Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
The ruling tosses out the part of the rule that instructs arbiters must begin with the presumption that the qualifying payment amount, or median in-network rate, is the appropriate out-of-network amount to be paid to providers.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
First announced in January 2021, the Vaccine Credential Initiative – co-founded by MITRE Corporation and others including Cerner, Change Healthcare, Epic, Mayo Clinic, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce and others – has made big progress over the past year-plus on new approaches to interoperable record-keeping. The public and private partnership collaborated on developing a standard model for "trustworthy, traceable, verifiable, and universally recognized digital record of vaccinatio
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Bill of Health
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
By Kaitlynn Milvert. After the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) COVID-19 vaccine mandate for large employers was withdrawn last month , many pronounced private employers to be “on their own” to make decisions about vaccine requirements for their employees. Until one outlier Fifth Circuit decision last week, federal courts have largely agreed.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
The National Institute of Standards and Technology's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence published its final guidance this week on securing telehealth and remote patient monitoring ecosystems. The guide is intended, according to NCCoE, to help identify risks associated with RPM architecture and ensure healthcare organizations are partnering with appropriate telehealth platform providers.
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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?
Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
More ambulance trips are billing for "advanced life support," denoting a higher level of care (and reimbursement). Private insurers' payments for those trips increased 56% between 2017 and 2020, Fair Health found.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
The COVID-19 crisis has made it more clear than ever that a medical emergency can strike at any time – sometimes, with dire consequences. And in situations when a patient can't communicate their preferences around end-of-life or emergency treatment, their family members and other stakeholders would ideally have easy access to those decisions to share them with their medical team on their behalf.
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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
According to researchers, more than 19 million women of reproductive age are living in "contraceptive deserts," defined as areas with fewer than one health center for every 1,000 women in need of publicly funded contraception. Addressing these gaps requires a multi-pronged approach, say experts – including facilitating access to birth control via telehealth.
Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
After a failed bid to launch a formal inquiry into PBMs, the FTC now says it wants to collect comments from the public to study a wide array of PBM practices.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
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MRO Compliance
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Clinical Data Release Leader MRO Announces Acquisition of MediCopy. Transaction expands MRO’s clinical data solutions for physician practices and outpatient providers. Norristown, PA, February 22, 2022 – MRO , a leading clinical data acquisition and release platform and the KLAS-rated No. 1 provider of release of information (ROI) solutions, announced today the acquisition of Nashville, TN-based MediCopy, a leading provider of release of information solutions to physician practices and outpatie
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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
Wellpath is one of the largest correctional healthcare organizations in the country. With nearly 15,000 clinicians and professionals in 34 states across the U.S. and Australia, Wellpath delivers medical and behavioral healthcare services to nearly 300,000 patients located in inpatient and residential treatment facilities, civil commitment centers, and local, state and federal correctional facilities.
Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Roughly a third of nurses surveyed by McKinsey said they're considering quitting their jobs. That's up from 22% in a poll conducted last February.
Electronic Health Reporter
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. A geofence is a perimeter set virtually, using the global positioning system (GPS) or radio frequency identification (RFID) to create operational boundaries. The software will trigger a predetermined response when a device enters the given […]. The article 4 Ways Geofencing Can Benefit Healthcare appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
Healthcare needs more automation, but not the kind that just robotically repeats a process over and over. That would just lead to factory medicine. Instead, what healthcare needs is deep automation that can adapt in real-time to changing circumstances and that helps to personalize the care for each individual patient. Deep automation reduces the burden […].
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Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
The American Medical Association, in conjunction with Manatt Health, published a report this week exploring the ways that virtual care and other digital tools can accelerate the adoption of the integrated delivery of behavioral and physical healthcare. In the report , the organizations note that behavioral health integration is essential for solving the country's dire need for access to services.
Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
Over half of the healthcare workers recently surveyed by USA Today and Ipsos Research said they are burned out, and 39% agree with the statement: "The American healthcare system is on the verge of collapse.
HIPAA Journal
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center has issued a threat brief warning about the risks associated with electronic health record systems, which are often targeted by cyber threat actors. Cyberattacks on EHRs can be extremely profitable for cyber threat actors. EHRs usually contain all the information required for multiple types of fraud, including names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, other government and state ID n
Electronic Health Reporter
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Healthcare professionals provide an incredible service across a range of areas. Chiropractors, psychiatrists, dentists, therapists, and addiction services, are just some areas covered by private practitioners. These professionals often train for years at a huge […].
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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.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
A new report released this week from Bloomberg Intelligence predicted that the telehealth sector could bring in $20 billion in U.S. revenue by 2027. The Digital Reshaping the Health Care Ecosystem publication said that virtual care is set to "become a staple" of healthcare delivery. "The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of telehealth by years, providing safe and convenient access to telehealth services," said Duane Wright, senior research analyst at Bloomberg In
Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
The lawsuit alleges that if UnitedHealth acquired Change, the payer would be able to gain a competitive advantage by seeing "very competitively sensitive" data from other insurers.
Compliancy Group
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
Creating and maintaining a successful dental practice is not easy. Attracting and keeping patients, building an efficient staff, and staying aware of the latest trends takes effort. Keeping your dental office compliant with HIPAA and OSHA regulations is one more thing to juggle. HIPAA and OSHA training for dental offices is an essential part of compliance.
Center for Health Insurance Reform
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
The ACA requires coverage of recommended preventive services without cost-sharing for consumers enrolled in most private health plans. But even with these protections in place, some insurers improperly impose cost sharing for preventive services. Recently, this problem hit consumers who use pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a medication that can prevent contraction of HIV.
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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
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
CareTeam is a primary care organization that partners with employers to operate on-site, near-site and shared-site clinics for employees. It takes a personalized approach to care, as well as a whole-patient approach. For example, its clinics' providers also are certified health coaches who help patients develop personalized preventative care plans.
Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
The companies' vaccine provided strong protection against severe illness in a large clinical trial. The long-awaited results could position it as a booster for people who have received other shots.
HIPAA Journal
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Seattle, WA-based Sea Mar Community Health Centers is facing a class action lawsuit over a cyberattack in which the protected health information of 688,000 individuals was compromised. The breach came to light in June 2021 when files stolen in the attack were posted on the Marketo dark web leak site. Databreaches.net spotted the leaked data on the Marketo data leak site in June 2021 and contacted Sea Mar.
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 2/25 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Anton C. Bizzell, MD (@drantonbizzell) from @TheBizzellGroup on the topic “Mental Health, Going Into the 3rd Year of the Pandemic.” As a society, we have been dealing […].
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Center for Health Insurance Reform
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Under the Affordable Care Act, insurers must provide rebates to enrollees when their spending on clinical services and quality improvement, as a proportion of premium dollars, falls below a minimum threshold. Federal regulators have discovered some insurers are gaming the system by misallocating expenses or inflating their spending on providers. Karen Davenport takes a look at how this practice impacts consumers, and explains a new federal proposal to crack down on it.
Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Ascension's operating margin in the first six months of its fiscal year fell to 0.2% from 5.7% the year prior as it faced a host of challenges.
HIPAA Journal
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has published the final version of NIST guidance on Securing Telehealth Remote Patient Monitoring Ecosystem (SP 1800-30). Healthcare delivery organizations have been increasingly adopting telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM) systems to improve the care they provide to patients while reducing costs.
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
Healthcare loves to talk about the challenge that is data and interoperability in healthcare. Indeed, healthcare faces a major challenge when it comes to data and interoperability. However, it’s actually even more complex than this. I realized this when talking with ELLKAY as they prepare for the upcoming ViVE and HIMSS conferences. As I saw […].
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