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Highlights from the HHS-OIG 2023 Spring Semiannual Report

Provider Trust

This post will delve into the key highlights, focus areas, and accomplishments presented in the semiannual report, shedding light on the OIG’s crucial role in safeguarding the integrity of federal healthcare programs and addressing emerging challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

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GIS Data Sharing – A Model for Healthcare Data Interoperability?

Healthcare IT Today

At the micro-level, the lack of data interoperability means that patient data cannot be easily shared between the hospital that the patient visited and the family physician that regularly takes care of them…or between the nursing home and the urgent care clinic. It doesn’t have to be this way. Inspiration From Outside of Healthcare.

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2024 HHS-OIG Top Areas of Focus

Provider Trust

In addition, the COVID-19 public health emergency triggered shifts in Medicaid and CHIP eligibility, which could impact millions of people. These programs ensure that the government engages only with law-abiding individuals and uses taxpayer dollars appropriately. With Medicaid, the challenges are equally formidable.

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What Has COVID Ever Done For Us? Here 9 Examples

HIT Consultant

The early 2020s will be studied by historians as a time of global uncertainty when an unknown pathogen caused a public health emergency that brought the world to the brink. Ivor Campbell, CEO of Snedden Campbell. The use of 3D printing as a disruptive technology came into its own, keeping costs down and saving lives. Synthetic biology.

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Carceral Health Care Is Designed to Fail

Bill of Health

We know that incarcerated patients often present at younger ages with more advanced stages of disease when seen by external health care providers. And we know that our prisons, jails, and detention centers employ doctors with suspended and limited licenses as the exclusive source for health care for incarcerated people.

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Health Provider News – May 13, 2022

Hall Render

Nurse-staffing bill advancing through Colorado Legislature. Now Durango’s public health agency is sounding the alarm. Oscar Health To Exit Colorado, Arkansas. Mental health emergency co-responder program comes amid Illinois labor shortage. Nursing Home Operator Leaving 8 Locations.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

million for rural hospital expansion Hospices in Arizona & other states receive scrutiny over concerns of fraud, waste & abuse Phoenix Children’s Building New 44,000-Square Foot Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Firefighters oppose Banner’s planned $400M hospital There’s a growing nurse shortage in Arizona.