Drug & Device Law

JUNE 16, 2023

We recently commented on claimants who manipulate and evade the Vaccine Act by making vaccine claims, only then to make no effort to pursue them. Their play is to abandon their claims after the statutory 240-day waiting period and file lawsuits, where they stand a better chance of recovering more money. Because we think the Vaccine Act is a reasoned and fair way to compensate patients who experience vaccine side effects, we frown upon claimants and attorneys who treat the vaccine claims proces

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Healthcare Dive

JUNE 16, 2023

The group that advises Congress on Medicare policy also suggested more closely setting payment rates across outpatient facilities for some services, which hospital lobbyists oppose.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 16, 2023

By Minsoo Kwon The legalization of cannabis has raised ethical, regulatory, and scientific questions. Panelists discussed these topics during a recent webinar hosted by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. This article highlights key points made during the conversation. First, Stephanie Tabashneck, Senior Fellow in Law and Applied Neuroscience at the Center for Law, Brain & Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Petrie-Flom Center, began by

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Healthcare Dive

JUNE 16, 2023

Pent-up demand for healthcare delayed during COVID-19 is making a reappearance, pressuring medical costs for health insurers that had a financial windfall during the pandemic.

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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

JUNE 16, 2023

Penn State Health announced this week that a subscription-based virtual care service, currently in beta with employers and educational institutions in central Pennsylvania, will expand access to patients statewide later in the year. WHY IT MATTERS Through the new service, called COMMpanion, members can call or message two physicians, three nurse practitioners and a team of nurses and health navigators to get their questions answered and access health coaching and care navigation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2023

The company will use the funds to release new offerings to providers and payers, expand its reach nationally in 2023 and establish a presence in all 50 states in 2024.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 16, 2023

With the release of ChatGPT, what had long been science fiction became a reality, leaving healthcare wondering where medicine meets machine. | This week, Stanford Medicine and Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) launched Responsible AI for Safe and Equitable Health (RAISE-Health) with the goal of addressing critical ethical and safety issues regarding the technology.

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 16, 2023

The company will use the funds to release new offerings to providers and payers, expand its reach nationally in 2023 and establish a presence in all 50 states in 2024.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 16, 2023

Luma Health, a platform automating the patient journey, has launched a new digital call deflection service to reduce inbound call volume for provider staff. | Calls are redirected to self-service text messaging, which the company argues helps short-staffed providers get patients to the next step in their care quickly.

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Modern Healthcare

JUNE 16, 2023

The deadline for accountable care organizations to join the Medicare Shared Savings Program is here, with big stakes for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' long-term goals.

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Feeling overwhelmed by medical waste regulations? This comprehensive guide unravels the complexities of medical waste disposal, ensuring you stay compliant and prioritize safety. Inside you'll find: Clear categorization: Learn to precisely classify medical waste for proper handling and disposal. Labeling & Storage: Discover best practices for clear labeling and secure storage of medical waste.

Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 16, 2023

A pair of key panels advising Congress on Medicare and Medicaid policy recommended lawmakers adopt contentious site-neutral payment for certain ambulatory services and amend the Social Security Act | The congressional advisory panels backed site-neutral payments for certain ambulatory services and called for amendments to secure uncompensated care payments during economic downturns.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 16, 2023

The following is a guest article by Don Rucker, MD, Chief Strategy Officer at 1upHealth Patients want the same modern computing experience in healthcare that they enjoy the rest of their lives to extend to our health and medical care. They want a modern consumer experience with ease of access, speed, availability, accuracy, and affordability. US healthcare is notorious for whiffing on the consumer experience, and it looks like we are about to miss another big opportunity to get things right if t

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Health IT Security

JUNE 16, 2023

The newly discovered cybersecurity vulnerability could lead to escalated privileges and potential unauthorized access if exploited.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 16, 2023

A Russian national has been arrested in Arizona and charged in connection to LockBit ransomware and other cyberattacks conducted on targets in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Africa since 2020. Magomedovich Astamirov, 20, of the Chechen Republic in Russia, is alleged to have conducted at least 5 LockBit ransomware attacks in the United States and other countries as an affiliate of the LockBit ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation.

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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

JUNE 16, 2023

Setting up a modern healthcare technology environment spanning on-premise and multicloud locations requires a comprehensive strategy that takes time, needs to be application-based, and allows for an on-ramp to move entire ecosystems of applications. Due to the proliferation of attacks – which are disproportionately target healthcare and life sciences organizations, becoming more frequent, increasingly sophisticated, and their consequences more dire – the inescapable conclusion is that it is no l

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 16, 2023

Progress Software has issued a warning about another vulnerability in its MOVEit Transfer file transfer software, an exploit for which is in the public domain. The announcement comes as the Clop ransomware group starts to name companies that were attacked by exploiting a separate zero-day bug in May, and CISA confirms the victims include several federal agencies.

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Digital Health News

JUNE 16, 2023

Population health management (PHM) has the potential to eliminate some of the legwork in health visits, and help clinicians forecast patient needs

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 16, 2023

Commonwealth Health Physician Network-Cardiology, aka Great Valley Cardiology in Scranton, PA, has notified 181,764 current and former patients about a cyberattack and data breach that was discovered on April 13, 2023. The forensic investigation confirmed that the information potentially compromised in the attack included names in combination with addresses, birth dates, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, passport numbers, bank account and credit/debit card information, diagnosis

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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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Mobi Health News

JUNE 16, 2023

Dr. Jim Feng, CEO of Phyxable, discusses the company's work with the Canadian Space Agency's Health Beyond Initiative to develop innovative tools for space health.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 16, 2023

Technology Leader Seeks to Help Tackle Growing Drug Diversion Challenge in the U.S. Wolters Kluwer Health today announced it has signed and completed the acquisition of Invistics Corporation (Invistics) , a U.S.-based provider of cloud-based, AI-enabled software for drug diversion detection and controlled substance compliance. Invistics will join the company’s Clinical Surveillance, Compliance & Data Solutions unit, part of Clinical Solutions.

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Becker's Health IT

JUNE 16, 2023

Nate Couture, chief information security officer of the Burlington-based University of Vermont Health Network, said rural hospitals' compensation for cybersecurity talent is much lower than other industries, making it harder to fill roles, GovInfoSecurity reported June 14.

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Digital Health News

JUNE 16, 2023

A report into digitalisation in the care sector by Log my Care has revealed the most common future investment plans and the barriers to adoption.

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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.

Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 16, 2023

Insurers have plenty to consider when weighing coverage for new weight loss medications, and that includes the need to carefully coordinate distribution with their pharmacy benefit managers, accord | Payers need to work closely with PBMs to coordinate coverage decisions about Ozempic and other weight loss drugs, a new guide advises.

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Digital Health News

JUNE 16, 2023

This Digital Health News industry roundup covers a cybersecurity win for Cylera and a VR walkthrough at North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 16, 2023

Thirty years ago, Highmark enrolled the first Pennsylvania child in the Children's Health Insurance Program. | One of the country's largest Blues plans is looking to get the word out about how critical CHIP could be as flexibilities introduced under the public health emergency unwind.

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Digital Health News

JUNE 16, 2023

Digital leadership in ICBs continues to be a careful balancing act, with efforts to maintain and improve systems proceeding on parallel tracks.

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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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American Medical Compliance

JUNE 16, 2023

Needlesticks are causing patients to be infected with unwanted diseases. This raises concerns about how providers store needlesticks as well as protect patients and healthcare workers alike. It is important to do what is necessary to prevent needlestick infections and accidental contact with potentially dangerous needlesticks. Needlestick Infections Needlestick infections, also known as percutaneous injuries, occur when healthcare professionals accidentally prick themselves with needles or other

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Compliancy Group

JUNE 16, 2023

Attention healthcare providers! Are you using Google Analytics on your website? If so, listen up. The US Health and Human Services has issued updated guidance on online tracking, and it’s bad news for those of us in the medical field. In short: the tracking technology behind Google Analytics is not HIPAA compliant. First off, it is important to note that Google Analytics alone is not HIPAA compliant.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 16, 2023

What You Should Know: Redox , a provider of healthcare interoperability – recently partnered with Sage Growth Partners to survey executives and technology decision-makers from over 100 large academic medical centers and multi-hospital health systems. The survey uncovered strategic cloud investment priorities for large healthcare organizations, including current and future use cases and desired business outcomes for cloud technology, as well as roadblocks to realizing those outcomes at scale.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 16, 2023

The sheer size of the country's largest health plans positions them well for a "stable" business outlook, according to analysts at Fitch Ratings. | The sheer size of the country's largest health plans positions them well for a "stable" business outlook, according to analysts at Fitch Ratings.

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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.