HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 10, 2022

One of the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic has been that healthcare facilities need to scale up operations quickly to respond to a public health emergency and that doing so is a significant challenge. For many decades, the deployment of devices inside healthcare facilities has been dependent on wired power sources or battery power.

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Compliancy Group

JULY 29, 2022

For the 12th consecutive year, healthcare breaches had the highest price tag. According to the IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2022, the average cost of a healthcare data breach has skyrocketed to $10.1 This is especially true In highly regulated industries such as healthcare. Being fully staffed: saving $550,000.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 6, 2023

While the report noted the continued challenges posed by the economy and staffing shortages, it also noted that Medicaid reimbursements are set to increase in a number of states, and consolidation among regional players may create economies of scale that will boost the sector. On the social determinants front, St.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This helps nurses quickly respond to patient flow, staffing, and other capacity management issues on the fly without having to stop and dig for detailed information — because best of all, this type of solution is designed to run completely in the background of nurses’ tech devices.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

John Berndt, SVP of Health North America, Valtech Also known as the Kennedy–Kassebaum Act, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) defines and regulates individuals’ medical records and other individually identifiable health information, collectively known as patient healthcare information (PHI).

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 24, 2023

Scott Hondros, MHA, SCPM, VP of Customer Excellence & Strategic Consulting at CenTrak The last few years have caused significant disruption and constraints of budgets, staffing, and resources throughout healthcare facilities, from the bedside to administrative teams.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 14, 2020

Analytics Population Health Quality and Safety Telehealth Workforce The COVID-19 pandemic may be viewed as the single largest disruptor in the history of American healthcare. Against these headwinds, and entering a new era that could redefine healthcare, rather than slow innovation, COVID-19 has accelerated Geisinger’s digital efforts.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2022

Based on the comments from the healthcare keynotes and from the digital health + medtech entrepreneurs roaming the aisles of the exhibit hall – there are encouraging signs that healthcare may weather the economic downturn better than other industries. Technology can help. HITsm #CollisionConf pic.twitter.com/sXnGS4MUNy.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Scott Hondros, MHA, SCPM, VP of Professional Services at CenTrak Although the healthcare industry has shown significant resilience, the byproduct of the pandemic has amplified staff stressors across all operational and clinical roles.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 23, 2022

A letter to Congress earlier this year from American Hospital Association highlights the financial struggles many hospitals faced in 2022—largely as a result of continuing workforce challenges (including increased reliance on contract and travel staffing labor and the excessive costs associated therewith). Francis (SC), St.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 1, 2023

fraud scheme Nursing home must face vaccine-related wrongful firing claim, but not $2M retaliation accusations Transgender woman sues employer, Harvard Pilgrim for discrimination MICHIGAN 48-unit senior housing development could go up next to Vicksburg Halls in Marysville Can ads help a Michigan nursing home fix a staffing crisis?

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Hall Render

APRIL 12, 2024

Connecticut’s ‘certificate of need’ law under scrutiny Hartford HealthCare’s Black & Red Gala raises $2.6M Hartford HealthCare teams with state DOT to train police to draw blood It takes a long time to make many changes at CT hospitals. to Develop Wearable Blood Loss Detector An Academic Lifeline for Rural Hospitals CHI St.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

in federal funds for hospitals State of the State 2024: Arkansas health care faces challenges Study ranks Arkansas at the absolute bottom for dental health A mosaic of medical staffing solutions: Groups work to increase health care workforce in Northwest Arkansas CHI St. 5 highest paid anesthesiologists in Washington, DC D.C.’s

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Hall Render

MARCH 22, 2024

NATIONAL 79 percent have positive outlook for senior living and care: NIC 12 key legal issues impacting health systems AHA: 94% of hospitals financially impacted by Change Healthcare’s cyberattack A conversation about the HHS plan on AI in health care A new kind of hospital is coming to rural America.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

State officials are noncommittal Nursing home in CT accused of neglect, staffing shortages Lawsuit: Routine procedure would have saved Oxford mom who died after 2020 childbirth DC D.C.’s Megan Ranney to become next dean of Yale School of Public Health How is Nuvance complying with its affiliation agreement?

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

million center CT group fights deadly disparity in healthcare ‘Stuck’ in the emergency room: Hundreds of CT kids can’t get mental health services they need D.C. CALIFORNIA 8 ASCs opening in Florida, California and New York A bankrupt California hospital left a health care desert.

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