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Ethics Education in U.S. Medical Schools’ Curricula

Bill of Health

By Leah Pierson. I recently argued that we need to evaluate medical school ethics curricula. Here, I explore how ethics courses became a key component of medical education and what we do know about them. The rise of ethics education. Although ethics had been a recognized component of medical practice since Hippocrates’ time , ethics education is a more recent innovation.

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Florida health system sues bill-sharing ministry for non-payment

Healthcare Dive

Orlando Health accuses Liberty HealthShare, a faith-based medical cost-sharing organization, of telling patients to conceal their membership in the group to get charity rates for medical services.

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HIMSS22 EUROPE: ‘To change citizens’ health behaviour we need technology that creates delight’

Healthcare It News

Would you be more inclined to take the stairs if each step played a musical note or lie in the shade on the beach if it meant accessing free WIFI These are some of the innovative ways that technology and environmental design have been utilised worldwide to help citizens adopt healthier behaviour. The speakers were: Dr Kristina Curtis, senior behaviour change consultant and lecturer, UCL Centre for Behaviour Change, UK; Prof Agnès Buzyn, executive director, WHO Academy, France; Isabelle Ku

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Primary care reimagined: A virtual front door to healthcare

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Many healthcare consumers today are disconnecting from traditional primary care, since the current experience is not meeting consumers' expectations, some industry observers say. When consumers disengage, the promise of traditional primary care cannot be realized. The situation results in increased ER and urgent care usage, undiagnosed chronic conditions, unmet mental health needs, and other problems, they add.

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Optimizing Medical Waste Management: A Guide to Best Practices

Feeling overwhelmed by medical waste regulations? This comprehensive guide unravels the complexities of medical waste disposal, ensuring you stay compliant and prioritize safety. Inside you'll find: Clear categorization: Learn to precisely classify medical waste for proper handling and disposal. Labeling & Storage: Discover best practices for clear labeling and secure storage of medical waste.

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Medical School Curricula Should Reflect Disease Burden

Bill of Health

By Leah Pierson. Medical students spend a lot of time learning about conditions they will likely never treat. This weak relationship between what students are taught and what they will treat has negative implications for patient care. Recently, I looked into discrepancies between U.S. disease burden in 2016 and how often conditions are mentioned in the 2020 edition of First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 , an 832 page book sometimes referred to as the medical student’s bible.

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FTC hits UnitedHealth, LHC with another request for information on $5.4B buy

Healthcare Dive

Marrying LHC, which manages a sizable share of the home health market, with Optum, one of the biggest physician groups in the country, has raised regulators’ eyebrows.

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Cyberattacks Threaten Patients’ Lives In Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. In recent years, the global healthcare industry has been under heavy attack by cybercriminals. The sector stands in fourth place among the most targeted industries, and one-fifth of its spending is dedicated to cybersecurity. The […]. The article Cyberattacks Threaten Patients’ Lives In Healthcare appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Study Reveals One Third of Top 100 U.S. Hospitals are Sending Patient Data to Facebook

HIPAA Journal

An analysis of hospitals’ websites has revealed one-third of the top 100 hospitals in the United States are sending patient data to Facebook via a tracker called Meta Pixel, without apparently obtaining consent from patients. Meta Pixel is a snippet of JavaScript code that is used to track visitor activity on a website. According to Meta, “It works by loading a small library of functions which you can use whenever a site visitor takes an action (called an event) that you want to track (called a

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1K Los Angeles Kaiser nurses to go on strike

Healthcare Dive

The nurses are demanding measures they say will improve staffing conditions in new contracts, like the addition of more ancillary staff to ensure nurses are able to take adequate rest and meal breaks.

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Getting patients more engaged in their healthcare via technology

Healthcare It News

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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The Solution To Rising Healthcare Wait Times

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Rebecca Chi, chief client experience officer, AristaMD. Accessing specialty medical care shouldn’t be difficult, yet 27% of people in the U.S. wait one month or more to see healthcare specialists. A survey by AristaMD of […]. The article The Solution To Rising Healthcare Wait Times appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Has AI Finally Arrived in Healthcare? – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 90

Healthcare IT Today

For the 90th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re asking the question Has AI Finally Arrived in Healthcare? We’ve been hearing about the potential benefits of AI in healthcare for a long time. In this episode we dive into where we’re at when it comes to AI in healthcare. Is it still all a […] For the 90th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we're asking the question Has AI Finally Arrived in Healthcare?

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Most Medicare Advantage enrollees like their plans, survey finds

Healthcare Dive

As the program has soared in popularity, it has attracted the attention of federal investigators, including an HHS OIG report finding inappropriate prior authorization and claims denials.

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Building a seamless patient experience in the United Arab Emirates

Healthcare It News

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Patient experience: new perspectives on person-focused care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Feature More than ever before, healthcare organizations are working harder to prioritize the patient experience. From appointment booking to post-discharge follow-up, hospitals and health systems are striving to innovate and personalize the way people navigate their care journey. Mere "patient engagement" isn't enough anymore. Providers are embracing new technologies and digital tools to enable greater insights into what their customers want and need – and tailoring their eff

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Prior Auth, COVID Times, Health Startups – Fun Friday

Healthcare IT Today

Happy Friday everyone! We hope you’ve had a great week and are ready for an amazing weekend. We’re back again with another edition of Fun Friday where we hope to give you a laugh and make you smile as the perfect way to start the weekend. We’ve got some pretty good entries this week including […].

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Apple Watch monitoring features for AFib, Parkinson's cleared by FDA

Healthcare Dive

With the new feature, atrial fibrillation patients may have an easier way to track the frequency of the condition over time and see whether lifestyle changes may have positive effects.

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700,000 Patients Affected by Yuma Regional Medical Center Ransomware Attack

HIPAA Journal

Yuma Regional Medical Center (YRMC) in Arizona has announced it was the victim of a ransomware attack in April in which the attackers obtained the protected health information of approximately 700,000 current and former patients. According to the recent YRMC announcement, the attack was detected on April 25, 2022, which affected some of its IT systems.

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Everything You Wanted to Know About FACIS, but Didn’t Know to Ask

Speaker: Amy Anderson

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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HHS puts out new notice on audio-only telehealth and HIPAA

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has issued new guidance describing how HIPAA covered entities can use remote communication technologies to provide audio-only telehealth services. WHY IT MATTERS. The goal is to ensure such communications are conducted consistent with the applicable requirements of the HIPAA's Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules – especially when OCR's Notification of Enforcement Discretion for Telehealth e

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Cal/OSHA Proposes an All-Industry Workplace Violence Prevention Standard. Are You Ready?

OSHA Law Blog

It may come as a surprise to some, but Cal/OSHA’s workplace violence regulations currently apply only to the Health Care Industry. Cal/OSHA plans to change that. Right now, for non-healthcare industries, Cal/OSHA regulates workplace violence using the employer’s obligation to regularly identify and evaluate workplace hazards under Section 3203, California’s version of the general duty clause.

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HCA opening eighth nursing campus

Healthcare Dive

The new campus in North Carolina comes as health systems across the country deal with heightened turnover and staffing challenges spurred by the pandemic.

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Leading the Future of Healthcare Communication

Healthcare IT Today

When I look at the state of communication in healthcare, I can see that we’ve made a lot of progress. Certainly, there’s still plenty of work to be done, but the good news is that now we have electronic options when it comes to communicating healthcare data between organizations. This wasn’t really true even a […].

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Ensure Continuous Patient Care: How to Avoid Disruptions Due to Ransomware

The industry has seen an increasing pace of ransomware, zero-day, and remote-code execution attacks. Learn how to defend against these against these attacks in this eBook.

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Using PPC To Attract New Patients

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Pay per click (PPC) is a paid advertising strategy that can help your hospital or clinic generate more leads. It helps you reach your target market by placing ads in search engines like Google and […]. The article Using PPC To Attract New Patients appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Three Clinical Labs and Their Owner Charged with Medicaid Fraud and Kickbacks

Med-Net Compliance

Three independent clinical laboratories, their owner and holding company, an additional independent clinical laboratory and its owner, two laboratory marketing companies, and a Massachusetts physician have been charged in connection with Medicaid fraud, money laundering, and kickbacks involving urine drug tests?that caused over $2 million in false claims to the state, Attorney General Maura Healey announced.

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Expiration of healthcare subsidies will have domino effect, leading to higher prices and increased medical debt

Healthcare Dive

Millions of Americans will experience dramatic price increases, become uninsured and likely accrue medical debt, GetInsured’s Heather Korbulic argues.

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Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Shields Health Care Group Over 2 Million-Record Data Breach

HIPAA Journal

A class action lawsuit has been filed against Shields Health Care Group over its recently announced 2 million-record data breach – the largest healthcare data breach to be reported so far this year. Shields Health Care Group is the largest provider of MRI imaging services in New England and operates more than 40 facilities in the region. On May 27, 2022, the Massachusetts-based medical imaging service provider reported the data breach to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights and confirmed that an una

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Generative AI for Contracts Is Here: New Tools to Accelerate Drafting and Editing

The emergence of generative AI is reshaping the landscape of contract management, enabling businesses to generate and negotiate legal agreements with greater ease and speed. In this on-demand webinar, Hal Marcus, VP of Product Marketing at Evisort discusses how Evisort's generative AI transforms contract creation and negotiation, empowering legal teams to streamline processes while reducing risk.

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America’s Mental Health Crisis Simply Requires Better Mental Care

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. It’s no secret that America’s mental health is in crisis, with more than 7.5% of adult Americans reporting at least one depressive episode per year, according to Time Magazine. The mental health challenges for young […]. The article America’s Mental Health Crisis Simply Requires Better Mental Care appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Consumers Intend to Invest in Technology — With Budget and Value in Mind

Jane Sarashon

Consumers continued to invest in and use several technologies that supported self-care at home in 2021, with plans to purchase connected health devices, sports and fitness equipment in the next year. But these purchases will be made with greater attention to budget and value consumer mindsets firmly focused on (and stressed by) inflation. The 24th Annual Technology Ownership & Market Potential Study from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) tells us that Americans in 2022 will have to m

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Despite rosier trust fund outlook, time running out to stabilize Medicare funding, researchers warn

Healthcare Dive

Though it’s tempting to interpret the recent Medicare trustees report as good news, academics are arguing lawmakers can’t wait until hospital trust fund insolvency is imminent before taking action to bolster the program.

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Sesame Raises $27M to Expand Its National Healthcare Marketplace

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Sesame , the only company proven to lower the price of medical care for American consumers raises $27M in Series B financing to expand its national marketplace of high-quality, ultra-affordable medical care for all Americans, whether they are insured or not. – The round was led by GV (formerly Google Ventures) with participation from TeleSoft Partners and FMZ Ventures, alongside existing investors General Catalyst , Industry Ventures, Coefficient Capital, Giant Ventur

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.