Med-Net Compliance

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Two recent cases highlight the importance of skilled nursing facilities maintaining and enforcing social media policies and procedures, and proactively educating staff in acceptable practices. The employee posted the photo with emoji symbols and tagged a coworker in the post.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Sign Up for our daily or weekly newsletters Health systems are notching big wins with their IT investments Patient experience: new perspectives on person-focused care News NYU Langone Health promotes generative AI innovation with 'prompt-a-thon' Teams of clinicians, researchers and educators worked to find artificial intelligence-enabled.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

"In the past, we haven't worried as much about coordinating care across the patient journey, from preoperative education to surgical aftercare," said Andrew Lovewell, administrator. "We knew we needed to create an environment of safety while still retaining control over our patients' recovery journey.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Connected Health Government & Policy Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth The fate of virtual care adoption is tied to the fate of broadband expansion. Some folks believe telehealth applications take up very little space on patients' computers, so how can broadband be an Achilles' heel? Let me count the ways.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 23, 2023

Associates in Dermatology, a network of dermatology clinics in Indiana, Kentucky, and New York, has started notifying patients that some of their protected health information has been exposed in a ransomware attack on one of its business associates. According to Fowler, the 6.74

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Health Care Performance

MARCH 7, 2023

Maybe the compliance department collaborated with the HIPAA Security Officer to run a ransomware and phishing campaign, educating employees about potentially hazardous emails and links. Can you put a price tag on potentially avoiding a costly ransomware attack? Improve patient care? Higher patient satisfaction?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

During the coronavirus pandemic, an increasing number of patients have turned to telehealth. " Advocates noted in the lawsuit that abortion restrictions have worked in tandem with the effects of the coronavirus to disproportionately impact patients of color, low-income people and other already vulnerable populations.

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Hall Render

MAY 2, 2023

The F-Tag associated with this regulation is F-886. COVID Vaccine Education. In May 2021, CMS issued an interim final rule that required SNFs to educate staff and residents on the risks and benefits of COVID vaccination and to offer or assist in accessing COVID vaccination for staff and residents.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And, many tags related to mental health became well-used, such as #MentalHealthMatters, #MentalHealthAwareness, #WellBeing, and #BellLetsTalk from the campaign addressing stigma. Educate the workforce on these issues. Brandwatch suggests several tactics, including: Applying better user-centered and experience design.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 2, 2021

Conversa is a chatbot technology company that uses conversational interfaces for digital pathways to support a wide range of clinical needs – from pre-admission patient education and preparedness to post-acute monitoring and chronic care management. Region Tag: Global Edition. He is the founder and CEO of Damo Consulting.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

MARCH 15, 2022

Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley said, “My Office takes very seriously any allegations that skilled nursing facilities are either misrepresenting their quality of care or failing to follow the law related to patient discharges.”. Issue: Nursing facilities are required to accurately report their daily nursing hours to CMS.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

'Break the silos' has been a tag line in data management for a long time, and COVID-19 showed it needs to become reality. Some results of studies need to be stored for the lifetime of a patient or even longer for research without application impact due to migrations. One example is the use of object storage.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

Many of the early DIY tools omitted the clues that disabled visitors depend on—for instance using raw markup to make a phrase look like a heading when they should use an HTML tag for headings. A trained technician or nurse is also always present and can enter the Cube to help the patient, if requested to do so.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the use of digital health tools and virtual health care; looking past the pandemic, the American Telemedicine Association is envisioning that care will be omni-channel just as other aspects of consumers’ lives are, whether shopping, banking, or now for people in school, education.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

ASCA members can view an ASC-specific surveyor tag tool. For patient safety, fair reimbursement, and healthcare system integrity, regulatory bodies set compliance requirements. It promotes accurate reimbursement, reduces legal risks, improves patient safety, and builds trustworthiness and professionalism.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses. As we learn new technology innovations and approaches to business modes and sites of delivery at #HIMSS23, we should be mindful that a patient treated in one state may have data protections not extended by another state. In the U.S.,

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Med-Net Compliance

JULY 25, 2022

OCR has taken the following enforcement actions and ensured that complainants received copies of their records: An Illinois podiatry practice failed to provide a former patient with his requested medical records. A Florida ENT group failed to provide timely access to medical records after multiple requests for such records from a patient.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2020

One of the early vocabulary words we came to learn in our pandemic-era language education was “lockdown,” as in the #GreatLockdown. Naval Hospital Ship “Comfort,” which was re-purposed to provide medical services to patients in Manhattan’s over-stressed hospital system. L is for lockdown.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic essentially forced healthcare provider organizations, the government and payers to embrace telehealth as an essential way to enable physicians to see patients. The most difficult aspect was deploying the technology to be effective and efficient for both patients and providers.” " Dr. Lisa R.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 19, 2021

Paul Szotek of the Indiana Hernia Center in Carmel, Indiana, has some very strong feelings about what he calls the loss of the doctor-patient relationship. As the employed model has grown, physicians have increasingly lost autonomy to deliver care to their patients in a manner that optimizes the doctor-patient relationship, he said.

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Doctors Patient Satisfaction HIPAA Hospitals 176

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 14, 2020

In January 2020, Geisinger, the Pennsylvania-based integrated health system known for decades of clinical innovation, launched a multi-year digital strategy to make health easier for patients and members in its health plan. Preventing future infections through communication, education.

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Healthcare Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

This blog post provides an overview of the many benefits of policy management software, from streamlining processes to reducing risk and improving patient outcomes. Policies and procedures encompass human resources, patient care, and emergency management. What Is Healthcare Policy Management? 24/7 Cloud-based Access: With 99.9%

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 24, 2023

Providing the necessary support is key to achieving high-quality patient care, staff satisfaction, and overall retention, along with increasing an organization’s bottom line. Beneficial visibility is achieved through IoT-enabled location technology, badges, tags, and sensors.

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MedTrainer

AUGUST 2, 2023

When patients visit a healthcare facility, they want to make sure they’re being seen and treated by a qualified medical professional. Provider credentialing involves verifying an individual’s education, training, licensure, certifications, work experience, and other relevant credentials. How Does Provider Credentialing Work?

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Hall Render

MARCH 28, 2023

After 30 days, new patients admitted to nursing homes with a mental illness or intellectual disability should receive the assessment as soon as resources become available. The F-Tag associated with this regulation is F-886. COVID Vaccine Education. The F-Tag associated with this regulation is F-887. COVID Staff Vaccine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies. Bardy Diagnostics.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It’s always been pretty obvious that factors such as wealth, race, education, and the quality of food and water have enormous impacts on health. That data can reveal important information that might not make it into the patient’s own record, such as an emergency room visit. One of my interviewees said that in the U.S.,

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Hall Render

APRIL 12, 2024

But some patients fear they could lose access CONNECTICUT Alleged DNR mix-up death highlights concerns for nursing homes CT hospital mergers mean higher prices and fewer competitors, state report says Fix or nix?

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Hall Render

JANUARY 6, 2022

Survey Guidance for Skilled Nursing Facilities – New F Tag 888. Attachment A introduces a new citation tag for skilled nursing providers, F Tag 888, regarding infection control under CFR §483.80(i). b) 100% of staff have either: (1) received the necessary doses to complete the vaccine series (i.e., Policies and Procedures.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 1, 2023

to Recruit, Train Primary Care Students UAMS Gets $17.5M to Recruit, Train Primary Care Students UAMS Gets $17.5M

Nursing Homes 40

Nursing Homes Nurses COVID-19 Ransomware 40

Hall Render

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

NATIONAL Amazon Pharmacy, One Medical pilot program integrates medication consultations Bad news for FTC’s noncompete ban Cigna to sell Medicare business to HCSC for $3.3B Opens in North Little Rock CHI St. 5 highest paid anesthesiologists in Washington, DC D.C.’s

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SQA

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Then, our goal is to tell a quick story about the image/catchphrase theme and ideally make it educational whilst also telling a brief story about how it relates to SQA. All things considered, we are truly lucky and will remain patient and hopeful of seeing more people soon. Hey Associates! How can we help you?

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Hall Render

MARCH 22, 2024

To qualify, facilities must close their beds Amazon’s physician acquisition strategy As Many Hospitals Continue to Face Significant Financial Challenges, MedPAC Recommends Highest Ever Medicare Payment Update Change competitors step in but breaking up may be hard to do CMS to launch new primary care ACO program Congress unveils $1.2T

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Ford on his healthcare priorities and outlook for the 2023 – 2024 legislative session Illinois hospital agrees to pay $250 to patients whose bills were sent to wrong people INDIANA American Pain Consortium acquires Indiana ASC Ascension St. Now hospitals are charging them. La Shawn K.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

patients Denver paramedics company takes center stage in TV program hosted by actor Dennis Quaid Denver startup aims to ease the aging process Is this Denver mental health tech unicorn shaping up for an exit? CALIFORNIA 8 ASCs opening in Florida, California and New York A bankrupt California hospital left a health care desert.

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