HIT Consultant

MARCH 8, 2024

What You Should Know: Ensemble Health Partners (Ensemble) , the market leader in end-to-end revenue cycle outsourcing for mid-sized to large healthcare organizations, announced today that it has been selected by Beebe Healthcare (Beebe) as their strategic partner to manage all revenue cycle operations.

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Healthcare Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It impacts every area of healthcare, including interventions, access, and insurance. These include The Affordable Care Act, which helps give Americans access to affordable health insurance, or The Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act, which ensures access to clean water and clean air.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 16, 2021

Of the 28 million patients who visited these clinics in 2020, almost half were new visitors. He is a practicing urgent care physician, CEO of Experity and vice president of the Coalition for Urgent Care Access. To do so, clinics will need a strategy to nurture relationships with these new patients and turn them into return visitors.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Physicians, nurses, staff, patients, and visitors need seamless indoor wireless coverage. So, what can healthcare IT professionals do to ensure a better-connected experience for patients, staff, and visitors? And in today’s always-connected 5G world, much of that experience depends on pervasive, secure mobile device connectivity.

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MedTrainer

APRIL 11, 2024

Symplr software focuses on healthcare governance, risk management, and compliance within the healthcare sector. Their cloud-based solutions aim to enhance healthcare operations via provider data management, workforce management, compliance, quality and safety monitoring, contract, supplier, and spend management.

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Symplr

AUGUST 12, 2022

However, by putting the sole focus on COVID-19, we’ve been missing the broader mission of infection control—for example, in credentialing, access management, and other healthcare operations areas.

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Jackson Lewis

JULY 7, 2022

While people may be familiar with many of the rules relating to the admission of service animals into public venues, do the same rules apply when a patient or visitor seeks to enter a hospital, medical office, or other healthcare facility accompanied by a service animal?

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 31, 2023

New York Presbyterian Hospital has reported a 54K-record data breach due to website tracking tools, ransomware attacks have been reported by Atlantic Dialysis Management Services and American Pain & Wellness, and there has been an impermissible disclosure of PHI by a former New Medical Health Care employee.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 20, 2020

This was done in a bid to help employees detect and effectively manage chronic diseases at an early stage which would in turn help to greatly reduce medical insurance costs that will be borne by employers eventually. Numerous operational systems were also deployed in order to manage the sudden influx of infected patients.

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Compliancy Group

APRIL 15, 2024

By following an OSHA compliance checklist, healthcare providers can ensure the well-being of their staff, patients, and visitors. In any healthcare setting, employees must have access to appropriate PPE to protect themselves from potential hazards.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

Of all industries, health care above all should provide accessible web sites to support people with disabilities or special needs. Furthermore, the field is getting more and more digital with wellness sites, telehealth, and fitness devices—so making them accessible is crucial to making health care accessible. are great advances.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Administrative Support: Prepare materials for committees and work groups (i.e., Administrative Support: Prepare materials for committees and work groups (i.e., Administrative Support: Prepare materials for committees and work groups (i.e.,

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HIT Consultant

MAY 30, 2023

Regardless of the circumstances or the timing of an adverse event, health system leaders have a duty of care to keep their patients, staff, visitors and facilities safe from harm. To meet these fiduciary responsibilities, hospital leaders have utilized the Hospital Incident Command System (HICS) since the 1990s.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 28, 2023

The report, now in its 9 th year, was based on 1,160 security incidents managed by BakerHostetler’s Digital Assets and Data Management Practice Group in 2022. OCR’s HIPAA Right of Access enforcement initiative is still ongoing, and compliance remains a priority for OCR.

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MedTrainer

APRIL 16, 2024

For example, a patient with COVID would be on airborne precautions, so any worker or visitor must wear an N-95 mask before entering the patient’s room. Policy Management Employees must review and acknowledge specific policies and procedures annually and upon hire to meet compliance standards.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Healthcare organizations typically contract with many different vendors which are often provided with sensitive data or privileged access to healthcare networks. Assessing and managing supply chain risk is now one of the biggest cybersecurity challenges in healthcare. more likely to experience a data breach.

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MedTrainer

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The New Hampshire Hospital Association (NHHA) is an organization dedicated to supporting and advocating for hospitals and health systems in New Hampshire, focusing on improving healthcare quality and accessibility for the state’s communities.

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Compliancy Group

JUNE 16, 2023

Google Analytics & HIPAA Compliance The first step toward using Google Analytics while remaining HIPAA compliant is using Google Tag Manager (GTM). GTM allows you to manage tags or tracking codes from various sources across your website without having to code manually. Become HIPAA Compliant × Get HIPAA Compliant! Please Wait.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 31, 2023

For the healthcare industry, this could prove vital because it will allow surgeries, like those performed at the Mobile World Congress, along with high-level surgeons to reach areas that previously wouldn’t have access to premium care. For example, devices must have the correct physical SIM card or eSIM to access the private 5G network.

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Jerri Lynn Ward

MARCH 23, 2022

plan that addresses the core functions of emergency management. manage the facility’s response to an emergency situation in accordance with the plan. inform residents, staff, visitors and others about its smoking policies. “ Click to access PL2011-14.pdf. This rule requires an ICF/MR to.

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Med-Net Compliance

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

When questioned about the process, the nursing home managers outlined the facility’s multiple methods to register hours spent with clients. The facility is required to post this information in a location accessible to residents, staff, and visitors and maintain this record for no less than two years.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 7, 2023

It's designed and built with the patient experience top of mind at every turn, offering a seamless experience for patients, visitors, providers and co-workers. The Mercy Center for Performance Medicine & Specialty Care is a high-tech, 272,000-square-foot outpatient center. Please elaborate.

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Healthcare Law Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Companies use these tools to better understand their website visitors. Other times, these tools may collect information about unique visitors in order to develop a profile about the visitor. a patient portal), tracking technologies may have access to these visitors’ protected health information (PHI).

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The following is a guest article by Jim Cropper, Director of Sales at Brother International Healthcare technology development and modern security needs are continually evolving, calling for a shift toward digitization and interoperability to facilitate easier access to information, and more efficient and effective healthcare delivery.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 20, 2020

Product manager at Google Security, Neil Kumaran, and lead security product marketing manager for G Suite and GCP platform, Sam Lugani, issued a statement last week (16 April) in which they underlined the extent of their security measures set up to protect against phishing and malware attacks sent to gmail accounts.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

With this being said, cloud-based solutions are emerging as a viable option for these organizations because of data protection, remote management, and cost predictability. The healthcare vertical is both complex and evolving, bringing to light the management of. Tip 1: Evaluate the risk. compared to other markets. The cloud is an.

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Health Law Advisor

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

One notable impact of the decisions is to dismiss the adequacy of encryption technologies where the service provider (such as Google) has access to the cryptographic key and can be compelled to surrender it in order for the data to be decrypted and read by U.S. surveillance authorities.

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MedTrainer

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

They manage day-to-day care for inpatient cases. Put secondhand information in quotation marks, whether it comes from a colleague, visitor, or patient, and clearly identify the source. Nurses are on the front line of most healthcare events. They triage patients in the emergency department. They are the eyes and ears of patient safety.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

As such, for healthcare digital marketers, the challenge of separating PHI from marketing behavioral data and other non-PHI patient data was manageable. However, a single IP address can often represent hundreds of unique visitors. New tracking guidance as of November 2022 Last fall, the U.S.

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MedTrainer

MARCH 28, 2024

These incidents can impact staff, visitors, or the healthcare facility itself and might indirectly influence patient care or safety. Accessibility: Reporting mechanisms should be easily accessible to all staff, ensuring that barriers to reporting are minimized.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 3, 2022

Ransomware threat actors steal sensitive data that has a high value on the black market, threaten to publish that data to pressure visitors into paying, and the extended system outages due to the attacks can cause considerable financial losses, increasing the probability of the ransom being paid.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2020

The announcement comes as part of the TRA’s “efforts to support hospitals and clinics in providing remote healthcare services”, working with the telecom operators Etisalat and du to provide access on “an exceptional basis on all networks until further notice” WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 5, 2020

In the recent HIMSS webinar ‘Italian non-acute facilities facing COVID-19 emergency,’ chair Nevio Boscariol, head of finance, services and management at ARIS, opened up the discussion to those in rehabilitative and residential care. We are practicing greater sanitisation of rooms and common spaces, as well as inpatient rooms.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 7, 2020

This rapid increase in telemedicine capabilities created unique challenges, including: 1) Scaling the existing platform to handle new, COVID-19-driven volume, 2) Improving patient access and technical support structures, and 3) The need to monitor larger numbers of patients and different vital signs remotely.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 10, 2023

The new facility also offers patient families a variety of elevated amenities, including a larger cafeteria space, family waiting area, an expanded gift shop and additional space for visitor parking. "Managing these conditions can be challenging," he continued.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 2, 2023

Accessing the health records of patients for reasons other than those permitted by the Privacy Rule – treatment, payment, and healthcare operations – is a violation of patient privacy. University of California Los Angeles Health System was fined $865,000 for failing to restrict access to medical records. Cardionet – $2.5

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Dot Compliance

JANUARY 14, 2022

Life science companies need to continuously implement and adjust their risk management and risk assessment protocols to survive. Companies must identify, assess, and manage these risks using industry standards and best practices and consider the unique circumstances that their product or service has for all stakeholders.

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