Sat.Jan 28, 2023 - Fri.Feb 03, 2023

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Losing Control of Controlled Substances? The Case of Telehealth Prescriptions 

Bill of Health

By Minsoo Kwon Telehealth services that specialize in the treatment of mental health concerns, such as Cerebral Inc., highlight the ongoing challenge of appropriately balancing accessibility of care with patient safety.

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FTC orders GoodRx to stop sharing users’ health data with advertisers, issues $1.5M fine

Healthcare Dive

FTC officials said they are putting the market on watch with the enforcement against GoodRx. The digital health company allegedly collected data, including patient medications, and shared it without user consent

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Leveraging patient engagement technologies to tackle health inequity

Healthcare It News

Reduce Healthcare Inequities with Patient Engagement Technology Addressing healthcare inequities is no simple task. The causes are complex, from environmental to socioeconomic factors, and aren’t easy to address.

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3 Tips for Implementing An IT Trend

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Jordan Miller, MD, senior medical director of dermatology, ModMed.

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The 2023 Behavioral Health Industry Report

This report explores current issues in the behavioral health industry in 2023. Topics covered include quantitative statistics describing the overall increase in behavioral health issues, the impact of psychologist and staff burnout, how HIPAA compliance is once again at the top of our minds & much more!

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Strengthening the Freedom of Information Act in 2023

Bill of Health

By Mitchell Berger, MPH While the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) ( 5 U.S.C. § 552 ) and agency implementing regulations generally are fairly concise, FOIA still has led to considerable litigation. What is an agency record? Should contractors be covered by FOIA?

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Third-party data breach round-up: mscripts, Diligent, Mailchimp

Healthcare It News

This month, more than 114,000 individuals may have experienced personally identifiable information and protected health information exposures from these incidents while an email marketing hack is a new source for phishing attacks.

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Bipartisan House bill proposes permanent telehealth benefits

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Telehealth Benefit Expansion for Workers Act would amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income and Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow employers to treat benefits for telehealth services like excepted benefits.

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Autonomy, Insurance, and Luck

Bill of Health

By Leslie C. Griffin You will be surprised I’ve been through all the experiences described in this post, and that I’m still alive to tell you about them. Even I can’t believe it some days. It’s quite a list, so sometimes I mention it to my friends, so they will be as amazed as I am.

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CMS to crack down on Medicare Advantage audits, poised to claw back billions of dollars from insurers

Healthcare Dive

Federal regulators have raised concerns about alleged payment abuses in the MA program for years, specifically for those tied to risk adjustments

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Streamlined Compliance Facilitates Growth for Multi-Specialty ASC

Learn how SurgCenter of Western Maryland improved compliance and streamlined their employee training process with MedTrainer. Eliminate the risk of lost records and save time with MedTrainer's intuitive platform.

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Patient data and insights to enable value-based care and improve payment integrity

Healthcare It News

Value-based care is emerging in the healthcare ecosystem, largely due to its ability to offer benefits for everyone from patients to physicians to payers.

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Withings U-Scan: Measuring Waste for Health Benefits at Home

Healthcare IT Today

Public health agencies have come to understand the immense value of monitoring waste water, as demonstrated by a recent report calling for its expansion. But Withings allows you to measure your own waste products in the home through a new product called U-Scan.

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South Carolina’s Abortion Debates: A Game of Ping Pong

Bill of Health

By Katie Gu On January 5, the South Carolina Supreme Court permanently struck down Senate Bill 1 (S.B. 1), also known as the Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act , which banned most abortions after the sixth week of pregnancy.

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Cigna addresses MA overhaul, fresh off $6.7B in profit

Healthcare Dive

CEO David Cordani addressed the CMS’ recent changes to the Medicare Advantage program, Cigna’s multibillion-dollar investment in VillageMD and more in the payer’s fourth-quarter earnings on Friday

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HIPAA Compliance Checklist for Mental Health Agencies

Keeping up with compliance can be intimidating, but this checklist can help make your job a little easier! Use this printable checklist to ensure your systems are buttoned up to avoid breaches, HIPAA violations, and other privacy and safety infractions.

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Leveraging augmented reality to enhance workflow simulation and product demonstration

Healthcare It News

Healthcare organizations are facing unprecedented challenges: high staff turnover leading to nursing burnout, hiring of temp/travel staff requires regular onboarding and hits tight budgets, and scheduling in-person meetings and trainings can become bottlenecks.

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Providence forges a new path with a virtual nursing unit

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Virtual nursing is gaining significant momentum as an effective way to redesign and redistribute nursing workload.

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Featured Health IT Job: Enterprise Architect

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Enterprise Architect position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York.

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Healthcare labor trends in 2023: increased burnout, executive stress

Healthcare Dive

A rise in union activity could also persist as the sector continues recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic

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The American Benefits Conundrum: Realigning Healthcare Incentives

Speaker: Chris Wolpert, Founder of Group Benefit Solutions

This webinar with Chris Wolpert will expose the hidden misaligned incentives in the employee benefits space and help you modernize your approach to benefits by leveraging technology and communication.

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Intermountain and Story Health partner on specialty care for heart failure

Healthcare It News

Intermountain Health is looking to artificial intelligence and high-touch coaching to increase care personalization and medication adherence for patients with heart failure.

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Organizations Increasingly Opaque About Cause of Data Breaches

HIPAA Journal

When a data breach occurs and sensitive information is disclosed, the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule requires affected individuals to be notified. The FTC Health Breach Notification Rule also has breach reporting requirements, and all 50 states have enacted data breach notification laws.

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Patient Scheduling and Pre-Visit Intake: Let’s Give Patients What They’re Asking For

Healthcare IT Today

Several surveys about the online patient experience were recently released. It won’t surprise anyone who follows healthcare professionally—or who has used a healthcare portal—that patients are frustrated and disappointed.

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Healthcare systems make valuable strides in the eye of a pandemic

Healthcare Dive

The pandemic forced us to rethink how to leverage technology and data to augment resources and shift to new adoption models for better patient experiences

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2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Contract Life Cycle Management Report

Gartner has positioned Evisort in the Visionaries Quadrant of the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contract Life Cycle Management. Read the report to learn why Evisort is a Visionary provider in the market.

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Roundup: NZ names new Health Minister and more briefs

Healthcare It News

Infectious disease doc Verrall named Health Minister A parliament shakeup led by New Zealand's new Prime Minister Chris Hipkins saw Ayesha Verrall taking over health from Andrew Little, who is now handling defence.

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What Are RPA Bots? Using RPA To Drive Profitability

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Brian Cafferty, vice president of RPA development, Tebra. Robotic process automation (RPA) is a software technology that uses “bots” to replace repetitive, rule-based tasks and processes.

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Pro-Russian Hacking Group Conducting DDoS Attacks on U.S. Hospitals

HIPAA Journal

The pro-Russian hacking group, Killnet, is conducting a campaign of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on U.S. hospitals in apparent retaliation for U.S. support of Ukraine.

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COVID-19 public health emergency slated to end in May

Healthcare Dive

The Biden administration warned that hospitals are at risk of revenue losses and care delays if the public health emergency ends abruptly

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