Healthcare It News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Like many hospitals and health systems, it has been facing many challenges with behavioral health. "Second, there is a lack of licensed clinical professionals in the markets we serve. "If those factors align, we then take the specific vendor product through a governance group.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 21, 2023

Queensland-based Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service will be trying out a remote pregnancy monitoring platform by ASX-listed HeraMED. At the same time, the hospital will conduct a clinical implementation study with HeraMED to assess several use cases of HeraCARE, including acceptance, cost-effectiveness, and clinical outcomes.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Joint governance leads to better patient protection Liederman credited joint governance for helping to facilitate a higher sense of trust among patients and the workforce. It's somebody they know, somebody they know of or somebody prominent in the community that is hospitalized. "What's going on?

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HIPAA Journal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Caroline Cook, Privacy Consultant, GDH Government Consulting Services, has shared her thoughts. As a teenager, I volunteered in hospitals and nursing homes. That led to my serving as the Privacy Officer for the hospital beginning with the implementation of the Privacy Rule. I’ve worked in healthcare for over 30 years.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

John's Well Child and Family Center due to the stringent "safer at home" order from local government as well as the need to meet residents' healthcare needs while protecting the safety of both providers and patients. "We purchased additional equipment and licenses and trained all our staff," Manga recalled.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 9, 2023

But even if some important questions about virtual care's staying power have been answered recently , health systems and telehealth startups continue to face major challenges navigating licensing requirements to operate across state lines. Not only does this process create inefficiencies and confusion, but mistakes can be very costly.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 15, 2023

Covered entities include various federally funded clinics and hospitals that serve low-income patients. Monsanto , where the Court held that no taking occurred where a party voluntarily agreed to relinquish trade secrets in exchange for a government license to sell a product.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 30, 2023

This change is yet another signal that the country is working to move past the pandemic, which falls in line with recent moves by the federal government to move the pandemic to a more controlled phase. Further, what should CIOs and other health IT leaders at hospitals and health systems be doing to address new telemedicine challenges?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 9, 2022

License and approval. Only licensed physicians are qualified and permitted to engage in medical practice. Under this definition, a software to be used for the following purposes is excluded from SaMD: patient education; in-hospital operating support or maintenance; or personal health or exercise check and management by patients/users.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 26, 2021

The surge in teleconsultations came after it partnered with the Philippines Department of Health and the National Privacy Commission to deliver free telemedicine services, which helped in easing hospital occupancy and preventing the spread of COVID-19. million patients over the past year.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2022

But even now, hospitals and health systems should be preparing proactively to meet the regulatory demands of a post-PHE future. State government executive orders. Outside the blanket waiver, it is also a CMS reimbursement requirement that the practitioner must be licensed in the state. We spoke recently with Allison M.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 1, 2024

will be divided between the US government and various states. Key Allegations The lawsuit alleged that TRG engaged in improper billing practices related to radiology services provided to hospitals and other healthcare providers across the country. . – The settlement amount of $3.1M

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

hospitals – and explored opportunities and barriers to growth. Licenses that allowed physicians to practice across state lines and provided reimbursement parity due to the pandemic have now expired. The healthcare industry does not agree that state licensing needs to be revised. The government must take the lead.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 19, 2020

Further, there is a chance telemedicine could add to hospitals being overwhelmed, unless it’s used well. But hospitals are learning to adapt to telehealth during a pandemic. Critically, hospitals are quickly adopting telehealth to treat quarantined patients infected with COVID-19, he added.

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Provider Trust

OCTOBER 12, 2021

License verification, especially nursing license verification, is essential to ensuring that only the most qualified practitioners are seeing your patients. Additionally, of all licensed RNs, 84.5% Additionally, of all licensed RNs, 84.5% License Verification Is Incredibly Complex. with more than 3.8

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 28, 2024

Cyberattacks have been reported by Pembina County Memorial Hospital, Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center, and Rancho Family Medical Group. The forensic investigation and document review took almost a year, with the hospital stating in its breach notice that those processes were not completed until March 4, 2024.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A range of entities are filing psychedelic patent applications – from publicly traded corporations to universities and government bodies. An additional four Porta Sophia interventions responded to one of MindMed’s University partners, Universitätsspital Basel (University Hospital Basel, or UHB).

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 18, 2024

We reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them how AI-driven predictive analytics and machine learning algorithms are being employed to streamline hospital operations, optimize resource allocations, and improve overall healthcare system efficiency. The following are their answers.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 5, 2022

Individuals who had their Social Security numbers or driver’s license numbers exposed have been offered complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft protection services. Jack Hughston Memorial Hospital Investigating Cyberattack. A limited number of patients also had financial account information exposed.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

Lots of industry groups want to see the temporary government waivers enacted early on during the COVID-19 public health emergency – the ones enabling the vast expansion of telehealth and remote patient monitoring over the past four months – to be made permanent once the storm has subsided. And some legislators do too.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The proper credentialing steps can be complex and time-consuming but are a fundamental responsibility of hospitals and healthcare facilities. All certifications and licenses must be verified for every provider who administers services to patients. Mistake No. 3: Allowing a physician to treat patients before credentialing is completed.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 12, 2022

hospital or EHR vendor) intervention or surveillance. Either way, the ability to freely choose one’s partner or licensed fiduciary is a core human right. Decentralized cooperative finance enables more diverse and resilient alternatives to corporate or government control of our essential infrastructure.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2024

Phase two testing required testing to be completed by 1000+ licensed US nurses, and 100+ US licensed physicians talking to the AI while acting as a patient. Phase three testing, which begins now, requires the testing to be completed by 5,000 licensed nurses, 500 licensed physicians, and the company’s health system partners.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2022

The pandemic has added to these challenges due to hospitals facing capacity issues during surges in cases, increased patient deaths, clinician health and safety risks, and uncertainty over treatments, which has led to a feeling of helplessness. Hospitalizations, for example, do not always require the patient to be within a medical facility.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2023

Staffing shortages, budget cuts and low patient volumes coming out of the pandemic have forced some rural hospitals to shut their doors, with 19 closures in 2020 alone. Many hospitals and clinics are currently operating short-staffed, and some have even been forced to close their doors due to the lack of nurses and physicians.

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MedTrainer

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

While federal operations are slowed, reduced, or put on pause during a government shutdown, healthcare services must continue to operate. What Is a Government Shutdown? Without budget authorization from Congress, a variety of government services and operations come to a halt. But what does this mean for your healthcare business?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2020

Government & Policy Network Infrastructure Telehealth Workflow With dozens of healthcare facilities across the UAE, the country’s healthcare system is evolving faster than elsewhere in the world says Christian Schuhmacher, CEO of King’s College Hospital London in Dubai. And it went beyond just coordinating the immediate response.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Those who remain are often itinerant nurses and other providers who travel from hospital to hospital as needed, often at exorbitant rates that have increased compensation by 50 to 100%, costing facilities an extra $24B per year. It’s an unsustainable model. More work will be needed for stable, long-term fixes.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

government and leading medical associations call upon stakeholders to do their part. Currently, in-patient and facility claims (such as extended hospital stays) account for a significant portion of costs in healthcare — as high as 45%. In fact, studies by the U.S.

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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. The regulation aims to improve the affordability of hospital care by promoting price competition.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Like many other moderately sized community hospitals with ambulatory clinics, Ellis Medicine in Schenectady, New York, is challenged with providing its patients and community with not only expanded and alternative methods of access to primary and specialty care, but also ensuring that care is provided in the right setting. THE PROBLEM.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Plainly put, we have 20 th Century laws governing 21 st century health care delivery. Clinicians continue to be concerned about licensure required which has historically preventing doctors from consulting with patients residing in states in which the doctors are not licensed to practice. Hospital care is coming home.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

It has also earned us a Joint Commission ranking in the top percentile of hospitals nationwide. This commitment to our community spans more than 130 years and, more importantly, has touched countless lives. If you believe in inspiring healthy lives by focusing on community-based care, consider joining Natividad today.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The PII includes the name, date of birth, contact information (such as the address, telephone, and email), financial information (bank information), and government identifier (social security, driver’s license #).

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Carthage Area Hospital and Claxton Hepburn Medical Center Dealing with Cyberattack Carthage Area Hospital and Claxton Hepburn Medical Center in Northern New York experienced a cyberattack on August 31, 2023. It took until August 18, 2023, to complete the review of the affected files.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 1, 2022

One Brooklyn Health System is currently dealing with a cyberattack that has caused disruption at its three hospitals – Interfaith Medical Center, Brookdale Hospital Medical Center, and Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center. We are aware of the incident, and we are working with One Brooklyn Hospital Network to ensure patient safety.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Pediatric health systems issued statements in support of the legislation, saying that it creates an opportunity for the federal government to provide more clarity to states regarding telehealth expansion. " Nemours operates hospitals in Delaware and Florida, as well as outpatient facilities in five states. WHY IT MATTERS.

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