Bill of Health

AUGUST 29, 2022

government funding, announced that it felt “a special obligation … to use our resources to bring this pandemic to an end as quickly as possible.” Monsanto and Myriad) ( this 2015 article discusses the history and taxonomy of patent pledges, many of which are collected in this online database ). By Jorge L. Updating” the Pledge.

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Bill of Health

JULY 26, 2023

Other researchers have found that “ many persons with disabilities do not receive any humanitarian support from NGOs or the Government ” following natural disasters. Many have wheelchair access ramps, and are heralded as accessible by the Bangladesh government and international funders, yet they lack accessible toilets.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 31, 2021

When President Barack Obama announced during the 2015 State of the Union Address that the government was launching the Precision Medicine Initiative, a debate began about whether and how precision medicine and population health management could coexist in the U.S. Population health and precision medicine defined. health system.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

Here is ECRI’s list of patient safety concerns a decade ago in 2015. In this post, I’ll focus on 2 of the 10 most top-of-mind in my current workflow with clients and speaking: #1 and #3. Compare these with the top 10 safety concerns for 2025. Many more of these have to do with “technology” and devices (e.g.,

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COVID-19 Governance Health Outcomes Doctors 77

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2025

The new HEI is part of a broader effort by the federal government to use payment as a mechanism to spur action on closing health equity gaps. Shah founded Dina in 2015 and leads the team on its mission to make in-home care accessible, reliable, and transparent. Data from measurement years 2024 and 2025 will impact Star ratings in 2027.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2020

Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH), which is the first fully digitalized-paperless health care institution in South Korea, was designated by the government on 1 March as a “public safety hospital,” an institution that separates the treatment process of respiratory patients to prevent COVID-19 spread with the facility.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 27, 2021

"Telemarketing fraud is a major threat to the integrity of government and commercial insurance programs," said Derrick L. The group was charged with a conspiracy to defraud pharmacy benefit managers out of $174,202,105 by submitting $931,356,936 for fraudulent prescriptions purchased from a telemarketing company.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 18, 2023

target company, consistent with the 2015-2022 trend where more than 70% of deals involved an American target company. You need to go back as far as 2015 to see such a low level of fundraising activity. government-led seed fund National Science Foundation, and the U.S. As with M&A, the U.S. with $610 million in volume.

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The Health Law Firm

MARCH 26, 2014

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law Effective January 2015, Massachusetts physicians who wish to renew their licenses must demonstrate that they utilize electronic health records (EHRs) that meet the requirements of the federal government's meaningful use program. Smith, R.R.T.,

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Licensing Doctors Governance 40

HIPAA Journal

MARCH 9, 2023

The framework was released by NIST in 2015, updated in 2018, and the NIST CSF 2.0 The NIST CSF has become the standard cybersecurity framework for government agencies and private sector companies for managing cybersecurity risks. is due for release later this year.

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Governance Ransomware HIPAA 125

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

For instance, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) followed the Enron fraud, updates to FISMA came after the 2015 Office of Personnel Management (OPM) breach, and the Securities and Exchange Commissions cybersecurity disclosure provisions were implemented after breaches at Equifax and SolarWinds.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2020

“Mayo Clinic has operated an RPM program since 2015. “Since the pandemic, the number of providers of many different specialties and clinical roles that we’ve oriented to digital care has increased exponentially, due in part to significant flexibility from government regulators as part of the pandemic response.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Beyond the fact that DotCom Therapy has been successfully delivering services since 2015, a review of two dozen studies in 2019 found that phone and video therapies were equally effective at treating conditions like anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder as in-person therapy.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 15, 2023

“Apixio has been a trusted business partner since our relationship began in 2015,” said Sarah M. Centene focuses on long-term growth and value creation as well as the development of its people, systems, and capabilities so that it can better serve its members, providers, local communities, and government partners.

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Medicare Medicare Governance Health Insurance 105

Health Populi

MAY 5, 2019

Historically, since the advent of employer-sponsored health care during World War II, the payor was the employer, the union, a government agency, another plan sponsor. adults experienced medical financial hardship between 2015 and 2017. The study analyzed data from the 2015-2017 National Health Interview Survey conducted by the CDC.

Health Insurance 98

Health Insurance Medical Billing Governance 98

HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A federal grand jury in the Middle District of Tennessee returned an indictment charging Galochkin and co-conspirators Rudenskiy, Tsarev, and Zhuykov with conspiring to use Conti ransomware to attack businesses, nonprofits, and governments in the United States from 2020 until June 2022 when the Conti operation was disbanded.

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Hall Render

AUGUST 24, 2023

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals refused the defendants’ request to overturn the entire verdict but enforced the consequences of the government’s prejudicial delay by tying the conduct together with the government’s failure to toll the statute of limitations for many of its claims. The ruling in U.S. Aldridge v. Corporate Mgmt.,

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 10, 2023

With that increase, healthcare rose to become the third most attacked industry globally behind the government/military with 1,661 attacks a week (+46%) and education/research with 2,314 attacks a week (+43%). In the United States, healthcare ranked second with 1,410 attacks per week, which is an 86% increase from 2021.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 26, 2022

Since the release of the Health app in 2014 and Apple Watch in 2015, Apple has introduced a wide array of innovative health and fitness features, with the goal to provide users with easy-to-understand, meaningful insights so they can be empowered to live a healthier life. Supporting public health and government initiatives.

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Public Health COVID-19 Governance World Health 98

HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Beyond the fact that DotCom Therapy has been successfully delivering services since 2015, a review of two dozen studies in 2019 found that phone and video therapies were equally effective at treating conditions like anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder as in-person therapy.

Medicaid 98

Medicaid Medicaid Telemedicine Governance 98

HIT Consultant

APRIL 22, 2024

As recently as 2023, between 30 and 47 percent of hospitals across all sizes reported still using fax or mail to send and receive patient records, according to the Government Accountability Office. This drove the use of Electronic Health Record systems (EHRs) in acute care hospitals to 84 percent by 2015.

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Hospitals Electronic Medical Records Governance Health Insurance 105

Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

Roy and I discussed Philips’ journey to this moment, starting in 2015—that doubling-down to becoming a health-tech company, a vision of digital health on both the hospital/professional and consumer sides of the equation. equipment and hardware). At that point, the company left behind other businesses not core to health.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 28, 2022

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has recommended that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) establish a feedback mechanism to improve the effectiveness of its data breach reporting process.

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HIPAA Health Insurance Compliance Governance 98

Healthcare Compliance Blog

APRIL 27, 2022

A Georgia district court has issued a summary judgment against a state rehabilitation center for 808 false claims billed to Medicaid and Tricare between November 2015 and June 2020. 2, 2015–July 31, 2016, and a range of $11,181–$22,363 for violations committed after Jan. Issue: All submitted claims must be accurate and truthful.

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Medicaid Medicaid Compliance Governance 59

HIPAA Journal

OCTOBER 5, 2022

HSCC is a private sector-led critical infrastructure advisory council of large, medium, and small health industry stakeholders, that works with government partners to identify and mitigate threats and vulnerabilities that have the potential to affect the ability of the sector to deliver healthcare services. Now that H.R.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 19, 2023

These safeguards become even more demanding as consumers and government agencies call for increased transparency and access to personal data. Do we have a data governance team in place, and is it effective? In 2007, Tom joined the board of Harmony Healthcare IT and became CEO in 2015. Healthcare is no exception.

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American Medical Compliance

JANUARY 9, 2024

Through Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, the federal government and state governments offer health care coverage to nearly 100 million individuals. trillion in 2015. That is approximately one in three people in this nation, and it is anticipated that taxpayer spending will exceed $1.3

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Bill of Health

JULY 18, 2023

floods and heat waves) have the potential to trigger migration decisions or prompt governments to plan for the relocation and resettlement of affected populations as some environments become uninhabitable. Yet, climate-induced slow onset pressures (e.g., sea level rise and desertification) and rapid onset events (e.g.,

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Governance Public Health 130

Health Populi

APRIL 9, 2021

In 2015, Raley’s eliminated tobacco products from its stores. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The public health crisis accelerated the private sector’s migration to ESG — environmental, social, and governance goals.

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The Health Law Firm

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On October 27, 2016, the Marijuana Policy Project issued a report for 2015 stating that the state-legal medical marijuana industry had a $2.4 Indest III, J.D., billion economic impact on the Colorado economy.

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Governance 40

Healthcare Compliance Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

From 2015 through 2019, the pharmaceutical company that manufactures Nuedexta paid the Alabama psychiatrist more than $400,000 to make speeches about Nuedexta. Routine audits should be conducted, and the results of the audits should be reported at the compliance and ethics committee meetings and in reports to the governing body.

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The Health Law Firm

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law The government found a significant increase in compound drug prescriptions reimbursed by Tricare over the last year. By George F. Indest III, J.D.,

Governance 40

Governance 40

The Health Law Firm

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On December 10, 2015, US District Court for the Southern District of Texas granted defendant's partial motion for summary judgment in a qui tam case alleging violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS). The government declined to intervene in February 2011. By George F.

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Governance 40

Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 19, 2022

” The changes are part of a 400-page proposed rule governing the federal health insurance marketplace and a few states that use the federal platform for their own exchanges. The new broker provision aims to deter fraudulent sign-ups by clarifying that applicants must attest that the income projections listed are correct.

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The Health Law Firm

DECEMBER 24, 2015

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On Monday, December 21, 2015, Debra Martin filed suit against former employer, Middletown Community Health Center Inc. By George F. Indest III, J.D.,

Governance 40

Governance 40

HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

APT41 – also known as Double Dragon, Barium, Winnti, Wicked Panda, Wicked Spider, TG-2633, Bronze Atlas, Red Kelpie – conducted targeted campaigns on the healthcare sector in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, and 2020.

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Pharmaceutical Industry HIPAA Governance 73

C&M Health Law

APRIL 21, 2022

Florida Medicaid is administered by the state but jointly funded by both the state and federal governments. The federal government’s Federal Financial Participation (FFP) share is paid according to statements of expenditures submitted by the state and per the formula described in sections 1903 and 1905(b) of the Medicaid Act.

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