HIT Consultant

JANUARY 12, 2023

Staffing shortages, cost of care delivery and reimbursement changes have put more pressure on healthcare practices to do more with less. Recent technology advancements have come to the rescue and enabled healthcare organizations to simplify processes, improve communication efforts and ultimately support staff and patients alike.

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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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Healthcare Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Public health policy encompasses various levels of healthcare, from federal legislation to state or local laws, community-based health initiatives, and facility-level policies. It impacts every area of healthcare, including interventions, access, and insurance. What Is Public Health Policy? No Smoking Campus is a public health policy.

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Verisys

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

– The best resource for monthly healthcare regulatory compliance updates. Compliance Updates: November 2023 Here is our monthly regulatory update. A big thanks to our compliance team, who monitors state, federal, and international updates. See below for changes from several states introducing legislation.

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AIHC

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

HITECH is a federal regulatory requirement used to implement privacy and security provisions for healthcare providers and entities, by the Office of Civil Rights (OCR). HITECH puts a “bite” into specific elements of the HIPAA rule, such as higher penalty amounts for non-compliance. What is “HITECH”? Why HITECH?

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AIHC

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

HITECH is a federal regulatory requirement used to implement privacy and security provisions for healthcare providers and entities, by the Office of Civil Rights (OCR). HITECH puts a “bite” into specific elements of the HIPAA rule, such as higher penalty amounts for non-compliance. What is “HITECH”? Why HITECH?

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 16, 2022

Lynne Rinehimer, Esq, GRC Sales Engineer and Compliance SME for symplr. healthcare system. The purpose of the No Surprises Act is to prevent surprise out-of-network bills, often for emergency services. The purpose of the No Surprises Act is to prevent surprise out-of-network bills, often for emergency services.

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Provider Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) has released its latest 2023 Spring Semiannual Report to Congress, providing a comprehensive overview of its activities from October 2022 to March 2023. Led by acting Inspector General Christi A. A Message from Acting Inspector General Christi A.

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AIHC

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Introduction Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a powerful tool for solving complex problems in diverse domains within healthcare. However, there are serious challenges to the development and use of these technologies as they relate to economic and regulatory considerations.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The healthcare industry is now closer than ever to its quest for true interoperable data exchange. July 1, 2021 was the enforcement date for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Interoperability and Patient Access final rule. Broad-based adoption will be the final step in actually making healthcare better.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Nathalie Feria, Manager at Kaufman Rossin’s Risk Advisory Services. Daniel Rosenberg, Manager at Kaufman Rossin’s Risk Advisory Services. One thing’s for certain: Healthcare data breaches continue to rise in 2022. Healthcare providers so far this year, have reported 96 breaches affecting 31.6 While the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A year of constantly shifting gears to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic and meet patient needs further solidified the essential role urgent cares play during large-scale public health crises. As it stands today, visit volumes have now reached (and in some cases exceeded) their winter peaks volumes levels, adding to volatility in 2021. .

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2021

health policy and regulatory leaders. The three spoke about navigating compliance (think: regulations and reimbursement) in an uncertain world. healthcare was relatively low (with Northwell Health actually a more mature user of virtual care). In healthcare, our compact with technology has changed forever.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 2, 2022

Exacerbated by pandemic-induced burnout, resignations, and even terminations 1 , chronic coding and revenue cycle management (RCM) staffing shortages have healthcare organizations struggling to find ways to keep revenue flowing despite a lack of qualified professionals to handle critical processes. The Rising Cost of Desperation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2021

That's the theme of this ongoing feature story series, where Healthcare IT News talks with IT leaders to focus on new lessons learned and how the executives will be applying those lessons today and into the future. creating all kinds of chaos for CIOs and other health IT leaders to contend with. Keith Perry, CIO, St.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 15, 2023

Using the same technology that turned incident reporting into a model process, our team implemented or redesigned a host of processes in 2020 and into 2021 to contend with the ongoing effects of the pandemic. Though the agency serves more than a half million people, our process automation department is a two-person team.

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Innovaare Compliance

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Annually, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) releases star ratings, which measure the quality of care health plans deliver for its members. 1 The goal is to ensure health plans commit to improving their performance as it relates to disease management, preventive care and customer service.

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Provider Trust

MAY 9, 2023

Fraud and abuse are unfortunate realities of the healthcare industry. Hundreds of claims and investigations are carried out yearly to combat the growing number of providers, organizations, and entities contributing to fraud and abuse within state and federal healthcare programs. What is a Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU)?

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Healthcare Law Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

On November 6, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released the contract year 2025 proposed rule for Medicare Advantage (“MA”) organizations and Part D sponsors (the “Proposed Rule”). Below is a summary of some of the Proposed Rule’s key changes.

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SQA

OCTOBER 18, 2022

SQA Regulatory Surveillance Summary for July and August 2022. The entire shipment, which contained 435 boxes of the 25-pack, was sent to Health Canada for compliance follow-up. Health Canada. Counterfeit COVID-19 Antigen Rapid Test Kits Found in Ontario, 05 August 2022. products in color and typeface and uses the BTNX Inc.

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Hall Render

JULY 8, 2022

CMS issues updated nursing home staffing compliance guidelines. Vendor Ransomware Attack Impacts 660 Healthcare Organizations. CMS Analysis Reveals Implicit Bias in Healthcare, Value-Based Payment. North Korea-backed hackers target healthcare. The Ensign Group Acquires Healthcare Campus in Arizona. CALIFORNIA.

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C&M Health Law

JANUARY 25, 2023

Notably, the Act neither fulfilled the Biden Administration’s request for additional COVID-19 response funding nor included the Verifying Accurate Leading-edge In Vitro Clinical Test (IVCT) Development (VALID) Act, which proposed updating the current diagnostic testing regulatory framework. 117-164 ) (the “Act”)—an approximately $1.7

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