Bill of Health
MAY 12, 2022
By Kathryn E. Fort. On February 28, 2022, the Supreme Court accepted one of the most consequential federal Indian law cases in decades, a direct constitutional challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). This challenge, brought by three states and three foster families, intends to not just dismantle a gold standard law in child protection, but all of federal Indian law.
Healthcare Dive
MAY 12, 2022
Hospitals spent nearly $5,500 in labor expenses per adjusted discharge in March compared to about $4,000 roughly three years ago, according to a report from Kaufman Hall.
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Bill of Health
MAY 12, 2022
By Lauren van Schilfgaarde. Adoption can be, and frequently is, a celebrated extension of kinship ties within Native communities. But we cannot ignore the historical context of adoption as a tool to empty tribal communities and delete tribal cultures. Nor can we ignore the historical context of the simultaneous deprivation and weaponization of reproductive health care, both of which deny Native women reproductive self-determination. .
Healthcare Dive
MAY 12, 2022
Mergers with geographic overlap often face challenges. This deal doesn't "raise the same red flags, but it doesn't mean that it gets waved through," said Leemore Dafny, former deputy director of healthcare and antitrust at the FTC.
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Bill of Health
MAY 12, 2022
By Susan Devan Harness. The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hold a hearing regarding the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act , with one of the main questions being, is it really about race? The anti-ICWA crowd says it is. But remember, race and historical brutality are heavily intertwined. The U.S. government has a long history of violence against American Indian people, in its declaration of wars , removing American Indian people from homelands to free up lands for white settlers
Healthcare Dive
MAY 12, 2022
The multibillion-dollar Cerner implementation hasn't improved data exchange as well as some had hoped, as the departments "did not take all actions needed to achieve interoperability," the audit found.
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Healthcare IT Today
MAY 12, 2022
Certainly, this article is inspired by the past 3 days I’ve spent with the Healthcare and IT Marketing Community (HITMC) at the annual conference. Spending multiple days with some of the best healthcare and IT marketing and PR professionals makes it easy to see and understand the impact that marketing can have on healthcare. Plus, […].
Electronic Health Reporter
MAY 12, 2022
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Keith Algozzine, co-founder and CEO, UCM Digital Health. An unexpected side effect of the pandemic is how the health industry quickly realized the extraordinary advantages stemming from the rapid adoption of advanced, end-to-end telehealth […].
Mobi Health News
MAY 12, 2022
Also: Wysa receives FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for its mental health chatbot, and Pear Therapeutics expands its telehealth partnership program.
HIT Consultant
MAY 12, 2022
The prevalence of mental and behavioral health conditions has been on the rise in recent decades, further aggravated by the pandemic in the last two years. Social isolation, grief from the loss of loved ones, fear of contracting the virus, and financial worries were all major stress factors that increasingly affected the mental wellbeing of the population, and the resulting statistics are startling: the average share of adults with symptoms of anxiety or depressive disorders jumped from 1 in 10
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Mobi Health News
MAY 12, 2022
Free mental health app available to 1 million South Yorkshire NHS users An emotional wellness app is being offered to over 16s in the UK's South Yorkshire for free, to help manage low moods, reduce stress and improve sleep.
Healthcare IT Today
MAY 12, 2022
Led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Bessemer, Box Group, and Tiger Global Turquoise Health, an end-to-end healthcare pricing platform, today announced a $20M Series A investment led by existing investor Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with participation from Bessemer, Box Group, and new investor Tiger Global. In conjunction with the financing, a16z General Partner Julie Yoo […].
Mobi Health News
MAY 12, 2022
As part of a global trend for health insurers, the cornerstone investment in XT Ventures will further HCF's "deep pedigree in helping innovative startups".
HIPAA Journal
MAY 12, 2022
Unauthorized individuals have gained access to the systems of Eye Care Leaders, a provider of electronic health records and patient management software solutions for eye care practices. On or around December 4, 2021, hackers gained access to its myCare Identity solution and deleted databases, systems configuration files, and data. Eye Care Leaders said its incident response team immediately stopped the unauthorized activity when the breach was detected and launched an investigation into the secu
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Mobi Health News
MAY 12, 2022
Also, India Health Link has partnered with Medikabazaar to promote its health kiosk through the latter's extensive delivery network.
Healthcare IT Today
MAY 12, 2022
The following is a guest article by Alejandro Spiotta, M.D., Department of Neurosurgery, Medical University of South Carolina. Physicians are only human – we don’t have limitless computing capacity, we undergo emotional strain and feel the symptoms of burnout. As a physician, one of the ways I (and many others) unplug and recharge is through […].
Mobi Health News
MAY 12, 2022
The company said it would use the Series A to expand its team, build its provider network, and add partnerships with health systems and payers.
Healthicity
MAY 12, 2022
The OIG has stated that entities “should regularly review the implementation and execution.
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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.
Mobi Health News
MAY 12, 2022
It looks to grow its engineering, product, and design teams while expanding across Asia.
Healthcare Compliance Blog
MAY 12, 2022
On April 7, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a memorandum announcing the termination of several emergency declaration blanket waivers. These waivers initially went into effect to provide healthcare providers with extra flexibilities for responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. The following Emergency Declaration Blanket Waivers for various provider types in the long term care continuum expire 60 days from the publication of the April 7, 2022, memorandum: Physical E
NCG Medical Blog
MAY 12, 2022
Even in today’s increasingly complex healthcare environment—where technology and new laws impact almost every aspect of medical billing and practice management—one of the most valuable tools to protect your practice is the most simple: your pen.
Medisys Compliance
MAY 12, 2022
Running a financially stable medical practice is a challenging task. With the added challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic and changes in billing guidelines and reimbursement policies, things are getting tougher over time. Medisys Data Solutions is a leading medical billing company providing complete revenue cycle solutions for practices of various medical specialties.
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Mobi Health News
MAY 12, 2022
The telemedicine platform will start by offering diabetes care support.
Center for Health Insurance Reform
MAY 12, 2022
The need for mental health and substance use disorder services is substantial and growing. One in five adults in the United States, or 53 million people, had a mental illness in 2020, including 14 million adults who had serious mental illness; forty million adults had a substance use disorder. In response to these troubling trends, policymakers are seeking multi-pronged approaches to provide greater access to services that treat and manage mental health and substance use disorders.
Health Law Pulse
MAY 12, 2022
Today, President Biden announced that one million persons have died in the United States due to Covid. Unfortunately, deaths from Covid-19 are on the rise again sparked by Omicron variants. The data on new cases are getting less reliable due to the widespread use of home tests. As experts warn, while the numbers are encouraging when compared to a few months ago, Covid is still with us.
Jackson Lewis
MAY 12, 2022
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”) aims to balance the dual policies of (1) ensuring fair and prompt enforcement of rights under employee benefit plans, and (2) encouraging the creation of such plans. To strike this balance, ERISA pairs comprehensive rules regarding fiduciary responsibility with federal causes of action that allow plan participants and beneficiaries to recover benefits due, enforce ERISA’s mandates, obtain injunctive relief, and, where applicable, obta
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Kaiser Health News
MAY 12, 2022
Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on Acast. You can also listen on Spotify , Apple Podcasts , Stitcher , Pocket Casts or wherever you listen to podcasts. Covid-19 cases are on the rise again, but you couldn’t tell from the behavior of the public (rushing back to normal), as well as public health and elected officials who fear backlash from even suggesting the reimplementation of precautions.
Drug & Device Law
MAY 12, 2022
We do not care much about car racing. Sure, we have seen some parts of some races on television, had toy racecars in our remote youth, and have craned our necks to see a few fancy “street legal” versions zooming past. However, we have never attended a race in person and do not follow any driver or team. When we heard a presentation last week from a Formula 1 executive, we paid it about as much attention as we pay most presentations in a room full of hundreds of lawyers.
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