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Michigan Registered Nurse Pleads Guilty in COVID-19 Vaccination Record Card Fraud

Med-Net Compliance

A registered nurse from a veteran’s hospital in Detroit pleaded guilty to charges related to COVID-19 vaccination record cards fraud. She sold the cards for $150–$200 each and communicated with buyers primarily via Facebook Messenger.

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Bonus Features – September 24, 2023 – 72 percent of patients say affordability is the biggest challenge for paying medical bills

Healthcare IT Today

Medicare Advantage costs are 12% lower than similar beneficiaries covered under fee-for-service Medicare, according to research from Inovalon and Harvard Medical School. Hospital operations software maker symplr launched a survey management tool. ModMed added maternal fetal medicine capabilities to its EHR suite for OBGYNs.

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The New Drug Companies Aren’t Drug Companies At All

Health Populi

This research organization will develop medicines targeting older adults — which makes sense because Clover Health’s target consumer market is Medicare Advantage beneficiaries. Department of Veterans Affairs is also collaborating with Civica Rx.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Acting on SDoH

Healthcare IT Today

In this article, I’ll show how many hospitals, payers, and other institutions are acting on that data. Of course, the staff of a clinic or hospital don’t go around looking for apartments the way they actively look for a long-term care facility.

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HIMSS names 2021 Changemaker Award winners

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

This helped the organization achieve HIMSS Stage 7 in 2017 – the first academic hospital in Canada to do so. Before joining Geisinger, she served as Pennsylvania’s secretary of health, where she developed an innovative payment and delivery model for rural hospitals. He earned a HIMSS Davies Award of Excellence in 2018.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Advancing Quality of Care

AIHC

Case #2 : A 38-year-old man was brought to the hospital with altered mental status after crashing while riding a motorcycle. On hospitals days 5 through 10, the primary team’s progress notes documented identical examinations, each auto populated from a previous note, including the phrase “moves all extremities.”

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2023 may bring progress in SDOH tech, telehealth and interoperability

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

What I have been most excited about is the acceleration in the concrete steps that Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services states and accreditation organizations are taking to inspire action in the space of health equity.