Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The Telehealth Improvement for Kids’ Essential Services, or TIKES, Act of 2020 would require the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to issue guidance to states about how to increase access to telehealth under Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.

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Health Populi

JULY 9, 2020

Combine these new life-flows with conflicting information about the nature, severity, and life-span of COVID-19: From three levels of government leaders: The President and the Executive Branch at the Federal Level, Governors of States, and Mayors of cities; Public health agencies, especially the U.S. Press Ganey asks.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2021

Clinical Decision Support Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Telehealth Workflow CIOs need to look beyond just EHRs and explore standalone platforms to enhance care delivery – keeping focused on reliable patient data and streamlined clinical workflows. FDA classifies medical devices into three classes based on risk to human life.

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Compliancy Group

MARCH 28, 2023

According to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), in 2020, the requirements of HIPAA applied to at least 2.7 Make Sure You’re HIPAA Compliant Let us help you get started on your SOC 2 HIPAA mapping! million healthcare organizations in the United States.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 5, 2022

However, as a board-certified physician in addiction medicine and chief medical officer of a nationwide addiction medicine practice, waiting on government funding was not an option as we treated patients struggling with opioid use disorder (OUD) during the COVID pandemic. We need to do more.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. With support for multi-cloud deployments, telemedicine and personalized health, patient and clinician devices, and IoT devices deployed in the home, perimeter security will no longer be enough. to build out their cybersecurity program.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Stephen Sofoul, SVP, Data & Decision Science Services at MultiPlan A critical challenge lies in the shortage of experienced financial analysts or data analysts capable of effectively analyzing the wealth of information that the healthcare industry holds. However, with healthcare being ever-evolving our regulations are also ever evolving.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 15, 2024

Many businesses and organizations came to an abrupt halt as all systems using CrowdStrike received the infamous blue screen of death. Richard Bird, Chief Security Officer at Traceable AI The CrowdStrike event serves as an incredibly important reminder that the digital world is nothing more than a tool that serves the human world.

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AIHC

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Written by Joanne Byron , BS, LPN, CCA, CHA, CHCO, CHBS, CHCM, CIFHA, CMDP, COCAS, CORCM, OHCC, ICDCT-CM/PCS The Federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule helps Americans know the cost of a hospital item or service before receiving it. In the US, hospital prices vary widely but are not visible to patients or the public.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

The following is a guest article by Nate Maslak, Founder & CEO at Ribbon Health. The ability to seek treatment from a doctor specializing in your specific medical need is beneficial and improves health outcomes. million in 2020. And consumers have come to expect and demand this personalization.

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YouCompli

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Compliance officers can help protect revenue and reduce the risk of penalties by collaborating with the Finance and Reimbursement departments to navigate the dynamics of outlier payments and prospective repayment. The government alleged these increased charges resulted in the greater number of outlier payments.

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AIHC

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Lessons Learned about Consequences & Incentives Submitted by the AIHC Education Department Introduction The Office of Inspector General has released the new General Compliance Program Guidance or “GCPG” in late 2023. The British government decided to take action and offered citizens a bounty to redeem for dead cobras.

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AIHC

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Lessons Learned about Consequences & Incentives Submitted by the AIHC Education Department Introduction The Office of Inspector General has released the new General Compliance Program Guidance or “GCPG” in late 2023. The British government decided to take action and offered citizens a bounty to redeem for dead cobras.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2021

We probably had about 3,000 people who were authenticated to deliver and use our telemedicine platform. During the last two weeks of March in 2020 plan and the first two weeks of April, we went up to about 16,000. What have been some of yours? I don't know if there's something called post-pandemic. " Dr. Robert Bart, UPMC.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In 2020, telemedicine truly, finally hit the mainstream in the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic essentially forced healthcare provider organizations, the government and payers to embrace telehealth as an essential way to enable physicians to see patients. Here, five physician telehealth managers tell their stories.

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Exeed Regulatory Compliance

MARCH 5, 2020

Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has declared a public health emergency. The World Health Organization (WHO) has stopped short of classifying the outbreak as a pandemic, but consistently encouraged affected countries to activate their national emergency response plans.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 28, 2022

Since 2008, the US economy functioned with remarkably low inflation and interest rates. Between 2010 and 2020, the NASDAQ experienced a 17.1% Act I: Pre-COVID (Pre-2020) Act II: Post-COVID (2020 – 2021) Act III: Post-Inflation (2022 – ?). Executive Summary.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Accountable Care Compliance & Legal Government & Policy Telehealth Workforce Healthcare organizations must urge the Senate to pass critical telehealth legislation, and enact at least a two-year extension of the important PHE-era policies while working toward a permanent solution. In January 2020, then-Secretary of the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Accountable Care Compliance & Legal Government & Policy Telehealth Workforce Healthcare organizations must urge the Senate to pass critical telehealth legislation, and enact at least a two-year extension of the important PHE-era policies while working toward a permanent solution. In January 2020, then-Secretary of the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 16, 2024

David Ting, founder/CTO at Tausight In November, President Biden signed a new Executive Order – titled “Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence” – that promises to introduce new national AI regulations that focus on safety and responsibility in the use of this revolutionary new technology. Department of Commerce.

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Mesa hospital Phoenix bioscience boom poised to improve health care and local economy, proponents say What’s next for Steward hospitals in Arizona? Federal Grant to Study Eye Disease UAMS Study to Address Maternal, Infant Deaths with $2.4M

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Hall Render

MARCH 25, 2022

Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act becomes law. Here are the top health systems by patient reviews. Sensitive health data of 50 million Americans hacked or breached last year: analysis. Private equity’s pandemic-era health care push. 12 million dollar drug lab, mental health center coming to Dothan.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The CDC has stopped printing them Telehealth Visits Decline 46%, But Telebehavioral Healthcare Still High URAC to offer health equity accreditation Walgreens CIO is latest to leave in company’s C-suite shakeup AI is creating a complex landscape for healthcare executives ALABAMA Alabama hospital to remain on Cerner after sale Alabama gets $3.6M

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The CDC has stopped printing them Telehealth Visits Decline 46%, But Telebehavioral Healthcare Still High URAC to offer health equity accreditation Walgreens CIO is latest to leave in company’s C-suite shakeup AI is creating a complex landscape for healthcare executives ALABAMA Alabama hospital to remain on Cerner after sale Alabama gets $3.6M

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Total HIPAA

JUNE 7, 2021

During the first quarter of 2020, cloud spending rose 37% to $29 billion. Some of the major cybersecurity attacks of the past year include: The infamous SolarWinds hack, in which a massive data breach occurred after SolarWinds, a third-party vendor widely used across the federal government, fell victim to a sophisticated hacking campaign. ³

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 7, 2023

The passing of the Telehealth Expansion Act of 2023 shows the federal government’s commitment to health equity, emphasizing the importance of increasing access to quality healthcare for all citizens, regardless of location or socioeconomic status.

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Hall Render

AUGUST 19, 2022

Amazon to offer behavioral health services through Ginger partnership. CDC, amid criticism for COVID-19 response, plans reorganization as public health threats grow. House approves sweeping climate, tax, health care package. Joint Commission’s New Accreditation Standards Tackle Health Disparities. CALIFORNIA.

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Hall Render

JUNE 3, 2022

4 benefits of behavioral health partnership for hospital performance. Court OKs denying coverage for mental health, substance-use care. Court OKs denying coverage for mental health, substance-use care. COVID-fatigued health workers are mobilizing. Now they’re facing a mental health crisis.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

the health/care ecosystem warmly embraced social determinants of health as a concept in 2019. A few of the mainstreaming-of-SDoH signposts in 2019 were: Cigna studying and focusing in on loneliness as a health and wellness risk factor. CVS building out an SDOH platform , collaborating with Unite US for the effort.

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SQA

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Health Canada. Health Canada is warning consumers about counterfeit BTNX Rapid Response COVID-19 antigen rapid test kits (25-pack boxes) found in Ontario. The counterfeit devices were sold online by a distributor named Healthful Plus without the required license to import, distribute, or sell medical devices in Canada.

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2023

This isn’t a theoretical thing: Dr. Murthy has come out of the loneliness closet to tell us that he, too, has confronted and dealt with to loneliness, putting himself out there/here as Exhibit A in the epidemic of Americans who are lonely — and suffering risks across every dimension of personal and social health.

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Health Populi

MARCH 20, 2020

Johns Hopkins COVID-19 interactive map told us this morning. Department of Health and Human Services on the nation’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, published March 13, 2020, forecasts a plan looking 18 months out. Health Populi’s Hot Points: In the U.S., This report from the U.S.

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Hall Render

AUGUST 26, 2024

Now the nursery needs your help. hospital, university working to fight ambulance staff shortage Purchase of Wadley Regional Medical Center in Hope, Ark., hospital, university working to fight ambulance staff shortage Purchase of Wadley Regional Medical Center in Hope, Ark.,

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Hall Render

AUGUST 23, 2024

Now the nursery needs your help. hospital, university working to fight ambulance staff shortage Purchase of Wadley Regional Medical Center in Hope, Ark., hospital, university working to fight ambulance staff shortage Purchase of Wadley Regional Medical Center in Hope, Ark.,

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Hall Render

MARCH 17, 2023

NATIONAL AMA pressures federal government to fix prior authorization problem plaguing radiology AHA pushes back on new 340B alliance Biden’s $6.8T NATIONAL AMA pressures federal government to fix prior authorization problem plaguing radiology AHA pushes back on new 340B alliance Biden’s $6.8T

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

NATIONAL 988 suicide hotline adds support for American Sign Language 3 Takeaways from Physician Compensation Trends Adventist Health completes merger with Montebello’s ailing Beverly Hospital AHA-supported bill to protect health care workers introduced in Senate AHA weighs in on CMS’ proposed ASC payment system AHA submits comments on CY 2024 (..)

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Hall Render

MAY 5, 2023

acquisition of Oak Street Health to expand primary care footprint Did Hospitals Violate EMTALA by Failing to Provide Abortion Care? acquisition of Oak Street Health to expand primary care footprint Did Hospitals Violate EMTALA by Failing to Provide Abortion Care?

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