Healthcare It News

JULY 15, 2022

The avenues of artificial intelligence and machine learning research are expanding widely and rapidly. Meta says it plans to tailor its AI explorations by analyzing the structures and networks of the human brain , hoping to map better deep learning algorithms by patterning them on the neural activities of real human cells. Over at Google, meanwhile, one of its top engineers says he's convinced a chatbot he worked with has achieved human-like sentience.

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Healthcare Dive

JULY 15, 2022

The new offering is a bid to address inflationary pressures and prevent worse health outcomes down the line, CEO Andrew Witty told investors Friday.

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Bill of Health

JULY 15, 2022

By? Ameet Sarpatwari , Alexander Egilman , Aviva Wang, and ? Aaron S. Kesselheim. Each month, members of the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) review the peer-reviewed medical literature to identify interesting empirical studies, policy analyses, and editorials on health law and policy issues. Below are the citations for papers identified from the month of June.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 15, 2022

The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has announced that Oklahoma State University – Center for Health Sciences (OSU-CHS) has agreed to settle a HIPAA investigation stemming from a web server hacking incident and has agreed to pay a financial penalty of $875,000 to resolve potential violations of the HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 15, 2022

Bicycle Health CEO Ankit Gupta and Medical Director Dr. Brian Clear discuss the treatment landscape for patients with opioid use disorder.

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HealthIT Answers

JULY 15, 2022

Sponsored: Atlantic.Net, Inc. HIPAA-Compliance is an important but complicated world. It’s somewhere that every healthcare worker in the U.S. needs to take the time to visit to become fully aware of the legislative implications on their work-life. The post Top Considerations when Choosing a HIPAA Hosting Provider appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Compliancy Group

JULY 15, 2022

A 2016 hacking incident that hit Oklahoma State University’s Center for Health Sciences has led to an $875,000 HIPAA breach fine settlement to address potential violations. Background of Oklahoma State University HIPAA Breach. Hackers first gained access to a web server containing the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of as many as 279,865 individuals on March 9, 2016.

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McGuire Wood

JULY 15, 2022

TA Associates will make a growth investment in Intelerad, according to a news release. Intelerad , with its U.S. headquarters in Raleigh, N.C., is a provider of enterprise medical imaging solutions. Founded in 1999, provides software and enterprise workflow solutions to healthcare providers worldwide, including radiology groups, outpatient imaging centers, hospitals and healthcare systems.

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Becker's Health IT

JULY 15, 2022

Washington, D.C.-based Foxhall OB/GYN Associates accused Sharon Malone, MD, a former owner and physician at the practice, of taking patient information with her when she exited the practice to join telehealth startup Alloy, The Washington Examiner reported July 14.

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Digital Health News

JULY 15, 2022

Speaking at Summer Schools 2022 in York on July 15, Natasha Phillips introduced the review, which was first launched in May 2022.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 15, 2022

Funding to Scale Patient Data Access and Insight Offering to Make Better Care Outcomes Possible. Particle Health , a user-friendly API platform for advanced healthcare data exchange, today announced financing of $25 million. This new investment will accelerate the growth of Particle’s analytics products, facilitate the launch of the company’s partner platform, and help serve its growing customer base by scaling its customer service and engineering teams.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 15, 2022

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights enforces the HIPAA Rules, which restrict uses and disclosures of healthcare data by HIPAA-covered entities and business associates of those entities. When entities are not covered by HIPAA, privacy violations and illegal uses and disclosures of sensitive consumer data are policed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

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Mobi Health News

JULY 15, 2022

Also: EHR Canvas Medical raises $24 million, and virtual cardiac rehab Moving Analytics scores $20 million.

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Modern Healthcare

JULY 15, 2022

CMS also offers more detail on reimbursement policy for the new rural emergency hospital designation in the proposed rule.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

JULY 15, 2022

The No Surprises Act (NSA) went into effect this year, providing new protections against surprise medical bills for patients who receive unanticipated out-of-network care. CHIR has analyzed state NSA implementation and enforcement schemes and published an interactive map for the Commonwealth Fund, providing details about policies such as state enforcement strategies and patient-provider dispute resolution.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 15, 2022

As a techguy by background, I’m fascinated by all the new technology that’s available to help healthcare. Of course, I understand that technology itself is only part of the solution. It takes the right mix of people, process, and technology to make a real impact on the lives of patients and the doctors and nurses that serve them. That said, it is pretty amazing to see how far technologies like computer vision have come and how that progression can help impact healthcare in positiv

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Med-Net Compliance

JULY 15, 2022

A federal investigation has recovered?$133,661 in back wages for 63 workers of a?Dayton home healthcare provider?who?misclassified its employees as independent contractors, denied workers overtime pay, and falsified payroll records to hide the violations. The US Department of Labor’s?Wage and Hour Division?determined the provider and its owner misclassified office staff and home health aides as independent contractors.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 15, 2022

Also, a new online repository of health and wellness knowledge has been launched in India.

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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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HealthIT Answers

JULY 15, 2022

Our radio station Healthcare Now Radio uses SoundCloud to house our shows’ archives and we’ve been tracking which episodes get the most listens. This week’s Friday at Five lists the episodes played most often on our SoundCloud channel within the last three months. The post Friday at Five – Top On Demand Episodes appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 15, 2022

I guess there’s just no way to have a sacred cow without also keeping a goat. Understand, I’m not talking about a GOAT, as in Tom Brady or Michael Jordan. I mean a goat, i.e, something or someone that takes the blame for an event, failed policy, etc., perhaps more commonly called a scapegoat. The sacred cow, in this instance, is the Second Amendment, which has become so sacrosanct in the national foundational myth of an inspired Constitution that it no longer means a great deal more than “everyo

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Hanys

JULY 15, 2022

CHNA Advantage combines exclusive data sources, including social determinants of health data, with decades of healthcare policy and data analysis expertise to streamline the CHNA process.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 15, 2022

What You Should Know: – Healthcare Performance Group, Inc. (HPG) acquires Health Data Specialists, LLC (HDS), a healthcare IT consulting firm with expertise in Epic, Siemens, and Cerner platforms serving more than 300 hospitals and health systems. – The HPG consulting team includes IT and informatics experts as well as nurses, pharmacists, lab technicians, radiology experts, certified revenue cycle professionals, medical executives, program managers and project managers.

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NCG Medical Blog

JULY 15, 2022

At some point or another, everyone experiences stress at work. Whatever the reason, left unaddressed, it can certainly lead to physician burnout.

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Symplr

JULY 15, 2022

Each month, we provide a roundup of news, awards, and features pertaining to symplr and symplr's subject-matter experts.

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Hall Render

JULY 15, 2022

Last week, a number of M&A headlines made the news. SSM Health closed a large physician practice acquisition. Healthcare Realty also announced that it will joint venture (“JV”) 27 properties as part of its merger plan with HTA. Kaufman Hall noted that M&A activity is up in the health care sector. A number of other health care real estate reports were released about health system strategy, fit out costs and permit timing.

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Becker's Health IT

JULY 15, 2022

Platteville, Wis.-based healthcare provider Southwest Health Center informed patients and current and former employees that their personal data may have been accessed in a data security incident.

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Hanys

JULY 15, 2022

Compliance-focused CMS hospital price transparency expert session. July 20. Preventing and responding to aggressive patient behavior, part two. July 21. Government relations update call. July 22. Healthcare privacy in a digital world. July 26. AHEI - How 3 hospitals used patient demographic data to address disparities. July 27. Building diagnostic excellence: Tools for the journey.

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The HIPAA Blog

JULY 15, 2022

Oklahoma State University: OSU got hacked, and the hacker was able to access a server where staff stored some PHI. End result: a fine of $875,000.

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Hanys

JULY 15, 2022

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The HIPAA Blog

JULY 15, 2022

News We Already Knew: Consistent and regular security training helps prevent ransomware and other cybersecurity incidents.

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