Healthcare Dive
MARCH 17, 2022
Widespread adoption of acute-level care at home models has been hampered by physician reluctance and patchwork reimbursement, though a CMS waiver caused hospital participation to snowball during the pandemic.
Bill of Health
MARCH 17, 2022
By Christopher A. Riddle. Remote work meaningfully facilitates inclusion of people with disabilities in the labor market. But, to truly fulfill its promise, employers must also take steps to ensure that remote work accommodations are not made at the expense of the employee, simply because their labor is conducted in their own home. Remote Work Promotes Inclusion.
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Healthcare Dive
MARCH 17, 2022
It's possible to rekindle the passion of doctors and nurses in providing care, even as many eye an exit, experts said at the HIMSS conference.
Healthcare It News
MARCH 17, 2022
Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed
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Healthcare Dive
MARCH 17, 2022
"At a minimum, Congress must establish a stable, annual Medicare physician payment update that keeps pace with inflation and practice costs," AMA wrote in its letter.
MRO Compliance
MARCH 17, 2022
MRO Wins Silver Stevie Award for Best Use of Technology. MRO is proud to announce, for the sixth year in a row, being recognized by the Stevie Award group for providing exceptional service to our clients. Stevie Award for Customer Service . The Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service are the world’s top honors for customer service, contact center, business development and sales professionals.
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HIPAA Journal
MARCH 17, 2022
Cyberattacks have been reported by Duncan Regional Hospital in Oklahoma and Central Indiana Orthopedics that have affected a total of 170,084 individuals. Duncan Regional Hospital. Duncan Regional Hospital has recently announced it was the victim of a cyberattack in January. The incident was detected on January 20, 2022, when suspicious activity was identified in some of its IT systems.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 17, 2022
Medical device company Medtronic has unveiled a report illustrating the opportunities and challenges in the healthcare technology startup scene.
HIPAA Journal
MARCH 17, 2022
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have issued a joint cybersecurity advisory warning that Russian state-sponsored actors are exploiting default multi-factor authentication protocols and the PrintNightmare vulnerability to gain access to networks to steal sensitive data. These tactics have been used by Russian state-sponsored cyber actors from as early as May 2021, when a non-governmental organization (NGO) was attacked using
Healthcare IT Today
MARCH 17, 2022
Do you remember when you first heard the idea of a paperless office? I do and as a techguy I was enthralled by the idea. Of course, like all great ideas, reality hit me in the face when I realized that even as my healthcare organization went electronic, we still had a ton of paper […].
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HIT Consultant
MARCH 17, 2022
What You Should Know: – GrandPad , the purpose-built tablet solution designed for people over the age of 75, announced today that seniors and family caregivers can now purchase the GrandPad tablet online at Amazon.com. – Availability on Amazon.com expands the reach of GrandPad senior-friendly tablets to millions of older adults, families, and caregivers in an effort to reduce isolation and loneliness that can diminish health and wellbeing.
Healthcare IT Today
MARCH 17, 2022
Canopy works with leading oncology practices nationwide to drive the best possible outcomes for over 50,000 cancer patients Canopy, the Intelligent Care Platform (ICP) for oncology, today announced it has raised $13 million in funding led by GSR Ventures, with participation from Samsung Next, UpWest, and other industry leaders and executives, such as Gil Shklarski […].
HIT Consultant
MARCH 17, 2022
What You Should Know: – Today, Canopy announced it is launching out of stealth with $13 million in funding to work with leading oncology practices all over the country to help deliver high-quality care to cancer patients when they aren’t in the doctor’s office. – Canopy works with leading oncology practices nationwide to drive the best possible outcomes for over 50,000 cancer patients.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 17, 2022
Abbott's Jennifer Jones-McMeans outlines how finding community champions and creating digital tools can help boost diversity in clinical trials.
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HIT Consultant
MARCH 17, 2022
What You Should Know: – Today, digital medicine leader physIQ and CellCarta, a global leader in precision medicine services announced they are collaborating on a groundbreaking study that could revolutionize vaccine development. – The strategic collaboration advances the detailed study of early, individualized human responses to vaccinations as pharma companies race to deliver safe, effective vaccines sooner. physIQ , a pioneer in digital medicine, and CellCarta , a global leader in
Modern Healthcare
MARCH 17, 2022
As Xavier Becerra approaches his one-year anniversary at HHS' helm, he's interested in working with Congress on Medicare Advantage overpayment issues and physician payment reform.
Healthcare Compliance Blog
MARCH 17, 2022
According to analysis of reported data, healthcare data breaches are increasing in their severity and scope across the country. Four recent data breaches impacted the healthcare sector and over 611,000 individuals. In the first incident, in October 2021, an Alabama clinic’s cyberattack affected over 228,000 individuals. The cyberattack resulted in unauthorized data access of patient names, contact information, driver’s license numbers, Social Security numbers, birth dates, health insurance polic
HIT Consultant
MARCH 17, 2022
What You Should Know: – Today Grow Therapy , a leader in helping create life-changing therapeutic connections between therapists and clients, today announced that its mental health care services are now available as an in-network benefit to all members of Aetna, CVS Health company. – Bringing Grow Therapy’s multi-thousand therapy and psychiatry provider group in-network with Aetna means it can now connect its provider network to millions of people in need, giving them more options to
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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.
Healthcare Law Blog
MARCH 17, 2022
On Thursday, March 16, the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services (“OIG”) issued OIG Advisory Opinion (“AO”) No. 22-05 , relating to subsidization of certain Medicare cost-sharing obligations in the context of a clinical trial involving medical devices (the “Proposed Arrangement”). This is the third AO in a recent series of AOs ( see AO 21-17 on November 19, 2021 and AO 21-13 on October 4, 2021 ) focused on Medicare cost subsidies in a clinical trial sett
Jackson Lewis
MARCH 17, 2022
With its new inspection initiative, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is taking steps to ensure certain healthcare employers continue to protect workers against COVID-19, even as falling case numbers across the country have prompted many state and local agencies to withdraw mask mandates and other COVID-19 precautions. OSHA announced a “highly focused” inspection initiative limited to general medical and surgical hospitals, psychiatric and substance abuse hospitals, skille
Dot Compliance
MARCH 17, 2022
There are many factors manufacturers have to take into consideration when evaluating a Quality Management Solution (QMS) to fit their growing business needs. They have to define the “ critical components ,” the “ must haves ” and the “ nice to haves ”. All while keeping in mind that compliance to regulations and global standards are non-negotiable, especially in the highly regulated life science and biotech industries.
Health Law Checkup
MARCH 17, 2022
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued almost 200 “blanket” waivers which automatically apply to health care providers including hospitals, other healthcare facilities, and healthcare professionals. These blanket waivers are effective through the duration of the federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) declared by the Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which has been extended for 90-day periods since the onset
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Jane Sarashon
MARCH 17, 2022
Compared with health citizens living in other wealthy countries, people living in the U.S. are still among the least likely to have a regular doctor or place to go for care. Thus, millions of Americans continue to lack access to primary care compared with peers in other nations, according to a report from The Commonwealth Fund. The Commonwealth Fund has tracked primary care access for many years, and over time has found the United States to lack the kind of primary care “backbone” th
Health Law Checkup
MARCH 17, 2022
On February 24, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced a redesign of the Global Professional Direct Contracting (“GPDC”) Model for Direct Contracting Entities (“DCEs”). The revamped model will be known as the Accountable Care Organization (“ACO”) Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (REACH) Model.
OSHA Law Blog
MARCH 17, 2022
Virginia has drafted workplace guidance in the event it strikes down its first-in-the-nation COVID-19 standard. To read this article in its entirety, please click here.
Healthcare It News
MARCH 17, 2022
In today’s digitalized healthcare environment, keeping the best outcomes for patients at the center of all activity increasingly depends on the smart use of medical data. The exponential growth in health data from a variety of sources, such as electronic medical records and image databases, makes it difficult to integrate information for optimized decision-making that meets the highest possible standards of care.
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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.
Health Care Performance
MARCH 17, 2022
This blog was originally posted on the Compliance and Ethics blog, published by the Health Care Compliance Association and the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics. Last week, I flew on an airplane for the first time in two years. My family went to the beach and spent seven days soaking up the sun – with no work. I made a promise not to open my laptop, and I kept it.
Health Law Advisor
MARCH 17, 2022
In this episode of the Diagnosing Health Care Podcast : The interoperability and information-blocking rules have imposed new regulations and requirements on health information exchanges (HIEs). How are HIEs responding to these new regulations in a space they have been in for decades? In this episode of our special series on interoperability, hear from Dan Paoletti , CEO of the Ohio Health Information Partnership.
Healthcare IT Today
MARCH 17, 2022
It was clear from #HIMSS22 that the expectations for artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare have fallen from their pre-pandemic highs. Blue-sky predictions of AI-powered robot clinicians have been replaced with pragmatic discussions on how AI can be selectively deployed to maximize efficiency and improved care. The “Democratizing Healthcare with AI” panel was a great example […].
HealthLaw Prof Blog
MARCH 17, 2022
Scott Skinner-Thompson (University of Colorado), Subordination Torts, 83 Oh. St. L. J. (2022): In law school curriculum, the first-year tort law course is often caricatured as the class with the funky, sometimes amusing, fact patterns where people get injured—occasionally in.
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