Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 26, 2022
The Inflation Reduction Act leaves intact a peculiar split in Medicare vaccine coverage that discourages physicians from offering certain vaccines, argues former Moderna Vice President Richard Hughes.
Bill of Health
AUGUST 26, 2022
By Emily Michiko Morris. Professor Jorge Contreras’ commentary on the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2022 objects to Senator Thom Tillis’ recently introduced bill. Specifically, he argues that proposed inclusion of isolated and purified human genes and other naturally occurring substances as patent eligible subject matter is unnecessary and would both stymie research and obstruct access to medicine.
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Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 26, 2022
The managed care organizations already held Medicaid contracts with the state, but the overhaul in counties served is causing one payer to consider appealing the proposed contracts.
Bill of Health
AUGUST 26, 2022
By? Ameet Sarpatwari , Aviva Wang , Liam Bendicksen , and? Aaron S. Kesselheim. Each month, members of the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) review the peer-reviewed medical literature to identify interesting empirical studies, policy analyses, and editorials on health law and policy issues relevant to current or potential future work in the Division.
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Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 26, 2022
The biotech claims its rivals’ vaccine Comirnaty, one of the world’s top-selling pharmaceutical products, infringes on two patents covering its messenger RNA technology.
HIPAA Journal
AUGUST 26, 2022
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) has issued a warning to the Healthcare and Public Health Sector (HPH) about a relatively new ransom threat group called Karakurt, which is known to have conducted hacking and extortion attacks on the HPH sector. These attacks are similar to attacks conducted by ransomware gangs, but the group doesn’t bother encrypting data, just steals data and issues a demand to prevent its release.
Health Care Compliance Brief brings together the best content for health law & compliance professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
HIPAA Journal
AUGUST 26, 2022
Sensitive information is being shared with data brokers and advertisers for the purpose of serving targeted advertisements, and not just by health apps and fitness trackers. HIPAA-covered entities are also sharing the health data without patient consent, which puts them at risk of regulatory fines and lawsuits. Many consumer health apps collect sensitive health data, including pregnancy and fertility trackers and personal fitness and exercise apps.
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 26, 2022
The department urged state governors to request federal funding, including Medicaid funds, to expand abortion access, including for pregnant people traveling from states that restrict or prohibit abortion.
Medisys Compliance
AUGUST 26, 2022
Are you someone who is just getting started with your optometry services and are not aware of the billing and coding services? Are you a seasoned professional, yet the huge amount of paperwork in regards with medical billing and coding has put you in a rut? We have offered here our two cents, which will help you move forward through the paperwork and take better care of your medical billing and coding services.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 26, 2022
What You Should Know: – Ubie , a Japan-based digital health startup raises $26.2 M in Series C funding to bring unprecedented medical experience by strengthening partnerships with pharmaceutical companies in Japan and the US. – Led by a team of talented developers and medical doctors, Ubie uses a machine-learning algorithm and offers Ubie AI Symptom Checker, allowing patients to check on their symptoms and determine the next appropriate course of action for free.
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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.
KFF
AUGUST 26, 2022
This fact sheet summarizes the major statutory requirements and policies pertaining to U.S. global family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH) efforts over time and identifies those currently in effect, including the Mexico City Policy and the Kemp-Kasten Amendment.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 26, 2022
What You Should Know: – FundamentalVR , a provider of virtual reality (VR) integration for medical simulation is expanding its offering into urology through a partnership with Teleflex Interventional Urology. – Bringing its immersive, haptic VR training solution to urologists, the partnership highlights how FundamentalVR’s advanced technology and high-fidelity graphics will accelerate the learning curve in the use of Teleflex’s UroLift ® 2 System, an innovative technology for treatme
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 26, 2022
Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 26, 2022
New data released by Medical Group Management Association ( MGMA ) shows that revenue from value-based contracts was only 5.5% in surgical specialties, 6.7% in primary care, and 14.7% in nonsurgical specialties. The median revenue from value-based contracts was $30,922 per FTE provider. The data shows that fee-for-service still dominates. Value-Based Care.
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Mobi Health News
AUGUST 26, 2022
According to the World Health Organization, breast cancer survival rates vary significantly between different countries.
Digital Health News
AUGUST 26, 2022
The latest roundup features news about integration issues for East Lancashire and a shared care planning solution being deployed in London.
Healthicity
AUGUST 26, 2022
The summer heat is currently baking the U-S-of-A like granny’s peanut butter cookies.
HIPAA Vault
AUGUST 26, 2022
…And How HIPAA Gauge can Help! by Stephen Trout Your gauges were peaking red, but you didn’t notice until your power was gone and smoke came billowing out your hood like a 3-alarm fire. You tried drifting off the road, but the truck behind you didn’t get the memo. Thousands later in medical bills and. Continue reading.
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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.
Med-Net Compliance
AUGUST 26, 2022
The US Department of Labor obtained a consent judgment requiring a Pennsylvania home healthcare agency and its operator — which intentionally misclassified workers as independent contractors and misapplied an overtime rule to avoid paying full wages — to pay 75 caregiver employees a total of $293,990 in back wages and liquidated damages. The action began with a June 2021 complaint filed by the Department’s?
HIPAA Journal
AUGUST 26, 2022
A cyberattack and data breach has been reported by LastPass, the provider of the world’s most popular password management solution. According to LastPass, there are around 30 million users of its password manager solution globally, including 85,000 business customers. Notifications have been sent to customers to inform them about the cyberattack and provide reassurances that while some company data was stolen in the attack, users’ password vaults were not affected and the cyberattack did not cau
Compliancy Group
AUGUST 26, 2022
You probably know by now that cybersecurity insurance coverage is essential for your business. You likely already have a policy. So you’re all set, right? Well, you might not know that when you work in the healthcare space (or any other regulatory space), your policy won’t always cover you when you’re breached. Why not? That’s what you are paying for, isn’t it?
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 26, 2022
The new deal will secure expanded access to essential solutions that will help ensure radiologists, technologists and other healthcare professionals can drive greater productivity and meet higher oncology screening demand, while improving patient care. Intelerad Medical Systems™ , a leading global provider of enterprise medical imaging solutions, today announced its acquisition of PenRad Technologies, Inc.
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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.
Health Care Law Brief
AUGUST 26, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“ CMS ”) recently published the proposed 2023 Physician Fee Schedule (“ PFS ”), which contains several important changes affecting Accountable Care Organizations (“ ACOs ”) that participate in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (“ MSSP ”), including a new Advanced Incentive Program. See Proposed 2023 PFS, 82 Fed.
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 26, 2022
Happy Friday! Congrats on making it to the end of the week. You know what that means. It’s time for another edition of Fun Friday where we delight and entertain you (or at least try) to send you off into the weekend with a smile on your face. First up is a look at some cloud humor. #facts pic.twitter.com/utouBBAD12. — Aaron Miri (@AaronMiri) August 24, 2022.
Jane Sarashon
AUGUST 26, 2022
In a busy week of news in the health care and digital health world, it would be easy to miss a press release published on 23rd August on the food-as-medicine front. But don’t blink this snippet away. It is another strong signal about the growing blur between grocery stores, food, digital tech, and population health. The digital health platform LLENA (AI) announced its collaboration with Walmart to support people managing diabetes with personalized nutrition support from data tracking pulli
HealthIT Answers
AUGUST 26, 2022
Announcement made at the Civitas ad DirectTrust Better Together 2022 conference from HASA HIE/C3HIE, The Sequoia Project, HITRUST, PCDH Governance Council, Velatura, KPI Ninja by Health Catalyst, MedAllies, & Secure Exchange Solutions. The post Announcements at #Together4Health2022 #ICYMI appeared first on Health IT Answers.
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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.
Hanys
AUGUST 26, 2022
The three-part webinar series for healthcare leaders runs Sept. 12, Sept. 19 and Oct. 3. Register now and learn how to leverage high-reliability strategies to support your staff's well-being during challenging times.
Becker's Health IT
AUGUST 26, 2022
While states like California, Texas and Florida most often experience healthcare data breaches — not surprising given their size — Indiana leads the way based on the number of incidents per capita, according to an Aug. 24 report by researcher Comparitech.
Hanys
AUGUST 26, 2022
Standing membership call. Aug. 30. Recognize and limit infection control risks. Sept. 1. Leadership Learning Series: Focusing on well-being during challenging times. Sept. 12, Sept. 19 and Oct. 3. From underpayments to incorrect denials: How to identify payer violations and efficiently recover lost revenue for NY providers. Sept. 13. Standing membership call.
Becker's Health IT
AUGUST 26, 2022
A report from Cynerio and the Ponemon Institute found 43 percent of hospitals had suffered a data breach in the past two years.
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