HealthIT Answers
MARCH 3, 2023
Check out this month’s roundup of surveys and reports from around the industry which include patient experience, healthcare workforce safety and mental health, health data breaches, telehealth, SDoH, and value-based care. The post Studies, Surveys and Reports: What Can We Learn? appeared first on Health IT Answers.
Healthcare Dive
MARCH 3, 2023
Steve Winterfeld, Akamai's advisory chief information and security officer, outlines the threat of cyberattacks to healthcare organizations and what the industry can do to prevent them.
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Bill of Health
MARCH 3, 2023
By Alicia Ely Yamin In December of 2020, Argentina’s Congress passed Law 27.610 , which overhauled the country’s previously restrictive legal framework on abortion. Law 27.610, “ Access to Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy ,” created two kinds of legal abortion: (i) IVE (its acronym in Spanish, which translates to “Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy”), which allows any person to request an abortion up to 14 weeks gestation; and (ii) ILE (which stands for “Legal Interruption
Healthcare Dive
MARCH 3, 2023
On Friday, VillageMD said it snapped up Starling Physicians, which operates primary care and multi-specialty practices, for an undisclosed sum.
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HIPAA Journal
MARCH 3, 2023
Losses to phishing attacks increased by 76% last year, with almost one-third of companies losing money to successful phishing attacks according to Proofpoint’s recently published 2023 State of the Phish Report. In 2022, more than 4 out of 5 surveyed organizations experienced at least one successful phishing attack, with more than half of those organizations experiencing at least three successful phishing attacks.
Healthcare Dive
MARCH 3, 2023
Contracts covering workers at nearly two dozen hospitals in Nevada and Florida expire on March 31 and May 31, respectively, according to the release.
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Healthcare Dive
MARCH 3, 2023
Combined, the two systems operate more than 40 hospitals and hundreds of clinics throughout Illinois, Iowa, New Mexico and Wisconsin.
HIPAA Journal
MARCH 3, 2023
The Biden Administration has announced a long-awaited new national cybersecurity strategy for tackling the growing threat of cyberattacks on critical infrastructure, disrupting cyber threat operations, and improving cyber resilience against malicious cyber activity from cybercriminal groups and nation-state actors. The aim is to ensure a safe and secure digital ecosystem for all Americans and that requires fundamental shifts in roles, responsibilities, and resources in cyberspace and a shifting
Mobi Health News
MARCH 3, 2023
Scott Loughlin, partner at Hogan Lovells, discusses the Federal Trade Commission's recent enforcement action against GoodRx and what digital health companies should learn from the case.
Electronic Health Reporter
MARCH 3, 2023
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Amy Miller, regional director of growth, AMD Global Telemedicine. With the trend of remote working on the rise and telehealth becoming increasingly significant, high-speed internet has become a fundamental necessity for every community. Despite […] The article Closing The Gap of Healthcare Accessibility For Rural Americans appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
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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.
Healthcare IT Today
MARCH 3, 2023
The following is a guest article by Dave Bailey, VP of Security Services at Clearwater. Today’s adversaries are successfully taking advantage of a user’s likelihood to open a malicious file, click a malicious link, or steal a user’s identity to launch disruptive and potentially destructive attacks. Once the weakness is exploited, they launch their attacks, steal sensitive information, and extort businesses for financial gain.
Fierce Healthcare
MARCH 3, 2023
Physicians are twice as likely as the general population to attempt suicide, Medscape survey finds aburky Fri, 03/03/2023 - 14:54
HIT Consultant
MARCH 3, 2023
What You Should Know: – Surgo Health, a new healthcare technology company dedicated to personalized care announced its official launch in Washington, D.C. – Formed as a public benefits company (PBC), Surgo Health is building on the analytics and proprietary data assets from Surgo Ventures and is developing a revolutionary socio-behavioral analytics platform and generating novel, real-world data to enable a greater understanding of the complex factors that influence how individuals en
HIPAA Journal
MARCH 3, 2023
Amazon has completed its $3.9 billion acquisition of the primary care provider One Medical as the retail behemoth continues its move into the healthcare ecosystem. One Medical has over 220 medical offices, a subscription-based telehealth service, and an electronic health record system, and contracts with more than 9,000 employers across the country.
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HIT Consultant
MARCH 3, 2023
What You Should Know: Major Health Partners (Shelbyville, IN) announced that technicians saved on average three minutes of time per patient and realized a 30% improvement in the average time for overall home medication verification leveraging MEDITECH’s Expanse Patient Care solution. The solution was rolled out facility-wide, including in the ED, where medication reconciliation technicians saw immediate results.
Fierce Healthcare
MARCH 3, 2023
Black adults more likely to seek mental health treatment at EDs, pre-pandemic data show dmuoio Fri, 03/03/2023 - 11:36
Healthcare IT Today
MARCH 3, 2023
Happy Friday everyone! Yesterday I tweeted that to someone and then realized it was only Thursday and not Friday which probably says a little bit about how the week has gone for me. Time for an enjoyable weekend. And like we try to do on Friday, we want to kick off your weekend right with another edition of Fun Friday. This week’s entertainment and absurdity is another gem from the entertaining Dr.
HIPAA Journal
MARCH 3, 2023
AssistCare Home Health Services has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit, filed on behalf of individuals affected by a cyberattack and data breach in January 2021. In March 2021, AssistCare Home Health Services, which does business as Preferred Home Care of New York, notified more than 92,000 patients that their protected health information had been exposed in a cyberattack.
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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.
Healthcare IT Today
MARCH 3, 2023
Spacelabs Healthcare today announced that it has acquired predictive analytics company PeraHealth. Founded in 2010, PeraHealth develops predictive enterprise software based on the Rothman Index, a score to quantify patient acuity. PeraHealth’s solutions alert clinicians to patient deterioration, helping to reduce in-hospital mortality, unplanned transfers to the ICU, and to drive more timely palliative care consults.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 3, 2023
In a post on LinkedIn, Color CEO Othman Laraki said the company would focus on its core lines of business, including testing and telehealth infrastructure for government programs and its prevention tools for employers and healthcare purchasers.
Digital Health News
MARCH 3, 2023
In an exclusive column for Digital Health News, Health Secretary Steve Barclay says the government's investments in AI can help show the value of new technologies while accelerating their use in the NHS.
Fierce Healthcare
MARCH 3, 2023
Healthcare Dealmakers—CVS buys Oak Street Health for $10.6B; Amazon closes $3.
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Digital Health News
MARCH 3, 2023
Luscii has launched its Certified Medical Developer Program (CMDP) accreditation and leaders from Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells are among the first to try it.
HIPAA Journal
MARCH 3, 2023
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced a settlement has been reached with the California-based online counseling service provider, BetterHelp Inc., to resolve allegations of violations of the FTC Act. The proposed BetterHelp settlement requires $7.8 million to be paid to consumers as refunds due to deceptive trading practices. This is the first such FTC settlement to require refunds to be paid to consumers whose health information was compromised.
Digital Health News
MARCH 3, 2023
The government is investing £16 million in AI technologies to help patients manage conditions and increase the speed and accuracy of diagnosis.
McGuire Wood
MARCH 3, 2023
Thompson Street Capital Partners (TSCP) has announced it has completed a growth investment in OpenClinica. OpenClinica , based in Waltham, Mass., is a clinical research solutions provider. Founded in 2004, the company supports biopharmaceutical companies, contract research organizations, academic institutions and government agencies. TSCP , based in St.
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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.
Digital Health News
MARCH 3, 2023
This journal club is based on a paper entitled, ‘Involving multiple stakeholders in assessing and reviewing a novel data visualisation tool for a national neonatal data asset‘. Join Will Lammons (UCL) and Becky Moss (Imperial) in discussion with Katie MacLure (BCS Health & Care Scotland) for our next live BCS BMJ HCI Journal Club hosted by Digital Health.
Compliancy Group
MARCH 3, 2023
In February 2023, the HHS Office for Civil Rights released two reports to Congress, one of which discusses HIPAA complaints ( HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rule Compliance ) and the other discussing healthcare breaches ( Breaches of Unsecured Protected Health Information ). Each of these reports examines 2021, reviewing patient complaints and healthcare breaches.
Digital Health News
MARCH 3, 2023
Two shared care collaboratives in the West Midlands have confirmed they can successfully share data fuelling hopes for the region's care vision.
HIT Consultant
MARCH 3, 2023
What You Should Know: – Implicity , a leader in remote patient monitoring (RPM) and cardiac data management solutions, released a new SMART on FHIR application to improve interoperability and workflow efficiencies for providers. – The new app improves cardiac remote monitoring workflows by providing clinicians access to Implicity alerts and reports directly within Epic’s EHR system.
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