Healthcare Dive
APRIL 29, 2022
The report calls for improved oversight of MA and urges the CMS to update audit protocols and issue new guidance on medical necessity reviews performed by the plans.
Healthcare It News
APRIL 25, 2022
A survey conducted by the American Medical Association found that the vast majority of physician respondents say they're currently using telehealth – and many of those reporting a decrease say they're providing a mix of virtual and in-person care. The survey, which was conducted online in late 2021, explored the variations in telehealth use among 2,232 physicians.
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Bill of Health
APRIL 27, 2022
(Photo: Sign at the central train station in Berlin (Berlin Hauptbahnhof) that offers free support for pet owners coming from Ukraine. Courtesy of Kristin Sandvik.). By Kristin Bergtora Sandvik. Introduction. The care for animals rapidly became a part of the humanitarian narrative of the attack on Ukraine. There are countless accounts of the efforts of activists, shelters and zoo staff to keep animals alive, as well as underground operations to get them to safety.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 25, 2022
Behavioral Nutrition is a holistic eating disorder outpatient clinic that treats adolescents and adults using behavioral therapy and nutritional counseling. The clinic has five locations spread out among Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Florida, New Jersey and Texas. THE PROBLEM. The provider organization had four main challenges: The clinical team was looking to provide convenient nutritional support to patients who needed help but were deterred from scheduling a session due to being located sever
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Healthcare Dive
APRIL 27, 2022
Improving affordability, providing virtual care and boosting mental health offerings will be top priorities for U.S. employers over the next two years, according to a Willis Towers Watson report.
Healthcare It News
APRIL 28, 2022
Cost is a major determining factor for patients deciding whether to pick up prescriptions from the pharmacy. When medications are too expensive, patients may abandon them, regardless of how important they are to their health. THE PROBLEM. The impact of non-adherence is dire in terms of patient outcomes, with up to 125,000 avoidable deaths attributed to non-adherence every year, according to a New England Journal of Medicine study.
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MRO Compliance
APRIL 29, 2022
Follow the (Medical) Record: Elliott Noble-Holt and MediCopy. Host Don Hardwick interviews Elliott Noble-Holt, founder and CEO of MediCopy, now an MRO Company. Elliot talks about his journey to becoming an entrepreneur and founding MediCopy, as well as summarizing his new book, Bald Bearded Boss. HealthcareNOW Radio Podcast Network · Follow the (Medical) Record: Elliott Noble-Holt, founder and CEO of MediCopy.
Healthcare Dive
APRIL 25, 2022
The Department of Justice intends to appeal a ruling siding with the Texas Medical Association, saying arbiters should not weigh any factor more heavily than others when resolving payment disputes between payers and providers.
Healthcare It News
APRIL 27, 2022
Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed
Bill of Health
APRIL 25, 2022
By? Ameet Sarpatwari , Alexander Egilman , Aviva Wang, 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 March.
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Jane Sarashon
APRIL 26, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted patients who were already deeply engaged with their own health care before the coronavirus emerged. Compared with a year ago, more patients and their advocates are seeking quality therapies, innovation, engagement, and integrity from pharmaceutical companies, based on research published today from PatientView. PatientView, based in the UK, has collaborated with over 40,000 patient advocacy organizations globally marking over 10 years doing this research.
Healthcare Dive
APRIL 27, 2022
Whether or not telehealth visits result in duplicative care — a hot topic on the Hill as Congress debates future telemedicine regulation — could depend on if users have acute or chronic conditions, according to new research.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 29, 2022
A study of 40.7 million commercially insured adults in the United States who sought care via telehealth found contrasting patterns of follow-up care between those with chronic conditions and those with acute clinical conditions. The research, which was published this week in JAMA Network Open , assessed outcomes of care two weeks after patients' initial ambulatory encounters.
Bill of Health
APRIL 26, 2022
By James R. Jolin. To navigate the myriad interests and stakes involved in creating federal psychedelic policy, the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School convened a virtual panel discussion with three leading psychedelic policy advocates. The conversation was situated against the backdrop of the “psychedelics renaissance” in the United States, which has been fueled by a wave of local and state legislation reducing or eliminating the criminal
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HIPAA Journal
APRIL 25, 2022
Healthcare data breaches are occurring in record numbers, but not all privacy and security threats come from outside the organization. The Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HCC) has recently issued a warning about the threat from within. Insider Threats in Healthcare. Nation-state hacking groups, cybercriminal gangs, and lone hackers have long targeted the healthcare industry, but there is also a significant threat of data breaches due to i
Healthcare Dive
APRIL 27, 2022
In the latest open-ended strike, nurse demands for new contracts focus heavily on recruitment and retention of staff amid nationwide labor shortages.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 29, 2022
Renton, Washington-based Providence knew healthcare was becoming more consumer-driven and believed that meant digital needed to play a role in how care was accessed and delivered. THE PROBLEM. But, like many health systems, Providence needed to dramatically evolve its digital capabilities to not just meet but exceed customers' expectations of accessing care where and when they needed it.
Total HIPAA
APRIL 25, 2022
For organizations that deal with sensitive client or employee information, (e.g., Medical Practices, Employer Groups, Business Associates, and Business Associate Subcontractors) developing a robust security plan is a necessary investment when it comes to data protection. Building a security program that can ensure the safety of information at rest, in transit, and in storage should be a top priority.
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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.
Health Populi
APRIL 27, 2022
“It’s hard to be healthy in the U.S. today.” That is the underlying premise and reason for The Building H Index. Health happens outside of doctors’ offices and hospital operating rooms. Health is made in our homes, in our communities, in our daily lives as we go about working, playing, learning, and praying. Too often, in those daily life-flows, making a healthy decision is harder than defaulting to a less-healthy one.
Healthcare Dive
APRIL 29, 2022
Bristol Myers paid $13 billion to acquire the drug's maker, MyoKardia, and expects it to become a blockbuster. But a tricky dosing regimen, as well as safety concerns, could challenge the pharmaceutical giant's lofty forecast.
HIPAA Journal
APRIL 27, 2022
The American Dental Association (ADA) suffered a cyberattack on Friday and has been forced to take many of its systems offline. The ADA website is currently available and explains that “The ADA is experiencing technical difficulties,” and that work is underway to get its systems running smoothly. While the website does not provide any further information on the cause of the technical difficulties, emails have been sent to ADA members advising them about the cyberattack.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 28, 2022
What You Should Know: – Komodo Health , a company delivering patient-level insights by dynamically analyzing the broadest array of data across patients, practitioners, and health systems. today announced a new partnership with AppliedVR , the leader in therapeutic virtual reality (VR) for pain management. – Using Komodo’s technology, AppliedVR will combine its proprietary insights with Komodo’s real-world data to conduct clinical research into the efficacy, cost savings, and health s
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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.
Compliancy Group
APRIL 27, 2022
In April of 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)’ Office of Information Security issued a 27-page publication, entitled “Insider Threats in Healthcare.” The publication covers a significant trend in cybersecurity: More and more, healthcare organization data breaches are being caused by internal (employee) action as opposed to actions from outside third parties.
Healthcare Dive
APRIL 25, 2022
New data from the nonprofit reiterates the explosive growth in telemedicine in the first year of the pandemic when other medical sites scaled back services.
HIPAA Journal
APRIL 28, 2022
Irvine, CA-based Smile Brands, a provider of support services for dental offices, has recently provided an update on the number of individuals affected by a ransomware attack that was discovered on April 24, 2021. The attackers gained access to parts of its system on April 23, 2021, that housed files that contained individuals protected health information, including names, addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, financial information, government-issued ID numbers,
HIT Consultant
APRIL 28, 2022
What You Should Know: – Inspire Medical Systems has announced its investment in EnsoData , an artificial intelligence (AI) healthcare company helping clinicians uncover disease while patients sleep. – EnsoData’s technology helps address some of the most intractable problems in healthcare: access and affordability for patients and clinician burnout.
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Health Law RX
APRIL 25, 2022
The No Surprises Act (the “Act”) continues muddling through its implementation period. We have discussed the Act in prior posts, and most recently on March 8, 2022. The surprises have continued, with new updates coming out almost daily! There has been legal movement as health care providers and facilities (collectively, “Providers”) have brought lawsuits against the Departments of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), Labor, and Treasury, and the Office of Personnel Management (collectively, “Depar
Healthcare Dive
APRIL 25, 2022
As the COVID-19 pandemic paved the way for expanded virtual care, telehealth has grown in adoption. How are your licensing processes adapting to this changing environment?
Healthicity
APRIL 27, 2022
“The Security Rule requires appropriate administrative, physical and technical safeguards to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and security of electronic protected health information.” –HHS.Gov.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 29, 2022
What You Should Know: – Flare Capital Partners , a Boston-based healthcare technology venture capital firm closes its third fund with $350M, which follows up on its prior two funds raised in July 2019 and the inaugural fund raised in April 2015, respectively. – The most recent fund, establishes Flare Capital Partners as one of the largest, independent, early-stage venture capital firms dedicated to healthcare technology.
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