Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Jennifer Mueller, AHIMA President and the Vice President & Privacy Officer at the Wisconsin Hospital Association Information Center ( WHAIC ) to the explore the past, present, and bright future of HIM professionals. The era of rolling shelves, paperclips, and Dictaphones ended less than 20 years ago.

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McGuire Wood

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Founded in 2005, the firm focuses on the following healthcare subsectors: pharmaceuticals, medical devices, outsourced pharmaceutical services, distribution and consumer-driven healthcare. Within healthcare, the firm targets companies in the provider services, hospital/major facilities and life sciences/pharmaceutical industries.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 16, 2023

In its focus on community care for all non-acute care delivery environments C-COMM is focused on digital health imperatives such as wellness, illness prevention, home-based chronic disease management and preventing hospitalizations and readmissions.

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Electronic Medical Records Hospitals Governance 134

YouCompli

AUGUST 17, 2022

This concept comes from the Office of Inspector General (OIG), in its 2005 Supplemental Compliance Program Guidance for Hospitals memo. 1 The Office of Inspector General, OIG Supplemental Compliance Program Guidance for Hospitals (2005). Direct access to leadership? Access to legal counsel? Compliance from the bottom up?

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Bill of Health

MARCH 15, 2022

During the early months of the pandemic, disabled people became unemployed at disproportionate rates , likely related to substantial employment declines in certain industries, such as retail and hospitality, where disabled people are overrepresented. In other words, legal and policy responses must take a Disability Justice approach.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 24, 2023

The wealthiest hospitals have the ability to invest in the newest machinery and the best digital infrastructure. Mitigating anxiety and a lack of trust People of color, who form a disproportionately large percentage of Medicaid recipients , have less trust in doctors and hospitals than white patients. A majority of U.S.

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McGuire Wood

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Founded in 2005, the company’s key focus areas include healthcare interoperability, data management, quality and performance analytics, value-based care, patient experience, medical imaging, connected health, payer-provider convergence, care coordination and population health management. CitiusTech , based in Princeton, N.J.,

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Hospitals 40

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

Since its founding in 2005, MAeHC has worked to improve the safety, efficiency and quality of healthcare delivery in the state by guiding organizations in the implementation and meaningful use of health IT. WHY IT MATTERS. Boston HealthNet , which aims to increase patient utilization of home self-monitoring.

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COVID-19 Hospitals 140

Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Addressing administrative flows both inside and outside health care organizations can save money; take the lack of interoperability between claims systems between payers and hospitals and other aspects of lack of standardization and fragmented data systems. This represents a $210 billion savings opportunity, shown in the McKinsey model.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

More than 30 million patients around the world have used Healthy Interactions’ programs since 2005. Founded in 2003, Healthy Interactions is a patient engagement company that improves outcomes of diabetes and other chronic medical conditions for hospitals, clinics and providers. Healthy Populations, Healthy Interactions.

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Nurses Hospitals 52

HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The Administrative Simplification Rules of HIPAA called for standard-setting organizations (SSOs) to develop standard code sets for electronic healthcare transactions, and some of these have previously been implemented as part of the Transactions and Code Sets final rule.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 17, 2023

What You Should Know: PatientsLikeMe (PLM), announced a partnership with the Neurological Clinical Research Institute (NCRI) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) to share de-identified patient data that can improve research outcomes for ALS. We’re proud to partner with MGH and the team at PRO-ACT.

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Hospitals 52

Compliancy Group

MARCH 19, 2024

Hospitals and private practices aren’t the only enterprises with compliance obligations within this sector. Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act (PSQIA) The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act (PSQIA) of 2005 spurred the development of a system to encourage healthcare staff to report medical errors voluntarily.

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Regulatory Compliance Compliance US Department of Health and Human Services ACA 52

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 1, 2022

Galen Healthcare Solutions, established in 2005, has partnered with major health systems, hospitals and specialty practices to provide solutions across a full-range of transition services including system support, implementation, and optimization, in addition to data migration and cloud-based legacy system retirement (Run/Migrate/Archive).

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 13, 2022

In 2005, two Norfolk Southern trains collided in Graniteville South Carolina. The toxic plume killed 9 people and sent 250 to hospitals. I had the opportunity to discuss some of these unique insights and learn about a variety of healthcare use cases that has a positive impact on the health of communities. Graniteville Train Accident.

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Governance Public Health Hospitals 121

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

care.ai’s Smart Care Facility Platform™ transforms healthcare settings, such as hospitals and nursing homes, into responsive care facilities that continuously monitor and streamline clinical and operational workflows. including hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and assisted living facilities. Reports project that approximately 1.2

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 30, 2022

Aspirion is a leading healthcare RCM provider across complex claims and revenue integrity, offering a broad array of technology-driven solutions for the most specialized revenue cycle challenges faced by hospital systems and healthcare providers. ” The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions. About Aspirion.

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Medicaid Medicaid Hospitals 52

Hall Render

JUNE 8, 2023

Essentially, this Final Rule eliminates the victory hospitals received from the Supreme Court’s 2019 Allina v. Azar, which vacated the rulemaking pertaining to CMS’s first attempt at this same DSH policy for Medicare Advantage days back in 2005. Hospitals should consider the impact of this rule carefully.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

In the COVID-19 era, consumers-as-patients are taking on more health care tasks we can do from home or close-to-home in retail health touch points physically separate from healthcare providers’ offices and hospital sites.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 19, 2022

Good Samaritan Hospital of Suffern (S.D.N.Y. is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, and a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School since 2005. Michael Ashley Stein , Ph.D., The post Long COVID and Physical Reductionism appeared first on Bill of Health.

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Redox

JUNE 15, 2023

June 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Redox – the leader in healthcare interoperability – recently partnered with Sage Growth Partners to survey executives and technology decision-makers from over 100 large academic medical centers and multi-hospital health systems. MADISON, Wis.,

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Hospitals 52

Healthcare Law Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

PCPA also relies heavily on a 2005 OIG Special Advisory Bulletin that PCPA claims contradicts the current Advisory Opinion because it specifically approved financial assistance to patients if provided by a “coalition”-style group of manufacturers with certain safeguards in place. [7] 7] See 2005 Bulletin, 70 Fed. Doshi et al.,

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Medicare Medicare Governance Medicaid 52

Bill of Health

AUGUST 16, 2022

When Lowe tried to seek treatment for her SUD in 2005, instead of getting medical care, she was forcibly taken away from her husband and son and put on an involuntary psychiatric hold. During her “hospital-incarceration,” she lost access to any prenatal care, and state officials did not monitor the fetus’s health.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The health care system struggled to handle the surge of COVID-19 patients leading to shortages of critical supplies , and overcrowded emergency rooms and hospitals. experienced a high number of COVID-19-related deaths, more than 1.1

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YouCompli

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

the 2005 OIG Compliance Program Guidance). You’re the CEO of a hospital and you’re looking to expand the hospital’s service line. To make the proposal attractive to the radiologists, you want the hospital to pay for all the marketing expenses for the new joint venture. Assume for a moment you’re not a compliance officer.

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Medisys Compliance

APRIL 5, 2023

The injection is typically performed in an outpatient setting, such as a doctor’s office or a hospital. It is a unique code that was introduced by the American Medical Association (AMA) in 2005. A nerve block injection involves injecting medication directly into the nerves to reduce inflammation and relieve pain.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 29, 2022

1] E.g., Anna Edney, Kids’ Covid Hospitalizations Hit Record in U.S. 31, 2021), [link] (describing a record number of pediatric COVID-19 hospitalizations due to the omicron variant). [2] 325, 338 (2005). [21] A full form of this Article is forthcoming in the Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality Vol. Barnette , 319 U.S.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Hence, both regional health authorities as well as private hospitals in a number of cities had in place protocols using age and disability as criteria for rationing intensive care. This situation motivated 26 persons – some older persons and some persons with disabilities – to file a lawsuit [1].

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Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2018

News’ portfolio of healthcare information projects, the best-known of which is Best Hospitals , most recently rated for 2017-18. Key health service factors among the town leaders are lower rates of chronic disease and hospitalizations, and greater access to primary care. Healthiest Communities is part of U.S. Eric Gertler, U.S.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

The amendment defines healthcare entity to include any individual physician or other healthcare professional, a hospital, a provider-sponsored organization, a health maintenance organization, a health insurance plan, or any other kind of healthcare facility, organization, or plan.

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Exeed Regulatory Compliance

MARCH 5, 2020

Healthcare workers in hospitals, outpatient clinics and emergency response teams are at high risk. A 2005 report HHS Pandemic Influenza Plan last updated in 2017, estimates that 25 – 35% of the population could be infected during a pandemic and recommends stockpiling adequate supplies for at least 6-8 weeks.

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US Department of Health and Human Services FDA Public Health COVID-19 52

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 10, 2022

They have equipment that help responders communicate with hospitals, clinics and so forth so they can triage and manage injuries. Paramedic vehicles are being outfitted with more powerful wireless technology to facilitate patient treatment en route to hospitals. history, as these images show.

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Health Populi

APRIL 8, 2021

in nearly 4,000 hospitals that operate 600,000 inpatient beds. In taking on these four functions during the pandemic, hospitals and health systems faced many challenges in fast-adapting to the fast-moving public health crisis: financial, resulting in multi-billion dollar losses for U.S. ” That was 2005.

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Total HIPAA

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

The Security Rule (2005). If an individual uses someone else’s PHI to pose as them at a financial institution or hospital, they can be fined up to $100,000 and/or imprisoned for up to five years. This happens often in the case of celebrities; It is not uncommon for hospital staff to sell famous patients’ PHI to the media.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

As we approach 2023 it is amazing that interoperability, true broad-based connectivity between healthcare systems, looks like the Verizon heatmap back in 2005 when there was as much white on the map as there was red. Much like AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile worked diligently to provide coverage to everyone in the U.S.,

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Health Outcomes Hospitals 59

Kaiser Health News

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Every time you reduce payment to a drugmaker or a hospital or any other health care provider, that’s a cut, but it helps beneficiaries. And Medicare finally added a prescription drug benefit in 2005. Many more, quote-unquote, “cuts” will have to be made going forward. ” Not necessarily. Baicker: Yes.

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Drug & Device Law

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Elizabeth’s Hospital of Chicago, Inc. , 2005); Cuyler v. at 514 (citations omitted). See also Varela v. 2d 1, 11 (Ill. 2006); Doe 1 v. North Central Behavioral Health System, Inc. , 2d 4, 7-8 (Ill. 2004); Sheetz v. Norwood , 608 F. 401, 406 (7th Cir. 2015); E.L.T., Wachovia Corp. , 3d 474, 476 (7th Cir. United States , 362 F.3d

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