Bill of Health
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
By Nicole Huberfeld Once again, health law has become a vehicle for constitutional change , with courts hollowing federal and state public health authority while also generating new challenges. In part, this pattern is occurring because the New Roberts Court — the post-Ruth Bader Ginsburg composition of U.S. Supreme Court justices — is led by jurists who rely on “clear statement rules.
Healthcare IT Today
MARCH 1, 2023
The following is a guest article by Josh Miller, Co-Founder & CEO at Gradient Health. As a global society, we have never spent more on healthcare. We have never been more informed. We’ve never been more advanced. Yet there is a great divide between what we have accomplished scientifically, and what patients actually get access to. This is not something spoken about a lot, because the focus is of course on developing life-saving medical devices and diagnostics.
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Electronic Health Reporter
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Jason Warrelmann, vice president global services and process industries, UiPath. FHIR, or Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, are quickly being adopted on a massive scale. While only 24% of healthcare companies currently utilize application programming […] The article 3 Ways Process Automation Can Help with FHIR Adoption appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
MRO Compliance
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Hospitals require an integrated team approach to ensuring revenue integrity February 28, 2023 HFMA Healthcare organizations cannot expect to achieve financial sustainability without having a deliberate focus on ensuring revenue integrity. Only with such a focus can they deliver programs and services that are essential for coordinating internal efforts to maintain operational efficiency, compliance and optimal payment.
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Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
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Electronic Health Reporter
MARCH 3, 2023
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Amy Miller, regional director of growth, AMD Global Telemedicine. With the trend of remote working on the rise and telehealth becoming increasingly significant, high-speed internet has become a fundamental necessity for every community. Despite […] The article Closing The Gap of Healthcare Accessibility For Rural Americans appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
Digital Health News
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
Talk of national policy and digital investment priorities is set to drive the discussion on the National Policy and Keynote Stage at Rewired 2023.
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
COVID-19 forced a spike in policy-makers’ interest and willingness to invest in public health; a spike that is unfortunately retreating to the old business as usual. (President Biden, in his State of the Union speech, warned “we remain vigilant” while calling for an end to the emergency, but quickly switched the subject from the urgency of public health to prosecuting fraud.
Becker's Health IT
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
Artificial intelligence and machine learning have been used for years to help hospitals and health systems combat cybersecurity threats, but with hackers getting more sophisticated, chief information security officers say AI will need to make improvements to its algorithms and training sets to become vital tools for hospitals information security programs.
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85% of practices are not complying with the government’s HIPAA standards. The large majority of practices are likely trying to protect patients’ information, but they may not be doing all that they need to meet government requirements. Not complying with HIPAA has definite drawbacks, with one major one being massive fines. The government can fine up to 1.5 million dollars for a single HIPAA breach incident - an amount that would put most small practices out of business.
Healthcare Dive
MARCH 1, 2023
The ecommerce giant's $3.9 billion buy of primary care company One Medical closed last week without a challenge from the FTC, even as consumer protection groups and regulators aired worries about the tie-up.
Healthcare It News
MARCH 2, 2023
Sun Pharma probes cyber breach Indian pharma giant Sun Pharmaceutical Industries has reported an "information security incident," according to PTI. The news report noted that the company has already reported the incident to the authorities and has since isolated its affected IT assets. Presently, the company is investigating the matter while taking appropriate containment and remediation actions in a "controlled" manner to address the apparent cyber attack.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
This year is likely to be another big one for telemedicine. The technology-enabled form of healthcare delivery has huge momentum coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic. But at the same time, the pandemic public health emergency is scheduled to end in May, which means action is needed by lawmakers to keep reimbursement going in 2023. There's lots going on, to say the least.
Bill of Health
MARCH 3, 2023
By Alicia Ely Yamin In December of 2020, Argentina’s Congress passed Law 27.610 , which overhauled the country’s previously restrictive legal framework on abortion. Law 27.610, “ Access to Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy ,” created two kinds of legal abortion: (i) IVE (its acronym in Spanish, which translates to “Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy”), which allows any person to request an abortion up to 14 weeks gestation; and (ii) ILE (which stands for “Legal Interruption
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Healthcare Dive
MARCH 3, 2023
Steve Winterfeld, Akamai's advisory chief information and security officer, outlines the threat of cyberattacks to healthcare organizations and what the industry can do to prevent them.
Healthcare It News
MARCH 2, 2023
The Australian Digital Health Agency has come up with its first mobile consumer application for accessing health information on My Health Record. WHAT IT DOES Available on both iOS and Android devices, the my health app has a user-friendly interface where users can quickly view medicine information history, vaccination history and upcoming immunisations, hospital discharge summaries, pathology results, and other records.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
With the Veris Cancer Care Platform, cancer care teams at the New Jersey Cancer Care, PA can now review patients' physiologic and clinical data in real time and deliver personalized care. WHY IT MATTERS Today, NJCC and Veris Health, a subsidiary of New York-based PAVmed Digital Health, announced that the cloud-based clinician portal was successfully integrated into the oncology practice's information technology systems.
Bill of Health
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
By Elizabeth Weeks The most promising path forward in public health is to continue recognizing federal authority and responsibility in this space. I carefully choose “recognizing,” rather than “expanding” or “moving” because it is critical to the argument that federal authority for public health already exists within the federalist structure and that employing federal authority to address public health problems does not represent a dimunition of state authority.
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Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
Regulators are continuing to work on new guidance in light of a court decision that ruled against the government and threw a wrench in the third-party process to resolve payment disputes between payers and providers.
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
Health care institutions, like many colleges and businesses, have trouble retaining people. Tiffany A.S. Wright, vice president of operations at CareMax , says that it’s one thing to engage with patients but a much bigger challenge to retain them. Retention is particularly key to maintain the funding for fee-for-value programs, which are growing in popularity.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 2, 2023
To explore the efficacy of primary care telehealth, a recent Epic Research study examined the frequency of in-person physician visits that followed 18,636,522 primary care telemedicine appointments. WHY IT MATTERS The dual team study published by Epic found that 60% of the time, the virtual primary care telehealth appointments held between March 1, 2020, and October 15, 2022, did not result in subsequent doctors visits.
Bill of Health
MARCH 2, 2023
By Marshall B. Kapp During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Public Health Establishment (PHE)/legal enterprise collaborative fell short of constitutional standards in a number of situations, resulting in adverse judicial rulings of which the PHE and its like-minded academic advocates now complain. This unhappiness with judicial oversight is an opportunity for introspection.
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Healthcare Dive
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
The health system said contract labor increased 37% compared to the prior year as admissions declined year over year, due to capacity constraints and longer patient stays.
Healthcare IT Today
MARCH 1, 2023
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Healthcare Data Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York. Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collabor
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
With the boom of telehealth caused by the pandemic, patients by and large are more comfortable than ever looking for telemedicine advice and care. Because patients can turn to telehealth to increase access to specialists who can help them solve significant health challenges – regardless of their locations – virtual care opportunities will continue to transform traditional healthcare in 2023 and beyond.
HIPAA Journal
MARCH 3, 2023
Losses to phishing attacks increased by 76% last year, with almost one-third of companies losing money to successful phishing attacks according to Proofpoint’s recently published 2023 State of the Phish Report. In 2022, more than 4 out of 5 surveyed organizations experienced at least one successful phishing attack, with more than half of those organizations experiencing at least three successful phishing attacks.
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