Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 5, 2023

About Amanda Ford Amanda works closely with hospital partners and staffing groups across the country to deliver customized healthcare solutions at the point of care. She has worked in the medical scribe industry since 2002, beginning her career as a scribe leader and implementer.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

AngelEye Health (AngelEye or the Company), a leading provider of patient and family engagement solutions for hospital neonatal, pediatric intensive care, and nursery units, today announced the completion of its Series B funding, bringing the Company’s funding to date to approximately $20M. “By MGP invests in seed- and early-stage companies.

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Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2023

The chart on the median price of newly marketed drugs between 2008 and 2002 shows the cost in 2022 reaching $222,000. There was a sort of two-year hiatus in health care cost inflation driven largely by patients avoiding preventive screenings and in-person visits and stays in hospitals and clinics. That’s history.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Consider the frontline health care workers data point: behavioral health addresses peoples’ negative or dangerous “behaviors,” like the aforementioned binge drinking which may lead to alcohol use disorder or result from post-traumatic stress as a reaction to the daily grind working in the hospital ICU.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2021

This helped the organization achieve HIMSS Stage 7 in 2017 – the first academic hospital in Canada to do so. Before joining Geisinger, she served as Pennsylvania’s secretary of health, where she developed an innovative payment and delivery model for rural hospitals. He earned a HIMSS Davies Award of Excellence in 2018.

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HIPAA Journal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As a teenager, I volunteered in hospitals and nursing homes. That led to my serving as the Privacy Officer for the hospital beginning with the implementation of the Privacy Rule. My first professional experience in healthcare was as a licensed social worker in an acute care hospital. My professional goals changed over time.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 24, 2023

The release of the inaugural findings from the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) in 2002, which showed that HRT had more detrimental than beneficial effects, triggered a decline in its utilization.

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YouCompli

APRIL 13, 2022

A hospital in Kentucky agreed to pay over $10 million to resolve allegations that included improper inducements. It was alleged the hospital submitted claims to Medicare that resulted from inducements provided to Medicare beneficiaries. Clearly, improper beneficiary inducements are still a compliance risk.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

In the 19th and 20th centuries, segregated black hospitals were emblematic of separate but unequal health care,” begins the editorial introducing an entire issue of JAMA dedicated to racial and ethnic disparities and inequities in medicine and health care, published August 17, 2021.

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MRO Compliance

MAY 2, 2022

Back in May of 2002, I founded MRO with two colleagues to meet the evolving needs of document and disclosure management services for the healthcare industry. All processing of records required someone to physically be on site at the hospital, pull the record, scan it, and then print the records to be mailed out to the requester.

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Health Law Gurus

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Insurers operate on stability and predictability, and changing the venue rule when hospital chains are expanding to serve new regions can disrupt a predictable market.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2020

This underpins Black peoples’ trust-gaps in America for many institutions, including health care (the system, doctors and hospitals), schools, the police and courts, shown in the fourth chart. Many more Black adults than White adults perceived these gaps in the Undefeated study.

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MedTrainer

MAY 24, 2022

The highly-rated courses are relevant to all healthcare sub-industries and have received a positive reception from Absorb LMS’s healthcare customers, who mostly comprise large healthcare enterprises like hospitals and universities. Learn how MedTrainer can deliver a solution to fit your needs today, visit medtrainer.com.

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Healthcare Law Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

OIG ignores HHS’s authority to create safe harbors—authority it has already exercised to create a safe harbor for similar subsidies by hospitals and health plans, among others. [11]. at 60203 (2002). It then defers to Congress to rework these cost-sharing obligations via legislation. 2, 2015). [10] 17, 2022). [11] 1001.952(k), (l). [12]

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

the leading developer of technology-driven solutions to promote the safe use, storage, return, and disposal of controlled substances and other dangerous medications in hospitals and other healthcare institutions, announced today a $2 million investment from MCPC Healthcare Investment, LLC , the newly formed investment arm of Cleveland-based MCPC.

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SQA

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

This product is only supplied to pharmacies and/or hospital pharmacies and not to wholesale, via Third-Party Logistics (3PL) partner Alloga UK Ltd. Since the introduction of the exemption in 2002, the technology and manufacturing processes used to produce medical devices have changed dramatically.

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SQA

JULY 8, 2022

V60 and V60 Plus devices are designed for in-hospital use. Philips has no permanent solution to correct this issue, so the MHRA is issuing this alert to help hospitals manage the risk. All V680 invasive ventilators used in critical care settings are also affected. This alert should be acted on immediately.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

That core set of services covers consultations with doctors, tests and examinations, along with inpatient hospital care. Health Populi’s Hot Points: This last chart compares gains in life expectancy (longevity) between two periods, 2002-2007 and 2012-2017. In the U.S., The primary care “backbone” in the U.S.

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Health Law Advisor

APRIL 26, 2023

Even if it were possible to navigate the regulatory confusion, hospitals and health care providers would have struggled to adapt to a two-tiered approval system for mifepristone access. Supreme Court issued an initial stay, which it then affirmed with last Friday’s “shadow docket” order.

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SQA

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The Regulations were first issued with immediate effect in 2002 and were later revised in 2016. Good Practice Guide: Membrane Based WFI Systems, May 2002. The products are packaged for institutional use and are sold to clinics and hospitals nationwide in single use cups with a foil lid.

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Health Law Advisor

AUGUST 10, 2023

13] Hospital Reprocessing of Single Use Medical Devices Medical devices can be quite expensive. To save money, hospitals and other users began reprocessing those single use medical devices. 15] Medical Device User Fee and Modernization Act of 2002, Report 107-728 (Oct. 7, 2002), at 21. [16] 8637, 8645 (Feb. 13] [link]. [14]

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 12, 2023

Median labor expenses peaked at $230 per visit in February 2002 during the Omicron surge. Honeywell released a self-testing smoke detector for use in hospitals and other large buildings. .” ED labor costs have climbed 50% in the last three years , according to the latest trends report from Syntellis Performance Solutions.

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SQA

AUGUST 2, 2021

ISO 10651-4:2002, Lung ventilators – Part 4: Particular requirements for operator-powered resuscitators. The following two PIC/S guidance documents have been revised: PE 005-4: PIC/S Good Practice Guidelines for Blood Establishments and Hospital Blood Banks. Four of these patients have tested positive for Tuberculosis.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) also published an interoperability rule in March 2020 that applies to Medicare- and Medicaid-participating short-term acute care hospitals, long-term care hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, children’s hospitals, cancer hospitals, and critical access hospitals (CAHs).

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

A long-running practice, with presidential endorsement in 2017 While the practice may have begun earlier, the legal framework for school expulsion of pregnant adolescents is typically traced to Education Act regulations adopted in 2002. These include when a student has committed an “offence against morality” or “entered into wedlock.”

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SQA

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The MHRA has received reports of a very small number of people who have been hospitalized after using potentially fake pens. These are requirements of the Therapeutic Goods (Medical Devices) Regulations 2002. Buying prescription-only medicines online without a prescription poses a direct danger to health.

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Drug & Device Law

JULY 31, 2023

Sharp Memorial Hospital , 264 Cal. Sharp Memorial Hospital, Inc. , 2002), held that Connecticut law would follow the definition of “product” as “tangible personal property distributed commercially for use or consumption.” 673, 676 (Cal. 673, 676 (Cal. See also Green v. ADT, LLC , 2016 WL 3208483, at *3 (N.D. Lindsay Corp.

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Drug & Device Law

DECEMBER 4, 2023

2002). “[I]t is not the role of a federal court to expand state law in ways not foreshadowed by state precedent.” Federal courts sitting in diversity cannot “act as … judicial pioneer[s]” by deciding “whether and to what extent they will expand state common law.” Northwestern Memorial Hospital , 134 N.E.3d Ford Motor Co. ,

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Drug & Device Law

JUNE 1, 2023

Regional Care Hospital Partners, Inc. , 3d 1024, 1033-34 (Alaska 2002) (quoting Coon ) (footnotes omitted). Accord Arizona State Hospital/Arizona Community Protection & Treatment Center v. Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla , 232 Cal. 2002) (citations and quotation marks omitted). 2002 WL 32007200, at *3 (Del.

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Drug & Device Law

MARCH 6, 2023

The Bone Screw court left open the possibility that it could be persuaded to permit the joinder of claims in a fact-based grouping, such as a group of plaintiffs who received the medical device at the same hospital. 2004) (in which another of our bloggers was involved), In re Baycol Products Liability Litigation , 2002 WL 32155269 (D.

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Drug & Device Law

MAY 30, 2022

2002), aff’d , 356 F.3d Plaintiffs’ treating physician during her hospitalizations, testified that no other. . . American Cyanamid Co. , 3d 496, 514 (6th Cir. 2003) (risk differences between two types of vaccines held insufficient to justify a warning that one was “preferred”); Thomas , 949 F.2d Synthes Spine Co. , 3d 1114 (9th Cir.

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Drug & Device Law

APRIL 10, 2023

Dupont Hospital for Children , 393 F. American Wood Preservers Institute , 2002 WL 34447541, at *1 (S.D. July 31, 2002); Johnson v. United Illuminating , 1998 WL 910271, at *10 (Conn. 15, 1998) (identical opinions). Delaware : Merganthaler v. Asbestos Corp. of America , 480 A.2d 2d 647, 651 (Del. 1984); M.G. 2010); Baker v.

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