Fri.Feb 08, 2019

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What Is Your HIPAA Data Backup Plan?

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Marty Puranik, co-founder and CEO, Atlantic.Net. The data backup plan was established as a mandatory stage of HIPAA compliance to create, implement and maintain a set of rules and procedures for healthcare organizations to follow when managing the backup and restore requirements of electronic protected health information (ePHI).

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How many companies stand to benefit from the FDA Pre-Cert program? Fewer than you might think

Mobi Health News

While key details are still missing, the picture that's emerging is surprisingly restrictive

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Don’t Let Shadow IT Jeopardize HIPAA Compliance

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Brad Spannbauer, senior director of product management, j2 Cloud Services. When it comes to cybersecurity, healthcare organizations are up against a constantly shifting threat landscape. New technologies and techniques, employed by increasingly advanced criminals, require organizations to be proactive in their defense efforts, or they risk being outsmarted by those who seek to expose […].

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HIMSS TV at HIMSS19 will feature innovation leaders, former US CTO, Livongo CEO and more

Mobi Health News

Complete with an interview desk, roving reporters, and discussions with industry luminaries, innovators and top executives, HIMSS TV will be available livecasted and on-demand.

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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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Why UnitedHealthcare wants to expand diagnostic codes to the social determinants of health 

FierceHealthIT

UnitedHealthcare wants to see diagnostic codes for services targeting the social determinants—such as transportation or healthy meals—expand nationwide.

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MedStar Health, AMA launch campaign to improve EHR usability, safety

FierceHealthIT

MedStar and the American Medical Association are leading an advocacy campaign to raise awareness about the patient safety risks associated with poor EHR usability and to spur industry stakeholders to take action.

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What Should the Major Tech Companies Do If They Want to Get Into Healthcare?

David Chou

This would be a great #HIMSS19 announcement Buying another technology company, like an EMR company, is not the ideal method for a technology organization to tap into the healthcare market. There was a lot of buzz recently when Jim Cramer made a comment on his show Mad Moneyrecommending Apple buy the electronic medical record vendor, Epic Systems. While that is one approach to gain the market share, it will not transform the industry.

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Judge rejects Oscar’s request for injunction against Florida Blue in spat over broker agreements 

FierceHealthIT

A Florida judge has rejected Oscar Health’s request for an injunction that would block Florida Blue from reaching exclusive agreements with insurance brokers.

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OCR’s banner year

Morning eHealth

New developments in Optum case — Facebook to coordinate blood donation

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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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The Complete Diabetes Cookbook

Insulin Nation

America’s Test Kitchen is passionate about cooking — discovering and sharing why recipes work and why they don’t — to help everyone cook with confidence. They have applied this passion to create a new collection of their best and healthiest recipes for people with diabetes. Enjoy the first two chapters for free in this Sample to see if you want to get this book yourself.

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Healthcare Roundup—Kaiser lays off 200 employees in Colorado

FierceHealthIT

Kaiser lays off 200 employees in Colorado; a California hospital faces a fine after a patient death and other healthcare news from around the web.

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Zesty recognised as top UK firm in digital innovator hotlist

Lloyd Price

Zesty has been named among 50 of the most forward-thinking digital UK companies in the 2018 Digital Innovator’s Power List. The service, brainchild of London-based entrepreneurs James Balmain and Lloyd Price, allows users to book appointments with a variety of healthcare professionals from a smartphone or mobile device. The Digital Innovator’s Power List is an initiative aimed at identifying forward-thinking digital companies based in London.

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Payer Roundup—Poll: Only 13% back a ‘Medicare for all’ plan that ends private insurance 

FierceHealthIT

A new poll from The Hill found that just 13% of voters are behind policy proposals that would end private insurance coverage, plus more payer news.

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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.