Healthcare Dive
JUNE 15, 2022
It’s the latest picture of how exorbitant healthcare costs in the U.S. are increasingly impacting the financial stability of Americans, especially older adults.
Electronic Health Reporter
JUNE 15, 2022
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. In recent years, the global healthcare industry has been under heavy attack by cybercriminals. The sector stands in fourth place among the most targeted industries, and one-fifth of its spending is dedicated to cybersecurity. The […]. The article Cyberattacks Threaten Patients’ Lives In Healthcare appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
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Healthcare Dive
JUNE 15, 2022
Independent experts unanimously supported use of both shots in children aged 6 months to 5 years old, clearing the way for an FDA decision.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 15, 2022
Cognitive behavioral therapy, known more commonly in psychological circles as CBT, can lead to great success in changing problematic thinking and behavior in patients. "Cognitive behavioral therapy is a form of psychological treatment that has been demonstrated to be effective for a range of problems including depression, anxiety disorders, alcohol and drug use problems, marital problems, eating disorders, and severe mental illness," according to the American Psychological Association.
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Healthcare Dive
JUNE 15, 2022
The Justices were unanimous in their decision, with Justice Brett Kavanaugh writing it was “a straightforward case.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 15, 2022
The Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has issued new guidance describing how HIPAA covered entities can use remote communication technologies to provide audio-only telehealth services. WHY IT MATTERS. The goal is to ensure such communications are conducted consistent with the applicable requirements of the HIPAA's Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules – especially when OCR's Notification of Enforcement Discretion for Telehealth e
Health Care Compliance Brief brings together the best content for health law & compliance professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 15, 2022
Feature More than ever before, healthcare organizations are working harder to prioritize the patient experience. From appointment booking to post-discharge follow-up, hospitals and health systems are striving to innovate and personalize the way people navigate their care journey. Mere "patient engagement" isn't enough anymore. Providers are embracing new technologies and digital tools to enable greater insights into what their customers want and need – and tailoring their eff
Healthcare Dive
JUNE 15, 2022
Personal protective equipment shortages forced Inova to find new ways to protect workers.
Healthcare IT Today
JUNE 15, 2022
When I look at the state of communication in healthcare, I can see that we’ve made a lot of progress. Certainly, there’s still plenty of work to be done, but the good news is that now we have electronic options when it comes to communicating healthcare data between organizations. This wasn’t really true even a […].
HIPAA Journal
JUNE 15, 2022
A class action lawsuit has been filed against Shields Health Care Group over its recently announced 2 million-record data breach – the largest healthcare data breach to be reported so far this year. Shields Health Care Group is the largest provider of MRI imaging services in New England and operates more than 40 facilities in the region. On May 27, 2022, the Massachusetts-based medical imaging service provider reported the data breach to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights and confirmed that an una
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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.
HIT Consultant
JUNE 15, 2022
Mary Butler-Everson, SVP of Healthcare Product Innovations for PNC Treasury Management. Achieving fluid data interoperability has been a complex and challenging goal for the U.S. healthcare system. The result of which has led to excessive administrative costs, delays in providing care, and significant patient frustration. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. healthcare spending grew 9.7% in 2020, reaching $4.1 trillion, or $12,530 per person.
Health Populi
JUNE 15, 2022
Among the many lessons we should and must take emerging out of the COVID-19 pandemic, understanding and addressing the caregiver shortage-cum-crisis will be crucial to building back a stronger national economy and financially viable households across the U.S. And if you thought robots, AI and the platforming of health care would solve the shortage of caregivers, forget it.
HIT Consultant
JUNE 15, 2022
What You Should Know: – bttn , a company building next-generation healthcare supply distribution, announced a $20 million Series A led by Tiger Global with participation from seed investor Fuse. – Born out of the COVID-19 pandemic, bttn was created to help solve the lack of medical supplies facing healthcare workers and improve access. The company has one lofty goal: to digitally transform the massive, antiquated $250B/year medical supply market ecosystem.
Healthicity
JUNE 15, 2022
Joanne Chiedi, Former Principal Deputy Inspector General OIG, HHS, expressed a goal a few years ago.
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Center for Health Insurance Reform
JUNE 15, 2022
The American Rescue Plan Act has led to record-high marketplace enrollment and significant savings for millions of consumers. But the law’s enhanced marketplace subsidies are set to lapse at the end of the year. In a new post for the Commonwealth Fund’s To the Point blog, Katie Keith explains why there is urgency for Congress to act sooner rather than later.
Med-Net Compliance
JUNE 15, 2022
California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a settlement against a Southern California doctor for submitting false claims to Medicare and Medi-Cal between the years of 2011 and 2018 for drugs, procedures, services, and tests that were never administered to patients. As part of the settlement, the doctor will pay a total of more than $9.48 million.
Mobi Health News
JUNE 15, 2022
The deal will allow the company to offer a combination of in-person physical therapy and virtual coaching tools.
MedTrainer
JUNE 15, 2022
When changes are made to government regulations, they have far-reaching effects. This is the case for proposed changes to the Medicare Shared Savings Program, as they’ll impact ACOs in more ways than one if they’re enacted. To get up to speed, here’s an overview of what some of these proposals are and how they’ll benefit patients. What Is an ACO?
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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
JUNE 15, 2022
The all-cash deal is expected to close by the end of the year, subject to regulatory clearance.
HIT Consultant
JUNE 15, 2022
What You Should Know: – Flywheel , a data management platform for biomedical research and collaboration, has received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support research on the neurodevelopmental health of children growing up in poverty and other adverse environments in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). – The multi-year grant will focus on providing a centralized, cloud-based research infrastructure to an international cohort of researchers led by King’s
The Health Law Firm Blog
JUNE 15, 2022
By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law Licensed mental health counselors, psychologists, and other mental health care professionals are potential targets of licensure complaints from clients in any practice setting. Many legal situations and cases arise because the therapist has strayed over the line and [.].
Provider Trust
JUNE 15, 2022
In January 2022, an OIG enforcement action on Summa Health, Ohio resulted in a $19,880.28 penalty for allegedly violating the Civil Monetary Penalties Law after Summa Health self-disclosed. The OIG alleged that Summa employed an individual on the Ohio Provider Medicaid Exclusion and Suspension List as well as an individual who was excluded from participation in Federal health care programs.
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Health Law Attorney
JUNE 15, 2022
On April 11 th , 2022, New York became one of 25 U.S. states to grant permanent full practice authority to Nurse Practitioners (NP). The 2022 State of the State proposal additionally allows NPs with more than 3,600 hours of experience to practice without a contractual practice-agreement relationship with a doctor. With full practice authority, nurse practitioners in NY now have full authority to diagnose, prescribe, evaluate, and manage treatments for patients.
Healthcare IT Today
JUNE 15, 2022
The following is a guest article by Richard Barretto, Chief Information Security Officer Progress. Files and Documents are a cybercriminal gold mine. Healthcare companies have a lot on their IT plate, but often neglect their most vital assets: files, documents, and records. Securing the data held within these files is the most critical hurdle, especially […].
YouCompli
JUNE 15, 2022
Four ways to build it. Jay P. Anstine is a compliance professional and consultant in Colorado. He is writing a series of articles on compliance culture for the YouCompli blog. This post looks at building trust among your colleagues. I once worked with a physician leader who was – direct. Some might say overbearing. And he considered the Compliance department to be an unnecessary expense that just made healthcare more costly.
Healthcare IT Today
JUNE 15, 2022
Funding round led by Advent Life Sciences. New investors include Emerson Collective, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, British Patient Capital, Mubadala and the Minderoo Foundation. Proceeds to accelerate development and scale of Proximie’s Operating System for the Operating Room – a centralized platform delivering connected surgical care Proximie, the global health technology platform digitally connecting operating […].
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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.
McGuire Wood
JUNE 15, 2022
Ampersand Capital Partners has completed an investment in AnaBios Corp., according to a news release. AnaBios , based in San Diego, is preclinical contract research organization. Founded in 2009, the company’s research focuses primarily on areas including cardiac disease and safety, pain, polycystic kidney disease and neurodegeneration. Ampersand , based in Wellesley, Mass., is a middle market private equity firm with a focus on growth equity investments in the healthcare sector.
Becker's Health IT
JUNE 15, 2022
Central Florida Inpatient Medicine is notifying patients of an email data breach after a cybersecurity incident that affected 19,625 people.
Symplr
JUNE 15, 2022
Each month, we provide a roundup of news, awards, and features pertaining to symplr and symplr's subject-matter experts.
Hall Render
JUNE 15, 2022
On June 15, in American Hospital Association v. Becerra , the Supreme Court ruled the payment cuts made by the Department of Health and Human Services’ (“HHS”) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) for 340B eligible outpatient drugs were not permissible under the governing statute. The Court’s opinion rejected HHS’s argument that courts were barred from reviewing the agency’s setting of the challenged reimbursement rates and held that HHS’s failure to condu
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