Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 16, 2022
A report released Monday compiles research that shows arrangements, called Certificates of Public Advantage, result in higher prices, lower quality of care and lower wage growth for employees.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 16, 2022
There is a commonly held belief that social determinants of health like income and education level may negatively impact the use of digital health programs, and that this could widen gaps in health equity. However, a recent study from telemedicine technology and services vendor Teladoc Health found that participants were successful in controlling their diabetes through a remote diabetes monitoring program despite existing barriers to care access.
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Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 16, 2022
The Boston-based health system struggled with cost inflation, labor shortages and capacity constraints in its fiscal third quarter.
Bill of Health
AUGUST 16, 2022
By Hayfa Ayoubi and Karishma Trivedi. At the young age of 21, Regina McKnight unexpectedly suffered a stillbirth due to umbilical inflammation. She was a grieving mother, but to the state of South Carolina, she was a killer. In 2001, prosecutors charged McKnight with homicide allegedly caused by her use of cocaine while pregnant. The jury in the case returned a guilty verdict after deliberating for thirty minutes.
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Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 16, 2022
On Monday, some 15,000 nurses at 15 hospitals across Minnesota voted to authorize a strike.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 16, 2022
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Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 16, 2022
Today I went with my son to tryouts for flag football. My son has always been active, but he’s never played in organized sports before. Needless to say, I went to the tryouts with a little trepidation for how he’d do. Many of the other kids had been playing already for a couple years. Would he understand what the coach was asking him to do?
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 16, 2022
The leadership change comes amid the company’s ongoing recall problems, including being in negotiations on a consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice.
HIPAA Journal
AUGUST 16, 2022
Novant Health has recently notified patients about a breach of their protected health information due to the incorrect configuration of Meta Pixel code on its patient portal. Code Snippet Sending Sensitive Patient Data to Meta. Earlier this year, an investigation conducted by The Markup into the use of Meta Pixel code on healthcare providers’ websites revealed 33 of the top 100 hospitals in the United States had included Meta Pixel code on their websites, and 7 of those hospitals had added the c
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 16, 2022
Insurtech Oscar is pushing further into the small employer market through its partnership with Cigna while it holds off on adding more full-service agreements.
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Natalia Mazina
AUGUST 16, 2022
Back in 2021, the Secretary of the federal Department of Health and Human Services authorized licensed pharmacists to independently order and administer any COVID-19 therapeutic, subject to certain conditions ( under the Ninth Amendment to Declaration Under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act for Medical Countermeasures Against COVID-19).
HIPAA Journal
AUGUST 16, 2022
In August 2021, the Vice Society ransomware operation published data on its data leak site that had allegedly been obtained in a ransomware attack on United Health Centers of San Joaquin Valley. On August 31, 2021, Bleeping Computer was made aware of the data leak and made multiple attempts to notify United Health Centers. Databreaches.net was also made aware of the data breach and similarly attempted to notify United Health Centers on multiple occasions.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 16, 2022
The Visibly Digital Acuity Product uses a touchscreen mobile device paired with a computer to test how sharp a user's vision is at a distance.
Electronic Health Reporter
AUGUST 16, 2022
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Medical devices come in all shapes and sizes, from the smallest implant to the largest life-support machine. Contract manufacturers must be able to produce these devices to the highest standards, ensuring that they meet all […]. The article How A Contract Manufacturer Produces Medical Devices appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
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Digital Health News
AUGUST 16, 2022
Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has enhanced its digital maturity by launching a new Patient Portal to put patients in control of their healthcare.
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 16, 2022
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Clinical Business Analyst – Lab position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by TransForm Shared Service Organization and is an international position in Canada – Ontario. Here’s a description of the position: Company: TransForm Shared Service Organization.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 16, 2022
It features more than 1,200 combinations of randomised simulated situations in a hospital ward.
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 16, 2022
The following is a guest article by Lee Hudson Teslik, Founder & CEO and Scott Erwin, Dynamic Staffing Expert at Reverence. In the coming decade, all 76M baby boomers will join the elderly population. And, naturally, such a significant generation will demand significant care as they age—with a resounding preference for support in the comfort of their own homes.
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FACIS® helps organizations mitigate patient and organizational risk. Maintaining compliance and safeguarding against fraud and abuse in today’s changing healthcare landscape can be challenging. Most healthcare organizations screen and monitor providers against the OIG but that’s only ONE of FACIS®’ primary sources. FACIS® pulls data for every taxonomy from the lowest level employee to the highest level licensed professional.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 16, 2022
The online treatment has been licensed to Blue Note Therapeutics for the development of a counterpart version in North America.
Center for Health Insurance Reform
AUGUST 16, 2022
As the number of opioid-related overdose fatalities remains alarmingly high, access to medication-assisted treatment (MAT) is inconsistent. Private insurance does not always cover the full range of MAT options, and when it does provide coverage cost sharing can be prohibitive. CHIR's Rachel Swindle takes a look at state and federal reforms that can help lessen private insurance related barriers to treatment.
The HIPAA Blog
AUGUST 16, 2022
This is totally off-topic: a family beach story.It seems now that we went as a family to the beach every Sunday after church during the summer, but I know it mustn’t have been that often. After mass at St.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 16, 2022
The company also has pending approvals for its device in Australia and Thailand.
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Becker's Health IT
AUGUST 16, 2022
A lot changes in technology in five to 10 months, let alone that many years. But to see what's happening now, you often need to stop and take a look at the distant past.
Healthicity
AUGUST 16, 2022
We hear a lot about data analytics and compliance programs today and rightfully so.
Digital Health News
AUGUST 16, 2022
The next profile on our Digital Health Awards 2022 winners concentrates on Sarah Hart, who was named Future Digital Leader of the Year.
OSHA Law Blog
AUGUST 16, 2022
This summer is shaping out to be another scorcher and Washington State employers should know about the Department of Labor & Industries (“LNI”) new emergency requirements for heat and smoke protections for outdoor employees effective June 15 through September 29. Washington’s emergency requirements are meant to help employees avoid heat exhaustion and heat stroke.
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The industry has seen an increasing pace of ransomware, zero-day, and remote-code execution attacks. Learn how to defend against these against these attacks in this eBook.
Med-Net Compliance
AUGUST 16, 2022
Five individuals and two for-profit skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) in Pennsylvania were indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States and related healthcare fraud charges. The Superseding Indictment alleges that the CEO and part-owner of the two indicted SNFs, among others, conspired to defraud the United States and commit healthcare fraud.
Becker's Health IT
AUGUST 16, 2022
The Health Information Cybersecurity Coordination Center issued a warning Aug. 9 about the security risks associated with cloud services and providers.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 16, 2022
The layoffs represent 13% of the AI-backed genomic and clinical data company's workforce.
Becker's Health IT
AUGUST 16, 2022
United Health Centers of the San Joaquin Valley is notifying patients of an encryption-related data breach in which documents with personal and medical information were stolen, it said in an Aug. 12 letter on its website.
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