Total Medical ComplianceHIPAA

JANUARY 11, 2024

In the intricate landscape of healthcare, compliance with regulations isn’t just a choice but a necessity. HIPAA stands as a beacon of privacy and security standards within the industry. Among its many components, one crucial element often overlooked yet central is sanction screening. What is Sanction Screening? Sanction screening involves the meticulous examination of individuals and entities involved in healthcare to ensure they’re not excluded from federal or state healthcare prog

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MedTrainer

JANUARY 10, 2024

It may seem a little early to do some spring cleaning, but not when it comes to compliance! It’s that time of the year to check your records for 2023 compliance deficiencies and set your organization up for success in 2024. The concept of “Springing in the New Year” starts with giving up those bad compliance habits that always put you behind and your organization at risk.

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Compliancy Group

JANUARY 10, 2024

Compliance plays a crucial role in maintaining integrity and quality of care in healthcare. With increasing regulations and scrutiny, organizations are recognizing the importance of having professionals who possess a comprehensive understanding of healthcare compliance. That’s where healthcare compliance certification comes into play. What is Healthcare Compliance Certification?

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American Medical Compliance

JANUARY 9, 2024

The following Documentation and Provider Standards Training educates healthcare providers on the significance of documentation compliance in healthcare. It also provides an introduction to all things related to healthcare compliance, which is important for all healthcare facilities to know about. What you will learn: Standards for medical documentation Legal requirements in healthcare documentation How to accurately record patient information Common errors in healthcare documentation Profession

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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?

Medisys Compliance

JANUARY 9, 2024

Introduction For solo practitioners and small healthcare providers juggling both patient care and medical billing, every step counts. Among the critical metrics in your revenue cycle management, ‘claim acceptance rates’ reign supreme. Higher first-pass claim acceptance, meaning claims paid without delays or denials, translates to faster cash flow, reduced administrative burden, and happier patients.

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 12, 2024

Finely tuned models showed success in consistently extracting information like housing or employment status that often isn’t systematically organized in clinical notes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 11, 2024

Danville, Pennsylvania-based Geisinger this week announced that it has received a $948,741 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development, which it will use to build out its virtual inpatient nursing program. WHY IT MATTERS With the grant, disbursed as part of the USDA's Distance Learning and Telemedicine program, will be used to outfit Geisinger Medical Center and Geisinger Shamokin Area Community Hospital with new telehealth technologies as part of Geisinger's Virtual

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 12, 2024

Industry giant UnitedHealth Group kicked off fourth-quarter earnings for major payers on Friday morning, where it reported $5.5 billion in profit. | Industry giant UnitedHealth Group kicked off fourth-quarter earnings for major payers on Friday morning, where it reported $5.5 billion in profit.

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 8, 2024

Experts discuss their predictions for healthcare industry trends, including investment and consolidation in digital health, adoption of artificial intelligence and improving cybersecurity in healthcare in 2024.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 12, 2024

New AI fall prediction tool gains ground in Singapore Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) is expanding the trial of its new AI-based fall prediction tool. Co-developed with medical technology company Longway AI Technologies, the AI system was trained via a 3D convolutional neural network, a deep learning model that teaches a computer to process data the way the human brain and nervous system do.

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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 9, 2024

Robotic telesurgery continues to take off in Indonesia with the support of the government of Iran. The Robotic Telesurgery Center, a project between the two governments, is being expanded to connect the western and eastern islands of Indonesia at a distance of 3,500 kilometres. The Haji Adam Malik Central General Hospital, North Sumatra in western Indonesia and the Dr Wahidin Sudirohusodo Makassar, Sulawesi in eastern Indonesia recently signed a memorandum of understanding to join the project.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 6, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO—Amazon plans to collaborate with digital health companies to connect customers with virtual care benefits for managing conditions like diabetes and hypertension. | Amazon plans to collaborate with digital health companies to connect customers with virtual care benefits for managing conditions like diabetes and hypertension. The online retail giant tapped virtual-first chronic care provider Omada Health as its first partner.

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 10, 2024

Kentucky-based Baptist Health has gone out of network with UnitedHealthcare and Centene’s WellCare Medicare Advantage plans after failing to agree to contract terms.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 12, 2024

Detroit-based Karmanos Cancer Institute, a network of 16 treatment locations across Michigan and Ohio that is part of McLaren Health Care, is using artificial intelligence to elevate risk assessment and is surfacing high-risk breast cancer patients who would benefit from supplemental care and imagery. With women having a one in eight chance of developing breast cancer over their lifetimes, according to the American Cancer Society, finding breast cancer at earlier stages has moved the needle on s

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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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Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 12, 2024

Former Olympic gymnast Mary Lou Retton spoke out last week on the NBC “Today” show about what she said was a rare pneumonia that almost killed her and resulted in an expensive, monthlong hospital stay. It was a shocking reveal. One key comment jumped out for those who follow health policy: Retton said she was uninsured, blaming that lack of coverage on 30 orthopedic surgeries that count as “preexisting conditions,” a divorce, and her poor finances. “I just couldn

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 12, 2024

LAS VEGAS — With all the buzz and headlines about artificial intelligence, there is one demographic that is quietly embracing the technology and even building long-term relationships with it. | With all the buzz and headlines about artificial intelligence, there is one demographic that is quietly embracing the technology and even building long-term relationships with it.

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 9, 2024

The study could support extending acute hospital care at home, researchers said. Currently, a pandemic-era waiver for the programs is set to expire at the end of the year.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 9, 2024

Editor's Note: This is the fifth in a series of features on top voices in health IT discussing the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare. To read the first feature, on Dr. John Halamka at the Mayo Clinic, click here. To read the second interview, with Dr. Aalpen Patel at Geisinger, click here. To read the third, with Helen Waters of Meditech, click here.

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Speaker: Amy Anderson

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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Digital Health News

JANUARY 8, 2024

NHS England will investigate whether US data analytics giant Palantir violated the terms of its contract to run the Federated Data Platform.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 12, 2024

We've closed the books on another hectic J. | We covered some of the biggest headlines from the four-day conference and after parsing through all the presentations, interviews and panel discussions, we tracked a handful of key trends dominating the conversations.

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 8, 2024

The new program surfaces eligible benefits for weight management, diabetes and other cardiometabolic conditions when users search Amazon for related devices, like a glucose monitor.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 9, 2024

More healthcare stakeholders in China are contributing to the government's vision to make smart Chinese medicine popular and standardised. In December, the Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) and China Resources Research Institute of Science and Technology, a subsidiary of consumer goods conglomerate China Resources Enterprise (CR Enterprise), entered into an R&D agreement to establish the CR-BU Joint Innovation Centre on Smart Chinese Medicine.

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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.

HIT Consultant

JANUARY 11, 2024

What You Should Know: – The healthcare industry is poised for a seismic shift, powered by a disruptive technology: blockchain, according to the market.us, the Blockchain Technology in Healthcare Market report. – This transformative ledger system is projected to propel the global Blockchain Technology in Healthcare Market to a staggering $750B by 2033, a 69.2% annual growth rate compared to its $3.9B valuation in 2023.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 10, 2024

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual care and digital health tools are more popular than ever. | Elevance Health is launching a new initiative that aims to put smartphones in the hands of Medicaid members who otherwise cannot connect to virtual services.

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 9, 2024

The settlement is a little over half of what Walgreens was originally ordered to pay, after an arbiter said the retail pharmacy chain overcharged Humana for prescription drugs for more than a decade.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 8, 2024

All care delivered through UpDoc's artificial intelligence-based remote patient providers would be prescribed by physicians or clinical pharmacists who oversee the platform, the company said in an announcement on Friday. WHY IT MATTERS UpDoc's remote patient intervention technology leverages conversational AI powered by multiplelarge language models, including GPT-4 through Microsoft's Azure Open AI Service, Google Cloud's MedLM and Vertex AI models.

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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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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 11, 2024

Nick Magnuson, Head of AI at Qlik With many economic hurdles this year including rising costs and inflation, the healthcare industry has had a challenging backdrop in which to operate. In a sector dedicated to improving and saving lives, healthcare has so much to gain by adopting new AI and machine learning (ML) technologies. The World Economic Forum sums up the transformative potential of AI and ML in this setting: from propelling the development of drugs and vaccines to improving medical diagn

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 11, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO — Virtual care company Hims & Hers is collaborating with Hartford HealthCare to connect patients in Connecticut with in-person primary and specialty care services. | Virtual care company Hims & Hers is collaborating with Hartford HealthCare to connect patients in Connecticut with in-person primary and specialty care services.

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 8, 2024

The payer is taking issue with how regulators calculated quality scores for 2024, after seeing a stars decline that could cause its bonus revenue to fall by $500 million.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 10, 2024

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the department of psychiatry and behavioral health at Geisinger began experiencing a significant increase in demand for behavioral health services. THE PROBLEM The demand for services was most noticeable for adult psychotherapy services, with waits as long as several months and several thousand outstanding orders.

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