Compliancy Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

As a medical or dental professional, coping with patient scheduling, staffing concerns, insurance reimbursements, and a thousand other things, your life is complicated enough. A divorce between the parents of a minor child patient adds the potential for more complications fueled by emotion. Your first concern is your patient, but it’s easy to find yourself reduced to a role as a pawn in a power struggle between parents.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Regulators are continuing to work on new guidance in light of a court decision that ruled against the government and threw a wrench in the third-party process to resolve payment disputes between payers and providers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The American Telemedicine Association and its ATA Action group issued a statement on Monday outlining their opposition to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's proposed permanent changes to rules around the prescribing of controlled medications via telemedicine. WHY IT MATTERS The DEA says it is expanding patient access to critical therapies beyond the scheduled end of the COVID-19 public health emergency – except for the remote prescription of controlled substances.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The lawsuit, filed on behalf of four current and former Illinois nurses, alleges that Ascension failed to properly pay employees and that the health system engaged in “improper” cost-cutting practices.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Health care institutions, like many colleges and businesses, have trouble retaining people. Tiffany A.S. Wright, vice president of operations at CareMax , says that it’s one thing to engage with patients but a much bigger challenge to retain them. Retention is particularly key to maintain the funding for fee-for-value programs, which are growing in popularity.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Tennessee-based Community Health Systems was breached as part of the attacks, which may have compromised the health information of 1 million patients within CHS alone.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Lucira filed for bankruptcy protection last week, saying the “protracted” authorization process caused it to miss out on test sales in the latest flu season.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

DEA's proposed telehealth rules pull back COVID-era remote prescribing flexibilities aburky Mon, 02/27/2023 - 14:17

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The healthcare and public health (HPH) sector has been warned about cyberattacks involving MedusaLocker ransomware – one of the lesser-known ransomware variants used in cyberattacks on the sector. The HPH sector has been extensively targeted by prolific ransomware groups using ransomware variants such as Clop, Royal, and BlackCat, but attacks involving these lesser-known variants can be just as damaging.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

What You Should Know: – Portfolia , the world’s most powerful community of women investors, has officially announced a significant investment in Xandar Kardian from the firm’s Active Aging I and Active Aging II funds. Portfolia’s investment represents a core contribution to Xandar Kardian’s $10 million Series A Funding round. – Portfolia sees Xandar Kardian’s impact extends well beyond the traditional hospital room, with impressive potential growth opportunities into a wider breadth

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

UPMC, DOJ settle whistleblower suit alleging 'world-renowned' surgeon performed, billed simultaneous surgeries dmuoio Mon, 02/27/2023 - 14:14

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

What You Should Know: – Healthy.io , the global leader in transforming the smartphone camera into a medical device, and Reset Kidney Health , a hybrid care platform that offers gold-standard multidisciplinary care to patients with kidney disease, have announced a partnership that will give patients the option to utilize at-home, smartphone-powered kidney testing. – As part of the partnership, Reset will provide eligible patients with Healthy.io’s Minuteful Kidney™ test to compl

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Becker's Health IT

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Artificial intelligence and machine learning have been used for years to help hospitals and health systems combat cybersecurity threats, but with hackers getting more sophisticated, chief information security officers say AI will need to make improvements to its algorithms and training sets to become vital tools for hospitals information security programs.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Defenses need to be put in place to detect and block attempts by cybercriminals to access healthcare networks, but not all threats are external. Each year, many data breaches are reported by hospitals and medical practices that involve unauthorized access to medical records by employees. These data breaches include non-malicious snooping on the medical records of colleagues, friends, family members, and high-profile patients, and insider wrongdoing incidents where patient data is stolen for iden

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Mayo Clinic income dips in 2022 after facing higher labor and supply expenses rking Mon, 02/27/2023 - 15:19

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Spectrum.Life , a leading provider of mental health and wellbeing services for insurers, employers, employees, and students is pleased to announce the successful completion of a €5 million raise, resulting in a total of €9 million raised for the company. The round, again led by Act Venture Capital , included strong participation from existing and new investors.

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Lucira's diagnostic is the first over-the-counter at-home combination test for COVID-19 and flu authorized by the FDA.

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Digital Health News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Talk of national policy and digital investment priorities is set to drive the discussion on the National Policy and Keynote Stage at Rewired 2023.

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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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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Antibiotic misuse during COVID underscores importance of stewardship programs, says CDC fdiamond Mon, 02/27/2023 - 08:22

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Modern Healthcare

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Detractors say that with the proposed rule, the DEA is inviting people to acquire substances like Adderall through their own methods online.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Medicare Advantage patients account for fewer avoidable hospitalizations.

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Digital Health News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Jordan Sollof chats to Amy Vercell, CCIO for nursing and AHPs at The Christie, and Peter White, CNIO at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, about CNIO mentoring.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The Hutchinson Clinic Reports December 2022 Hacking Incident The Hutchinson, KS-based healthcare provider, The Hutchinson Clinic, has recently announced that hackers accessed its network between December 19, 2022, and December 22, 2022, and during that time, files containing patient data may have been accessed and stolen. According to the clinic’s website data breach notice, the impacted information included names, contact information, birth dates, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbe

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

I am grateful to have been given the opportunity to brainstorm omnichannel health care for people to enable better health care for all, anywhere and everywhere, with Team Microsoft. Key opinion leader Molly McCarthy and I covered a lot of ground in this webcast conversation as part of Microsoft’s series of three “Expert perspectives on trends driving change in healthcare.” Molly and I covered a lot of ground here , starting with the key forces shaping and accelerating virtual

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

After a three-year pause on Medicaid redeterminations, states can begin the process of removing residents from their rolls beginning on April 1. Many people who are terminated from Medicaid will be eligible for free or low-cost plans through the Affordable Care Act’s Marketplaces. To help consumers and enrollment assisters during this nationwide coverage event, we’ve updated our Navigator Resource Guide with new content about transitioning between Medicaid and private health insurance.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

UPMC closes 'difficult' 2022 with trimmed $238M operating income, $1B net loss dmuoio Mon, 02/27/2023 - 16:12

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Symplr

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Wondering where all of the nurses are? As our population ages and more providers leave the bedside and other patient care roles in COVID-19's wake, everyone is forced to face the reality of a nationwide shortage of nurses. It's a reality that isn’t expected to get better anytime soon.

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American Medical Compliance

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The Illinois Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect Training course is designed to educate dental healthcare providers (DHCP) on the signs of child abuse and neglect and how mandatory reporters in Illinois report child abuse and neglect cases. The United States Federal Government defines child abuse and neglect as when the actions or inactions of a caregiver lead to the risk or impact of harm to a child.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

What You Should Know: – The Center for Health Affairs and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it has established the world’s first and only Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Innovation Hub. – The hub’s objective is to start locally and move globally to address structural racism and poverty that result in gun violence, behavioral health crises, and a myriad of other factors negatively impacting the health of local residents.

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American Medical Compliance

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The MRI: Level 1 Safety Training will educate individuals who frequent the MR area on practices and procedures to keep themselves and their patients safe. Individuals who frequent the MR area, such as those who transport patients, those who clean the area, and support assistants who help Level 2 MR Technologists with getting patients on or off the table, should take this course.

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