MedTrainer

JULY 13, 2023

Technology advancements, such as remote patient monitoring (RPM), artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and chatbots are creating tremendous opportunities for improving virtually all aspects of healthcare. In an already overburdened system, this technology can also save time, reduce costs, and improve overall management.

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MedTrainer

MARCH 12, 2024

Adverse Drug Reactions: Prescribed medications are a mainstay of modern medical practice, but they are not without risk. Adverse Drug Reactions: Prescribed medications are a mainstay of modern medical practice, but they are not without risk.

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MedTrainer

MAY 3, 2024

Keeping compliance and fraud prevention top of mind can help to protect both your organization and its staff. Design Your Compliance Program To Fight Fraud Healthcare compliance programs play a crucial role in preventing fraud, waste, and abuse in the healthcare system. Keep in mind that these are just examples of provider fraud!

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YouCompli

MAY 17, 2023

Build relationships across risk assurance functions. Sharon Parsley, JD, MBA, CHC, CHRC contributes a regular post on compliance officer effectiveness for the YouCompli blog. In this article she discusses relationships and collaboration with other key risk assurance functions. In reality, the lines often blur.

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Verisys

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Overlooking OFAC compliance can be risky to your organization. If your healthcare organization has exposure to vendors, providers, or employees who are foreign entities, it is critical to understand OFAC compliance and be proactive in mitigating risk. Healthcare and technologies such as United Medical Instruments Inc.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 13, 2023

Pull up your favorite couch or chair, and let’s dive in and take a look together. But CBT, according to multiple studies I have seen, is not solving the underlying issues people have and instead is treating symptoms only or, put another way, effects but not causes. One of the topics I followed with keen interest this week at the J.P.

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Provider Trust

JULY 17, 2023

Their guidance aims to improve a number of potential risks within the healthcare space by improving care at nursing homes and strengthening the program integrity in managed care. Turning your attention to these concerns can provide insight into the relationship between ownership structure, private equity, and spending on care.

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Provider Trust

AUGUST 16, 2023

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) mandates that healthcare organizations conduct regular exclusion checks to avoid severe consequences, such as civil monetary penalties (CMP), legal ramifications, and reputational risk. Your monitoring should cover any individual or entity receiving direct or indirect payments from the organization.

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Hall Render

AUGUST 19, 2022

As advertising technology continues to evolve, it is becoming more common for website operators to utilize web trackers such as cookies, web beacons, tracking pixels and fingerprinting scripts to track and collect information from site users. Practical Takeaways.

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MedTrainer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Negligent credentialing practices break this bond of trust, and introduce risk into the healthcare environment. When organizations fail to credential physicians, surgeons, or other healthcare providers, they open the door to patient safety risks that could stem from insufficient training, experience, or ethical concerns.

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Provider Trust

APRIL 14, 2023

Regardless of your approach, the credentialing process can be quite complex. It starts with education about the regulatory and financial risks that data gaps and inefficient workflows cause. If bad actors are hiding in participating and/or non-participating networks, false claims and members’ quality and safety are at risk.

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Health Law Advisor

JUNE 1, 2023

This might blow your mind. Would it surprise you if I told you that a popular and well-respected machine learning algorithm developed to predict the onset of sepsis has shown some evidence of racial bias? [1] 1] How can that be, you might ask, for an algorithm that is simply grounded in biology and medical data? Averages.

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Health Law Advisor

AUGUST 10, 2023

In this blog post, we take on the question of when machine learning software developed by those involved in delivering health care is FDA regulated. 4] This definition has been remarkably durable, because instead of focusing on a particular technology, it focuses on how products are intended to be used. The allure is obvious.

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Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2018

I’m blogging live while attending HXD 2018 in Cambridge, MA, the health/care design conference convened by Mad*Pow, 26th and 27th June 2018. We have a “responsibility to imagine unintended consequences,” Sara believes, and in 2018 we are not at a loss for examples — like autonomous cars as a risk factor for accidents and possibly mortality.

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2018

Simply put: the impact of growing financial risk for healthcare costs will be felt by patients/consumers themselves. In 2007, the year I launched Health Populi , the inaugural post focused on just this issue; the post was titled, “Health care is the #1 line item in our national economy…and taking more out of your pocket.”

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SQA

MAY 24, 2023

For this, it is necessary to maintain regular active surveillance and vector control so that the risk of disease transmission is reduced. The guideline aims in understanding of regulatory expectations to validation, operation, and safe use of Information Technology (IT) systems in clinical trials. There was a total of 19 observations.

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Jane Sarashon

APRIL 28, 2024

health care stakeholders are still dealing as this post goes live on the Health Populi blog. looking back and looking forward to the future of cybersecurity in health care and some wisdom to help us manage that future world of risks. JSK: What’s your origin story with health information security?

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2023

The NHS was the brainchild of Minister of Health Aneurin Bevan; he wrote in a statement to doctors and nurses in The Lancet on July 3, 1948, “My job is to give you all the facilities, resources, apparatus and help I can, and then to leave you alone as professional men and women to use your skill and judgement without hindrance.”

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