HIPAA Journal
JANUARY 16, 2023
The number of reported healthcare data breaches declined for the second successive month, with 40 data breaches of 500 or more healthcare records reported to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in December 2022 – The lowest monthly total of the year and 29.7% fewer data breaches than the average monthly for 2022.
HIT Consultant
JANUARY 16, 2023
What You Should Know: – A study led by Regenstrief Institute Research Scientist Titus K. Schleyer, DMD, PhD, is among the first to survey the current landscape of FHIR® apps, providing a snapshot of how the innovative standard is used to enable the flow of health information. – FHIR apps can pull in data from most electronic health record systems , facilitating secure movement of information when and where needed.
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HIPAA Journal
JANUARY 16, 2023
A settlement proposed by Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services to resolve claims related to February 2021 cyberattack has been approved by a New Mexico federal judge. The settlement will compensate affected individuals for lost time and out-of-pocket expenses incurred in response to the data breach up to a maximum of $4,000 per person. Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services operates a 60-bed acute care hospital and outpatient clinics and provides home health care services in
HIT Consultant
JANUARY 16, 2023
What You Should Know: – In the online survey administered to 800 U.S. consumers who had found at least one medical billing error in the last five years, 41% of the consumers are significantly frustrated trying to address billing errors. – Zelis , a company modernizing the business of healthcare, announced findings from a new study on consumer billing conducted in partnership with Hanover Research, an independent research firm.
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Healthcare IT Today
JANUARY 16, 2023
For the 48th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Jason Swoboda, Director of Innovation at Tampa General Hospital to talk about Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM). First, Swoboda shares what he has been seeing at CES and his approach to RPM. Next we get into how to address the challenges that come with multiple RPM programs and integrations.
HIT Consultant
JANUARY 16, 2023
Chris Byers, CEO of Formstack. The healthcare industry dragged sorely behind other industries in digital maturity just three years ago , according to McKinsey. Then, the pandemic shifted priorities and accelerated the progress of digital transformation by several years. No industry felt this shift as strongly as healthcare. With the rapid increase in telehealth appointments and remote care necessities, medical institutions faced the challenge of making several years’ worth of virtual enhancement
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HIPAA Journal
JANUARY 16, 2023
The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) has shared threat intelligence on two sophisticated and aggressive ransomware operations – Blackcat and Royal – which pose a significant threat to the healthcare and public health (HPH) sector. In 2021 and early 2022 the ransomware threat landscape was dominated by Conti, a large, professional ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation; however, the operation was disbanded in 2022.
Digital Health News
JANUARY 16, 2023
A prototype app to help improve the outcome for patients who suffer a cardiac arrest outside of hospital has been co-developed by King's College Hospital.
Health IT Security
JANUARY 16, 2023
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Digital Health News
JANUARY 16, 2023
Redcentric plc has successfully delivered the new NHS Peering Exchange Service, a key supply chain component within IT infrastructure.
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Healthcare IT Today
JANUARY 16, 2023
The expansion of remote pharmacy services strengthens Avel eCare’s portfolio of telemedicine offerings and helps meet the growing demand for pharmacy telemedicine services across the United States. Avel eCare, the nation’s leading provider of clinician-to-clinician telemedicine services, today announced the acquisition of NightWatch , a West Virginia-based company that provides remote pharmacy services to hospitals, clinics and nursing homes throughout the Midwest and mid-Atlantic region.
HealthIT Answers
JANUARY 16, 2023
In case you missed it, this is recent communication from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Subscribe to their email lists to keep up to date on all press and news releases. The post Monday Morning Rounds with CMS appeared first on Health IT Answers.
Healthcare IT Today
JANUARY 16, 2023
The following is a guest article by Hilary Jewhurst, Head of Third-Party Risk Education & Advocacy at Venminder. The growth in the healthcare industry has resulted in an increase in the use of third parties to provide competitive products and services, making healthcare data more vulnerable than ever. As hackers become more sophisticated and creative, phishing, denial of service (DoS), and malware are on the rise.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 16, 2023
Pregnant women are 7 times more likely to die from COVID-19: study. fdiamond. Mon, 01/16/2023 - 10:34.
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HIT Consultant
JANUARY 16, 2023
Jon Bloom, MD, CEO and Co-founder of Podimetrics. From a digital health perspective, 2022 was a reset year for many and a serious reality check. We went from sky high growth to the sky is falling, and in 2023 I think this market correction movement will continue forward. To me, the biggest surprise of 2022 was that despite the market tanking, digital health companies continued to truck forward with huge deals.
HIPAA Journal
JANUARY 16, 2023
The topic of AI in healthcare often attracts a mixed reception. While some people are firm believers in the benefits of AI in healthcare, others have concerns about the ethics of AI in healthcare, while a third group approach the topic with a degree of apprehension attributable to a lack of knowledge. This article aims to answer the questions what AI in healthcare is, what are – or what will be – the benefits of AI in healthcare, and how can concerns about the ethics of AI in healthc
HIT Consultant
JANUARY 16, 2023
Jake Hochberg, Executive Director, Customer Insights at Arcadia. Patient data in electronic health records (EHRs) holds a wealth of insights that can enable health systems to better serve their patient populations. However, data from EHRs is challenging because this data is messy due to the lack of standardization in how clinical data is collected, and often times valuable information is buried in unstructured fields such as notes.
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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.
HealthIT Answers
JANUARY 16, 2023
By Camille Cook - It is widely understood that health happens outside of the healthcare ecosystem, so why do we continue utilizing traditional clinical records, derived from a single source, for health outcomes analysis and predictions? The post Transforming Real-World Data into Real-World Evidence appeared first on Health IT Answers.
Health Populi
JANUARY 16, 2023
Today as we appreciate the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., I post a photo of him in my hometown of Detroit in 1963, giving a preliminary version of the “I Have a Dream” speech he would deliver two months later in Washington, DC. Wisdom from the speech: “But now more than ever before, America is forced to grapple with this problem, for the shape of the world today does not afford us the luxury of an anemic democracy.
HealthLaw Prof Blog
JANUARY 16, 2023
Cristian Figueroa (Boston College), Adverse Selection and Equity in Insurance Markets with Guaranteed Renewable Contracts: Evidence from Chile (2022): In theory, guaranteed renewable (GR) insurance contracts can efficiently insure against reclassification risk without causing adverse selection on pre-existing conditions. In.
Drug & Device Law
JANUARY 16, 2023
One of the decisions we were looking forward to at the end of 2022 has occurred. In In re Zofran (Ondansetron) Products Liability Litigation , F.4th , 2023 WL 128570 (1st Cir. Jan. 9, 2023), the court unanimously affirmed the MDL-wide preemption order dismissing all claims. Since the history of the Zofran litigation is well covered in our prior posts , we’ll stick to the First Circuit’s preemption rationale here.
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