Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Companies are expanding their reach with artificial intelligence through acquisitions, investments and government approvals on a near-daily basis. These are just some of the AI health tech announcements we're watching unfold this week.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

It was also praised for having strong governance over the use and quality of its analytics tools. In 2017, CGHM embarked on an IT reorganisation to promote smart medicine with five major goals – medical quality, patient safety, innovative services, platform integration, and process simplification.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 8, 2022

It also offers in-home health evaluations for Medicare Advantage and other government-run managed-care plans. In July, the company said it planned to wind down one of its units after changes to a government-payment model and focus on more-profitable businesses. At the close of its deal this year to buy Caravan Health Inc.,

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

– Founded in 2017, PurpleLab has a strong pedigree in proprietary methodologies for data organization, cleansing, management, and governance to solve key challenges across the healthcare industry. What You Should Know: – PurpleLab, Inc. No code needed to create fully configured analytical reports.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 21, 2023

Since a Congressional mandate in 2017, DHA has consolidated, integrated and directly managed all military hospitals and clinics, with all those in the United States fully under the agency's authority by December 2021, according to its website. million beneficiaries worldwide.

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Health Law RX

JANUARY 31, 2023

In such cases, a defendant is typically accused of falsely attesting to compliance with conditions of payment or other requirements under government programs. In these cases, the relator is not alleging the absence of a product or service for which the government has paid. In 2017, in United States ex rel. Below, the U.S.

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 31, 2022

Evil Corp’s malware and ransomware variants have been used in many cyberattacks on the HPH sector, one of the most well-known being the BitPaymer ransomware attack on the National Health Service (NHS) Lanarkshire Board in Scotland in 2017.

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Hall Render

JUNE 12, 2023

Abby practices in the area of health care law with a focus on government relations. at the Saint Louis University School of Law in 2017 with a Health Law Certificate. She is active in the firm’s lobbying activities, representing the interests of health care clients. Abby earned her B.A. from Indiana University in 2010 and her M.A.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 20, 2023

Offering Evidence-Based, Data-Driven Solutions to Address Society’s Critical Loneliness Epidemic Pyx Health was founded in 2017 and today serves more than 6 million covered lives, ages 13 to 102, in more than 70 markets across nearly 30 states.

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Bill of Health

JULY 20, 2022

However, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), there are no measures built into the program to assure that 340B program discounts are being used to support care for low-income populations, let alone to improve access to medicines discounted through the program.

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Health Populi

APRIL 25, 2023

between 2017 and 2021. But there is an important inflationary/increasing difference in spending for prescription drugs compared to the other three categories: prescription drugs grew the most cumulatively in the period 2017 to 2021, by 29%, followed by inpatient, outpatient, and professional services which each increased roughly 19-20%.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 2, 2022

HC3 has warned that threats could come from three areas: Threat actors linked to the Russian government, threat actors linked to the Belarussian government, and cybercriminal groups operating out of Russia and its neighboring states.

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Natalia Mazina

AUGUST 6, 2022

In its press release , the governments explains that “A collaborative pharmacy practice agreement is a written agreement between a physician and pharmacist that allows the pharmacist to provide specific patient care services for chronic health conditions to the physician’s patients. Habana Hospital Pharmacy, Inc. 17-CV-80871-KAM, S.D.Fla.,

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 29, 2022

While the reduction in attacks is certainly good news, it should be noted that the year-to-date figures for ransomware attacks are still higher than they were in all of 2017, 2018, and 2019. Intrusion attempts increased by 39% in healthcare, 46% in government, and 200% in retail.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2023

The company was founded in 2017 and built natively in the cloud using FHIR as the easiest way to connect, control, and compute on health data. About 1upHealth 1upHealth provides a modern data platform that’s cloud-based, API-enabled, and FHIR-native.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 19, 2021

It delivers centralized integration, prescribing, monitoring and governance for digital health tools from current clinician workflows, demonstrating a 50-80 percent reduction in integration and deployment costs, and substantial patient engagement with digital assets.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Back in 2017, Amazon's then-director of healthcare and life sciences, Steve Halliwell, told Healthcare IT News that cloud computing can allow healthcare organizations to be more nimble when it comes to innovation and growth. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Twitter: @kjercich. Email: kjercich@himss.org.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 22, 2022

Since launching in 2017, Cityblock has established itself as an industry leader in value-based care for marginalized populations. ” Cityblock Health Background. Cityblock serves a heterogeneous population with complex needs – 74% of its members qualify for financial assistance and 77% are members of a racial or ethnic minority.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Plainly put, we have 20 th Century laws governing 21 st century health care delivery. deaths due to accidents, accidental overdoses, and suicide in 2017. S 2016) and second, re-introduce and sign the Telehealth Modernization Act. Why this call-to-action on the 118 th U.S. Congress to address telehealth right now?

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 14, 2022

These solutions, provided to pharmaceutical companies, government labs, and researchers, are designed to accelerate the study and prevention of diseases in the fields of obesity, diabetes, cancer, and regenerative medicines. Funding Accelerates Commercialisation of Research-Enabling Solutions.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 9, 2023

In 2017, federal prosecutors indicted William and David Dubin on 20 counts related to the overbilling of Medicaid, which included 6 counts of aggravated identity theft and resulted in the practice receiving around $300,000 in fraudulent reimbursements. That fraudulent claim resulted in a payment of $338.

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Pharmacy Law Blog

MARCH 13, 2018

On December 4, 2017, a Florida federal judge refused to dismiss the federal government’s False Claims Act (FCA) suit against a compounding pharmacy. The federal judge refused the dismissal on the grounds that the government had sufficiently backed its allegations against both the company and its owner. December 4, 2017).

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Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2020

said the government’s response to COVID was a significant source of stress: in first place, the Federal government response (felt a significant stressor among 84% of U.S. adults), followed by States (72% of consumers), and local governments (64% of people feeling the stress). Two in three people in the U.S.

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Health Law RX

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The United States alleged that, between August 1, 2016 and June 30, 2017, Sutter Health fraudulently billed and received reimbursement from government health programs for lab tests that Sutter Health did not itself perform. Consequently, the best possible defense to such a claim involves disciplined application of clinical guidelines.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 26, 2023

day average wait for a new family medicine appointment is a 30% reduction in wait times since the last survey in 2017. Previously he was a co-founder and Partner at VIDA Health Ltd, a health insurance, technology and capital advisory firm that was merged into MacroHealth in 2017. New market competitors see an opportunity. What changed?

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Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 28, 2022

Until Congress passed a law that took effect in 2017, hospitals weren’t required to tell patients whether they were receiving observation care and had not been admitted. Patients had nothing to appeal because the government can’t change a decision it didn’t make, so no Medicare rule had been violated. ” On Jan.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 29, 2019

plan to increase access to healthcare with digital technologies, as stated in the eHealth Strategy by the Ministry of Public Health (2017-2026). The integration and promotion of the use of appropriate digital technologies for telemedicine is also part of the Thailand 4.0

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Bill of Health

MARCH 6, 2024

For instance, the 2017 case A.B The federal government did not challenge this decision and instead amended the law in 2021 to expand access to MAID to individuals whose deaths are not reasonably foreseeable. At the time, the law required a person’s natural death to be “reasonably foreseeable” for a person to be eligible for MAID.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 23, 2022

Webb Mason provided patient data to Quantum Group in 2017 to assist with marketing efforts for Highmark, and that information has potentially been accessed by unauthorized individuals. Highmark Inc., Highmark stressed that its own IT systems were not compromised.

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Hall Render

AUGUST 8, 2022

In January 2018, the University notified OCR of a breach of ePHI that affected 279,865 individuals and occurred in November 2017. Further, data governance is key to proactively managing ePHI. This breach occurred when a hacker gained access to a web server by uploading malware.

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Bill of Health

JULY 17, 2023

As argued by feminist scholar Sara Ahmed (2017: 237) , “ when a whole world is organised to promote your survival, from health to education, to the walls designed to keep your residence safe, to the paths that ease your travel, you do not have become so inventive to survive. ”

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The Health Law Firm

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On December 4, 2017, a Florida federal judge refused to dismiss the federal government’s False Claims Act (FCA) suit against a compounding pharmacy. Indest III, J.D., RS Compounding LLC and its owner, Renier Gobea, are accused of overbilling Tricare for prescriptions.

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The Health Law Firm

JULY 14, 2017

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On July 3, 2017, a compounding pharmacy based in Tampa, Florida, charged Tricare at least 2,000 percent more for drugs than it charged cash payers, according to the government. Indest III, J.D.,

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

The agencies received millions of dollars in funding from Medicaid, which is funded in part by the federal government, and much of that money was meant to pay the wages and benefits of their aides. million to New York State for conduct between 2014–2017. Under the terms of agreement, one of the agencies has paid $1.6

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2020

There was a bounce in “Confident” group in 2019, which fell by 10% just months later to nearly the 2017 level. Post-pandemic, people are looking for more affordable health care, more flexible work options, and government programs to better support small business. households saw their income fall by half or more.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 11, 2019

However, the challenge lies in how government institutions such as the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) can meaningfully engage the private healthcare sector in moving towards VBHC. In healthcare, it is often easy to ‘cut and paste’ solutions from other health systems but sometimes the answers or successful models may lie within.

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The Health Law Firm

JANUARY 30, 2018

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On December 12, 2017, five North Broward Health District executives were hit with criminal charges. A state attorney is alleging violations of Florida’s open government laws for supposedly holding secret meetings at which they decided to terminate the former interim chief executive.

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