Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

BOSTON – Anita Allen, professor of law and philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, kicked off the 2022 HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum on Monday, with a nuanced and thought-provoking discussion on patient privacy in an era of widespread data sharing. Allen said ahead of the conference that she wanted to bring her expertise in law and bioethics to bear on problems of great concern to healthcare and technology and would focus her discussion on data exchange and patient privacy.

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Health Care Dive

DECEMBER 5, 2022

This year has been especially tumultuous for healthcare, with the overturning of Roe v. Wade, numerous labor disputes and major M&A announcements.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Community Health Network said it discovered on September 22 that the configuration of certain pixels on its digital properties allowed for a broader scope of patient information collection and transfer to third-party vendors, such as Meta and Google, than it realized. WHY IT MATTERS. Companies that provide online tracking tools have been accused in class-action lawsuits of allegedly targeting ads to people based on information regarding their health that was collected through healthcare system w

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Health Care Dive

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The impending changes to prior authorization processing aren’t minor, and they aren’t the only types of regulatory transformation that healthcare organizations will need to navigate in the months and years to come.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 5, 2022

KFF: For-profit hospital system margins surge past pre-pandemic levels. rking. Mon, 12/05/2022 - 16:05.

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Health Care Dive

DECEMBER 5, 2022

HCA and Tenet had operating margins of at least 10% and at least 5%, respectively, in nine out of 11 quarters, according to a report out Monday from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

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Health Care Dive

DECEMBER 5, 2022

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

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Flu hospitalizations nearly double in week after Thanksgiving. fdiamond. Mon, 12/05/2022 - 16:07.

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Health Care Dive

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Three trends in compliance monitoring impacting healthcare in 2022, and how to stay compliant in 2023.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Healthcare Dealmakers—VillageMD's $9B Summit Health acquisition; Major Midwest health system mergers and more. dmuoio. Mon, 12/05/2022 - 17:32.

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Health Care Dive

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The cyberattack has interrupted access to electronic health records and delayed patient care in multiple regions.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Clues to physician-patient rapport might lay in EHR in-baskets. fdiamond. Mon, 12/05/2022 - 13:48.

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Health Care Dive

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The healthcare system will use Palantir technology to better match patient flows with workforce scheduling.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Express Scripts to add Humira biosimilars to formulary as preferred products. pminemyer. Mon, 12/05/2022 - 14:49.

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Bill Of Health

DECEMBER 5, 2022

By Terri Gerstein. Consider the quiet car. Some Amtrak trains have a designated car for people who want a hushed environment in which to work, read, or sleep. Passengers who want quiet choose the quiet car. People who don’t want quiet sit elsewhere. In short: people want different options for travel, and Amtrak threads the needle, accommodating varying needs.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Centene completes sale of Magellan Rx to Prime Therapeutics. pminemyer. Mon, 12/05/2022 - 16:19.

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Healthy Debate

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The post Groundbreaking research into ME/CFS a pandemic ‘silver lining’ appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The release of the home health proposed payment rule in June brought M&A activity to a screeching halt. With the release of the final rule back in October, an uptick in dealmaking might be here. . Even as it slowed down, though, retailers, insurers and other players outside the Medicare-certified home health industry continued to make home-focused deals.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Michael Simpson, CEO of CliniSys. There is a real sense that we are on the cusp of a diagnostics revolution. This has been spurred on by the pandemic, which at once underscored the tremendous power of mass testing as it became the fundamental basis for decision-making, from our own personal health to national policy. It also revealed gaps in terms of needing to drastically scale up testing capacity and invest in new and innovative digital diagnostics tools.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 5, 2022

24 Hour Home Care has acquired the New Mexico-based home care company Inteli-Care, which will allow the former to broaden the types of patients it can care for. At Home Health Care News’ Home Care Conference in November , 24 Hour Home Care President and co-founder Ryan Iwamoto talked about some of the contemporary pressures in home care. Those included rising cost of services – anywhere from 20% to 40% in given markets, he said – which changed the company’s strategy to taking care of a “small po

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 5, 2022

What You Should Know: – Elevance Health — formerly Anthem, Inc. has announced the expansion of its Sydney Health application with the addition of a nutrition tracker function driven by artificial intelligence (AI). The new feature, called Nutrition Tracker, recognizes foods or an entire meal, providing virtual nutrition advice to improve affiliated health plan members’ overall health and well-being. – Using smartphone cameras and typing-free nutrition tracking, affiliated he

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Healthcare Leadership

DECEMBER 5, 2022

There is no escaping the head-scratching news coming from the executive offices of Twitter. It is a lesson on how not to handle a change in ownership. Every day companies and high-profile celebrities are announcing their departure from the platform. It’s a sad time for those of us who have found friends and sense of community on Twitter. Given what’s happening, I though it would be interesting to discuss the importance of and the nature of community in healthcare.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 5, 2022

What You Should Know: – Investors in the healthcare technology space believe a measurable return on investment (ROI) and clinical validation of the technology’s platform will be the greatest indicators of company success in 2023, according to a new survey of top digital health investors by GSR Ventures. – ROI was deemed “important” or “very important” to the success of digital health companies by more than 94% of investor respondents, and 79% for clinica

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Enhabit Inc. (NYSE: EHAB) leaders feel confident that the company will continue to scale. But they also recognize that forcing payer understanding on the value of home health care will have to be a painful part of that. Earlier this year, Enhabit agreed to terms with nine Medicare Advantage and commercial plans. All of those were either regional or multi-state plans.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 5, 2022

What You Should Know: – Intel Labs and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn Medicine) have completed a joint research study using federated learning – a distributed machine learning (ML) artificial intelligence (AI) approach – to help international healthcare and research institutions identify malignant brain tumors. – The largest medical federated learning study to date with an unprecedented global dataset examined from 71 institutions across six c

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Among all of the challenges health care providers will face in 2023, digital health tools could have the greatest potential to improve patient access, according to the issues most Top of Mind for Top Health Systems 2023 from UPMC. the Center for Connected Medicine, Nokia and KLAS Research. KLAS surveyed the views of 61 health system leaders to assess their perspectives on health care access, costs, telehealth, and artificial intelligence looking toward the next year of health care operations.

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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.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 5, 2022

What You Should Know: – More than half of all healthcare workers (52%) feel less confident about their personal financial situation now compared to a year ago, according to a recent Harris Poll , among over 2,000 U.S. adults of which nearly 200 are healthcare workers, commissioned by IntelyCare and DailyPay. – The latest IntelyCare Research Group report, looks at how financial precarity and stress affect healthcare workers and simultaneously explores measures that can be taken to add

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Sequence Health

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As a healthcare marketer, ensuring your business is found online is essential. One way to do this is by creating a Google Business Profile. A Google Business Profile is a free listing on Google that includes your business name, address, phone number, and website link. It also allows customers to leave reviews of your business. Local SEO is optimizing your website and online presence to make it easier for customers to find you in a search engine like Google.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Chris Cashwell, CEO and Founder of Azra AI. For cancer patients and their loved ones, days, weeks, and months matter. In fact, anyone who has waited anxiously for test results or a treatment regimen to begin can attest that hours, or even minutes, will drag on with emotional heaviness. From a clinical standpoint as well, time to treatment significantly impacts outcomes.

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Health Recovery

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Due to the consequences of the pandemic, we have drastically changed our expectations when it comes to healthcare. Patients no longer expect to go to the doctors office for every twinge of pain or sniffle. They realize that care can be initiated from afar. Now, more than ever, patients have more choices on how, when, and where they receive care. Because of this, healthcare providers are scaling up and bringing in RPM and virtual care as a solution to meet their patients where they are.

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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.