Bill of Health
JUNE 13, 2022
By Leah Pierson. I recently argued that we need to evaluate medical school ethics curricula. Here, I explore how ethics courses became a key component of medical education and what we do know about them. The rise of ethics education. Although ethics had been a recognized component of medical practice since Hippocrates’ time , ethics education is a more recent innovation.
Healthcare Dive
JUNE 13, 2022
Orlando Health accuses Liberty HealthShare, a faith-based medical cost-sharing organization, of telling patients to conceal their membership in the group to get charity rates for medical services.
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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 13, 2022
Many healthcare consumers today are disconnecting from traditional primary care, since the current experience is not meeting consumers' expectations, some industry observers say. When consumers disengage, the promise of traditional primary care cannot be realized. The situation results in increased ER and urgent care usage, undiagnosed chronic conditions, unmet mental health needs, and other problems, they add.
Healthcare Dive
JUNE 13, 2022
Marrying LHC, which manages a sizable share of the home health market, with Optum, one of the biggest physician groups in the country, has raised regulators’ eyebrows.
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Electronic Health Reporter
JUNE 13, 2022
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Rebecca Chi, chief client experience officer, AristaMD. Accessing specialty medical care shouldn’t be difficult, yet 27% of people in the U.S. wait one month or more to see healthcare specialists. A survey by AristaMD of […]. The article The Solution To Rising Healthcare Wait Times appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
Healthcare Dive
JUNE 13, 2022
Though it’s tempting to interpret the recent Medicare trustees report as good news, academics are arguing lawmakers can’t wait until hospital trust fund insolvency is imminent before taking action to bolster the program.
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Healthcare Dive
JUNE 13, 2022
Agency scientists found the shots to be similarly effective in kids as in older teenagers and raised no major safety red flags, documents published ahead of a meeting of agency advisers this week show.
Healthcare IT Today
JUNE 13, 2022
For the 90th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re asking the question Has AI Finally Arrived in Healthcare? We’ve been hearing about the potential benefits of AI in healthcare for a long time. In this episode we dive into where we’re at when it comes to AI in healthcare. Is it still all a […] For the 90th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we're asking the question Has AI Finally Arrived in Healthcare?
HIPAA Journal
JUNE 13, 2022
Yuma Regional Medical Center (YRMC) in Arizona has announced it was the victim of a ransomware attack in April in which the attackers obtained the protected health information of approximately 700,000 current and former patients. According to the recent YRMC announcement, the attack was detected on April 25, 2022, which affected some of its IT systems.
OSHA Law Blog
JUNE 13, 2022
It may come as a surprise to some, but Cal/OSHA’s workplace violence regulations currently apply only to the Health Care Industry. Cal/OSHA plans to change that. Right now, for non-healthcare industries, Cal/OSHA regulates workplace violence using the employer’s obligation to regularly identify and evaluate workplace hazards under Section 3203, California’s version of the general duty clause.
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Med-Net Compliance
JUNE 13, 2022
Three independent clinical laboratories, their owner and holding company, an additional independent clinical laboratory and its owner, two laboratory marketing companies, and a Massachusetts physician have been charged in connection with Medicaid fraud, money laundering, and kickbacks involving urine drug tests?that caused over $2 million in false claims to the state, Attorney General Maura Healey announced.
Mobi Health News
JUNE 13, 2022
The study found a machine learning model detected traumatic intracranial hemorrhage with a sensitivity of 74% and a specificity of 75% using information collected before patients were transported to the hospital.
HIPAA Journal
JUNE 13, 2022
The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is producing a video presentation to help HIPAA-regulated entities implement “Recognized Security Practices.”. The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act was recently amended (Public Law 116-321) to require OCR to consider recognized security practices that have been in place for at least 12 months prior to certain Security Rule enforcement and audit activities.
Electronic Health Reporter
JUNE 13, 2022
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Christine Cooper, CEO and member; and Jack Towarnicky, member, aequum LLC. Effective healthcare consumerism requires timely access to accurate provider and hospital fees and estimated out of pocket costs of services – before receiving […].
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Healthcare IT Today
JUNE 13, 2022
The following is a guest article by Steven Martin, Executive Vice President, Enterprise Technology at Change Healthcare. The accelerating migration to value-based healthcare models makes addressing inefficiencies more vital than ever. Couple that with more educated and empowered healthcare consumers who need a better patient experience, it’s understandable that there is so much investment in […].
Modern Healthcare
JUNE 13, 2022
The FDA posted its analysis of the Pfizer shot ahead of a Wednesday meeting where outside experts will vote on whether the shots are ready for the nation’s 18 million babies, toddlers and preschoolers.
Mobi Health News
JUNE 13, 2022
EarliPoint Evaluation monitors a child's looking behavior while watching videos to help a clinician identify autism spectrum disorder.
Becker's Health IT
JUNE 13, 2022
Yuma (Ariz.) Regional Medical Center notified patients about a ransomware attack that forced the hospital offline and potentially exposed the protected health information of patients.
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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
JUNE 13, 2022
Dalen Dental Clinic in Whitefish, MT, has been confirmed as achieving compliance with the Privacy, Security, Breach Notification, and Omnibus Rules of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the standards of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. Dental practices that conduct transactions electronically are classed as HIPAA-covered entities and are required to be compliant with the HIPAA Rules.
Healthcare IT Today
JUNE 13, 2022
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Business Systems Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Colorado Access and is in Colorado. Here’s a description of the position: We are looking for a Business […].
McGuire Wood
JUNE 13, 2022
Northlane Capital Partners has announced it has invested in SAI MedPartners. SAI , based in Reading, Pa., is a consultancy providing guidance and analytics to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. Founded in 1978, the company has offices across the Americas, Europe, India and Asia. NCP , based in Bethesda, Md., is a middle market private equity firm focused on healthcare and business services.
Becker's Health IT
JUNE 13, 2022
Cybersecurity experts say that the two biggest threats to healthcare cybersecurity are insider threats and ransomware.
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Total Medical ComplianceHIPAA
JUNE 13, 2022
The HIPAA Privacy Rule grants patients the right to access their health information in a way that is easy and affordable for them. Providers are required to give patients access to their health information. There are some exceptions, of course, so getting the process right can be as confusing as being in a house of mirrors. Patients are entitled to receive all information a provider maintains about them in one or more designated record sets.
Becker's Health IT
JUNE 13, 2022
Kaiser Permanente is notifying 69,589 patients of a data breach that occurred when someone accessed an employee's emails.
Hall Render
JUNE 13, 2022
Our Health Care Real Estate Briefing is your comprehensive summary of weekly health care real estate highlights happening across the nation. A number of stories involving hospitals and health care providers made the news last week. Our headline story includes a summary of health care trends that the consulting firm Sg2 published. The report makes predictions on where the growth will be in health care over the next decade.
Compliancy Group
JUNE 13, 2022
On June 13, 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services issued guidance on HIPAA telehealth requirements, as these requirements pertain to audio-only telehealth services. The HIPAA guidance issued by HHS covers how and when covered health care providers and health plans can use remote communication technologies to provide audio-only telehealth services when OCR’s Notification of Enforcement Discretion for Telehealth is no longer in effect.
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Jane Sarashon
JUNE 13, 2022
Doctors heads and hearts are jammed with concerns beyond curing patients’ medical conditions: U.S. physicians are worried about big social issues, according to a Medscape survey report, Physicians’ Views on Today’s Divisive Social Issues 2022. Topping physicians’ list of their top-five most important social issues, far above all others ranked healthcare access.
Center for Health Insurance Reform
JUNE 13, 2022
This month, the CHIR team celebrated the end of the school year with new health policy research. For the latest installment of our monthly research roundup, we reviewed studies on access to providers in Medicaid managed care networks, how the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) affects state cost containment reforms, and the health coverage implications of the Biden administration’s recent changes to the public charge rule for immigrant communities.
Drug & Device Law
JUNE 13, 2022
We’ve seen a couple of decisions recently in which defendants raised the “commonly known” hazards exception for medical device labeling, so we thought we’d give it a look. The FDA’s regulations for medical device labeling generally require that such labeling include “any relevant hazards, contraindications, side effects, and precautions.” 21 C.F.R. §801.109(c).
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