Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2024

The scope of health data sharing and use of health data have expanded far beyond electronic health record adoption in healthcare settings to encompass data sets inclusive of demographics, behavioral health, social determinants of health (SDOH), and public health.

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Governance Health Outcomes Public Health 98

Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Sometimes failing to comply can carry a big price tag: The U.S. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. It's no surprise that federal and state regulatory compliance, particularly where information sharing is concerned, can present challenges for healthcare organizations. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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HIPAA COVID-19 Regulatory Compliance Compliance 272

Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Community broadband is often great for curing capacity barriers – networks owned by cities and counties, telephone and electrical co-ops, wireless ISP (WISPs), other local ISPs and public-private partnerships. Currently 17 states enact some probation on public-owned broadband. Region Tag: Global Edition. Ask around!

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 22, 2020

Tagging drugs with RFID, he argued, would address problems with medication flow around the hospital and allow providers to tie distributions directly to a patient's electronic health record. "If you can tag a nail clipper with RFID technology," as many big-box stores do, "you can do it for medication," he said.

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COVID-19 Telemedicine Hospitals 159

Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

For this report, Brandwatch utilized only English-language public Twitter data. And, many tags related to mental health became well-used, such as #MentalHealthMatters, #MentalHealthAwareness, #WellBeing, and #BellLetsTalk from the campaign addressing stigma.

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Hall Render

MAY 2, 2023

Interim final rules are effective for a period of three years from the date of publication if CMS does not take further action. The F-Tag associated with this regulation is F-886. The F-Tag associated with this regulation is F-887. The F-Tag associated with this regulation is F-888. COVID Testing Requirements.

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Nursing Homes Public Health Nurses COVID-19 40

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Stability the safety net and rebuild public health. There’s an 11th imperative I add to the ten called out here, and it’s attending to mental health with grace, public policies, and resource allocation. Achieve health equity. Address social determinants of health. Help our children achieve their potential.

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COVID-19 Public Health Telemedicine World Health 129

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Public health in particular can leverage telehealth to great advantage. Let’s break down telehealth into three categories, and consider as an example public libraries that decide to offer telehealth in its various branches. Region Tag: Global Edition. Strategically speaking. Follow him on Twitter @cjsettles101.

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Doctors COVID-19 Public Health Hospitals 166

MRO Compliance

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

HIMSS TV 2023 Forecast: Balancing Patient Privacy and Data Sharing I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Andrea Fox, senior editor of Healthcare IT News, a HIMSS TV publication, to discuss the future of balancing patient privacy and data sharing.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

When the public health emergency ends , the government waiver that opened doors for providing hospital care at home may expire, causing worries among hospital at home advocates that much of the progress made during the pandemic may end due to the lack of sufficient reimbursement. Region Tag: Global Edition.

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Patient Satisfaction Hospitals Telemedicine Public Health 130

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Many stakeholders have noted the importance of expanding access to broadband as a fundamental necessity – an endeavor that may run up, as Federal Office of Rural Health Senior Adviser for Telehealth William England put it , a "hundreds-of-billion-dollar" price tag. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 28, 2022

David Chou serves as the CIO for a public academic health system. Region Tag: Global Edition. Work is not a physical place you go to anymore, so having leaders trained to handle the remote staff will be essential. Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: Where IT leaders should focus their energies in 2022 Featured Decision Content:

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Hospitals Telemedicine Governance 184

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 20, 2020

Sam Shah COVID-19 has been deadly, it’s infective and has posed the biggest public health risk to society in almost a hundred years. Amongst these tragic circumstances there has also been a lot of attention on technology in healthcare and public health.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 23, 2021

Both started as a limited primary care service offering targeting internal employees, presumably as a precursor to opening the offering to the public at some point. Region Tag: Global Edition. The commonalities between Apple's Health Habit product and the Amazon Care product are important. Featured Decision Content:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

Other programmes, including Public Health England’s COVID-19 Observatory, were also able to collect and analyse coronavirus data. Region Tag: Europe/UK Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Riding the digital wave through COVID-19 Featured Decision Content: During the pandemic some data sharing restrictions were relaxed.

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COVID-19 Governance World Health Public Health 155

Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Governments, private and public health care organisations are taking action after the learnings from the pandemic, to increase data quality and equality. 'Break the silos' has been a tag line in data management for a long time, and COVID-19 showed it needs to become reality. Lack of technology isn’t the problem.

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Ransomware Governance COVID-19 Hospitals 195

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Health providers quickly pivoted to make the most of temporary telehealth flexibilities when the COVID-19 public health emergency started in 2020. While Congress and CMS have considered permanently expanding access to telehealth and virtual care, there is a big price tag attached. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Medicare Medicare COVID-19 Telemedicine 163

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 4, 2020

Digital health startups have also defied dire predictions about funding slowdowns, with data pointing to stronger-than-ever funding numbers in 2020, including aggressive M & A by public companies riding the wave of strong stock market performance. Featured Decision Content:

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COVID-19 Telemedicine Hospitals Doctors 137

Health Law Advisor

AUGUST 8, 2023

Now, approximately one year later, and after receiving and considering public comments on its proposed changes, the FTC has issued its final rule adopting revisions to the Endorsement Guides. See Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising , 88 Fed.

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Compliance 52

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

And abortion's price tag isn't always covered by insurance, which could put it out of reach financially. The preliminary injunction is only in effect during the public health emergency, but ACOG's Perryman said the organization has been pushing to end the regulations more broadly. Twitter: @kjercich.

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COVID-19 Telemedicine FDA Public Health 170

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Digital enterprise vaccination management platforms will have to be built to inform the public, schedule vaccinations, automate mobile facilities, monitor outcomes and manage the supply chain for COVID-19 vaccines. The end goal is to move closer to the quadruple aim of healthcare … but digitally.

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US Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 COVID-19 Vaccine Hospitals 212

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

Medical record requests are digitized, and specific data requirements are tagged. Chan School of Public Health, Mo formerly served in leadership roles for Cotiviti, FinThrive, and McKinsey & Company. Requests are then electronically communicated directly to the provider organization’s EHRs and other systems.

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Health Insurance Public Health Hospitals 79

Healthcare Compliance Blog

MARCH 15, 2022

The March 2022 settlement resolves allegations that the SNFs failed to adequately notify and prepare residents for both transfers and discharges and misrepresented their quality of care to the public by reporting false information. The accurate reporting of these hours to CMS is essential to avoid allegations of fraud.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2020

This week, I’m sharing all the letters of the alphabet with you which reminded me keywords and themes emerging as we were learning about this dastardly public health threat beginning early in 2020. The photo underneath the star was printed from a local newspaper article showing public health and LTC staff wearing hazmat-type suits.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Patch Adams supported the bill by saying the CON law makes it difficult to open new hospitals that benefit the public per News and Sentinel. for public health care projects and 5.2% UC Davis Health is moving forward with its new $3.8B, 14-story hospital tower after the UC Regents approved the design, price tag and received commitments.

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COVID-19 Hospitals Public Health Nurses 40

Health Populi

AUGUST 14, 2023

Sarah Krouse and Anne Steele, the WSJ journalists, tag-team doing a great job quantifying the women’s fiscal force, quoting Blair Kohan, an agent with UTA who represents Greta Gerwig, the Barbie movie’s director, saying, “Women have always been a deeply underestimated economic force.” million women in the U.S.

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Public Health Health Care Access Hospitals 62

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 17, 2020

It has helped eliminate phone tag by providing a secure place to message. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. On this platform, youth were far more likely to reach out with questions in order to address their health concerns and needs.” ” The application also has done more than staff expected.

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Hospitals Doctors Nurses Governance 149

Hall Render

JANUARY 6, 2023

In its 2023 trends piece , the publication also noted that competitors may be stepping in to ease the fraught relationship between senior living providers and third-party referral services, with the largest being “A Place for Mom.” On the social determinants front, St. million.

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Health Populi

JULY 6, 2021

When we’re very young, social and public policies have everything to do with setting us up for successful, healthy adulthood — in mind (in terms of cognitive development and educational outcomes), body (in terms of physical health outcomes), spirit (as social and emotional outcomes), and pocketbook (based on our material outcomes).

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COVID-19 Health Outcomes Hospitals Public Health 68

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. Hatem Zeine, Founder, President and CTO of Ossia.

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Medical Device Industry COVID-19 Hospitals Public Health 98

Compliancy Group

JULY 29, 2022

For the 12th consecutive year, healthcare breaches had the highest price tag. Organizations that used a public cloud, rather than a hybrid cloud, saw higher breach costs. Each year IBM works with Ponemon Institute to research breaches across several sectors of the economy. This is an increase of 9.4% compared to 2020.

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HIPAA Ransomware Compliance 52

Med-Net Compliance

JULY 25, 2022

A public benefit corporation that operates a hospital located in Buffalo, New York, failed to timely provide an individual with a complete copy of his medical records. They also withheld the complainant’s access on the basis that the complainant had an outstanding balance and required a signed request or authorization request.

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HIPAA US Department of Health and Human Services Nursing Homes Nurses 59

HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Enhance communications – In the past, connecting with physicians outside of appointments often turned into a game of phone tag and resulted in multiple voicemails. He is a frequent contributor to business, healthcare, and technology publications.

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Compliancy Group

JULY 18, 2022

The hospital is operated by Erie County Medical Center Corporation (ECMCC), a public benefit corporation. Right of Access Violation Tags Houston Southwest Surgical Associates with $65,000 HIPAA Fine. During the course of the investigation, the hospital did provide a complete copy of the requested records.

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HIPAA Compliance Hospitals Nurses 98

Health Populi

AUGUST 10, 2020

.” A surprise element here is the Echo tag that came from a pair of gloves I recently purchased. Perhaps the most impactful and important public health tactic individual people can undertake in the Age of Corona is washing hands. “H” is for hand-washing.

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COVID-19 Public Health Nurses Hospitals 118

HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

These coming requirements for greater transparency and visibility into drug pricing will help legislators, regulators and the public better understand price increases and help control costs. Additionally, these services can have a substantial price tag for pharma manufacturers, adding further to the financial burdens of compliance.

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Prescription Drug Pricing Compliance Governance 52

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

ASCA members can view an ASC-specific surveyor tag tool. He has authored many articles for healthcare publications and has been a featured speaker at workshops and coding conferences across the country. Refer to the Interpretive Guidelines in Appendix Z of the State Operations Manual and this website for additional information.

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