HIPAA Journal
JUNE 27, 2023
Metro Health System in Cleveland, OH, has discovered an employee has accessed patient records without a valid work reason. The unauthorized access was discovered on April 27, 2023, and the subsequent investigation confirmed that patient records had been accessed without authorization at various times over the past 15 years. The earliest incident occurred in 2008.
HIPAA Journal
JUNE 26, 2023
HIPAA enforcement discretion occurs when the Secretary for Health and Human Services (HHS) announces the Department will exercise discretion in the enforcement of HIPAA Rules. The discretion can be temporary or permanent, region-specific or nationwide, or apply to some Rules but not others. Recent examples of when HIPAA enforcement discretion has been announced include: 2023 – Typhoon Mawar in Guam 2022 – Hurricane Ian in Florida and South Carolina 2022 – Kentucky Flooding Public Emergency 2021
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Healthcare It News
JUNE 28, 2023
Nearly one-third (32%) of people already say they would be comfortable with artificial intelligence leading a primary care appointment, according to a new survey from Outbreaks Near Me – although fewer (25%) would be comfortable with AI-led therapy Twelve percent of adults in the U.S. say their healthcare providers currently use AI to help diagnose, treat or communicate with patients, but 66% expect AI to play a bigger role in healthcare in the next five years, the survey found.
MRO Compliance
JUNE 29, 2023
HFMA 2023: The Importance of Digitizing Requests The HFMA 2023 Annual Conference wrapped up earlier this week at the Gaylord Opryland in Nashville, TN. Our team attended insightful presentations and had meaningful one-on-one conversations with attendees, all centered around cost-effective health. A common theme among health systems in attendance was their continued struggle with razor-thin margins, increased regulatory requirements, and scalability, all while patient volumes increase in this pos
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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 Dive
JUNE 29, 2023
The multi-state bust that targeted 78 individuals represents “one of the largest healthcare fraud schemes ever prosecuted by the Justice Department,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said.
HealthIT Answers
JUNE 28, 2023
With recent advances in augmented intelligence, the American Medical Association House of Delegates adopted policy during its Annual Meeting calling for greater regulatory oversight of insurers’ use of AI in reviewing patient claims and prior authorization requests. The post AMA Adopts Policy Calling for More Oversight of AI in Prior Authorization appeared first on Health IT Answers.
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Digital Health News
JUNE 29, 2023
Community mental health staff spend hours updating notes, often at the end of long shifts. Transforming information capture could reduce staff burnout and improve patient outcomes, writes Epro's Kat Hancock.
HIPAA Journal
JUNE 30, 2023
A critical vulnerability has been identified in the Medtronic Paceart Optima System, which is used to compile and manage patients’ cardiac data. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2023-31222 and is due to the deserialization of untrusted data. The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 out of 10. The vulnerability affects all versions of Paceart Optima up to and including version 1.11 and can be exploited remotely by an unauthorized user by sending specially crafted message
Healthcare Dive
JUNE 29, 2023
Providers are expected to seek rate increases from payers as they struggle with labor costs, while health plans will face pressure from increased pharmaceutical expenses.
Bill of Health
JUNE 30, 2023
By Robert I. Field, Anthony W. Orlando and Arnold J. Rosoff The “pangenome” project that is mapping the genetic sequences of 47 diverse human beings from around the world is a much-needed step forward for science and humanity. The lack of racial diversity in genetic databases used in research has been noted for some time, and it has raised growing concerns about the development of clinical applications based on research results.
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Healthcare It News
JUNE 29, 2023
Most in the healthcare industry would say provider organizations have an obligation to offer better care to underserved populations. The question is how. Dr. Graham Gardner is a cardiologist and CEO and cofounder of Kyruus, a patient scheduling and payments technology and services vendor. He has had a long career on the healthcare provider and healthcare information technology sides of the industry.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 26, 2023
Eighty percent of providers using telehealth in Virginia have seen improvements in their patients’ continuity of care, and 87% feel confident in the quality of care they’re able to offer patients via telehealth, according to a new survey conducted by the Virginia Telehealth Network of more than 10,500 active license healthcare professionals throughout the state.
Healthcare Dive
JUNE 29, 2023
Industry groups and the HHS argued the ruling against race-conscious admissions policies could roll back gains in the number of minority physicians and ultimately hurt health outcomes.
Bill of Health
JUNE 29, 2023
By Stephen Wood The State of Massachusetts is currently reviewing a new protocol for the pre-hospital (i.e., ambulance) administration of blood products to patients with acute hemorrhagic shock. In the pre-hospital setting, hemorrhagic shock, which is characterized by rapid blood loss that results in potentially fatal oxygen depletion of the vital organs, is traditionally managed by the administration of intravenous fluids.
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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 News
JUNE 28, 2023
Walmart opened 70 new HIV-focused specialty pharmacies in Colorado, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Florida in June and plans to expand the service's focus in 2024 to include autoimmune conditions. WHY IT MATTERS Walmart announced Tuesday it has added its Specialty Pharmacies of the Community inside select retail locations, because one in three people living with HIV in the United States does not receive regular HIV treatment.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 27, 2023
Amazon Clinic, with subscription-based telehealth services in 33 states, appears to be holding off on a promotional campaign announcing its nationwide expansion that was reportedly planned to launch today because of a letter asking about the telemedicine platform's patient privacy protections from Senators Peter Welch, D-Vermont, and Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts.
Healthcare Dive
JUNE 28, 2023
At least 18 states have introduced or advanced safe staffing bills this year in an effort to reduce nurse burnout and improve the quality of patient care, but hospital groups are resisting.
Bill of Health
JUNE 26, 2023
By Aparajita Lath For over 100 years, policy makers and pharmaceutical manufacturers in the U.S. have debated whether the government should produce drugs and biologics. Until now, private industry has largely won– but that may be changing, due to a recent California initiative. At the turn of the 20 th century, the unregulated U.S. biologics industry saw a series of tetanus contamination incidents.
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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 News
JUNE 26, 2023
The relief organization is on the lookout for innovative technologies to help its mission of saving lives and improving quality of life for populations in need, says Carolina Nelson, Project HOPE's LAC regional deputy director.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 29, 2023
UnitedHealthcare has adopted a $0 out-of-pocket expense benefit for virtual visits for eligible members enrolled in applicable fully insured employer-sponsored plans. The new coverage enhancement is designed to make remote urgent care more affordable and convenient, UHC said.
Healthcare Dive
JUNE 29, 2023
Primary care doctors have particularly benefited from CMS coding tweaks in 2021, according to a new survey. The gains could help narrow the compensation gap between primary care physicians and other specialties.
Bill of Health
JUNE 28, 2023
By Donrich Thaldar On the issue of human genome editing (HGE), attitudes between bioethics scholars and the general public diverge, as highlighted by my team’s findings from a recent deliberative public engagement study. In the study, which assessed views on heritable HGE among South Africans, participants adopted a pragmatic risk-benefit approach to specific applications of heritable HGE.
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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.
HIPAA Journal
JUNE 28, 2023
The governor of Nevada recently signed a new consumer health data privacy bill into law that strengthens consumer health data privacy and gives Nevada residents new rights over their health data. Senate Bill (SB) 370 was modeled on Washington’s recently enacted “My Health, My Data (MHMD) bill, although is less comprehensive in scope. The new law applies to entities that conduct business in Nevada or produce or provide products or services that are targeted at consumers in Nevada and, either alo
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 27, 2023
TrueCare is a community health center in the North San Diego and Riverside Counties area focused on providing quality healthcare to underserved communities. THE PROBLEM Because it is a community health center, it provides care to underserved communities, which often have a higher prevalence of uncontrolled hypertension, or high blood pressure. That increases the risk for heart disease and stroke, two of the leading causes of death in the country.
Healthcare Dive
JUNE 27, 2023
Although industry analysts have focused on staffing shortages following the coronavirus pandemic, the program aims to address a gap in business skills for healthcare executives.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 28, 2023
Newly proposed changes to the Federal Trade Commission’s pre-merger notification requirements would give regulators more information to review during a deal’s initial waiting period—likely giving t | The federal regulator said its proposed updates would enable more efficient review of pending deals during the initial 30-day waiting period. As is, the changes are estimated to add, on average, more than 100 hours to companies' paperwork burden per filing.
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Electronic Health Reporter
JUNE 29, 2023
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Chantal Rainford, clinical director, Nevada Autism Center. The advent of telehealth has been a groundbreaking step in the global healthcare ecosystem, and even more so in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Treatments targeting […] The article Leveraging Telehealth For Revolutionary Autism Treatment appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 30, 2023
Government & Policy Population Health Telehealth The National Telecommunications and Information Administration is funding new efforts to help counties and municipalities build high-speed broadband networks. Here's what that could mean for telehealth, as more funding enables new opportunities for care. Craig Settles Every mile of broadband that the U.S.
Healthcare Dive
JUNE 30, 2023
Regulators are asking for input on how the agency can support development of devices for use in non-clinical care settings and by diverse patient populations.
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 28, 2023
Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries have fewer inpatient hospital stays and emergency department visits than beneficiaries in traditional fee-for-service Medicare, according to a
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