Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2022

"In addition, in 2012, UVA Health launched a remote patient monitoring program to improve patient compliance and clinical outcomes, and to reduce hospital readmissions, hospital length of stay and emergency department visits. "In 2019, UVA Health created a multi-stakeholder strategic plan for telemedicine.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The CARES Act was passed by Congress on March 27, 2020, to ensure that every American has access to the care they need during the COVID-19 pandemic and to address the economic fallout from the 2019 Novel Coronavirus and COVID-19. The compliance date for the CMS rule was July 1, 2021.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 26, 2023

In the context of HIPAA enforcement discretion, the Secretary can waive sanctions and penalties that result from non-compliance with the following standards of the Privacy Rule: 164.510 – Uses and disclosures of Protected Health Information requiring an opportunity for the individual to agree or object.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 9, 2023

Such major HIPAA updates placed a significant burden on HIPAA-covered entities and considerable time and effort were required to introduce new policies and procedures to ensure continued HIPAA compliance. The comment period closed on February 12, 2019. It is now 10 years since the last major HIPAA update took effect.

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Dot Compliance

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, during fiscal year (FY) 2019 (October 1, 2018, through September 30, 2019), the FDA conducted 7,266 GMP inspections of registered drug, device and biologics establishments. Compliance Dashboard, Inspections, FDA, accessed October 3, 2022, [link] cd/inspections.htm ).

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 19, 2022

COVID-19 antivirals must not affect HIV drug supply. Factors Associated with Compliance to the Hospital Price Transparency Final Rule: a National Landscape Study. Racial and Ethnic Representation in US Clinical Trials of New Drugs and Biologics, 2015-2019. Barber M, Sarpatwari A, Cepuch C. Lancet HIV. 2021 Dec 8.

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Exeed Regulatory Compliance

APRIL 6, 2020

As the Covid-19 outbreak rages on in the United States and across the world, healthcare facilities are facing an acute shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), including the N95 masks (technically, they are referred to as FFRs or filtering facepiece respirators ). Shortages of N95 masks are forcing desperate measures.

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American Medical Compliance

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an influx of doctor burnout. A recent study published in the medical journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings found that physician burnout increased during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic following a six-year drop that ended in 2020. doctors was 62.8%. Get Certified.

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AIHC

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Written by: AIHC Blogger The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has generated a substantial increase in the workload of health care professionals leading to physical and mental distress among professionals resulting in an increase in burnout. spiked dramatically during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2021

might be finally turning a corner in the COVID-19 pandemic. Overall, the COVID-19 pandemic has catapulted the importance of data analytics and data in general, said Lupu of Sanford Health. The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said recently that the U.S. " Dr. Roxana Lupu, Sanford Health.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated these issues, with 69% of respondents attributing the increased difficulty in drug diversion detection to the higher presence of floating staff or contract workers. Hospitals and ambulatory settings face challenges in maintaining consistent detection programs.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 10, 2022

As the National Academy of Sciences explained in a 2019 report , these two medications reduce risk of death by up to 50 percent and are associated with numerous other benefits, including improved quality of life, reduced rates of use of other opioids, and reduced risk of contracting illnesses including HIV and hepatitis C.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2020

Before COVID-19, almost all specialties were using telemedicine in some aspect of their practice. Phase Two was mitigation, stabilizing the delivery of care and mitigating the risks and effects of COVID-19 on team members, patients and families. THE PROBLEM. " Dr. Christina Olson, Children’s Hospital Colorado.

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YouCompli

AUGUST 29, 2023

Fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) associated with telehealth services existed before COVID-19, but it significantly increased during the pandemic. Situation One: Before the Pandemic   In April 2019, government officials announced Operation Brace Yourself: a fraud takedown related to telemedicine and durable medical equipment (DME).

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American Medical Compliance

JANUARY 15, 2024

dollars in global market value in 2019 to nearly 460 billion U.S. Especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth has become an essential tool for both patients and healthcare providers. Moreover, non-compliance can also erode patient confidence in telemedicine as a reliable and secure healthcare option.

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Compliancy Group

AUGUST 19, 2022

The patient filed a complaint with OCR in April 2019. OCR notified the former patient by letter dated April 18, 2019, that the investigation had been informally closed by providing technical assistance to ACPM. The deadline to appeal his health insurance company’s determination was July 2, 2019. Become compliant today!

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2021

The three spoke about navigating compliance (think: regulations and reimbursement) in an uncertain world. Dowling keynoted on the theme of “Leading for the Future,” sharing his lessons learned during COVID-19. Prior to the emergence of COVID-19, the use of telehealth in U.S. Be agile and flexible. .

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 3, 2021

The COVID-19 crisis presented several challenges to the health system that amplified the need and impact of telehealth services. "The impact of our telehealth intervention is demonstrated by just one example: One of our ICU nurses was caring for a COVID-positive patient in March 2020," Sussman recalled.

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OSHA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

As the OSHA COVID ETS saga continues to unfold, several union groups have filed a motion requesting that the 6 th Circuit transfer all of the consolidated petitions to the D.C. Circuit handled the Unions’ litigation to compel OSHA to promulgate an ETS for COVID-19 in 2019. Circuit, arguing that the D.C.

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YouCompli

JULY 26, 2023

Fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) associated with telehealth services existed before COVID-19, but it significantly increased during the pandemic. As FWA in telehealth continues to emerge, and poses more of a risk to organizational compliance, professionals should become more familiar with it – and then work to curb it.

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently conducted a review of Medicare telehealth services provided during the COVID-19 pandemic, when a waiver was in place that greatly expanded access to telehealth and virtual visits. Between April and December 2019, 5 million Medicare telehealth visits were conducted.

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AIHC

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Compliance Considerations for Best Outcomes Written in collaboration with the AIHC Volunteer Education Committee Delivering mental health services via telehealth has increased since the COVID-19 pandemic. Higher rates of use of telehealth are now standard in many practices since the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 18, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic further exacerbated the prevalence of STIs in the United States, with the CDC reporting that the rates of gonorrhea, syphilis, and congenital syphilis surpassed 2019 levels. Preventing STIs Using Home-Testing Kits. STIs impact 1 in 5 Americans and are on the rise.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, very few clinical areas at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, had established telemedicine programs, and there was little synergy among them and the organization’s Epic enterprise EHR. This allowed providers and staff to call into COVID-19 rooms from the nursing station.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, connected health and RPM are more important than ever, because they enable physicians to monitor patients without having to come into contact with them, thus preventing the spread of the novel coronavirus.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

He said that in January 2019 – more than a year before the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated, in short order, an even bigger, more sustained and more widespread scaling up of virtual care services than could ever have been imagined two years ago. How to optimize RPM for physicians. How to navigate a new policy landscape.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Doing so will help lift Star Ratings, improve care compliance, close gaps, enhance member satisfaction, reduce costs and drive profitability gains. Pandemic-Era Compliance Levels. We opted to focus on compliance levels among Medicare Advantage populations for specific procedures, tests, and care interventions.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

MAY 26, 2022

Healthcare workers, including physicians, nurses, community and public health workers, nurse aides, and others, faced systemic challenges in the healthcare sector even before the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to crisis levels of burnout. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers were experiencing high levels of burnout.

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Compliancy Group

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In all the chaos caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, one bright spot is the increased availability of HIPAA compliant telehealth options. states began shutting down in response to COVID-19. Using a HIPAA compliant telehealth platform is just one piece of compliance. On March 15, 2020, U.S. Find Out More! Please Wait.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

That all changed practically overnight when COVID-19 struck. Now, nearly two-thirds of physicians view telehealth more favorably than they did pre-COVID and hope to continue offering virtual care. This will be ever more important for regional leaders as COVID-19 cases continue to spike in select areas.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 5, 2022

. – KLAS also reveals The COVID-19 pandemic brought a wave of challenges to facility-based post-acute care organizations (i.e., Staffing has become a particular pain point, with organizations citing burnout, increased competition with staffing firms, and intensive patient care for severe COVID-19 cases as contributing factors.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 6, 2022

In 2019, when the organization launched a selection process for a telehealth vendor, Muro said it was difficult to talk with executives about why the hospital needed a virtual care platform. " Then COVID-19 hit. Muro received a call from the CEO: "Could you stand up a COVID-19 virtual visit offering tomorrow?"

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Med-Net Compliance

AUGUST 4, 2022

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicate that individuals who are aged 65 and older or nursing home residents are at a higher risk for severe illness from COVID-19. In addition, 8 out of 10 COVID-19 deaths reported in the United States in 2020 were adults aged 65 years and older.

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Provider Trust

JANUARY 25, 2024

In addition, the COVID-19 public health emergency triggered shifts in Medicaid and CHIP eligibility, which could impact millions of people. New concerns have also surfaced—unusually high-billing labs, upcoded hospital stays to inflate reimbursements, and issues related to genetic testing will require close attention going forward.

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Compliancy Group

MARCH 7, 2022

In the midst of all the chaos caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, one bright spot is the increased availability of HIPAA compliant telehealth options. states began shutting down in response to COVID-19. Let’s Simplify Compliance Do you need help with HIPAA? Compliancy Group can help! Learn More! ×

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 29, 2023

It has been 27 years since President Clinton signed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) into law, but compliance is still proving a challenge for many HIPAA-regulated entities. reduction in total penalties compared to 2018, falling from $28.7 million in 2018 to just $1.6 million in 2022.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 24, 2022

OCR prefers to resolve HIPAA violations using non-punitive measures, such as voluntary compliance or issuing technical guidance to help covered entities address areas of non-compliance. OCR 2019 Notice of Enforcement Discretion Applies New Maximum Annual Penalties for HIPAA Violations. Penalties for Non-Compliance with HIPAA.

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