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Millions live in 'contraception deserts' – can telehealth help?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

According to researchers, more than 19 million women of reproductive age are living in "contraceptive deserts," defined as areas with fewer than one health center for every 1,000 women in need of publicly funded contraception. Addressing these gaps requires a multi-pronged approach, say experts – including facilitating access to birth control via telehealth.

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HHS Raises Awareness of Threats to Electronic Health Record Systems

HIPAA Journal

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center has issued a threat brief warning about the risks associated with electronic health record systems, which are often targeted by cyber threat actors. Cyberattacks on EHRs can be extremely profitable for cyber threat actors. EHRs usually contain all the information required for multiple types of fraud, including names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, other government and state ID n

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How a medical university's Telehealth Service Implementation Model can help you

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Wellpath is one of the largest correctional healthcare organizations in the country. With nearly 15,000 clinicians and professionals in 34 states across the U.S. and Australia, Wellpath delivers medical and behavioral healthcare services to nearly 300,000 patients located in inpatient and residential treatment facilities, civil commitment centers, and local, state and federal correctional facilities.

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HIPAA and ERISA: Everything You Need to Know

Total HIPAA

If you’ve been taking concrete steps towards implementing and maintaining HIPAA compliance across your organization, you may have also come across some information about ERISA compliance. Now you might be asking: Who does ERISA apply to? Do HIPAA and ERISA have overlapping guidelines? And if so, what does that mean for my company? Look no further, because we’ve got answers.

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

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.

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Tech can help address the behavioral health crisis, says AMA

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The American Medical Association, in conjunction with Manatt Health, published a report this week exploring the ways that virtual care and other digital tools can accelerate the adoption of the integrated delivery of behavioral and physical healthcare. In the report , the organizations note that behavioral health integration is essential for solving the country's dire need for access to services.

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Happy President’s Day!

Healthcare IT Today

As you all know, today is President’s Day in the US and Family Day in Canada. So, we’re taking the day off from work here at Healthcare IT Today. We hope you all are able to have a great day and enjoy time with family or at least be able to slow down and take […].

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D.C. Court of Appeals Panel to Hear Argument for Reinstating Healthcare ETS

OSHA Law Blog

On April 4, 2022, a merits panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments on a petition seeking to force OSHA to issue a permanent standard for healthcare occupational exposure to COVID-19 and to reinstate the Healthcare Emergency Temporary Standard on Occupational Exposure (Healthcare ETS) to COVID-19 pending the permanent standard.

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Abbott's implantable cardiac monitor CardioMEMS lands expanded FDA designation

Mobi Health News

The system first landed clearance in 2014 for Class III heart failure patients.

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“Shields Up” Cyber Threat Alert Issued for All U.S. Organizations

Wyatt Law Blog

CISA issues Shields Up cyber alert for every U.S. organization due to Russian government's use of cyber attacks as a pressure strategy on other governments.

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SWORD, Calibrate, NowRx all add new CFOs and other digital health hires

Mobi Health News

Also: RecoveryOne add two new members to its sales leadership team.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

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.

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Controlled Substances Policies Help Identify Risks Before the DEA Comes Knocking

Florida Health Care Law Firm

Today’s Pharmacy Law Topic : Did you know that your controlled substances policies should be protecting your pharmacy and helping you identify risks before the DEA comes knocking? By: Karen Davila. As I’ve said in earlier articles, controlled substances are a big part of the business and create significant risks faced by retail pharmacies. But many of those risks can be mitigated through written policies and procedures and consistent adherence to those policies and procedures.

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Health Care Real Estate Briefing – February 21, 2022

Hall Render

Our Health Care Real Estate Briefing is your comprehensive summary of weekly health care real estate highlights currently happening across the nation. The CDC is reviewing its mask guidance and will decide whether to relax the guidance based on the number of Covid hospitalizations. In the past, the CDC looked at the number of new Covid cases. Covid hospitalizations are down 61% since January, and the number of new Covid cases dropped 83% since January per CNBC and Johns Hopkins.

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Cognitive Decline and the Workplace

HealthLaw Prof Blog

Sharona Hoffman (Case Western Reserve University), Cognitive Decline and the Workplace, Wake Forest L. Rev. (2022 Forthcoming): Cognitive decline will increasingly become a workplace concern because of three intersecting trends. First, the American population is aging. In 2019, 16.5 percent.

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Something To Keep an Eye on

Drug & Device Law

It more or less came out of nowhere, but we’re now watching what’s going on in the Martinez v. Coloplast Corp. , No. 2:18-CV-220-JTM-JEM (N.D. Ind.), pelvic mesh case. Recently, we’ve come across a number of interesting, and generally favorable, Fed. R. Civ. P. 702 expert gatekeeping decisions bearing that caption, as Martinez approaches trial (scheduled for March 21, although the plaintiff has sought a continuance).

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Everything You Wanted to Know About FACIS, but Didn’t Know to Ask

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.

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Conference Hosted by the Law-Med Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law - Restoring Medical Professionalism: Physicians as Advocates for Their Patients; March 25-26 at 8:00 a.m. Eastern.

HealthLaw Prof Blog

Conference Hosted by the Law-Med Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law - Restoring Medical Professionalism: Physicians as Advocates for Their Patients; March 25-26 at 8:00 a.m. Eastern. The Law-Medicine Center at Case Western Reserve University School of.

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Webinar Hosted by the Law-Med Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law - Teaching Public Health Law and Inequity; March 23, 2022 at 12 p.m. EST.

HealthLaw Prof Blog

Webinar Hosted by the Law-Med Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law - Teaching Public Health Law and Inequity; March 23, 2022 at 12 p.m. EST. Those who teach public health law are acutely aware of the effect.

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Webinar Hosted by the Law-Med Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law - New Commitment Pathway for Offenders with Serious Mental illness: Expedited Diversion to Court-Ordered Treatment (EDCOT); March 30, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. Eastern.

HealthLaw Prof Blog

Webinar Hosted by the Law-Med Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law - New Commitment Pathway for Offenders with Serious Mental illness: Expedited Diversion to Court-Ordered Treatment (EDCOT); March 30, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. Eastern. Over the last.

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