Health Care Law Brief

JULY 19, 2022

On July 11, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published “ Location, health, and other sensitive information: FTC committed to fully enforcing the law against illegal use and sharing of highly sensitive data ,” on its Business Blog. The agency will bring enforcement actions for misuse of consumer data.

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HealthStream

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

HealthStream’s 10 most popular 2020 blog posts ranged across a variety of subjects, from COVID-19 specifics to nurse burnout, training, and specialties. In addition, improving healthcare outcomes was an underlying message.

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HealthStream

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

In 2020 HealthStream’s 10 most popular blog posts of all time ranged across a variety of subjects, from nurse communication, to defining nurse informatics and important skills for nursing, to understanding more about healthcare revenue cycle and compliance.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Read my post on getting transparent about transparency in Medecision’s blog here for more details and a deeper dive into this important issue. The post Being Transparent About Healthcare Transparency – My Post on the Medecision Blog appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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The Health Law Firm Blog

MAY 23, 2023

By George F. Indest III, J.D., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law In representing nurses and other licensed health professionals, we constantly discuss positive drug screenings, usually from employer-ordered drug testing, with our clients.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Medecision published my blog about health citizenship this week on the company’s Liberate.Health site. Onward, Health Citizens… The post The Emergence of Health Citizens – Part of Liberating Health, on the Medecision Blog appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. ” at an early Health 2.0 Conference.

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HealthStream

JUNE 11, 2020

The blog posts HealthStream has already published in connection with the Covid-19 Pandemic range from what healthcare professionals need to know to the ramifications of working remotely and how healthcare looks different to those working on the frontlines of care.

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Health Law Checkup

JUNE 9, 2022

This week, Eric is joined by Rick Goddard, Senior Director of Market Strategy for Lumeris, an operating partnership company that helps health systems generate enterprise value through population health services, analytics and technologies.

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HealthStream

JUNE 17, 2020

Here are our most popular healthcare talent management-focused blog posts so far in 2020. HealthStream's talent, learning, and performance solutions connect customers to healthcare’s largest learning community with a learning management system customized to meet organizations’ unique needs.

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HealthStream

JANUARY 16, 2020

Here are the top 10 blog posts published in 2019 by HealthStream. They range in subject matter from healthcare compliance and revenue cycle to employee turnover and shortages. Other posts concentrate on the ongoing opioid crisis and specific healthcare sectors.

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HealthStream

JANUARY 22, 2020

Here are the 10 most popular HealthStream blog posts in 2019, regardless of when they were published. Most appear to be connected back to nursing and its intersection with lifelong learning.

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HealthStream

JUNE 19, 2020

Here are our most popular nursing-focused blog posts so far in 2020. At HealthStream we spend much of our time focused on nurses—especially on finding solutions to their workforce development challenges and to providing ways to make their jobs less conducive to stress and burnout.

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Health Law Checkup

JUNE 9, 2022

This week on Talking Pop Health, Eric Tower is joined by Dave Morlock, managing director for Cain Brothers, a preeminent advisory service for health care organizations.

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Health Law Checkup

JUNE 9, 2022

After taking a short hiatus, Talking Pop Health is back with Host Eric Tower. This week, Eric is joined by Mark Nolan, COO of Hint Health, a full-service Direct Care Administration platform dedicated to improving patient access and outcomes while lowering costs.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 5, 2023

Overall growth in patient portal engagement has been encouraging, but prior studies have identified persistent disparities in patients’ access and use of online medical records, wrote study co-author Chelsea Richwine, an economist with ONC's Office of Technology, in Thursday's HealthITbuzz blog post summarizing the findings.

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Health Law Checkup

MAY 27, 2022

In this episode of Talking Pop Health, Eric Tower is joined by Hector Torres of FocalPoint Partners, a diversified, global investment banking enterprise with a strategic focus on the health care industry. Hector is Managing Director and co-head of Health Care Investment Banking at FocalPoint Partners.

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Health Law Checkup

MAY 27, 2022

On Monday, February 14, 2022, the State of Texas by and through the Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, filed suit against Meta Platforms, Inc. for alleged violations of the state’s biometric and deceptive trade practices laws.

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HealthStream

MAY 13, 2019

HealthStream and HCCS, A HealthStream Company recently published numerous blog posts related to the healthcare continuum. We’ve collected and compiled links to them here.

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HealthStream

MAY 7, 2019

HealthStream and HCCS, A HealthStream Company recently published numerous blog posts related to the healthcare continuum. We’ve collected and compiled links to them here.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 31, 2022

"Our combined efforts are expected to demonstrate how best to advance our nation’s technical infrastructure to enable SDOH interoperability as supported by ONC’s United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) Version 2," ONC authors Ryan Argentieri, Samantha Meklir and Jawanna Henry wrote in ONC's HealthITbuzz blog.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 14, 2022

In this blog post, I will describe why this represents a lost opportunity. This blog post is excerpted and adapted from his article, Responsive Analysis: Public Health Federalism and Tort Reform in the U.S. Neither the U.S. Response to COVID-19 , published in the DePaul Law Review and available on SSRN.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The new Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare tools have been designed to address provider burdens and facilitate proactive patient care, according to an October 12 Microsoft Health blog post by Tom McGuiness, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Worldwide Health.

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Health Law Checkup

JANUARY 20, 2022

The Families First Coronavirus Response Act we first reported on earlier this week has now passed the Senate after technical corrections by the House of Representatives and has been sent to the President for signature. This bill creates several significant paid leave requirements for employers.

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HealthStream

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Here are the four most popular HealthStream blog posts published in 2018 focused on provider solutions.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 28, 2023

Student fellows also blog regularly at Bill of Health , the Center’s blog, where their work receives substantial public exposure.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 5, 2023

In a blog post, the virtual care provider blasts the insurer for paying it less than other providers in California and refusing to process 'every single' out-of-network claim.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 23, 2021

In a blog post , Kathryn Marchesini and Michael Lipinski offer providers, certified health IT developers and health information networks/exchanges some clarity on a deceptively simple question: "So, what is EHI anyway? Much more detail is available in the ONC blog post.

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Health Law Checkup

JANUARY 20, 2022

On March 24, 2020, the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division — the two federal agencies responsible for enforcement of federal antitrust laws — issued a joint statement recognizing that dealing with the COVID-19 crisis will require “unprecedented cooperation…among private businesses.”

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Health Law Checkup

JANUARY 20, 2022

Can a whistleblower successfully allege Medicaid/Medicare fraud if the whistleblower lacked direct access to records related to the alleged fraud? While the appellate circuits are still split on this issue, we look at recent decisions that indicate a possible shift in the Seventh Circuit’s pleading standard.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

MAY 8, 2023

In a post for the Commonwealth Fund's To the Point blog, CHIR's Christine Monahan and Madeline O'Brien compare state approaches to selecting insurance carriers to offer the new state plans. Washington, Colorado, and Nevada are partnering with private health insurance carriers to offer new "public option" plans.

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

By Kristin Savage writes regularly on the Pick Writers blog and occasionally contributes to other educational platforms. This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Technology has become an inseparable part of our lives.

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Healthcare Blog

JULY 28, 2022

In our last blog, we discussed how important customer support is for the implementation, staff adoption, and use of policy management software. For additional information please read our blogs on: Choosing the Right Policy Management Software for Healthcare. Why You Need Policy Automation in the First Place.

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OSHA Law Blog

JUNE 13, 2022

Read the full article on Jackson Lewis’ California Workplace Law Blog. Cal/OSHA recently released a revised draft regulation for workplace violence prevention to apply to general industry, not just health care, proposing a broad application of the standards with limited exceptions.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

JANUARY 18, 2023

In the second in their blog series assessing policy options to shore up employer-sponsored insurance as a source of coverage, CHIR experts Linda Blumberg, Sabrina Corlette and Jack Hoadley tackle a policy that economists and budget forecasters predict would have the biggest impact: hospital price regulation.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

This blog is the second installment of our Digital Health Trends series. viii] For additional information regarding the CY 2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act, please see the following resource: Key Healthcare Provisions of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 | Healthcare Law Blog (sheppardhealthlaw.com). [ix]

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NCG Medical Blog

MAY 1, 2023

This blog will discuss the benefits of outsourced medical billing for small medical groups in Florida and how NCG Medical can help. In Florida, small medical groups must navigate a complex landscape of regulations and industry dynamics to maintain profitability and deliver quality patient care.

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Healthcare Blog

JUNE 20, 2022

In our blog post a few weeks ago we talked about the importance of policy and procedure management. . In our next blog, we will discuss why policy management software should make your job easier, not harder. Achieves staff compliance through 24/7 access to the most current policies and procedures. Execute staff competency assessments.

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