May, 2025

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Beyond Compliance: The Importance of Medical Device Verification

Dot Compliance

Medical device verification is a critical process that ensures medical products meet their intended use, quality requirements, and safety standards before reaching the market. In an industry where patient safety is the highest priority, verification acts as a safeguard, thoroughly examining the device’s design, materials, manufacturing processes, and performance.

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Transforming Care Delivery: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Virtual Care

HIT Consultant

Karie Ryan, Chief Nursing Officer at Artisight As healthcare organizations increasingly adopt virtual care technologies, many focus primarily on virtual nursing or physician specialty consultations. However, this narrow view overlooks a crucial opportunity: leveraging virtual platforms across all clinical disciplines to enhance care coordination, improve efficiency, and better serve patients.

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Why AI Voice is Finally Making Noise in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Zain Qayyum, Founder and Co-CEO at Medsender In most industries, the fax machine is considered obsolete technology. In healthcare, however, youll find some medical practices clinging to it. Thats because data doesnt get more personal than protected health information (PHI), and violations for failing to comply with the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) can be financially and reputationally devastating.

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Urgent Care Billing Companies: Choosing Right Billing Partner

Medisys Compliance

In todays healthcare landscape, urgent care centers have emerged as vital community resources, offering timely, cost-effective, and walk-in care for non-life-threatening conditions. But while providers focus on patient care, the complexity of medical billing for urgent care continues to grow. This is where experienced urgent care billing companies step in to make a real difference.

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How to Turn “Check-the-Box” Compliance Trainings Into Real Learning

Speaker: Brian Richardson, Brian Richardson, Founder and CEO of Richardson Consulting Group

Let’s face it—most ethics and compliance training programs aren’t winning awards for engagement. But that doesn’t mean they can’t be effective, captivating, and maybe even enjoyable! Join learning design expert Brian Richardson for a dynamic session on how to breathe new life into your ethics and compliance training. We'll explore innovative strategies to bring traditionally dry topics to life, making them resonate with learners and drive tangible change.

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Mastering Pathology Billing: What Every Lab Owner Needs to Know

Medisys Compliance

In the world of healthcare, pathology plays a critical role in diagnosis, disease monitoring, and guiding treatment decisions. Yet, when it comes to pathology billing, even seasoned providers often find themselves navigating a maze of complexities, denials, and underpayments. Whether you’re a solo pathologist, a multi-specialty lab owner, or a practice manager overseeing daily operations, understanding the minor details of pathology billing is essential to keep your revenue cycle healthy.

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House passes reconciliation bill with massive Medicaid cuts

Healthcare Dive

Speaker Mike Johnson negotiated a number of last-minute changes to the megabill to ensure passage, including moving up the start date for Medicaid work requirements. The House passed the bill 215-214 on Thursday morning.

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Whose Child Is She? The Genetics–Gestation Divide

Bill of Health

Reproductive Technology Whose Child Is She? The GeneticsGestation Divide On May 11, the Israeli Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited ruling in the case known as the Assuta Embryo Mix-Up. The case has drawn widespread attention in Israel and abroad not just because of its heartbreaking facts, but because it forces courts to answer a question that reproductive technology has now raised in… Published May 28, 2025 Authors Shelly Simana Vardit Ravitsky I.

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How can telemedicine better serve the unique needs of women's behavioral health?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Women have some special needs when it comes to behavioral health – for example, maternal mental healthcare. But they face the same challenges as men in finding mental health caregivers during a crisis situation of big demand and little supply. Just like with access to other specialty caregivers across the spectrum, patients can find the solution to their mental healthcare challenges via virtual care.

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The Sleeper Provision in the Reconciliation Bill That Could Hobble the ACA Marketplaces

Center for Health Insurance Reform

An obscure provision in the U.S. House reconciliation bill could have major consequences for the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces. In a guest post for CHIRblog, the Urban Institute's Jason Levitis and Brookings' Visiting Fellow Christen Linke-Young dig into how this provision could radically change people's ability to access and maintain affordable health insurance.

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The Essential Guide to Secure Messaging in Healthcare

Discover everything healthcare providers need to know about secure messaging. Covering essential topics like HIPAA compliance, communication efficiency, and patient privacy protection, this resource is indispensable for professionals, caregivers, and administrative staff alike.📱 💬 Whether managing sensitive patient data, coordinating care teams, or streamlining workflows, discover actionable insights to implement secure messaging solutions effectively.

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Building a Clinical Data Registry That Delivers: A Guide to Registry Value

MRO Compliance

Looking to launch or optimize yourclinical registry? Our interactive guide helps medical specialty societies overcome common challengeslike poor interoperability, low engagement, and unclear goalsto design (or redesign) high-impact clinical registries that deliver real-world value. Learn how to define your registrys purpose, improve data accuracy with FHIR/API integration, and boost clinician and patient participation.

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SMC Telogorejo Hospital sees improved patient satisfaction with EMRAM Stage 6

Healthcare It News

Semarang Medical Center (SMC) Telogorejo Hospital in Central Java, Indonesia, has been validated for Stage 6 of the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model. The eight-stage model gauges an organisation's maturity in its EMR capabilities. A journey that started with an app The 285-bed private hospital began its digital transformation in 2017 with the launch of its mobile application, MySMC.

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House Republicans unveil Medicaid cuts including work requirement, provider tax freeze

Healthcare Dive

The House Energy and Commerce Committee is backing more moderate reforms to Medicaid. But Republicans’ policy proposals would still result in millions of Americans losing health insurance.

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Mind the Gap: Regulating Neurotechnologies in the Consumer Age

Bill of Health

Artificial Intelligence Mind the Gap: Regulating Neurotechnologies in the Consumer Age Developments in neurotechnologies, which interface with ones nervous system to monitor, stimulate, or modulate neural activity in the brain, are progressing at a rapid rate. Published May 27, 2025 Author Hannah Louise Smith Share Share on LinkedIn Share on X Share on Facebook Share on Reddit Developments in neurotechnologies , which interface with ones nervous system to monitor, stimulate, or modulate neural a

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Bridging Innovation & Patient Care: The Growing Role of AI

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Co-founder & CEO at Tattva.Health

AI is transforming clinical trials—accelerating drug discovery, optimizing patient recruitment, and improving data analysis. But its impact goes far beyond research. As AI-driven innovation reshapes the clinical trial process, it’s also influencing broader healthcare trends, from personalized medicine to patient outcomes. Join this new webinar featuring Simran Kaur for an insightful discussion on what all of this means for the future of healthcare!

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Virtual nursing at Hackensack Meridian Health is making nurses and patients happy

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Hackensack Meridian Health has made a conscious effort to identify ways to streamline administrative tasks for its bedside teams, minimizing non-clinical burdens for frontline staff. That's why the New Jersey health system decided to enhance its nursing staff with a virtual nursing program. The work of virtual nursing staff decreases the documentation currently completed by bedside nurses and allows for increased direct care interaction.

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OpenAI unveils HealthBench to evaluate LLMs safety in healthcare

Mobi Health News

The offering measures AI's real-world performance and safety around handling realistic medical conversations, using physician-created rubrics and GPT-4.1 scoring.

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The Payer Journey: Understanding Health Plans and the Importance of Data Collection

MRO Compliance

In the healthcare ecosystem, a payer is any entity such as a private insurer or government program, that finances or reimburses the cost of health services. Health plans, offered by these payers, provide specific coverage for various medical needs. These plans may be administered by private insurers, or government programs. Each health plan comes with distinct data collection requirements, which are essential for accurate risk adjustment and sustainable payment models.

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New AI-powered smart robots deployed at Mackay Memorial Hospital

Healthcare It News

New smart robots supporting logistics, safety, and patient experience have been unveiled at MacKay Memorial Hospital in Taiwan. The 1,200-bed private Christian hospital in Taipei has collaborated with cloud and AI technology provider Ubitus to develop three robots powered by NVIDIA technology: An NVIDIA ACE virtual assistant-powered robot that provides hospital registration assistance, companionship, and navigation to patients.

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HIPAA Compliance 2025: Navigating Regulatory Changes & Industry Trends

Based on comprehensive survey data from diverse healthcare providers, the 2025 HIPAA Benchmark Report delivers actionable intelligence for modern compliance programs. This report examines how organizations are restructuring HIPAA Privacy Programs to address emerging regulatory requirements. Through analysis of staffing models, program operations, and breach management protocols, it provides a clear picture of current best practices.

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UnitedHealth downgraded by investment banks

Healthcare Dive

TD Cowen, Raymond James and Bank of America have all downgraded UnitedHealth’s stock, citing dogged internal challenges facing the company.

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Telehealth: An Essential Bridge to Healthcare Equity for Rural Communities

HIT Consultant

Zia Khan, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Privia Medical Group-Georgia Rural America faces a unique set of healthcare challenges. While 20% of Americans live in rural communities , only 10% of physicians practice in those areas, leading to shortages that drastically limit access to care. With the United States expecting to face a shortage of up to 86,000 physicians over the next decade and over half of the rural physician workforce already over the age of 55 , these gaps are at risk of worsening over

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Function Health Acquires Ezra, Introduces $499 Full-Body MRI Scan

Healthcare IT Today

This Historic Acquisition Reduces Barriers that Prevent People from Taking Control of Their Lifelong Health; Full Body MRI Scan Now Takes just 22 Minutes Instead of 60 Minutes, Costs $499 Instead of Over $1,500 Function Health has acquired Ezra and is launching a Full Body MRI with an FDA-cleared AI that cuts scan time from 60 minutes to 22 minutes, and $1500 to $499.

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Microsoft adds Elon Musk's Grok 3 to Azure, citing healthcare and science use cases

Mobi Health News

The tech giant will offer access to the LLM for enterprise use as regulatory scrutiny mounts over the models data practices and medical diagnostic claims.

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Simplify Screening for Excluded Providers

Every health care provider that accepts federal payments must screen for excluded providers. Use this sample Exclusion Screening Checklist and Compliance Policy to evaluate and improve your organization’s compliance with the law. Payments from Medicare, Medicaid, and TriCare trigger screening requirements that may extend to employees, contractors, volunteers, board members, and network providers.

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Capitol Hill Briefing: Health Data Privacy 101 with the Healthcare Trust Institute and MRO

MRO Compliance

On April 24, 2025, the Healthcare Trust Institute (HTI) hosted a Capitol Hill briefing titled “Health Data Privacy101,” with insightful contributions from MROs own Anthony Murray, chief interoperability officer. With a need for a federal data privacy law, the session focused on the critical need for updating health data policies to better protect personal health information (PHI) and ensure compliance within the evolving digital ecosystem.

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Discovery Behavioral Health boosts care and revenue with patient engagement efforts

Healthcare It News

Discovery Behavioral Health, which operates 130 residential and outpatient treatment programs nationwide , was focused on delivering exceptional in-facility care while seeking innovative ways to enhance its post-discharge patient engagement. THE CHALLENGE With hundreds of patients completing treatment monthly, staff recognized an opportunity to strengthen follow-up capabilities.

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Medicaid cuts could have ‘drastic impact’ on providers

Healthcare Dive

Some providers may need to reduce services, lay off staff or close their doors if Congress enacts major cuts to the safety-net insurance program, experts say.

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Kinetik CEO Sufian Chowdhury on Fighting NEMT Fraud & Waste

HIT Consultant

Sufian Chowdhury, Co-Founder and CEO of Kinetik Non-Emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT) provides a critical lifeline for millions of Medicaid recipients across the United States, ensuring access to vital medical care. However, this essential service operates within a highly fragmented landscape, often relying on antiquated technology or manual processes, making it susceptible to significant fraud, waste, and abuse a long-standing challenge nationwide.

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Navigating Payroll Compliance: Future-Proofing Payroll in an Evolving Regulatory Landscape

Speaker: Jennifer Hill

Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.