Virgin Pulse and HealthComp Announce Intent to Merge to Create Comprehensive Employer Health Platform
Joining Forces to Improve Health Outcomes, Lower Costs, and Empower Members Through a Next-Generation Health Technology and Data Platform
New Mountain Capital, Marlin Equity Partners, Blackstone, and Morgan Health to Back Combined Entity, the Industry’s First Health Platform-as-a-Service
Virgin Pulse, a leading global digital-first health, wellbeing, and navigation company, today announced its intent to merge with HealthComp, a next-generation benefits and analytics platform. The merger will create a technology and data-powered health platform-as-a-service organization poised to tackle some of the industry’s biggest c...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 13, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Blackstone Chad Harris Chris Michalak Dan Mendelson Evercore® Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A HealthComp J.P. Morgan Securities LLC JPMorgan Chase Kirkland & Ellis LLP Kyle Peterson Marlin Source Type: blogs
Viewing the Package Half Full: The Case for Federal Legislation to Reduce Environmental Harm from Shrinkflation and Nonfunctional Slack-Fill
Michael Conklin (Angelo State University), Chad G. Marzen (Pennsylvania State University), Viewing the Package Half Full: The Case for Federal Legislation to Reduce Environmental Harm from Shrinkflation and Nonfunctional Slack-Fill (2023): In 2020, McCormick settled a $2.5 million class action... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - August 22, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
What ’ s Something Not Enough People are Talking About in Healthcare?
The world of healthcare is already so huge and yet it keeps expanding. Every day we see new faces trying to make a name for themselves with new ideas or new takes on old ideas. Technology continues to advance, allowing us to finally accomplish things we had previously only dreamed of. And we continue to grow and learn and fight to be more inclusive in our practices. But with so much out there to work on and talk about, it’s easy for some topics to get lost in the weeds.
In order to help remedy this, we gathered a bunch of the most amazing health IT experts to get their insights on what isn’t being talked about ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 7, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Regulations Amwell Andrew Meadow Avel eCare Bandwidth Caitlin Long Caroly Source Type: blogs
Final #HITsm Chat – #HIMSS23 Preview
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this month’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 4/7 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This month’s chat will be hosted by John Lynn (@techguy) and we’ll be doing a “#HIMSS23 Preview.“ As the title implies, this will be the last regularly scheduled #HITsm chat that we’re going to do. It seems fitting that we discuss the mecca of health it conferences, HIMSS, as the final #HITsm chat since that’s where so many of the online #HITsm conversations turned into in-person meetings, friendships, work connections, and more.
First, let me address why we’re en...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 4, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: #HITsm Healthcare IT #HITsm Chat #HITsm Topics HIMSS HIMSS 2023 HIMSS Chicago HIMSS23 Source Type: blogs
94 Disrespectful People Quotes to Help You Deal with Negativity and Rudeness
When people are disrespectful or rude then that can spark a sharp reaction.
Anger. Feeling hurt.
Or sometimes just disappointment.
So in today’s post I’d like to share the 94 of the best and most helpful disrespectful people quotes.
To help you to deal with the rudeness and disrespect of others in a smarter and healthier way so it doesn’t drag your day and week down into negativity.
And if you want more helpful inspiration then check out this post with quotes on feeling unappreciated and this one filled with Brené Brown quotes.
Relatable Disrespectful People Quotes
“I never make the mistake of arguing with people...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - March 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – March 18, 2023
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
Bringing Machine and Human Intelligence to Data Cleansing. The combination of healthcare-specific ontologies and data set gaps make fully automated healthcare data harmonization difficult. That’s why HiLabs couples domain experts with its machine learning models to assess data and improve accuracy throughout the cleansing process, John Lynn learned...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 18, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Ransomware Preparedness in Healthcare – Are you Doing the Basics?
The following is a guest article by Chad Peterson, Managing Director at NetSPI
As ransomware attacks become more sophisticated, healthcare organizations have become desirable targets due to the valuable data shared across medical records and the constant need for service availability. In fact, a recent JAMA Health Forum report indicates that from 2016 to 2021, the annual number of ransomware attacks on the healthcare sector more than doubled.
With the rise in these attacks, healthcare organizations must have an in-depth understanding of their security posture, including how breaches may occur and how to take an offensive...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Security and Privacy Chad Peterson Cybersecurity Cybersecurity Awareness Training Cybersecurity Breach EHR Electronic Health Records Ele Source Type: blogs
Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Physicians Creating the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: An Epilogue
by Chad D. Kollas, MD, Beverly Schechtman and Carrie JudySeveral important developments have occurred since the publication of our article, “Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Physicians Creating the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: Bad Faith or Incompetence? ” in Pallimed on September 12, 2022 (1). Most notably, this includes the publication of the 2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain (2), which updated the guidance previously provided by the 2016 CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain (3). In this epilogue, we will describe those important developments and examine ...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - November 29, 2022 Category: Palliative Care Tags: CDC judy kollas opioids schechtman Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – November 19, 2022
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
eClinicalWorks, the Cloud, and Medical Practice Expansion. John Lynn recently wrote about how eClinicalWorks has invested heavily in Microsoft Cloud Services. It’s a good strategic move for the EHR vendor, but it also benefits eCW customers, as John found out when he spoke to Bryant Stetz at Rothman Orthopaedic Institute and learned that hosted EHR...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 19, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Top 3 Digital Innovations that Transformed Healthcare
The following is a guest article by Chad Anguilm, Vice President of Growth at Medical Advantage
Patient engagement is the next frontier in healthcare and single-platform patient portals created the digital foundation for this ongoing transformation. In today’s technology-driven world, patients now expect a seamless healthcare experience, which translates to a digital “one-stop shop” for managing their personal health information.
Many patients already use patient portals for tasks such as scheduling appointments and requesting prescription refills. However, today patients are increasingly utilizing existing technol...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 17, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Communication and Patient Experience EMR-EHR Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Chad Anguilm CMS Digital Innovation Digital Transformation Healthcare Digital Transformation Medical Advantage patient data patient engagem Source Type: blogs
Balancing Budget and Need for Updates: The Struggles of Keeping Physician Practices Alive
The world of healthcare embracing the digital world has been a very well celebrated move. This move has helped so many people in so many ways. It allowed people to stay at home and be safe during the pandemic. It allows people in rural areas to connect to specialists far away without all of the travel. And it has been a huge benefit to everyone with mobility issues. Knowing that they can get immediate access to their doctors without the physical toll it would usually take.
But if everything is moving towards digital, where does that leave physician practices? How are they meant to survive if everyone is rushing towards vir...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 21, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Amit Jayakar athenahealth Budgets CareCloud Catalyst Health Group Chad Anguilm Chris Baird Chris Larkin Colin Banas Concord Tech Source Type: blogs
Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Physicians Creating the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: Bad Faith or Incompetence?
We described above how changes in opioid policy aimed at reducing Washington State’s Medicaid and Workers Compensation costs contributed to an increase in methadone deaths between 2003 and late 2014 (23-25). Focusing on similar cost reductions, the Centers for Medicar e and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed rules for 2019 including several directives intended to reduce " Opioid Overutilization, ” including adoption of the “90 morphine milligram equivalent (MME) threshold cited by the 2016 CDC Opioid Guideline (147, 148). Simply put, reduced prescribing reduces costs for prescribed medications.Chou received research fu...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - September 12, 2022 Category: Palliative Care Tags: health policy judy kollas opioids research schechtman Source Type: blogs
Spherical Nucleic Acid Vaccine Uses Structural Design to Improve Efficacy
A team at Northwestern University created a new type of nanoparticle-based vaccine that employs structure-function relationships during the design phase to maximize efficacy. Called a spherical nucleic acid (SNA) vaccine, the technology consists of globular DNA nanoparticles that contain a DNA sequence that can stimulate the immune system (ie. an adjuvant) and an inner portion containing an antigen, which in this case was the spike protein of the SARS‑CoV‑2 virus. Packaging the antigen and adjuvant together in this specific way resulted in impressive efficacy in a rodent model of severe COVID-19, with 100% of vaccinate...
Source: Medgadget - April 4, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Medicine Nanomedicine Public Health Source Type: blogs
Meet the Editors: Teresa M. Chan, MD, MHPE
What are your roles and responsibilities with Academic Medicine?I am an associate editor for the journal. This means that I review submissions and triage them for review or not (e.g., desk rejections). When submissions are reviewed, I review them again and make a decision on whether to further ask the authors for a revision (or not). Finally, when revised submissions come in, I handle the manuscript again. At this phase, we may still reject the submission (if some red flag issues come to light) or I continue to provide feedback to the authors in concert with our editorial staff to ensure that the very best version of the...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - December 14, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: amrounds Tags: Meet the Editors continuing professional development medical education peer review scholarly publishing Source Type: blogs
On China ’s Trade Practices, the United States Is Ramping Up Efforts with Allies
Inu ManakThis week, trade ministers from around the world were supposed to meet in Geneva to discuss a number of pressing trade issues, including new disciplines to rein in government subsidies in thefishing andagricultural sectors, and to develop a path forward to liberalize trade in areas such asenvironmental goods ande ‑commerce. These meetings are now postponed due to the emergence of the Omicron variant. These face to face meetings are not only important for addressing multilateral issues at the World Trade Organization, but also provide an opportunity for countries to discuss other trade challenges. While...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 1, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Inu Manak Source Type: blogs
