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Interview: Caroline Cook, Privacy Consultant, GDH Government Consulting Services

HIPAA Journal

HIPAA Journal is conducting interviews with healthcare professionals and service providers to find out more about their compliance journeys, how the HIPAA Rules have affected their working lives, and the successes and challenges they have faced with HIPAA compliance. Tell the readers about your career in the healthcare industry.

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Australia ends support for 128 telehealth items

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The 2002 telepsychiatry items will be replaced by video telehealth items introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic, while inpatient telehealth items introduced in September 2021 will no longer be available. Patient-end support items linked to pre-COVID telehealth services by GPs and other medical practitioners have ended as well.

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Financial Health: How Innovative Fintech Solutions can Transform Healthcare Finance

Healthcare IT Today

Financial protection is achieved when direct out-of-pocket payments for health services do not expose people to financial hardship or cause them to ‘give up’ on payments before they’ve even started. Numerous alternative lenders globally are working to mitigate this crisis by issuing loans for healthcare seekers short of available funds.

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AI’s Executive Order and Its Key Healthcare Implications 

Healthcare Law Blog

Under the EO, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must establish an HHS AI Task Force in consultation with the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs within 90 days. Below are five key takeaways from the EO for the healthcare industry. Establish an AI Task Force.

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HIMSS names 2021 Changemaker Award winners

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Al Mahri is also group chief nursing officer at Abu Dhabi Health Services Company, or "SEHA," where she was the first senior nursing leader to identify the importance of the nursing informatics specialty. Before that she served as director of the State Innovation Models Initiative at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

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What is HIPAA?

HIPAA Journal

Title III: Tax-related health provisions governing medical savings accounts. Title V: Revenue offsets governing tax deductions for employers. The responsibility for accomplishing this purpose is delegated to the Secretary for Health & Human Services (HHS).

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The High Cost-of-Thriving and the Evolving Social Contract for Health Care

Health Populi

These inter-related studies come from three quite-different organizations: the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think-tank; the McKinsey Global Institute, embedded in the consulting firm; and, the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies, part of a financial services company. That is, government spending.