Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 28, 2022
Recent statistics show more than 20% of healthcare costs resulting from emergency department utilization, hospitalizations and hospital readmissions can be attributed to just 1% of patients. THE PROBLEM. In 2017, University of Virginia Health's 30-day readmission rate for patients with complex and costly medical conditions was as high as 17% to 18% per year.
Healthcare It News
DECEMBER 28, 2022
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Mobi Health News
DECEMBER 28, 2022
Execs said investors will focus on companies with evidence of market fit, established business models and those achieving measurable health outcomes.
Fierce Healthcare
DECEMBER 28, 2022
XBB COVID variant presents a unique threat: study. fdiamond. Wed, 12/28/2022 - 11:11.
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Mobi Health News
DECEMBER 28, 2022
Drug development platform Quris raised another $9 million, and PharmStars is accepting applications for its accelerator cohort focused on women's health and health equity.
HealthIT Answers
DECEMBER 28, 2022
Will we continue to make progress and implement initiatives that right the ship in 2023 when it comes to the population's health and equity of care? Here are some predictions from the industry. The post Population Health, Access, and Equity in 2023 appeared first on Health IT Answers.
Health Care Compliance Brief brings together the best content for health law & compliance professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Fierce Healthcare
DECEMBER 28, 2022
ACA exchange enrollment continues at record pace, nears 11.5M through mid-December. pminemyer. Wed, 12/28/2022 - 11:48.
HIT Consultant
DECEMBER 28, 2022
What You Should Know: – Rising to meet the formidable challenge of the timely diagnosis of dementia, research scientists from Regenstrief Institute , IUPUI and the medical schools of Indiana University and the University of Miami are conducting the Digital Detection of Dementia study, a real-world evaluation of the use of an artificial intelligence (AI) tool they developed for early identification of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias in primary care, the setting where most adults r
Healthcare IT Today
DECEMBER 28, 2022
Back when patient portals were first introduced, one of the original concerns clinicians raised was that they were afraid that they would get too many patient messages and find themselves overwhelmed. Over time, most stopped complaining about this problem, though I’d wager it was because they simply had worse things to worry about during the painful initial period of EHR adoption.
Digital Health News
DECEMBER 28, 2022
Re:Cognition Health and MYndspan are collaborating to make MEG technology more accessible, in a bid to improve data-driven brain health insights.
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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.
Becker's Health IT
DECEMBER 28, 2022
Healthcare cybersecurity is a rapidly changing industry as cybercriminals innovate and health IT teams work to improve their posture. Becker's reached out to five chief information security officers at the top hospitals and health systems across the country to project what healthcare cybersecurity will look like in 2023.
Digital Health News
DECEMBER 28, 2022
Dr Marcus Baw argues that 2022 has shown once again that the answer to NHS technology is definitely not to have another cycle of wasteful re-organisation. .
Healthcare IT Today
DECEMBER 28, 2022
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Senior Network Administrator position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New Directions Staffing and is in Savannah, Georgia. Here’s a description of the position: Our client is looking to fill a Senior Network Administrator role to: Serve as a senior resource and technical lead in Information Services (IS) projects.
HIT Consultant
DECEMBER 28, 2022
What You Should Know: – A new study found 84% of providers say patients still schedule care with the front desk, and 73% rely on human calls — despite all of the advances in communication. A full 87% say they’ve faced administrative staffing challenges over the last 12 months. Of those, one third (35%) found those staffing challenges have had a negative impact on staff morale, and about one in six (18%) noted it has led to longer wait times. – The survey was commissioned by Rel
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The Health Law Firm Blog
DECEMBER 28, 2022
By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On December 15, 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), announced that Health Specialists of Central Florida, Inc., will pay $20,000 to resolve alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and [.].
HealthIT Answers
DECEMBER 28, 2022
On our 2023 Countdown #4 is from Healthcare de Jure. Follow us until the end of the year for our reveal of the top 10 played episodes on Healthcare NOW Radio. The post 2022 Countdown for Most Played Episodes – #4 appeared first on Health IT Answers.
The Health Law Firm Blog
DECEMBER 28, 2022
By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On November 19, 2022, the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) was hit with a proposed class action lawsuit after falsely reporting that individuals had failed the North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination (NAPLEX). This is reportedly the [.].
McGuire Wood
DECEMBER 28, 2022
In this second episode of a two-part series, McGuireWoods partner Mark Freedlander returns to discuss the ways a sponsor company can find itself liable if its portfolio companies enter financial distress. Join Mark and host Geoff Cockrell for insight on different situations a sponsor may encounter, the protection available to a sponsor who recognizes problems early and the benefits of taking a cautious approach.
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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.
Compliancy Group
DECEMBER 28, 2022
When the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was signed into law in 1996, it ushered in a series of changes to how healthcare operates. The federal law established baseline standards for protecting the health records of patients, and it also gave patients greater rights to access their health records. The law also added a level of confusion to a complex marketplace.
HealthIT Answers
DECEMBER 28, 2022
By Matt Fisher - Stop if you’ve heard this story before: a dental practice was unhappy with patient reviews left on Yelp, so responded. In responding, the practice disclosed patient information including names and diagnoses. That is the basic outline of the latest settlement announced by the OCR to resolve an alleged HIPAA violation. The post HIPAA Settlement on Repeat appeared first on Health IT Answers.
Becker's Health IT
DECEMBER 28, 2022
San Diego-based Scripps Health has agreed to pay $3.57 million to settle a lawsuit from victims of a May 2021 ransomware attack that led to a massive data breach, CBS8 reported Dec. 27.
Digital Health News
DECEMBER 28, 2022
A new digital platform from Acxion is helping pharmaceutical marketers engage with healthcare professionals by using data.
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Healthcare IT Today
DECEMBER 28, 2022
Becoming patient centric in your organization isn’t something that you can do all at once. It’s a slow process that requires you to think about the patient experience in every single aspect of your organization. This is especially important when you are establishing new practices in your organization, such as when you’re integrating digital transformation.
Compliance Now
DECEMBER 28, 2022
By: Jessica Waltman, Principal, Forward Health Consulting. Late in the afternoon on December 23, 2022, the Administration issued Affordable Care Act FAQ #56 , and in doing so gave a little holiday gift to all group health plans nationwide. The guidance establishes limited deadline and enforcement relief for the 2020 and 2021 Prescription Drug Data Collection (RxDC) submissions that were due by December 27, 2022.
HIPAA Journal
DECEMBER 28, 2022
Discussing HIPAA compliance for hospitals in a single article is challenging. Not only is there so much to cover, but there are also many different types and sizes of hospitals. This means there is no one-size-fits-all guide to HIPAA compliance for hospitals, but rather checklists that can help hospitals cover the basics of the compliance requirements.
HIT Consultant
DECEMBER 28, 2022
Khue Tran, SVP of Operations for Azalea Health. Across the country, hospitals are experiencing staffing shortages, and two years of COVID-19 have taken their toll on the industry. The pandemic didn’t cause the staffing shortage. However, it exacerbated a growing problem as more nurses opted to retire or leave the profession. Amid the pandemic, many healthcare professionals burned out while others left the workforce altogether.
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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.
Drug & Device Law
DECEMBER 28, 2022
As we prepare to greet 2023, we find ourselves assuming the Janus-ian posture of simultaneously looking backward and forward. Forward is more fun, as we scan a schedule full of motions, MDL decision-trees, and trials in, er, challenging jurisdictions. But it really is folly to plan the future without learning from the past. It is hard to beat Bexis’s lists of the best and worst DDL cases, the latter of which graced us last week , and the former of which will adorn this blog tomorrow, for inve
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