The Health Law Firm

AUGUST 18, 2022

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On August 12, 2022, a doctor acquitted in a $85 million Medicare fraud scheme filed a motion in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York requesting prosecutors cover the legal fees and expenses she incurred. Indest III, J.D.,

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NY Health Law

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The Supreme Court will hear argument next week in two consolidated cases that will decide what standard applies when a doctor asserts a good faith defense to a criminal prosecution for unlawful drug distribution. The doctors argue that the trial courts failed to properly instruct the juries on their good faith defenses.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The Future Health Index insights report captures feedback from 500 doctors under the age of 40 in five countries: the United States of America, China, Singapore, France and Germany. During COVID it rapidly became a ‘need-to-have’ The ability to maintain a patient/doctor relationship remotely was a major step-up for virtual care.

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Healthcare Law Today

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The case asks whether the government has authority to dismiss an FCA suit after initially declining to proceed with the action, and if so, what standard would apply. Petitioner-Relator Polansky is a doctor and former consultant for Executive Health Resources (EHR), a company that submits claims to Medicare on behalf of health care providers.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Doctors in the U.S. Doctors and patients, both, have roles to play in addressing medical misinformation online. That’s less than half of the percentage of doctors saying so — 98%, virtually all U.S. That’s less than half of the percentage of doctors saying so — 98%, virtually all U.S.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 9, 2024

More healthcare stakeholders in China are contributing to the government's vision to make smart Chinese medicine popular and standardised. The Chinese government is focusing on smart hospital construction to meet the perceived increase in healthcare services demand over the coming years.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2024

Not-for-profit aeromedical services provider Royal Flying Doctor Service has introduced what could be the first unmanned virtual medical emergency centre in Australia's outback. Meanwhile, the patient can wait in a secure treatment room before an RFDS aeromedical crew arrives.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

On this National Doctors Day , as the U.S. As for telehealth, AMA points physicians to the fact that the government has also waived many telehealth requirements for new patients during the emergency, and is allowing for enhanced use of telehealth under Medicare for federally qualified health centers. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Med-Net Compliance

JULY 20, 2022

A federal jury convicted a New York ENT doctor for defrauding Medicare and Medicaid by causing the submission of false and fraudulent claims for surgical procedures that were not performed. Specifically, between January 2014 and February 2018, the doctor billed Medicare and Medicaid approximately $585,000 and was paid approximately $191,000.

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The Health Law Firm

MAY 9, 2019

These scams are used to rip off government funded programs by millions of dollars. This two part blog series aims to warn doctors and other health professionals of the dangers they may face from inadvertently becoming involved in one of these schemes to defraud insurers and government payers. Indest III, J.D.,

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The Indian government is upgrading its COVID-19 vaccination platform, CoWIN, to digitally track people's vaccination status against common preventable diseases, including measles, rubella and COVID-19. The study follows similar projects done in India and Thailand over the past two years.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 20, 2023

Securely sharing patient information is vital in the United States where healthcare organizations and their business associates are required to comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and state laws governing health information privacy.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Ping An Good Doctor’s cooperation with the Guangxi government opens doors for the company to extend its reach to ASEAN.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 13, 2024

We haven’t seen this much universal interest in a health IT product since the government offered $36 billion in stimulus money for EHR software. However, this feels very different since healthcare organizations are evaluating ambient clinical voice solutions on their merit versus chasing government money.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The patient experience is enhanced when patients are able to find the right doctor and the right location for their individual health needs. This article will explore a few ways for health leaders to establish a strong governance strategy for their consumer and marketing-focused taxonomy, ensuring consistent, quality care.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

" People are increasingly disclosing information about their personal health through wearables, social media and other technologies, and researchers and the government are actively encouraging that sharing, she said. The new narrative affects not only data privacy, but it affects "the basic experience of going to the doctor."

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 30, 2024

While the enthusiasm for genAI will remain elevated this year – with governments even investing in this emerging lucrative space , the pace of adoption will likely be slow, says Kota Kubo, CEO of Ubie. It gives doctors an understanding of a patient’s condition quickly so they get more face-to-face time with patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 9, 2024

Robotic telesurgery continues to take off in Indonesia with the support of the government of Iran. The Robotic Telesurgery Center, a project between the two governments, is being expanded to connect the western and eastern islands of Indonesia at a distance of 3,500 kilometres.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 6, 2021

The Thai government has built a telemedicine platform to monitor COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms at home and at community isolation centres. According to a local news report , the BKK HI Care platform enables remote patient monitoring by doctors.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Amrita Hospital in Faridabab announced that the head of its Radiation Oncology department has received a grant from the government to develop a robot-assisted ultrasound system for image-guided therapies and hyperthermia for cancer treatment.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The Victorian government has invested A$2.4 This new entrepreneurship programme is backed by funding from the Future Health Research and Innovation Fund and the Medical Research Future Fund of the federal government. Ambulance Victoria onboards My Emergency Doctor to its Secondary Triage service. million ($1.6 million ($1.45

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 5, 2023

Kocoras ruled that the need to safeguard patient privacy (especially given vulnerabilities of prior medical history) outweighed the “little, if any, probative value” of the data to the government. In San Francisco, U.S. On the other side, U.S. Familiar tactics and arguments will be levied in forthcoming battles for medical record data access.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 6, 2023

The prosecution of two doctors accused of criminal HIPAA violations and conspiring with the Russian government has ended in a mistrial as the jury could not reach a unanimous guilty verdict. 37, a former anesthesiologist at Johns Hopkins, and her spouse, Jamie Lee Henry, 40, a doctor and U.S. government and military to Russia.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The American Medical Association (AMA) recently adopted new policies aimed at protecting access to reproductive health care and reducing government interference in medical practice. The AMA is governed by a House of Delegates (HOD), in addition to executive management and a board of trustees. By Katie Gu.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 14, 2022

public health infrastructure nor American political culture support the kind of muscular central government mandates that have characterized the COVID-19 policies of many other countries. In this blog post, I will describe why this represents a lost opportunity. Neither the U.S. However, there was never any evidence to justify these laws.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The Indonesian government will be extending its free telemedicine service for COVID-19 patients outside its capital, Jakarta. Accessible through a government website, the service is intended for asymptomatic or mild COVID-19 patients under self-isolation. WHAT IT'S ABOUT. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 20, 2021

These changes to the healthcare landscape were helped partly by requirements of the COVID-19 pandemic and partly by the subsequent loosening of telemedicine reimbursement and licensure regulations by the government. Will the government and commercial payers continue to reimburse for telemedicine? But what's to happen in 2022?

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 19, 2024

Since the pandemic, the Mount Alvernia IT team has created 13 applications, including the Staff Health System (which was initially a contact tracing solution), Doctors Directory, Medical Records Tracking, and Electronic Meal Ordering. Furthermore, enterprise IT teams can enhance security assurance by applying enterprise SAST solutions."

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Mobi Health News

JULY 30, 2020

The new app will help businesses across the UK open safely and meet all government guidelines.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2024

It ensures patients have medical coverage with a VRGS doctor who can answer their questions and discuss their condition, supported by an on-site nursing staff. Over A$235 million in funding will be provided by the Victorian government so it can recruit more clinicians.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 20, 2022

This comes as part of the additional A$162 million ($122 million) funding provided by the state government of Victoria to the health service to improve the operations of Ambulance Victoria. The service virtually connects patients with non-life-threatening emergencies to nurses and doctors via video call. THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

It serves as a government "control tower" headed by the Prime Minister and composed of 12 government ministries, including the MOHW, and experts from the academe and bio-health industry. Previously, these processes have been hindered by the compartmentalisation of various government agencies.

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The Health Law Firm

MARCH 14, 2022

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On March , 2022, a New York ophthalmologist was sentenced to 96 months in prison for fraudulently obtaining two government-guaranteed small business loans and for a seven-year fraudulent healthcare billing scheme, the Justice Department announced. Indest III, J.D.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 19, 2023

" A new provision in the proposed guidelines explicitly discourages providing care and prescriptions to patients with whom a doctor has never consulted, whether in-person or via video or telephone.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 3, 2024

” Both doctors emphasize the role of AI as “human augmentation,” making the difficult task of symptom detection in order to free up the physician for communication and “holding the patient’s hand.” Governments can measure medical service utilization.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 12, 2021

The Australian government has set aside A$106 million ($76 million) over four years to support what it calls "permanent" telehealth, which will ensure flexibility in healthcare delivery and continuous health consultations via phone or online. WHY IT MATTERS. Around 89,000 providers are now using telehealth services. million ($22.8

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 27, 2023

Meanwhile, doctors at Sunshine Private's consulting suite are now using MedicalDirector Clinical as EHR and MedicalDirector Bluechip for practice management. The establishment of the WA Virtual Emergency Department is one of the four major reforms that the WA government is delivering under its latest funding strategy. million ($2.2

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