Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

THE LARGER CONTEXT The APAC remote care market, which is further segmented into telemedicine, health IT and analytics, and mobile health, has seen 15% annual growth since 2016; it can still grow to 20% each year until 2031, the report noted. They should also look at funding partnerships among stakeholders.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2022

Now, check out the second chart from The New Retail Health chapter of HealthConsuming : I often refer to this graphic as my Rodney Dangerfield-Aretha Franklin touchpoint, noting Rodney’s “I Don’t Get No Respect” and Aretha’s demand for “Respect.” healthcare system.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 31, 2024

Tell the readers about your career in the healthcare industry I have been building marketing software for years and focused on healthcare marketing software beginning in 2016. He wanted to work with patients who needed a certain surgical intervention and ideally had non-government health insurance.

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HIPAA Journal

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

million being defrauded from Medicaid, Medicare, and private health insurance programs. According to the FBI, more than $43 billion was lost to these scams between June 2016 and December 2021, and in 2021 alone, the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center received reports of losses of $2,395,953,296 to BEC scams. million, and $6.4

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Milliman IntelliScript® , an insurtech company with risk assessment solutions for life and health insurers, has acquired OneRecord , a digital healthcare company that empowers consumers to access, aggregate, and share their healthcare data with the people and organizations they trust using standards-based APIs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

He leads ClearDATA’s internal privacy, security, and compliance strategies as well as advises on the security and privacy risks faced by customers, which include global healthcare organizations, health insurance companies, providers, life science companies, and market-leading innovators from Asia Pacific, North America, and Europe.

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American Medical Compliance

JANUARY 2, 2024

Implementation of the CURES Act The bipartisan 21st Century CURES Act, signed into law by President Obama in 2016, signified an important shift in health policy and health law.

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Health Populi

MAY 15, 2018

The top-line of this national health scorecard is that “deaths of despair” are surging, due to suicide, alcohol, opioids, and other drugs whose use has grown by 50% since 2005 to 2016. The social determinants of health — income and good jobs, using tobacco, and having health insurance — bolster good health.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2019

a risk factor in two-thirds of bankruptcies filed between 2013 and 2016. That’s a sad fiscal fact, especially as more Americans gained access to health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, according to a study published this month in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPA). between 2013 and 2016.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Our industry has undergone several iterations of consumer data protection rules — starting in 1996 with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA ). In 2009, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act , HITECH for short, became law, setting standards for electronic health records.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 14, 2022

The breach was detected on April 20, 2022, with the forensic investigation confirming an unauthorized third-party had accessed the IT networks of Baptist Medical Center or Resolute Health Hospital between March 31 and April 24, 2022, and removed files containing sensitive patient data.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 11, 2022

Protenus has been releasing annual Breach Barometer reports since 2016, and the number of healthcare data breaches has increased every year, with the number of breached records increasing every year since 2017. The data for the report was provided by databreaches.net.

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MedTrainer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Advocate Health Care HIPAA Breach (2016) In August 2016, Advocate Health Care Network —one of the largest healthcare systems in Illinois—agreed to settle potential violations of Privacy and Security Rules for $5.55 Patient privacy.

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The Health Law Firm

MARCH 31, 2016

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On March 21, 2016, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched a new round of audits to help ensure compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), especially its Privacy Rule and Security Rule.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Healthcare Consumer Survey from TransAmerica ‘s Center for Health Studies underscores that Americans are “settling in” during a phase of “healthcare uncertainty.” ” The first chart illustrates the top sources of stress gauged in each of the past four years of this survey since 2016.

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 12, 2022

A review of the affected email accounts revealed they contained patient data such as names, client health insurance information, Medicaid information, Social Security numbers, and limited information related to services received at Living Innovations.

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Jane Sarashon

JANUARY 19, 2024

Health Populi’s Hot Points: In an essay I wrote for The Huffington Post back in July 2016, I asserted that broadband connectivity was a social determinant of health.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

workers were enrolled in a high-deductible health plan in the first 9 months of 2017, according to the latest research published by the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Over four in 10 U.S. million Americans in 2017.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2019

All health/care is retail now in America. who have health insurance must take on a deductible of some amount, which compels that insured individual to spend the first dollar on medical services up until they meet their financial commitment. I say this as most people in the U.S. In the median U.S.

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The Health Law Firm

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On November 4, 2016, a federal judge sentenced Landon Eckles, a former manager at Warner Chilcott, to one year of probation and a $10,000 fine after he pled guilty to wrongful disclosure of protected health information (PHI). By George F. Indest III, J.D.,

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HIPAA Journal

OCTOBER 21, 2022

A pharmaceutical sales rep has pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit healthcare fraud and wrongfully disclosing and obtaining patients’ protected health information in an elaborate healthcare fraud scheme involving criminal HIPAA violations.

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The Health Law Firm

AUGUST 31, 2016

Law Clerk, The Health Law Firm On August 16, 2016, Health Net Inc. The health insurance company paid the penalty without admitting or denying the SEC’s allegations. By Miles Indest, J.D./M.B.A.;

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The Health Law Firm

AUGUST 9, 2016

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On August 4, 2016, one of Illinois' largest hospital chains agreed to pay $5.5 million in settlement for lax data security and breaches of protected health information for millions of patients. Indest III, J.D.,

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Health Populi

APRIL 24, 2018

Otherwise, the news is negative across the remaining four segments: consumer health is the second most-trusted segment, by 56% of Americans, but dropped by 7 percentage points from 2017. Biotech is roughly tied for second place with consumer health, dropping also by 7 points. But you may be asking, “What happened in Colombia?

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The Health Law Firm

DECEMBER 7, 2015

The pending acquisition of Cigna by Anthem would cover approximately 53 million medical members resulting in the formation of the nation's largest health insurance company. The transaction is expected to close in late 2016. However, shareholders' support alone is not sufficient to complete the merger.

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MedTrainer

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association (MHA) is a prominent organization representing hospitals and health systems across Massachusetts, advocating for policies and practices that support healthcare delivery and patient care.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The misconfiguration was detected and remediated on November 18, 2022, with the third-party forensics investigation confirming the cloud storage environment had been unsecured since September 30, 2016. The information exposed varies from patient to patient.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

who benefits from health insurance at the workplace, the annual family premium will average $21,342 this year, according to the 2020 Employer Health Benefits Survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Workers receiving health insurance through their jobs have seen their portfolio of benefits changing over the years.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2018

In the US, when it comes to life and death, it’s good to live in Hawaii, Utah, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Iowa — the top five states with the greatest life expectancy and healthy life expectancy at birth in 2016.

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Bill of Health

JULY 26, 2022

Department of Health and Human Service estimates , the total per capita lifetime health spending (in 2016 dollars) is $414k; if health care spend increases 3% greater than overall inflation (quite likely), that number would be $2.3 Amazon Health Insurance? First, health care is hard and expensive.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The regulations may provide an opportunity for health insurers to attract new members – and retain existing ones – with hearing loss. Amplifon partners with health care organizations to administer hearing benefits to their members. . Epub 2016 Aug 23. Expanding membership. million U.S. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2016.303299.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2021

To pay for health care expenses, the average nest-egg required for a couple retiring in the U.S. in 2021 will be $300,000 according to the 20th annual Fidelity Investments Retiree Health Care Cost Estimate.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 31, 2022

For example, healthcare providers can promote healthy lifestyles, raise awareness of emerging health issues, and make announcements when special clinics or services are available to the public. However, it is important to understand what is considered PHI under HIPAA.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 22, 2022

One, I had health insurance, or I would still be paying thousands of dollars in expenses. By 2016, I had 23 years of a legal career behind me, even though those original therapists warned me not to aim too high because my achievements would always be low. And that gave me hope.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

hospital sector is facing major challenges on all fronts: staffing (especially nursing and more broadly, clinician burnout), supply chain, financial stressors, demographics, and cross-industry politics vis-à-vis pharma and health insurance. Can the provider partner with tech firms on data and research projects to improve care?

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CMS.gov

AUGUST 23, 2018

But did you know that you can also enroll in an HSA-eligible High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP) in the individual health insurance market through HealthCare.gov? Coupling an HSA-eligible HDHP with a Health Savings Account is often something that employers offer to provide for their employees. Percentage [3].

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Health Care Law Brief

JULY 25, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services (“ HHS ”) released its final rule (“ Final Rule ”) implementing penalties for information blocking. The Final Rule codifies the prohibition on “information blocking” introduced by the 21st Century Cures Act (“ Act ”), which was enacted on December 13, 2016. 1033, (2016); 42 U.S.C.

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