Mon.Aug 08, 2022

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Physician practices seek more time to comply with No Surprises rules

Healthcare Dive

The Medical Group Management Association asked the HHS and the CMS to delay enforcement of parts of the statute until six months after any final rule is published.

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Multi-channel clinical trial recruitment technology checklist

Healthcare It News

Sponsor: RingCentral Primary topic: Patient Engagement Topic: Cloud Computing Data Warehousing Patient Engagement Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Sponsor: RingCentral.

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CMS moves toward guidance on health equity, climate change

Healthcare Dive

The CMS published the feedback as the federal government and the Biden administration ramp up oversight of social issues.

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6 actions payers can take to prepare for the No Surprises Act

Healthcare It News

Sponsor: RingCentral Primary topic: Compliance & Legal Topic: Compliance & Legal Patient Engagement Privacy & Security Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Sponsor: RingCentral.

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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Five types of entrepreneurship: meaning and defining characteristics

Healthcare Dive

Entrepreneurs have a unique set of characteristics – which do you bring to the medical field?

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ACA Affordability Percentage Decreased Significantly for 2023

Compliance Now

One of the most well-known components of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is that it requires applicable large employers (ALEs) to either offer affordable, minimum value medical benefits to their full-time employees or pay tax penalties. The ACA defined a plan as being affordable if the lowest-cost, employee-only option costs less than 9.5% of the employee’s household income.

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Closing the Gender Health Gap: How Digital Technology Can Support Better Women’s Health

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Juliet Bauer, Chief Growth and Marketing Officer at Livi. I’m often asked where I believe digital technology can make the biggest impact in healthcare. My answer? Women’s health. Today, women spend around a quarter of their lives in poor health or disability, compared with one fifth for men. In a health system that has historically been geared towards men, a gender health gap persists where you are more likely to receive poorer medical advice and diagnosis if

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Lilly criticizes Indiana abortion law, indicating it may look elsewhere to hire

Healthcare Dive

After Indiana’s governor signed a near-total abortion ban into law, the drugmaker said it will rethink future hiring in the state.

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Five Key Takeaways from Our July Webinar

Total HIPAA

We recently hosted a webinar, “Annual HIPAA Requirements and Security Standards,” in which we discussed annual HIPAA requirements, document review, and the compliance procedures you need to have in place to prevent breaches and pass audits. . In the webinar, we spoke with Rob Chubbuck, an IT expert and educator, about logging, password standards, annual training and document review requirements, the expanding scope of PHI, and more.

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Is Google Cloud HIPAA Compliant?

Compliancy Group

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a set of physical assets, such as computers and hard disk drives, and virtual resources, such as virtual machines (VMs), contained in Google’s data centers around the globe within various regions and zones. Google Cloud also provides services that emulate the physical hardware and software products that can be resources for users.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Telehealth Utilization Grew 10.2% Nationally in May 2022

HIT Consultant

FAIR Health Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker, May 2022, United States. What You Should Know: – In May 2022, for the second straight month, telehealth utilization, as measured by telehealth’s share of all medical claim lines, grew nationally and in every US census region (Midwest, Northeast, South, West), according to FAIR Health’s Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker. – FAIR Health reports national telehealth utilization increased 10.2 percent, from 4.9 percent of medic

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Webinar: Aug 17, 2022: Do I Need to be HIPAA Compliant?

HIPAA Journal

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) sets national standards to protect sensitive patient health information and to prevent that information from being disclosed without an individual’s knowledge or consent. HIPAA applies to healthcare providers, health plans, and healthcare clearinghouses, which are classed as HIPAA-covered entities.

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Amwell to power CVS Health's virtual care offering

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Digital gastrointestinal care startup Salvo Health launches with $10.5M

Mobi Health News

The company offers a virtual clinic for people with chronic gut conditions like irritable bowel syndrome and gastroesophageal reflux disease.

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Everything You Wanted to Know About FACIS, but Didn’t Know to Ask

Speaker: Amy Anderson

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.

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Updates on Cyberattacks on Goodman Campbell Brain and Spine and Behavioral Health Group

HIPAA Journal

Further information has been released on two cyberattacks on healthcare organizations: Goodman Campbell Brain and Spine and Behavioral Health Group. Goodman Campbell Brain and Spine Notifies 363,000 Patients About Public Release of PHI on Dark Web. Carmel, IN-based Goodman Campbell Brain and Spine has started notifying 363,000 current and former patients that some of their protected health information was stolen prior to data being encrypted with ransomware and some of the stolen data has been p

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OIG report: Tablets distributed to vets often go unused

Mobi Health News

More than half of patients were not using provided tablets to connect to virtual appointments during the first three quarters of 2021.

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Cloud in Healthcare – Is It Time to Speed Up or Slow Down? – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 94

Healthcare IT Today

For the 94th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we’re talking about using the cloud in healthcare – should we use it more or should we be more cautious? We dive into how the cloud has evolved over time and the many uses it has in healthcare. But with how it has evolved, does cloud integration need to be outsourced to a partner rather than done in house?

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CVS Health in Talks to Acquire Signify Health

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Signify Health is exploring strategic alternatives including a sale , according to a Wall Street Journal report. Initial bids are due this coming week. Additional companies are also in acquisition discussions with Signfiy Health, and CVS could face competition from other managed-care providers and private-equity firms. – The potential Signify acquisition has a market value of around $4.7 B after its shares rose on the news of a potential sale.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Sarah Hanbridge reflects on Digital Health award and Summer Schools

Digital Health News

The Digital Health Networks CNIO Advisory Panel chair Sarah Hanbridge reflects on winning a new Digital Health award and her experience of Summer Schools.

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Sibel Health Raises $33M for Advanced Wearable Sensors for RPM

HIT Consultant

Sibel Health has developed an advanced wearable monitoring solution that enables care in the hospital and the home. What You Should Know: – Sibel Health has recently closed a $33M Series B financing round, bringing Sibel’s total funding to date to more than $50M. – In addition, Sibel has announced two new executive appointments. Jon Otterstatter, the former CEO and co-founder of Preventice (acquired by Boston Scientific in 2021), will join as chairman of the board.

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Ensuring Continuity of Care for Individuals Transitioning from Medicaid to Marketplace: Post-PHE Considerations for States

Center for Health Insurance Reform

Many of those losing their Medicaid eligibility after the COVID-19 public health emergency will have illnesses or conditions requiring uninterrupted access to health care services. In their latest Expert Perspective for the State Health & Value Strategies project, Sabrina Corlette and Jason Levitis outline several policy and operational changes states can make to ensure that people transitioning from Medicaid to the Marketplace can maintain continuity of care.

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Northern Care Alliance IT disruption resulted in one serious incident

Digital Health News

Back in May 2022, the trust confirmed it has been experiencing “disruption and instability issues” with some of its IT systems.

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Ensure Continuous Patient Care: How to Avoid Disruptions Due to Ransomware

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.

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Unauthorized Access to ePHI on Web Server Leads to $875,000 Settlement

Hall Render

The United States Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced a settlement with a research university (“University”) which has agreed to pay $875,000 to settle potential violations of the HIPAA Privacy, Security and Breach Notification Rules, as well as to take corrective action after an unauthorized third party gained access to a web server that contained electronic protected health information (“ePHI”).

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Two Men Charged in $39M Personal Protective Equipment Fraud Scheme

Med-Net Compliance

Two Texas men have been charged with conspiracy to commit and committing wire fraud during the COVID-19 pandemic involving medical-grade nitrile gloves. The two men were both charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and defendant 1 also faces an additional five counts of wire fraud. The indictment alleges Defendant 1 claimed to have access to medical-grade nitrile gloves during the ensuing demand for medical personal protective equipment amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

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California hospital system reaches $340K settlement over data breach

Becker's Health IT

Salinas (Calif.) Valley Memorial Healthcare System agreed to pay $340,000 as part of a class-action settlement over claims its security system did not protect patients from a data breach, according to court documents.

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Basic HIPAA Guidelines: Annual Update 2022

Total HIPAA

We recently hosted a webinar, “Annual HIPAA Requirements and Security Standards,” in which we discussed annual HIPAA requirements, document review, and the compliance procedures you need to have in place to prevent breaches and pass audits. In the webinar, we spoke with Rob Chubbuck, an IT expert and educator, about logging, password standards, annual training and document review requirements, the expanding scope of PHI, and more.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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The #1 HIPAA Mindset Trap That Holds Leaders Back

JNC Compliance

Friends, did you know: The average HIPAA settlement fine is approximately $1.1 million. This average is only increasing as HHS becomes more aggressive in enforcing HIPAA […]. The post The #1 HIPAA Mindset Trap That Holds Leaders Back appeared first on JNC Healthcare Compliance Group.

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GHX Launches Lumere Consulting Services for Clinically Integrated Supply Chain

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – GHX Lumere announced the launch of its consulting service to support healthcare providers that want to optimize savings and reduce clinical variation. – This premium service combines clinical expertise, data, evidence and technology to help hospitals and health systems improve supply chain performance. Lumere Consulting Services Offering.

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Medicare Patients + Stark Law: What You Need to Know

NCG Medical Blog

If your medical practice treats patients covered by Medicare, then you already know there are countless regulations you need to closely adhere to in order to avoid any issues with the government.

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Velatura Services Selected for Amazon Web Services Health Equity Initiative

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Velatura Services (Velatura) today announced that it has been selected as part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Health Equity Initiative , a $40M, three-year commitment supporting organizations that are developing solutions to advance health equity. – Participation in the initiative will enhance Velatura’s efforts to provide essential data management infrastructure, advance data exchange, improve well-being, and reduce disparities.

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Generative AI for Contracts Is Here: New Tools to Accelerate Drafting and Editing

The emergence of generative AI is reshaping the landscape of contract management, enabling businesses to generate and negotiate legal agreements with greater ease and speed. In this on-demand webinar, Hal Marcus, VP of Product Marketing at Evisort discusses how Evisort's generative AI transforms contract creation and negotiation, empowering legal teams to streamline processes while reducing risk.