Healthcare Dive
MAY 23, 2022
Systems should address burnout systemically, and a priority is seeking and responding better to feedback from front-line workers, according to a Monday advisory from U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy.
Compliance Now
MAY 23, 2022
By: Jennifer Berman, CEO, MZQ Consulting. On May 10, Delaware Governor Carney signed the Healthy Delaware Families Act establishing a mandatory paid leave program, making Delaware the eleventh state to enact such a program. Contributions towards the program will begin on January 1, 2025. Benefits will be available starting January 1, 2026. The available benefits under this program are keyed to employer size.
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Healthcare Dive
MAY 23, 2022
The hospital lobby is pushing the Justice Department to go beyond the recommendations in a new report from the HHS OIG and punish Medicare Advantage organizations that routinely deny coverage to beneficiaries.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MAY 23, 2022
The Surgical Center at?Columbia Orthopaedic Group in Missouri, like so many ambulatory surgery centers across the country, do procedures today that are far more complex than those it did five years ago. THE PROBLEM. "In the past, we haven't worried as much about coordinating care across the patient journey, from preoperative education to surgical aftercare," said Andrew Lovewell, administrator.
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Healthcare Dive
MAY 23, 2022
Travel nursing continues to rise – how are you monitoring license verifications across state lines?
Healthcare IT Today
MAY 23, 2022
One of the most interesting people I met at the HIMSS 2022 conference this year was João Bocas. If you’re on Twitter, then you’ve probably seen him tweeting from his account @WearablesExpert where he shares great digital health content. One thing I love about Bocas is that he brings a great international perspective to the […].
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Healthcare IT Today
MAY 23, 2022
The following is a guest article by Lucio Lanza, Managing Partner at Lanza techVentures, David Stewart, CEO at Approov. Covid compelled healthcare providers and consumers to accelerate their digital transformation and they did, creating dramatic changes in behavior patterns. The traditional hospital-centric medical care system morphed into a patient-centric care system.
Healthcare Dive
MAY 23, 2022
Christina Harris, a primary care physician, will lead Cedars-Sinai's efforts to improve health disparities and address social determinants of health both internally and in Los Angeles.
HIT Consultant
MAY 23, 2022
Kevin Vigilante MD, MPH EVP, Chief Medical Officer at Booz Allen Hamilton George Plopper, Sr. Lead Technologist at Booz Allen Hamilton. Over the last decade, there has been an increasing recognition that results published in scientific journals often cannot be reproduced by other scientists. This has been called the “reproducibility crisis” and has been described in a number of studies.
Healthcare Dive
MAY 23, 2022
The drugmaker, along with partner BioNTech, plans to submit the new data to the FDA this week. The agency has scheduled a meeting for outside experts to review the data in mid-June.
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Total HIPAA
MAY 23, 2022
What is Protected Health Information (PHI)? The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ( HIPAA ) is a 1996 federal law that regulates privacy standards in the healthcare sector. In the early 1990s, it became clear that computers and digital records would play a large role in storing health data and that something should be done to protect sensitive information.
HIT Consultant
MAY 23, 2022
What You Should Know: – Homethrive , a tech-enabled healthcare service company that’s disrupting and revolutionizing how employers, insurers, and affinity groups support unpaid family caregivers and their loved ones raises an additional $20M in Series B funding led by Human Capital. The round also included participation from Allianz and existing investors 7wireVentures and Pitango HealthTech. – The funding round fuel Homethrive’s aggressive expansion with self-insured employers and i
Mobi Health News
MAY 23, 2022
Researchers found a 43.4% mean reduction in patient-rated obsessive-compulsive symptoms.
Center for Health Insurance Reform
MAY 23, 2022
A leaked draft of an impending Supreme Court decision has previewed the potential for states to prohibit and even criminalize abortion. Access to abortion has long been a story of the haves and have-nots. Medication abortion can improve access to this basic health care service, but the delivery and coverage of medication abortion are subject to numerous restrictions and requirements, creating multi-faceted obstacles for patients seeking care.
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Healthcare IT Today
MAY 23, 2022
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Business Intelligence Analyst III 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: What you will do: Under […].
Dot Compliance
MAY 23, 2022
Dot Compliance continues to offer 14-days of free access to its quality and compliance solutions to ensure fast and cost effective QMS adoption. Our world has changed. From the way we work to the way businesses are run, our places of work are vastly different than they were a decade ago. Another area that has undergone significant changes is how businesses approach technology deployments.
McGuire Wood
MAY 23, 2022
Pharos Capital Group has announced it has made an investment in Sanderling Renal Services. Sanderling , based in Nashville, is a provider of dialysis and renal telemedicine services. The company, which was founded in 2012, provides in-center and home-based dialysis out of 14 clinics in six states, with a focus on communities with limited access to healthcare resources.
Compliancy Group
MAY 23, 2022
An ophthalmology EMR solution, Eye Care Leaders, announced that it had been breached. The EMR first discovered the incident in December 2021. Upon investigation into the incident, it was found that at least eight eye care providers were impacted, affecting upwards of 342,000 patients. Providers affected by the EMR breach were notified of the incident on March 1, 2022, so that they may take steps to notify 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.
Medisys Compliance
MAY 23, 2022
Need for Verifying Patient and Insurance Data. Patient and insurance data verification is crucial step in revenue cycle management of any medical practice. Insurance verification confirms your patient’s coverage and benefits, whereas insurance authorization gives you a green light to provide certain services. The insurance verification process involves collecting patient insurance information and verifying it with the insurer.
Symplr
MAY 23, 2022
Each month we provide a roundup of news, awards, and features on symplr and symplr subject-matter experts.
The HIPAA Blog
MAY 23, 2022
FTC Blog Post on Breach Notification: Getting any sort of guidance from regulatory agencies on the agency's concerns and thoughts about prosecuting violators is always good, even though I'd prefer clearer regulations so that guidance isn't necessary.
Hall Render
MAY 23, 2022
The Colorado legislature recently passed HB 22-1317 , which dramatically revises Colorado’s statute governing covenants not to compete, C.R.S. § 8-2-113. The bill is expected to be signed by Governor Polis in the near future and take effect on August 10, 2022. Roughly half of the text in the noncompete law will be new, and significant chunks of the prior version are deleted entirely.
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Bill of Health
MAY 23, 2022
By Stefan Th. Gries, Michael Kranzlein, Nathan Schneider, Brian Slocum, and Kevin Tobia. In Health Freedom Defense Fund, Inc. v. Biden , the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida ruled that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s transit mask order , which was issued to stem the spread of SARS-CoV-2, exceeds the agency’s statutory authority, and struck down the mandate through a nation-wide injunction.
Hall Render
MAY 23, 2022
Our Health Care Real Estate Briefing is your comprehensive summary of weekly health care real estate highlights happening across the nation. Legislators and government agencies are looking for ways to deliver care in new settings. Last week, three U.S. Senators proposed a bill that would create a pilot program that would explore funding the cost of room and board at an assisted living facility for veterans.
HIPAA Journal
MAY 23, 2022
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) has issued a threat brief providing information on the cyber organizations of the Russian Intelligence Services which pose a threat to organizations in the United States, including the healthcare and public health (HPH) sector. The threat brief provides information on four key advanced persistent threat actors which conduct offensive cyber activities and espionage within the Russian Inte
Jane Sarashon
MAY 23, 2022
When we think about the state of Trust in in mid-2022, there is some good news: Trust is rising (at least in democratic countries, while falling in autocratic ones). The bad news: the gap in Trust has dramatically widened between higher-income people compared with those earning lower-incomes, globally. And that gap is “tinder” that can be quickly sparked into a socio-political fire in countries around the world, Richard Edelman cautioned today when introducing the latest look at the
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HealthLaw Prof Blog
MAY 23, 2022
Kevin A. Klock (Georgetown University), The Soft Law Alternative to the WHO’s Treaty Powers, 44 Geo. J. Int’l Law (2013): As a recent decision of the World Health Assembly makes clear, many in the global health movement advocate mobilizing the.
HealthLaw Prof Blog
MAY 23, 2022
Hannibal Travis (Florida International University), Patents, the Private Property Ideal, and the Public Interest in a Seamless Global Public Health Regime, SSRN (2022): The law of innovation balances private returns on investment against benefits to the public. Increasing intellectual property’s.
HealthLaw Prof Blog
MAY 23, 2022
Valarie Blake (West Virginia University), Remedying Stigma-Driven Health Disparities in Sexual Minorities, 17 Hous. J. Health law & Pol’y (2017): This paper explores the health harms of stigma in both patient-provider relationships and health insurer arrangements, before turning to legal.
HealthLaw Prof Blog
MAY 23, 2022
Liz Tobin-Tyler (Brown University), Black Mothers Matter: The Social, Political and Legal Determinants of Black Maternal Health across the Lifespan, 25 J. Health Care L. & Pol’y 49 (2022): Black maternal health disparities have existed for decades. But with America’s.
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