Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Both of my parents died, my mother-in-law died, and my husband was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at the age of 55. This means that you will name particular beneficiaries as recipients of specific assets, such as cars, bank accounts, and your house. During 2013 and 2014, I endured a very difficult 18 months.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 12, 2023

Washington state is on the brink of enacting a new law that will considerably expand privacy protections for consumer health data in the state and will address the current gap in privacy protections for health data not covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The counter person gave me a form to complete: my information, bank account, and questions about how hungry I was, my favorite toppings, any allergies, and my family’s experience with pizza. . The specialist then left the room to enter my information into the Pizza parlor’s computer system. Back to Reality.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

"We are calling it 'Best Care for My Patient,'" said Gerhart. Epic also plans to showcase new consumer capabilities to help patients get estimates, schedule visits and connect with providers before having accounts.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Recently, I remotely attended a mask-optional, in-person meeting where campus leaders proudly proclaimed that DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) is my college’s “top priority.” By Matt Dowell.

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Jackson Lewis

MAY 1, 2023

Health data privacy, including in the context of reproductive health, was strengthened last week when Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed the “My Health, My Data Act” on April 27, 2023. Read more.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 25, 2022

power accountable—. after all, they are politically accountable. (a My Country Tis of Thee, sweet land of liberty—. Instead, cry, the beloved companies, the nervous CEOs who demanded immunity. not just protection to make reasonable mistakes. in the face of uncertainty, but a Monopoly pass to. be unreasonable. perverted the song.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 23, 2023

Unauthorized accounts were created in the ABE system, which accessed and linked to existing customer MMC accounts by using customers’ personal information that had been stolen from another source. The email account breach was detected on April 4, 2023, when a fraudulent payroll submission appeared on the company checking account.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

I logged in with my Google account and everything was ready […]. I just bought a new cell phone (The Google Pixel 4a for those that wonder and yes, it says a lot about me). I’m an Android user and always have been an Android user. I also use Google voice, so switching phones was easy.

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Provider Trust

MARCH 24, 2022

In college, I received my Bachelors of Arts in Theater. I have utilized this theatrical training throughout my career by accessing my creative abilities in problem solving. By collaborating with others for plays, my communication skills have increased, which is key in a team-focused environment.

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Jane Sarashon

MARCH 12, 2024

On February 22, 2024, I went to a CVS Pharmacy-Inside-Target in my community to fill a prescription for benzonatate 200 mg capsules. That’s TMI for me to write about in the Health Populi blog, but this story has a current-events twist: the pharmacist could not electronically link with my insurance company to transact my payment.

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Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2024

I have no skin in this game except to review ongoing research, feed it into my own learnings, and share them out in my work and communication. While the findings of the research are not new-news, per se, they are presented in a chillingly compelling format that might touch your head and heart in new ways as they did mine.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 21, 2022

And yeah, with a patient portal I can look at my data. That's not going to let me, you know, look at my illness with some app that helps me with my sleep, or with true fitness informed by my medical information as opposed to just tracking steps. I mean, you have word of mouth, but there's no computational way.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 13, 2021

" Feinberg added another example: "It's having me – an MD, an MBA with decades of experience as a doctor and running hospitals – yet not being able to make sense of an explanation of benefits of my healthcare, from my own health system. " Feinberg acknowledged the challenges of accountable care.

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Provider Trust

JANUARY 24, 2022

My title is Technical Support Specialist, but I emphasize bringing the special and support to the technical side of things. I just had my 1-year anniversary the week of Thanksgiving. This one is my favorite because I am an adventurous person. All things security and risk related because that is my jam. This value is me.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 31, 2023

In my many years as a security researcher, I have seen everything from millions of credit card numbers and health records to internal documents from organizations of all sizes. Park Royal Hospital Discovers Unauthorized Email Account Access Park Royal Hospital in Fort Myers, FL, has discovered unauthorized access to an employee email account.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

“My true passion is for the use of the data and information both at the bedside and in planning for the delivery of upcoming care and treatment.” “This change in culture has resulted in individuals feeling empowered, but with a sense of accountability for what happens and the outcome,” he says.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The electronically signed documents and payment receipt are then returned to the webPAS to automatically update the patient’s account as paid. The new Health API Gateway replaces the current Oracle API Gateway to facilitate connections to My Health Record.

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MedTrainer

APRIL 22, 2024

In my experience, that’s easier said than done. It serves as a check and balance on the compliance program and compliance program accountability. The Healthcare Compliance Committee’s Role An effective healthcare compliance committee is pivotal in fostering a culture of compliance and accountability within the organization.

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Provider Trust

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

My wife and I live in Nolensville TN with our Shitzu, Izzy. I love cooking, exercising (I turned my garage into a gym courtesy of the pandemic), and reading. My career goals here at PT include driving contractual discipline, producing actionable data through contract management, and helping the organization minimize contractual risks.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 24, 2023

The New York Attorney General determined that these failures violated state law and the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). New Yorkers can trust that when companies fail at their duty, my office will step in to hold them accountable.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Healthy Together uses the Department of Veterans Affairs Lighthouse program to securely access relevant VA data when veterans connect their VA accounts. "Having a digital copy of my immunization records saves me from carrying paper copies back and forth between providers." WHY IT MATTERS. " THE LARGER TREND.

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Medisys Compliance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Will a dedicated team be handling our account? Has a specific person been assigned to look after my accounts? An experienced billing individual will be in charge of handling your accounts receivable and will be reachable whenever you need them. Do I have to obtain my reports at the end of the month?

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

The stories: 4 future health care worlds for 2030 My goal for this post and for the AHIP panel is to brainstorm what the person’s health care experience would be in each of these four worlds. Privacy laws have evolved on a national basis that have used the Washington State Privacy Law, the My Health My Data Act of 2023.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 28, 2023

Senate Bill (SB) 370 was modeled on Washington’s recently enacted “My Health, My Data (MHMD) bill, although is less comprehensive in scope. Exceptions include law enforcement agencies and their contractors, and entities covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (BLBA).

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Compliancy Group has confirmed that My Office Apps Inc. has demonstrated its good faith effort toward HIPAA compliance and was found to have taken all the necessary steps to comply with all appropriate provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

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Compliancy Group

APRIL 8, 2024

Understanding Healthcare Governance Risk and Compliance: Ensuring Accountability Healthcare Governance Risk and Compliance refers to the structured approach that healthcare organizations adopt to manage their operations within legal boundaries while adhering to ethical standards.

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The Digital Health Corner

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It has been a long time since my last post of 2018. The objective of my blog, which began in 2011, was and remains educating the reader (clinicians, healthcare IT community, patients and caregivers, and other healthcare stakeholders about digital health technology and how it is relevant to the changing healthcare environment.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 12, 2021

Not too surprising, but the account is now gone. I haven’t heard the official story of what happened, but my guess is that it was taken down based on some trademark claim. As most of you know, as part of Fun Friday I’d regularly feature the @EpicEMRParody and the various parody tweets they’d send.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

“My practice, Jensen Family Medicine, is based in Queen Creek, Arizona, which is a three-hour, 166-mile commute from my home in Lakeside, Arizona. I am committed to my practice, which I opened 12 years ago with my wife Debra. “So far, about 800 of my patients have opened Medici accounts to do virtual visits.”

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Stars performance declined in 2022 while voluntary member churn increased, and there are more headwinds coming as weighting of CAHPS measures will account for over half of Stars performance in 2023. I felt completely powerless when my mom started showing signs of cognitive decline, because I live far away, and my parents were in denial. “I

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This is technoableism as I describe it in my book, Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement. Two stories hit my newsfeed this year that continue to haunt me: one of the planned obsolescence of a cochlear implant given to an Indian child, and another about an Australian woman begging to keep her brain implant.

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Health Law Advisor

MAY 25, 2023

Very recently, Washington State’s My Health My Data Act was signed into law by Governor Jay Inslee in late April, Florida lawmakers passed Senate Bill 262 in early May, and the Tennessee Information Protection Act was signed into law earlier this month as well.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 12, 2023

“We’re thrilled with the opportunity to propel Dock into the next phase of our journey, enhancing our technology and building out our team to better support the needs of healthcare organizations looking to provide more efficient, highly-reliable and accountable care.”

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The breach investigation confirmed that an unauthorized third party had logged on via a VPN on May 24, 2021, using a DDC user account. Active Directory credentials were harvested from a Domain Controller that provided password information for each account in the network.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 5, 2023

For these individuals, the possibility of medical malpractice claims and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) violations looms large. My responses are based on the information available up until September 2021 and should not be considered as a substitute for consulting with a qualified healthcare professional.

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Provider Trust

AUGUST 5, 2022

My first role was as a Growth Operations Intern. I am still learning everyday but I feel much more confident in my abilities now! I work from home now, so seeing everyone, playing games, and posing for the photo booth was a great way to connect with my coworkers! My favorite value is Be the Hustle.

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