Healthcare It News

JUNE 20, 2022

Healthcare provider organizations and clinicians are fortunate that telehealth has gone mainstream as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Telehealth opens up many new avenues to expand access to care, streamline the delivery of care, create new workflows and improve patient outcomes. Hopefully the Congress and state legislatures will act soon to ensure the temporary reimbursement expansions for telemedicine will continue after the public health emergency ends.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JUNE 20, 2022

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Healthcare is something that’s been around for a while, especially in the western world, but as with all things, digitalization is omnipresent and something that’s unavoidable. In this article, we’ll explore how digitalization is affecting […].

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 20, 2022

Equip CEO and cofounder Kristina Saffran discusses the virtual eating disorder treatment startup's nationwide expansion and why the space needs more research and innovation.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JUNE 20, 2022

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Digital health is a rapidly growing field. As it expands, so must the security of medical devices, especially in an increasingly vulnerable digital space. While the various features and advantages of the connections in healthcare […]. The article 6 Best Practices For Medical Device Security appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Health Populi

JUNE 20, 2022

When high-deductible health plans became part of health insurance design in America, they were lauded as giving patients “more skin in the game” of health care payments. The theory behind consumer-directed care was that patients-as-consumers would shop around for care, morph into rational consumers of medical services just as they would do purchasing autos or washing machines, and shift the cost-curve of American health care ever downward.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 20, 2022

The HHS’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Sector (HC3) has published guidance for healthcare organizations to help them improve their cyber posture. Cyber posture is the term given for the overall strength of an organization’s cybersecurity, protocols for predicting and preventing cyber threats, and the ability to continue to operate while responding to cyber threats.

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HealthIT Answers

JUNE 20, 2022

By Dr. Martin Lustick - In the wake of medical home certification, meaningful use, the Cures Act and the pandemic, it’s clear that virtually all of healthcare is now built on a digital foundation. EHRs are pervasive in the delivery system, and they are increasingly connected to all parts of care delivery. The post The “Wonder Years” of Healthcare appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JUNE 20, 2022

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. A career in medical radiography can be a rewarding job. You will be among the patients needing tests conducted with specialized machinery and tools. As a radiology expert, you will be the one who lines […]. The article Medical Radiography: What Should You Expect In A Career?

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 20, 2022

Today I’ve come across a wide variety of people in health IT that’s companies have given them the day off to celebrate Juneteenth. It’s been interesting to see a lot more people embracing this holiday and taking time to understand some of it’s history and origins. Plus, we’ll see how its meaning continues to evolve […].

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 20, 2022

Healthcare providers, health plans, healthcare clearinghouses, and business associates of those entities that come into contact with protected health information (PHI) are required to ensure policies, processes, and people are compliant with the Rules of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Ensuring you have a good security posture is an important part of HIPAA compliance.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2022

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 20, 2022

Lake Mary, FL-based Central Florida Inpatient Medicine (CFIM) has recently discovered that the email account of an employee has been accessed by an unauthorized individual, who may have viewed emails and files containing patients’ protected health information. The substitute breach notice states that CFIM learned that the email account contained sensitive patient data on May 5, 2022; however, the email account was breached between August 21, 2021, and September 17, 2021.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2022

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Digital Health News

JUNE 20, 2022

Alder Hey Innovation has collaborated with PixelMax to create a virtual representation of its radiology department to prepare young patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 20, 2022

For the 33rd episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Steve Hess, CIO at UCHealth. In this episode we dive into the topic of healthcare AI. Hess shares whether he thinks AI is just a nice to have or whether it’s become a must have in healthcare. Plus, […].

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Healthcare Blog

JUNE 20, 2022

In our blog post a few weeks ago we talked about the importance of policy and procedure management. . This week we are going to discuss why healthcare organizations need policy automation, that is policy management software, in the first place. The complexity involved with policy management demands that healthcare organizations automate as many processes and tasks as possible because of the amount of time needed for policy management.

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Digital Health News

JUNE 20, 2022

Returning to London’s Business Design Centre, 14-15 March, the show will be the essential learning and networking experience of 2023.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 20, 2022

Leader in virtual OUD treatment has raised $83 million, served over 15,000 patients to-date Bicycle Health, the leading provider of virtual opioid addiction treatment, today announced a Series B funding round of $50 million led by InterAlpen Partners, bringing the company’s total funds raised to $83 million. Other participants in the round include existing investors […].

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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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HealthIT Answers

JUNE 20, 2022

In case you missed it, this is recent communication from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Subscribe to their email lists to keep up to date on all press and news releases. The post Monday Morning Rounds with CMS appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Compliancy Group

JUNE 20, 2022

In January of 2021, an amendment to the HITECH Act, known as HR 7898, was signed into law. The law has several nicknames, including the Cybersecurity Best Practices Bill, the HIPAA Security Rule Safe Harbor Law, and the HIPAA Security Rule Recognized Security Practices bill. While the bill has several nicknames, it does not yet have any specific enforcement rules.

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HealthIT Answers

JUNE 20, 2022

June 26-29, 2022, the HFMA Annual Conference at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver CO and Virtual. Join attendees and sponsors at this premier healthcare finance event offering 4 strategy-focused general sessions, more than 70 educational sessions, and 7 content tracks over 4 days. The post HFMA 2022 Annual Conference: Above and Beyond appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2022

On June 15, 2022, in a win for hospitals, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in American Hospital Association et. al. v. Becerra (“ Becerra ”), overturning massive reimbursement reductions in the 340B drug pricing program (“340B Program”). The 340B Program, in which some 40% of U.S. hospitals participate, requires drug manufacturers to provide outpatient drugs to participating providers at heavily discounted rates.

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Medisys Compliance

JUNE 20, 2022

Basics of Home Infusion Therapy (HIT). Under Fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare, home infusion therapy (HIT) involves the intravenous or subcutaneous administration of drugs or biologicals to an individual at home. The components needed to perform home infusion include the drug (for example, antivirals, immune globulin), equipment (for example, a pump), and supplies (for example, tubing and catheters).

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Healthcare Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2022

As telehealth services surged in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, unique compliance challenges likewise developed in unexpected ways. Recognizing these challenges, the Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) indicated that it would exercise its enforcement discretion by declining to impose penalties against covered health care providers for instances of good faith noncompliance with the requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) in connection with the provision of

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Becker's Health IT

JUNE 20, 2022

Radiology files with protected health information created for research at Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital were accidentally posted to the hospital's public website for four months, the hospital revealed June 17.

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Hall Render

JUNE 20, 2022

Our Health Care Real Estate Briefing is your comprehensive summary of weekly health care real estate highlights happening across the nation. 1. Is housing health care and should Medicaid pay the rent? States are using Medicaid programs to cover rent, security deposits and furniture per The New York Times. AZ is one state that has doubled down on its effort to pay for supportive housing.

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HealthLaw Prof Blog

JUNE 20, 2022

Abbey Bufkin (University of Mississippi), Program Necessity or Regulatory Inequity: Collection of Indemnity Overpayments Under the Federal Crop Insurance Program, SSRN (2022): The Federal Crop Insurance Program provides farmers and ranchers the ability to purchase federally reinsured crop insurance policies.

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Hall Render

JUNE 20, 2022

We know the major personnel issues challenging our friends in the health care industry: labor shortages; competitive wages; and rising costs. But what employment and labor legal issues do (or may) health care organizations face in coming months? Accommodation Requests as Remote Work Demands Continue. Throughout the last two-plus years, telework became the new normal for many non-clinical staff.

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HealthLaw Prof Blog

JUNE 20, 2022

Nathan Rosenberg (University of Arkansas), Peter Lehner (Earthjustice), The Climate Crisis and Agriculture, 52 Env’t L. Reporter (2022): This Article, excerpted from Farming for Our Future: The Science, Law, and Policy of Climate-Neutral Agriculture (ELI Press 2021), outlines the threats.

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Drug & Device Law

JUNE 20, 2022

We have written a number of posts about pelvic mesh cases over the years. Some of us have also worked on a number of cases. At this point, many cases have gone from MDL to local district court to judgment to appeal. Over time, the tide seems to have turned. That could be because the local courts have taken a different approach than the MDLs did, because it is hard to prove a design defect when your experts criticize every device in the class, or because the prescribing doctors in later cases

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