Compliancy Group

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In an increasingly interconnected world, where technology plays a pivotal role in healthcare delivery, ensuring the security and privacy of patient information has become more critical than ever. The rising threat of cyber attacks targeting healthcare organizations has brought healthcare cybersecurity to the forefront. Let’s look into the realm of healthcare cybersecurity and explore its challenges, solutions, and the importance of safeguarding sensitive data.

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YouCompli

OCTOBER 11, 2023

With children back in school, well-visit checkups and sports physical appointments are opportunities for providers to evaluate and discuss mental health. School-aged kids – ages 5 to 17 – face a mental health crisis, and they need all the support they can get. Youth intervention may not be a traditional focus area for compliance professionals, but they can be instrumental in confronting this crisis.

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Total Medical ComplianceHIPAA

OCTOBER 7, 2023

In the rapidly evolving world of technology, cybersecurity has emerged as a critical issue, particularly in the healthcare sector. Cybersecurity isn’t just an optional add-on but rather an essential component of a successful and compliant healthcare practice. Why is Cybersecurity Important in Healthcare? Healthcare practices handle a lot of sensitive and confidential data.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Carla Fogaren R.N., Certified ADA Coordinator at AMN Language Services For the last decade, Section 1557 has been at the center of many changes and today, it continues to be as the Biden administration is working to take giant steps towards restoring and strengthening some civil rights protections for people in many health-related programs and activities that receive funding from the federal government.

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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?

Healthicity

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The Inspector General of HHS has warned the healthcare compliance community that reimbursement methodologies associated with Medicare Advantage would be a top priority. Included in these efforts is an enhanced focus on Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCC) and risk adjustment.

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The launches tie in with Microsoft’s ethos of developing high-impact but low-risk use cases for AI in healthcare, according to Microsoft’s VP of healthcare.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 12, 2023

By Bobby Stroup If advocates working to address health disparities want to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles, perhaps they should adopt the mindset of people who do that on a daily basis: entrepreneurs. Applying the entrepreneurial spirit to advocacy around the social determinants of health (SDOH) sounds like a potentially beneficial way to further the cause.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 9, 2023

LAS VEGAS—Medicare Advantage (MA) has only grown over the last decade, and, in tandem, voices criticizing the program have gotten louder. | LAS VEGAS—Medicare Advantage has only grown over the last decade, and, in tandem, voices criticizing the program have gotten louder.

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 13, 2023

René Quashie, an executive at the Consumer Technoloy Association, argues that artificial intelligence could be pivotal for the healthcare industry — with regulation and guardrails.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Social determinants of health – the food, shelter and security attributes of patients that exist outside of care settings – contribute disproportionate risks for disease, hospital readmissions and a lack of access to quality healthcare among vulnerable populations, including people on Medicare. Consider that medical care may only account for between 10% and 20% of health outcomes, while a patient's neighborhood and environment, economic stability and education, social and communi

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Feeling overwhelmed by medical waste regulations? This comprehensive guide unravels the complexities of medical waste disposal, ensuring you stay compliant and prioritize safety. Inside you'll find: Clear categorization: Learn to precisely classify medical waste for proper handling and disposal. Labeling & Storage: Discover best practices for clear labeling and secure storage of medical waste.

Bill of Health

OCTOBER 11, 2023

By  Ameet Sarpatwari , Liam Bendicksen , and  Aaron S. Kesselheim Each month, members of the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) review the peer-reviewed medical literature to identify interesting empirical studies, policy analyses, and editorials on health law and policy issues relevant to current or potential future work in the Division.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The Drug Enforcement Administration has extended flexibilities for remote prescribing of controlled substances through the end of 2024. Final telemedicine regulations are expected to be issued by the fall of 2024, the DEA said. This is the second extension granted by the DEA. The first was to expire on Nov.

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Employers face a difficult decision over whether to cover pricey weight loss drugs that pits the health and wellbeing of their employees against the health of their bottom line.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

RPM maker Dozee from India has unveiled a new AI-powered continuous patient monitoring system that can be used outside the ICU and at home. HOW IT WORKS Much like Dozee's existing connected bed platform , the new Dozee Pro Ex, according to a press release, can also continuously monitor patients' vitals and comes with an AI-powered early warning feature that alerts care teams in instances of patient deterioration.

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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.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Amazon’s $3.9 billion acquisition of One Medical made big waves when it was announced in July 2022, signaling that the online retailer had bold ambitions to expand its reach in healthcare. | One Medical CMO Dr. Andrew Diamond is bullish about what Amazon is building in healthcare. He believes Amazon Health can help tackle the burden of chronic diseases in the U.S.

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

When combined with Med-PaLM 2, providers and life sciences companies can obtain answers to questions about patient medical records and general medical knowledge.

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 13, 2023

About 42% of Medicare Advantage plans that offer prescription drug coverage in 2024 earned four or more stars, compared with just over half this year.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Most data about patients exists in EHRs or other repositories in a variety of legacy formats. Analytics, though, requires you to compare apples and apples. Thus, SAS Health Solutions offers a common data model, ingesting data from disparate sources of FHIR data into the appropriate fields for analysis. Plus, once collected, that data can easily leverage the full suite of SAS analytics tools.

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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.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Four in 10 people insured by employer-provided health plans find their out-of-pocket costs are so expensive they need to dip into savings and take on debt, according to a nationwide survey of 2,500 | A new survey revealed that nearly half of respondents said they would struggle to afford a medical emergency.

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Anita Mahon, executive vice president and global head of healthcare at EXL, discusses how the analytics firm helps payers and providers utilize data within generative AI.

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The report from the Chair of the Senate HELP Committee calls for more federal oversight into nonprofit hospitals' charity care, accusing the systems of providing "paltry amounts" of charity care

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 12, 2023

According to Jacqueline de Leeuw, CNIO at Radboud University Medical Centre, the health system has more than 200 "digital nurses" and the motto: "HIMSS 7-up"

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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.

Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Supply chain and business email compromise (BEC) attacks against healthcare organizations are among the leading threats to patients’ care and outcomes, according to a new survey report from cyberse | A newly published industry survey also found that IT executives were less concerned about ransomware vulnerability despite an uptick in organizations experiencing such an attack within the past year.

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Panelists at the Constellation Forum 2023 at Northwell Health discussed AI's impact on healthcare and how to adapt to the changing health tech environment.

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The search capabilities work alongside Google’s healthcare-focused large language model, Med-PaLM 2, connecting to outside sources and the patient’s medical record.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

OCTOBER 13, 2023

On October 3, CHIR held the first in a series of in-person policy briefings on the future of employer-sponsored insurance (ESI), sponsored by Arnold Ventures. The event, featuring remarks from U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan and a panel discussion moderated by Sarah Kliff of The New York Times, spotlighted state cost containment policies and employer strategies to inform the federal policy process concerning ESI, which covers almost half of all Americans.

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The industry has seen an increasing pace of ransomware, zero-day, and remote-code execution attacks. Learn how to defend against these against these attacks in this eBook.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 10, 2023

LAS VEGAS — The team at retail giant Walmart didn't realize how fortuitous a virtual primary care pilot would prove to be when it launched in January of 2020. | LAS VEGAS — The team at retail giant Walmart didn't realize how fortuitous a virtual primary care pilot would prove to be when it launched in January of 2020.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Building a system that would allow us to simplify the exchange of information across the nation would a huge achievement. However, we have been operating without one for so long that we already have several different solutions in place to work around it. At the Civitas Conference, there was a lot of talk about TEFCA and QHINs and what their impact will be on healthcare and interoperability.

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The average cost of organizations’ most expensive cyberattack increased 13% year over year, according to a survey from the Ponemon Institute.

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The partners were awarded a grant under the UK–Switzerland Bilateral: Collaborative R&D program to develop an AI-enabled stroke diagnosis and treatment platform.

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