Healthcare Dive
APRIL 27, 2022
Improving affordability, providing virtual care and boosting mental health offerings will be top priorities for U.S. employers over the next two years, according to a Willis Towers Watson report.
Bill of Health
APRIL 27, 2022
(Photo: Sign at the central train station in Berlin (Berlin Hauptbahnhof) that offers free support for pet owners coming from Ukraine. Courtesy of Kristin Sandvik.). By Kristin Bergtora Sandvik. Introduction. The care for animals rapidly became a part of the humanitarian narrative of the attack on Ukraine. There are countless accounts of the efforts of activists, shelters and zoo staff to keep animals alive, as well as underground operations to get them to safety.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Healthcare Dive
APRIL 27, 2022
Whether or not telehealth visits result in duplicative care — a hot topic on the Hill as Congress debates future telemedicine regulation — could depend on if users have acute or chronic conditions, according to new research.
Healthcare It News
APRIL 27, 2022
Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed
Advertisement
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.
Healthcare Dive
APRIL 27, 2022
In the latest open-ended strike, nurse demands for new contracts focus heavily on recruitment and retention of staff amid nationwide labor shortages.
Health Populi
APRIL 27, 2022
“It’s hard to be healthy in the U.S. today.” That is the underlying premise and reason for The Building H Index. Health happens outside of doctors’ offices and hospital operating rooms. Health is made in our homes, in our communities, in our daily lives as we go about working, playing, learning, and praying. Too often, in those daily life-flows, making a healthy decision is harder than defaulting to a less-healthy one.
Health Care Compliance Brief brings together the best content for health law & compliance professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
HIPAA Journal
APRIL 27, 2022
The American Dental Association (ADA) suffered a cyberattack on Friday and has been forced to take many of its systems offline. The ADA website is currently available and explains that “The ADA is experiencing technical difficulties,” and that work is underway to get its systems running smoothly. While the website does not provide any further information on the cause of the technical difficulties, emails have been sent to ADA members advising them about the cyberattack.
Healthcare Dive
APRIL 27, 2022
The now five-person office will assist CEO Sarah London in setting policy and executing the company's enterprise agenda, London announced Tuesday on a call with investors.
Compliancy Group
APRIL 27, 2022
In April of 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)’ Office of Information Security issued a 27-page publication, entitled “Insider Threats in Healthcare.” The publication covers a significant trend in cybersecurity: More and more, healthcare organization data breaches are being caused by internal (employee) action as opposed to actions from outside third parties.
Healthcare Dive
APRIL 27, 2022
Teladoc bought chronic care giant Livongo for $18.5 billion two years ago, but the asset's waning value and external market factors triggered the massive goodwill impairment charge in the first quarter.
Advertisement
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.
Healthicity
APRIL 27, 2022
“The Security Rule requires appropriate administrative, physical and technical safeguards to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and security of electronic protected health information.” –HHS.Gov.
HIPAA Journal
APRIL 27, 2022
The five eyes cybersecurity agencies have recently issued a joint security alert warning about the threat of cyberattacks on critical infrastructure by Russian nation-state threat actors and pro-Russia cybercriminal groups. Intelligence gathered by the agencies indicates the Russian government has been exploring opportunities for conducting cyberattacks against targets in the West in retaliation for the sanctions imposed on Russia and the support being provided to Ukraine.
Mobi Health News
APRIL 27, 2022
The company aims to help the self-testing market grow by licensing its core technology for transforming smartphones into IVD devices.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 27, 2022
Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed
Advertisement
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.
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 27, 2022
This month we’ve been focusing some of our editorial coverage on remote patient monitoring. You may have also seen our podcast asking the question of whether RPM is Overrated or our ever expanding list of RPM companies. There’s a lot happening in the remote patient monitoring space. Why is this the case? I think the […].
Mobi Health News
APRIL 27, 2022
Hinge's new offering comes nearly two months after competitor SWORD Health announced its own pelvic health program.
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 27, 2022
Funding will accelerate company’s growth and widespread adoption of continuous wearable remote patient monitoring solutions Blue Spark Technologies, Inc., a leader in wearable remote patient monitoring solutions, today announced that it has raised a $40 million intellectual property-based debt solution to fund growth led by GT Investment Partners (“Ghost Tree Partners”) with support from Aon plc (NYSE: […].
Healthcare Compliance Blog
APRIL 27, 2022
A Georgia district court has issued a summary judgment against a state rehabilitation center for 808 false claims billed to Medicaid and Tricare between November 2015 and June 2020. The false claims included physical and speech therapist treatments supposedly provided by individuals no longer employed at the facility. In analyzing the question of whether the rehabilitation center knowingly submitted the false claims, the court found that the center’s conduct “epitomizes ‘reckless disregard’ of t
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.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 27, 2022
What You Should Know: – CareCloud, Inc. , a healthcare technology solutions provider for medical practices and health systems nationwide, has announced its new offering, CareCloud Wellness for chronic care management as part of its growing suite of digital health solutions that help providers enhance patient care and revenue streams. – CareCloud Wellness gives practices the means to easily participate in the government’s chronic care management (CCM) program , without having to expan
YouCompli
APRIL 27, 2022
Telehealth services and models have expanded rapidly during the pandemic. Healthcare employee burnout, the Great Resignation, and other factors are expected to further accelerate telehealth growth. Telehealth expansion has led to significant growth in the use of interstate licensure compacts. As more healthcare professionals obtain licensure under compacts, compliance officers need to be aware of interstate licensure requirements – and their effects on patient care.
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 27, 2022
Consensus Cloud Solutions has added Natural Language Processing capability to its offerings which will make it much easier for healthcare organizations to turn unstructured documents into a rich source of information. Their added capability means that clinicians will now have additional context when providing care to patients, which can lead to better outcomes and reduced […].
Symplr
APRIL 27, 2022
Bonnie and Mark Barnes, co-founders of The DAISY Foundation, contributed the following guest blog as part of symplr's celebration of National Nurses Week. Nurses are natural leaders, whether or not the word leader is in their title or job description. Their advocacy for patients, resourcefulness, innovative thinking, ability to think critically, and solve problems are all qualities of nurse leaders—and we see leadership in DAISY Award nominations we read every day.
Advertisement
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.
Medisys Compliance
APRIL 27, 2022
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was introduced in year 1996. As the name suggests, it was created to ensure that all ‘protected health information’ was appropriately secured and restricted access to be given only to authorized individuals. Another goal was to prevent healthcare fraud. Healthcare providers, health plans, and healthcare clearinghouses are primarily covered under HIPAA.
Modern Healthcare
APRIL 27, 2022
Health officials are keeping a close eye as highly contagious variants continue to spread.
Mobi Health News
APRIL 27, 2022
Its fresh funds will support its product development and international expansion efforts.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 27, 2022
Marc Leighton, VP of Product at Florence Healthcare. Prior to COVID , major technological transformation initiatives were already underway at many clinical trial sites, sponsors, and contract research organizations (CROs.) But the move to decentralized trials accelerated dramatically in 2020 and 2021–and it’s not slowing down. Survey data from WCG Avoca shows that research sites and sponsors expect 89% of clinical trials to qualify as a hybrid, with a mix of decentralized technology and in-perso
Advertisement
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.
Mobi Health News
APRIL 27, 2022
The startup scooped up $14 million in Series A funding in January 2021.
Healthcare Law Blog
APRIL 27, 2022
President Biden issued Executive Order 13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government (Executive Order) on inauguration day in 2021, signalizing the Administration’s intent to advance health care equity and racial justice in the United States by minimizing the influence of the social determinants of health.
Med League
APRIL 27, 2022
A well-qualified Physical Therapist Expert witness was retained on a case where the defending Physical Therapist failed to adhere to the standard of care for an elderly patient recovering from Cardiogenic shock. The Physical Therapist failed to make a sound professional judgment prior to introducing the patient to tandem walking which resulted in the patient falling and fracturing their hip which in turn lead to more hospitalizations and surgery and the patient requiring more assistance to ambul
Drug & Device Law
APRIL 27, 2022
Did you know that both LeBron James and Steph Curry were born in Ohio? So were Neil Armstrong, Halle Berry, Simone Biles, Thomas Edison, Dean Martin, Jack Nicklaus, and Steven Spielberg. (We once ran into – we mean literally – Dean Martin as he was launching himself out of a Beverly Hills restaurant. He was old and was wearing super-thick glasses, but we recognized him.
Advertisement
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.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
278 
Let's personalize your content