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Health IT Business News – March 28, 2024

Health IT business news from Cynerio, TrustCommerce, Augmedix, Inovalon, Lindus Health, Ordr, Komodo Health, AKASA, Together by Renee, DrFirst, HealthCorum, MDaudit, Ensemble Health Partners, TrueRx, Rimidi, and more.

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AI in Healthcare News and Updates

This month’s AI report includes news and updates from Profluent, Xsolis, Tempus, SnapCare, AxiomEHR, Ontrak Health, Together by Renee, DrFirst, Talkdesk, Andor Health, MedeAnalytics, & more!

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Health IT Hires, Appointments, and Who’s Hiring

Latest announcements made from companies and organizations on hiring include Vista.ai, Collette Health, Wondr Health, Acclivity Health Solutions, Amylyx Pharmaceuticals, Veramed, Certify Health, Phreesia, AllerVie Health, MRO, J2 Interactive, & more!

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ATA Nexus 2024

May 5-7 in Phoenix, AZ, ATA Nexus 2024: Deep Dives into Virtual Care Hot Topics & New Telehealth 101 Bootcamp. Examining our new realities, highlighting the lessons learned and sharing actionable insights and use cases.

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What’s Happening at the ONC

Supporting the adoption of health IT and the promotion of nationwide health information exchange to improve health care, here is what is happening at the ONC, including the upcoming quarterly ONC Health IT Certification Program Developer Roundtable, the upcoming USCDI+ Cancer Data Exchange Summit, the HITAC Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2023, & more.

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Reading Between the Lines of Year-End Healthcare Merger and Acquisition Reports

By David Burda – Is the pace of merger and acquisition activity in an industry a sign of the industry’s health? I don’t know. I’m not an economist. I just write about this stuff. But if it is, then the healthcare industry felt a little off last year. Not enough to justify the incessant whining. But a little off. Like someone with a summer cold who acts like they’re going to die.

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March 2024 Health IT Marketing Minutes

What makes marketing in the health IT space unique? Who are the movers and shakers? What’s working, what’s trending? Where can you learn more? News from Brafton, Amendola Communications, KNB Communications, Clarity Quest, Matter Communications, FINN Partners, Astonish Media Group, Innsena, Swaay.Health, and Merge.

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Coming Together: Part 2 and HIPAA

By Matthew Fisher – HHS released a final rule that will establish greater alignment between Part 2 (privacy of substance use disorder treatment records) and HIPAA. They kicked off the process with a notice of proposed rulemaking that was published on 12/2/22.

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Team First Mentality

Joshua Liu MD explains what healthcare taught him about a Team-First mentality. Ultimately residency programs are high-performing teams, and they too want to “hire” individuals who also put the team first.

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Sharing Health Data Update March 2024

Moving our healthcare system into the digital age, better outcomes, controlling and reducing costs, and patient access to their health data. Our monthly HIE rundown includes updates on TEFCA, HIE networks, job openings and vendor contracts.

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Transforming Hospital TVs into Health Literacy Hubs

By Adam DeRocher – The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) says, “More than one-third of U.S. adults – an estimated 80 million persons – have limited health literacy, making it more difficult for them to read, understand, and apply health information.”

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DoD/VA & Government HIT Summit

Starts May 1st in National Harbor, MD: The annual Summit will bring together the VA, DHA, DoD, federal government, and industry to examine initiatives for veterans utilizing innovative commercial technologies for the delivery of patient-centered care.

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CMS Guidance on Change Healthcare/ Optum Payment Disruption

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recognizes the impact that the cyberattack on UnitedHealth Group’s subsidiary Change Healthcare/Optum in late February (the Incident) has had on health care operations across the country.

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Putting the ‘Continuous’ in the Cardiac Care Continuum

By Stuart Long – Everyone knows someone affected by cardiac disease. Of course, we all recognize the risk factors: age, lifestyle, preexisting conditions… But a quick read through the AHA’s “Most Read Survivor Stories of 2023” tells a different story: that cardiac disease can strike swiftly and indiscriminately.

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Designing for Health: Interview with Gary Kaplan, MD

NOW released, the In Network podcast feature Designing for Health. They discuss how Dr. Kaplan spearheaded a revolution in the patient experience at Virginia Mason, how a car company headquartered on the other side of the world inspired transformational change, and how his organization gained from openness and honesty in the face of adversity.

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Health IT Business News – March 14, 2024

Health IT business news including HIMSS announcements from eClinicalWorks, Corcentric, Greenway Health, Luma Health, Rivet, HL7, The Sequoia Project, First Databank, Lexaria, Lightbeam Health Solutions, Harris Data Integrity Solutions, Lyric, Lindus Health, Relias, and more.

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Virtual Healthcare March 2024

We are seeking out the latest developments around virtual healthcare. News from Wheel, Health Gorilla, CareSimple, UTMHealthcare, TeleCare, Andor Health, Pager Inc., GE HealthCare, Biofourmis, hellocare, Andor Health, Panva Technology and more.

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New Research Leverages AI/ML and Sensor Technologies

By Frank A. Fornari PhD – While physical activity, physical therapy, and structured exercise have long been considered effective treatments for Parkinson’s disease, their efficacy has been difficult to scientifically establish due to the inability to measure changes.

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Unveiling Inferno Testing Support for Payer Data Exchange API Standards

By Ashley Hain & Robert Anthony – ONC has hit a new milestone in advancing interoperability across the care continuum. A new series of voluntary tests to support standards-based application programming interfaces (APIs) leveraging Health Level Seven® (HL7®) implementation specifications developed via the Da Vinci project and the CARIN Alliance are now available…

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Health IT Hires and Appointments

Latest announcements made from companies and organizations on hiring include Traditions Health, Rittenhouse Psychiatric Associates, StimScience, Pinnacle Treatment Centers, eHealth, Inc., First Health Advisory, CareAbout Health, Innsena, LucidHealth, IKS Health, & Walmart Health.

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RISE National 2024

RISE National: Downtown Nashville, March 17-19, 2024. The trusted source for all things Medicare Advantage, crossing a variety of topics and themes from risk adjustment and quality to member experience and social determinants of health.

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Check Out the CMS Sessions at HIMSS24 This Week

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Office of Burden Reduction and Health Informatics  is holding educational sessions during the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2024 Global Conference & Exhibition.

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The Costly Lever of Prior Authorization

By David R. Burda – The long-running debate over prior authorization typically is framed around patient care. PA delays or denials prevent patients from receiving medically necessary care when they need it. Within that frame is the administrative burden that PA puts on physicians.

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Cybersecurity Performance Goals and HIPAA

By Art Gross – With cyber-attacks on the rise in healthcare, HIPAA enforcer, the Department of Health and Human Services, has taken proactive measures to enhance the sector’s resilience against these growing threats.

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Friday at Five: 5 New Health IT Insights Gleaned at ViVE 2024

By Beth Friedman – ViVE, a collaborative event sponsored by CHIME and HLTH, This year’s affair, hosted by the Los Angeles Convention Center, was my second ViVE Event and perhaps my best. Industry progress in virtual, value, and hospital room of the future shined on the exhibit floor. Here is what I saw.

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HIMSS 2024 Booths to Visit

Heading to the HIMSS conference in Orlando? Add these booths to your trip to the exhibit hall. Say hi and tell them HealthIT Answers and Healthcare NOW Radio sent you!

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Healthcare Regulatory Triumvirate: Only the Start

By Matthew Fisher – It should be well known and understand that the healthcare industry is subject to a variety of laws and regulations that can make operating in the space trickier than other industries. To give both new and experienced individuals a taste of that complexity, three primary laws are often cited as the top priorities to keep in mind.

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HIMSS24: Interoperability Showcase

If you are heading to HIMSS next week, be sure to save time for the reimagined Interoperability Showcase® for live, real-life experiences from interoperability champions demonstrating standards-based solutions within both clinical and technical settings.

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Meet Consensus Cloud Solutions at HIMSS

Heading to HIMSS next week? Be sure to stop by booth 3801 and meet the Consensus team to learn more about Clarity; a low-risk, high-value approach to AI adoption. And catch them in the Interoperability Showcase too! See you in Orlando.

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Talent Tuesday: The Healthcare Workforce

With 18% of healthcare workers having left their jobs and another 12% being laid off, what are the solutions for healthcare as a whole? You can’t open a paper, magazine, or watch news and not hear about the crisis that has evolved. This is our Talent Tuesday Workforce edition.

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Exploring New HHS Healthcare Cybersecurity Goals

Join us Just in Time for HIMSS this Wednesday, March 6, 2024 – 1:00 pm ET / 10:00 am PT Register for this webinar and hear from leading healthcare researchers at Cynerio, Amazon, and Sodexo as they dive deeper into this latest HHS cybersecurity guidance.

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Mastering the Basics: Password Security FAQ’s

By Art Gross – Remember our call to action for a Password Audit in our Healthcare Cybersecurity Resolutions blog a few weeks back? As this month draws to a close, now is the perfect time to tick off this achievable and cost-free goal.

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Innovation in Population Data Analytics

By Adam Wong – The SMART Health IT team based in Boston Children’s Hospital Computational Health Informatics Program has been a leader in developing new capabilities leveraging the HL7® FHIR® standard. A 2010 Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Project was SMART’s first ONC funding opportunity that led to the creation of the SMART on FHIR API.

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Designing for Health: Interview with David K Butler, MD

NOW released, the In Network podcast feature Designing for Health. They discuss the history of early electronic health record implementations, Dr. Butler’s journey from physician to clinical informaticist, and how to win over skeptical clinicians during implementations.

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Diagnosing the Revenue Potential of Telemedicine

By David R. Burda – There’s an intriguing dance taking place right now among patients, physicians, telemedicine technology vendors, regulators and healthcare finance leaders. I’m not sure who will take the lead eventually, but it will be fascinating to watch.

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Health IT Product News Report February 2024

Health IT product news from Eagle Telemedicine, ZocDoc, GE Healthcare, CodaMetrix, athenahealth, Infermedica, Caregility, Cerebras Systems, Sensydia, DermaSensor Inc., eClinicalWorks, Lindus Health, Cohere Health, Amenities Health, Undiagnosed Diseases Network Foundation and more.

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Exploring New York’s Commitment to Promoting Health Equity

NOW on-demand, Value-Based Care Insights host Daniel J. Marino speaks with Vanessa Guzman, CEO of SmartRise Health. They explore the new terms and conditions of New York’s 1115 demonstration waivers. They also share insights into the $6 billion initiative focusing on health equity, workforce investments and the general support of Medicaid programs.

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Health IT Business News – February 29, 2024

Health IT business news including ViVe announcements from CHIME, care.ai, CliniComp, Rivet, Amenities Health, CipherHealth, DeepScribe, Innsena, X-trodes, Avation Medical, Edifecs, NextGen Healthcare, CPSI, TruBridge, ChristianaCare, Lumeon, Data Kinetic AXYS, F4CP, Yosi Health, Artisight, DrFirst, CenTrak, and more.

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AI in Healthcare News and Updates

This month’s AI report includes news and updates from BEN, MedAdvisor Solutions, Odessa General Surgery, eClinicalWorks, Viz.ai, The SCAN Foundation, Dandelion Health, AXYS, F4CP, AION Labs, BioMedX, Azalea Health, Ontrak Health, ImagineSoftware, Maverick Medical AI, DeepScribe, Aideo Technologies, MedEvolve, & more.

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Health IT Hires and Appointments

Latest announcements made from companies and organizations on hiring include Kalderos, HHAeXchange, AGS Health, OncoHealth, Lincata, Hallmark Health Care Solutions, ModMed, First Health Advisory, Noyo, Talkdesk, DocGo Inc., Quartet Health, Vytalize Health, and ATA.

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Monday Morning Rounds with CMS

In case you missed it, this is recent communication from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Subscribe to their email lists to keep up to date on all press and news releases.

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