Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 29, 2019

plan to increase access to healthcare with digital technologies, as stated in the eHealth Strategy by the Ministry of Public Health (2017-2026). The integration and promotion of the use of appropriate digital technologies for telemedicine is also part of the Thailand 4.0

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Speakers at the Symposium included the Directors General of all three organizations as well as representative government officials, non-governmental organizations (such as Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative), and industry participants (Novartis).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Back in 2017, Amazon's then-director of healthcare and life sciences, Steve Halliwell, told Healthcare IT News that cloud computing can allow healthcare organizations to be more nimble when it comes to innovation and growth. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Twitter: @kjercich. Email: kjercich@himss.org.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 18, 2022

Virtual visits were selected five times more often for anxiety and depression complaints than in-person – and this was for pre-pandemic encounters between 2015 and 2017. Fortunately, government, investors and startups are working together to close some of these care gaps. billion that year to $5.1

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 31, 2022

Evil Corp’s malware and ransomware variants have been used in many cyberattacks on the HPH sector, one of the most well-known being the BitPaymer ransomware attack on the National Health Service (NHS) Lanarkshire Board in Scotland in 2017.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 29, 2022

While the reduction in attacks is certainly good news, it should be noted that the year-to-date figures for ransomware attacks are still higher than they were in all of 2017, 2018, and 2019. Intrusion attempts increased by 39% in healthcare, 46% in government, and 200% in retail.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 2, 2022

HC3 has warned that threats could come from three areas: Threat actors linked to the Russian government, threat actors linked to the Belarussian government, and cybercriminal groups operating out of Russia and its neighboring states.

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US Department of Health and Human Services Ransomware Governance HIPAA 129

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.

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Bill of Health

JULY 11, 2024

The 2017 UN Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health concluded that discrimination influences policies, laws and practices, preventing patients from exercising their rights to refuse treatment, to legal capacity, and to privacy, among others.

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Pharmaceutical Industry COVID-19 Doctors Licensing 157

Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 28, 2022

Until Congress passed a law that took effect in 2017, hospitals weren’t required to tell patients whether they were receiving observation care and had not been admitted. Patients had nothing to appeal because the government can’t change a decision it didn’t make, so no Medicare rule had been violated. ” On Jan.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 11, 2019

However, the challenge lies in how government institutions such as the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) can meaningfully engage the private healthcare sector in moving towards VBHC. In healthcare, it is often easy to ‘cut and paste’ solutions from other health systems but sometimes the answers or successful models may lie within.

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Telemedicine Governance Hospitals Health Outcomes 125

HIT Consultant

AUGUST 8, 2022

It also offers in-home health evaluations for Medicare Advantage and other government-run managed-care plans. In July, the company said it planned to wind down one of its units after changes to a government-payment model and focus on more-profitable businesses. At the close of its deal this year to buy Caravan Health Inc.,

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Governance Medicare Medicare Health Insurance 97

HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

– Founded in 2017, PurpleLab has a strong pedigree in proprietary methodologies for data organization, cleansing, management, and governance to solve key challenges across the healthcare industry. What You Should Know: – PurpleLab, Inc. No code needed to create fully configured analytical reports.

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Governance 97

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

EHR vendor Modernizing Medicine has agreed to pay $45 million to the federal government to settle a whistleblower suit alleging that the vendor engaged in varied kickback schemes as well as causing its provider customers to submit false claims. The lawsuit was filed in 2017 by law firms Phillips and Cohen LLP and Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC.

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Governance Fraud 72

The Health Law Firm

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On November 2, 2017, a relator in a Florida federal False Claims Act (FCA) case, claimed that Epic Systems' (Epic) health software wrongly defaults to double-billing for anesthesia services. Indest III, J.D.,

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Governance 40

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2020

Government & Policy Network Infrastructure Telehealth Workflow With dozens of healthcare facilities across the UAE, the country’s healthcare system is evolving faster than elsewhere in the world says Christian Schuhmacher, CEO of King’s College Hospital London in Dubai. And it went beyond just coordinating the immediate response.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 19, 2019

Expansion of telehealth coverage and reimbursement at the state level has grown since 2017, according to the latest American Telemedicine Association. "For example, there are inconsistencies in the policies governing coverage and reimbursement even within one state," Johnson noted.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 23, 2022

Webb Mason provided patient data to Quantum Group in 2017 to assist with marketing efforts for Highmark, and that information has potentially been accessed by unauthorized individuals. Highmark Inc., Highmark stressed that its own IT systems were not compromised.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 19, 2021

It delivers centralized integration, prescribing, monitoring and governance for digital health tools from current clinician workflows, demonstrating a 50-80 percent reduction in integration and deployment costs, and substantial patient engagement with digital assets.

Governance 97

Governance Hospitals 97

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2023

The company was founded in 2017 and built natively in the cloud using FHIR as the easiest way to connect, control, and compute on health data. About 1upHealth 1upHealth provides a modern data platform that’s cloud-based, API-enabled, and FHIR-native.

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Medicaid Medicaid Health Analytics Governance 107

Bill of Health

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Devices must primarily comply with Regulations (EU) 2017/745 on Medical Devices and 2017/746 on In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices. The EU AI Act , proposed EU AI Liability Directive , and laws under the European Strategy for Data , such as the Data Governance Act , may also play roles. The regulatory landscape in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2020

said the government’s response to COVID was a significant source of stress: in first place, the Federal government response (felt a significant stressor among 84% of U.S. adults), followed by States (72% of consumers), and local governments (64% of people feeling the stress). Two in three people in the U.S.

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COVID-19 Governance World Health Health Outcomes 83

HIT Consultant

MARCH 22, 2022

Since launching in 2017, Cityblock has established itself as an industry leader in value-based care for marginalized populations. ” Cityblock Health Background. Cityblock serves a heterogeneous population with complex needs – 74% of its members qualify for financial assistance and 77% are members of a racial or ethnic minority.

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Health Populi

MAY 5, 2019

Historically, since the advent of employer-sponsored health care during World War II, the payor was the employer, the union, a government agency, another plan sponsor. adults experienced medical financial hardship between 2015 and 2017. The study analyzed data from the 2015-2017 National Health Interview Survey conducted by the CDC.

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Health Insurance Medical Billing Governance 98

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

spent $327 billion on diabetes management in 2017, Dhar said. " So far, one key area of progress has been on social determinants of health, such as homelessness and food security: "One thing we've been focused on is trying to bridge the gap between government, community organizations and residents," he said.

Public Health 150

Public Health Hospitals Governance 150

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

The report analyzes results of a survey of over 2,000 Change Healthcare customers (from academia, government, technology vendors, hospitals, providers, and health plans), conducted in October-November 2017. The CarePayment poll was conducted in November-December 2017. healthcare?

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Health Insurance Health Outcomes Governance Compliance 104

HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 14, 2022

These solutions, provided to pharmaceutical companies, government labs, and researchers, are designed to accelerate the study and prevention of diseases in the fields of obesity, diabetes, cancer, and regenerative medicines. Funding Accelerates Commercialisation of Research-Enabling Solutions.

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FDA Governance 98

HIPAA Journal

JUNE 9, 2023

In 2017, federal prosecutors indicted William and David Dubin on 20 counts related to the overbilling of Medicaid, which included 6 counts of aggravated identity theft and resulted in the practice receiving around $300,000 in fraudulent reimbursements. That fraudulent claim resulted in a payment of $338.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2018

In 2017, Airband was working with 16 U.S. Microsoft’s position is that the federal government broadband data estimates are doubtful, finding that rural broadband estimates calculated by the Pew Research Group are “far closer to the mark,” Smith concludes. states; the program will expand to 25 states in 2019.

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Telemedicine Health Outcomes Doctors Governance 102

Pharmacy Law Blog

MARCH 13, 2018

On December 4, 2017, a Florida federal judge refused to dismiss the federal government’s False Claims Act (FCA) suit against a compounding pharmacy. The federal judge refused the dismissal on the grounds that the government had sufficiently backed its allegations against both the company and its owner. December 4, 2017).

Fraud 52

Fraud Governance Licensing FDA 52

Bill of Health

MARCH 6, 2024

For instance, the 2017 case A.B 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. At the time, the law required a person’s natural death to be “reasonably foreseeable” for a person to be eligible for MAID.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 27, 2022

“Since we were founded in 2017 the world has changed so much. SEMCAP invests in companies across three verticals, which are underpinned by shifting government policy, technology, and consumer values, and are reframing the way business is conducted and how people live.

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US Department of Health and Human Services Governance Telemedicine 119

Bill of Health

JULY 17, 2023

As argued by feminist scholar Sara Ahmed (2017: 237) , “ when a whole world is organised to promote your survival, from health to education, to the walls designed to keep your residence safe, to the paths that ease your travel, you do not have become so inventive to survive. ”

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McGuire Wood

JULY 24, 2023

Founded in 2017, the company works with major payers as well as government, employer and community health plans across the United States. TT Capital Partners (TTCP) has made a majority growth investment in Pyx Health, according to a news release. Pyx Health , based in Tucson, Ariz., TTCP , based in Bloomington, Minn.,

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Governance 52

Health Populi

MARCH 7, 2018

As I wrote here in April 2017, telehealth and virtual healthcare are mainstreaming. But only 38% would share wearable health data with an employer, and 41% with a government agency. adults 18 years of age and over between October 2017 and January 2018 for this survey. Accenture surveyed 2,301 U.S.

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Telemedicine Patient Satisfaction Health Insurance Doctors 76

HIT Consultant

JULY 11, 2024

In 2017, the regulator warned the radio-frequency-enabled devices manufactured by St. Government Accountability Office, each medical device has an average of 6.2 Research — and real-world events — demonstrate implantable pacemakers are vulnerable to cyberattacks. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Jude Medical had a critical flaw.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

However, they need support from the federal government as the field continues to face targets from sophisticated cyber adversaries and nation-states.”. Greater support is required from the federal government for victims of cyberattacks. Help protect healthcare R&D and related intellectual property. Cyber insurance.

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