Medisys Compliance

DECEMBER 27, 2022

In recent years, outsourcing has quickly expanded as a trend in the healthcare sector. The global medical outsourcing industry will reach $449.6 billion by 2023, predicts a 2019 market analysis. Despite the fact that many practices prefer the skill and knowledge of in-house staff to those of an outside stakeholder, the complex and constantly evolving healthcare environment makes it challenging for a small in-house team to properly keep on top of all the best practices for medical billing.

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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 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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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 27, 2022

By  Ameet Sarpatwari , Alexander Egilman , and   Aaron S. Kesselheim. Each month, members of the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) review the peer-reviewed medical literature to identify interesting empirical studies, policy analyses, and editorials on health law and policy issues. Below are the citations for papers identified from the month of November.

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MRO Compliance

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Follow the (Medical) Record: Leadership with Jason Brown. On this episode, host Don Hardwick interviews Jason Brown, CEO of MRO. They discuss Jason’s background, how his experiences lead to leadership, and a look back at his first year as CEO of MRO. HealthcareNOW Radio Podcast Network · Follow the (Medical) Record: Jason Brown, CEO of MRO.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 27, 2022

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 30, 2022

According to the study published in npj Digital Medicine, high scores for depressive symptoms and lower-than-excellent self-rated health were associated with less smartwatch use.

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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 28, 2022

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 27, 2022

COVID-19 transformed the delivery of care, making the use of telehealth tools highly beneficial – and a priority area for research. To further understand telehealth's impact in recent years and looking ahead, MedStar Health experts in connected care transformation and research are serving as co-principal investigators of two related Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) grant awards: Dr.

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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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Compliance Now

DECEMBER 30, 2022

By: Jessica Waltman, Principal, Forward Health Consulting. On December 23, 2022, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (CAA23) was signed into law. While this legislation does not include as many health provisions as the CAA of 2021, it does include the anticipated relief on telehealth coverage offered through qualified High Deductible Health Plans (HDHPs) that pair with Health Savings Accounts (HSAs).

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Plaintiffs in a consolidated class action lawsuit against Meta recently sought an injunction against Meta to stop the company from collecting and transmitting data collected from the websites of healthcare providers through Meta Pixel tracking code. The plaintiffs claim the use of Meta Pixel code on appointment scheduling pages and patient portals allows sensitive information, including patient communications, to be collected and monetized by Meta, which violates federal and state privacy laws.

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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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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Execs said investors will focus on companies with evidence of market fit, established business models and those achieving measurable health outcomes.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 28, 2022

XBB COVID variant presents a unique threat: study. fdiamond. Wed, 12/28/2022 - 11:11.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Morley Companies has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of individuals affected by a major data breach that occurred on or around August 1, 2022. A fund of $4.3 million has been created to cover claims from individuals affected by the data breach. On or around August 1, 2021, Morley Companies, a Saignaw, MI-based provider of business services, suffered a cyberattack in which hackers gained access to parts of its network.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Too often in talking about digital transformation, we only look to the future. Merely speculating as to how it will impact the world of healthcare once x gets developed. Too little do we take a look at the work that has already been done in this field to examine the impact it has already had. So that is what we will be doing today. We reached out to the Healthcare IT Community to hear their thoughts on the digital front door and how it has already transformed healthcare.

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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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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Ian Shakil, founder, director and chief strategy officer at Augmedix, discusses the company's role in the evolution of medical documentation.

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Medisys Compliance

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The financial security and expansion of your practice greatly relies on streamlined revenue cycle processes. Poor management of the healthcare revenue cycle results in decreased effective revenue collection and longer accounts receivable (AR) days. The core of revenue cycle management is accounts receivable since it helps you get paid more quickly, which leads to more profitable operations.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 30, 2022

A settlement has been proposed by Scripps Health to resolve a consolidated class action lawsuit – In Re: Scripps Health Data Incident Litigation – to resolve all claims related to its 2021 ransomware attack. In April 2021, Scripps Health suffered a ransomware attack that was reported to the Department of Health and Human Services as affecting 147,267 patients.

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HealthIT Answers

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Will we continue to make progress and implement initiatives that right the ship in 2023 when it comes to the population's health and equity of care? Here are some predictions from the industry. The post Population Health, Access, and Equity in 2023 appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Drug development platform Quris raised another $9 million, and PharmStars is accepting applications for its accelerator cohort focused on women's health and health equity.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Christa Schnider, Business Development Director, Jabil Healthcare. Lateral flow immunoassay tests (or LFTs, for short) have been in use for decades, becoming an indispensable tool within diagnostics’ (Dx) practice, as well as a growing range of applications outside healthcare. LFT’s capacity for delivering fast turnaround—rapid detection in less than 20 minutes—from sample to result has made LFTs central to the shift moving triage and primary care closer to the patient at point-of-care (PO

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Healthcare Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has issued a proposed rule which would amend the existing regulations for reporting and returning identified overpayments (the “Proposed Rule”). Specifically, with respect to the meaning of “identification” of overpayment, CMS proposes to eliminate the “reasonable diligence” (or traditional negligence) standard and replace it with the False Claims Act’s (“FCA’s”) standard of “knowing” and “knowingly” ( i.e. , reckless disregard or deliberate

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Southwest Louisiana Health Care System, Inc. has confirmed that the protected health information of up to 269,752 patients of Lake Charles Memorial Health System has been compromised. The Louisiana healthcare system said suspicious activity was detected by its security team on October 21, 2022, and steps were taken to contain the activity and investigate a potential breach.

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Although investment slowed for startups, leaders noted several big deals in digital health, particularly among retail players.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 28, 2022

What You Should Know: – Rising to meet the formidable challenge of the timely diagnosis of dementia, research scientists from Regenstrief Institute , IUPUI and the medical schools of Indiana University and the University of Miami are conducting the Digital Detection of Dementia study, a real-world evaluation of the use of an artificial intelligence (AI) tool they developed for early identification of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias in primary care, the setting where most adults r

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 28, 2022

ACA exchange enrollment continues at record pace, nears 11.5M through mid-December. pminemyer. Wed, 12/28/2022 - 11:48.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The healthcare and public health (HPH) sector has been warned about the risk of cyberattacks by a pro-Russian hacktivist group dubbed KillNet, following a recent attack on a U.S. healthcare organization. KillNet is believed to have started operating around the time that Russia invaded Ukraine, between January and March 2022. Since then, the hacktivist group has targeted government institutions and private sector organizations in countries that are providing support to Ukraine, especially NATO co

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