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ONC head Micky Tripathi on info-blocking complaints, provider penalties and future of TEFCA

Healthcare Dive

Tripathi shared his thoughts on the scope and content of information-blocking complaints, when the industry can expect penalties for providers found information blocking and how the government plans to build on TEFCA moving forward.

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Monthly Round-Up of What to Read on Pharma Law and Policy

Bill of Health

By? Ameet Sarpatwari , Beatrice Brown , Aviva Wang, and? Aaron S. Kesselheim. Each month, members of the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) review the peer-reviewed medical literature to identify interesting empirical studies, policy analyses, and editorials on health law and policy issues. Below are the citations for papers identified from the month of February.

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AHA wants healthcare workers protected like airline staff amid rising workplace violence

Healthcare Dive

No federal laws protect healthcare workers from violence on the job like they do flight crews. AHA wants the DOJ to support legislation that would make violence against healthcare workers a federal offense.

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People in the U.S. Without the Internet Were More Likely To Die in the Pandemic

Health Populi

Access to the Internet has been a key determinant of health — or more aptly, death — during the COVID-19 pandemic. Americans lacked Internet access were more likely to die due to complications from the coronavirus, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open this month. The study’s key finding was that for every additional 1% of people living in a county who have access to the Internet, between 2.4 and 6.0 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 were preventable.

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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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Google launches new search tool for provider appointments, seeks FDA approval for Fitbit feature

Healthcare Dive

Google is working to prop up its healthcare efforts following internal project shakiness that led the company to dismantle its Google Health business last year.

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Roundup: New telehealth services launched in Hong Kong and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Hong Kong startup iMeddy provides free video consultation for COVID-19 patients. iMeddy, a startup nurtured by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, is providing free video medical consultations via its online healthcare platform for COVID-19 patients. Supported by Y.Elites Association and the Hong Kong Youth Development Alliance, the service runs in two phases: the first round, which has been completed, delivered teleconsultations to low-income families, and the upcoming second round will cover

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Study: Digital MSK program improves pain up to a year later

Mobi Health News

Hinge Health's study found participants in its digital musculoskeletal care program reported higher levels of pain improvement compared with the group without intervention.

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Email Incidents Reported by Ultimate Care, CareOregon Advantage, and University Medical Center Southern Nevada

HIPAA Journal

Three email incidents have recently been reported by Ultimate Care, CareOregon Advantage, and University Medical Center Southern Nevada that have affected a total of 38,485 individuals. Phishing Attack on Ultimate Care Impacts 15,788 Individuals. The Brooklyn, NY-based home care agency, Ultimate Care, has recently announced that a limited number of employee email accounts have been accessed by unauthorized individuals after employees responded to phishing emails.

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Philips partners with Nuvo Group for remote pregnancy monitoring and more digital health briefs

Mobi Health News

Also: Pear Therapeutics joins EHR vendor Epic's App Orchard, and AppliedVR changes the name of its flagship therapeutic.

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LG Launches LA Business Innovation Center for Medical Environments

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – LG Business Solutions USA has opened its new Los Angeles Business Innovation Center , the first comprehensive LG technology and education hub to focus on commercial displays and devices designed for medical environments, led by LG’s diagnostic and clinical review monitors, digital X-ray detectors and smart hospital TVs. – The new Los Angeles Business Innovation Center is LG’s third in the United States (the others being in Chicago and Atlanta).

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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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Osso VR Raises $66 Million to Broaden Access to Surgical Education for Healthcare Professionals

Healthcare IT Today

Osso VR, a validated virtual reality (VR) surgical training and assessment platform, today announced that it has secured $66 million in Series C funding led by Oak HC/FT. The round also includes participation from Signalfire, GSR Ventures, Tiger Global Management and Kaiser Permanente Ventures. The capital will be used to accelerate Osso VR’s initiative to […].

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Researchers Develop AI Method for Personalized Diabetes Treatment

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Hitachi, U of U Health, and Regenstrief researchers partnered to develop and test a new AI method to improve personalized care for diabetes patients needing complex drug treatment. – The new AI method can now be used to help determine an optimal drug regimen for a specific patient. Hitachi , University of Utah Health , and Regenstrief Institute today announced the development of an artificial intelligence (AI) method to improve care for patients with type 2 di

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Protecting patient data at hospitals

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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COVID-19 rates plunge as decision nears on US asylum limits

Modern Healthcare

While there is no aggregate rate for migrants, test results from several major corridors for illegal border crossings suggest it is well below levels that have triggered concerns among U.S. officials.

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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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Aligning the Advantages of Flexible Healthcare IT Models with Improved Patient Care

Healthcare IT Today

The shift to work-from home and COVID disruptions forced a range of industries to deploy next-gen technologies at an accelerated rate without a commensurate increase in spending. Healthcare organizations were on the frontline of these developments and had to adapt rapidly to deal with the medical emergency effectively and efficiently. This was the topic of […].

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Digital diagnostic company Everly Health names Anthem vet Dr. Liz Kwo as CMO

Mobi Health News

Kwo most recently worked at Anthem, but has also held positions at Harvard Medical School, telehealth giant Amwell and medical device company Medtronic.

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Experts worry about how US will see next COVID surge coming

Modern Healthcare

While testing and monitoring has improved over the pandemic, a new variant is taking hold and some policy changes could prevent early surge detection and prevention.

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KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor: Views on the U.S. Role In Global COVID-19 Response

KFF

This Vaccine Monitor survey shows the public is largely supportive of the U.S. role in distributing COVID-19 vaccines globally, as well as other response efforts including the distribution of masks and COVID-19 rapid tests.

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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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How To Reduce Manual Data Entry Risks In The Healthcare Sector In 2022

Healthcare IT Today

The volume and variety of healthcare data is on the rise. Underpinned by pandemic pressures, the adoption of telehealth services grew to 38 times pre-COVID levels over the past two years, in turn, creating a need for patients and physicians to access critical medical information on demand. Despite this technological shift, however, many medical staff […].

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Michigan Ophthalmology Practice Settles to Resolve Allegation that It Violated ADA 

Healthcare Compliance Blog

A Michigan ophthalmologist practice reached a settlement with the Unites States Attorney’s Office for a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). It was alleged that the ophthalmologist practice refused to allow a service animal to accompany an individual with a disability beyond the patient waiting area. The ADA prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities by public accommodations, such as offices of healthcare providers.

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Legacy Applications, Wrong Goals, and Empathy – Fun Friday

Healthcare IT Today

Happy Friday everyone and welcome to another edition of Fun Friday where we try to give you a reason to smile as you head into the weekend. This week we have an eclectic mix of cartoons that will make you laugh and possibly open your eyes to something in a new way. Check them out […].

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Calculating AR Days in Medical Billing

Medisys Compliance

Accounts receivable (AR) days refers to the average number of days it takes a practice to collect payments due. The lower the number, the faster the practice is obtaining payment, on average. For financial stability for any practice and overall expansion opportunities, it’s always preferential to have minimum number of AR days. AR days are generally categorized as 0-30, 30-60, 60-90, 90-120 and 120 days & above.

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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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HANYS, allied associations urge critical Medicaid investments

Hanys

In a joint advocacy letter , New York healthcare associations urged the Legislature to retain increased support for safety net providers and supply additional funding to increase and broaden those investments to support all hospitals and nursing homes statewide; include higher Medicaid rate increases for all providers; and include the largest possible funding increases for hospital behavioral health services in the final state budget agreement.

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The Essential Guide to ISO 14971

Dot Compliance

Medical devices are an irreplaceable part of modern medical care and we depend on medical device manufacturers to produce high-quality, safe, and reliable products. To do that consistently, those manufacturers need a systematic risk management process. . While risk management concerns all manufacturers, medical device manufacturers carry a special responsibility to protect life and health.

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Without a Net… Business Continuity in a Ransomware World

HIPAA Vault

“Why wouldn’t they want a safety net?” I asked myself one day while watching “Free Solo,” a fascinating documentary about a free climber who operates “without a net.” It seemed a fair question, especially when more than a few of these climbers have fallen to their deaths. Called “extreme sports enthusiasts,” their modus operandi is. Continue reading.

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CMS guidance details provider protections for health plan electronic claims payments

Hanys

CMS issued guidance clarifying HIPAA protections and responsibilities when health plans issue claims payments using Virtual Credit Cards, HIPAA Electronic Funds Transfers and Remittance Advice transaction standards. According to the guidance, a plan cannot require providers to receive EFT payments or reassociation services from its selected vendor. Many plans have required providers to enroll in costly vendor contracts to receive claims payments.

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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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Fifth Circuit Upholds ACA Risk Adjustment Program

Healthcare Law Blog

Various smaller health insurance issuers have challenged the risk-adjustment program under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), alleging, among other things, that its underlying methodology favors larger insurers. Last week the Fifth Circuit issued an opinion in one of those cases, affirming the lower court’s rulings in favor of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its administration of the risk-adjustment program.

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Earn while you learn: CE credits available for Leading Through Turbulent Times

Hanys

Designed for established and aspiring healthcare leaders, Leading Through Turbulent Times offers new ways to approach problems and explores best practices for building an inclusive environment at the organization, team and individual level. Learn more about the program and CE credits online.

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OCR Cybersecurity Newsletter Offers Guidance Against Common Cyberattacks

Compliancy Group

Each quarter the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights issues a cybersecurity newsletter. The newsletter highlights cybersecurity trends affecting the healthcare industry. As the March 2022 OCR Cybersecurity Newsletter notes, the number of hacking and IT incidents affecting electronic protected health information (ePHI) has shot up, and rather quickly at that.

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State legislative activity

Hanys

This week, the following chapter amendment was signed into law: Nursing home infection inspection control audit (Chapter 152). The following bills passed both houses of the Legislature and are now awaiting delivery to Gov. Hochul: PHHPC women's health representative (A.8536/S.7628). Medically fragile children (A.289-C/S.2121-C). Please see our summary chart for a complete list of bills of interest that have passed both houses during the 2022 legislative session.

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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.