American Medical Compliance

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Generally, Assisted Living Facility OSHA sets and enforces standards and provides training, outreach, education, and assistance. These training courses are required for completion before taking the state-approved competency exam. Long-term care facilities can pose danger to their workers.

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American Medical Compliance

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Generally, Assisted Living Facility OSHA sets and enforces standards and provides training, outreach, education, and assistance. These training courses are required for completion before taking the state-approved competency exam. Long-term care facilities can pose danger to their workers.

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MedTrainer

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

It ultimately impacts safety, compliance and, by association, the quality of patient care. Prioritizing training and policies are vital to patient safety, but it’s hard when there are so many other things that need their attention. Moreover, the increase in substance abuse due to a lack of available medical care is staggering.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2021

But they've also been dreaming up creative solutions. Paul Coyne, RN, assistant vice president of clinical practice and chief nursing informatics officer at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. ( @hspecialsurgery ). Reimagining everything for remote care. "They are in the trenches of virtual care.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 31, 2024

Report: Security Breaches in Healthcare (Direct Download PDF, 1.9MB, 16 pages) An unwanted record was set in 2023 with 725 large security breaches in healthcare reported to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR), beating the record of 720 healthcare security breaches set the previous year.

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Hall Render

JUNE 10, 2022

As skilled nursing ‘teeters,’ leaders look to DC for help on pay rule and more. Nurses lobby for ‘RaDonda’s Law’ Physician compensation now above pre-pandemic levels. Shooting at Tulsa hospital exposes vulnerability of health care facilities. 2 nurses, physician stabbed at California hospital.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Sean Brady, Co-Founder and CEO at Ventric Health Given that 75% of patients with low socioeconomic status are first diagnosed with heart failure in the ER or in-patient setting, it is critical that advancements in chronic disease management prioritize increasing access to care.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 16, 2023

Changing this system involves building the connective tissue to make disparate systems work together, and that’s a long, hard, and slow road. It’s also not a road big tech companies are set up to travel. Racial Bias in AI Algorithms: Since AI is frequently used in healthcare, it needs to be used with a code of ethics to prevent bias.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 4, 2021

For Cherry of Lexington Medical Center, the lessons he and his team learned when rapidly prototyping their telehealth solution were very important. "Our IT team members care deeply about the services we provide to our customers, and they want our solutions to be 100% perfect before they deploy them to the organization," he said.

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AIHC

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The GCPG is a reference guide for the health care compliance community and other health care stakeholders and provides information about relevant Federal laws, compliance program infrastructure, OIG resources, and other information useful to understanding health care compliance.

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AIHC

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The GCPG is a reference guide for the health care compliance community and other health care stakeholders and provides information about relevant Federal laws, compliance program infrastructure, OIG resources, and other information useful to understanding health care compliance.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Healthcare providers are especially faced with new challenges: balancing best-practice patient care, reworking guidelines to protect and support their personnel, and much more. A frustrating element of in-person care has always been late or no-show patients. These challenges gave telehealth the chance to grab the spotlight.

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

million in federal funding Dignity Health – Memorial Hospital awarded Primary Heart Attack Center Certification Kaiser trash inspections end in $49M settlement L.A.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Vincent Partners With Park Plaza Mall on Community Health Programs Former Arkansas Medical Board Chair Brian Hyatt Arrested for Medicaid Fraud New Provider in Arkansas Focuses on No-Rush Health Care Walker Foundation Pledges $1M to UAMS Radiation Oncology Center Five nonprofits to split $5.9 health care startup Ounce raises $5.2M

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Hall Render

APRIL 15, 2022

CMS: End to pandemic waivers helps nursing homes ‘redirect efforts’ to meet residents’ needs. CMS pushes for mandatory flu vax monitoring among nursing home staff. CMS Releases Skilled Nursing Facility PPS Proposed Rule for FY23. CMS Releases Skilled Nursing Facility PPS Proposed Rule for FY23. CALIFORNIA.

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Hall Render

AUGUST 4, 2023

1 CMS final rule boosts Medicare hospice payments by 3.1% To Address SDOH Needs U.S. sues UnitedHealth over ‘thousands’ of denied claims What’s a fair price for a prescription drug? 1 CMS final rule boosts Medicare hospice payments by 3.1% To Address SDOH Needs U.S. 1 CMS final rule boosts Medicare hospice payments by 3.1%

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Vincent Opens 10 Women’s Clinics in South Arkansas Lowell In-Home Care Company Faces Racketeering Lawsuit for Alleged Workforce Misclassification Megan Bonney Named President of CHI St. Opens in North Little Rock CHI St.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2022

One solution to this pressing challenge is telemedicine. SOC Telemed, whose clients include 19 of the 25 largest health systems in the nation, has enabled nearly 1,000 facilities in 47 states to manage complex, acute workflows and provide life-saving care. The list is long and varied.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 15, 2023

s Vanda Pharmaceuticals pays $100M for commercial rights to Johnson & Johnson company’s drug Hundreds of DC’s Medicaid nursing home patients sent to Maryland Medical facility in DC’s Ward 8 gets $22.5M NATIONAL AHA pushes back on HHS proposal to penalize hospitals for cyberattacks AHA urges Congress to oppose H.R.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 8, 2023

health care Skilled nursing providers embrace bill nixing staff mandate, despite uncertain fate US News to begin rating ASCs ALABAMA Birmingham business lands pharmacy contract with Louisiana hospital Madison Co. NATIONAL 8.5M NATIONAL 8.5M NATIONAL 8.5M NATIONAL 8.5M NATIONAL 8.5M NATIONAL 8.5M

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

CMS sets court-ordered 340B drug payments, but leaves back payment issues unresolved. How CVS, Amazon and Walgreens are pushing into primary care, home health. Medical groups to Biden: ED boarding at a ‘crisis point’ Nursing home groups request public health emergency extension. deal to combine with Summit Health.

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Hall Render

APRIL 28, 2023

NATIONAL 16 bills in healthcare package, but little to show for nursing homes AHA discusses legislative proposals on site-neutral, 340B and other issues at House subcommittee hearing AHA: Financial Challenges Continue as Hospital Expenses Rise AHA: Supply chain won’t return to ‘normal’ anytime soon, but here’s what you can do (..)

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Nurses Nursing Homes COVID-19 Hospitals 40

Hall Render

AUGUST 26, 2022

Amazon to shutter virtual health care service Amazon Care. CMS bulletin presses states on Medicaid nursing home spending. CMS informational bulletin urges steps for improving health outcomes in nursing homes. Federal judge blocks HHS guidance that emergency medical care must include abortion services.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Expansion of the use of robots in telemedicine and remote patient monitoring will enable health care providers to reach patients in underserved areas.

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Hall Render

MAY 5, 2023

acquisition of Oak Street Health to expand primary care footprint Did Hospitals Violate EMTALA by Failing to Provide Abortion Care? acquisition of Oak Street Health to expand primary care footprint Did Hospitals Violate EMTALA by Failing to Provide Abortion Care?

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Hall Render

JULY 8, 2022

CMS issues updated nursing home staffing compliance guidelines. Nurse pay jumps nearly 5%. Alabama Department of Corrections picks new medical, mental health care provider. PeaceHealth cuts travel nurse budget, struggles with staff shortage. Arizona will spend millions on fixing nursing shortage. CONNECTICUT.

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US Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 Nursing Homes Nurses 40

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Korchinski, CIO at CareMount Health Solutions and CareMount Medical in New York. "However, having the foundational infrastructure in place and the skilled resources to support it and develop custom solutions as needed have helped us with the agility we required to quickly rise to the challenge." Nicholas J.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Browd believes this will democratize surgery across the world, including training medical students from thousands of miles away. Our overarching vision is to take the performance of surgery into the digital age, improving human performance and ultimately facilitating the transfer of knowledge into robotics for the betterment of human care.

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Hall Render

APRIL 21, 2023

NATIONAL 6 health systems using GPT and AI tools 100,000 nurses left industry during the pandemic, report finds AHA backs bill to delay Medicaid DSH cuts by 2 years AHA launches info hub for healthcare quality leaders AHA opposes MedPAC recommendations to Congress on site-neutral, Part B drug, wage index policies AHA ramps up 340B protection efforts (..)

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 20, 2023

behavioral health initiative CHI St.

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Hall Render

APRIL 7, 2023

NATIONAL AHA, AHCA warn CMS against unfunded nursing home staffing mandates AHA to Congress: Funding rural hospitals is critical for access AHA-supported bill to aid small rural hospitals reintroduced in Senate Biden won’t veto Republican-led bill ending COVID emergency CVS-branded hospitals?

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US Department of Health and Human Services Nursing Homes COVID-19 Nurses 40

Hall Render

JANUARY 28, 2022

Healthcare groups urge Congress to extend Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver. Hospital discharge pressures build as nursing homes clamor for help. The nursing home staffing crisis right now is like nothing we’ve seen before. With a vaccine mandate looming, nursing homes face more staffing problems.

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

NATIONAL Amazon moves into healthcare generative AI with $4B investment Biden administration to ban medical debt from credit scores CMS encourages physicians to apply for new Making Care Primary model CMS settles $9.2M in Stark law self disclosures: 3 things to know CMS’ staffing proposal will cost nursing homes $6.8B

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Hall Render

MARCH 9, 2023

Maternity Wards Closing.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Dunleavy proposes extending Medicaid coverage for new mothers ARIZONA Banner Health pays $1.25M penalty over HIPAA failures from 2016 breach Arizona nursing school at risk of losing accreditation St. billion since pandemic U.S.

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Hall Render

JUNE 16, 2023

Artificial Intelligence Poses Threat to Patient Privacy Bill for Rural Hospital Cyber Skills Passes Senate Committee Chemotherapy shortages push cancer centers toward crisis CMS estimates national spending on hospital care grew just 0.8% What are they doing to address it?

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In Boulder, you recycle it.

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