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657 Healthcare Providers Affected by Ransomware Attack on Professional Finance Company

HIPAA Journal

A major data breach has been reported by the Greeley, CO-based accounts receivable management company, Professional Finance Company Inc. (PFC) which is believed to have affected 657 of its healthcare provider clients. According to the PFC website, the company is one of the nation’s leading debt recovery agencies, and its client list includes many healthcare providers, retailers, financial organizations, and government agencies.

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Is Ooma HIPAA Compliant?

Compliancy Group

Thirty years ago, copper-wire landlines connected most Americans’ phoned. Today mobile cellular and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) have marginalized the old technology. One of the better-known VoIP providers is Ooma. They provide phone services for millions of users in homes and businesses around the country. But is Ooma HIPAA compliant? What Makes a Software Tool HIPAA Compliant?

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Quality Improvement: Eliminating the Silo Effect in Healthcare Organizations

HIT Consultant

Vikram Savkar, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Medicine Segment of the Health Learning, Research & Practice business at Wolters Kluwer. The healthcare industry has always been under pressure to find ways to provide consistently improving patient satisfaction and outcomes in the face of a rapidly changing medical and regulatory environment.

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Happy 4th of July

Healthcare IT Today

Happy Fourth of July everyone! We’re taking the day off to celebrate the holiday. I hope you have a great day with family and/or friends and that you get to enjoy the summer. We’ll be back again tomorrow with more great health IT content!

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Optimizing Medical Waste Management: A Guide to Best Practices

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.

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System C and Graphnet Care Alliance joins PRSB scheme

Digital Health News

The System C & Graphnet Care Alliance is the latest healthcare organisation to commit to PRSB's Standards Partnership Scheme to improve interoperability.

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Consumers’ Dilemma: Health and Wealth, Smartwatches and Transparency

Health Populi

Even as spending on healthcare per person in the United States is twice as much as other wealthy countries in the world, Americans’ health status ranks rock bottom versus those other rich nations. The U.S. health system continues to be marred by health inequalities and access challenges for man health citizens. Furthermore, American workers’ rank top in the world for feeling burnout from and overworked on the job.

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Lunit to deliver AI imaging solutions to Bumrungrad International Hospital

Mobi Health News

Fujifilm Thailand supports this implementation using Microsoft Azure.

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Northern Care Alliance set to deploy new lab system by end of 2023

Digital Health News

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust will be rolling out CliniSys' WinPath Enterprise LIMS to support harmonised working.

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Bio Farma, ConnectedLife, Fitbit and Google Cloud develop new platform to encourage Indonesians to live healthier

Mobi Health News

The platform lets users synchronise their health insights to know how their lifestyle impacts their health.

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What’s in a Title? How the Role of Credentialing Professional is Changing | symplr

Symplr

In your role as a credentialing professional, you likely tackle many tasks and projects at work each day. Some tasks, like sending and receiving verifications, certainly benefit from new automated technologies to make you more efficient. Others, such as investigating red flags on new applications, take more time—and a human touch. But no matter what your work day includes, you need to understand how the credentialing role and the medical staff services department are evolving and how your career

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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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What’s Happening at the ONC – 7-04-22

HealthIT Answers

Supporting the adoption of health IT and the promotion of nationwide health information exchange to improve health care, here is what is happening at the ONC, including an EHI Sharing Workshop, new funding announcement for the 2022 LEAP in Health IT NOFO, & GAO is seeking nominations for HITAC. The post What’s Happening at the ONC – 7-04-22 appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Optimizing Cybersecurity Risk in Medical Cyber-Physical Devices

HealthLaw Prof Blog

Christopher S. Yoo (University of Pennsylvania), Bethany Lee (affiliation not provided to SSRN), Optimizing Cybersecurity Risk in Medical Cyber-Physical Devices, William & Mary L. Rev. (Forthcoming): Medical devices are increasingly connected, both to cyber networks and to sensors collecting data.

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Happy 4th of July

HealthIT Answers

Have a safe and happy 4th of July from all of us at Answers Media Network. The post Happy 4th of July appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Nullification in Abortion Prosecutions: An Equilibrium Theory

HealthLaw Prof Blog

Peter Salib (University of Houston), Guha Krishnamurthi (University of Oklahoma), Nullification in Abortion Prosecutions: An Equilibrium Theory, 72 Duke L. J. Online (2022): The Supreme Court is poised to overrule Roe v. Wade. Doing so, it will rescind recognition of.

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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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Race, Risk and Personal Responsibility in the Response to COVID-19

HealthLaw Prof Blog

Aziza Ahmed (Northeastern University), Jason Jackson (University of Pennsylvania), Race, Risk and Personal Responsibility in the Response to COVID-19, 121 Columbia L. Rev. (2021): The COVID-19 crisis has tragically revealed the depth of racial inequities in the United States. This.

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Would the Securing a Strong Retirement Act Secure More Retirement Equity?

HealthLaw Prof Blog

Albert Feuer (Law Offices of Albert Feuer), Would the Securing a Strong Retirement Act Secure More Retirement Equity?, 50 Tax Mgmt. Comp. Plan. J. 6 (2022): On March 29, 2022 the House approved H.R. 2954 that is titled the Securing.

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