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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Verisys

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (GRC) in healthcare is an integrated approach that helps healthcare organizations manage their overall governance, enterprise risk management, and comply with regulatory requirements in a cohesive and aligned manner. What is healthcare data governance?

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Amid the push for digital transformation, leaders in IT will face the challenge of balancing innovation with regulatory compliance and patient safety. The forward-thinking approach involves advocating for seamless communication, integration, and a clear vision for enhanced multi-lateral data governance.

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MedTrainer

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Corporate compliance training helps healthcare organizations balance the need to provide top-notch care with adhering to a plethora of regulations. What Is Corporate Compliance Training? What Is the Difference Between Corporate Compliance Training and Regulatory Compliance Training?

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 25, 2024

Most of the largest hacks targeted vendors who bill, mail, or provide other services for hospitals, doctors, and other health providers. Lastly, regulatory compliance should not be overlooked, particularly in industries subject to stringent cybersecurity regulations such as healthcare.

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Compliancy Group

APRIL 17, 2024

OIG Medicare compliance audits help ensure that hospitals, clinics, and other medical facilities use program funds efficiently and in accordance with federal and state laws. Findings from OIG audits can identify compliance areas needing improvement. Generally, compliance officers ensure that OIG internal monitoring and auditing.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The following is a guest article by Steven Stone, Head of Rubrik Zero Labs at Rubrik In early August, a ransomware attack disrupted operations across its network of 17 hospitals and more than 165 clinics in four states and forced some to rely on paper records. Regulatory compliance is and likely always will be core to the mission.

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MedTrainer

AUGUST 9, 2023

Healthcare risk management software assists healthcare organizations in identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks related to patient safety, regulatory compliance, and care operations. Compliance Management. The software helps organizations stay compliant with complex regulatory requirements and industry standards.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 27, 2023

For healthcare organizations, the impact is profound: lineage supports data accuracy, builds data trustworthiness, enables data-driven decisions, and facilitates regulatory compliance. A Proactive Approach to Data Incidents Data incidents significantly impact healthcare organizations.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 21, 2023

These unique identification codes can serve important functions allowing item-level track and trace as well as authentication of the drug, enabling hospitals and patients to verify the provenance of the drug or medication. Typically, they can carry a unique identification code, manufacturing details, expiration dates, and lot numbers.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 25, 2022

They’re using the increased accessibility of healthcare data lakes, AI and machine learning, and other technologies to rapidly transform their data, improve their ability to spot trends and patterns with predictive analytics, and of course ensure and enhance their data security, governance, and regulatory compliance.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 3, 2022

decrease, and hospitals seeing a 1.8% A Regulatory compliance and survey process both distract and often assault a beaten-up staff and push people out of service to the facilities. Why should the government be in the job of making nursing homes better? decrease, outpatient care centers seeing a 1.8%

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 28, 2023

These technologies can also be used to develop predictive models for hospital readmissions, disease progression, and patient outcomes, allowing providers to deliver more personalized care and improve outcomes. Devising and following a strategic plan for digital transformation is the difference between true transformation and short-term wins.

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MedTrainer

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Florida Healthcare Compliance Resources Let’s start with the important state government agencies you’ll need to work with: The Florida Department of Health (DOH) plays a crucial role in promoting and safeguarding the wellbeing of Floridians.

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Health Care Law Brief

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As such, a physician shareholder of a Friendly PC would be prohibited from exercising governance rights over the entity if the physician has a covered relationship with the Friendly PC’s MSO. See ORS § 58.375(1)(f)(A) (as proposed).As Restrictions on MSA and Other Agreement Terms. Notably, however, certain narrow exceptions are contemplated.

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Health Care Law Brief

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In a November 12, 2021 revision of its prior draft guidelines for hospital co-location compliance with Medicare conditions of participation (COP) for hospitals (QSO-19-13), CMS has apparently softened its approach to co-location.

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MedTrainer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

At its core, medical compliance certification is a formal recognition that an individual or organization possesses an in-depth understanding of the intricate web of compliance principles, regulations, and best practices that govern the healthcare industry.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Rich Amelio, Vice President, Healthcare IT Operations and Consulting at e4health Similar to migrating data between applications in healthcare, the success of healthcare application cloud migrations is often driven by proper planning and governance.

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AIHC

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Case #2 : A 38-year-old man was brought to the hospital with altered mental status after crashing while riding a motorcycle. On hospitals days 5 through 10, the primary team’s progress notes documented identical examinations, each auto populated from a previous note, including the phrase “moves all extremities.”

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 3, 2023

The Challenges to Meeting Compliance Regulations. Among all of the challenges healthcare security programs face, one of the biggest is the fast-changing regulatory compliance environment combined with the lack of visibility and consistency in cybersecurity training. About Rusty Carter.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

Understanding ASCs Regulatory Changes and Their Billing Practices Outpatient surgery centers (ASCs) perform many surgical procedures outside of hospitals. However, ASC billing practices must be followed to ensure proper reimbursement and regulatory compliance. ASC billing compliance has many benefits.

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Healthcare Law Today

JANUARY 20, 2022

This desire to remain independent has been supported by the leverage these practices have by reason of their ownership and operation of ambulatory surgery centers or, in some cases, physician owned hospitals, imaging, physical therapy, orthotics, and durable medical equipment. Hospital Relationships.

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Healthcare Law Today

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In this episode of Health Care Law Today, Nate Lacktman and Maureen Stewart are joined by Mark Josephs, Deputy General Counsel of LifeMD to discuss the current regulatory and legal environment for telemedicine companies regarding online subscription services, and the recent investigations by the federal government of these services.

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Health Care Law Brief

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Additionally, and as we touched upon in our January 7, 2021 post on the No Surprises Act , these new measures supplement state laws governing surprise medical billing, and so in cases where a state No Surprises law applies, the state law generally determines an individual’s OON payment rate. [1]. 2] See 86 Fed.

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Exeed Regulatory Compliance

MARCH 5, 2020

Healthcare workers in hospitals, outpatient clinics and emergency response teams are at high risk. We may not have enough hospital beds, ventilators or patient monitoring equipment. While diagnostic capacity is a concern, we also need to think about potential shortage of protective equipment such as face masks, gloves and gowns.

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MedTrainer

AUGUST 30, 2023

To achieve this, MCOs contract with hospitals, physicians, and specialists to offer services to their members at negotiated rates. HMOs offer a comprehensive range of healthcare services through a network of doctors, hospitals, and other providers. Some of the most common types of managed care plans include.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Hospitals, for example, have increasingly been the target of malware and ransomware attacks. This past August, Prospect Medical Holdings took its main computer network offline after an incident affecting 16 hospitals and over 100 other medical facilities across the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 15, 2023

Digitizing patient care records empowered MCHD to move from multiple systems to a centralized repository, leading to more efficient records management with proper retention schedules and regulatory compliance.

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MedTrainer

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As a key member of your facility’s healthcare compliance programming, you understand the significance of regulatory compliance and the critical role it plays in ensuring the privacy and security of patient information. Use this guide for creating the reports you need to satisfy OCR and other governing body inspections.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2023

There are an estimated 500 vendors that offer some variation of EHR products, while the average hospital uses 16 different EHR systems. Compliance and Privacy Regulations : The healthcare industry is subject to strict regulations such as HIPAA in the US, and GDPR in Europe.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

Christoph Pedain, Business Leader, Hospital Patient Monitoring at Philips By the end of 2024, we will see significant moves by hospitals and health systems embracing readiness for Service-Oriented Device Connectivity (SDC). Placing the right workload in the right location is vital to maximizing cloud technology resources.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Security and Privacy Ali Davis, SVP at Zeno Group After a global cyberattack targeted multiple government agencies, including the HHS, it’s clear that healthcare-related information is valuable to attackers.

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Health Care Law Brief

JULY 8, 2022

The new HIPAA guidance generally reminds providers about their obligations under the Privacy Rule to safeguard patients’ protected health information (“PHI”), even under many circumstances where the information has been requested by government officials or in the context of litigation.

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SQA

OCTOBER 18, 2022

List Health Advance as an “Official Canadian Distributor” Include the text “Health Canada Approved” (Claims of endorsement by government authorities, such as Health Canada, are not permitted.). .” instead of BTNX Inc. Counterfeit health products are imitations of authentic products.

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Med League

JANUARY 17, 2024

In addition to malpractice cases, heart transplant expert witnesses may also be called upon in cases related to organ procurement and allocation, informed consent, and regulatory compliance. To become a heart transplant expert witness, an individual must have extensive knowledge and experience in the field of heart transplantation.

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