Bill of Health

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Because of airlines’ legal obligations to mitigate the risk of in-flight infectious disease transmission, in 2016 I suggested that they could require vaccination, where safe and effective vaccines were widely available. By Christopher Robertson. Do airlines have legal obligations to manage the risk of in-flight infections?

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HealthStream

MARCH 1, 2021

It’s the start of a new year, and industry disruption is happening in just about every corner of healthcare, including finance, technology, government, and the workforce. Here are 10 trends that will shape the coming years.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2021

Questions about the future of telehealth regulations have endured ever since the federal government opted to relax some of them during the COVID-19 pandemic. This isn't the first time a version of the CONNECT Act has been introduced in the Senate; Schatz and Wicker unveiled the initial legislation in 2016. A years-long effort.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

As healthcare technology continues to rapidly advance, the establishment of innovation hubs can help the federal government effectively develop and implement healthcare innovation in a way that places end-users at the center, while also addressing ongoing challenges such as provider hesitancy and health equity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 7, 2020

Use of virtual care technologies had already doubled between 2016 to 2019 , and since the COVID-19 public health emergency, more and more overtaxed health systems have been availing themselves of tools that enable care to be delivered remotely, keeping patients and healthcare professionals away from potential infection.

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The Health Law Firm

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On December 14, 2016, the U. billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving fraud and false claims against the government in fiscal year 2016. Indest III, J.D., Department of Justice (DOJ) released its annual False Claims Act (FCA) recovery statistics.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Clinical Decision Support Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Government & Policy Patient Engagement AHRQ is helping the transition towards evidence-based recommendations to guide clinical decision-making that incorporates patients' needs and preferences.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 2, 2020

The government has recently launched special programs for chronic diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and chronic heart failure, enabling telemonitoring for 556 patients so far. The service has proved to be quite popular - MySNS Carteira was launched early 2016 and downloaded over 460,000 times since then.

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Bill of Health

JULY 20, 2022

However, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), there are no measures built into the program to assure that 340B program discounts are being used to support care for low-income populations, let alone to improve access to medicines discounted through the program. billion, reaching $6.3 health care spending.

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Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 28, 2022

Patients had nothing to appeal because the government can’t change a decision it didn’t make, so no Medicare rule had been violated. ” A DOJ spokesperson declined to comment on whether government lawyers would appeal the new ruling. He spent three days in a nearby hospital for an intestinal infection in 2016.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Gus Malezis, President and CEO of Imprivata, has been at the head of the company since 2016 where he’s focused on creating a sustainable company that’s driven to improve healthcare.

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The Health Law Firm

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On October 21, 2016, a Florida federal judge clarified that the dismissal of a whistleblower’s $320 million False Claims Act (FCA) (or qui tam) suit against a hospice care provider does not affect the government’s ability to file its own lawsuit. Indest III, J.D.,

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 7, 2022

Founded in 2016, Forge Health is a mission-driven outpatient mental health and substance use treatment provider dedicated to delivering the highest quality, affordable, and effective “one-stop-shop” care to individuals, families, and communities in need, especially those with moderate to severe conditions. Recent Growth & Milestones.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 16, 2022

The meta-analysis , which examined 12 studies published in English and Turkish from 2016 through 2021, sought to examine how virtual care apps could affect maternal and neonatal health outcomes, as well as costs. ON THE RECORD.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In Uruguay , 97% of food consumed between November 2015 and August 2016 contained pesticide residues, and in Mexico , 140 agrotoxins banned in other countries are used, 111 of which are classified as highly dangerous. Cumulatively, the Americas accounted for 51% of global pesticide use in 2020, a concerning increase from 44% in 2000.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2021

“The ACA expanded coverage to millions of poor and near-poor families between 2014 and 2016, and the obtaining of health insurance may have staved off financial ruin, perhaps. One-half of U.S. It’s important to know that the incidence of medical bankruptcy fell within two years of the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The Bhutan “good government” and other organizations use the GNH Index to either, “increase the percentage of people who are happy or decrease the insufficient conditions of people who are not-yet-happy,” a short guide to the GNH Index explains. Good governance. Health, psychological well-being.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 31, 2024

Tell the readers about your career in the healthcare industry I have been building marketing software for years and focused on healthcare marketing software beginning in 2016. He wanted to work with patients who needed a certain surgical intervention and ideally had non-government health insurance.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Here is a snippet from the UK government’s press release last week on the extent of the nation’s social isolation challenge: “Loneliness is one of the greatest public health challenges of our time, Theresa May said today as she launched the first cross-Government strategy to tackle it.

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A federal grand jury in the Middle District of Tennessee returned an indictment charging Galochkin and co-conspirators Rudenskiy, Tsarev, and Zhuykov with conspiring to use Conti ransomware to attack businesses, nonprofits, and governments in the United States from 2020 until June 2022 when the Conti operation was disbanded.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 18, 2022

billion from 2016-2019 (58%). Other key highlights include: – Private hospital networks charged the Fund over 300% of what they charged Medicare for the same services. The Fund, if charged the same rate as Medicare, would have saved roughly $1.1

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 9, 2018

The apoplectic response of the regulated community and commentariat to the off-message message conveyed via email moved CMS to issue an official statement more in line with the joint communiqué of December 2016. Fear not, gentle reader. most hospitals). Comments […] article was originally published on HealthBlawg and. Comments Comments.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

I’ve given up trying to predict that government organizations like HHS and ONC will do. However, like I said, trying to predict government is not my skill. COVID already delayed some of the information blocking requirements which makes me wonder if there’s an appetite for delay like this or not.

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Hall Render

AUGUST 8, 2022

In addition to this breach, the University later reported that a hacker had previously accessed the same web server as early as March of 2016. The University did not report this breach at the time, because it was not aware that ePHI was stored on the web server in 2016. Further, data governance is key to proactively managing ePHI.

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HIPAA Journal

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

According to the FBI, more than $43 billion was lost to these scams between June 2016 and December 2021, and in 2021 alone, the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center received reports of losses of $2,395,953,296 to BEC scams. million in losses were caused to federal government agencies, private companies, and individuals. million, and $6.4

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Ifetayo’s experience growing up with her father in prison brought her to drug policy reform work in 2013 as an intern at the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) and then joined them full-time in 2016. In 2013, Ifetayo was the opening plenary speaker at the International Drug Policy Reform Conference in Denver, Colorado.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 19, 2023

These safeguards become even more demanding as consumers and government agencies call for increased transparency and access to personal data. And, in 2016, the 21 st Century Cures Act — and its rules against information blocking — began requiring organizations to provide patients with easier and broader access to their medical records.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 19, 2023

Moreover, in 2019, as part of its national strategy on AI, the French government created the Health Data Hub. Dr. Arnaud Rosier is the Founder and CEO at Implicity , a clinical algorithm company in 2016 to help HCPs optimize remote cardiac monitoring and improve their patient outcomes.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Smile’s legal advisors in conjunction with this financing were Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 6, 2024

In 2016, the Parliament of Canada passed a federal law enabling eligible Canadian adults to request MAID. The federal government did not challenge this decision and instead amended the law in 2021 to expand access to MAID to individuals whose deaths are not reasonably foreseeable. can yield important learnings for both countries.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 24, 2022

Are we putting enough safeguards and governance in place for AI-driven decision-making, particularly in areas of automated machine learning? government has been incentivizing and streamlining the secure sharing of health data since 2016. Are humans in the process loop to verify both inputs and outputs of AI predictions?

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 2, 2022

In 2016, the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General found that federal prison spending on outsourced healthcare increased 24% to $327 million between 2010 and 2014, while the overall prisons budget increased only 11%. acquired in 2012, and the Keefe Group, acquired in 2016. Before that, H.I.G.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

APRIL 29, 2022

in restitution for her role in healthcare fraud, wire fraud, and theft of government funds. Court documents show that between 2008 and 2016 the former owner defrauded the Texas Medicaid program by billing for items and services that had not been provided to the clients of the day care centers. US Attorney Ashley C.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

APRIL 12, 2022

On 18 different occasions from the first quarter of 2016 through the fourth quarter of 2019, she withheld payroll taxes from her employees’ paychecks. However, instead of forwarding those taxes to the government, she kept them for her business. The withheld taxes totaled over $900,000.

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Verisys

APRIL 13, 2023

In 2016, an article published by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) listed medical errors as the third cause of death in the United States. The figure published in the 2016 article estimates that 250,000 deaths per annum were attributable to medical error. This made medical errors the third leading cause of death in 2016.

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Natalia Mazina

JANUARY 26, 2023

According to the government press release, the pharmacy and the marketers provided physicians with preprinted prescription script pads that offered “check-the-box” options to maximize the amount of insurance reimbursement for the compounded drugs.

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The Health Law Firm

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On November 22, 2017, a Florida woman who was accused of a $45 million Medicare fraud, received a six-and-a-half-year prison sentence, following a 2016 US Supreme Court decision in her case holding that the government could not freeze untainted assets. Indest III, J.D.,

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