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Retrieving Billions in Overpayments by CMSHealthcare IT Today - (Friday February 17, 2023) - AI/ Daily Reads/ Healthcare IT Today | |
 | Amid swirling accusations that Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs) are overbilling the U.S. government and calls for better oversight, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced in early February that it would investigate overbilling by those plans. They expect to recoup 4.7 billion dollars through this program. This article focuses on the relatively young technologies that enable CMS to uncover overbillings, whether they be errors or fraud. The article is based on an interview with Kel Pults, chief clinical officer and vice president of MediQuant. A future article will explain how Medicare Advantage plans are trying to improving data collection and reporting,...
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Community Health Systems reports GoAnywhere hackedHealthcare IT news - (Friday February 17, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ Healthcare IT News | |
 | Community Health Systems filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it was notified by a third-party vendor for secure file transfer of an incident that resulted in unauthorized disclosure of its patient data.WHY IT MATTERS The GoAnywhere managed file transfer platform first warned about a zero-day remote code injection exploit on February 1, according to the technical bulletin posted by noted security researcher Brian Krebs on Infosec.exchange. "The attack vector of this exploit requires access to the administrative console of the application, which in most cases is accessible only from within a private company network, through [virtual private network] or by allow-listed IP...
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HIMSSCast: Epic leaders on data-driven clinical trial innovationHealthcare IT news - (Friday February 17, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ Healthcare IT News | |
 | The challenges of designing effective clinical trials, finding the right people to participate in them and building trial cohorts that are representative of the population at large, have been well-documented.With its recent Life Sciences initiative, Epic has set its sights on data-driven insights to improve the development of new therapeutics and interventions. That includes improving all parts of the clinical trial process – from how physicians educate their patients about potential cohorts, matching and connecting patients with promising research and helping make sure those studies are optimally beneficial for as many people as possible. Epic is already helping its provider customers...
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Personalized CAR-T Cell TherapyMedgadget - (Friday February 17, 2023) - Daily Reads/ Medgadget | |
 | Researchers at the Harvard Wyss Institute and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have developed a new method to prepare chimeric antigen receptor-T cells (CAR-T cells) for leukemia patients that could result in more effective treatment. CAR-T cells start life as T cells that are isolated from cancer patients, are stimulated and primed to recognize and attack cancer cells, expanded in number, and then reintroduced to the cancer patient with the goal that the cells will destroy their cancer. However, the technique works better in certain patients, and the researchers behind this latest technique have realized that T-cells from cancer patients do [...]...
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What the metaverse and virtual reality can contribute to healthcareHealthcare IT news - (Friday February 17, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ Healthcare IT News | |
 | The so-called metaverse and virtual reality are up-and-coming technologies that could offer healthcare quite a bit.Medical practitioners can test out the effectiveness of new surgical methods in the metaverse before attempting on real patients. And as an extension of telehealth, medical professionals can use virtual reality to access patients and examine them virtually. What exactly is the metaverse? How does virtual reality work? What can they contribute to healthcare? And where will these technologies offer innovations in the years to come? To get answers to these questions, we sat down with Pari Natarajan, CEO of Zinnov, a global management and consulting firm focusing...
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Q&A: How the PHE’s end could affect telehealth, patient careMobiHealthNews - (Friday February 17, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ MobiHealthNews | |
 | The public health emergency declared in early 2020 was put in place to provide waivers from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to ease the burden on hospitals and other providers during the pandemic. It has been extended 12 times since its implementation and is finally slated to end on May 11. Heather Meade, principal at Washington Council Ernst & Young, spoke with MobiHealthNews about how the end of the PHE could affect telemedicine companies' funding streams and patients' access to care. MobiHealthNews: What are the benefits and detriments to the PHE ending, especially for telehealth? Meade: I mean, we need permanent policy...
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Larry Saves the Canadian Healthcare System – The Musical – Fun FridayHealthcare IT Today - (Friday February 17, 2023) - Daily Reads/ Healthcare IT Today | |
 | Satire + Music + Comedy + Healthcare. What’s not to love? This full-length musical from Sara Kreindler perfectly captures the challenges and frustrations in the Canadian Healthcare System. It tells the story of a eager young healthcare analyst, Larry, who is newly hired by the Canadian government to help “fix” the healthcare system. Comedy and eye-rolling ensues as Larry visits an over-crowded ER and tries to navigate the multiple layers of government and administration involved in healthcare. Even though the musical is about the Canadian Healthcare System, there are many parts that Americans will find familiar. Episode 4 is where Larry learns the...
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DrFirst Acquires Diagnotes Secure Messaging and Care Coordination PlatformHealthcare IT Today - (Friday February 17, 2023) - Daily Reads/ Healthcare IT Today | |
 | Expands Backline by DrFirst’s Capabilities for Clinical Communications in Health Systems and Beyond Healthcare technology pioneer DrFirst today announced it has acquired select assets of Indianapolis-based Diagnotes. The acquisition will allow Backline by DrFirst to expand its capabilities to break through communication silos in healthcare at each stage of the patient care journey, promote positive patient outcomes, and enhance satisfaction for staff and patients. Diagnotes provides a suite of team-based, patient-centered collaboration tools built specifically for the healthcare sector. The app increases clinicians’ productivity and the quality of patient care by allowing healthcare providers to communicate with colleagues in their system and affiliates in other systems. The...
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The Adderall ShortageMedCity News - (Friday February 17, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ MedCity News | |
 | The current Adderall shortage is of serious concern to both patients who have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and clinicians. This shortage cannot be quickly alleviated by a simple increase in the amount of medication manufactured, unless the upper limit to the amount of Adderall’s active ingredient that can be manufactured in a given year is raised by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). The limit has been imposed because the active ingredient can be abused as a recreational drug. It is necessary to control the supply of any medication with abuse liability, but this must be achieved without compromising the legitimate...
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VA Postpones Oracle Cerner EHR Implementation at Ann Arbor SiteDistilINFO Hospital IT - (Friday February 17, 2023) - Daily Reads/ DistilINFO Hospital IT | |
 | The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will further delay its Oracle Cerner EHR implementation at the agency’s Ann Arbor Healthcare System until late 2023 or early 2024, according to reporting from FedScoop. Laura E....
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