Mobi Health News

APRIL 13, 2018

Through a mix of studies, pilots, and deployments, the first quarter of 2018 saw a lot of providers moving deeper into digital health. At the same time, more moves by Apple and a lot of action from the federal government continued to create new possibilities for the space. Apple moves in 2018

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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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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 1, 2021

We launched our first fully integrated telehealth solution in the 2018-2019 timeframe. Whether it's government payers or the commercial payers, they have started to cover more and more of these initiatives. What were some of the changes you saw at CareCloud during the pandemic when it came to telehealth?

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Health Populi

MARCH 7, 2018

This week at the 2018 annual HIMSS conference, telehealth is playing a mainstream role in discussions about right-sizing and right-placing healthcare. The evidence for telehealth’s tipping point is rooted in new research published today by Accenture on Patients + Doctors + Machines, Accentures’ 2018 Consumer Survey on Digital Health.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2018

believe that the Federal government should ensure that their fellow Americans, a new Gallup Poll found. Now, in late 2018, we look toward 2019 and the 2020 Presidential elections and must also contemplate the lower darker green line. This asked people whether they would prefer a government-run health system.

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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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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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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2018

but one issue is on the mind of most American voters where there is evidence of some agreements: health care, as evidenced in the June 2018 Health Tracking Poll from Kaiser Family Foundation. Top-line, health care is one of the most important issues that voters want addressed in the 2018 mid-term elections, tied with the economy.

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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 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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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 Today

DECEMBER 22, 2024

That said, rejection rates hit a trough in 2018 and have increased 16% since then. Partnerships Identity security vendor SailPoint acquired Imprivatas identity governance and administration business , and the two companies will become go-to-market partners.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Becker's Health IT

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Hospital leaders, Congress, and governmental agencies have been collaborating on potential solutions to healthcare data breaches that have increased 93% from 2018 to 2022.

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The Health Law Firm

JANUARY 9, 2019

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On December 21, 2018, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it recovered more than $2.8 billion from False Claims Act (FCA) cases in 2018. billion in settlements and judgments that the government obtained during the year through FCA cases, more than $2.5

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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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Healthcare Law Blog

AUGUST 3, 2022

is a reminder that the government will use the FCA to target medical device manufacturers for off-label use of medical devices, even where healthcare providers have decided the use is safe and effective. The government is attempting to prove materiality using Medicare’s coverage requirement that procedures must be “reasonable and necessary.”

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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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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

AUGUST 2, 2022

The first strategic plan developed in 2018 has evolved to include supporting the larger objectives of the Stony Brook Medicine Clinically Integrated Network. "This support also included creating a more robust governance structure and the start of a comprehensive strategic plan for the expansion of telehealth services."

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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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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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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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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

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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Health Populi

JANUARY 29, 2019

paid for prescription drugs in 2018, with roughly four times the number of health citizens. The first FDA cleared DTx was reSET from Pear Therapeutics, cleared in November 2018. Federal government has proposed a sweeping set of pricing reforms for government programs with varying levels of impact and probability of being enacted.”

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2020

In Accenture’s words, “COVID-19 forced a surge” in virtual health care following a stalling of consumers’ adoption of digital health in late 2019: by December 2019, 35% of consumers had been using mobile health apps on phones and tablets, down from 48% in 2018; and 18% of consumers int he U.S. The pandemic drove U.S.

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Health Blawg

MAY 28, 2018

Eugene and his team are just getting this off the ground (Summer 2018). Eugene and his team are just getting this off the ground (Summer 2018). Everyone loves change, but nobody wants to change.”. Join the conversation on Twitter at #HarlowOnHC. David Harlow. The Harlow Group LLC. Health Care Law and Consulting.

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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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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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Health Populi

MARCH 20, 2018

Along with the overall erosion of peoples’ trust in government and other institutions comes this week’s revelations about Facebook, Cambridge Analytica , and the so-called Deep State. government is monitoring them or invading their privacy. I clipped the responses to three of the survey’s most relevant questions here.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The overall percentage of burned out executives, however, has climbed substantially since 2018 wherein the great majority of them are concerned about the impact that burnout is having on their organizations. The pandemic created a sense of doubt that I have had trouble shaking,” said one CEO frankly.

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