Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights announced this week that it had brought HIPAA-related enforcement actions against five healthcare providers. The actions brought the total number of enforcements carried out under the agency's HIPAA Right of Access Initiative to 25. "Timely access to your health records is a powerful tool in staying healthy, patient privacy and it is your right under law," said OCR Director Lisa J.

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The tech giant is planning its own smartwatch with health- and fitness-tracking tools that will live outside the Fitbit brand, according to reporting by Insider.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Premier Family Physicians, a nine-location group practice based in Austin, Texas, seeks to ensure its providers have the tools they need and processes in place to support patient care and get through each day as productively as possible. To that end, enhancing patient self-management and automating screeners and paper processes is a key goal. THE PROBLEM.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 3, 2021

After court-ordered injunctions, Cleveland Clinic, HCA and other providers hit pause on workforce vaccine mandates. dmuoio. Fri, 12/03/2021 - 16:30.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The following is a guest article by Rich Kenny, MMCi, RN, Healthcare Industry Executive Advisor at SAS. Nurses are the backbone of the healthcare delivery system – the 28 million nurses around the world make up 59% of healthcare professionals. If your organization employs nurses, it is a particularly challenging time as the worldwide pandemic […].

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Out-of-pocket costs may play larger role in telehealth visits than in-person care: survey. rtorrence. Fri, 12/03/2021 - 16:07.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 3, 2021

HHS: Telehealth use in Medicare increased 63-fold last year with behavioral health increasing the most. rking. Fri, 12/03/2021 - 16:14.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Happy Friday everyone! We hope you’ve had a great week and be able to accomplish everything you wanted to accomplish. As we head into another weekend, we wanted to share another Fun Friday from Dr. Glaucomflecken. He’s been doing a bunch of videos lately about residency interviews for various specialties. You should go and check […].

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 3, 2021

AMA: Medicare physician fee schedule spending dropped nearly $14B last year due to COVID-19. rking. Fri, 12/03/2021 - 12:25.

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OSHA Law Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2021

In what is getting to be habit in the OSHA ETS litigation with courts issuing orders late Friday afternoons, the Sixth Circuit on December 3, 2021 tersely denied a petition to transfer the case back to the Fifth Circuit. In the same order, the Sixth Circuit also denied, without explanation, the union petitioners’ bid to transfer the case to the D.C.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Hack targets Planned Parenthood, exposing personal information of 400K patients. rtorrence. Fri, 12/03/2021 - 10:13.

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The prescription app uses a smartphone or smart speaker to measure breathing.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Pandemic-era burnout, short-staffing has more nurses eyeing the door, survey says. dmuoio. Fri, 12/03/2021 - 14:22.

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Google is always now displaying languages spoken at provider offices.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Nordic Consulting, a global health and technology consulting company, announced today that it has acquired S&P Consultants, a healthcare IT consultancy with a 25-year track record and an industry-leading reputation for Cerner services, including 2021 Best in KLAS honors. S&P will become a Nordic global company – alongside Bails, Healthtech, and Tasman – collectively helping healthcare leaders navigate complexity and […].

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 3, 2021

What You Should Know: PE Firm Carlyle acquires CNSI, a provider of health information technology enterprise solutions from A&M Capital Partners. Global investment firm Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG) announced that affiliated funds managed by Carlyle have agreed to acquire CNSI from Alvarez & Marsal Capital Partners. CNSI provides innovative healthcare technology solutions for some of the most forward-thinking State and Federal clients.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 3, 2021

COVID-19 Continues to Fuel the Fire of America’s Opioid Epidemic. admin. Fri, 12/03/2021 - 14:18.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 3, 2021

What You Should Know: Nordic Consulting expands its Cerner footprint with the acquisition of health IT consulting firm, S&P Consultants. Nordic Consulting , a global health and technology consulting company has acquired S&P Consultants , a healthcare IT consulting firm with a strong focus on Cerner services. As part of the acquisition, S&P will become a Nordic global company – alongside Bails , Healthtech , and Tasman – collectively helping healthcare leaders navigate com

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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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Kaiser Health News

DECEMBER 3, 2021

After 23 years as a physician assistant, Leslie Clayton remains rankled by one facet of her vocation: its title. Specifically, the word “assistant.” Patients have asked if she’s heading to medical school or in the middle of it. The term confounded even her family, she said: It took years for her parents to understand she did more than take blood pressure and perform similar basic tasks. “There is an assumption that there has to be some sort of direct, hands-on oversight f

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 3, 2021

What You Should Know: South Carolina’s only comprehensive academic health sciences center deploys Notable’s intelligent automation platform to expand access to high-quality, equitable care. Notable , the leading intelligent automation company for healthcare, today announced an innovation partnership with The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC Health) to create a digital experience for patients throughout their care journey.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Approaching nearly two years into the pandemic, nearly one-half of Americans cite viruses and COVID-19 as the top health problem facing the U.S. In a Gallup poll published 30 November, COVID-19 (is) Still Widely Named as Biggest U.S. Health Problem , I added the “Is” to Gallup’s press release title because the proportion of people in America citing the coronavirus as the top health care problem facing the nation fell by about one-third — from 69% of health citizens to 47%

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