Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Consulting Firm Spun Off From PwC in 2018 Bain Capital said it would acquire Guidehouse , a consulting firm that advises government organizations and businesses, in a deal valuing it at $5.3 In 2018, Veritas Capital, which invests in businesses at the intersection of government and technology, acquired the U.S.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 18, 2022

Although telehealth boomed during the pandemic, the uptake of other forms of digital tools dropped after 2018, according to research carried out by Accenture across eight countries.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Following this accreditation, Medi-Map will still have to provide greater detail around governance and staff access to its system, procedures, and a demonstration of its use as a closed system. Since 2018, RACFs around the country have been trying out eNRMC-conformant products with the aim of making them available nationwide.

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The Health Law Firm

MARCH 14, 2018

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On January 29, 2018, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) released a new internal memorandum that we believe signals a backing-off of government support for False Claims Act cases. Indest III, J.D.,

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Bill of Health

JULY 15, 2022

The selections feature topics ranging from a discussion of potential pathways to enable government patent use before nonpatent exclusivities expire, to an examination of medical oncologists who receive more than $100,000 annually from pharmaceutical companies, to an analysis of the launch prices of new drugs from 2008-2021. JAMA Intern Med.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 4, 2023

dollars (USD) and additional government losses at $11 billion USD due to controlling livestock movement and depopulating infected livestock. In 2018 , floods inundated parts of Kansas near the NBAF. The selection of the site was questioned by the Government Accountability Office. billion facility. Who was she?

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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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 27, 2021

"Telemarketing fraud is a major threat to the integrity of government and commercial insurance programs," said Derrick L. Roix and HealthRight had already pleaded guilty in September 2018 to conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud for their roles in the incident, agreeing to pay restitution of $5 million.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

One example is the Digital LifeCare programme , which was launched in collaboration between Dell, the government of India, and Tata Trusts in 2018.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 4, 2024

The Supreme Court’s 2018 decision in National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA) v. Whereas earlier textual warnings have long been displayed on cigarette packages, new graphic warnings have been tied up in litigation for well over a decade because of First Amendment concerns. services will be available.”

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The 2018 study ' Smart Health Systems , International comparison of digital strategies' examined to what extent 18 selected countries had digitised their healthcare delivery. DiGA developers have conceded that they had underestimated the effort it takes to commercialise them. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Their multivariable regression model analyzed weekly EHR metadata, comparing the same measures for one year before the pandemic – August 2018-September 2019 – with the same period one year after its onset – August 2020-September 2021. hours per eight patient scheduled hours.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2022

“Among the 184 most commonly prescribed drugs in Medicare Part D in 2018, 90% could be purchased at Costco for less than $20 for a 30-day supply.” “A growing body of research shows that the federal government and Medicare beneficiaries are also overpaying for generic prescription medications,” t hey explained.

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Electronic Health Reporter

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

In late 2018, the U.S. government re-classified hemp — the subspecies of cannabis lacking significant concentrations of the […]. As of 2019, the voters in 33 American states have passed some form of legislation allowing the use of medical marijuana.

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Redox

JANUARY 24, 2018

Providers who implement this model analyze the security culture of their organization, including the mindset of its leadership, IT governance, and the cybersecurity awareness of staff, partners, and contractors, then build a plan that fits the organization’s habits and perceptions.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 21, 2022

Recent data shows that 80% of large employers believe virtual care will have a significant effect on how healthcare is delivered in the future, a 52% increase from 2018. Governance: Identifies how an organization’s leadership and governance drive support and implementation of virtual care services.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 4, 2022

What You Should Know: – symplr , a global leader in enterprise healthcare operations including governance, risk management, and compliance (“GRC”) SaaS solutions announced it has agreed to acquire Midas Health Analytics Solutions (“Midas”) from Conduent Incorporated for $340M.

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Health Law Advisor

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The California Privacy Protection Agency Board (the “Board”) held a public meeting on February 3, 2023, adopting and approving the current set of draft rules (the “Draft Rules”), which implement and clarify the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (“CPRA”).

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Health Law RX

JUNE 27, 2023

the Court held that, despite declining to intervene at the outset of a case, the Government retains the authority to intervene later, including for the purposes of seeking dismissal pursuant to and consistent with Federal Rule 41(a) ( U.S. Circuit found the Government’s dismissal authority to be “unfettered” ( Swift v. SuperValu Inc.,

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Bill of Health

MARCH 3, 2022

The spending on claims is significantly more than some other countries: “However, neither the Government’s own enquiries nor the published literature have yet yielded a full explanation as to why per-capita spending on claims in this country appears significantly higher than in all these other countries.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 29, 2019

Earlier this month, Samitivej Hospital Group, a private hospital brand in Thailand with a network of eight hospitals and owned by Bangkok Dusit Medical Services (BDMS), launched a one-stop Virtual Hospital app , which provides services such as teleconsultation and medicine delivery.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 25, 2022

A New Way to Contain Unaffordable Medication Costs – Exercising the Government’s Existing Rights. Medicaid Expenditures and Estimated Rebates on Line Extension Drugs, 2010-2018. Association Between Payments by Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Prescribing Behavior in Rheumatology. Mayo Clin Proc. 2022 Feb;97(2):250-260.

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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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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Founded in 2018, Lyfegen’s platform helps regulators, pharma companies and payers more easily adopt value-based payment models by digitizing the end-to-end process of data collection, anonymization and contract negotiations for all parties to agree upon drug pricing and reimbursement. “We

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 21, 2023

Centerstone began offering telehealth services in 2018 with the goal of reaching patients in rural communities. Clinical and technological perspectives on telepsychiatry Centerstone and Lyra Health , two behavioral health service providers, have both found success using telepsychiatry to reach their patients.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 9, 2023

The framework was released by NIST in 2015, updated in 2018, and the NIST CSF 2.0 The NIST CSF has become the standard cybersecurity framework for government agencies and private sector companies for managing cybersecurity risks. is due for release later this year.

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Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2020

feel this way, up from 56% in 2018 and 2019. This was the highest proportion APA polled since 2018 when 46% of black adults reported discrimination was a significant stressor. adults), followed by States (72% of consumers), and local governments (64% of people feeling the stress). Furthermore, 4 in 5 people in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 21, 2020

Health information management – initially confusing with too many parties involved, both internally within the hospital group and externally with government agencies. ” Looking at the WHO ITU e-Health governance, standards and interoperability are the fundamentals of applications and services.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Most notably, the government of Ecuador has enshrined the rights of nature, or Pachamama, into their constitution. In 2018 the White Earth Band of Ojibwe adopted a law to protect the rights of manoomin , or wild rice in Minnesota. Indigenous communities across the United States have been at the forefront of the RoN movement.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The federal government has been haranguing vendors and clinicians to make interoperable systems since the HITECH act was passed in 2009. In 2018, CMS chief Seema Verma pushed forward the organization’s goal to advance true interoperability. The release of FHIR in the mid-2010 decade changed everything.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In 2022, as cyberattacks globally rose by 38% year-on-year, healthcare became the third-most-attacked industry (behind government and education), recording an increase of 74% and reporting up to 1,463 incidents per week. Since 2018, ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations alone have cost the global economy $92 billion in downtime.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 11, 2024

That number more than doubled from 2018 to 2021, marking an unfortunate milestone — and indicating the issue will continue worsening. Government Accountability Office, each medical device has an average of 6.2 It’s no secret the healthcare industry amasses a fortune of personally identifiable information (PII) and health data.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2019

Further complicating matters was the first House VA Subcommittee on Technology Modernization hearing, held in September 2018, which revealed that officials and congressional members are not on the same page when it comes to governance and EHR interoperability. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2024

Centers for Disease Control said it measured 39% more SUD cases between 2018 and 2021, according to the company. "Substance use has been catastrophic to families, communities, payers and health systems," Brad Kittredge, co-founder and CEO of Brightside Health, said in a statement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 18, 2020

The latest policy framework for Scotland guiding this digital transformation work is the Digital Health and Care Strategy from 2018. In March 2020, the Scottish Government produced advice and guidance on Information Governance to support the safe deployment of telehealth.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

APRIL 27, 2022

Under the False Claims Act, the government is entitled to three times damages and civil penalties ranging from $5,500 and $11,000 for each identifiable claim submitted between Nov. A robust compliance and ethics program can help identify false claims therefore reducing fraud, waste, and abuse of government funds.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

The FCA allows the federal government to recover fraudulently-obtained federal funds, plus significant additional monetary damages and penalties. These types of dismissals of qui tam suits have become increasingly popular in recent years, with the DOJ outlining seven standards for seeking dismissals in a 2018 memorandum by Michael D.

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