Compliancy Group
JANUARY 23, 2024
A well-crafted compliance plan is a roadmap for healthcare organizations to navigate regulatory requirements while upholding ethical practices. Let’s explore the key components and steps to write an effective healthcare compliance plan. Understand Compliance Landscape Before you can write a comprehensive compliance plan, it’s crucial to grasp the intricacies of the healthcare compliance landscape.
MedTrainer
JANUARY 22, 2024
In an episode of Outcomes Rocket podcast, MedTrainer Policy Expert Hira Rashid, Ph.D. offers insight into healthcare policy changes on the horizon and the predicted impact on compliance. In The Impact of Health Policy on Your Compliance Strategy, Hira talks about the macro trends in healthcare that could lead to policy change — for example the focus on cost savings and outcome improvements.
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Compliancy Group
JANUARY 22, 2024
In the fast-paced world of healthcare, staying on top of regulations and maintaining exceptional standards is vital. This is where a healthcare audit – conducting a thorough investigation into operations, processes, and practices – comes in. Its mission? To uncover areas of risk and implement corrective action plans. The key to triumph lies within an all-encompassing checklist.
Becker's Health IT
JANUARY 22, 2024
Money Message ransomware gang is claiming to be responsible for the Dec. 24 hack on Newburyport, Mass.-based Anna Jaques Hospital, The Record reported Jan. 19.
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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?
Healthcare It News
JANUARY 22, 2024
Ian Miller, program lead at the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe), highlights how digital health offerings can improve access to physical and mental healthcare for children.
Healthcare Dive
JANUARY 23, 2024
The lawsuit seeks to represent thousands of other UPMC employees who may have been affected by the nonprofit’s alleged wage suppression and other anticompetitive practices.
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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 22, 2024
Artificial intelligence has the potential to revolutionize the way healthcare is delivered. And many healthcare professionals are exploring exactly what AI can do and deploying systems to help health systems manage care and patients manage their health. Dr. Renee Dua is founder of Heal, which provides physician house calls in New York City, and founder of Together by Renee, a healthcare assistant app that uses generative AI.
Healthcare It News
JANUARY 26, 2024
Whether they are on Standford's inbound and outbound calls, automated voice systems or mobile channels, patients can be heard through the health system's engagement tools and processes. Dr. Adrienne Boissy, chief medical officer of Qualtrics and a practicing neurologist at the Cleveland Clinic, explained why emotional harm that can be caused by healthcare interactions needs to be heard.
Healthcare Dive
JANUARY 26, 2024
The analysis logged 79 Chapter 11 bankruptcies for companies with liabilities of at least $10 million last year — more than three times the number of filings in 2021.
MRO Compliance
JANUARY 24, 2024
Norristown, Pa. – January 24, 2024 – MRO Corp., the leading clinical data exchange company in healthcare, announced today that it has earned the Validated Data Stream designation in the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Data Aggregator Validation program. It is part of the latest NCQA cohort to earn the NCQA validation. “MRO is excited to earn data stream validations for a third time and to continue providing clinical data directly sourced from multiple EHRs, with proven accuracy,
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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.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 25, 2024
Amazon Web Services said it hopes to further address health equity and improve healthcare access with $20 million in additional funding for its ongoing global health equity program focused on underserved communities. AWS said it has now distributed more than $30 million to organizations that have leveraged cloud technology to provide care to historically underserved populations across 28 countries in its funding announcement Thursday “We’ve seen participants in the Health Equity Init
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 25, 2024
Humana primed the pump last week for a disappointing fourth quarter call, and its stock again dropped Thursday morning as the company posted a $541 million loss. | Humana primed the pump last week for a disappointing fourth quarter call, and its stock again dropped Thursday morning as the company posted a $541 million loss.
Healthcare Dive
JANUARY 25, 2024
A three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Appeals Court have dismissed claims from a New York medical group that the law amounts to an unconstitutional seizure of their property.
Kaiser Health News
JANUARY 25, 2024
Chantal Panozzo and her husband followed their primary care doctors’ orders last year after they both turned 45, now the recommended age to start screening for colorectal cancer. They scheduled their first routine colonoscopies a few months apart. Panozzo said she was excited to get a colonoscopy, of all things, because it meant free care. The couple run a business out of their suburban home near Chicago and purchase coverage costing more than $1,400 each month for their family of four on
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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.
Healthcare IT Today
JANUARY 26, 2024
According to Saurabh Singh, VP of Sunoh , the success of ambient clinical voice depends on much more than the accuracy of the recording. Sunoh “checks the boxes” when it comes to meeting the needs of physicians’ workflows and differences. Sunoh’s solution can take input from many different sources: mobile devices, and laptop or desktop computers.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 24, 2024
The Department for Health and Human Services (HHS) has published voluntary cybersecurity performance goals tailored for healthcare organizations, the first move in the administration’s
Healthcare Dive
JANUARY 24, 2024
The payer curbed the worst of medical cost growth last year, and expects to do the same in 2024 — an assumption one analyst called “aggressive” given persistent higher utilization among seniors.
HIT Consultant
JANUARY 22, 2024
David Sides, CEO at NextGen Healthcare Doctors do so much to keep our communities thriving. Unfortunately, according to the American Medical Association, about 63 percent of physicians report experiencing emotional exhaustion at least once weekly. Exacerbated by the volume of clinical notes required at the end of the day, physician burnout can adversely affect patient care, leading to errors and reduced care quality.
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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.
Healthcare IT Today
JANUARY 24, 2024
CES is always a fun show for a tech guy like myself. With 130,000 people, there’s a lot of noise that doesn’t relate to healthcare IT, but over the years the digital health portion of CES has really grown. This year that growth was particularly true thanks to the great efforts of Catherine Pugh who put together an entire Digital Health track, a long list of digital health vendors, and a packed house digital health networking event.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 26, 2024
As artificial intelligence advances in different areas of healthcare, there are concerns that technology and AI-based chatbots will replace the human connections between patients and practitioners. | A new study finds promising potential for AI and large language models to enhance mental health therapy at scale by being able to analyze millions of text-based counseling messages to shine a light on what works.
Healthcare Dive
JANUARY 25, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit on Thursday to block Winston-Salem, North Carolina-based Novant Health from expanding its grip on healthcare in the state, warning a buy would increase costs.
Mobi Health News
JANUARY 22, 2024
Ian Miller, program lead at the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe), highlights how digital health offerings can improve access to physical and mental healthcare for children.
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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.
Healthcare IT Today
JANUARY 25, 2024
The previous article in this series laid out key criteria for choosing a digital solution to clinical problems. We’ll continue with some other less known, but still important, criteria in this article. In addition to the traits mentioned in the previous article, several others were cited by Christine Vogel, lead nurse educator at UbiSim : Ease of use: the vendor needs to bring in user experience (UX) designers and subject-matter experts.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 25, 2024
The U.S. faces a growing shortage of neurologists, creating care "deserts" around the country, forcing patients to wait longer and drive further to receive care. | Digital health company Isaac Health launched in 2022 to provide a virtual brain health and memory clinic platform with the goal of improving access to constrained brain health services.
Healthcare Dive
JANUARY 25, 2024
The voluntary resources serve as a “step forward” as the agency looks to propose enforceable standards, HHS Deputy Secretary Andrea Palm said in a statement.
American Medical Compliance
JANUARY 25, 2024
The year 2024 marks another significant chapter in the healthcare industry’s ongoing battle against infectious diseases, and the numbers speak volumes. The CDC’s FluSurv-NET system, a sentinel network of healthcare facilities, documented over 104,000 flu-related hospitalizations across 13 states during past flu seasons. As healthcare heroes continue their unwavering service on the front lines, the spotlight remains firmly fixed on the importance of personal protective equipment (PP
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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.
Healthcare IT Today
JANUARY 23, 2024
Having a career in Health IT requires a lot of skills and qualifications, even more so if you want that career to be successful – but what are those skills and qualifications? We all know what skills and qualifications we needed when we first entered the field, but regardless of how long you’ve been working in Health IT, the field has changed a lot since then.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 26, 2024
To turn the tide around on the growing teen mental health crisis, the U.S. | Social media is cited as one of the drivers of the worsening crisis along with COVID-19, gun violence and the threat of climate change.
Healthcare Dive
JANUARY 22, 2024
The proposed settlement comes shortly after regulators settled separate allegations another company sold location data that could be used to track medical clinic visits.
Electronic Health Reporter
JANUARY 23, 2024
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Ken Perez, healthcare marketing, strategy and policy consultant The 340B Drug Pricing Program was created in 1992 to give safety-net providers—those that deliver a significant level of both healthcare and other health-related services to […] The article The South Carolina District Court’s Ruling On the Definition of a 340B Patient appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
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