Bill of Health

MARCH 8, 2022

By Katherine Macfarlane. Workplaces are, by and large, no longer safe for employees who are high-risk for serious illness or death from COVID-19. During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was common for workplaces to require masks, at least in shared spaces. Two years later, though the pandemic is still ongoing, mask requirements are now far less prevalent as a result of the politicization of masks, so-called mask fatigue, and new guidance from the U.S.

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 11, 2022

For those with boots on the ground in Orlando next week, here are panels you won't want to miss, touching on some of the hottest topics in healthcare today from health equity to cybersecurity.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 10, 2022

Health systems have "been investing in a lot of digital health solutions over the last few years," Paddy Padmanabhan, CEO of Damo Consulting, said with a bit of understatement. But it's not always readily apparent whether those investments are the right ones, or were done at the right time, or were implemented optimally to work in tandem with other digital technologies.

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Compliance Now

MARCH 8, 2022

By: Megan Diehl, Manager, Compliance Consulting, MZQ Consulting. Under the ACA, non-grandfathered group health plans must provide benefits for “preventive care” on a first-dollar basis. This means such coverage must be provided at no cost to participants (i.e., no co-payments, co-insurance, or deductibles may be applied). For this purpose, preventive care includes: Evidence-based items or services with an A or B rating recommended by the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF); Im

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Bill of Health

MARCH 9, 2022

By Ne?e Devenot, Emma Tumilty, Meaghan Buisson, Sarah McNamee, David Nickles, and Lily Kay Ross. Amid accelerating interest in the use of psychedelics in medicine, a spate of recent exposés have detailed the proliferation of abuse in psychedelic therapy, underscoring the urgent need for ethical guidance in psychedelic-assisted therapies (P-AT), and particularly relating to touch and consent.

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 9, 2022

Millions of healthcare workers across the country are becoming inured to workplace violence, which can range from verbal abuse and threats to physical attacks and even homicide.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 8, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic most certainly has driven telehealth into the mainstream of healthcare. And one area of telehealth that has seen particularly big gains in the past two years is remote patient monitoring. RPM benefits healthcare during the pandemic by helping with hospitals already packed to the gills, enabling patients to be monitored and treated at home.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 11, 2022

By Jacob Madden. Long COVID has left an estimated 1.6 million Americans unable to work. Those experiencing Long COVID face long-term neurological issues, heart problems, lung damage, and myriad other complications following an initial bout with COVID-19. Though some who are incapacitated by Long COVID will eventually be able to return to work, others may never work again.

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 7, 2022

Telehealth swelled from 4.4% of all medical claims in November to 4.9% in December, with the bump evident in every U.S. census region, according to new Fair Health data.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 7, 2022

There have been calls for healthcare organizations to take steps to improve security due to a major rise in hacking incidents, ransomware attacks, and vulnerability disclosures in 2021. Record numbers of healthcare data breaches were reported last year, and tens of millions of healthcare records were compromised. Adhering to the minimum requirements of the HIPAA Security Rule and conducting risk analyses, having robust risk management practices, conducting vulnerability scans, and implementing t

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 7, 2022

The American Psychiatric Association, American Telemedicine Association and 70 other organizations signed a letter this past Friday urging the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to collaborate with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and permanently revise requirements regarding controlled substance prescription. "Our experience during the pandemic was that telehealth meant our member psychiatrists were able to treat more patients, which was critical as we faced a mental heal

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Bill of Health

MARCH 10, 2022

By Arlene S. Kanter. While the COVID-19 pandemic has taken an enormous toll on the nation, it has also opened an unprecedented opportunity to transform our workplaces and offer greater flexibility for employees with and without disabilities. This shift in our workplace culture presents employment opportunities for disabled people that they may not have had in the past, even with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 10, 2022

"We've proven that foundation and now it's time to run and scale," CEO Eddie Martucci said. The company is going public through a $1 billion SPAC, rather than a traditional IPO, expected to close in mid-2022.

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MARCH 7, 2022

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 10, 2022

The U.S. House of Representatives approved an omnibus spending bill late Wednesday night that extends temporary telehealth flexibilities under Medicare beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. With the passage of the bill , which now heads to the U.S. Senate, several COVID-19-era telehealth policies will remain in place for about five months after the public health emergency ends.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 7, 2022

The Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) has published a new Model Contract Language template for healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs) to use when procuring new devices from medical device manufacturers (MDMs) to ensure each party is aware of its responsibilities for cybersecurity and device management. “Medical device cybersecurity responsibility and accountability between MDMs and HDOs is complicated by many conflicting factors, including uneven MDM capabilities

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 10, 2022

The new partnership may be a bid to rejuvenate Amwell's hospital revenue, which saw tepid growth last year as major health systems have delayed new hardware deployments during COVID-19.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 7, 2022

For the 83rd episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re doing a preview of the upcoming HIMSS 2022 conference in Orlando. In case you missed it, we have a busy schedule coming up at the HIMSS 2022 conference. We hope to see many of you there and that you enjoy our coverage of HIMSS22. In […] For the 83rd episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re doing a preview of the upcoming HIMSS 2022 conference in Orlando.

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Speaker: Amy Anderson

FACIS® helps organizations mitigate patient and organizational risk. Maintaining compliance and safeguarding against fraud and abuse in today’s changing healthcare landscape can be challenging. Most healthcare organizations screen and monitor providers against the OIG but that’s only ONE of FACIS®’ primary sources. FACIS® pulls data for every taxonomy from the lowest level employee to the highest level licensed professional.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 7, 2022

Island Health is the publicly funded healthcare provider in the southwestern portion of the Canadian province of British Columbia. Island Health's Hospital at Home program was created to determine whether treating acute care patients in their own homes is as effective as in-hospital treatment. The program was launched to enable patients to receive safe, effective care virtually and in-person from providers experienced in hospital medicine and acute care.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 7, 2022

The development, implementation, and enforcement of HIPAA policies and procedures is the cornerstone of HIPAA compliance. Without policies and procedures to provide guidelines, members of Covered Entities´ and Business Associates´ workforces will be unaware of how they should carry out their functions in compliance with HIPAA, how they should react when specific events occur, and what sanctions may apply for failing to comply with HIPAA.

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 8, 2022

A new survey of doctor practices from the Medical Group Management Association found 98% of respondents wrestled with an increased or steady level of prior authorization requirements over the past year.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 7, 2022

The following is a guest article by Rob Chappell, Founder and Chief Science Officer, EyeTech Digital Systems. Communication is what connects us all. The COVID-19 pandemic brought to light the tremendous impact that limited engagement can have on many aspects of life. Throughout the public health crisis, technology offered one of the few mechanisms that communities […].

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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 8, 2022

The Department of Veterans Affairs, via the Veterans Health Administration, oversees care for more than 9 million individuals through upwards of 1,000 facilities. Many of those patients, however, face mobility hurdles and other challenges that can make it difficult to reach in-person care. Even before the pandemic, explained Dr. Neil Evans, chief officer for the Office of Connected Care in the Veterans Health Administration, the agency had laid the groundwork for virtual care expansion through e

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 8, 2022

The HHS’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center has released a new report – Health Sector Cybersecurity: 2021 – Retrospective and 2022 Look Ahead – that provides a retrospective look at healthcare cybersecurity over the past 3 decades, detailing some of the major cyberattacks to hit the healthcare industry starting with the first-ever ransomware attack in 1989.

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 11, 2022

Advent Health, Atrium Health, Henry Ford Health System, Intermountain Healthcare, Northwell Health and OhioHealth will participate in reciprocal staffing arrangements.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 10, 2022

It’s a massive undertaking to write a health IT book. Of course, leave it to Prashant Natarajan, VP of Strategy and Products at H2O.ai, to author not just one, but two very popular healthcare big data, machine learning, and AI book. Readers of the site will likely be familiar with his best selling book “Demystifying […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 11, 2022

Amwell and LG Electronics announced this week that they are partnering to develop device-based tools that make it easier for patients to access at-home or in-hospital care. The collaboration, said the vendors, will first focus on in-hospital services in the United States, building off LG's existing foothold providing smart TVs for patient rooms.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 10, 2022

A round-up of 6 cyberattacks that have recently been reported by healthcare providers and business associates that resulted in the exposure and possible theft of patients’ protected health information. Duncan Regional Hospital. Duncan Regional Hospital in Oklahoma has announced that hackers gained access to its systems and potentially exfiltrated sensitive patient and employee information.

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 10, 2022

An agency alert warned that flaws in PTC's Axeda agent and desktop server, used in devices from several manufacturers, could allow an unauthorized attacker to take full control of the host operating system.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 8, 2022

The following is a guest article by Hester Le Riche, CEO and Founder at Tover. When I speak with caregivers of people with dementia at nursing homes or memory care communities, they say a smile is worth 1,000 words. Many days, caregivers and family of residents who have advanced dementia are looking to elicit a […].

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