Healthcare Compliance Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A mother and her two daughters have been charged for providing fraudulent COVID-19 vaccination cards to maintain and obtain employment at a New York nursing home. Vaccination is mandatory for nursing home employment in New York. Bassett stated, “Vaccination fraud is a serious crime. Update your policy as needed.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 23, 2020

As millions of healthcare workers begin receiving the first vaccination to protect against COVID-19, public health officials and government leaders continue wrestling with not only the operational challenges of scale—this is the first mass vaccination since smallpox (1958-1977) and polio (1980s-present)—but also […].

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Med-Net Compliance

JUNE 22, 2022

A registered nurse from a veteran’s hospital in Detroit pleaded guilty to charges related to COVID-19 vaccination record cards fraud. Employees and applicants of healthcare facilities must provide truthful information regarding their vaccination status and understand the penalties for engaging in fraud.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 3, 2022

In January 2021, the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness went live with LouVax, a vaccine scheduling and management system focused on increasing access to the COVID-19 vaccine. Hartlage will present alongside CGI Global's Renee Gregor at HIMSS22 this month about lessons learned from the rollout.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

And this threat is unlikely to abate in the new year, with forecasts predicting telehealth will continue to present security challenges (along with the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines ). ON THE RECORD. "Executives need to be willing to invest fully in cybersecurity throughout the organization.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 7, 2023

By Aparajita Lath Two articles published last month in the BMJ analyze the public investment and financing of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, highlighting the extensive government funding that has supported the development of mRNA technology from 1985 to 2022. government substantially de-risking the vaccine development process.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The Catholic Health Association (CHA) is urging Americans to “love thy neighbor” by getting the COVID-19 vaccine, Sister Mary Haddad wrote in an editorial published in Modern Healthcare, published on September 3, 2011. You can see the co-branding with the Ad Council’s COVID-19 Vaccine Education Initiative.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2021

"Early on, when vaccine supply was limited, Sanford Health followed state eligibility guidelines and then stratified the list based on patient risk factors, prioritizing the highest-risk patients and inviting them to be among the first to schedule COVID-19 vaccination appointments." " Clark Averill, St.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This language, sadly absent from the WTO negotiations on a potential patent waiver for COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, will provide a new accountability against wealthy nations seeking to privilege business at the expense of access to medicines.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Last year, security experts predicted that the COVID-19 vaccine rollout would probably present major challenges in 2021, along with telehealth. Just this week, an NBC News report found that tens of thousands of patient records had been posted to the dark web following at least one cybercriminal attack in November.

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Healthcare Law Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Addressing Declines in COVID-19 Vaccination Rates and COVID-19 Treatment. A pre-Thanksgiving analysis of this data revealed that just 45% of SNF residents and 23% of SNF staff were up-to-date with COVID-19 vaccines and boosters. [iv] ii] QSO-21-19-NH (cms.gov). iii] 42 CFR 483.10(c)(6).

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The goal of such a scheme would be to create a framework that is capacious enough to accommodate the competing (often, antagonistic) interests that recurringly emerge when there is concurrent transnational demand for scarce vaccine doses — those that are presently addressed through contract bilateralism.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2021

"We have the tools in place to address today's needs and meet the initial surge of anything that presents itself going forward," Carr added. Bellevue also uses Alertus notifications to keep employees apprised of necessary information – which, most recently, it used to flag COVID-19 vaccine availability.

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Jackson Lewis

DECEMBER 16, 2021

On December 15, 2021, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted, in part, the federal administration’s motion to stay the nationwide preliminary injunction enjoining the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (“CMS”) from enforcing its COVID-19 vaccine mandate nationwide as to non-plaintiff states. Louisiana et al v.

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Med-Net Compliance

JULY 13, 2022

Two California brothers were both sentenced to 36 months of probation and ordered to pay $500 dollars in restitution after pleading guilty to misdemeanor conspiracy to steal or convert government property charges stemming from the theft of Centers for Disease Control (CDC) COVID-19 Vaccination Record Cards.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

There are many reasons, but a few examples will suffice for the present context. Ultimately, they address the first two major shortcomings of the Siracusa Principles and present some potential for assisting in responding to the accountability problem. The HR Principles build on the Siracusa Principles.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 28, 2021

Medication nonadherence presents a significant issue for the health industry and patients. Outcomes also recently added MyScheduling, which enables patients to schedule and change appointments – including COVID-19 vaccine – at their local pharmacy, and could significantly reduce administrative tasks for pharmacies.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Monopoly control presents profound questions for public health governance. Patents and trade secrets empower private actors to make decisions about pricing, production, and supply of important medical technologies — in short, about public health.

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2021

The Wall Street Journal featured the grocery chain Kroger in an article yesterday titled, COVID-19 Vaccinations, Tests Give Boost to Kroger’s Health Ambitions. With 2,250 pharmacies and 220 clinics largely in the Midwest and the southern U.S.,

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The two Assembly reports on “Lessons for the future from an effective and rights-based response to Covid-19” and “Public health emergency: the need for a holistic approach to multilateralism and health care” provide states with policy recommendations in this regard.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2021

On the pharma supply side, mRNA vaccines will dominate the market, proving more effective than others at stemming a further outbreak. With growing global supply and competition, we can expect prices for COVID-19 vaccines to fall, anticipating additional volumes from Sinopharm, Moderna, Sinovac, Gamaleya Institute, among others.

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Health Law Pulse

JANUARY 21, 2022

Eventually, the United States began to reopen and serious discussion about the development of a COVID-19 vaccine began to take place as infection and death rates continued to rise, with the United States surpassing 200,000 fatalities in September 2020.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 24, 2023

They present an opportunity for robust discussions from a diverse array of perspectives, breathing life into the notion of “rights-based approaches to public health emergencies.” Indeed they have already found their way in a resolution of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: By June 2020, it became clear to the Centers for Disease Control that COVID-19 had been exacting a tougher toll on the lives of people of color in the U.S. The bar chart here was drawn on the data the CDC presented in June 2020 getting granular on coronavirus cases by age and race.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 4, 2021

"We presented them with a solution that was about 80% complete and did the primary functions they expected," he said. " The ultimate goal is to present solutions to doctors and nurses before they even know they need them. " Work-at-home has presented some challenges, Ross added.

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SQA

APRIL 30, 2021

Commission Extends Transparency and Authorization Mechanism for Exports of COVID-19 Vaccines, 11 March 2021. The EC has extended until the end of June 2021 the transparency and authorization mechanism for COVID-19 vaccine exports. The EU continues to be the leading provider of vaccines around the world.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The BroadReach team in South Africa has had the fortune of working in collaboration with USAID and the South Africa Department of Health to aid in the rollout of COVID-19 vaccination to clinics within rural communities, where vaccination levels were 25% below the national average.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Most patients with severe COVID did not present with obvious respiratory distress. I knew this would not happen. Just as there was no assurance of masking or social distancing in prisons, there was no guarantee of follow-up.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 18, 2021

The world has been in urgent need of COVID-19 vaccines, treatments, and diagnostic tools. The rapid adoption of decentralized and hybrid clinical study design spurred by the pandemic will present new regulatory challenges for the foreseeable future. Ronan Brown, SVP and Head of Integrated Global Compliance, IQVIA.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 6, 2023

One recent story was a breach of data at an Illinois health center that resulted in the exposure of COVID-19 vaccination status of over 700 people. The solutions will also need to clean and validate that data, making it presentable in ways that are intuitive for the end user.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2022

I was lamenting the bland, boring backgrounds of the presenters who were using low-quality stock shots or empty office views until I realized that I was looking at the wrong thing. Multiple presentations also noted that there did not seem to be a lot of built-up deferred medical demand carrying over from 2021 into 2022.

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Healthcare Law Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The numbers in the last three categories highlighted in the last paragraph more closely align with the yearly numbers presented for fiscal years 2019 and 2020, which might indicate that the COVID-19 pandemic prevented or delayed OIG representatives from handing out penalties.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Incarcerated people were also two and a half times more likely to die from COVID-19, according to a recent study published in JAMA. We know that incarcerated patients often present at younger ages with more advanced stages of disease when seen by external health care providers.

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Provider Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

This post will delve into the key highlights, focus areas, and accomplishments presented in the semiannual report, shedding light on the OIG’s crucial role in safeguarding the integrity of federal healthcare programs and addressing emerging challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

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SQA

JUNE 10, 2021

ANVISA released on 05 March the report Regulation in Numbers , presenting the 2020 actions aiming to improve the regulatory quality of the Agency. Backgrounder – Government of Canada Investments in Biomanufacturing, Development of COVID-19 Vaccines and Therapeutics, and Research, 18 May 2021. National Research Council.

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SQA

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

SQA is proud to be supporting Hellmann in delivering COVID-19 vaccines around the world. “We SQA along with some industry leading companies presented at the SoCal PDA 4th Annual Fall Symposium Risk-Based Approaches to During the COVID-19 Pandemic. This particular client partner is a U.S.

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SQA

MAY 24, 2021

Even with more of the world receiving their Covid-19 vaccinations, there are some countries lagging behind or dealing with a different strain. These continued hurdles are met with passion to succeed from SQA clients producing more vaccines to increase supply, and other options to fight Covid-19. Challenges.

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