Should doctors prescribe lecanemab (Leqembi) to women? The answer, given available evidence, is probably No
This article is an edited combination of two previous blog posts by him at www.skin2neuron.org.
News in Context:
CMS: anti-amyloid drug Leqembi (lecanemab) doesn’t meet the “reasonable and necessary” standard required for wider Medicare coverage
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Source: SharpBrains - May 10, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Prof. Michael Valenzuela Tags: Brain/ Mental Health amyloid amyloid antibodies amyloid removal CLARITY trial Clinical Dementia Rating immunotherapy lecanemab Leqembi women Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – May 7, 2023 – Less than 1% of all medical claims include an ICD-10 Z code, 78% of consumers say virtual health is important when considering health plans, and more
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
News
CMS has opened the Hardship Exception application period for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) that participated in the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program in 2022. Hospitals may be exempt from...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 7, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Alan Bugos Alexander Group Amazon Amazon Web Services CAHs Carenet Health CarePort Connect CGI CharmHealth CMS Consensus Cloud Solutions Controlled Medications CrunchBase DAS Health DEA eClinicalWorks eCW Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – May 6, 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.
Technology’s Role in Helping Us Achieve Health Equity. Technology can play a valuable role in making healthcare more convenient, but on if it’s affordable and accessible. That was the underling message when we asked the Healthcare IT Today community to talk about using technology to reduce inequity in healthcare. That means connecting patient...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 6, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Preventing Genetic Testing Fraud: 5 Actions for Health Plans
The following is a guest article by Erin Rutzler, Vice President of Fraud, Waste, and Abuse at Cotiviti
In Delaware, more than 250 Medicare patients underwent unnecessary genetic testing based on telehealth consultations that often lasted less than two minutes—costing Medicare thousands of dollars per patient. Meanwhile, an emerging scheme for fraudulent and unnecessary cardiovascular and cancer genetic testing allegedly resulted in $174 million in false and fraudulent Medicare claims.
These are just two examples of what the Healthcare Fraud Prevention Partnership describes as a surge in fraud, waste and abuse associated...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 5, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Administration Genomics-Precision Medicine Health IT Company Healthcare IT Regulations Revenue Cycle Management Cotiviti CPT Codes Erin Rutzler Fraud Waste and Abuse FWA Genetic Testing Genetic Testing Fraud Healthcare Fraud Prev Source Type: blogs
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(Source: Health Care Renewal)
Source: Health Care Renewal - May 2, 2023 Category: Health Management Tags: AAJ CMS EHR EMR Eric Ochotorena Esq. information blocking Kathryn Marchesini Medicare Program Integrity Mickey Tripathi ONC Rissman Barrett Hurt Donahue McLain & Mangan PA Source Type: blogs
A follow-up to my email exchange with the Office of the National Coordinator for Healthcare Information Technology at HHS
(Source: Health Care Renewal)
Source: Health Care Renewal - May 2, 2023 Category: Health Management Tags: AAJ CMS EHR EMR Eric Ochotorena Esq. information blocking Kathryn Marchesini Medicare Program Integrity Mickey Tripathi ONC Rissman Barrett Hurt Donahue McLain & Mangan PA Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – April 30, 2023 – 68% of providers say improving patient collections is a high priority, hospital expenses have increased 2x the Medicare IPPS reimbursement rate since 2019, and more
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
News and Studies
Compared to other industries, healthcare is leading the way in improving networks to support edge computing, according to the latest AT&T Cybersecurity Insights Report. Budgets for edge computing go into fo...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 30, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT AHA AltaMed AT&T AvaSure Butterfly Network Censinet Clearwater Clinician Nexus Conifer Health Solutions CWH Advisors Cyturus Datavant DrFirst eClinicalWorks eCW Fortified Health Security Healthcare IT Today Source Type: blogs
Teaching Wound Care at the American College of Physicians Annual Meeting
I recently had the honor of teaching a section entitled “Wound Care for the Internist.” at the annual meeting of the American College of Physicians (ACP) in San Diego. ACP is the largest medical specialty organization in the United States with members that include internal medicine physicians, subspecialists, and medical students. My session was well attended by caregivers from across the healthcare continuum including hospitalists, doctors in outpatient practices, and long-term care providers.
In my introductory remarks I asked the question, “How many of you have had a lecture on wound care in medical school....
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - April 29, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey M Levine Tags: Featured Medical Articles Geriatric Medicine Pressure Injuries & Wound Care arterial ulcer bedsores burns chronic wounds decubitus ulcer end-of-life care Jeff Levine MD medical education pressure sores pressure ulcers venous ulce Source Type: blogs
Arcadia Raises $125 Million in New Financing from Vista Credit Partners
Investment to accelerate platform innovation and company growth; further establish leadership position in healthcare data analytics
Arcadia, a leading data analytics platform for healthcare, today announced $125 million in financing from Vista Credit Partners, the credit-lending arm of Vista Equity Partners and a strategic investor and financing partner focused on the enterprise software, data and technology market. The investment will accelerate Arcadia’s platform innovation and go-to-market strategy to meet the growing demand from leading healthcare organizations to aggregate and analyze data from across disparate s...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 28, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Arcadia Arcadia.io data analytics Data Platform David Flannery Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Healthtech Medicare Shared Savings Program Michael Meucci MSSP ROI VCP Source Type: blogs
On the 7 Habits of Highly Stress-Resilient Minds, cognitive screenings, anti-amyloid drugs, and more
Welcome to a new edition of SharpBrains e‑newsletter, this time covering the latest developments in stress research, meditation, virtual reality, anti-amyloid drugs, cognitive screenings, and more.
#1. The 7 Habits of Highly Stress-Resilient Minds
“Anything worth doing will have aspects of stress woven through: challenge, discomfort, risk. We can’t change that. But what we can change is our response” – Elissa Epel, Director of the Aging, Metabolism, and Emotions Center at UCSF
#2. Harnessing mindfulness and virtual reality simulations to maximize sports performance
Good tips and tools to “simulate or repli...
Source: SharpBrains - April 27, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Education & Lifelong Learning SharpBrains Monthly eNewsletter anti-amyloid drugs cognitive-screenings digital medicine lecanemab Leqembi Linus Health Core Cognitive Evaluation meditation Mindfulness-Based-Stress-Re Source Type: blogs
Approaching a Half-Century of Life With Type 1 Diabetes (T1D)
On July 24, 2023, I will mark 47 years of having lived with autoimmune Type 1 diabetes (T1D). I was diagnosed as a seven year old, so not quite fifty years ago, but much closer than I ever really anticipated. When I was diagnosed in 1976, no one told me that I should expect horrific complications or that I ' d die young because threats weren ' t part of the conversation; some may have been due to my age. But there was also no such thing as a certified diabetes educator
in 1976; instead, pediatric nurses instructed patients on how to give
themselves an injection. In fact, scientists had only
proven that Type 1 diabetes h...
Source: Scott's Web Log - April 26, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2023 50 years half century half-century joslin medal Source Type: blogs
The GOP ’s Modest Debt Limit Proposal
Romina BocciaHouse Republicans expect to vote on a plan to raise the debt ceiling this week. TheLimit, Save, Grow Act put forth by Speaker McCarthy would raise the debt limit by $1.5 trillion or suspend it until March 31, 2024 —whichever comes first. This is a modest proposal that would begin to put a dent in the fiscal challenge. The plan allows fiscal conservatives to assert themselves by clawing back spending driven by the Biden administration ’s priorities and reining in the regulatory power of Washington bureaucrats. It would neither stabilize the debt nor address the main drivers of future spending...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 25, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Romina Boccia Source Type: blogs
A bit about the history of Medicaid
Medicaid was actually something of an afterthought in the 1965 Medicare legislation. As Moore and Smith write, “There was so little comment that Medicaid did, indeed, seem like a casual add-on. A legislative draftsman said that he could scarcely recall working on Medicaid.” Since retirees receiving Social Security were covered by Medicare, Medicaid originally benefited only recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children, AFDC, the program generally known at that time as “welfare,” and the smaller categories of recipients of aid for the blind and disabled.Although state participation in Medicaid was voluntary...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 21, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Scene Health Secures $17.7 Million Series B Financing Led by ABS Capital Partners
Funding Will Grow Medication Adherence Services for Medicaid and Other Under-Resourced Populations
Scene Health, the leading medication engagement company, has closed an oversubscribed $17.7 million Series B growth financing led by ABS Capital Partners with participation from existing investors Claritas Health Ventures, as well as Healthworx, the innovation and investment arm of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, PTX Capital, and Kapor Capital.
The investment is the latest validation of Scene Health’s unique video-based platform, which empowers people to take medication properly through person-to-person connections, ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT ABS Capital Partners Cal Wheaton CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Chronic Conditions Claritas Health Ventures Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Healthworx Kapor Capital Medicai Source Type: blogs
Health Privacy and Security in the Time of TEFCA: Raising the Bar for Trusted Exchange
The following is a guest article by Dave Cassel, Chief Customer Officer at Health Gorilla and Former Executive Director of Carequality
Talking about privacy and security in health information exchange is tricky. Saying you want to improve it implies that it isn’t good enough now, and that’s never the message we want to send. But improvements can always be made, and must be made.
As with many things, there are degrees – and when it comes to health data, you can never be too private or too secure.
Established by the 21st Century Cures Act, the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) holds so much promis...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 20, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Analytics/Big Data EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability Security and Privacy Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services CMS Dave Cassel Electronic Health Record Health Gorilla Health IT Security Healthcare Priva Source Type: blogs
