strategic collaboration aims to accelerate the development and adoption of Ensemble’s industry-leading revenue cycle intelligence platform, EIQ®.
HIStalk
APRIL 23, 2024
Change Healthcare attack did not result in harm to veteran.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 23, 2024
What You Should Know: – Clarapath , a medical robotics company on a mission to transform tissue processing in pathology labs, has announced a strategic collaboration with Mayo Clinic, a world-renowned leader in medical care and research. – The strategic partnership marks a significant step towards a new era of automation and efficiency within pathology labs.
Speaker: Matt McBride, CEO and Co-Founder of Mend
Patient engagement happens before, during, and after interactions. Consumer research has found that in 2021, 64% of US households reported using Telehealth services. In addition 34% of patients would prefer Telehealth visits to in-office visits. Accessible patient engagement technology can help you improve your relationships with your patients while also improving your KPIs.
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