Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Minidoka Memorial Hospital in Idaho was the first hospital to go live on the new system, according to the network. OCHIN helped the hospital "connect the dots," Sara Zielinski, chief nursing officer at Minidoka, said in a recent blog post. million patients.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The Telehealth Awareness Week educational series aims to share new resources and elevate the voices of patients and healthcare professionals who depend on telehealth to receive and deliver care. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. Email: afox@himss.org.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 8, 2024

Image by freepik What You Should Know: – UnitedHealth Group is embroiled in a new ransomware saga, just as it recovers from a February attack, according to a blog post from threat intelligence firm SOCRadar.

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The Health Law Firm Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law This is part one in a blog series focusing on the effects of COVID burnout in healthcare professionals. As you know, residents are new physicians who have recently finished medical [.] Indest III, J.D., Be sure to check back for part two.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In a new series for CHIRblog, Maanasa Kona and Sabrina Corlette assess some proposed policy options designed to improve the affordability of ESI. The first blog of the series looks at the primary drivers of the erosion occurring in ESI and identifies three recognized policy options to improve affordability for employers and workers alike.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

We are excited to welcome a new group of Student Fellows to the Petrie-Flom Center family. They each will undertake a year-long research project with mentorship from Center faculty and affiliates, and also will blog here at Bill of Health regularly. Aparajita also blogs on SpicyIP.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 4, 2024

To create the digital health promoter, WHO partnered with New Zealand-based Soul Machines, an interactive AI development firm. " The goal for healthcare AI tools like Sarah is to fill healthcare's gaps, not replace its "heroes," the company said in the blog.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2021

Google is expanding its pilot of Care Studio, a new tool designed to help clinicians get to the information they need more easily. According to a recent Google blog entry, Care Studio is a software solution […].

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Hanys

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Our latest blog post highlights the nation's severe blood shortage, emphasizing why New York hospitals need more eligible New Yorkers to roll up their sleeves as soon, and as often, as possible. We're sharing this blog post and video to help people understand the urgent need, and we encourage you to do the same.

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The online appointment booking service called for a dismissal and re-filing of the former CEO's lawsuit, and outlined a financial rebound since his dismissal in a new blog post.

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HealthStream

AUGUST 7, 2020

Three of the most significant, included in the blog post and related article, are explicitly addressed in these new Joint Commission Guidelines. Multiple health conditions occur during pregnancy and after delivery that put the mother and child’s lives at risk.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This historic enrollment coincides with a new rule that fixes the “family glitch,” a former policy that blocked over 5 million people from accessing marketplace subsidies. A record number of people have signed up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

(Clockwise from top left: Joelle Boxer, Adithi Iyer, Vincent Joralemon, Hannah Rahim, Bobby Stroup ) We are excited to welcome a new group of Student Fellows to the Petrie-Flom Center family. These five students are a fantastic cohort of health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics scholars who join us from Harvard Law School.

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Hanys

MARCH 11, 2022

That's why we're urging New York state to act now in our new blog post and video. Creating a healthier tomorrow for all requires investing in healthcare today.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 29, 2024

As Michael Pollan wrote in the New York Times in 2019: “There is…the risk of inciting the sort of political backlash that, in the late 1960s, set back research into psychedelics for decades. When the stakes are that high, the protection of psychedelic research and medicalization has—at times—seemed paramount.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 23, 2023

And the outlook for 2023 is practical and Show-Me: that is, demonstrate clinical outcomes and return-on-investment before “I” (for investors) can take a leap of faith to spend a dollar, a Yen, a Euro, or British pound on a shiny new-new healthcare thing. Check out the full plotline here on the Medecision blog portal.

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Hanys

OCTOBER 14, 2022

New York hospitals aren't just talking about health equity, they're actively working to achieve it. Learn how HANYS' Advancing Healthcare Excellence and Inclusion learning collaborative is supporting a cohort of hospitals across the state in their work to identify and address healthcare disparities in our latest blog post.

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HealthStream

JULY 28, 2020

For Medical Services Professionals (MSPs) who are new to the profession or even seasoned MSPs who are not regularly involved in privileging processes and are interested in a brief refresher, the following blog post details some privileging basics.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

JUNE 15, 2022

In a new post for the Commonwealth Fund’s To the Point blog, Katie Keith explains why there is urgency for Congress to act sooner rather than later. The American Rescue Plan Act has led to record-high marketplace enrollment and significant savings for millions of consumers.

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Hanys

MAY 5, 2023

Our new blog post urges Washington to do more to regulate and oversee Medicare Advantage plans, whose restrictive policies and practices harm enrollees and providers.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

APRIL 14, 2022

In a new post for the Commonwealth Fund’s To the Point blog, CHIR’s Rachel Schwab, Justin Giovannelli, and Kevin Lucia look at California’ recently adopted strategies to reduce and prevent uninsurance and lower cost barriers to care for marketplace enrollees.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

On Monday, Amazon Web Services announced the launch of a new initiative to help organizations worldwide build IT-powered social and healthcare programs to help patients in underserved communities. WHY IT MATTERS. "Projects that focus on underserved populations around the world will be eligible for the program. Learn more here.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

Will your business have to go through the new Office of Health Care Affordability (OHCA) reporting regime for material healthcare transactions? FOOTNOTES [1] See links to Sheppard Mullin’s blog series re SB 184 and OHCA: California Office of Health Care Affordability: Another Regulatory Hurdle for California Healthcare M&A Transactions?

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The Health Law Firm Blog

JULY 19, 2022

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law This is part one in a blog series focusing on the effects of COVID burnout in healthcare professionals. As you know, residents are new physicians who have recently finished medical [.]. Indest III, J.D., Be sure to check back for part two.

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Hanys

MARCH 4, 2022

Our latest blog post highlights the many ways hospitals continue to make significant positive impacts – even in the midst of COVID-19 disruption – and the need for federal and state support for New York hospitals and healthcare organizations.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

However, as Maanasa Kona and Sabrina Corlette observe in their latest Health Affairs Forefront blog, the new disclosure requirements have not - yet - translated into data that can be used to identify the drivers of health care cost growth.

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Hall Render

APRIL 19, 2024

The remaining five hospitals are located in California and New Jersey. Hospital M&A activity was up in the first quarter of 2024 according to a new Kaufman Hall report. ECG Management released a new report looking at the average wait times before a new patient can see a physician. They were sold to a joint venture.

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The HIPAA Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

New HIPAA Standards for attachments and electronic signatures: I saw this in December and tagged it for blogging, but lost it in my overcrowded email folders. This is one of those super-insider-HIPAA deals, but CMS is proposing a new HIPAA standard transaction for attachments and e-signatures.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 24, 2023

"Epic’s approach to leveraging Microsoft’s technology and infrastructure is unprecedented in time and scope," Eric Boyd, corporate vice president of Microsoft's AI platform, wrote in a blog post Tuesday.

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Sharps Compliance

MAY 11, 2022

Continue reading FDA Considers New Approach to Improve Safe Disposal of Prescription Opioid Analgesics at Sharps Compliance Blog. Nonmedical use of prescription opioids commonly leads to the use of illegal drugs like heroin and illegally manufactured fentanyl and fentanyl analogues.

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Healthcare Blog

JULY 28, 2022

In our last blog, we discussed how important customer support is for the implementation, staff adoption, and use of policy management software. For additional information please read our blogs on: Choosing the Right Policy Management Software for Healthcare. Why You Need Policy Automation in the First Place.

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Health Care Law Brief

JANUARY 29, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) has expanded upon its recent Healthcare Sector Cybersecurity Concept Paper (which we covered in a prior blog post ), issuing cybersecurity performance goals (“CPGs”) for the healthcare and public health (“HPH”) sector.

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Hall Render

APRIL 26, 2024

Key takeaways: (i) outpatient volumes will continue to grow, particularly in off-campus MOBs; (ii) MOB demand has outpaced supply since 2021, causing occupancy to rise; (iii) rising construction costs are leading to less new construction; and (iv) MOB cap rates have risen 100-150 bps since Q4 2022.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Within days, New York Times , Fortune and Microsoft addressed the seemingly emotional statements made by Microsoft's Bing with its newly-integrated AI chatbot. Fortune found the new Bing to be a pushy pick-up artist that wants you to leave your partner , according to a partial recap of a Feb.

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Sharps Compliance

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

When you’re racing to get new hires trained on basic tasks – how to stock shelves and run the register – who has time to worry about what they’re throwing in the dumpsters? Retailers & Smaller Companies May Face Fines & Penalties at Sharps Compliance Blog. Continue reading Hazardous Waste in the Solid Waste?

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OSHA Law Blog

MARCH 3, 2022

With this new focus, construction employers who work on public works projects should review their workplace compliance to avoid citations. Read the full article on Jackson Lewis’ California Workplace Law Blog.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2022

The journey to her new role as Patient Ambassador with Parexel was really 16 years in the making, advocating for her son, Emmett, and for her own cancer patient persona. To get a sense of what that caregiving experience is like, check out her blog post, Confessions of an Exhausted Caregiver ]. “I like business and people.

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