Bill of Health
MARCH 9, 2022
By Ne?e Devenot, Emma Tumilty, Meaghan Buisson, Sarah McNamee, David Nickles, and Lily Kay Ross. Amid accelerating interest in the use of psychedelics in medicine, a spate of recent exposés have detailed the proliferation of abuse in psychedelic therapy, underscoring the urgent need for ethical guidance in psychedelic-assisted therapies (P-AT), and particularly relating to touch and consent.
Healthcare Dive
MARCH 9, 2022
Millions of healthcare workers across the country are becoming inured to workplace violence, which can range from verbal abuse and threats to physical attacks and even homicide.
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HIPAA Journal
MARCH 9, 2022
Over 500,000 individuals have been affected by cyberattacks on Norwood Clinic, PracticeMax, Central Indiana Orthopedics, and an unauthorized electronic medical record incident at Ascension Michigan. Norwood Clinic. The Birmingham, AL-based multi-specialty clinic, Norwood Clinic, has recently started notifying 228,103 individuals that some of their protected health information was accessed in a cyberattack that was detected on October 22, 2021.
Healthcare Dive
MARCH 9, 2022
Health advocates say Moderna is narrowing its pledge not to enforce patents worldwide for the duration of the pandemic, while the company argues that, in higher-income countries, vaccine supply isn't a barrier to access anymore.
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HIPAA Journal
MARCH 9, 2022
A group of vulnerabilities dubbed Access:7 have been identified in the web-based technologies PTC Axeda and Axeda Desktop Server which are used to allow one or more people to securely view and operate the same remote desktop via the Internet. If exploited, an attacker could gain full system access, remotely execute code, trigger a denial-of-service condition, read and change configurations, and obtain file system read access and log information access.
Healthcare Dive
MARCH 9, 2022
The agency will ramp up investigations at healthcare facilities that previously received pandemic-related citations or complaints to make sure they're effectively prepared and able to prevent the rise of potential variants.
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Mobi Health News
MARCH 9, 2022
The feature is geared toward offering clinicians a holistic view of the patient.
HIT Consultant
MARCH 9, 2022
What You Should Know: – LG announced its partnership to Amwell to expand the boundaries of virtual care. By combining LG’s broad innovation portfolio with Amwell’s deep digital health care experience, the two companies plan to jointly develop new device-based service solutions designed to make it easier for patients to access care, whether in a hospital or at home. – This new alliance represents a key part of LG’s strategic vision for creating new products and servi
Health Populi
MARCH 9, 2022
If you made your living in commercial real estate — and especially, working with hospitals’ and health systems’ office space — would the concept of telehealth be freaking you out right now? If you heed the words of JLL’s 2022 Patient Consumer Survey , you’d chill (at least a bit). The tagline on this paper is, “Convenience and choice drive patient decisions as new digital options take hold.” I was particularly keen to dig into this study based on i
Mobi Health News
MARCH 9, 2022
Amazon Pharmacy chief medical officer Dr. Nworah Ayogu said customers using the MedsYourWay card will have payments applied toward their out-of-pocket maximums and deductibles.
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Healthcare IT Today
MARCH 9, 2022
Healthcare organizations are finding it challenging to attract and retain physicians due to COVID, stressful work environments, and the economy. Because of this, more attention is being paid to the experience of Medical Residents. One of their top complaints is scheduling which many organizations are still doing manually via spreadsheets. TigerConnect has unveiled a new […].
Mobi Health News
MARCH 9, 2022
The addition comes weeks after Omada Health announced a $192 million Series E financing round.
Healthcare IT Today
MARCH 9, 2022
Next week is the HIMSS 2022 conference happening in Orlando, FL. We’ll be covering the event here at Healthcare IT Today and sharing all the interesting insights and perspectives we find. Plus, you can expect some great Healthcare IT Today interviews from the conference as well. With so many companies at the event, we wanted […].
HIPAA Journal
MARCH 9, 2022
Email account breaches have been reported by Montrose Regional Health, EPIC Pharmacy Network, and Acacia Network, and North Shore University Hospital has reported an incident involving a former employee accessing protected health information without authorization. Montrose Regional Health. The Colorado-based health system Montrose Regional Health has recently started notifying 52,632 patients that some of their protected health information has been exposed when unauthorized individuals gained ac
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Healthcare Compliance Blog
MARCH 9, 2022
A New Jersey Healthcare Service Company who withdrew a job offer over a pregnancy related medical condition has agreed to pay $77,550 and other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The healthcare company had hired a pregnant candidate to fill a per diem EMS dispatch position.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 9, 2022
Also women's health company Wildflower scoops up $26 million and Prenosis closes new funding round.
HIT Consultant
MARCH 9, 2022
Tony Torti, SVP of Schedule360 at QGenda. In today’s complex and fast-paced healthcare landscape, the benefits of rules-based nurse scheduling software are undeniable. First, consider the challenges nurses face: they comprise the largest percentage of healthcare professionals, and their role is one of the most demanding. According to a recent study by management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, 22% of nurses are considering leaving their jobs, 60% of which said they were more likely to do
Compliancy Group
MARCH 9, 2022
Each month, we review healthcare breaches to determine the leading cause and how the incidents could have been prevented. We do so by examining the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) online breach portal. The OCR publicly posts healthcare breaches that affected 500 or more patients to ensure that all affected patients know their information could have been potentially compromised.
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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.
HIT Consultant
MARCH 9, 2022
What You Should Know: – Medtronic announced a new contract with Vizient , a leading healthcare performance improvement company for more than half the nation’s healthcare providers, to offer Touch Surgery™? Enterprise, the first AI-powered cloud-based video management and analytics platform for the OR. The latest offering from Medtronic’s Surgical Robotics portfolio , Touch Surgery™ Enterprise makes it easy to capture and analyze surgical video and ensures data privacy compliance with AI th
Healthcare IT Today
MARCH 9, 2022
The new investment will accelerate Health Gorilla’s mission to connect everyone, everywhere, with actionable health data. Health Gorilla, a leading Health Information Network and interoperability provider, today announces it has raised $50 million in series C funding, led by San Francisco-based SignalFire with participation from Epsilon Health Investors, IA Capital, and Nationwide Ventures.
Kaiser Permanente
MARCH 9, 2022
By Pam Schwartz, interviewed by Renee Gross. As we move from a pandemic to an endemic, the hardships caused by food insecurity persist in our country. Over 29 million adults and 12 million children struggled to afford food in 2021. This issue disproportionately impacts minority populations with roughly 8.7 million Black and Latinx children living in food insecure households.
HIT Consultant
MARCH 9, 2022
What You Should Know: – Proscia , the leader in digital and computational pathology solutions, and Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., a leading provider of whole slide imaging systems, today announced a collaboration to accelerate digital pathology adoption at an enterprise scale. – The cooperation agreement increases the availability of the companies’ best-of-breed, unified solution that combines Proscia’s Concentriq® platform and Hamamatsu’s NanoZoomer® series of whole sli
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YouCompli
MARCH 9, 2022
Recent guidance from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) considerably relaxed some of the anti-kickback statute and anti-beneficiary inducement restrictions in light of the COVID pandemic. Relaxed beneficiary inducement rules. As a result of loosened beneficiary inducement restrictions, healthcare organizations are now permitted to offer the following for purposes solely related to COVID-19: Free lodging to patients and their families in need of it.
McGuire Wood
MARCH 9, 2022
Varsity Healthcare Partners has announced the close of its sale of Probo Medical to Avista Capital Partners. Probo , based in Fishers, Ind., is a supplier of refurbished diagnostic imaging equipment. Founded in 2014, the company’s set of services include equipment sales, part sales, equipment rentals, depot repair service, equipment installation and de-installation, and field-based repair service.
Florida Health Care Law Firm
MARCH 9, 2022
Yet another pharmacy owner was just convicted of unlawfully dispensing over 1.5 million doses of controlled substances, primarily oxycodone and hydrocodone. . By: Karen Davila. In my last couple of articles , I’ve focused on the controls necessary to safely operate a pharmacy and dispense appropriate prescribed medications, including controlled substances.
Bill of Health
MARCH 9, 2022
By Wendy E. Parmet. In October 2020, Martin Kulldorff, Sunetra Gupta and Jay Bhattacharya issued what they called the Great Barrington Declaration (GBD). In it, they argued that “The most compassionate approach [to the pandemic] … is to allow those who are at minimal risk of death to live their lives normally to build up immunity to the virus through natural infection, while protecting those who are at highest risk.
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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.
HIPAA Journal
MARCH 9, 2022
Requirements to implement HIPAA safeguards appear more often in the text of the Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act than is often acknowledged. While many sources are aware of the Administrative, Physical, and Technical Safeguards of the Security Rule, less specific requirements relating to HIPAA safeguards also appear in the Privacy Rule.
HIT Consultant
MARCH 9, 2022
What You Should Know: – Butterfly Network, Inc. (NYSE: BFLY), a digital health company transforming care with handheld, whole-body ultrasound, today announced it received a grant in the amount of $5 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to improve maternal and fetal health. – Through this grant Butterfly will provide 1,000 healthcare workers in Sub-Saharan Africa with Butterfly iQ+, the world’s only handheld.
HealthLaw Prof Blog
MARCH 9, 2022
Angelica Guevara (Indiana University), To Be, Or Not To Be, Will Long COVID Be Reasonably Accommodated Is the Question, 23 Minn. J. L. Sci. & Tech.
HIT Consultant
MARCH 9, 2022
– UPMC , a Pittsburgh-based healthcare provider and insurer, announced it is expanding its strategic partnership with Kyruus to further optimize patient access. . – UPMC has been a Kyruus customer since 2019 and now will be directly investing in the company and collaborating on the future development of Kyruus’ ProviderMatch platform.
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