Bill of Health

MAY 11, 2022

By April Dinwoodie. I took a long, slow, deep breath when I heard Amy Coney Barrett, the adoptive mother of Black children, describe adoption as a “frictionless alternative to abortion.” As a Black/bi-racial transracially adopted person in mid-life, adoption has been and continues to be many things, but “frictionless” isn’t one of them. . On the contrary, being adopted into a white family and raised in a majority white community has been filled with the tension between the realities of what I w

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 11, 2022

Searches for surgeries like orthopaedics, general surgery and cardiovascular procedures are above pre-pandemic levels, providing another data point to indicate that demand is recovering, according to a Needham report.

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Bill of Health

MAY 11, 2022

By Susan Dusza Guerra Leksander. In the United States, the practices of adoption are rarely oriented towards the goals of anti-racism, child-centeredness, and reproductive justice. In this article, I present a model that strives to fulfill these goals. At Pact, an Adoption Alliance , the non-profit organization where I work as agency and clinical director, our mission is to serve adopted youth of color, and our approach to domestic infant adoption emerges from 30 years of serving Black, Latinx,

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 11, 2022

Leaving Arkansas and Colorado won't have a material effect on the company's income, and should reduce the insurtech's overhead in areas like compliance work and statutory reporting, executives said.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 11, 2022

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 11, 2022

The combination brings together two separate regional health systems, one with operations in the Midwest and the other with a four-state reach in the South.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 11, 2022

Tiffany Capeles' "leadership and her strong record of achieving greater health equity have earned her the respect of our peers in healthcare along with well-deserved national acclaim," Intermountain CEO Marc Harrison said.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 11, 2022

A new bill has been introduced that seeks to address the cybersecurity of medical devices that will require manufacturers of medical devices to meet certain minimum standards for cybersecurity for the entire lifecycle of the products. The medical device cybersecurity provisions of the bill – H.R. 7667 Food and Drug Amendments of 2022 – call for device manufacturers to “have a plan to appropriately monitor, identify, and address in a reasonable time postmarket cybersecurity vulnerabilities

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Mobi Health News

MAY 11, 2022

The researchers found 20 of the 23 apps reviewed shared data with third parties. Only 16 displayed a privacy policy, and three collected data before consent.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 11, 2022

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Medical care marketing can be challenging. Most people try to put medical appointments out of their minds until the day of — it’s not something they aim to engage with daily. When marketing your ophthalmology […]. The article 4 Powerful Marketing Tips for Ophthalmology Practices appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 11, 2022

We’re a little late posting this, but at the HIMSS 2022 conference, I had a chance to learn and share some really great insights into healthcare security and ransomware from the team at Fortinet. We live tweeted many of them, but thought an article round up would be great for those that missed the tweets. […].

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Kaiser Health News

MAY 11, 2022

As the Supreme Court appears poised to return abortion regulation to the states, recent experience in Texas illustrates that medical care for miscarriages and dangerous ectopic pregnancies would also be threatened if restrictions become more widespread. One Texas law passed last year lists several medications as abortion-inducing drugs and largely bars their use for abortion after the seventh week of pregnancy.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 11, 2022

What You Should Know: – Hyundai Motor Group (the Group), the global scale mobility provider including Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation has partnered with tech-powered pharmacy NowRx on a pilot project to explore autonomous vehicles for medication delivery. – The pilot project will test and develop automated dispatch, fleet management, and other last-mile optimization technologies for same-day prescription delivery, with the possibility of testing autonomous vehicle technolog

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Modern Healthcare

MAY 11, 2022

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency said it hoped the joint decision, made with the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, would mark “a big step forward in the normalization of air travel" for passengers and crews.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 11, 2022

What You Should Know: – Bon Secours Mercy Health (BSMH) today announced the launch of Accrete Health Partners , a digital holding company, that will function to further expand the organization’s digital health services as well as new and ongoing programs and partnerships. – New digital holding company will coalesce a continuum of leading solutions and services to connect the technology, data and people needed to streamline healthcare and ultimately help improve outcomes.

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Total HIPAA

MAY 11, 2022

We live in a fast-paced, digital world where information is shared more quickly than it ever has been. Between high-speed computers, smartphones, and the constant “ping” of a new notification, speed is the name of the game when it comes to how we communicate with each other. Many organizations subject to HIPAA may be wondering whether or not it is safe to communicate PHI via text message or over the phone.

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Health Care Law Brief

MAY 11, 2022

As part of the Fiscal Year 2023 New York state Executive Budget legislation , $1.2 billion in funding has been allocated for the payment of bonuses for certain “frontline” healthcare workers. With the stated goals to “recruit, retain, and reward health care and mental hygiene workers,” the provision – located within Part D of the Health and Mental Hygiene Bill , as amended – requires the state Commissioner of Health, in consultation with the state Commissioner of Labor and the Medicaid inspector

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HIT Consultant

MAY 11, 2022

What You Should Know: – The Health Management Academy (The Academy) has partnered with Nuance , a Microsoft company, to launch The AI Collaborative, which brings together senior leaders from the nation’s Leading Health Systems (LHS) who are deploying these technologies in the clinical and operational settings, as well as planning for future use-cases. – The collaborative brings together physician executives from leading hospital systems and other key stakeholders across the healthcar

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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.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 11, 2022

Researchers have identified a misconfigured AWS S3 bucket belonging to the Ardmore, PA-based breast cancer support charity, Breastcancer.org, that has been leaking sensitive data. The unsecured AWS bucket was identified by SafetyDetectives who discovered hundreds of thousands of files had been exposed over the Internet. The S3 bucket contained detailed exchangeable image file (EXIF) data, over 350,000 files, and more than 300,000 post images.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 11, 2022

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Hans Buitendijk, chair, EHR Association. Having identified the existing prior authorization process as a burden with wide-ranging impacts across multiple healthcare domains – contributing to provider burnout and care delays that put patients at […].

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Modern Healthcare

MAY 11, 2022

The end of the COVID-19 public health emergency declaration could be announced within days.

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Sharps Compliance

MAY 11, 2022

A Persistent Problem. Though the number of prescription opioids dispensed in the U.S. has decreased since 2012, it is still a sizable number. Since 2012, an estimated 140.6 million prescriptions (approximately 8.7 billion tablets/capsules) has been dispensed from outpatient retail and mail-order pharmacies.1. In 2019, around 7 million Americans over 12 years old abused or misused prescription pain relievers like opioids, making them the most common class of prescription drugs used nonmedically i

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 11, 2022

For those that have followed our site for a while, you know that the Healthcare IT Today parent company, Healthcare Scene, is also the organizer of the HITMC (Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference). This community of healthcare marketing and PR professionals was so excited to be back together in person. The opportunity to connect with […].

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Modern Healthcare

MAY 11, 2022

The return of masking in schools is not nearly as widespread as earlier in the pandemic, particularly as the public's worries over the virus have ebbed.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 11, 2022

Configo Health, a leading provider of analytical benchmarking solutions for pediatric hospitals, today announced a $2 million investment led by the Pisgah Fund and the relocation of its headquarters to Asheville, NC as part of a broader commitment to grow a health analytics hub in Western North Carolina. Configo, which is currently the country’s fastest […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 11, 2022

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Mobi Health News

MAY 11, 2022

The startup also announced a new product called Clear Contracts that aims to improve the direct contracting process.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

MAY 11, 2022

The South Carolina Attorney General announced that his office’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (SCMFCU) had arrested a 57-year-old woman on two counts of Exploitation of a Vulnerable Adult and two counts of Breach of Trust with Fraudulent Intent, value of $10,000 or more. An SCMFCU investigation revealed that between the dates of September 1, 2018, and November 30, 2021, the woman had power of attorney for two assisted living facility residents.

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Modern Healthcare

MAY 11, 2022

The Board of Education voted Tuesday to delay the effective date of the mandate to no sooner than July 1, 2023, aligning the district with the state.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 11, 2022

Carina Edwards, CEO of Quil Health. Even as we (hopefully) approach the tail-end of the latest COVID-19 wave, one growing healthcare challenge continues to worsen: clinician burnout. Nurses, physicians, schedulers, and other members of care-provider teams continue to post rising rates of burnout. They’re feeling overwhelmed and underappreciated due to factors such as hectic workplaces and schedules, extended workloads, and excessive administrative tasks.

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