Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

How government funding kept California hospitals afloat when COVID struck. Fri, 09/23/2022 - 15:35.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The following post is adapted from the edited volume AI in eHealth: Human Autonomy, Data Governance and Privacy in Healthcare. To learn more about these and related issues, you may read our new volume on AI in eHealth: Human Autonomy, Data Governance and Privacy in Healthcare published by Cambridge University Press.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Wellstar's Atlanta hospital closure has government leaders scrambling to head off care shortages. Tue, 09/13/2022 - 12:25.

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Becker's Health IT

MARCH 17, 2023

Rural hospitals need more government funding to deal with the increase in healthcare ransomware attacks and to hire more cybersecurity professionals, IT security leaders told Congress, CyberScoop reported March 16.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

At Bumrungrad International Hospital, chief digital MarTech officer Wisut Ua-Anant has led the development of a comprehensive digital health application that brings the benefits of transformation directly to its Thai and international patients. The patient can also easily access their health information through the Application.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 31, 2023

hospitals in apparent retaliation for U.S. The group is known for conducting denial of service (DoS) and DDoS attacks on government institutions and private organizations in countries providing support to Ukraine. Hospitals appeared first on HIPAA Journal. support of Ukraine. airports in October.

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Kaiser Health News

MARCH 17, 2023

Hospitals have long used temporary workers, who are often employed by third-party agencies, to help fill their staffing needs. Desperate hospitals that could afford it offered signing bonuses as high as $40,000 for nurses willing to make multiyear commitments to join their staff instead.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2023

Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held a hearing to examine cybersecurity risks to the healthcare sector, how healthcare providers and the federal government are working to combat those threats, and determine what the federal government needs to do to improve defenses against cyberattacks on the healthcare sector.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 3, 2023

This year’s report shows more than 200 large organizations in the United States have been attacked in the government, education, and healthcare verticals. Out of the 24 confirmed attacks on hospitals, data theft occurred in 17 of those attacks (68%).

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Bill of Health

JUNE 1, 2022

Over the past two years, the Supreme Court has shown unprecedented hostility to efforts by both state and federal government to stop the spread of what every day turns out to be an even more deadly pandemic. These decisions are devastating, and likely signal a continued attack on government authority , but they are not a reason to give up.

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Healthcare Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

As hospitals have become increasingly complex organizations, effective governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) strategies have become essential for ensuring patient safety and regulatory compliance. What are the Key Components of a Successful Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Strategy?

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Bill of Health

JULY 20, 2022

Section 340B of the Public Health Service Act requires that pharmaceutical manufacturers give discounts on specified outpatient drugs to certain covered entities who typically serve low-income or otherwise underserved patients, including hospitals and clinics. By 2030, CMS projects that spending on hospital care will grow an additional $2.24

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 21, 2023

Queensland-based Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service will be trying out a remote pregnancy monitoring platform by ASX-listed HeraMED. At the same time, the hospital will conduct a clinical implementation study with HeraMED to assess several use cases of HeraCARE, including acceptance, cost-effectiveness, and clinical outcomes.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

As an emergency medicine resident at a large academic hospital in Los Angeles, I see how incarcerated patients’ suffering is sanctioned by hospitals and medical professionals, despite their pledge to do no harm. Because his vital signs were stable, he did not have to be admitted to the hospital. It is human made.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 17, 2023

To improve price transparency, the government could consider extending reporting requirements to more provider sites or making compliance a condition of participating in Medicare, witnesses testified in a Tuesday hearing.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Cyber experts hope CommonSpirit's crippling attack will spur hospitals to tighten defenses—and government to play offense. Mon, 10/24/2022 - 17:34.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 29, 2023

THE LARGER CONTEXT The project started in 2021 as a proof of concept between Personify Care and the Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN) with support from the SA government's Go2Gov programme. Since then, it has reduced workload pressure on front-line hospital staff while providing convenient care access to patients.

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MRO Compliance

MAY 31, 2023

Audit Manager Return on Investment Over the past few years, the number of government and commercial audits has skyrocketed, and hospitals are struggling to keep up with the influx of requests for documentation, denials, and downstream appeals.

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Healthcare Law Blog

MAY 19, 2023

As an update to our previous post , on Monday, May 15, 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill 112 (“AB 112”), which is designed to provide critical relief to qualified struggling hospitals across the state. Recognizing this, the California Legislature unanimously passed AB 112 in both chambers earlier this month.

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Kaiser Health News

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Under programs set up by the Affordable Care Act, the federal government cuts payments to hospitals that have high rates of readmissions and those with the highest numbers of infections and patient injuries. Maryland hospitals are exempted from penalties because that state has a separate payment arrangement with Medicare.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 4, 2023

Monitoring and maintaining the security of IT infrastructure is often overemphasized within hospitals and health systems, while the human side of reducing risk is often under-emphasized. The answer is training, continual training to help create a culture of security within your hospital or health system.

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Kaiser Health News

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The Cuthbert home where Gipson lived was less than a mile from Southwest Georgia Regional Medical Center, but the ambulance couldn’t take her to the one-story brick hospital because it had closed three months earlier, in October 2020. “If the hospital was still open, it could have saved her.” that closed in 2020. .

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 15, 2021

By Ken Perez, vice president of healthcare policy and government affairs, Omnicell, Inc. The article The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021: What’s In It For Hospitals? On February 27, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1319, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. One week later, on […].

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Kaiser Health News

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The federal government has penalized 764 hospitals — including more than three dozen it simultaneously rates as among the best in the country — for having the highest numbers of patient infections and potentially avoidable complications.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 7, 2023

Ittai Dayan, co-founder & CEO of Rhino Health Hospitals are increasingly motivated to drive digital transformation in order to improve patient outcomes, reduce costs, meet regulatory requirements and stay competitive. Data Security: Hospitals need to protect patient data from unauthorized access, use, and disclosure.

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 29, 2023

The groups argue the expansion of the FCA would threaten the “legitimate business activities of every government contractor, hospital, healthcare provider, health insurance provider, and grant recipient in the nation.”

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Becker's Health IT

MARCH 20, 2023

based Corewell Health, said the federal government must help healthcare organizations defend against cyberattacks from nation-state actors and organized crime groups, BankInfoSecurity reported March 16. Scott Dresen, chief information security officer of dually headquartered Grand Rapids and Southfield, Mich.-based

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Modern Healthcare

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Government-owned community hospitals are currently not allowed to operate outside of service areas. A proposed bill would let them consolidate or work together.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Launched in 2020, the DHI measures a health organisation's progress in building a digital health ecosystem in four dimensions: governance and workforce, predictive analytics, interoperability, and person-enabled health. The hospital scored 365/400 for the DHI. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2021

With no vaccination or specific treatment on the horizon, Howard University Hospital, an academic medical center in the district, prepared for a major surge of COVID-19 patients. With a large Black community in Washington, Howard University Hospital prepared for disproportionately more patients and more severely ill patients.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

The gamble is over for hospitals that avoided complying with CMS price transparency mandates. After a slow start since they were implemented more than 18 months ago, CMS has issued 350 warnings for noncompliance, 157 corrective action requests, and finally issued fines to two Georgia hospitals in June. The fines are significant.

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Hospitals Patient Satisfaction Compliance Governance 98

Bill of Health

JULY 13, 2022

Nonetheless, the doctor who was to perform the surgery said approval from the hospital director was required. The hospital director, Dr. Maximiliano Cárdenas Díaz, was the former ‘dean’ of the Peruvian Medical Association, and one of Peru’s leading scholars on medical ethics. The 1997 law also did two other relevant things: 1.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The Indian government is upgrading its COVID-19 vaccination platform, CoWIN, to digitally track people's vaccination status against common preventable diseases, including measles, rubella and COVID-19. Eka Care helps fast-track OPD token implementation in public hospitals.

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AIHC

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Written by Joanne Byron , BS, LPN, CCA, CHA, CHCO, CHBS, CHCM, CIFHA, CMDP, COCAS, CORCM, OHCC, ICDCT-CM/PCS The Federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule helps Americans know the cost of a hospital item or service before receiving it. The regulation aims to improve the affordability of hospital care by promoting price competition.

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Healthcare Law Blog

MAY 10, 2023

Summary: California lawmakers have greenlighted emergency loans to support struggling hospitals facing financial challenges across the state. These loans will serve as a critical lifeline, helping eligible hospitals stabilize operations and navigate through turbulent times. a hospital that closed after January 1, 2022).

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The Health Law Firm

JUNE 17, 2022

., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On June 15, 2022, the US Supreme Court said the federal government improperly cut more than $1 billion a year in Medicare reimbursements to hospitals. This came in a ruling that limits regulators’ power to control what the program pays for certain drugs.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 18, 2022

What You Should Know: – The 32BJ Health Fund, a self-insured fund that provides care for 32BJ SEIU members and their dependents, today released a report that lays bare the stark price disparities between Medicare and private hospitals, and outlines solutions to both reins in prices and holds hospital systems accountable for these practices.

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