Bill of Health
APRIL 9, 2025
Abortion Texass Life of the Mother Act: A Wolf in Sheeps Clothing? The Texas legislature is considering a bill that purportedly aims to clarify the states near-total abortion ban. Texas law currently bans abortion at any time during pregnancy unless the pregnancy places the pregnant person at risk of death or poses a serious risk of substantial impairment of major bodily function.
Healthcare It News
APRIL 9, 2025
Tungs' Taichung MetroHarbor Hospital is the latest in Taiwan to get validated for the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model. The EMRAM measures an organisation's adoption and maturity of their EMR capabilities. WHY IT MATTERS Tungs' Hospital was validated for Stage 6 of the EMRAM almost two years ago. In preparing for the highest EMRAM stage validation, Dr Min-Che Tung, chief superintendent of Tungs' Hospital, revealed to Healthcare IT News that they adopted a "digi
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HIT Consultant
APRIL 9, 2025
What You Should Know: – UiPath , an enterprise automation and AI software company, has unveiled its new generative AI-based UiPath Medical Record Summarization agent at Google Cloud Next 2025. – Powered by Google Cloud’s Vertex AI and Gemini models, the platform is designed to transform how payer and provider organizations handle medical documents.
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 9, 2025
It can be very overwhelming scrolling though job board after job board in search of a position that fits your wants and needs. Let us take that stress away by finding a mix of great health IT jobs for you! We hope you enjoy this look at some of the health IT jobs we saw healthcare organizations trying to fill this week. Here’s a quick look at some of the health IT jobs we found: Associate Clinical Specialist – Wellsense, Inc.
Speaker: Simran Kaur, Co-founder & CEO at Tattva.Health
AI is transforming clinical trials—accelerating drug discovery, optimizing patient recruitment, and improving data analysis. But its impact goes far beyond research. As AI-driven innovation reshapes the clinical trial process, it’s also influencing broader healthcare trends, from personalized medicine to patient outcomes. Join this new webinar featuring Simran Kaur for an insightful discussion on what all of this means for the future of healthcare!
HIT Consultant
APRIL 9, 2025
What You Should Know: – Corti , the leading AI infrastructure provider for healthcare, today opened access to its healthcare-specialized Dictation API, powered by its Solo foundation model. –By launching this specialized API, Corti is democratizing access to premium dictation technology, enabling software vendors of all sizes to compete with existing solutions and tailor them to the highly specialized needs of diverse practitioners across healthcare.
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 9, 2025
The following is a guest article by Andrew Mahler, JD, CIPP/US, AIGP, CHC, CHPC, CHRC , Vice President of Privacy, Compliance Services at Clearwater When the healthcare information ecosystem operates as it should, it mirrors a healthy circulatory system. Its networks and pathways ensure that vital patient data flows to the right places at the right time, with patient information moving uninterrupted from one health service to another.
Health Care Compliance Brief brings together the best content for health law & compliance professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 9, 2025
Hospitals and clinics are under increasing pressure to see tangible results from their technology investments. Dimensional Insight has taken that challenge head-on, delivering meaningful analytics to healthcare organizations in record time. Heres how. Healthcare IT Today sat down with Nora Lissy, VP of Healthcare Consulting & Implementation and James Kirtley, Senior Software Engineer (employee number 3!
HIT Consultant
APRIL 9, 2025
What You Should Know: – Health insurance members, both in commercial and Medicare Advantage plans, are increasingly relying on their health plan’s websites and mobile apps for communication. However, these digital experiences are falling short of the standards members expect from other digital-forward industries. – The J.D. Power 2025 U.S.
Healthcare Dive
APRIL 9, 2025
The merger brings together Neurolutions’ brain computer interface technology and Kandu Health’s telehealth services to try and improve stroke care.
YouCompli
APRIL 9, 2025
As compliance officers, we spend a lot of time focused on how others perform their jobs. However, being self-aware of how we do our own work is paramount for an effective compliance program. Incorporating self-awareness into your healthcare compliance program can significantly enhance its effectiveness. For example, it improves your ability to empathize with the challenges operational leaders face when adjusting a process to meet a regulatory requirement.
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Based on comprehensive survey data from diverse healthcare providers, the 2025 HIPAA Benchmark Report delivers actionable intelligence for modern compliance programs. This report examines how organizations are restructuring HIPAA Privacy Programs to address emerging regulatory requirements. Through analysis of staffing models, program operations, and breach management protocols, it provides a clear picture of current best practices.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 9, 2025
Image by wavebreakmedia_micro on Freepik What You Should Know: – A recent study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings indicates that occupational burnout rates among physicians in the United States are decreasing after reaching a peak in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. – Despite this improvement, the American Medical Association (AMA) emphasizes that U.S. physicians still experience a higher risk of burnout compared to other U.S. workers.
Healthcare Dive
APRIL 9, 2025
Hospital M&A plummeted during the first quarter, with systems announcing only five deals amid significant market uncertainty, according to Kaufman Hall.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 9, 2025
What You Should Know: – Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity for hospitals and health systems in the United States experienced a significant slowdown in the first quarter of 2025, according to a recent analysis by Kaufman Hall. – The number of announced transactions reached a historic low, with only five deals recorded. Four out of the five transactions involved financially distressed organizations revealing broader market volatility and economic uncertainty, including concern
Hall Render
APRIL 9, 2025
On January 14, 2025, the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor (DOL) issued two opinion letters. One of the letters, FMLA 2025-1-A (Opinion Letter), provided guidance on the application of federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) regulations to paid leave employees take under state and local government family and medical leave programs.
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Every health care provider that accepts federal payments must screen for excluded providers. Use this sample Exclusion Screening Checklist and Compliance Policy to evaluate and improve your organization’s compliance with the law. Payments from Medicare, Medicaid, and TriCare trigger screening requirements that may extend to employees, contractors, volunteers, board members, and network providers.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 9, 2025
Brannan Moss, Executive Managing Director at JLL What You Should Know: – JLL , a professional services firm, announced the formation of its JLL Healthcare Center of Excellence to provide a deeper level of resources and specialized expertise to its health system and healthcare provider clients across the nation. – The company has appointed Executive Managing Director Brannan Moss to lead this national initiative.
HealthIT Answers
APRIL 9, 2025
Moving our healthcare system into the digital age, better outcomes, controlling and reducing costs, and patient access to their health data. Our monthly HIE rundown includes updates on TEFCA, HIE networks, job openings and vendor contracts. The post Sharing Health Data Update April 2025 appeared first on Health IT Answers.
HIT Consultant
APRIL 9, 2025
What You Should Know: – Metopio has secured a multi-million-dollar investment led by Plymouth Growth, that promises to transform how organizations uncover, understand, and act on critical community insights. –This strategic funding marks a pivotal moment in broadening access to data, empowering healthcare and public health professionals to make faster, more informed decisions that directly impact community well-being.
Digital Health News
APRIL 9, 2025
Making the most of healthcare technologies requires systematic change, writes Dr Sarah Byron, programme director at NICE
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In healthcare, where patient data protection is paramount, effective vendor risk management isn't just good business—it's essential for maintaining compliance and trust. This comprehensive guide helps healthcare compliance professionals navigate the complexities of third-party vendor relationships in an increasingly interconnected healthcare environment.
HealthIT Answers
APRIL 9, 2025
By Maggie McCullough - Breakthrough therapies like GLP-1 medicationsOzempic, Wegovy, and Rybelsushave reshaped how we approach chronic conditions like diabetes and obesity. Yet, their benefits remain out of reach for millions. The post Mapping the True Cost of Breakthrough Therapies appeared first on Health IT Answers.
Mobi Health News
APRIL 9, 2025
In January Transcarent announced that it was acquiring Accolade and taking it private.
HIPAA Journal
APRIL 9, 2025
Fortinet is advising FortiSwitch users to urgently update their firmware to fix a critical vulnerability that could be exploited by a remote attacker to modify administrative passwords. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-4887, has a CVSS base score of 9.3, and was discovered internally by Daniel Rozeboom of the FortiSwitch web UI development team.
Digital Health News
APRIL 9, 2025
A project to help connect electronic health record (EHR) systems across Europe has received 8 million from the European Commission.
Speaker: Jennifer Hill
Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.
HIPAA Journal
APRIL 9, 2025
The Vancouver, WA-based drug store chain Hi-School Pharmacy has agreed to settle a class action data breach lawsuit over a November 2023 data breach. A $600,000 settlement fund will be created to cover attorneys fees, legal costs and expenses, and class members’ claims. Hi-School Pharmacy experienced network disruption on November 3, 2024, and confirmed on November 21, 2023, that hackers had accessed its network and potentially obtained the personal information of current and former employ
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 9, 2025
The Department of Government Efficiency is moving a provider enrollment system in-house, despite scrubbing mention of an outside contract termination.
Digital Health News
APRIL 9, 2025
Wes Streeting, health secretary, confirmed the governments commitment to retaining the digital workforce amid the abolition of NHS England.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 9, 2025
Google Cloud continues to quickly build out its generative AI capabilities and is advancing technology for the adoption and use of AI agents to automate tasks and collaborate across organizations.
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Healthcare communication has evolved from handwritten notes and paper charts to digital tools like EHRs, telemedicine, and AI-powered platforms. This blog explores how these advancements improve patient outcomes, streamline care delivery, and enhance provider collaboration. Learn about the role of mobile health (mHealth) apps, secure messaging, and social media in bridging communication gaps.
Digital Health News
APRIL 9, 2025
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust has gone live with Sectras enterprise imaging solution to connect radiologists in South East England.
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 9, 2025
This week on "Podnosis," Senior Writer Paige Minemyer chats with Jason Oberfest, vice president of healthcare at Oura, to discuss how the company is approaching its push into healthcare.
HIPAA Journal
APRIL 9, 2025
A class action lawsuit has been filed against University of Maryland Medical System Corporation and University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) by six current and former employees who claim they were victims of cyber-voyeurism and cyber stalking by a former UMMC pharmacist. The lawsuit names six Jane Doe plaintiffs, and was filed individually and on behalf of similarly situated individuals.
Compliancy Group
APRIL 9, 2025
Healthcare cybersecurity continues to face serious challenges in 2025. In March alone, 44 data breaches across the industry compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 1,583,518 patients a staggering reminder that cyber threats arent slowing down. With the vast majority of incidents caused by hacking, the numbers tell a story that healthcare organizations cant afford to ignore.
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Let's discuss the trusty pager—an old favorite that’s losing its shine in hospitals and clinics. While once a staple in hospitals and clinics, pagers now present significant limitations that hinder rather than facilitate communication among healthcare professionals. Healthcare professionals are constantly on the move, and they need communication tools that can keep up with their fast-paced lives.
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