Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

By Matt Dowell. Recently, I remotely attended a mask-optional, in-person meeting where campus leaders proudly proclaimed that DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) is my college’s “top priority.” As a disabled faculty member who writes about disability access in higher education, I found myself considering how to make sense of such a statement — how seriously to take such statements, how much to care that such statements are being made.

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Nurses reported feeling more emotionally exhausted during the pandemic, with physicians also noticing an increase. The report comes as some nurses fight for better working conditions.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The judge’s ruling follows a trial in which the DOJ argued that UnitedHealth’s bid for Change would disadvantage rivals and result in higher costs, lower quality and less innovative commercial health insurance.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

There are a lot of challenges that healthcare workers are currently facing, burnout from overworking being one of the most pressing. But that doesn’t have to be the case. Through utilizing the technology that we currently have available, many areas of work healthcare professionals are doing can be automated and simplified. Carefully integrating various technological solutions into your organization can lift some of the burden your workers are experiencing.

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The groups hinted that another lawsuit may be on the way despite the bid to dismiss the original claims.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

A review of studies published in npj Digital Medicine found digital and face-to-face CBT show similar effectiveness for treating depression.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Vik Krishnan, General Manager of Intrado Digital Workflows. While the entire healthcare industry is inching toward giving people more autonomy to manage their care, we can’t seem to hand over the keys just yet. The latest KLAS data on patient preferences shows that most individuals interacting with the healthcare system want greater control, especially over their care visits.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The mental health company will utilize Curebase’s decentralized clinical trial platform to study its treatment program’s efficacy.

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Digital Health News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

A new cancer treatment centre is set to open by GenesisCare in Spring 2024, providing innovation new technologies and treatment.

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The Physicians’ Spine and Rehabilitation Specialists of Georgia (PSRSG) has notified 38,765 patients that some of their protected health information has potentially been compromised in a cyberattack that occurred on or around July 11, 2022. A team of external cybersecurity experts was engaged to assist with the investigation and remediation efforts, and its systems were successfully restored within a few days without causing any material delays to clinical care.

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HealthIT Answers

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

We are seeking out the latest developments around Telemedicine. News from Rimidi, American Telemedicine Association, JAMA, SOC Telemed, Access TeleCare, Forefront Telecare, Summus, Equum Medical, CLEW Medical, TytoCare, Bluestream Health, Amwell, VidyoHealth, Eagle Telemedicine, Reliq Health Technologies, and more. The post Telemedicine September 2022 appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

What You Should Know : – BrightInsight, Inc., provider of the leading global platform for biopharma and medtech regulated digital health solutions and bioMérieux , a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics, announced today a partnership to develop and bring to market a Clinical Digital Solution for diagnostics enabling clinical decision support for disease areas across their diagnostic tests. – bioMérieux will launch a digital solution for diagnostics leveraging the complia

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Compliancy Group

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Three dental practices across the country became the latest medical professionals to learn that the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is serious about patients’ right of access under HIPAA. OCR announced three settlements that total $135,000 in civil monetary penalties for dentist HIPAA violations. Background of Dentist HIPAA Violations. Acting in their role as the enforcement arm for HIPAA violations, OCR has been placing extra emphasis on right of access violations for more than two years.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

What You Should Know: – Naveris, Inc. , a commercial-stage life sciences company dedicated to improving patient care through earlier detection of viral-driven cancers, recently announced a $33.4M expansion of its Series A financing, bringing the total investment in Naveris to $51M. – The financing was led by Gurnet Point Capital , joined by TechU Ventures and BrightEdge , the impact and venture capital arm of the American Cancer Society.

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HealthIT Answers

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

By Matt Fisher - In healthcare, many layers always exist around seemingly each and every issue. The ongoing utilization of extra blood from newborn heel stick samples provides the latest example. The concerns raised go to privacy and informed consent as the primary issues. The post Long Trail for Extra Tissue Samples appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

What You Should Know: – One of the ways organizations can target improvements for those who are less satisfied is to look at EHR satisfaction by specialty—there is currently a gap of about 30 points between the most satisfied specialty (hospital medicine) and the least satisfied specialty (ophthalmology). – The goal of this new report from the KLAS Arch Collaborative, “ Exploring EHR Satisfaction by Provider Specialty ,” is to help readers understand this variation and le

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JNC Compliance

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The theme of this series focused on verifying if your compliance program is safe and meets government regulations. In this final tip, your program should always: […]. The post 7 Compliance Best Practices Every Leader Should Know appeared first on JNC Healthcare Compliance Group.

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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.

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Modern Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The proposal is open for public comment until Oct. 17, but the group usually affirms its draft guidance.

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Digital Health News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

AI-powered therapy chatbot Wysa is now being offered to teenagers through Hammersmith, Fulham, Ealing and Hounslow Mind to support their mental wellbeing.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The following is a guest article by Mandy Fogle, Healthcare Value Engineering at Shift Technology. Telehealth is becoming the future of healthcare delivery across the globe. Traditional office visits are becoming a way of the past. Since the COVID pandemic began, healthcare has never had further reach of accessibility. This type of delivery opens healthcare to more individuals who otherwise would not have been able to seek treatment before.

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NCG Medical Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Don’t you love how easy it is to understand the Medicare billing process ? There are hardly any acronyms or complicated regulations; it’s a breeze!

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The HIPAA Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

OCR Settles Three More Right-to-Access Complaints: All 3 cases involve dentists, in Chicago, Las Vegas, and Georgia. Settlement amounts range from $25,000 to $80,000. If anyone hasn't learned the lesson yet: when patients ask for their PHI, give it to them. No matter how terrible they are, no matter how much they owe you, it's not worth it to try to withhold their records.

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Becker's Health IT

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Marshalltown, Iowa-based Wolfe Eye Clinic is notifying patients of a data security incident in which a third party may have had access to patient information.

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McGuire Wood

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Latticework Capital Management has announced its acquisition of Catalina Research Institute (CRI). CRI , based in Montclair, Calif., is a multidisciplinary clinical trials facility. Founded in 1997, the company specializes in the conduct of phase II through phase IV pharmaceutical drug studies. Latticework , based in Dallas, makes control equity investments in the lower middle market.

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Medisys Compliance

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Scores of surgery centers have been financially crippled during the pandemic, a majority of the centers have worsened situations due to poor documentation in the ASC medical billing and coding. An entire ASC revenue cycle process comprises timely transcription services, claims management, expert business intelligence analytics, and accurate coding. A single mistake in any of the steps and the entire system goes for a toss.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

What You Should Know : – The results of a clinical trial using software from XRHealth , developer and operator of virtual treatment rooms in the metaverse, published in PLOS ONE demonstrated that virtual reality therapy may serve as an effective adjunct to anesthesia for surgical procedures. The trials were conducted with XRHealth’s immersive virtual reality software. – The results of the trial showed that the majority of patients (13/17) using the XRHealth VR technology did not need

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

By Claudia E. Haupt. Why does the law sanction giving bad advice to one patient, while it permits giving bad advice to millions of YouTube or television viewers, which may result in significant physical harm? We might call this the “Dr. Oz paradox.” Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Republican candidate in Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race, is a famous television personality as well as a licensed physician.

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