Healthcare Law Blog

AUGUST 9, 2023

As the nation prepares for the upcoming 2024 elections, the consequences of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson continues to be a significant topic of discussion in numerous states. Since that decision and our first and second posts in this series, a number of noteworthy developments* have occurred at both the federal and state levels, including some states passing laws that prohibit or restrict the availability of abortions.

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Healthcare Dive

AUGUST 9, 2023

The letter, sent by a bipartisan group of senators to tax commissioners, comes as the federal government increases scrutiny into nonprofit hospitals’ charity care spending.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 9, 2023

Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, wrote a letter to Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google parent company Alphabet, on Aug. 8, seeking clarity into the technology developer's Med-PaLM 2, an artificial intelligence chatbot, and how it's being deployed and trained in healthcare settings. WHY IT MATTERS In the letter , Warner expresses concerns about some news reports highlighting inaccuracies in the technology, and he asks Pichai to answer a series of questions about Med-PaLM 2 (and other AI tools like

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Healthcare Dive

AUGUST 9, 2023

The study, published in Health Affairs, found large national insurers had higher price ratios than other payers.

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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 9, 2023

By necessity, the COVID-19 pandemic brought physicians into patients' living rooms virtually. Now, telehealth has evolved to something more – remote therapeutic monitoring. RTM, which is reimbursable , lets patients connect with their doctors and nurses via care management apps on their smartphones to report non-physiological data, ask questions, watch videos and report outcomes to get better – anytime, day or night.

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Healthcare Dive

AUGUST 9, 2023

Clover notched its first quarterly adjusted EBITDA profit as a public company, while Oscar reached total company profitability for the second quarter in a row. Meanwhile, Bright posted its first quarter ever with positive adjusted EBITDA.

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Healthcare Dive

AUGUST 9, 2023

Hospital CEO turnover remained depressed last year, according to one report, but separate research suggests executive changes were on the rise as of June.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 9, 2023

Hospitals nationwide charge payers more than double for healthcare services covered under commercial plans than they do for the same insurer’s Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, according to a recent J | A new analysis of hospitals' posted prices finds major differences in charged prices by plan, even when the hospital, insurer and service are all equivalent.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 9, 2023

Mike Hamilton, Founder and CISO of Critical Insight To stop ransomware terrorists from locking up our Nation’s hospitals, the Federal Government is pushing patient-focused entities to align with a standard. It means more work for hospitals, but it’s necessary. Hospitals are regulated by HIPAA through the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which now requires the use of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) as the basis for cyber risk assessment.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 9, 2023

Beleaguered digital health company Babylon Health shuttered its Austin, Texas, headquarters and laid off 94 employees as it struggled to secure more financing to continue operations. | Beleaguered digital health company Babylon Health shuttered its Austin, Texas, headquarters and laid off 94 employees as it has struggled to secure more financing to continue operations.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 9, 2023

What You Should Know: Today, Santa Cruz-based Capstan Medical , a developer of minimally invasive technology to address heart valve disease, announced $31.4M Series B investment round led by Eclipse. The Series B round included participation from Intuitive Ventures and Puma Venture Capital, a new firm founded by Amit Hazan, a veteran Wall Street medical technology analyst, and Dr.

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MedTrainer

AUGUST 9, 2023

In the realm of healthcare, HIPAA compliance is the de-facto standard, and compliance is non-negotiable. The onus is on healthcare organizations to ensure anyone handling sensitive patient information is well-trained and knowledgeable on HIPAA standards and practices. Failure to comply can mean huge penalties and legal action. This is why HIPAA training software is so important.

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 9, 2023

In this interview, Shash Anand, SVP of Product Strategy at SOTI discusses the current state of mobile technology integration in the healthcare space and the mission critical technology management t | With the rapid adoption of technologies, a staggering number of 59% U.S. healthcare providers reported experiencing at least one data breach since 2021.

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Becker's Health IT

AUGUST 9, 2023

Southern Illinois Healthcare is facing a lawsuit for allegedly using pixel tracking technology on its website that allowed third parties to gain access to some patients' protected health information.

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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 9, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Simulation Operations Specialist at Natividad position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Natividad and is in Salinas, California. Here’s a description of the position: Inspiring Healthy Lives Through Community At Natividad, our dedication to the people of Monterey County is at the heart of everything we do – from the heal

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 9, 2023

Sen. Mark Warner has questions for Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai about Med-PaLM 2, a chatbot currently being piloted at the Mayo Clinic and elsewhere. "I worry that premature deployment of unproven technology could lead to the erosion of trust," he says.

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Digital Health News

AUGUST 9, 2023

Research from BT suggests that almost half of NHS staff find digital technology a key source of stress. A new focus on user experience is essential to digital transformation, writes Mateen Jiwani.

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MedTrainer

AUGUST 9, 2023

As healthcare continues to benefit from digital innovation, more and more software applications are becoming part of the ecosystem — healthcare risk management software among them. This critical software is a cornerstone in healthcare organizations because of how important it is within the realm of compliance. With the ability to manage risk and maintain compliance, it’s nothing short of mission-critical software.

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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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Digital Health News

AUGUST 9, 2023

Babylon Health is looking to sell its UK business, including its 100,000 patient NHS GP practice, and may fall into administration, it has announced.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 9, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission has filed a proposed order settling charges that e-prescribing giant Surescripts used anticompetitive business practices to monopolize two e-prescription drug markets. The order follows on the heels of a prior federal court ruling which concluded that Surescripts had a near-complete monopoly on e-prescribing services, having built up a controlling a 95% “supershare” of the e-prescribing market.

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 9, 2023

Ransomware gangs use a variety of methods for initial access to victims’ networks and while phishing is still one of the most common initial access vectors, researchers at the cybersecurity firm Akamai have identified a trend toward zero-day and day-one vulnerabilities for initial access. Several threat groups are conducting their own research to find exploitable vulnerabilities or are purchasing exploits from gray-market sources.

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Digital Health News

AUGUST 9, 2023

The UK public is on balance supportive of virtual wards, but a lack of understanding of the term may be holding back public support, new analysis suggests.

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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 9, 2023

The risk of a data breach at hospitals doubles in the year before and after mergers and acquisitions (M&As), according to a recent study by University of Texas at Dallas PhD candidate, Nan Clement. Clement analyzed data breach data from the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) from 2010 to 2022 and compared the reported data breaches to M&A records over the same period and found that the probability of a data breach was 3% for hospitals that merged over the analyzed period, but the risk do

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 9, 2023

Most Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries are satisfied with their health plan, but many enrollees feel they are overbilled, have struggled navigating the prior authorization process or are confus | Despite nearly three-quarter of respondents in a new survey saying they are satisfied with their MA plan, more than half of people don't understand the plan's complexities.

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 9, 2023

Tampa General Hospital (TGH) is being sued over a data breach in which hackers gained access to the sensitive data of up to 1.2 million patients. The data breach, one of the largest healthcare data breaches to be experienced in Florida, prompted Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) to write to the FBI and request the investigation of the incident be prioritized to bring the perpetrators to justice.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2023

“Generative AI already has the power to alleviate some of providers’ biggest woes, which include rising costs and high inflation, clinician shortages, and physician burnout,” Bain & Company observe in Beyond Hype: Getting the Most Out of Generative AI in Healthcare Today. By the end of this paper, the Bain team expects that those health care leaders who are investing in generative AI today (to start small, to win big in the report’s words) will learn key lessons that

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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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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 9, 2023

Medicare Advantage insurtech company Clover Health and virtual care company Hims & Hers Health also reported earnings.

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Becker's Health IT

AUGUST 9, 2023

The Missouri Department of Social Services released an advisory statement on Aug. 8 in response to IBM Consulting's data security incident involving Progress Software's MOVEit Transfer software.

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 9, 2023

Novo Nordisk is bringing its expertise in chronic disease management to Kakao's mobile diabetes app.

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MedTrainer

AUGUST 9, 2023

We’re living in the era of streaming television, food delivery, and instant messaging — that is to say, we’re not used to things taking days, weeks, or even months to manifest. Unfortunately, there are some aspects of healthcare that just don’t move as quickly as we’re used to in everyday life. Too often, healthcare professionals find themselves tapping their foot and asking, “how long does it take to credential a provider?!

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In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.