Dot Compliance

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Embracing the digital age, modern Document Management systems have evolved into powerful tools that streamline and enhance how organizations handle their crucial information. In this era where efficiency, collaboration, and compliance are paramount, these systems have become indispensable for businesses across the life science industry. In this post we dive into the intricate components that constitute these systems, shedding light on the four key elements that have revolutionized document manag

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Total Medical ComplianceHIPAA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Criminals continuously devise new methods to exploit personal information for financial gain. One such method is vishing, a form of phishing that targets individuals through phone calls. Vishing scams pose a significant threat to the security and privacy of personal health information (PHI), making it crucial for healthcare organizations to understand and mitigate these risks.

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YouCompli

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Was “project manager” in your current or previous job descriptions? It definitely wasn’t in any of mine! But very quickly, as a compliance officer, I realized that I was managing multiple projects every day. I was responsible for allocating financial, human, and physical resources to accomplish certain tasks.   Once I embraced the fact that I was indeed a project manager, I needed to find ways to be as effective as possible.

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Compliance Now

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

By: Megan Diehl, Manager of Compliance Consulting, MZQ Consulting Many sponsors of fully insured health plans either already have or will soon receive checks from their insurance carriers, along with a notice informing them that the review is a medical loss ratio (MLR) rebate. Plan sponsors should receive these checks by September 30, 2023. The MLR rules implemented as part of health care reform are designed to ensure that insurance carriers spend no more than a specified percentage of premiums

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Get an inside look at the process to become a certified medical coder straight from someone who has been there! Listen to her journey here.

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Compliancy Group

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

To many people’s surprise, the vibrant city of Dallas has recently descended into chaos as it grapples with the aftermath of a treacherous ransomware attack. This assault has left no less than 30,253 innocent individuals vulnerable and exposed, their personal information compromised. Astonishingly, this number is an alarming surge of over 4,000 unsuspecting victims since the city’s initial disclosure earlier last month.

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Innovaare Compliance

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In a world of evolving healthcare regulations, compliance isn’t just a mandate – it’s a cornerstone of success for payers and providers. To help organizations gain continual success around compliance, Inovaare, and MongoDB have partnered to bring AI technologies and compliance solutions together. The MongoDB AI Innovators Program , introduced earlier this year, empowers visionary enterprises to drive transformative AI breakthroughs.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

By Martin Jones Current and emerging medtech change how hospitals, clinics, and medical practices deliver care. Yet, healthcare organizations face workforce and security challenges – ones that must be met while also appeasing the growing demands from patients. Although pay increases and recruitment investments help, it’s not enough to stave off immediate and future problems.

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The payer, which brings in the bulk of its revenue from Medicare, is fighting back against a rule finalized earlier this year to claw back overpayments in the increasingly popular MA program.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

By Nofar Yakovi Gan-Or As Israeli law has adapted to new reproductive realities, it has relied on more “traditional” familial cells, leaving out single men and male same-sex couples. As in many other legal contexts, it has been up to the courts to develop more egalitarian policies. Broadly speaking, Israel is a pro-natalist country. Its enthusiastic attitude toward reproduction finds expression in various legal protections and, for the most part, publicly-funded reproductive technologies and pra

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

LKCMedicine to introduce more AI, digital health courses Nanyang Technological University Singapore announced that more course content related to AI and digital health will be added to the refreshed curriculum of the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. From next year, digital health will be integrated as vertical courses throughout the five-year Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery programme.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

HIMSS23 APAC is happening in two weeks. For the second year in a row, the event is taking place in Indonesia – and if you haven't heard, there’s a little bit of a digital revolution happening in the country's healthcare sector. And with healthcare organisations mandated to have an EMR implemented by the end of the year, it's an exciting time to be in health IT in Indonesia.

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Thirty-two percent of people appointed to positions at the HHS between 2004 and 2020 exited to the private sector, raising concerns about objectivity, according to new research.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

By Victoria Hooton and Elizabeth Chloe Romanis The emergent Artificial Amnion and Placenta Technology (AAPT) provides an illuminating example of how the EU maternity leave framework has become unable to support modern pregnancies and family structures. AAPT is designed to facilitate partial human gestation outside the body (i.e., ectogestation). The idea is that it would be able to replace conventional neonatal intensive care to improve morbidity and mortality that remains a constant risk in NIC

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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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Orion Health this week announced the launch of new digital front door services that are already being used by 15 million people in Ontario, and will soon be more generally available. The tools are designed to streamline care and tasks for overburdened healthcare workers and reduce reliance on emergency departments, the company says. WHY IT MATTERS The platform, called Virtuoso, is a multi-channel interface where patients have a single point of contact with the health system, according to Orion.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Princess Alexandra Hospital offers data for medication harm research A research project from the University of Queensland School of Pharmacy has started collaborating with the Princess Alexandra Hospital to use digital technologies in reducing rehospitalisation cases due to medication harm. Researcher Dr Nazanin Ghahreman-Falconer noted that in Queensland alone, up to a quarter of adult patients are being re-admitted to hospital within 28 days, further placing a burden on an already overwhelmed

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Only 40% of nursing homes nationwide complied with reporting requirements between 2016 and 2021, despite nursing homes being among the most dangerous workplaces in America, according to the Health Affairs study.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

By Lucas Taylor Surrogacy, the practice in which one party (the surrogate) gestates a fetus on behalf of another pair/person (the intended parent/s or IPs), has sparked academic debates regarding gender equality and bodily integrity in the face of both commercial and altruistic agreements. I re-engage with this topic by challenging how the capacity of the surrogate to choose may be restricted under English and Welsh law.

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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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

When Amazon Clinic spread out into all 50 states, SteadyMD was right there with it – or you might say within it. SteadyMD, which offers a B2B telehealth platform and nationwide clinician workforce, has been an important part of Amazon Clinic’s journey. The telehealth company worked with Amazon for months helping develop Amazon Clinic and was one of the first participating providers on the service when it launched in November 2022.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Integrated healthcare provider Apollo Hospitals is now rolling out its connected care programme across its entire network in India. This follows the recent nationwide expansion of a similar programme for its partner hospitals, aiming to build the largest connected healthcare ecosystem in the country. WHAT IT'S ABOUT According to a press statement, Apollo's Comprehensive Connected Care service provides a real-time view of the patient from several care touchpoints along the patient journey

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

More rural seniors are turning to MA, but the plans can offer limited provider networks. That could prove an additional challenge for rural beneficiaries who already have to travel further distances for care.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

By Kathleen (Katie) Hammond We have seen a growing trend in recent years of companies covering some, or all, of the cost of elective (i.e., non-medical) egg freezing as an employee benefit. For instance, Meta , Google , Netflix , Uber , and Apple are among the list of companies that offer some coverage for elective egg freezing. In this piece, I explore four concerns with employer-funded elective egg freezing.

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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 News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Starting this September, the South Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare will officially begin the nationwide telemedicine pilot following a three-month guided pilot period. The service is currently being offered to the following patients: those with chronic diseases who have done their first in-person visits; paediatric patients seeking follow-ups (only during holidays and at night); people living in islands and other remote areas; disabled persons; senior citizens over the age of 65; and peopl

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

HIMSS Davies Award winner Texas Children's Hospital’s assistant VPs Tarra Kerr and Ashok Kurian discuss their patient-centered coordinated care, enabled by a partnership between quality and safety departments, clinical operations and IT systems.

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The study from nonprofit Rand found that 45% of behavioral health patients did not believe their clinicians considered their preferences for virtual or in-person care. The findings come after telehealth use skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

By Michelle Weldon-Johns An increasing number of people in the UK undergo assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatments annually to conceive or to preserve fertility. HFEA data show that in the UK in 2019, nearly 53,000 persons received 68,975 cycles of IVF, 5,694 cycles of donor insemination treatment, 2,396 egg freeze cycles and 8,174 embryos were stored.

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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.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Intermountain Healthcare, a health system that operates 33 hospitals across seven western states, is transitioning from Oracle Health's Cerner electronic health record to rival Epic, citing higher | Intermountain Healthcare, a health system that operates 33 hospitals across seven western states, is transitioning from Oracle Health's Cerner EHR to its rival Epic, citing higher physician satisfaction scores as one key factor.

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HealthIT Answers

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

We rounded up thoughts on why 88% plan to increase their third-party technology investments in 2023-2024 according to a Redox sponsored survey, Buyer Mindsets: Health Technology Perspectives from Clinical and Clinical IT Leaders. The post Providers are Budgeting for Third-Party Tech Investments Says Survey appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Consolidation between primary care physicians and large health systems led to increased costs per patient, according to a new study published in JAMA.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Mike Hines, Principal Evangelist at Resolute Software In recent years, cloud computing has become the go-to solution for healthcare institutions seeking flexibility and scalability. However, as the digital and legislative landscapes evolve, a growing number of organizations are reevaluating their cloud strategies. Are you best served by doubling down on your cloud-based strategy, or by backing off a bit and bringing some of your services out of the cloud and back down to earth?

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