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Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, ending constitutional right to abortion

Healthcare Dive

As it currently stands, 26 states are deemed certain or likely to end abortion rights, making abortion effectively illegal in half of the country, according to the Guttmacher Institute.

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HIMSSCast: Toward a more human-centered approach to hospital stays

Healthcare It News

Rebecca Pinn, director of innovation strategy at EPAM Continuum, specializes in creative thinking about experience design. She also recently had an extended hospital stay that gave her time to do some thinking about some ways patient-facing technologies could be tailored to enable a much more humane and comfortable experience for inpatients and the clinicians who care for them.

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Colorado first state to launch public option via federal waiver

Healthcare Dive

Through the waiver granted by the CMS on Thursday, Colorado can use federal funds to set up a government-run health plan, a long-held progressive healthcare goal.

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Remote patient monitoring in an app boosts quality at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

There's nothing about a person's day that doesn't have an impact on their weight – and that's why the team at the Weight Management Center at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist needs to be able to interact and engage with patients as much as possible. The evidence from the organization's classic behavioral interventions shows that the more often staff engage patients, the better the patients do.

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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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'Chaos' from state abortion bans going into effect will have legal, criminal implications for providers

Healthcare Dive

The effect of Friday's opinion will be felt by providers, medical groups and hospitals across the country, including primary care doctors and emergency physicians, experts say.

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Follow the (Medical) Record: Don Hardwick on the Tate Chronicles

MRO Compliance

Follow the (Medical) Record: Don Hardwick on the Tate Chronicles. In this episode, we hear from host Don Hardwick, but this time as a guest on the Tate Chronicles, a Healthcare NOW Radio show revolved around healthcare technology. Don and Jim discuss release of information. HealthcareNOW Radio Podcast Network · Follow the (Medical) Record: Don's interview on The Tate Chronicles.

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Fast Focus: ROI Staffing

MRO Compliance

Fast Focus: ROI Staffing. Background Summary. ADP Research Institute recently conducted a 17-country survey to determine what workers love (or hate) about their jobs¹. ADP’s report is the most timely and extensive research available. The Institute concluded that workers in today’s economy value flexibility over money. The majority want companies with solid corporate ethics and values.

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Digital Vaccines – Can This AI Tool Save Us from Ourselves?

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Dr. Neecey Hudson, PhD – Founder & Chief Scientist at Hood Medicine Initiative. Pandemic preparedness has now become a paramount concern across the globe. From vaccine supply chain logistics to hospital capacity management, many nations have failed to provide competent response measures that equitably protect their citizens and reduce the spread of infection, while low and middle-income countries (LMICs) are facing enormous challenges to do so.

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5 Security Breaches Reported in Which PHI was Potentially Compromised

HIPAA Journal

Patient Information Potentially Compromised in Atrium Health Phishing Attack. A phishing incident has been reported by Charlotte, NC-based Atrium Health that exposed the protected health information of 6,695 patients who used its home health service, Atrium Health at Home. On April 7, 2022, an employee responded to a phishing email and disclosed credentials for an email and messaging account.

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What’s Holding Up the Healthcare IT Infrastructure?

Healthcare IT Today

Usually we do a Fun Friday entry, but today didn’t seem like a great day to do a Fun Friday. Although, when I saw this image shared by Aaron Miri, I thought it was the perfect middle ground of something that’s eye opening and might give you something to think about as you head into the weekend. The world of #Healthcare #IT ??????? pic.twitter.com/wIMPsSJScn. — Aaron Miri (@AaronMiri) June 22, 2022.

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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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NHS Scotland patients to benefit from fast-track innovation scheme

Digital Health News

NHS Scotland has launched the Accelerated National Innovation Adoption pathway to accelerate the adoption of technological innovations in the region.

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Analysis: Is Oracle Cerner Planning to Build A National EHR?

HIT Consultant

Earlier this month Oracle closed its $28.3B acquisition of Cerner and shortly after Oracle founder and CTO, Larry Ellison, outlined Oracle’s vision for Healthcare IT post-acquisition. The key elements of this vision included: – Developing a solution for a national EHR database. – Leveraging this solution, and similar smaller-scale connected EHR initiatives, to provide life science, pharma and other users with a rich environment for research, clinical trials and drug development. R

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Improving Race and Ethnicity Data Collection: A First Step to Furthering Health Equity Through the State-Based Marketplaces

Center for Health Insurance Reform

The ACA’s marketplaces are working to advance health equity. State-based marketplaces are uniquely situated to improve health equity if they can close current gaps in race and ethnicity data. In a new post for the Commonwealth Fund, CHIR’s Dania Palanker, Jalisa Clark, and Christine Monahan examine the landscape of marketplace race and ethnicity data, and detail strategies for the upcoming open enrollment period to improve data collection.

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Health plan tech company Convey Health Solutions to go private in $1.1B deal

Mobi Health News

The merger with its principal shareholder TPG Capital is expected to close in the second half of 2022.

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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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Former Tennessee Medical Group Director Sentenced to Federal Prison

Med-Net Compliance

A former Tennessee medical group director, 62, was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for wire fraud. According to the information presented in court, from 2012 until 2020, she served as the director of risk management at a large medical group and worked at one of its hospitals. During her time there, she developed a fraud scheme that allowed her to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from the organization.

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Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade

Mobi Health News

The decision affects all providers, especially those working in ERs, says a law professor.

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TDS Acquires PrescribeWellness from Tabula Rasa HealthCare in $140M Deal

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Transaction Data Systems (TDS), the leader in pharmacy software solutions has acquired PrescribeWellness from Tabula Rasa HealthCare in a deal worth up to $140M. – Further, TDS’s plans to accelerate product innovation will create solutions to further optimize pharmacy workflows, support real-time clinical interventions and expand patient engagement opportunities to clients.

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Virtual care unicorn Ro lays off 18% of workforce

Mobi Health News

In February, Ro announced a $150 million fundraise that bumped its valuation to $7 billion.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

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.

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Follow These Rules To Proactively Safeguard Your Mental Health Professional License

The Health Law Firm

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law Licensed mental health counselors, psychologists, and other mental health care professionals are potential targets of licensure complaints from clients in any practice setting. Many legal situations and cases arise because the therapist has strayed over the line and crossed the therapist-client boundary.

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Is Adobe Scan HIPAA Compliant?

Compliancy Group

Adobe Scan is an app for Android and iOS operating systems that allows users to use a device camera as a document scanner to capture information. The product is efficient and easy to use, but is it HIPAA compliant? HIPAA Compliance Basics: Is Adobe Scan HIPAA Compliant? The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) enforces HIPAA rules and regulations.

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HHS Issues HIPAA Guidance on Remote Communication Technologies for Audio-Only Telehealth

Health Care Law Brief

The Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”), recently issued new regulatory guidance relating to covered entities’ HIPAA-compliant use of remote communication technologies for audio-only telehealth services. This guidance is a direct response to a December 2021 Executive Order that tasked HHS with developing HIPAA guidance for telehealth services, with the stated goals of improving “patient experience and convenience” as the COVID-19 public health emergen

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Supreme Court Explores Doctor Intent in “Pill Mill” Criminal Prosecutions Under the Controlled Substances Act

The Health Law Firm Blog

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law Physicians and other healthcare professionals usually have broad scope to prescribe most drugs, including potentially dangerous ones. However, over the past decade, many limits, often imposed arbitrarily through criminal prosecutions or drastic administrative sanctions, have been used to [.].

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Ensure Continuous Patient Care: How to Avoid Disruptions Due to Ransomware

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.

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League Launches Developer Program to Empower Healthcare Ecosystem

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – League , a healthcare platform technology provider announced the launch of their Developer program , giving the healthcare industry access to the underlying digital infrastructure that can connect its proliferation of point solutions (i.e. all the apps, websites, and software patients currently use to get care). – The Developer program will give customers, partners and third parties the ability to build on the League platform or embed components using SDKs and

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Basics of Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC)

Medisys Compliance

What’s a Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC)? Its quite common for any provider to get confused while billing to Medicare for healthcare services, as they not billing to Medicare but to a MAC. In this article, we discussed about what is MAC and activities handled by all these contractors. To start from basic, a Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) is a private health care insurer that has been awarded a geographic jurisdiction to process Medicare Part A and Part B (A/B) medical cl

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Innovaccer Joins the CARIN Alliance to Advance Interoperability

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Innovaccer Inc., the Health Cloud company, announced that it has joined the CARIN Alliance (CARIN), a multisector collaborative working to rapidly advance the consumer-directed exchange of health information to improve the interoperability of healthcare data. – Innovaccer will participate as a member of the multisector alliance to advance healthcare data sharing, enabling consumers, patients, and caregivers easier access to health information.

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Supreme Court rules against 340B cuts

Hanys

In a victory for HANYS' members, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that HHS' harmful cuts to the 340B Drug Pricing Program are unlawful. HANYS strongly opposed the 340B cuts and filed two amicus briefs in support of the underlying litigation filed by AHA and others. You can review HANYS' amicus brief, the Supreme Court's decision and other related documents on HANYS' Litigation Tracker.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

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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What is the Digital Front Door?

HealthIT Answers

By Art Gross - The traditional way to see your healthcare practitioner was to call the office, schedule an appointment and when the time came, go to the office for your visit. You’d get there and then open the front door to attend your appointment. The post What is the Digital Front Door? appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Spotlight on Glens Falls Hospital

Hanys

They improved the quality and efficiency of their stroke care, achieving a 40-minute median transfer time from ED arrival to start of tPA medication by expanding their “door-to-treatment” quality improvement focus and implementing “Code tPA” to notify care teams of role-specific tasks. Learn more in our Member Spotlight.

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Connecting with members with a customer data platform for payers

Healthcare It News

Today, technology has revolutionized the member experience. It’s opened up completely new ways to deliver exceptional moments that build patient-insurer relationships. These innovations are in response to rising consumer expectations for frictionless, meaningful interactions across channels and devices – interactions that show understanding and attention to expectations at every touchpoint.* For today’s healthcare marketers, these changes have sparked a shift in strategy and pr

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HANYS extends infection control and prevention training

Hanys

Additional webinars are being added to CDC's Project Firstline — infection control and prevention training for non-licensed healthcare workers. The next webinar, June 30, focuses on hand hygiene. Encourage your nurse aides, environmental services workers, security officers, administrative professionals, EMS and volunteers to register today!

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Generative AI for Contracts Is Here: New Tools to Accelerate Drafting and Editing

The emergence of generative AI is reshaping the landscape of contract management, enabling businesses to generate and negotiate legal agreements with greater ease and speed. In this on-demand webinar, Hal Marcus, VP of Product Marketing at Evisort discusses how Evisort's generative AI transforms contract creation and negotiation, empowering legal teams to streamline processes while reducing risk.