Healthcare Dive
JULY 8, 2022
Changes to the Medicare Shared Savings Program would give some accountable care organizations more time to ramp up to performance-based risk and updated quality reporting.
Healthcare It News
JULY 8, 2022
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Healthcare Dive
JULY 8, 2022
CMMI has taken initial actions to address existing bias, and has started developing a guide to screen and mitigate bias in existing and future models, according to a new article in Health Affairs.
Healthcare It News
JULY 8, 2022
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Healthcare Dive
JULY 8, 2022
The sector added about 57,000 jobs in June, compared to about 15,000 in May, according to preliminary data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Ambulatory services and hospitals saw the largest gains.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 8, 2022
Ann Mond Johnson is one of the top telehealth experts in the country. As CEO of the American Telemedicine Association, her work covers every aspect of this technological delivery of healthcare that has gone mainstream because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this informative podcast, Johnson talks about the hybrid model that may be the future of telehealth, what will be necessary to establish telehealth as a permanent modality in care delivery, current telehealth policy priorities and challenges, an
Health Care Compliance Brief brings together the best content for health law & compliance professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
KFF
JULY 8, 2022
Firearms recently became the number one cause of death for children in the United States, surpassing motor vehicle deaths and those caused by other injuries. This brief examines how gun violence and other types of firearm deaths among children and teens in the United States compare to rates in other large and wealthy countries.
Healthcare IT Today
JULY 8, 2022
We’ve been talking about the “hospital room of the future” for a while now. I guess it’s safe to say the future is here in many regards. However, when I recently sat down with Jeff Fallon, Chairman and CEO at eVideon he was more excited about the industry than he’s ever been before. In fact, he talks about how things are different today than they have been in the past (Partial Spoiler Alert: One example is the EHR data is there to trigger actions).
Center for Health Insurance Reform
JULY 8, 2022
It’s finally summer, and during the latest heat wave, the CHIR team cooled off with new health policy research. In June, we reviewed studies on improving race and ethnicity data collection in health insurance marketplaces, the value of health savings accounts, and variation in medical debt accumulation across the U.S. Continue reading → The post June Research Roundup: What We’re Reading appeared first on Center on Health Insurance Reforms.
HIPAA Journal
JULY 8, 2022
The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights has recently issued guidance to healthcare organizations following the overturning of Roe v. Wade following the SCOTUS Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling, which removed the right to abortion at the federal level and allowed states to set their own laws. The guidance explained how the HIPAA Privacy Rule permits disclosures of protected health information – including reproductive health care information – to law enforcement but does not require suc
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Mobi Health News
JULY 8, 2022
In a post on LinkedIn, CEO and cofounder Florian Otto said the cuts will allow the company to "adapt to current market realities, and re-organize ourselves for what we want to achieve following last year's acquisition of OODA Health.
Digital Health News
JULY 8, 2022
In the post-pandemic world, the onus seems to be on the artificial intelligence (AI) to carry the healthcare sector forward. Maja Dragovic finds out how the attitudes towards AI in the sector have changed over the last 12 months.
Healthcare IT Today
JULY 8, 2022
Happy Friday everyone! I hope you had a great short week with the Holiday and are ready for another Fun Friday where we try to give you a laugh as you head into your weekend. Aaron Miri described what it’s like after a holiday: #CIOs just love the day after a holiday…. pic.twitter.com/QXMDK2egOa. — Aaron Miri (@AaronMiri) July 5, 2022.
Digital Health News
JULY 8, 2022
A group of our CNIO Network Advisory Panel members and a CCIO member exclusively give their thoughts on the new levelling up and EPR convergence policies.
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HIPAA Journal
JULY 8, 2022
A lengthy privacy violation has been detected by Virginia Commonwealth University Health System (VCU Health) that potentially started on January 4, 2006. According to the substitute breach notification on the VCU Health website, transplant donor information had been included in the medical records of certain transplant recipients, and transplant recipient information had also been included in the medical records of transplant donors.
Digital Health News
JULY 8, 2022
The latest edition of Movers and Shakers covers a number of changes from June and July, including new appointments at PHIN and System C.
Mobi Health News
JULY 8, 2022
Also, MedleyMed launches its virtual clinic concept.
Digital Health News
JULY 8, 2022
Remote patient monitoring went from marginal to mainstream in the Covid-19 pandemic. In this Industry Spotlight, Vivienne Raper talks to Bryn Sage, chief executive at Inhealthcare, about how it happened and what's next for virtual wards.
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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.
HIPAA Journal
JULY 8, 2022
Roanoke, VA-based Benefit Plan Administrators Inc., has recently notified 3,775 individuals that an unauthorized individual gained access to its network and removed files that contained some of their protected health information. It is unclear from the breach notification letters when the incident occurred, but the forensic investigation concluded on March 15, 2022, and the notification letters were sent to affected individuals on or around June 15.
Med-Net Compliance
JULY 8, 2022
A nursing home health system has agreed to pay the United States $1.75 million to resolve its potential liability under the False Claims Act for facilitating COVID-19 vaccinations for hundreds of individuals ineligible to participate in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Pharmacy Partnership for Long-Term Care Program (LTC PPP), a program specifically designed to vaccinate long-term care (LTC) facility residents and staff when doses of COVID-19 vaccine were in limited supply
Provider Trust
JULY 8, 2022
A holistic approach to exclusion monitoring and license verifications must include monitoring of disciplinary databases such as the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB). Integrating NPDB continuous query into your monitoring process ensures a complete view of your credentialed population and allows you to manage, monitor, and verify your providers in one place – saving you time and ensuring peace of mind.
Compliancy Group
JULY 8, 2022
Facebook describes its Meta Pixel feature as a snippet of JavaScript code that users can put on their website. Once Pixel is installed, it tracks what forms website visitors click on, and what options users select from dropdown menus. Recently, The Markup/STAT released a report summarizing a test it ran on the 100 top hospitals in the United States.
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HealthIT Answers
JULY 8, 2022
By Rob Anthony & Avinash Shanbhag - Beginning August 29, 2022, health IT developers participating in ONC’s Health IT Certification Program can voluntarily incorporate new versions of standards approved by the national coordinator into their Certified Health IT Modules. The post What’s New in the 2022 Approved Standards via Standards Version Advancement Process appeared first on Health IT Answers.
Healthcare IT Today
JULY 8, 2022
Kins , a digital-first, hybrid care physical therapy practice, announced today $4 million in new seed funding, raising $7.2M to-date, as well as expansion into Massachusetts. Kins’ recent funding round was led by W Health Ventures, which invests in and scales early-stage healthcare companies that are reinventing care delivery. Other notable angels in the medical field also participated, joining existing shareholder Redesign Health.
Hanys
JULY 8, 2022
The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety published the HANYS Statewide Steering Committee on Quality Initiatives' Pandemic Preparedness: COVID-19 Lessons Learned in New York's Hospitals this week. The report reviews what worked well and did not work well during the early stages of the pandemic and provides recommendations for hospitals, health systems, providers and policymakers.
Becker's Health IT
JULY 8, 2022
A U.S. House of Representatives panel plans to examine whether data companies and personal health apps are keeping patients' reproductive health data private in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, NBC reported July 8.
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SQA
JULY 8, 2022
By Laurel Hacche & Debra Cortner SQA Associates. SQA Regulatory Surveillance Summary 2022 – May. Health Canada. Health Canada, Non-Compliant Drug Inspections, 1Q 2022. Health Canada published the following non-compliant drug inspections in the first quarter of 2022: EGS EuroCam, inspected on 11 January 2022: findings relate to quality control, personnel, premises, equipment, raw material testing, sanitation, manufacturing control, and records ( EGS EuroCam Observations ).
Hanys
JULY 8, 2022
Medicare home health proposed rule webinar. July 11. Standing membership call. July 12. HANYS' fiscal policy update call. July 14. Preventing and responding to aggressive patient behavior, part two. July 21. Government relations update call. July 22. Healthcare privacy in a digital world. July 26. AHEI - How 3 hospitals used patient demographic data to address disparities.
Bill of Health
JULY 8, 2022
By Gregory Curfman. Throughout its October 2021-2022 term, the Supreme Court has shown no evidence of judicial restraint, dispelling any remaining illusions that the judiciary is, in the words of Alexander Bickel and Alexander Hamilton , “The Least Dangerous Branch.”. Professor Bickel elaborates upon this formulation in his 1962 book on constitutional law and the Supreme Court, The Least Dangerous Branch , and in his preceding Harvard Law Review Foreword.
Hanys
JULY 8, 2022
They embedded clinical pharmacists in 10 primary care practice sites and used comprehensive medication management to optimize medication regimens and improve disease control. Learn more in our Member Spotlight.
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