Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 17, 2022

The Australian government is briefly subsidising some telehealth services as it deals with a new COVID-19 outbreak. These include specialist inpatient video and phone consultation items under the Medicare Benefits Schedule, complex specialist telephone consultations and level C or longer telephone consultations for general practitioners. Offered until 30 June, these telehealth items have been made available nationwide, unlike when these were targeted only to hotspot areas previously.

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MRO Compliance

JANUARY 17, 2022

Vital Cybersecurity Considerations for Keeping Data Protected. Cybersecurity consists of the practices and software utilized to protect data from unauthorized access, as well as from internal vulnerabilities that put data at risk. Healthcare data has become a growing target of cyber-attacks via areas such as digital health records, data sharing and medical devices that communicate with hospital systems that do not have the appropriate level of safeguards in place.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 17, 2022

In summer 2021, patient engagement technology company, Twistle, joined forces with healthcare data and analytics company, Health Catalyst. Matt Revis, Chief Operating Officer of Twistle by Health Catalyst, joins the podcast to touch on the opportunity for data-driven patient engagement to advance care and the relevance of telehealth post-pandemic. Revis will also discuss how patient engagement technology can help organizations achieve the promise of population health.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 17, 2022

Digital health executives share their predictions on how artificial intelligence (AI) will continue to shape the healthcare industry in 2022. Diana Nole, EVP and GM of Healthcare at Nuance Communications, Inc. AI will find more game-changing use cases – According to Optum’s fourth annual survey on AI in healthcare, 96% of respondents said AI plays an important role in increasing health equity, and 94% said they have a duty to ensure AI is used responsibly in healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2022

In the US, we’re celebrating Martin Luther King Day and so we’re largely out of school and off work. My kids’ school district actually did a 5 day COVID pause and so we have a 5 day weekend to enjoy. We’re taking a bit of time off at Healthcare IT Today as well, but we’ll […].

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 17, 2022

George Crump, CMO at StorONE. At some point, the chances are high that ransomware will pierce the defenses you have tried to put in place at your healthcare organization. When that occurs, your healthcare organization needs a ransomware recovery strategy, which enhances your typical backup and recovery processes. Below is a three-step program for ensuring that you can recover from an attack.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 17, 2022

Robert Bressler, SVP of Primary360, Teladoc Health. The promise of primary care on improved health outcomes has been proven over time. At the core of this equation is a robust and longitudinal patient-provider relationship. These positive relationships often improve patient satisfaction, yielding higher engagement and utilization of primary care services.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 17, 2022

The new electric wheelchair technology is sensor-based and controlled by an app.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

JANUARY 17, 2022

A 29 year old Chicago nurse is charged with two counts of tampering with a consumer product. It is alleged that the Chicago nurse removed morphine from bottles that were prescribed to two patients and replaced it with another liquid. The nurse was aware that the diluted substance would be dispensed to the patients. The nurse was employed as an Assistant Director of Nursing in a medical rehabilitation center.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 17, 2022

Power MAP provides a full view of a patient's health status to assist in the treatment of chronic diseases.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2022

Acquisition Enables Company to Provide More High-Value, Patient-Centered Services Through Its Network of More Than 1,000 Independent Primary Care Practices and Health Centers Aledade, the leading primary care enablement company, announced today that it has acquired Iris Healthcare, the best-in-class provider of Advance Care Planning (ACP) solutions for tens of thousands of patients across the country. […].

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 17, 2022

The company is expanding to other Asian markets starting this year.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2022

Waymark, the Medicaid provider-enablement company devoted to scaling value-based care in Medicaid, today announced the closing of a $45M Series A financing co-led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Lux Capital and leading angel investors also participated in the round. Today, the wealthiest Americans outlive the poorest Americans by 10-15 years.

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Colington Consulting HIPAA Blog

JANUARY 17, 2022

Our series is designed to explain best practices about HIPAA compliance, HIPAA settlements, and the various requirements an organization must have in place under the HIPAA Security & Privacy Rules.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2022

With AnesthesiaGo and Provider Scheduling powered by Lightning Bolt, PerfectServe enhances position at the forefront of advanced scheduling technology PerfectServe®, a leading provider of cloud-based clinical collaboration and provider scheduling solutions, today announced the acquisition of AnesthesiaGo, purveyor of the healthcare industry’s only intelligent case scheduling platform for anesthesiology staff.

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HealthLaw Prof Blog

JANUARY 17, 2022

Theodore Rave (University of Texas at Austin), Francis E. McGovern (Duke University), A Hub-and-Spoke Model of Multidistrict Litigation, 84 L. and Contemporary Problems 21 (2021): Consolidating mass tort cases in federal multidistrict litigation (MDL) has been a successful strategy for.

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Drug & Device Law

JANUARY 17, 2022

In our 2017 post, “ Medtronic v. Lohr Has Two Shadows ,” we pointed out that the “presumption against preemption” that was the linchpin of that decision’s limited and atextual reading of the FDCA’s express preemption clause for medical devices, 21 U.S.C. §360k(a), was no more. Lohr had justified its specificity gloss on the broad statutory term “requirement” by relying on that presumption: In all pre-emption cases, and particularly in those in which Congress has legislated in a field which the

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HealthLaw Prof Blog

JANUARY 17, 2022

John Finnis (University of Oxford), Robert George (Princeton University), Indictability of Early Abortion c. 1868, SSRN (2021): Aaron Tang posted on Sep. 13, 2021 "The Originalist Case for an Abortion Middle Ground," arguing that "originalist pro-life advocates," including the present.

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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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Med League

JANUARY 17, 2022

Addiction and Substance Abuse Nurse Expert is a registered nurse who are specialized in pain management and behavioral psychology. They support patients undergoing therapy for drug or alcohol rehabilitation, and they educate patients on the dangers of Addiction and Chemical Dependency and the importance of a clean and healthy lifestyle. Addiction and Substance Abuse Nurse Experts are committed to the prevention, intervention, treatment, and management of addictive disorders.

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