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Important Resources to Ensure Medicare Compliance

Compliancy Group

Medicare Compliance Training Another CMS requirement for healthcare entities is to offer fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) training to all providers and staff. An example is knowingly billing for services a doctor hasn’t provided. An example is knowingly billing for services a doctor hasn’t provided.

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Healthy Data Management: How IT Assists Healthcare Institutions

Healthcare IT Today

Doctors remotely manage patient data without being tied to a specific medical facility. This became possible thanks to electronic health records, telemedicine, and cloud solutions. Unlike EMRs, requests for access to EHR records can be made by other medical centers.

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Asante Discovers 9 Years of Unauthorized Medical Record Access by a Physician

HIPAA Journal

Asante, an Oregon-based health system with three hospitals and more than 30 primary care facilities, has started notifying certain patients that their medical records have been accessed by a local doctor who had no treatment relationship with the patients.

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Healthy Data Management: How IT Assists Healthcare Institutions

HIT Consultant

Doctors remotely manage patient data without being tied to a specific medical facility. This became possible thanks to electronic health records, telemedicine, and cloud solutions. Unlike EMRs , requests for access to EHR records can be made by other medical centers.

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What Duplicate Patient Notes Reveal About Health Care and Its Records

Healthcare IT Today

Bloat in patient notes has been alarming doctors for some time. The American Medical Informatics Association began a project to reduce patient documentation to 25% of its current volume by 2025. That question would call for yet another study, which would interview the nurses and doctors themselves.

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Private Equity and Digital Health in 2023: Policy Updates and Trends to Watch

Healthcare Law Blog

In July 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a Special Fraud Alert alerting practitioners to exercise caution when entering into arrangements with telemedicine companies. Leveraging AI can enable faster scans and shorter wait times while eliminating unnecessary manual work.

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HITECH Compliance

AIHC

HIPAA guarantees patients access to their paper medical records. We can own a Durable Medical Equipment store, see our own doctor, or go and have a test done at a medical facility. Yes, there are patients that will use someone else’s medical card for services. What’s the difference between HIPAA and HITECH?