Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

BOSTON – Anita Allen, professor of law and philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, kicked off the 2022 HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum on Monday, with a nuanced and thought-provoking discussion on patient privacy in an era of widespread data sharing. Allen said ahead of the conference that she wanted to bring her expertise in law and bioethics to bear on problems of great concern to healthcare and technology and would focus her discussion on data exchange and patient privacy.

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Healthcare Dive

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The submission for permanent COVID-19 safety standards comes after temporary pandemic requirements for medical facilities were withdrawn last December.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 31, 2022

HIPAA requires covered entities to provide training to staff to ensure HIPAA Rules and regulations are understood. During HIPAA training, healthcare employees should be aware of the possible penalties for HIPAA violations, but what are those penalties, and what happens if you break HIPAA Rules? What Happens if You Break HIPAA Rules? If you break HIPAA Rules there are four potential outcomes: The violation could be dealt with internally by an employer.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 5, 2022

By Terri Gerstein. Consider the quiet car. Some Amtrak trains have a designated car for people who want a hushed environment in which to work, read, or sleep. Passengers who want quiet choose the quiet car. People who don’t want quiet sit elsewhere. In short: people want different options for travel, and Amtrak threads the needle, accommodating varying needs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Health equity and technological innovation are top priorities for the healthcare industry – with new standards, technology and policy driving the way. Despite innovations, a new study from the Yale School of Public Health finds the nation is losing ground on access to healthcare, with more barriers now than 20 years ago. Dan Brillman, CEO of Unite Us, and Melissa Sherry, vice president of social care integration at Unite Us, offer Healthcare IT News readers insights into how these and othe

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 30, 2022

While Healthcare IT News readers have had a lot to focus on this year with cybersecurity imperatives and AI innovations, they also were very interested in new product launches, new regulator approvals, acquisitions and selloffs – including one of the most significant health IT M&A deals yet. But the top most-read story of the year had to do with a challenge nearly every healthcare organization is facing: clinician burnout, and how to help address it.

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Healthcare Dive

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The vaccines also reduced infections and hospitalizations, which freed up hospital resources, researchers at the Commonwealth Fund and Yale School of Public Health concluded.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 31, 2022

To best answer the question what is a HIPAA violation, it is necessary to explain what HIPAA is, who it applies to, and what constitutes a violation; for although most people believe they know what a HIPAA compliance violation is, evidence suggests otherwise. The evidence that there may be a misunderstanding about what a HIPAA violation is comes from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Enforcement Highlights web page.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 2, 2022

By Donrich Thaldar. South Africans have issued a clarion call for research to move ahead on health-related applications of heritable human genome editing (HHGE), finds my research group’s new public engagement study — the first of its kind in Africa. The study engaged a diverse group of 30 South Africans in three evenings of deliberations on the governance of HHGE.

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85% of practices are not complying with the government’s HIPAA standards. The large majority of practices are likely trying to protect patients’ information, but they may not be doing all that they need to meet government requirements. Not complying with HIPAA has definite drawbacks, with one major one being massive fines. The government can fine up to 1.5 million dollars for a single HIPAA breach incident - an amount that would put most small practices out of business.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Mount Sinai Health System, based in New York City, has been having a problem with digital health inequities. THE PROBLEM. In a report examining New York's digital divide based on 2019 American Community Survey data, several key data points were established that continue to describe households in the communities Mount Sinai serves today.: Almost 25% of New Yorkers lacked the infrastructure for basic internet connectivity to see their healthcare clinicians, and approximately 1.6 million did no

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Elena Viboch, partner at General Catalyst, discusses her predictions for biotech and health tech investing and how startups can grow in a more constrained economic environment.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a bulletin to highlight the obligations on covered entities and business associates under HIPAA's Privacy, Security and Breach Notification Rules when using online tracking technologies. These tracking tools have caused a number of patient data security concerns and there are several class-action lawsuits, creating a new challenge for healthcare organizations.

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Healthcare Dive

DECEMBER 12, 2022

At least 10 organizations with records of healthcare fraud and abuse prior to 2021 participated in the direct contracting program last year despite CMS screening requirements, the letter said.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Becoming patient centric in your organization isn’t something that you can do all at once. It’s a slow process that requires you to think about the patient experience in every single aspect of your organization. This is especially important when you are establishing new practices in your organization, such as when you’re integrating digital transformation.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 29, 2022

By Chloe Reichel. As 2022 draws to a close, we’re looking back at the top ten most-read articles published on Bill of Health this year. Browse the list below. 10. Microdosing at Work: Business and Legal Implications. 9. What Macrodosing Can Learn from Microdosing. 8. Negotiating Masks in the Workplace: When the ADA Does and Does Not Apply. 7. The Mask-Optional DEI Initiative. 6.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Recent statistics show more than 20% of healthcare costs resulting from emergency department utilization, hospitalizations and hospital readmissions can be attributed to just 1% of patients. THE PROBLEM. In 2017, University of Virginia Health's 30-day readmission rate for patients with complex and costly medical conditions was as high as 17% to 18% per year.

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NEJM

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Though unable to swallow safely after aspiration pneumonia, Uncle David, whose developmental disability included intractable seizures, was discharged with no nutritional support — a decision steeped in unwitting ableism.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are key to unlocking patient data and solving some of healthcare's most complex problems. Even as the U.S. seeks to put the COVID-19 pandemic in the rearview mirror, many who survive the initial illness suffer debilitating long-term health impacts, especially those with underlying health conditions. Technology allows easier access to disparate data sources without compromising data privacy or integrity.

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Healthcare Dive

DECEMBER 21, 2022

A federal judge tested the government’s defense concerning a rule designed to help third parties resolve payment disputes between healthcare providers and insurers.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 24, 2022

Penalties for HIPAA violations can be issued by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and state attorneys general. In addition to financial penalties, covered entities are required to adopt a corrective action plan to bring policies and procedures up to the standards demanded by HIPAA. . The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 placed a number of requirements on HIPAA-covered entities to safeguard the Protected Health Information

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Sanjula Jain, senior vice president of market strategy and chief research officer at Trilliant Health, discusses the future of virtual care and how emerging retail players will affect the industry.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2022

From the distant past of the 1990s up to just a few years ago, many healthcare technologists have predicted that telemedicine would make it into the mainstream of healthcare delivery. Well, today, thanks to many factors surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine has finally made it into the mainstream. And now that it is being so robustly used across the country, the big question is: What's next?

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 29, 2022

A lot of public health depends on measuring proxies for health, such as checking the level of COVID-19 in waste water as a cheap, accurate and (importantly) privacy-preserving way to determine how widespread the disease is in a municipality. Recently, Poppy Health has created a clever technology to determine how well buildings are protecting people from air-borne diseases.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 30, 2022

While occupational burnout among clinicians is higher relative to the U.S. workforce, the American Medical Association and its research partners have been monitoring career disengagement through the pandemic, which it says is at an all-time high. But last year, AMA recognized Children’s Primary Care Medical Group in San Diego, among 44 health systems cited for emphasizing professional well-being, for implementing a peer-support program and a well-being committee to address burnout.

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Healthcare Dive

DECEMBER 21, 2022

It’s the latest deal in a string of settlements to resolve allegations the nation’s largest Medicaid managed care organization overcharged states for pharmacy services.

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