Compliancy Group

JUNE 16, 2023

The US Health and Human Services has issued updated guidance on online tracking, and it’s bad news for those of us in the medical field. It collects and stores user data, including protected health information (PHI) , which makes it subject to HIPAA compliance rules and regulations. Attention healthcare providers!

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HIT Consultant

JULY 26, 2022

Digital health options like telemedicine and online pharmacies existed before the pandemic. Patients need human expertise, empathy, and guidance when navigating prescriptions to medication, at-home tests, and other remote treatments that affect their health. Patients need a vote of confidence from someone they trust.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

health care system, especially laying bare inequities and inertia in American health care, explained in The Progress We Need: Ten Health Care Imperatives for the Decade Ahead from Manatt Health. Achieve health equity. Stability the safety net and rebuild public health. Address social determinants of health.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 20, 2023

But providing consistent and excellent customer experiences is a critical differentiator for health systems and health plans, and is challenging. For example, Geisinger Health in Pennsylvania developed an enterprise CRM strategy and roadmap. It could become costly and ineffective very quickly.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Today, the cost of a data breach comes with a hefty price tag – an average of $9.44 In just the first six months of 2022, the healthcare sector suffered about 337 breaches according to Fortified Health Security’s mid-year report. million in the U.S. alone, according to IBM Security’s 2022  Cost of a Data Breach Report.

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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

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. Technologies and solutions like cloud, big data, artificial intelligence (AI), sensors, and mobile technology can help improve health outcomes. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Hint Health , the company powering the direct primary care (DPC) movement, today announced the acquisition of AeroDPC, a practice management and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) designed for DPC clinics. As a DPC physician myself, bringing Hint Health and AeroDPC together is extremely exciting and powerful for DPC as a whole” says Dr. Brown.

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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 bill expands privacy protections for Washington State’s health citizens beyond HIPAA’s provisions. ” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The IoT technology and location sensors behind RTLS feature active-radio frequency identification (RFID) badges and tags to offer immediate enterprise visibility into the precise location of equipment, colleagues, or patients, while increasing workflow efficiencies.

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Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2019

Self-care in health goes back thousands of years. Reading from Hippocrates’ Corpus about food and clean air’s role in health sounds contemporary today. Among Scott’s many insightful comments, one really resonated with me and my health-economics mindset: on the growing presence of value-based insurance design in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The following is a guest article by Stephen Dean, Healthcare CRM Expert and Co-Founder of Keona Health. Many health care professionals think the strength of the patient-provider relationship is determined solely by the face-to-face interactions between patients and physicians, and that all problems begin and end there.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 16, 2023

Most market selection energy is going to Oracle Health (Cerner), MEDITECH, and Epic; small hospitals also use other vendors like athenahealth, CPSI, and MEDHOST. This has led to customers highly trusting the vendor and valuing the relationship they have built. CPSI’s solution isn’t as customizable as customers would like.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

The vision/optical industry is one piece of the health/care ecosystem, but the segment has not been as directly impacted by patients’ new consumer muscles until just about now. I was grateful to have an opportunity to share my views with attendees on the vision patient as health consumer through the health economic lens.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

ASCA members can view an ASC-specific surveyor tag tool. Non-compliance risks ASCs’ financial and legal risks, patient trust, and long-term sustainability. He holds several AAPC specialty certifications and has a bachelor’s degree in Health Administration. Compliance protects ASCs and strengthens the healthcare system.

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MRO Compliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

From payer denials to telephone tag, both sides of the healthcare reimbursement process experience unnecessary operational abrasion and laborious manual procedures. Through our work with hospitals, health systems, ACOs, and payer organizations, we know the rift runs deep.

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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. " MARKETPLACE. To read the special report, click here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 10, 2022

Cloud Computing Connected Health Network Infrastructure Population Health Telehealth Before disasters such as tornadoes or wildfires, they should consider designating municipal buildings as "generator and telehealth zones" where equipment and virtual care kiosks can be moved. Region Tag: Global Edition.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

These automated models can monitor so many people efficiently that they have potential applications in public health as well as diagnosis and treatment. Nobody is relying on vocal markers for diagnosis yet, according to David Liu, CEO of Sonde Health. India’s second-greatest health problem.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 24, 2023

Beneficial visibility is achieved through IoT-enabled location technology, badges, tags, and sensors. Following the assessment period, the health system should evaluate the Readiness of the staff to leverage the power of the new technology and then monitor the actionable intelligence from the new technology to Transform the facility.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 19, 2021

The corporate takeover of healthcare and the exodus of physicians from private practice into employed positions, combined with sub-par deployment of electronic health records and patient portals, has resulted in increasing patient and physician dissatisfaction with the current healthcare delivery model, he contended. THE PROBLEM.

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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. Given that the field is increasingly digitized and data-driven, health IT is responsible for collecting and analyzing social determinants of health (SDoH).

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

TEFCA (Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement) is driving the QHIN “network” to accomplish the same outcome. 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. And as COVID taught us, so much more….

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 13, 2023

Morgan Healthcare Conference is how our healthcare industry today is addressing the mental health needs of Americans. Mental Health, Virtual Care and the Healthcare System. As I noted yesterday , mental health issues are one of the top two causes of disability in the U.S. And mental health issues hurt in so many ways.

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Hall Render

APRIL 12, 2024

in billing fraud Arizona system names new CEO Banner Health CEO Peter Fine to retire after 24 years, handing the reins to health system president Four UArizona bioscience startups selected for Flinn Foundation program Gov. to Develop Wearable Blood Loss Detector An Academic Lifeline for Rural Hospitals CHI St.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In 2023, hospital and health IT leaders should examine new approaches to provide support and truly take meaningful steps to address the challenges facing healthcare professionals. Organizations that have implemented this have seen an increase in trust among the patient, the medical staff providing care, and family members.

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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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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.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The Alabama decision is severe, but it should serve as a warning to state legislators vested with new power to interfere with reproductive health care in the wake of Dobbs – proceed with extreme care and regard for “unintended” consequences of regulating fertility care. Personhood & Federal Abortion Ban Since Dobbs v.

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Health Populi

MAY 11, 2023

We continue to track to evolving, expanding landscape of retail health — which we see as the expanding ecosystem of health/care accessible to people-as-health consumers. Let’s start with weight-loss, as several aspects of health/care come together in the consumer’s retail health sandbox.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

NATIONAL Biden plans to end the Covid public health emergency this spring in a major shift to federal response Biden administration will end COVID-19 emergencies on May 11 Can a drugstore be your only doctor?

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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 16, 2024

CALIFORNIA 8 ASCs opening in Florida, California and New York A bankrupt California hospital left a health care desert. CALIFORNIA 8 ASCs opening in Florida, California and New York A bankrupt California hospital left a health care desert.

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