Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 5, 2022
In an increasingly murky legal environment, providers should focus on minimizing and protecting the data they collect, while keeping abreast of shifting abortion legality in their state, experts said.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 4, 2022
Whether they are about mental health, COVID, general health concerns or any number of other issues, healthcare provider organizations constantly are managing droves of calls from patients. Vendors of cloud technologies are aiming to tackle the issue of high call volumes while at the same time helping healthcare call centers reimagine the patient and employee experience.
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Bill of Health
AUGUST 4, 2022
In its unanimous 2013 decision in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics (569 U.S. 576) the U.S. Supreme Court held that naturally occurring genomic sequences are not eligible for patent protection. Not surprisingly, some representatives of the biotechnology industry, and many patent lawyers, reacted negatively to the decision, and have steadily lobbied Congress to restore patent protection for isolated and purified genomic sequences.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 1, 2022
Essen Health Care, a medical group in New York City, has a Center of Excellence for Pain with physical therapy, pain specialists, neurology and orthopedic specialists. It serves patients with acute and chronic issues in need of physical therapy. In addition, it serves many elderly house call patients, due to pandemic restrictions, who have functionally deteriorated due to a lack of physical activity.
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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 Dive
AUGUST 4, 2022
Of the 43% of organizations that reported a data breach in the past two years, 88% said at least one connected device was a contributing factor to the breach, according to a new report.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 5, 2022
One Medical announced is 2nd quarter financial results this week, showing growth in both net revenue and membership. Year-over-year, compared to the three months ending June 30, 2021, the technology-enabled primary care provider posted the following numbers: Net revenue was $255.8 million YOY, compared to $120.4 million in 2021 – a 112% increase.
Health Care Compliance Brief brings together the best content for health law & compliance professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 5, 2022
Most healthcare professionals are well aware of the nurse shortage that America faces today. In this HIMSSCast podcast, we'll be digging into this crisis and the role played, both good and bad, by healthcare information technology. Joining Healthcare IT News to discuss this and more is April Kapu, DNP, president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 2, 2022
In a suit filed in Idaho’s southern district, the Department of Justice claimed that Idaho’s “near-absolute” abortion ban blocks clinicians from providing necessary care in medical emergencies as required by federal law.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 5, 2022
Whether it’s due to high out-of-pocket costs, concerns about side effects, procrastination or other factors, 20-30% of patients don’t act on their new prescriptions, while others do not take medications as prescribed. WHY IT MATTERS. By partnering with Watertown, Massachusetts-based athenahealth, the system’s 145,000 providers can now access automated messaging within their established prescribing workflows to help drive better adherence to prescribed treatment plans.
MRO Compliance
AUGUST 5, 2022
Use Case: Audit Manager. Background Summary. Leverage technology to automate repetitive and duplicative tasks, ease the burden of volatile staffing levels, and drive a positive financial impact of claim monitoring and adjudication with MRO Audit Manager. With a nearly 58% increase in governmental and commercial payment integrity audits and a 200% year-over-year (YOY) increase in prepayment audits*, the need to innovate is greater than ever before.
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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 - Telehealth
AUGUST 2, 2022
In a letter sent to the Federal Trade Commission this past week, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley, R-Mo., asked the regulatory agency to look more closely at the proposed $3.9 billion merger between Amazon and One Medical. "I realize that the FTC is currently engaged in numerous efforts to combat America’s accelerating economic concentration and the power of tech behemoths," Hawley wrote.
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 1, 2022
Advocates are hoping the mobile clinic model will accelerate access to abortions, especially for those in states where the procedure is outlawed.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 1, 2022
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise has published a white paper on optimising the care pathway for better outcomes in hospitals. In the paper, we outline the current situation in digital health and map out a vision to free up time for patient care. The widespread implementation of EMRs has allowed collaboration between doctors, reduced medical errors, and created the data points required for analytics which will provide an in-road for artificial intelligence work in the future.
MRO Compliance
AUGUST 3, 2022
Follow the (Medical) Record: Cassi Birnbaum and HIM. In this episode, host Don Hardwick interviews Cassi Birnbaum, Senior Enterprise Director at PeaceHealth. Cassi and Don discuss the importance of an enterprise-wide solution when it comes to medical records, and releasing those records. They also discuss best practices and what the future holds for the HIM profession.
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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.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 2, 2022
The Stony Brook Medicine health system, which, before COVID-19, had already grown from a two-hospital system to a four-hospital system with the inclusion of Eastern Long Island Hospital and Southampton Hospital, reflects a diverse and geographically widespread patient population of more than 1.4 million people in Suffolk County, New York. It uses telehealth technology to connect specialists and clinicians to areas of need, help monitor patients' health status and behavior remotely, promote t
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 4, 2022
“We're prepared to take our response to the next level in addressing this virus, and we urge every American to take monkeypox seriously and to take responsibility to help us tackle this virus,” HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said Thursday.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 1, 2022
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MRO Compliance
AUGUST 2, 2022
Continuing the Interoperability Journey – Three New Opportunities for HIM. August 2, 2022. Journal of AHIMA. Healthcare interoperability is a team sport, and information technology (IT) professionals aren’t the only players in the game. Professionals with heath information (HI) management skills, experience, and leadership also fill valuable interoperability roles.
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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.
HIPAA Journal
AUGUST 3, 2022
Cyberattacks on businesses have been increasing year over year across all industry sectors, and there has been an increase in cyberattacks involving third parties. From the point of view of a cyber threat actor, it makes more sense to attack a vendor such as a managed service provider, as if the attack is successful, the threat actor will be able to gain access to the networks of the company’s clients.
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 1, 2022
As the Pennsylvania regional health system’s first chief wellness officer, Susan Parisi will oversee the system’s mental health, professional fulfillment and well-being strategies.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 1, 2022
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Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 1, 2022
Remote patient monitoring is everywhere in healthcare today. We see that in our ever expanding list of remote patient monitoring companies. It’s not a reach to say that healthcare and startup companies are working hard to monitor every piece of your health remotely. Everyone sees the potential of having access to your health data in an ongoing basis in order to assess deterioration of your health or even recovery from a disease or surgery.
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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.
HIPAA Journal
AUGUST 3, 2022
The health insurer Aetna ACE is one of the latest healthcare organizations to announce it has been affected by a ransomware attack on a mailing vendor, which involved the protected health information of 326,278 plan members. Aetna said the breach was limited to individuals insured under Aetna ACE, and that no protected health information of individuals served by Aetna or CVS Health was involved.
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 5, 2022
Hospitals added about 13,000 jobs in July compared to about 20,000 in June, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Compliance Now
AUGUST 1, 2022
By: Jennifer Berman, CEO, MZQ Consulting. On July 28, 2022, the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury (the “Departments”) issued new FAQs clarifying their interpretation of the ACA’s requirement that non-grandfathered health plans provide contraception to participants at no cost. The new FAQs were issued in response to President Biden’s recent Executive Order on reproductive health.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 2, 2022
A report by the U.K.-based Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Apps found 84% of 25 apps shared data outside of the developer's system.
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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.
HIPAA Journal
AUGUST 1, 2022
Meta is facing another class action lawsuit over the unlawful collection and sharing of health data without content. The lawsuit was filed in the Northern District of California on behalf of plaintiff, Jane Doe. The lawsuit alleges Meta and its companies, including Facebook, have been collecting the sensitive health data of millions of patients without obtaining express consent and have used the information to serve individuals with targeted advertisements.
Healthcare Dive
AUGUST 2, 2022
Groups like the American Hospital Association had asked for more adjustments, but the CMS declined to set aside its regulatory payment formula.
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 3, 2022
The shortage of healthcare staff is growing more acute. Hope for a quick bounce-back to a pre-pandemic “normal” has all but faded away. As organizations continue to scramble to adjust to the current reality, leaders may want to give thought to ways they can improve their work environments and attract/retain staff over the long-term. Dr. Adrienne Boissy, Chief Medical Officer at Qualtrics recommends serving up “Joy Pie” and focusing on rebuilding trust with staff.
Compliancy Group
AUGUST 5, 2022
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a draft update to its cybersecurity guidelines for the healthcare industry and is seeking public feedback through September 21, 2022. NIST is the federal agency responsible for establishing standards and measurement criteria for various industries, including manufacturing, health and bioscience, and cybersecurity.
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