Healthcare Dive
JULY 20, 2022
Anti-abortion laws have had a chilling effect on patient care, resulting in providers — concerned about the potential for legal action — delaying or denying in some cases life-saving services, doctors told a House committee.
Bill of Health
JULY 20, 2022
By Amy Cook, JD, Jonathan Larsen, JD, MPP, and Sabrina Ruchelli, JD. Section 340B of the Public Health Service Act requires that pharmaceutical manufacturers give discounts on specified outpatient drugs to certain covered entities who typically serve low-income or otherwise underserved patients, including hospitals and clinics. However, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), there are no measures built into the program to assure that 340B program discounts are being used to sup
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Healthcare Dive
JULY 20, 2022
Regulators are primarily targeting laboratory owners and operators who paid illegal kickbacks and bribes in exchange for patient referrals from doctors working with fraudulent companies.
Electronic Health Reporter
JULY 20, 2022
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By James Talcott, MD, SM, senior medical director, Oncology for Eviti, NantHealth. A recent study from the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that while the U.S. spends nearly two times more per capita […]. The article Advanced Treatment-Validation Technology Set To Improve Cancer Treatment Results appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
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Healthcare Dive
JULY 20, 2022
A combination of higher rate hikes, aggressive cost-cutting and M&A could help ailing nonprofits avoid negative rating actions, according to Fitch.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 20, 2022
Northern Health is expanding the access to its virtual emergency department service to people living in residential aged care facilities and COVID-19 patients being treated at home via the COVID-19 Positive Pathway Program. This comes as part of the additional A$162 million ($122 million) funding provided by the state government of Victoria to the health service to improve the operations of Ambulance Victoria.
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Health Populi
JULY 20, 2022
How much do I love this media campaign from Walgreens , collaborating with the foursome The Old Gays who have a growing multi-million person fan base on TikTok? How much? A whole lot! Kudos to Walgreens for creating engaging, informative, and fun! content to learn about how people can benefit from using the company’s app … for, Ordering prescriptions (90-day supply).
Healthcare Dive
JULY 20, 2022
The health system will reduce its regional executive teams to three divisions from seven as it aims to be a leaner organization amid continued headwinds.
Mobi Health News
JULY 20, 2022
Eko Murmur Analysis Software is a machine learning algorithm that detects and characterizes heart murmurs in adult and pediatric patients.
Healthcare Dive
JULY 20, 2022
CEO Gail Boudreaux told investors Wednesday the insurer "needed greater certainty" in order to continue with the contract.
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HIPAA Journal
JULY 20, 2022
BJC HealthCare has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit to resolve claims it failed to adequately protect patient data from phishing attacks. The nonprofit St. Louis-based hospital system reported a breach of its email system to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights on May 5, 2020, that affected 287,876 individuals. The investigation confirmed that three email accounts had been compromised in March 2020 as a result of responses to phishing emails.
Sharps Compliance
JULY 20, 2022
Patient privacy and confidentiality are huge issues in healthcare. Cybercrime is a growing concern, particularly as more providers adopt electronic health records. For example, there were twice as many reported data breaches during the first five months of 2022 than in the same period in 2021. Although cybercrime gets a lot of attention, patient privacy is often compromised the old-fashioned way by improper disposal of paper documents containing patients’ protected health information (PHI)
HIPAA Journal
JULY 20, 2022
June 2022 saw 70 healthcare data breaches of 500 or more records reported to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) – two fewer than May and one fewer than June 2021. Over the past 12 months, from July 2021 to June 2022, 692 large healthcare data breaches have been reported and the records of 42,431,699 individuals have been exposed or impermissibly disclosed.
Healthcare IT Today
JULY 20, 2022
The following is a guest article by Mark Spinner, President and CEO at AccessOne. It takes about three paper statements , on average, for consumers to pay their medical bills. Why? Because it’s easy to set these mailings aside and wait to act on them another day. Just three years ago, 90% of healthcare organizations relied on paper-based billing statements.
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HIT Consultant
JULY 20, 2022
Richard Marcil, Chief Customer Officer at ConversationHEALTH Simon Johns, Director of Medical Information and Marketed Product Safety at IQVIA. Life science organizations field a wide range of requests for medical information from the healthcare providers and patients they serve. Addressing these inquiries is important from numerous perspectives, from customer support and pharmacovigilance to post-market surveillance, medication adherence and patient outcomes. .
Mobi Health News
JULY 20, 2022
The VR app has been shown to reduce 75% of phobia symptoms after six weeks of treatment.
HIT Consultant
JULY 20, 2022
Kristen Ballantine, VP of Government Relations at Gainwell. For most patients, it has always been extremely difficult to their personal health and medical data electronically. However, with the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule , consumers, specifically Medicaid members, there is a greater push to give access to, and ownership of, this data.
Digital Health News
JULY 20, 2022
NHS Digital is to run its The Wireless Centre of Excellence trials again to find wireless technologies that could better connect healthcare settings.
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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.
Electronic Health Reporter
JULY 20, 2022
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. When you see a doctor, for any reason, it can often feel like you’re in and out with little care to speak of. And seeing as modern healthcare professionals are rushed off their feet, that’s […]. The article How Doctors Can Support Patients Beyond Their Appointment Times appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
Mobi Health News
JULY 20, 2022
Healthcare providers within the region can now use doxy.me in their respective languages.
Electronic Health Reporter
JULY 20, 2022
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Arnaud Rosier, CEO, Implicity. Burnout among doctors and nurses was already a major problem facing healthcare organizations, even before the COVID pandemic – maybe even more for healthcare professionals working in the extremely demanding […].
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 20, 2022
Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed
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Electronic Health Reporter
JULY 20, 2022
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Behavioral and mental health challenges are serious issues around the world. In fact, according to recent research conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO), almost one billion people live with some type of mental affliction […]. The article 5 Ways Health Technology Is Impacting Mental Health appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
Digital Health News
JULY 20, 2022
Bedfordshire Hospitals is working in partnership with InterSystems to deliver a shared health and care record to support integrated care in the region.
Electronic Health Reporter
JULY 20, 2022
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. There are few occupations whose representatives are always in demand, one of which is a home health aide. Their duties include personal care (dressing, bathing, feeding), light housekeeping, socializing, monitoring medications taken, cooking, and other […].
Healthicity
JULY 20, 2022
Mental Health Parity. Mental health services have not always had the same parity of coverage.
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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.
Electronic Health Reporter
JULY 20, 2022
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Physiotherapy is one of the most important branches of medicine, as it often helps people lead healthy lives. It also plays a crucial role in injury recovery and rehabilitation. Though it has been around for […]. The article Top 5 Trends To Watch Out For In The Physiotherapy Industry in 2022 appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
Digital Health News
JULY 20, 2022
With investment being awarded to digitise diagnostics across the NHS in England, Jennifer Trueland explores what impact this will have on imaging.
Med-Net Compliance
JULY 20, 2022
A federal jury convicted a New York ENT doctor for defrauding Medicare and Medicaid by causing the submission of false and fraudulent claims for surgical procedures that were not performed. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, the doctor billed Medicare and Medicaid for an incision procedure of the external ear for hundreds of patients, when in fact all he actually performed was an ear exam or ear wax removal.
Digital Health News
JULY 20, 2022
Hexham General Hospital is taking part in a medical trial to assess how beneficial robotic surgery for hip replacements can be.
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