HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Government mandates were an impetus for change, starting with the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 to “promote the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology” (Office of Civil Rights (OCR), 2017).

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 27, 2025

OCR launched an investigation after seeing a media article about the medical centers response to the COVID-19 public health emergency. Read More… UnitedHealthcare UnitedHealthcare is a health insurer part of Minnetonka, MN-based UnitedHealthcare Group. The case was settled for $1,300,000.

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HIPAA Ransomware Hospitals Compliance 85

Hall Render

MAY 9, 2025

Banner Health experts gather northern Colorado feedback at annual community meeting Banner Health adds 7 Colorado locations to portfolio Colorados behavioral health commissioner is finding hope despite facing funding headwinds CommonSpirit CMIO heads to Kaiser Denver health care co. Federal cuts threaten its stability.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Governor Kasich has led the Buckeye State since 2011, and his second and final term ends in January 2019. “Citizens scare politicians,” I heard Governor John Kasich say to Nicole Wallace on her show Deadline: White House yesterday, just hours from today’s U.S. 2018 midterm elections.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Opioid-related deaths grew some 20% since 2011 in the U.S. health care versus the OECD peer nations. fall below the OECD average, and the proportion of people who self-report that they are in “good health” is the third highest in the OECD. and are impacting mortality rates in Canada, Estonia and Sweden, too. For the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

These are shown in the first diagram from the report, breaking out factors that have exacerbated challenges on both the demand and supply side of the American health economy. Many of these were already in motion before the COVID-19 pandemic emerged; the public health crisis exacerbated several of them. In the U.S.,

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Healthcare Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

The new state plan option allows state Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (“CHIP”) agencies to provide 12 months of continuous postpartum coverage, regardless of any changes in circumstances, through a state plan amendment (“SPA”). This option is available for five years and ends on March 31, 2027. 31, 2022). [2]

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