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Texas judge blocks HHS guidance on emergency abortion care

Healthcare Dive

The ruling, which sets back the Biden administration’s efforts to protect abortion access nationwide, comes just days before Texas’ trigger ban will go into effect, toughening abortion penalties in the state.

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Amazon Care to shut down at the end of 2022

Mobi Health News

Neil Lindsay, senior vice president of Amazon Health Services, said the telehealth service was "not a complete enough offering for the large enterprise customers we have been targeting, and wasn’t going to work long-term.

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Medicare Advantage lobby rebuts senator’s inquiry into ‘potentially deceptive’ marketing tactics

Healthcare Dive

The Better Medicare Alliance is arguing that marketing materials for MA plans are already subject to “careful regulation” and adhere to a 53-page set of federal guidelines.

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The More Chronic Conditions, the More Likely a Patient Will Have Medical Debt

Health Populi

There is a direct association between a person’s health status and patient outcomes and their financial health, quantified in original research published this week in JAMA Internal Medicine. Researchers from the University of Michigan (my alma mater) Medical School and Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation analyzed two years of commercial insurance claims data generated between January 2019 and January 2021, linking to commercial credit data from January 2021 for patients enrolled

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

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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Providence to hold virtual mass hiring event for registered nurses

Healthcare Dive

New hires stand to get sign-on bonuses of $5,000 to $10,000, according to a Linkedin post.

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All You Need To Know About Oncology Billing

Medisys Compliance

Are you tired of looking at your billing and are stuck in the rut of managing documents of medical billing? Is medical billing taking a toll on your practice and in turn hovering over the reimbursements? Fret not, we will give you insights on managing your oncology medical billing services and how to find a way to outsource medical billing. Both patients and doctors may find the billing procedure to be very onerous.

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Beware Of the Negative Consequences After Discipline on Your Professional License, Part 1 of 2

The Health Law Firm

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law Do you have a medical, pharmacist, counselor, or nursing license in more than one state? Do you have a license in more than one profession? Have you been notified that an investigation has been opened against your professional license? Are you thinking about resigning your professional license or voluntarily relinquishing (giving up) your license?

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Moderna follows Pfizer in asking FDA to approve updated COVID shot

Healthcare Dive

The companies are moving quickly to supply vaccines targeting currently circulating omicron variants in time for the Biden administration's planned fall vaccination campaign.

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Fitbit announces Inspire 3, Versa 4 and Sense 2 health tracking wearables

Mobi Health News

The Inspire 3 will be available worldwide in September, while the higher-end Versa 4 and Sense 2 will be available in the fall.

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Shared care planning solution is deployed across London

Digital Health News

Led by OneLondon, London's Urgent Care Plan has now been implemented across five integrated care systems (ICSs), 40 NHS trusts and 1,400 general practices.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Data Breaches Reported by the New Jersey Department of Health, Onyx Technologies & San Diego American Indian Health Center

HIPAA Journal

Onyx Technologies, a Largo, MD-based provider of Information Technology and Consulting Services and a vendor of Independent Care Health Plan (iCare), has recently notified 96,814 health plan members that some of their protected health information has potentially been compromised. On June 28, 2022, Onyx discovered its computer systems had been accessed by unauthorized individuals, who may have gained access to the protected health information of iCare members, including names, birth dates, addres

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DirectTrust Directory Improvement Initiative

Healthcare IT Today

One of the big updates from DirectTrust at The Civitas Networks for Health 2022 Annual Conference, a Collaboration with the DirectTrust Summit, was how DirectTrust was approaching changes and updates to their directory of direct addresses. Many in the community understand the important and value of the directory which contains over 1 million addresses in it.

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Special Report: Data Security

Digital Health News

With technology changing the way health related information is stored, the importance of having good data security has never been more important. Andrea Downey investigates.

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Improper Disposal of PHI Results in $300,640 HIPAA Penalty

HIPAA Journal

Massachusetts-based New England Dermatology P.C., dba New England Dermatology and Laser Center (NDELC), has agreed to settle a HIPAA violation case with the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and has paid a $300,640 penalty to resolve alleged violations of the HIPAA Privacy Rule. On May 11, 2021, NDELC notified OCR about a privacy breach involving the protected health information of 58,106 patients.

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Everything You Wanted to Know About FACIS, but Didn’t Know to Ask

Speaker: Amy Anderson

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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Leeds and York Partnership sign 10-year deal with IMMJ Systems

Digital Health News

Leeds and York Partnership is to get an electronic document management system from IMMJ Systems as part of a wider digitisation of its care records.

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Plume scoops up $24M for virtual transgender healthcare

Mobi Health News

The startup plans to use the funds to expand nationwide, add virtual primary care services and get its offerings covered by insurers.

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ReStart become Better’s integration partner for London’s Urgent Care Plan

Digital Health News

ReStart have been confirmed as the integration partner of Better for the development and delivery of London’s Urgent Care Plan.

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Accreditation and Survey Best Practices and Common Challenges

MedTrainer

Q&A with Dr. David Shapiro, Accreditation Surveyor. David Shapiro, M.D. is an anesthesiologist from Florida who has had extensive experience serving as a department chair, medical director, and board member of several ambulatory surgery centers. He is Chair-Elect of the Board of AAAHC and he also conducts healthcare facility surveys on behalf of AAAHC and Medicare.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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ThedaCare Invests in Qventus to Enhance Patient Experience and Outcomes

Healthcare IT Today

Applies AI-Enabled Automation to Improve Access to Inpatient & Surgical Care. ThedaCare is a health system dedicated to reinventing health care and advancing its mission of improving the health and well-being of communities served. Because of the strong alignment with how the organization envisions the future of health care, ThedaCare announced it has invested $3M in Qventus.

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How Service Line Alignment Can Improve Cost Savings for Health Systems

HIT Consultant

Healthcare leaders continue to face new and complex challenges in a constantly evolving landscape, including staffing and capacity constraints , product shortages , and rising costs. These shifting demands change the expectations put on hospitals when it comes to both patient care and financial performance. As we’ve observed, this uncertainty was further amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic , which shined a light on many opportunities for improved financial and clinical operations across the healt

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Are You the Target of a Medicaid Audit? Tips Health Professionals Should Be Following

The Health Law Firm Blog

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law The Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA), Office of Inspector General (OIG), and Bureau of Medicaid Program Integrity is the Florida agency responsible for routine Medicaid audits The agency ensures that the Medicaid program was billed correctly for [.].

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Cardiology: Have We Reached A Tipping Point in Structured Reporting Adoption?

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – A new report from KLAS provides not only a much-needed update on the breadth of structured reporting adoption but also a first look at the depth of adoption since actual physician use is the only way to drive outcomes. – While the market hasn’t reached the structured reporting tipping point yet, physician adoption is driving progress and generating value.

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Ensure Continuous Patient Care: How to Avoid Disruptions Due to Ransomware

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.

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Mentoring in a virtual environment 

YouCompli

Sharon Parsley, JD, MBA, CHC, CHRC , is a health law attorney, compliance officer, author, speaker, investigator, and problem solver. She currently serves as the president and managing director of Quest Advisory Group, LLC. She has nearly 20 years of healthcare compliance and legal leadership experience, and she believes that mentorship and on-the-job training are critical to compliance professional success.

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The BAA – How to Do It Right!

JNC Compliance

In this series, I have already shared four ways healthcare leaders can verify their compliance program is safe, which leads to: #5: Implement and monitor Business […]. The post The BAA – How to Do It Right! appeared first on JNC Healthcare Compliance Group.

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How Often Should You Check OFAC’s Specially Designated Nationals List?

Provider Trust

The US Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is a financial intelligence and enforcement agency that administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions against targeted countries and individuals that threaten the United States economy, national security, or foreign policy. OFAC publishes the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) and Blocked Person List , which keeps track of individuals and companies owned or controlled by targeted countries, groups, regimes, terrori

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Addressing Problems and Innovations in Digital Reproductive Care

HealthIT Answers

By Dan Matthews - Rapidly evolving healthcare technology has the potential to improve the patient experience and close the care gap between urban and rural patients. These advancements have been funded by HHS, most recently in the form of a $9 million grant to launch the RMOMS program. The post Addressing Problems and Innovations in Digital Reproductive Care appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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OCR Settles New England Dermatology HIPAA Violations for $300,640

Compliancy Group

Springfield, Massachusetts, is home to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame – a mere 90-minute ride to Boston. Springfield is also, less famously, the headquarters of New England Dermatology, P.C., d/b/a New England Dermatology and Laser Center (“NEDLC”). This HIPAA covered entity provides treatment for skin, hair, and nail diseases, including acne, eczema, psoriasis, and rashes.

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Glytec and CPS Integrate to Provide Evidence-Based Glycemic Management

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Glytec recently announced that it has been selected by CPS Solutions, LLC (CPS) , a leading provider of enterprise pharmacy solutions to hospitals and health systems, to serve as an insulin management technology resource for CPS’ more than 2,200 pharmacy professionals across 800-plus healthcare facilities nationwide. – Through this collaboration, CPS client facilities may contract for Glytec’s eGlycemic Management System® (eGMS) and Glytec’s technical resource

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4 Key Components of a Digital Front Door Strategy

HealthIT Answers

By Rachel Subramaniam - The digital front door strategy offers an enhanced patient experience by leveraging the latest technology to automate manual workflows and digitally engage patients through different stages of the patient journey. The post 4 Key Components of a Digital Front Door Strategy appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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HealthTeam Advantage Integrates With Bamboo Health’s Pings Solution

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Bamboo Health™ recently announced that HealthTeam Advantage (HTA), the business name of Care N’ Care Insurance Company of North Carolina, Inc., has integrated Bamboo Health’s Pings™ solution. – The Pings rollout delivers real-time admission, discharge, and transfer (ADT) e-notifications for HTA’s 15,000 North Carolina PPO and HMO Medicare Advantage plan members.

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Generative AI for Contracts Is Here: New Tools to Accelerate Drafting and Editing

The emergence of generative AI is reshaping the landscape of contract management, enabling businesses to generate and negotiate legal agreements with greater ease and speed. In this on-demand webinar, Hal Marcus, VP of Product Marketing at Evisort discusses how Evisort's generative AI transforms contract creation and negotiation, empowering legal teams to streamline processes while reducing risk.