HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 20, 2023

HIPAA regulators are now changing their enforcement practices to take that perception of luck out of the equation—and force every organization that touches sensitive patient data to get serious about cybersecurity. The recent bill H.R.7898

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Paul Banco, CEO of etherFAX    How secure is your data? If your organization does not have the right security certifications in place, it’s not a matter of if a data breach will occur – but when. Today, the cost of a data breach comes with a hefty price tag – an average of $9.44 million per data breach.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

Microsoft's Azure health cloud includes a data service that brings together clinical, imaging, medical devices, and other datasets. Examples include using Teams for virtual care visits, Teams integration with Cerner electronic health record, and additional enhancements on the Azure Health Data Services using AI.

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Compliancy Group

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recommends ten practices that anyone handling PHI needs to implement, the fourth of which is HIPAA data loss prevention. What is HIPAA Data Loss Prevention? . HIPAA defines standards by which PHI must be handled. Data loss prevention is a key part of HIPAA.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 20, 2023

Adding CRM to their contact center is expected to improve many standard KPIs and allow them to effectively consolidate agents into “super agents” with an improved ability to resolve multiple customer issues in one call. The default for many organizations has been to use the CRM tools included with their EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

And requests for patient data are predicted to intensify as health plans work to reduce per-member/per-month costs, earn higher STAR ratings, and meet the CMS 2030 value-based care goals. Furthermore, the 21 st Century Act opens the door for greater availability to clinical data among patients, providers, and other requesters such as payers.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 1, 2022

In the race to roll out telehealth offerings and digital patient engagement tools during the height of the pandemic, many providers and health plans inadvertently created a rag-tag assortment of patient portals, health apps and clunky websites that can be impossible to navigate and even more difficult to integrate with existing tech infrastructure.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Early forays into the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) tagging in the healthcare industry were plagued with issues. The latest chips can store data like the global trade item number, serial number, batch number and drug expiration date without barcode scanning or a pharmacist manually reading the label.”

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HIT Consultant

MAY 17, 2023

Understanding Which Vendors Are Delivering High Value and Robust Technology For this report, interviews were conducted over the last 12 months using KLAS’ standard quantitative evaluation for healthcare software, which is composed of 16 numeric ratings questions and 4 yes/no questions, all weighted equally.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

For this report, interviews were conducted over the last 27 months using KLAS’ standard quantitative evaluation for healthcare services, which is composed of 9 numeric rating questions and 3 yes/no questions, all weighted equally. Clients highlight access to thought leaders and executive leaders when needed.

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Med-Net Compliance

JULY 25, 2022

In response to an initial complaint, OCR provided the practice with written technical assistance regarding the Privacy Rule’s right of access standard and closed the matter. They did not respond to multiple data requests from OCR, nor to OCR’s Letter of Opportunity and Notice of Proposed Determination.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

During the pandemic some data sharing restrictions were relaxed. These included data from the RCGP research and surveillance centre which saw the number of participating practices double. Other programmes, including Public Health England’s COVID-19 Observatory, were also able to collect and analyse coronavirus data.

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Healthcare Law Today

DECEMBER 8, 2022

On November 28, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Clinical Standards and Quality issued a memorandum to State Survey Agency Directors stating that hospitals risk Condition of Participation (CoP) violations for failure to adequately respond to and prevent incidents of workplace violence.

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Hall Render

MAY 2, 2023

The F-Tag associated with this regulation is F-886. The CMS Memo provides that while this specific regulatory requirement will end with the PHE, CMS still expects facilities to conduct COVID testing in accordance with accepted national standards, such as national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) recommendations.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

The Washington State legislature passed House Bill 1155, aka the My Health, My Data Act , last week. The My Health, My Data Act defines “consumer health data” as “personal information that is linked or reasonably linkable to a consumer and that identifies a consumer’s past, present, or future physical or mental health.” First, the law.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 26, 2022

We can’t just copy the digital transformation trends of other industries and expect to provide a compassionate, consistent standard of care. We also can’t escape data tracking across platforms. A completely connected network of healthcare data is a tall order, so let’s start smaller. Create an industry standard for digital care.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 17, 2023

Understanding Which Vendors Are Delivering High Value and Robust Technology For this report, interviews were conducted over the last 12 months using KLAS’ standard quantitative evaluation for healthcare software, which is composed of 16 numeric ratings questions and 4 yes/no questions, all weighted equally.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 10, 2022

With wirelessly powered devices, healthcare organizations can deploy more sensors to gather data not only on patients but also on complex medical equipment location and status, ambient conditions and much more, all without additional infrastructure investments or battery purchase and maintenance expenses.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

As the market evolves, early cancer detection pathways will become mainstream, and synergistic CDx (companion diagnostic) tests will foster this new standard in cancer care. Interoperability will be table stakes as secure and efficient data exchanges are essential building blocks of the digital future of healthcare.

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Medisys Compliance

AUGUST 23, 2022

The new standards and coding revisions, however, may have a detrimental effect on the reimbursement on the claims submitted. Effective tagging and medical billing administration serve as a helpful strategic target for all the medical practitioners out there as the healthcare business is now evolving dramatically.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 16, 2023

For this report, interviews were conducted over the last 12 months using KLAS’ standard quantitative evaluation for healthcare software, which is composed of 16 numeric ratings questions and 4 yes/no questions, all weighted equally.

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Hospitals 52

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

To help meet this goal, the ambulatory surgery center contracted with health IT vendor Force Therapeutics, which offers a digital care management platform that leverages clinical data and custom protocols to educate patients and monitor their progress throughout an episode of care.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 31, 2022

National Health Safety Network (“NHSN”) Data. Under the Surveyor Guidance, surveyors have the discretion to verify the accuracy of NHSN data on surveys based on a complaint report or if concerns are identified. F-888 is the citation tag that was created under 42 CFR Section 483.80(i), 42 CFR Section 483.80(i)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Many want to target drug costs and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has mandated hospitals to post a list of their standard charges by diagnostic-related group, in an effort for consumers to have transparent cost options. AWS: AI, data analytics and cloud converging to cut costs, boost care quality.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2021

Clinical Decision Support Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Telehealth Workflow CIOs need to look beyond just EHRs and explore standalone platforms to enhance care delivery – keeping focused on reliable patient data and streamlined clinical workflows. Choose the right device to get reliable patient data and reimbursement.

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US Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 FDA Governance 186

Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2018

I recently wrote about financial toxicity discussing a study from IQVIA Institute on the 2017 prices for oncology drugs, with all new treatments exceeding $100,000 price tags in 2017 and a median price of about $150,000 for a year’s therapy. The second chart illustrates patient-borne costs for early stage breast cancer.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Kishore Pendyala, CEO of KP-Tech Services The Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard was introduced by HL7 in 2014 as a significant replacement for the HL7 V2 and V3 standards. Building on earlier standards like HL7 CDA, V2, and V3, FHIR is more user-friendly because it supports a wider range of technologies.

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Healthcare Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

Instead, there’s a multitude of local, state, and federal laws and regulations, accrediting organization standards, as well as industry-specific best practices. Keywords and keyphrases can be tagged to guidelines, allowing employees to find what they need even when they don’t know the title. 24/7 Cloud-based Access: With 99.9%

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 4, 2022

The confluence of today’s technological advances – in data analytics, digital sensor technologies, 5G networks, artificial intelligence and machine learning, genomic medicine, and elsewhere – offers the potential to transform medicine as we know it. Region Tag: Global Edition. Advanced medicine through analytics.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Given that the field is increasingly digitized and data-driven, health IT is responsible for collecting and analyzing social determinants of health (SDoH). Data can both call out SDoH and help to address its effects. They use claims data to track use of emergency rooms, medical equipment, and generic versus brand medications.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2020

In Dubai not only is the coordination of beds, both critical and standard beds centralised, but all relevant government agencies, from Dubai Ambulance, to Dubai Police, Dubai Municipality and many others closely coordinate their efforts in tackling COVID 19 in Dubai. Being part of an integrated system: King’s plays its role.

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MedTrainer

AUGUST 2, 2023

By verifying the credentials of providers, healthcare organizations can establish a network of qualified professionals and maintain a high standard of care and patient safety. After that, the credentialing process is periodically reviewed and renewed to ensure ongoing compliance with standards and regulations.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Generative AI solutions have the ability to provide nurses with human-like conversations and actionable insights to support data-driven decision-making. Automating tasks like repetitive data entry frees up valuable time, and relevant automated alerts like flagging high capacity levels or discharge barriers support swift responsive action.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 5, 2022

This has led to a step-change in the way in which this source of data can be used to help identify those at greatest risk of disease. Ancestry bias is pervasive across medicine and models built with genetic data are no different. Most genetic data generated to date come from individuals of European ancestry. Reporting Standards.

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Doctors 52

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The breadth of connectivity, the exchange of data, and the benefit of both feels significantly different depending on where you sit inside the healthcare ecosystem. I’ll be honest, it was refreshing to hear a President & Co-Founder of a healthcare IT company celebrating the dropping of the word “interoperability” from their tag line.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 6, 2022

By 90 days after the date of each of the QSO Memos (March 28, 2022 for the Group 1 QSO Memo and April 14, 2022 for the Group 2 QSO Memo) , facilities failing to maintain compliance with the 100% standard may be subject to enforcement action. Survey Guidance for Skilled Nursing Facilities – New F Tag 888. Surveys Start.

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COVID-19 Vaccine COVID-19 Nurses Compliance 40

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Biofourmis’ remote patient monitoring and AI-based analytics technology, Biovitals, provides personalized predictive care by leveraging active and passive data collected from clinical-grade patient wearables that continuously monitor more than 20 physiological parameters, as well as patient-captured data from a mobile app.

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