Healthcare Dive
APRIL 11, 2022
By adapting new tactics, building more flexible ways to credential new nurses and making academic progression more accessible, learning institutions can take critical steps to strengthen America's core of nurses, the authors argue.
Bill of Health
APRIL 11, 2022
By Robert I. Field and Anthony W. Orlando. The latest wave of COVID cases and hospitalizations has raised concerns about the financial resilience of many hospitals in the United States. Throughout the pandemic, we have witnessed shortages of medical supplies, exhaustion of frontline workers, and the overflow of patients beyond the physical capacity of hospital beds and buildings.
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Healthcare Dive
APRIL 11, 2022
The nurses' demands in new contracts focus on recruitment and retention of nursing staff "amid an industry-wide shortage and nurses being exhausted after working through the pandemic, many in short-staffed units," the union said.
HIPAA Journal
APRIL 11, 2022
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued new draft guidance for medical device manufacturers to help them incorporate cybersecurity protections into their products at the premarket stage, and to ensure security risks are managed for the full life cycle of the products. The FDA first released final guidance on premarket expectations for medical devices in 2014, then updated and released draft guidance in 2018.
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Feeling overwhelmed by medical waste regulations? This comprehensive guide unravels the complexities of medical waste disposal, ensuring you stay compliant and prioritize safety. Inside you'll find: Clear categorization: Learn to precisely classify medical waste for proper handling and disposal. Labeling & Storage: Discover best practices for clear labeling and secure storage of medical waste.
Healthcare Dive
APRIL 11, 2022
The healthcare industry has faced unprecedented staffing challenges over the past two years. Learn what the leaders of CHG Healthcare's staffing brands had to say about the competition to attract and retain providers in 2022.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 11, 2022
What You Should Know: – Vytalize Health raises over $50 million to advance its value-based care platform for seniors helping primary care doctors strengthen relationships with their patients through data-driven, holistic, and personalized care. – Led by Enhanced Healthcare Partners, the financing round signals an enormous opportunity for Vytalize Health to accelerate the adoption of value-based care programs by providers.
Health Care Compliance Brief brings together the best content for health law & compliance professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 11, 2022
Grant Harland, Retail and Hospitality Industry Analyst at Windstream Enterprise Melinda Cisnero, Healthcare Industry Analyst at Windstream Enterprise. When it comes to the quality of their healthcare journey, patients, it seems, are losing patience with their healthcare providers. In Cedar’s latest Healthcare Consumer Experience Study , for example, the share of consumers who said they won’t pay a bill if they cannot understand the administrative experience tripled from 2020 to 2021, to 37
Healthcare Dive
APRIL 11, 2022
Just because HIPAA doesn't require the use of data governance technology doesn't mean you can do without it.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 11, 2022
Diligent Robotics co-founders, Dr. Andrea Thomaz and Dr. Vivian Chu pose with Moxi, a robot they created to help take the stress off of nurses and clinical care teams so they can spend more time with their patients. What You Should Know: – Diligent Robotics raises over $30M to deploy its collaborative robots to healthcare systems across the nation. – Company plans to use the funding will accelerate product development to meet the demand for healthcare service robots and enhance inter
Compliancy Group
APRIL 11, 2022
In one of the largest breaches reported in 2022 so far, SuperCare Health suffered a hacking incident affecting 318,379 patients. The network intrusion was initially detected on July 27, 2021. However, it took SuperCare Health until February 2022 to discover the incident had potentially compromised that patient information. More details regarding the SuperCare Health hack are discussed below.
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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.
Mobi Health News
APRIL 11, 2022
The proof-of-concept study used off-the-shelf sensors to identify abnormal events and alert family members through text messages.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 11, 2022
Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed
Mobi Health News
APRIL 11, 2022
Moxi performs delivery tasks in hospitals, like bringing supplies, delivering lab samples and distributing personal protective equipment.
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 11, 2022
OK, everyone, raise your hand if you’ve gotten wrong information when you’ve looked up a clinician on your insurer’s web site. I don’t think anyone will have both hands on the keyboard right now. According to a Medicare research study, for instance, the information about nearly 49% of the providers in Medicare Advantage Organizations have […].
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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.
Mobi Health News
APRIL 11, 2022
The company plans to use the new capital to grow its team, move into new markets and expand its scope beyond primary care.
Modern Healthcare
APRIL 11, 2022
Military medical teams' experience during COVID-19 will help shape the size and staffing of the military’s medical response so the Pentagon can provide the right types and numbers of forces needed for another pandemic, global crisis or conflict.
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 11, 2022
For the 30th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with David Chou, a popular Healthcare Executive who is a great follow on Twitter @dchou1107. In this episode, Chou shares his perspectives on digital transformation in healthcare including the top 3 things health IT organizations should be embracing as […].
Mobi Health News
APRIL 11, 2022
The new algorithm is able to assess a user's heart rhythm when they are asleep or still.
Speaker: Amy Anderson
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.
Healthcare Compliance Blog
APRIL 11, 2022
There have been a total of 132 healthcare data breaches, impacting over 6.8 million individuals, reported to the US Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) data breach portal so far in 2022. In March 2022, 35 healthcare data breaches were reported to the portal, which affected almost 2.3 million individuals. This reflects a decrease in healthcare data breaches for the second month in a row.
The Health Law Firm
APRIL 11, 2022
By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On February 28, 2022, ten (10) Florida residents were charged in an indictment in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida for their alleged roles in a $67 million health care fraud, wire fraud, kickback, and money laundering scheme. Federal prosecutors allege that the individuals billed Medicare for bogus genetic tests and durable medical equipment.
McGuire Wood
APRIL 11, 2022
Audax Private Equity has announced it has completed a strategic growth investment in Flow Control Holdings. Flow Control , based in Cincinnati, Ohio, is provider of sanitary flow components to producers of pharmaceuticals and other non-healthcare products. Founded in 2018, Flow Control is the parent company to Steel & O’Brien Manufacturing and Ace Sanitary.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 11, 2022
What You Should Know: – Today, Komodo Health and Datavant are expanding their partnership to make it even easier for companies to bring together disparate datasets and unlock deeper insights to speed innovation and improve patient outcomes. Together, the companies are helping customers gain more value than ever before from their proprietary or third-party data by linking it with Komodo’s longitudinal patient journey data and advanced analytics platform – all without compromising patien
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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.
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 11, 2022
Financing accelerates company’s global growth and development of its platform to enrich HCP messaging solutions on endemic and point-of-care networks for life sciences companies Doceree Inc, the first global network of physician-only platforms for programmatic messaging, today announced the completion of $11 million Series A funding round led by Eight Roads Ventures, a global investment […].
Health Care Law Brief
APRIL 11, 2022
Contingency management (CM) is a form of intervention treatment program that incentivizes patients with substance use disorders to observe certain conditions—such as non-use of drugs or alcohol confirmed via urine drug screening or breathalyzer test, or even drug therapy adherence—in exchange for something of monetary value. Adherence is often tracked and confirmed by those that provide the incentive payment through digital health technologies—including apps that can be downloaded to the patien
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 11, 2022
Some of you who read this may not have heard of Tegria. However, it’s very likely you’ve heard of one of the many companies that were combined to make up Tegria. Tegria came out of healthcare giant Providence in Seattle where they combined a number of existing investments and acquisitions into one company. Here’s a […].
Medisys Compliance
APRIL 11, 2022
Billing for Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs) is tightly regulated by numerous federal as well as state-level regulatory authorities. Complete documentation will support all procedure codes your billed and will provide complete picture for payers. In this article, we shared list of required documents for ambulatory surgery centers who are beneficiaries of Medicare.
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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.
The Health Law Firm
APRIL 11, 2022
By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law Physicians who are approached by non-physicians seeking to entice them into business ventures that make money quickly, should be very leery. If the business venture offers good financial compensation for little or no work, RUN! Most often those involved in criminal enterprises are just seeking a physician they can sucker into a situation where they can use his/her Medicare identification number and nam
The Health Law Firm Blog
APRIL 11, 2022
By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law Staffing shortages at hospitals across the U.S. are worsening helped along by state boards and other licensing authorities taking months to process nursing licenses, a recent NPR survey claims. As a result, thousands of new nurses who want [.].
Hall Render
APRIL 11, 2022
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently affirmed that a qui tam relator’s original complaint, rather than any amended complaints subsequently filed in the action, is the “proper point of reference” for analysis under the False Claims Act’s (“FCA’s”) first-to-file rule. Cho on behalf of States v. Surgery Partners, Inc. , No. 20-14109 WL 982126 (11th Cir. 2022).
HealthLaw Prof Blog
APRIL 11, 2022
Nancy J. Knauer (Temple University),U.S. Disaster Policy: Oversight Challenges and the Promise of Multi-Level Governance, 26 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 4 (2022): U.S. disaster preparedness and response policy now plays an increasingly central role in the lives of many.
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Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.
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