Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 5, 2022
By Luciano Brustia, Regional Managing Director, Asia Pacific for InterSystems. Digital engagement is part of life in almost every industry. Consumers expect to interact with their suppliers digitally, and healthcare is now catching up. But healthcare is different. The “customer” data we collect is far more complex and difficult to interpret.
Healthcare Dive
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Some CommonSpirit hospitals across the country have been cut off from their electronic health records, forcing them to revert to paper charts. Ambulances were diverted from facilities in Iowa for a short period on Monday.
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Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 5, 2022
The Office of Healthcare Transformation under Singapore's Ministry of Health has tied up with the nation's three public healthcare clusters to scale their pilot home hospitalisation programmes. These programmes – National University Health System’s NUHS @ Home, Singapore General Hospital’s SGH @ Home and Yishun Health Medical Home – are now providing eligible patients with general medical conditions, such as skin infections, urinary tract infections, and COVID-19,
Healthcare Dive
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Despite previously lagging in the market, Cigna is now among the fastest-expanding MA providers, analysts said.
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Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Global experts shared their perspectives on the shift of healthcare consumer demands and expectations worldwide. The keynote session, "Care isn't What it Used to Be: The Need to Elevate Consumer Experience ," at HIMSS22 APAC was joined by Dr Vas Metupalle, CMO at Meta Health, Dr Manish Kohli, Beyond Horizon Health CEO and senior advisor of Albright Stonebridge Group; Benedict Tan, SingHealth's Group Chief Digital Strategy Officer and Chief Data Officer; and Kevin Percival, Chie
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
OCTOBER 5, 2022
It should not be news to anyone in the healthcare industry that the nation is suffering a profound shortage of mental health professionals, which was exacerbated by the pandemic. What is news to many is the different ways various telemedicine technologies are being used to help chip away at the mental health-staffing problem. As Iris Telehealth's chief medical officer, Dr.
Health Care Compliance Brief brings together the best content for health law & compliance professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Bill of Health
OCTOBER 5, 2022
By James G. Hodge, Jr., Jennifer Piatt, Erica N. White, Summer Ghaith, Madisyn Puchebner, and C. McKenna Sauer. Following the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , which overturned the constitutional right to abortion, laws went into effect in multiple states that restrict when abortions may be provided, including during potentially life-threatening emergencies.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
OCTOBER 5, 2022
A new Digital Health Command will be established in Victoria as part of the state government's latest hospital infrastructure project. According to a media release, this facility will enable the Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH) and Royal Women’s Hospital (RWH) to support regional, rural and smaller metropolitan services that care for patients locally through virtual care and specialist clinician-to-clinician consultation.
Healthcare Dive
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Stryker, J&J and other device companies are building out teams focused on ASCs.
Medisys Compliance
OCTOBER 5, 2022
When it comes to working to the best potential and contributing to the practice performance, the in-house team performs to the best of their ability for a streamlined medical billing process. However, despite their conscious efforts, they lack expertise, knowledge, time, resources and advanced technology to keep up with the tides in the healthcare industry.
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HealthIT Answers
OCTOBER 5, 2022
By Elizabeth Delahoussaye - The October 6, 2022 information blocking deadline is one of the most discussed—and debated—topics in healthcare IT. New regulations expand the definition of electronic health information, but health IT vendors remain uncertain about how to achieve and maintain compliance. The post The New Definition of EHI: Are Vendors Ready?
Healthicity
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Have you heard? The Office of Inspector General recently made Work Plan updates that impact price transparency rules, Medicaid fraud referrals, and inpatient rehabilitation. If you support compliance for hospitals or hospital systems, listen up! Our latest eBrief covers the updates you need to know.
HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 5, 2022
What You Should Know: – Dexcom announced launch of Dexcom G7 continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Austria and Hong Kong, with launches in New Zealand and South Africa in the coming weeks – initiating the global rollout of the world’s most powerful CGM system. – Dexcom G7 offers a powerful yet simple way to help users gain greater control of their diabetes, so they can manage the disease more confidently each day.
HIPAA Journal
OCTOBER 5, 2022
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a medical advisory about a recently discovered vulnerability that affects the BD Totalys MultiProcessor, which is used by hospitals and labs for processing clinical tissue specimens. The vulnerability is due to the use of hard-coded credentials, which could allow an attacker with access to a vulnerable Totalys MultiProcessor to access, modify, or delete sensitive data, including personally identifiable and protected health in
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HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 5, 2022
What You Should Know: – PatientsLikeMe and SEQSTER announced a collaboration to launch one of the first rare-disease studies focused on Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency (AATD) – a rare genetic condition occurring in approximately 1/3500 people. – AATD is a rare genetic condition occurring in approximately 1/3500 people. It is characterized by low levels of the alpha-1 antitrypsin protein, leading AATD patients to be very susceptible to lung and/or liver disease.
HIPAA Journal
OCTOBER 5, 2022
CommonSpirit Health is experiencing a data security incident that has affected many of its healthcare facilities. According to a statement issued by the health system on October 4, 2022, IT systems have been taken offline as a precautionary step while the incident is investigated, and the exact nature and scope of the incident is determined. A brief update was issued on Wednesday, October 5, 2022, confirming the IT security incident was still impacting some of its facilities and that staff membe
HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Hollie Johnston, Principal and Human Sciences Capability Lead at PDD. With recent statistics suggesting that 70% of all projects fail, it’s vital that we do all we can to set ourselves up for success when we set out on a new design or development of a product. Every day, we are surrounded by products and services that don’t work as we expect them to.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 5, 2022
The astronauts will support several investigations, including ones aiming to create a protein-based artificial retina and evaluate how gut microbes change in space.
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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.
HIPAA Journal
OCTOBER 5, 2022
California has taken further steps to improve protections for individuals seeking abortion care and birth control. A package of bills has recently been signed into law by state governor Gavin Newsom, including new data privacy legislation that prohibits healthcare providers from releasing individuals’ medical information in response to subpoenas and requests from out-of-state.
Digital Health News
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Hundreds of social care providers in the West Midlands will soon be connected thanks to an integrated care record from West Midlands ICS and InterSystems.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Fitbit and MindFi have teamed up to study the impact of their combined solutions on teachers' mental well-being.
Healthcare IT Today
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Did you know there are over 1 million addresses in the DirectTrust directory? That’s right. There are 1 million endpoints that can easily receive a direct message sharing patient information. Considering there are only a little over 600k doctors in the US, this is good progress. However, any directory of this nature also has its challenges.
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Digital Health News
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Yorkshire and Humber Academic Health Science Network’s has launched the latest edition of its digital health accelerator programme, Propel@YH.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 5, 2022
The startup builds machine learning tools that aim to understand speech, feelings and nonverbal cues like sighs, laughs and gasps.
Healthcare IT Today
OCTOBER 5, 2022
The following is a guest article by Timothy Miller from Plus Technologies. As healthcare organizations continue to embrace new technologies, it is no surprise they would encourage their patients to do the same. For instance, it is common practice for health professionals to refer their patients to the organization’s portal in order to retrieve patient information such as discharge documents, care and exercise instructions, patient’s rights information and more.
The Health Law Firm
OCTOBER 5, 2022
By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On August 12, 2022, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it dropped charges against the remaining defendants in a case against a former Ohio drug distributor. In 2019, Miami-Luken, two of its executives, and two pharmacists had been charged with conspiring to distribute millions of addictive pain killers across rural Appalachia unlawfully.
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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.
Compliancy Group
OCTOBER 5, 2022
October is Cybersecurity Month, making it an excellent time to look at what you’re doing to protect the data in your care. To guide you in this process, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recommends ten practices that anyone handling ePHI needs to implement. The first recommended practice is email protection systems. What Are Email Protection Systems?
Natalia Mazina
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Under various state laws and DEA regulations, every pharmacist must resolve “red flags” before dispensing a prescription for controlled substances. Most of the pharmacy state boards have published lists of what constitutes such red flags. For example, the California State Board of Pharmacy has published the following list of red flags (other states use the same criteria): .
Symplr
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Think about a time when you had a moment of confusion or annoyance when using your phone or computer. Did the experience make you wish you could talk to the application designers? There’s a mechanism for that: user experience (UX) research! At symplr, we speak directly with our customers to decide what features to include, fend off frustration like that in our example, and continually improve our solutions for our 5,000+ users in healthcare.
YouCompli
OCTOBER 5, 2022
It’s tempting to focus all your time and attention on getting board and leadership support for a compliance program. The trouble is, the board and leadership aren’t the ones making the million decisions every day that affect patient care and compliant practices. In order for me to ever deliver a truly effective and robust compliance program, I also needed all employees and physicians to get on board.
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