Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Job regrets are greatest in hospital settings among doctors aged 31-50 working in emergency medicine, according to an analysis of 170 studies involving more than 239,000 doctors by the University of Manchester in England. The study, published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, found that the prevalence of burnout among U.S. physicians was 62.8%

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Children's Mercy supports the children of Kansas and Missouri, with the next children's hospitals being hours away in all directions. THE PROBLEM. This extensive geographical region has forever been a significant challenge for patients and their families to access pediatric specialty care.

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Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 28, 2022

25 ruling, which came in response to a 2011 class-action lawsuit eventually joined by 14 beneficiaries against the Department of Health and Human Services, will guarantee patients the right to appeal to Medicare for nursing home coverage if they were admitted to a hospital as an inpatient but were switched to observation care, an outpatient service.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

a leader in remote and in-hospital wearable biosensor technology, has just announced the completion of an investment funded by Health Insight Capital, the investment arm of HCA Healthcare Inc., VitalConnect is a leader in wearable biosensor technology for wireless patient monitoring in both hospital and remote patient populations.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 3, 2024

The Quintessence acquisition not only fulfills this need by providing end-to-end offshore capabilities, including medical coding, thus expanding our reach from hospitals to physician groups but also solidifies our status as a global service provider with strong offshore delivery capabilities.

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Hospitals 119

HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

WI Business Associate 4,112,892 Hacking/IT Incident 24 2023 Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing CO Health Plan 4,091,794 Hacking/IT Incident 25 2013 Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation, d/b/a Advocate Medical Group IL Healthcare Provider 4,029,530 Theft 26 2024 Concentra Health Services, Inc.

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Health Populi

MARCH 22, 2018

Beyond strong medicines, a new financial toxicity has emerged for patients due to hospital inpatient admissions. The “measurement” named in the title is graphed here as the proportion of people who filed for bankruptcy relative to years before or after hospitalization.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 18, 2022

The digital health innovation space has grown exponentially over the past 10 years, with $2 billion invested in 2011 and $44 billion invested in […]. Be sure to check out their Bear Institute PACK, a pediatric accelerator challenge for kids.

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Hospitals 89

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The company was listed as a Rising Star by Featuredcustomers in its Fall 2022 Hospital Communications Software Customer Success Report. ” Diagnotes was launched in 2011 and primarily serves clients in the Midwest and southern regions of the U.S. and Canada. To learn more, visit drfirst.com and follow @DrFirst.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 25, 2024

Healthcare Has Embraced Mobile Devices According to Pew Research , as of 2023, 97% of Americans own a cellphone and 90% own a smartphone – up from just 35% in 2011. Even with GPS, it is difficult to recover these devices, especially inside large buildings like hospitals.”

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2023

Many skilled nursing facilities are short-staffed, so patients cannot always transition out of the hospital in a timely manner. What does this mean to the healthcare system and to patients––particularly those who are ready to leave the hospital and move home or to their next site of care? Now, a fresh approach is warranted.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The Catholic Health Association (CHA) is urging Americans to “love thy neighbor” by getting the COVID-19 vaccine, Sister Mary Haddad wrote in an editorial published in Modern Healthcare, published on September 3, 2011. Sister Mary is CEO and President of CHA. ” she asserted.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 18, 2023

The Vermont Attorney General followed suit with a similar action against Health Net in 2011 that was settled for $55,000, and Indiana brought a civil action against Wellpoint Inc. in 2011 that was settled for $100,000. The Connecticut Attorney General was the first to exercise this right in 2010 against Health Net Inc. million 78.8

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The Health Law Firm

JANUARY 18, 2013

A former Florida Hospital employee, who admitted to stealing confidential patient information, was sentenced to spend one year and one day in federal prison on January 14, 2013. You may remember the news story about the privacy breach at Florida Hospital back in October 2011. By Lance O. Leider, J.D., The Health Law Firm.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 28, 2019

The Hausers have given more than $50 million to NewYork-Presbyterian in support of the hospital’s innovation programs in health information technology and telemedicine since 2011. Hauser and Gustave M. WHY IT MATTERS. ” THE LARGER TREND.

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The Health Law Firm

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Federal court records from August 13, 2012, show that a former Florida Hospital employee faces fraud-conspiracy charges after he illegally accessed patient records in a solicitation scheme, according to the Orlando Sentinel. When the news broke about a privacy breach at Florida Hospital back in October of 2011, we wrote about this incident.

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The Health Law Firm

JULY 17, 2015

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law Florida Hospital is facing two possible class action lawsuits. The first data breach was revealed in August 2011 and involved Florida Hospital employees Dale and Katrina Munroe, who swept through thousands of patient records and sold data to lawyers and chiropractors.

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The Health Law Firm

OCTOBER 14, 2011

According to the Orlando Sentinel , Florida Hospital is currently trying to recover from the damaging effects of a breach of its medical electronic records. No motive has yet been attributed to the breach, which occurred between January 2010 and August 2011.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 20, 2019

What passes for a moderate observation is the 2011 statement by Marc Andreessen that “Software is eating the world.” Society is being doubly convulsed by the revolutions of software and artificial intelligence. ” At the more extreme end, people dread a future envisioned by the Terminator and Matrix movies.

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The Health Law Firm

AUGUST 20, 2012

Lower Medicare reimbursement rates are coming in October of 2012, to 2,211 hospitals around the country, including 131 in Florida. This is allegedly due to excessive readmission rates in these hospitals between July 2008 and June 2011, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Indest III, J.D.,

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 27, 2023

New research from Mayo Clinic Proceedings found that 63% of physicians report at least one symptom of burnout, a drastic increase from 46% in 2011. In other cases, hospitals turn to travel nurses to alleviate understaffing, improve workflows, and reduce time spent on inefficient tasks.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 19, 2023

According to the CDC , 42% of high school students felt so sad or hopeless that they could not engage in their regular activities for at least two weeks in 2021, an increase of 50% from 2011. That means an average classroom of 30 has three students attempting to end their lives each year.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 11, 2023

He co-founded Podimetrics in 2011 while a student at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and he’s served as CEO ever since. He holds an MD from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and completed his residency at Massachusetts General Hospital.

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McGuire Wood

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Founded in 2011, the company states it works with more than 700 hospitals, pharmacies and ambulatory surgery centers and more than 6,000 suppliers. LLR Partners has announced a growth investment in Vantage Point Logistics (VPL).

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Hospitals 52

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 31, 2023

athenahealth’s integrations with hospital EHR systems allow the platform to receive discharge instructions when a patient leaves a hospital. The idea is similar to the open source SMART Platform , which I have covered several times starting in 2011.

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Health Populi

JUNE 23, 2022

By April, one-half of people living in America said their financial situation was getting worse, a reversal of fortune from several steady years of personal financial improvement which kicked off in 2011 as the U.S. emerged from the Great Recession of 2008.

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MedTrainer

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

hospitals recorded 221,400 work-related injuries and illnesses , a rate of 5.5 How Healthcare Workers Are Getting Hurt Hospitals are dangerous places to work. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , hospitals outpace construction, manufacturing, and the U.S. In 2019, U.S.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 2, 2023

Such incidents have certainly increased since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, but violence against healthcare workers was already trending upwards, with the rate of injuries related to workplace violence perpetrated against medical professionals growing by 63% between 2011 and 2018.

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The Health Law Firm

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The audits will be conducted from November 2011 through December 2012. Initially these audits will likely focus on hospitals and insurance companies, but HMEs could also be a target. The OCR will perform up to 150 audits to assess HIPAA compliance. The HITECH Act requires HHS to perform periodic audits to check for HIPAA compliance.

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The Health Law Firm

AUGUST 2, 2012

On July 31, 2012, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced on its website that hospitals should brace themselves for prepayment audits beginning August 27, 2012. ” To see the official announcement from the CMS, click here.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 7, 2025

Ryan also helps hospitals and behavioral health providers navigate Indianas involuntary treatment laws and appeal Medicare underpayments before the PRRB and in federal courts. Louis in 2011. Kathryn graduated from Wayne State University Law School with her J.D. Abby Kaericher is based in the firms Washington, D.C.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

While well-intentioned, the Federal Government’s 2011 Meaningful Use Mandate program—to incentivize physician practices to adopt EHRs—did not specify detailed standards for EHR systems. The reality, unfortunately, has not matched the possibilities. Ultimately, the patient-provider relationship suffers, as does the quality of care.

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HIPAA Journal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

New York-Presbyterian Hospital Discovers Breach Affecting up to 12,000 Patients. New York-Presbyterian Hospital has recently announced that unauthorized individuals gained access to one of its servers and attempted to download sensitive data.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2022

As a proven leader in remote monitoring solutions since our founding in 2011, we are very well-positioned in the market,” said Rhonda Bray, CEO and Founder of Rhythm. The acquisition, which officially closed on September 30, forms the largest full-service remote cardiac monitoring company in the United States. “As

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AIHC

OCTOBER 26, 2022

“The new physician burnout research builds on landmark studies conducted at regular intervals between 2011 and 2021 by researchers from the AMA, Mayo Clinic and Stanford Medicine. Together, these studies found the overall prevalence of burnout among U.S. physicians was 62.8% in 2021 compared with 38.2% in 2020, 43.9% in 2017, 54.4%

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Health Populi

AUGUST 23, 2021

One of the challenges has been price transparency, which is the central premise of this weekend’s New York Times research-rich article by reporters Sarah Kliff and Josh Katz: Hospitals and Insurers Didn’t Want You to See These Prices. Patients have been much more forthcoming than hospitals, the journalists have found.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Zuskov points out that hospital data doesn’t represent the full population. Hands-On Data Collection I talked to Dr. Hands-On Data Collection I talked to Dr. Geoff Rutledge, chief medical officer of HealthTap , a company that came early to telehealth and that I covered several times as far back as 2011.

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