Healthcare It News

MARCH 3, 2022

In January 2021, the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness went live with LouVax, a vaccine scheduling and management system focused on increasing access to the COVID-19 vaccine. After operating on paper for a few weeks, the agency launched the tool.

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Healthcare Law Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Addressing Declines in COVID-19 Vaccination Rates and COVID-19 Treatment. A pre-Thanksgiving analysis of this data revealed that just 45% of SNF residents and 23% of SNF staff were up-to-date with COVID-19 vaccines and boosters. [ii] Timely Therapeutic Treatments.

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Compliance Now

DECEMBER 20, 2021

On Friday, December 17, 2021, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision allowing OSHA to enforce its COVID-19 vaccination mandate for employers with 100 or more employees. The CDC document “Key Things to Know About COVID-19 Vaccines” Information about protection against retaliation and discrimination.

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Med-Net Compliance

JULY 13, 2022

Two California brothers were both sentenced to 36 months of probation and ordered to pay $500 dollars in restitution after pleading guilty to misdemeanor conspiracy to steal or convert government property charges stemming from the theft of Centers for Disease Control (CDC) COVID-19 Vaccination Record Cards.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 6, 2022

Nursing homes face possible citations, civil monetary penalties, denial of payments and—as a final measure—termination of participation from the Medicare and Medicaid programs by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) as they embark on complying with the new CMS COVID-19 vaccine requirements for their staff.

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Med-Net Compliance

JULY 8, 2022

Because the LTC facility population was at the highest risk of COVID-19 infections, the CDC created the LTC PPP to prioritize vaccinations of that population as quickly as possible and while vaccine availability was limited. The company enrolled in the LTC PPP and scheduled its first vaccination clinic on Dec.

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YouCompli

AUGUST 2, 2022

The program was specifically designed to vaccinate long-term care facility residents and staff when doses of COVID-19 vaccine became available. MorseLife Nursing Home Health System was alleged to have provided vaccines to individuals who were not eligible under this program. Vaccination cards.

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Health Law RX

AUGUST 31, 2021

To be clear, as we have previously noted the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has issued guidance noting that there are circumstances under which employers can require employees to get a COVID-19 vaccine, so long as they make reasonable accommodations for those with disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

This week’s chat will be hosted by Richard Bagdona (@richardbagdonas) on the topic “Interoperability with COVID“. Many health tech workers at facilities providing COVID vaccinations are being asked to create HL7 documents with vaccination […].

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 31, 2022

i), the regulation that details the requirements related to COVID-19 vaccination of facility staff. i) has multiple elements that call for skilled nursing facilities to develop and implement policies and procedures that will ensure all staff are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Enforcement. Next Actions.

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Hall Render

MAY 2, 2023

COVID SNF Notification Requirements. SNFs should confirm they have documentation of instances when they relied on or acted based on a blanket waiver or the expiring regulations. SNFs should retrain staff on the dates and timing of the end of each blanket waiver and interim final rule.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 12, 2023

By Tara Davis and Nicola Soekoe In January 2021, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) observed that the world was on the brink of a “catastrophic moral failure” if wealthier nations did not ensure the equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines. Impact of the judgment: what have records disclosed shown?

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 29, 2022

Despite pediatric COVID-19 vaccine availability, many youth remain unvaccinated , and are thus at higher risk of life-altering outcomes as a result of contracting COVID-19. [1]. Specific to the COVID-19 vaccine, children under age 18 in most jurisdictions will require parental consent. [8].

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 7, 2022

This kind of proposal is not a novelty, since it was already recommended in a previous document on the response to the Ebola outbreak in Western Africa (although it was never endorsed by the WHO Member States).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 13, 2021

"HBNS discovered many hidden issues with our older, misconfigured and under-maintained hardware systems, including a lack of proper documentation and passwords," she recalled. Fuchs said the first six to eight months was a painful time. "Our software had bugs and our network was wonky. " Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 4, 2021

"Lexington Medical Center applied those lessons in agility when, later in the year, we were tasked with providing IT solutions for mobile COVID-19 testing sites, and then mobile COVID-19 vaccination sites," he recalled. "And the BAA is as important a document as is the contract language itself.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 12, 2024

Controlled substances and medication-related messages, for example, demonstrated low variability, whereas topics like influenza vaccine and COVID-19 vaccine showed high variability. Researchers noted future enhancements are needed to address messages with multiple topics and improve content labeling and responses.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 13, 2021

And last year, a COVID-19 vaccine was researched, developed and deployed almost four years ahead of the normal timeline for a new vaccine." They alert users if they've already taken their medication. " But still, said Feinberg, "the noise remains. That's what we have to take to zero.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 31, 2022

Nursing homes face possible citations, civil monetary penalties, denial of payments and—as a final measure—termination of participation from the Medicare and Medicaid programs by the CMS as they embark on complying with the new CMS COVID-19 vaccine requirements for their staff. Information Needed within Four Hours of Entrance.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 15, 2023

"Ryan Health started to test that solution and prepared training documents for deployment," he continued. "The initial testing and documentation were completed in April 2020 for the eCW telehealth solution, and it was deployed to all providers. We contacted eCW and started to explore their integrated telehealth solution.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

An investigation was started that day and discovered that the first and last names of clients were exposed, and in some cases the clients COVID-19 vaccination status was accessed. Update these documents as new information becomes available. The phishing attack occurred on November 16, 2021, and affected 1,300 individuals.

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Verisys

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This rule rescinds provisions requiring workers in health care settings to wear masks as of April 3, 2023, and repealed the requirement of workers in health care settings to be COVID-19 vaccinated as of May 11, 2023. This Oregon Board of Medicine rule is no longer needed as the OHA has rescinded these rules.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 16, 2021

However, a surprising 71 percent recognize that patient expectations for more speedy development of new cancer treatments have increased because of the perceived speed of COVID-19 vaccine development.

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SQA

JUNE 10, 2021

Each provincial drug regulatory department must implement the responsibility for supervision over change management of post-approval drugs at its administrative area, by specifying requirements, formulating working documents, and clarifying time limits. The contents of this announcement became effective immediately upon publication.

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SQA

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Remote audit requests are still increasing into the new year, and SQA’s approach is documented in our Remote Audit One Pager. SQA is proud to be supporting Hellmann in delivering COVID-19 vaccines around the world. “We SQA Mini Series Episode 2: Saving Lives. SQA Mini Series Episode 3: High Stakes.

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Dot Compliance

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine highlighted the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) as Johnson & Johnson, Moderna and Pfizer employed these technologies to swiftly get their vaccines to market. The next evolution is for companies to implement Industry 4.0

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

That same report also showed the company delivered: 55 billion medication histories 25 billion clinical documents …via its platform. “We Confirmation of Vaccination The pandemic accelerated the use of Surescripts’ platform as an information exchange. “We million prescribers used their platform to fill 2.34 billion e-prescriptions.

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Healthcare Law Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

On February 9, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released two highly-anticipated guidance documents (the “Guidance”) detailing the agency’s proposed implementation of the Medicare Part B (“Part B”) and Medicare Part D (“Part D”) Prescription Drug Inflation Rebate Programs (each, a “Rebate Program” and, collectively, the “Rebate (..)

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MedTrainer

MAY 4, 2023

Emergency plans no longer need to include documentation of efforts to contact relevant local, state, regional, tribal, and federal emergency preparedness officials regarding emergency planning efforts. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is ending the vaccination requirement, which is one less item on your compliance list!

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 18, 2021

The world has been in urgent need of COVID-19 vaccines, treatments, and diagnostic tools. Social distancing and occupancy restrictions have expedited the digital transformation of clinical trial study design and execution as industry players have raced toward COVID-19 vaccine and treatment development.

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SQA

MARCH 25, 2021

For post-market clinical investigations, the principles set forth in this document are intended to be followed as far as relevant, considering the nature of the clinical investigation. This document specifies general requirements intended to: Protect the rights, safety, and well-being of human subjects. Nostrum Laboratories, Inc.

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SQA

APRIL 30, 2021

Commission Extends Transparency and Authorization Mechanism for Exports of COVID-19 Vaccines, 11 March 2021. The EC has extended until the end of June 2021 the transparency and authorization mechanism for COVID-19 vaccine exports. The EU continues to be the leading provider of vaccines around the world.

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Hall Render

MAY 2, 2023

Specifically, the Agencies: Will no longer allow an extended time for plan sponsors to provide plan documentation and other notices to participants. If there were employees physically present at a work location, no exceptions were being made for in-person verification of identity and employment eligibility documentation for Form I-9.

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Hall Render

MAY 11, 2023

Vaccination Recommendation While not required, CMS encouraged facilities to offer testing to visitors. CMS also strongly encouraged all visitors to stay up to date with their COVID-19 vaccinations and facilities should educate and also encourage visitors to become vaccinated.

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Total Medical ComplianceHIPAA

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

DISCLOSING COVID-19 VACCINATION STATUS. HHS has published an article on the HIPAA Privacy Rule’s effect on the disclosure of COVID-19 vaccination status for healthcare. Does the HIPAA Privacy Rule prevent customers or clients of a business from disclosing whether they have received a COVID-19 vaccine?

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C&M Health Law

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

According to Sale, burnout resulting from transcription, documentation, and other administrative burdens impacts patient care, which can be profoundly improved by AI. Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) asked Dr. Inglesby about the use of AI in Covid-19 vaccine development and about the lessons learned from using AI to prevent biosecurity risks.

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Total Medical ComplianceHIPAA

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

DISCLOSING COVID-19 VACCINATION STATUS. HHS has published an article on the HIPAA Privacy Rule’s effect on the disclosure of COVID-19 vaccination status for healthcare. Does the HIPAA Privacy Rule prevent customers or clients of a business from disclosing whether they have received a COVID-19 vaccine?

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