Fri.Mar 22, 2019

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7 Steps For Providers To Comply with HIPAA Regulations

VSee

Special thanks today for our guest post on HIPAA compliance by Alex Mitchell — cybersecurity enthusiast, WordPress guru, and data-safety tools tester with over 10 years experience. Who Must Comply With HIPAA If you’re not familiar with HIPAA it stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. It was designed and put in place in.

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Knowing how artificial intelligence works empowers clinicians to be at the forefront of using it

KevinMD

Physicians and other health care professionals are uniquely suited to understand artificial intelligence. They've studied or routinely use mathematics, data analysis, and algorithms. They comprehend pattern recognition, decision trees, rules-based systems, and statistics. These are the very components of AI. Perhaps the only thing our premed and medical training didn't teach us was how to […].

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Most popular health apps routinely share data with little transparency

Mobi Health News

Researchers noted transmissions of specific sensitive data, such as a user’s drug list, that could de-identify the user and be repurposed for commercial uses.

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How Telepsych Can Work Even If You Use Paper Records

Iris Telehealth

Telepsychiatry and paper records aren't mutually exclusive. We know it can work because our partners have successfully done it. Learn how it can work for you in our blog. The post How Telepsych Can Work Even If You Use Paper Records appeared first on Iris Telehealth.

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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Changing the Telehealth Industry With Artificial Intelligence

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. As technology continues to develop, artificial intelligence has taken leaps from a science-fiction fantasy to being included in everyday tasks. The telehealth industry is one of the newest industries to begin utilizing artificial intelligence, affecting everything from the distribution of electronic medical cards to personable interaction.

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Clocktree partners with NAADAC to provide telehealth platform to addiction counselors

Clocktree

We are very excited about our partnership with NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals, extending Clocktree’s affordable HIPAA compliant telehealth platform to more than 100,000 addiction counselors and educators worldwide. “Increasing and improving access to treatment is the key to better serving individuals and families who are in need of addiction treatment,” says Cynthia Moreno Tuohy, BSW, NCAC II, CDC III, SAP, Executive Director of NAADAC, “For many addiction counselors a

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10 startups tackling the problem of high prescription drug costs

Mobi Health News

Whether by managing payments, connecting consumers to reimbursement options, or just manufacturing cheap drugs themselves, these companies are taking aim at a problem that's building to a crisis.

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Report: UPS plans to test new service to deliver vaccines in patients' homes

FierceHealthIT

UPS is preparing to test a service in the U.S. later this year that would send nurses to vaccinate adults in their homes, Reuters reported on Thursday. While UPS didn't say which vaccine it would be using in the project, the news organization confirmed with pharma giant Merck that it is looking at participating in the initiative.

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Network in the Big Easy on Bourbon at ATA 2019

Enzyme Health

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The Secret to Supercharging Your Organizations Communications

Effective collaboration among all care team members is critical to delivering better patient outcomes. A key element to achieving effective collaboration is through the implementation of a clinical communication and collaboration platform. In a fast-paced, high-stress and critical environment, people tend to do whatever gets the job done. Therefore will scramble and use the systems, people, or processes around them to get an outcome more quickly - which can often be at the expense of quality.

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Looking to make big changes? Here are 4 places where Press Ganey says healthcare leaders should start

FierceHealthIT

A culture change is needed for health systems to embrace the evolution that is happening in healthcare—and it starts with the leaders in charge of carrying out that vision.

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Safety In Healthcare: Considerations for Consumers, Patients & Family Caregivers

Christina's Considerations

Safety in healthcare has been around for a really long time. Florence Nightingale is sometimes referred to as "the mother of patient safety" because of her attention to healthcare design. In the 1800's, she advocated for improved ventilation and sanitary.

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Why hospital associations are dipping their toes into state-based Medicare ACOs

FierceHealthIT

To build scale and drive greater savings, providers in some regions are banding together in statewide Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs).

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Report: Providers Are Improving their Skill at Preventing, Treating Sepsis, Even as Costs Soar

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

A new report from the Premier Inc.

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Ambiq’s neuralSPOT HeartKit™ enables Real-Time Heart Monitoring AI Applications

Ambiq®, a leading developer of ultra-low-power semiconductor solutions that deliver a multifold increase in energy efficiency, introduces HeartKit, its latest addition to neuralSPOT. This optimized AI model enables running various real-time heart monitoring applications to help users and their healthcare providers quickly identify any irregular events to take necessary actions.

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Industry Voices—Innovative tools needed to combat the world’s deadliest infectious disease

FierceHealthIT

New reports are shedding additional light on the lethal infection that is often mistaken as a disease of the past. Last week’s reports from the World Health Organization and Lancet remind us that tuberculosis remains the world’s deadliest infectious disease and highlight the challenges we face if we are to meet the international goal of eradicating TB by 2030.

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Gottlieb’s farewell tour continues

Morning eHealth

Congress: letters and hearings — Privacy watch

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MedStar Health to pay $35M settlement in kickback case

FierceHealthIT

Maryland-based MedStar Health has agreed to pay $35 million to settle allegations that it paid kickbacks to a cardiology group in exchange for referrals.

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Weekender 3/22/19

HIStalk Weekender

Weekly News Recap. A Reddit “Ask Me Anything” with Providence St. Joseph Health EVP / Chief Digital Officer and venture fund manager Aaron Martin gets ugly with charges of layoffs and a hostile work environment for female employees. A France-based online medical appointment app vendor’s funding round values it at more than $1 billion. Fortune’s cover story, “Death By 1,000 Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong,” says EHRs are an “unholy mess” after taxpayers spent $36 billion on the

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The 2023 Behavioral Health Industry Report

This report explores current issues in the behavioral health industry in 2023. Topics covered include quantitative statistics describing the overall increase in behavioral health issues, the impact of psychologist and staff burnout, how HIPAA compliance is once again at the top of our minds & much more!

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The challenges facing states looking to curb surprise billing

FierceHealthIT

Policy experts have suggested rate setting and payment caps as solutions to pricey surprise patient bills, but regulators warn that such approaches come with significant downsides for states.

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Oregon DHS data breach may have exposed private data of 350K people

FierceHealthIT

The Oregon Department of Human Services confirmed on Thursday a data breach due to a phishing email incident that compromised and potentially exposed the private health information of over 350,000 people.

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Complying with information blocking rule will be a challenge without standardized APIs: HIMSS

FierceHealthIT

Healthcare stakeholders are concerned that compliance with CMS and ONC interoperability rules will be expensive and burdensome and might stifle technology innovation.

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CMS updates Medicaid guidance for home, community-based services

FierceHealthIT

CMS issued updated Medicaid guidance on regulations for state-run home and community-based services.

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Patient Engagement & Cultural Competence Training Roadmap: A Guide to Reducing Staff Burnout

Speaker: Dr. Mauvareen Beverley, Patient Engagement and Cultural Competence Specialist

If you’re a healthcare provider, chances are you have experienced symptoms of burnout yourself or have colleagues who are currently facing extreme career dissatisfaction. One of the many ways to partially alleviate burnout is active patient engagement. By engaging with patients to understand their needs and preferences, healthcare providers can develop treatments tailored to the individual patient.

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Payer Roundup—Idaho takes another step toward a scaled-back Medicaid expansion

FierceHealthIT

Idaho has taken another step closer to a scaled-back version of its voter-mandated Medicaid expansion, plus more healthcare news from around the web.

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