Issue59

Dear Friends,

Welcome to the November edition of the Acclivity Health Report. Now that the elections are behind us, many Americans are anticipating big changes in the year ahead – especially within healthcare! We will be tracking these changes as they occur, and do our best to help you navigate the changes with success. For now, however, we hope our readers take the opportunity to relax and enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday and the rest of the upcoming holiday season. After all, the holiday season is a great time of year to focus on…

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• Republicans Find Replacing Obamacare Easier Said than Done: Key Republicans in Congress are cautioning that replacing Obamacare will be a difficult and lengthy process that won’t happen in the first days of President-elect Donald Trump’s administration. U.S. Senator Lamar…
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• Enabling Providers to Use Truly HIPAA Compliant Email: As technology continues to evolve, healthcare organizations of all sizes are working to remain current in what they can offer to providers and patients while also keeping PHI secure. Covered entities now have various…
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• Doctors Work with Engineers to Improve Diagnoses: A partnership between engineers at Villanova University and doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia underscores how data-driven approaches using physics, math and computer algorithms can help doctors better diagnose…
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• Cybersecurity Threats May Impact Your Digital Health: As the healthcare industry continues to embrace the Internet of Things, cybersecurity may present unprecedented health and privacy risks to patients. Wireless-enabled medical devices are increasingly common. For some patients, this means that…
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• UnitedHealthcare, Two Other Insurers Lose Protests over $58B Tricare Contracts: The U.S. Government Accountability Office dismissed protests from UnitedHealthcare, Health Net and WellPoint over losing two large military healthcare contract bids valued at a combined…
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• How to Unknowingly Sabotage a Modern Job Search: Searching for a job in the day of modern technology can be infinitely easier than in the not-so-distant past. It isn’t without a few pitfalls, though. You can easily mess up your chances for landing the job you seek by making these common…
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• When’s the Last Time You Tested Your Hiring System?: The unemployment rate across the United States has remained quite stable since August of 2015 — sitting right at 5 percent as of September, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s exactly half of what it was during the height of…
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