Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A core provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), responsible for ensuring hundreds of millions of Americans receive free access to preventive services, faces a serious legal challenge March 4.

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Health Care Dive

APRIL 18, 2024

Healthcare organizations can create an effective cybersecurity strategy that involves an incident response plan, testing, multifactor authentication and automating mundane tasks using artificial intelligence.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 13, 2023

The Affordable Care Act's (ACA's) preventive care mandate remains in effect as a federal appeals court mulls a legal challenge to the requirements. | The Affordable Care Act's preventive care mandate remains in effect as a federal appeals court mulls a legal challenge to the requirements.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Home hospitalisation, tech-enabled preventive care, and genomic data-driven personalised care are some of the emerging trends in care in the Asia-Pacific region. Pondering the same question, Dr Han said it remains a challenge for providers to efficiently collect and analyse a patient's everyday data for preventive care.

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PDC Healthcare

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Implementing a scannable barcode system enables caregivers the ability to quickly scan a ID […] The post Preventing Barcode Errors in Healthcare appeared first on connectID - PDC Healthcare Blog. Each patient has an EMR (Electronic Medical Record), which needs to be updated each time a patient needs care.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 6, 2023

A federal appeals court held a brief hearing Tuesday afternoon to hear from attorneys on both sides as it decides whether to lift a nationwide freeze on a lower court's ruling that struck down prev | A federal appeals court held a brief hearing Tuesday afternoon to hear from attorneys on both sides as it decides whether to lift a nationwide freeze (..)

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The health system has efforts to use artificial intelligence to, among other things, streamline patient scheduling and provide personalized preventive care recommendations. Dr. Melek Somai, the CTO, explains how.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 12, 2024

Massachusetts’ progressive senators have debuted a federal bill that would introduce criminal and civil penalties for executives who “loot” healthcare organizations to the detriment of patient care | Citing Steward Health Care as a paradigm, the progressive lawmakers say the civil and criminal penalties in their bill will prevent private equity firms (..)

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 20, 2024

Preventive care or healthcare innovation legislation promising decades-long savings benefits may soon get fairer appraisals from Congress’ nonpartisan scorekeeper. | The bipartisan bill, passed Tuesday, would allow lawmakers to request a 30-year cost savings projection for healthcare legislation related to preventive care.

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CDC

MAY 24, 2022

Updated recommendations on how to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs), as well as ventilator-associated pneumonia, ventilator-associated events (VAEs), and non-ventilator healthcare-associated pneumonia (NV-HAP) were recently published.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Home health technologies will have an increasingly larger role to play in healthcare delivery as the silver tsunami of the aging population strain the system. And if more consumers embrace preventative care that can easily be done in the home. Home-based health technologies are any preventive care technology tool that elevates health.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 30, 2023

Judge blocks feds from enforcing ACA's preventive care coverage mandates pminemyer Thu, 03/30/2023 - 13:49

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Change Healthcare, a software and data analytics vendor that offers revenue cycle management, clinical decision support and other operations tools, announced Wednesday it took its systems offline due to a cyber incident. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. are reporting they are unable to process prescriptions.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Innovation in diagnostics, however, is not just vital to advancing disease surveillance and early detection to help prevent the next pandemic. Why we need a preventive approach. It also requires a mindset shift, as increasingly non-clinical diagnostic testing will be brought into the fold of healthcare. About Michael Simpson.

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Health Care Dive

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

At a Google Cloud panel this week, information security officers from major health systems said the sector needs to assess their vendor risks to prevent disruptive cyberattacks.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 20, 2021

These telemonitoring systems allow healthcare to contact elderly and vulnerable people to provide heatwave advice such as adapting their medication or drinking more water. However, heat-related deaths are preventable, and these new technologies are a valuable contribution to public health practice. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 13, 2023

Justice Department seeks stay on parts of ACA preventive services ruling rking Thu, 04/13/2023 - 16:29

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Healthcare Highways

JANUARY 29, 2024

National Cancer Prevention Month is a poignant reminder that taking proactive steps toward a healthier lifestyle can significantly reduce the risk of cancer.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 21, 2024

These statistics highlight the urgent need for hospitals and healthcare institutions to take action and implement comprehensive approaches. By focusing on these proactive and reactive strategies, healthcare organizations can play a crucial role in preventing and mitigating the devastating impact of mass shootings.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 16, 2023

Federal appeals court grants stay in ACA preventive care ruling pminemyer Tue, 05/16/2023 - 11:58

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 8, 2023

WIth judge's ruling, some employers may cut off no-cost preventive care: survey fdiamond Mon, 05/08/2023 - 12:49

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 17, 2023

Veterans can get suicide prevention care for free. Tue, 01/17/2023 - 10:20.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 21, 2024

What You Should Know: – Ciba Health , a digital health company transforming healthcare with root-cause medicine and leveraging cutting-edge technology AI/ML, announced today its launch of Thrive by Ciba (Thrive), a data-powered, customizable disease prevention platform to help people live longer and healthier lives.

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Health Care Dive

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is sounding the alarm on increasing levels of burnout and harassment in the healthcare industry.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Commonwealth Fund: COVID-19 vaccine prevented more than 18M hospitalizations, 3M deaths. Tue, 12/13/2022 - 15:04.

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CDC

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Two hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, are demonstrating that even when access to resources is limited, commitment to infection prevention and control (IPC) practices makes combating antimicrobial resistance (AR) possible. However, healthcare facilities with limited resources may lack the tools or training necessary to carry out these

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Preventative health is key to detecting health problems and intervening at earlier stages before other problems arise or treatment becomes more difficult. | 50 million Americans suffer from mental illnesses. More than half of them aren’t receiving the treatment they need.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 14, 2024

It aligns healthcare organizations with its customers – highly digital patients. This is one of the most important topics healthcare CIOs and other C-suite and health IT leaders can be talking about today. Data integration and interoperability are critical components of successful digital transformation in healthcare.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 23, 2021

KFF: Preventable COVID hospitalizations among unvaccinated cost U.S. health system $2.3B. Mon, 08/23/2021 - 16:01.

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CDC

JUNE 7, 2023

Vietnam has adapted established infection prevention and control (IPC) measures for limited-resource settings to help stop the spread of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE), identified as an urgent antimicrobial resistance (AR) threat in CDC’s 2019 AR Threats Report.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 19, 2024

A bipartisan group of Senators introduced a healthcare cybersecurity bill on July 11 to help prevent cyberattacks on healthcare facilities, which the federal government deems as critical infrastruc | A bipartisan group of Senators introduced the Healthcare Cybersecurity Act of 2024 on July 11.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 8, 2023

Patients are likely to avoid preventive care should ACA coverage ruling stand, survey finds pminemyer Wed, 03/08/2023 - 14:10

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Health Care Dive

MARCH 3, 2023

Steve Winterfeld, Akamai's advisory chief information and security officer, outlines the threat of cyberattacks to healthcare organizations and what the industry can do to prevent them.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 27, 2023

Kaiser Permanente earmarks $25M for gun violence prevention research, collaboration dmuoio Fri, 01/27/2023 - 09:34

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 1, 2024

The latest batch of Hospital Safety Grades from independent watchdog The Leapfrog Group suggest that patients’ care experiences, which deteriorated during and since the pandemic, may finally be tur | New data from the watchdog reflecting CMS-reported patient safety measures show that hospitals are, on average, working their way back from patient experience (..)

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 31, 2023

Despite court ruling, insurers say they will continue to offer ACA-mandated free preventive services fdiamond Fri, 03/31/2023 - 13:33

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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 16, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The CDC updated it’s guidance on Infection Prevention and Control of Monkeypox in HC Settings on August 11, 2022. This would be a good website to bookmark for reference.

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