Bill of Health
JULY 18, 2022
By James Toomey. In my paper Narrative Capacity (recently published in the North Carolina Law Review ), I argue, among other things, that the legal system’s recognition of personal decision-making should be a function of personal identity, not (as it currently is) of an individual’s momentary cognitive functioning. One of the arguments on this score is as follows.
Healthcare Dive
JULY 11, 2022
Saying the medicine’s high cost “epitomizes market failures,” California’s governor announced a $100 million budget to create a production facility and develop affordable insulin products.
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Healthcare It News
JULY 18, 2022
While interoperability and price transparency rules are supporting a movement toward better access to data, the industry is still struggling to transition from sharing information to shared decision-making. Unfortunately, without accurate information embedded in their workflows, providers can’t have meaningful conversations with patients about care costs or covered options, which negatively impacts a patient’s ability to access care.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 5, 2022
St. Luke's University Health Network realized it needed technology that could help expand care across its 14 hospitals throughout Eastern Pennsylvania and Western New Jersey spanning both urban and rural areas. THE PROBLEM. The organization was looking for a way to not only expand network coverage but also to reduce time to consult. It also wanted to expand access to care whenever patients needed it, which St.
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Health Populi
JULY 26, 2022
Today we review the various viewpoints on Amazon’s announced acquisition of One Medical (ONEM, aka 1life Healthcare) which has been a huge story in both health care trade publications, business news, and mainstream media outlets. Welcome to Day 2 of The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S., my week-long update of the American retail health/care ecosystem weaving the latest updates from the market and implications and import for health care consumers.
Health Care Compliance Brief brings together the best content for health law & compliance professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Bill of Health
JULY 21, 2022
By Carmel Shachar. Since June 24, 2022, I have spent a lot of time thinking through the post- Roe legal and ethical landscape, both publicly and privately. Very often, the discussion is centered about the impact that Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization will have on patients whose health or lives are threatened by their pregnancies — such as people with ectopic pregnancies, missed miscarriages with a high risk of sepsis, and preeclampsia — and the physicians who care for them.
Healthcare Dive
JULY 25, 2022
The deal’s near-term ramifications are unlikely to be monumental. But what it represents should be concerning for One Medical’s primary care competitors and larger entities looking to capture a greater slice of the healthcare market.
Healthcare It News
JULY 12, 2022
Health inequity is the result of the behavior of people. It is not the result of anything natural. It involves structural inequalities in the delivery of care – inequalities that are avoidable. Trying to correct health inequity is part of the job for Toni Land, head of clinical healthcare experience at Medallia, a patient and customer experience management company.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 13, 2022
Marshfield Clinic Health System is partnering with DispatchHealth to bring its rural patients in-home medical care. WHY IT MATTERS. Marshfield serves a population in Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula with more than 60 Marshfield Clinic locations and 11 hospitals. With this new collaboration, it will expand access to its patients in rural communities in their homes.
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Health Populi
JULY 14, 2022
People whose sense of well-being shifted positively in the past two years are finding greater personal purpose and financial health, we see in Sharecare’s Community Well-Being Index – 2021 State Rankings Report. Sharecare has been annually tracking well-being across the 50 U.S. states since 2008. When the study launched, Well-Being Index evaluated five domains: physical, social, community, purpose, and financial.
HIPAA Journal
JULY 29, 2022
SonicWall has released a mid-year update to its 2022 Cyber Threat Report , which highlights the global cyberattack trends in H1 2022. The data for the report was collected from more than 1.1 million global sensors in 215 countries and shows a global fall in ransomware attacks, with notable increases in malware attacks for the first time in 3 years. Ransomware.
Healthcare IT Today
JULY 18, 2022
In this weekend’s Bonus Features (Aren’t Bonus Features great?!), you may have seen that Brian mentioned that Rhinogram has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for their secure communication platform for healthcare. Given the Rhinogram has been around for a long time, is used in 750 locations and across 50 different healthcare specialties, you may wonder why they chose to go the crowdfunding route.
Healthcare Dive
JULY 12, 2022
This year’s trajectory suggests overall funding will fall significantly short of last year’s, as investor confidence is shaken by global conflict and inflation concerns, according to a Rock Health report.
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Explore essential topics in this ebook, including what constitutes PHI and how to identify it using 18 indicators. Gain insights into the importance of safeguarding PHI to protect patient privacy and learn about the severe consequences of HIPAA violations. Discover practical strategies for securely exchanging PHI within your healthcare organization, including assessing risks and implementing effective safeguards.
Healthcare It News
JULY 18, 2022
The HHS Office for Civil Rights on Friday said it has settled nearly a dozen investigations of allegations of HIPAA Right of Access Initiative violations. WHY IT MATTERS. OCR's enforcement actions, which include some substantial monetary penalties for the following healthcare providers, and compelled them to furnish patients with timely copies of their health records: Peoria and Canton, Illinois-based ACPM Podiatry , failed to provide a former patient with his requested medical records, acco
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 18, 2022
The telemedicine program of the Charlottesville-based University of Virginia Health System was established in 1995 to enhance timely patient access to healthcare services, particularly for patients in rural regions of the Commonwealth of Virginia. With funding support from a broad range of federal agencies – Department of Commerce, HRSA, USDA and FCC – the health system has worked with more than 150 community hospitals, clinics, medical practices, schools and other healthcare entitie
Mobi Health News
JULY 18, 2022
The toolkits are based on the Digital Medicine Society's Sensor Data Integrations project, which includes organizations like Amazon Web Services, Oracle, the Moffitt Cancer Center, Takeda and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
HIPAA Journal
JULY 7, 2022
A joint security alert has been issued to the healthcare and public health sector by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Department of the Treasury warning about the threat of Maui ransomware attacks. Since May 2021, North Korean state-sponsored cyber actors have been targeting organizations in the U.S. healthcare and public health sector and have been encrypting servers that support electronic medical record systems and dia
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Healthcare IT Today
JULY 7, 2022
The following is a guest article by Linda Comp-Noto, Division President, Healthcare Enterprise Operations at Teleperformance. Digital transformation continues to dominate the headlines. Digitizing content helps companies across almost every industry increase efficiency, improve workflow, reduce costs, and raise productivity. For the healthcare industry – an industry that is conservative by nature – undergoing a transformation presents an opportunity to implement digital strategies across the boa
Healthcare Dive
JULY 18, 2022
HHS cited Oklahoma State University Center for Health Services for multiple HIPAA violations, including failure to disclose in a timely manner that patient data had been compromised.
Healthcare It News
JULY 15, 2022
The avenues of artificial intelligence and machine learning research are expanding widely and rapidly. Meta says it plans to tailor its AI explorations by analyzing the structures and networks of the human brain , hoping to map better deep learning algorithms by patterning them on the neural activities of real human cells. Over at Google, meanwhile, one of its top engineers says he's convinced a chatbot he worked with has achieved human-like sentience.
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
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Health Populi
JULY 20, 2022
How much do I love this media campaign from Walgreens , collaborating with the foursome The Old Gays who have a growing multi-million person fan base on TikTok? How much? A whole lot! Kudos to Walgreens for creating engaging, informative, and fun! content to learn about how people can benefit from using the company’s app … for, Ordering prescriptions (90-day supply).
HIPAA Journal
JULY 25, 2022
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) has issued guidance to help healthcare organizations protect against web application attacks. Web applications have grown in popularity in healthcare in recent years and are used for patient portals, electronic medical record systems, scheduling appointments, accessing test results, patient monitoring, online pharmacies, dental CAD systems, inventory management, and more.
Healthcare IT Today
JULY 12, 2022
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 7/15 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Dr. Melissa Urrea from @naviHealthPAC on the topic “ Addressing Social Determinants of Health in the Senior Population. ”. In this week’s #HITsm chat, naviHealth Executive Medical Director Dr.
Healthcare Dive
JULY 21, 2022
The all-cash deal for San Francisco-based One Medical comes after months of speculation about a potential acquisition, but Amazon as the buyer comes as a surprise.
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