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HIPAA complaints, breaches increased from 2017 to 2021 as HHS urges more funding

Health Care Dive

The HHS Office for Civil Rights is facing a “severe strain” on its staff and budget amid rising breaches and complaints, according to the agency’s annual report to Congress.

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DocsGPT in beta targets physician burnout

Healthcare It News

Developed using OpenAI's ChatGPT and trained on healthcare-specific prose, the online DocsGPT offers doctors a chance to test and weigh in on AI-powered product development. Testing AI for workflow 'scut' OpenAI developed ChatGPT, which launched in November as a prototype, using multiple learning methodologies. Human trainers, in collaboration with Microsoft on Azure's supercomputing infrastructure, created reward models to improve its performance.

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Medicaid enrollees largely unaware of upcoming redeterminations, survey finds

Health Care Dive

About 64% of adults in a Medicaid-enrolled family said they did not know they may lose coverage once pandemic-era policy ends and eligibility checks resume on April 1, a survey from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found.

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BroadbandOhio selects OCHIN as state telehealth administrator

Healthcare It News

BroadbandOhio, a division of the Ohio Department of Development, selected OCHIN as its statewide telehealth administrator to help expand healthcare services for Ohio’s K-12 students. WHY IT MATTERS The new initiative aims to help administrators in at least 10 districts implement school telehealth programs. BroadbandOhio plans to establish a steering committee with other state agencies to oversee OCHIN’s efforts, according to the announcement.

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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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Could Medicaid redeterminations cause short-term health plan signups to spike?

Health Care Dive

Short-term plan operators will likely ramp up their marketing in April to nab new consumers from the Medicaid churn, but health policy experts largely aren't concerned.

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Office for Civil Rights brings 2 reports to Congress regarding state of HIPAA compliance and cybersecurity

Fierce Healthcare

Office for Civil Rights brings 2 reports to Congress regarding state of HIPAA compliance and cybersecurity aburky Tue, 02/21/2023 - 14:54

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CMS: Tighter price transparency enforcement, standardized requirements for hospitals are on the horizon

Fierce Healthcare

CMS: Tighter price transparency enforcement, standardized requirements for hospitals are on the horizon dmuoio Tue, 02/21/2023 - 15:15

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Home Health Veteran April Anthony On VitalCaring’s Launch, Its Strategy And Why An IPO Is Unlikely

Home Health Care

The creation of VitalCaring – April Anthony’s latest home health venture – is drawing expected attention. After all, Anthony is one of the biggest names in the industry. But since she stepped down from her role as CEO of the home health and hospice arm of Encompass Health Corporation (NYSE: EHC) in June 2021, she hasn’t been playing an active role in it.

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Program promises to take a team approach to tackling severe kidney disease

Fierce Healthcare

Program promises to take a team approach to tackling severe kidney disease fdiamond Tue, 02/21/2023 - 09:48

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Home Health, Telehealth Partnerships Increased Access To Care Amid Pandemic

Home Health Care

Home health providers can help meet the needs of vulnerable patients that need skilled services in their home through telehealth and virtual partnerships. That’s according to a new study conducted by AccentCare and Sound Physicians, a telehealth and physician service provider. The study also found that when telehealth was offered, there were timely initiations of care for patients that may have otherwise been denied home health services.

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5 Essentials for Healthcare CIOs: A Provider Data Management Checklist

Complete and accurate provider data is essential for health organizations to operate effectively. A better understanding of your provider network helps to understand patients and consumers, identify gaps in care, and make the best possible decisions for your businesses. A modern provider data management solution should power a complete and accurate view of each of your providers, make this data easily accessible across functional groups, and be flexible and agile enough to scale. with your needs

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Senators urge CMS to rethink narrow Medicare coverage for Alzheimer's drugs

Fierce Healthcare

Senators urge CMS to rethink narrow Medicare coverage for Alzheimer's drugs pminemyer Tue, 02/21/2023 - 16:17

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Optimizing the Wealth Management Onboarding Process

CiscoHealth

As our lives have become more digital and our preference for digital services increased, banks have responded by focusing a significant amount of time and attention on the digital customer… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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CMS data: Medicare Advantage enrollment now more than 31M

Fierce Healthcare

CMS data: Medicare Advantage enrollment now more than 31M pminemyer Tue, 02/21/2023 - 14:21

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Six Ways to Snack Smarter

Healthcare Associates

Six Ways to Snack Smarter Good relationships are important, right? Chances are you consider your connections with your parents, siblings, sweetheart, rowdy high-school crew, or coworkers among your most significant. And if you have a four-legged furry friend, it’s probably right up there, too. But what about your relationship with another vital part of your life?

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Level up Culture & EQ | Sign up for the #CultureDrop

Once a week, culture & leadership expert Galen Emanuele gives free, actionable EQ training in 5 minutes or less. Subscribe to the #CultureDrop and access free resources & content.

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'Podnosis': What private equity means for rural healthcare, and how Margaret-Mary Wilson's career journey impacts patient care

Fierce Healthcare

'Podnosis': What private equity means for rural healthcare, and how Margaret-Mary Wilson's career journey impacts patient care tcarey Tue, 02/21/2023 - 11:09

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Bluestem Health Launches AI-Based Virtual Healthcare Assistant Powered by Mediktor

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Nebraska-based Bluestem Health today announced it has launched an AI-based virtual medical assistant powered by Mediktor. This is available for both established and non-established patients to efficiently assess their symptoms online and direct them to the appropriate level of care. – Mediktor combines AI, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning technologies for the first clinically validated digital medical assistant, proven in clinical trials

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JAMA study reveals housing instability, financial strain not accurately flagged by EHR screeners

Fierce Healthcare

JAMA study reveals housing instability, financial strain not accurately flagged by EHR screeners aburky Tue, 02/21/2023 - 12:58

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Designing for Health: Interview with Memora Health’s Omar Nagji [Podcast]

Nordic

Access to care and continuity of experience continue to be major issues for many patients. Though COVID-19 accelerated the implementation of virtual care solutions at many organizations, a lack of technological capability or other digital determinants of health (DDoH) continues to impact patients. As healthcare organizations look for solutions that meet the needs of their patient population, the emphasis needs to be on designing in ways that help patients overcome DDoH and improve outcomes.

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A Guide to Improved Sepsis Detection & Compliance: 6 Areas You Should Address

This guide highlights key areas that your sepsis detection platform should address to minimize the impact of this leading, entirely preventable cause of in-hospital deaths, as well as how to increase compliance by 20% in 30 days. Download to learn more!

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SimpliFed announces partnership with national supplier to expand access to insurance-covered breast pumps

Fierce Healthcare

SimpliFed announces partnership with national supplier to expand access to insurance-covered breast pumps agliadkovskaya Tue, 02/21/2023 - 16:50

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Indegene Launches Metaverse Capabilities for Life Sciences Companies

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Indegene , a digital-first, life sciences commercialization company launches metaverse capabilities to support life sciences organizations with a variety of use cases, including health care provider (HCP) interactions, HCP education, and patient education. – Indegene’s domain expertise will provide life sciences organizations a foundation for navigating the complexity of this emerging technology and the flexibility to create tailored virtual worlds.

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UnitedHealth's $5.4B LHC Group buy set to close this week

Fierce Healthcare

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Vysioneer & Pfizer Partner on AI-Powered Oncology Clinical Trials

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Vysioneer , a provider of applied AI for Oncology, today announced a data-sharing agreement with Pfizer , a global leader in pharmaceuticals. The agreement aims to lay the foundation for the application of AI in oncology clinical trials. As part of the agreement, Vysioneer gains access to one of Pfizer’s oncology clinical trial datasets to apply Vysioneer’s advanced machine-learning techniques to facilitate the drug efficacy assessment process, thereby a

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The New Tech Experience: Innovation, Optimization, and Collaboration

Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator

Learn how to streamline productivity and efficiency across your organization with machine learning and artificial intelligence! No matter what industry you're in - healthcare, customer service, sales, and more - it’s easier than you think to reduce wait times, monitor sentiment, and provide enhanced self-service options for all of your users. This means that you can achieve a more consistent and engaging customer experience while reducing sources of friction.

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Don Berwick

Life Qi

In this, the final article in our series on Quality Improvement (QI) heroes – we shine a spotlight on Dr Don Berwick, leading authority on QI in healthcare and founder of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). Hailing from the US, he is recognised as a leading authority on healthcare quality and improvement. He’s had a massive input and influence in the internationally, sharing insights on outcomes, costs and quality of care across many countries.

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Ascensia Diabetes Care Partners with SNAQ to Support Mealtime Decision-Making

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Ascensia Diabetes Care , a global diabetes care company announces a landmark global collaboration with SNAQ , an award-winning app-based solution that offers key insights on food and nutrition for people with diabetes (PWDs). – As part of the strategic collaboration, Ascensia and SNAQ will integrate their solutions to empower more PWDs to make impactful mealtime decisions, with a goal to improve diabetes management.

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Home Health Providers Still Lack ‘Bargaining Power’ In Negotiations With MA Plans

Home Health Care

David Grabowski wears many hats. In addition to being a member of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), he is also a professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School. Over the years, these positions have allowed him to emerge as an expert in the long-term care and post-acute care spaces. As such, Grabowski is in a position to offer insights on a variety of topics that are top of mind for home health care providers, among others.

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AGS Acquires Offshore Patient Access BPO Unit from Availity

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – AGS Health , a provider for tech-enabled revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions announces the acquisition of the India-based patient access outsourcing business unit of the Florida-based healthcare technology company Availity. – With more than half of U.S. hospitals anticipating a year of negative margins, achieving full and accurate reimbursement for services has never been more critical.

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Strategies to Deal with Collaborative Healthcare Communication

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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Using technology for more efficient transitions of care and a better patient experience

Meditech

According to US government statistics, over 35 million hospital discharges occur annually. Discharging patients from the hospital can be a complex process involving many layers, especially since patients aren’t always discharged to home; often, we’re transitioning them to a setting that is needed for the next steps in their care.

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Single Arm Trials for FDA Drug Approvals in Oncology

Healthcare ECONOMIST

These are becoming increasingly common. Agrawal et al. (2022) use data between 2002-2021, and found that FDA approved: …176 new malignant hematology and oncology indications based on single-arm trials, including 116 accelerated approvals (AAs) and 60 traditional approvals. Overall, 87 approvals (49%) were for new molecular entities or original biologics and 89 (51%) were supplemental indication.

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Conversations from Cisco Live To Observability and Beyond!

CiscoHealth

Three years, six days, and fourteen hours. That’s how long it has been since we were last able to experience an in-person Cisco Live in EMEA.

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How the Supreme Court’s Judicial Activism Compromises Public Health

Bill Of Health

By John Culhane The United States Supreme Court poses a serious threat to public health, but not because the majority of the justices are necessarily opposed to laws and policies designed to protect and further public health and safety. The problem, rather, is the justices’ commitment to other projects that they deem more central to their anti-administration and pro-religion ideology.

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Top 12 Telehealth KPIs Every Health Tech Leader Should Know

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.