The HIPAA Journal

MAY 6, 2024

Continuum identified unauthorized activity within its network on October 19, 2023, and after taking steps to secure its systems, third-party cybersecurity specialists were engaged to identify the suspicious activity. No financial information or Social Security numbers were present in the file.

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The Healthcare Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Following the surge, investment plummeted. Digital Mental Health Investment (2010-2023 ) Incumbents Build Deep, Startups Go Wide Incumbent scale is infrastructure-heavy, slow, and linear , and focuses on deep integration within their established markets. Those regions are ripe for follow-on expansion and digital scale.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2023

We can see health consumers’ shifting priorities for satisfaction-boosting changing from 2019 to 2023 based on HealthEdge’s previous research. That’s followed by making access to “my” health records easier, and granting access to me to providers who align well with my preferences and personal values.

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Practice Index

OCTOBER 24, 2024

October is the time of year for Practice Managers to shift their focus onto National Speak Up Month. Speaking up” sounds straightforward in theory―like advising patients to “just relax” before taking their blood pressure. Why speak up? In healthcare, the stakes are high, and the stakes for not speaking up are higher.

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Health Populi

JULY 4, 2022

Spending on mental health apps, in particular, spiked up in the COVID-19 pandemic reaching at least $500 million according to Deloitte’s analysis. Avoiding recommended follow-up care such as diagnostic tests and labs, or visits to specialists. is seen as likely among a growing consensus of economists).

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Accepted Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The PREview exam is a type of situational judgment test designed to help admissions committees assess applicants’ pre-professional competencies. In the 2023 application cycle , the PREview exam was required by eight allopathic medical schools and recommended by eleven more. The test is offered twice a month from March to September.

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Arkenea

JANUARY 25, 2025

Key Takeaways A need to control substance usage and reduce medication errors is driving the e-prescribing market growth during the 2023-2030 timeframe. The cost depends on the team, features, functionalities, and the time required to wrap up the development process. percent during the 2023-2030 timeframe.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Fast forward and we’re in the next-gen of direct-to-consumer models, with Lilly Direct and PfizerForAll launching programs that get up-close-and-personal with patients for medicines delivery and support services. mg levonorgestrel tablet, along with pregnancy tests, acetaminophen, Advil and Benadryl.

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Accepted Blog

JUNE 12, 2024

Five steps for evaluating your med school stats Don’t be discouraged if you have low test scores. Follow these steps: Step #1: Calculate your stats and be kind to yourself. Of the 2023 entering class at Columbia University’s medical school, 26% had some postbac coursework. We can help!

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

JUNE 30, 2023

On June 23, 2023 the U.S. The following provides a review of each section of the draft guidance. In the clinical section, FDA recommends collecting baseline and follow-up echocardiograms to assess valve structure and function and pulmonary artery pressures.

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Mobius MD

JULY 1, 2024

Following their advocacy, a 2024 CMS rule requires government-regulated health plans to shorten the timeframes for prior authorization decisions. The AMA has also promoted model legislation at the state level, resulting in ten new state laws in 2023 and more than a dozen bills before state legislatures this year.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

MARCH 22, 2023

Senior DOJ officials have in turn emphasized in public remarks that investigating clinical research shortcomings is now a Justice Department priority, with the whistleblower bar following suit. 22, 2023), available at [link]. [2] 27, 2023) (stipulation and order of settlement). [5] Non-adherence invites DOJ scrutiny.

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Relias

MARCH 17, 2023

For 2023, its list of patient safety goals for hospitals includes the following: Identify patients correctly. The guidance encourages teams to communicate better with each other when delivering results — specifically, to “get important test results to the right staff person on time.” Improve staff communication.

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Coronis Health

DECEMBER 22, 2023

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT SUMMARY: As we close 2023 and look towards the new year of reporting with CMS, we walk through the requirements and changes CMS has made. MIPS Value Pathways In 2023, CMS introduced the MVP reporting pathway as a method to simplify the entire process of reporting measures to CMS.

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CollaborateMD

JANUARY 5, 2024

Medical billing must follow these rules. The right medical billing software will help you stay out of trouble by following these laws. They remind staff when to do important tasks like sending bills or following up on unpaid ones. A trial period lets you test the software to see if it’s right for you.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

AUGUST 8, 2023

On July 31, 2023, the California Office of Health Care Affordability (“OHCA”) released draft regulations concerning pre-transaction review of so-called “Material Change Transactions” as part of its legislative mandate to review transactions which could have potential impacts on the costs of health care in the State of California.

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Setting Sights

DECEMBER 31, 2022

But, we will never experience those great life lessons, if we never show up to stuff. I had dawdled, in somewhat a deep, drifting thought, up to the muddy cornfields behind the house, crops not yet budded, streaks of morning grey and damp brown for miles up ahead. Only I could roll the blinds up if I wanted to see the sunlight.

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CareerStep

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The American Medical Association (AMA) reported that as of spring of 2023, the U.S. Medical billing professionals, on the other hand, are responsible for submitting claims and following up with health insurance companies to collect payment. But, what do medical coders and billers do? And why are they in demand? Did you know?

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Practice Index

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

I know this has come up a bit in the Practice Index forum lately and I spoke to Robyn Clark, a Managing Partner, about it before today’s session. This gives you time to read over how they think they’re doing, and any other issues that they’re likely to bring up in the meeting, giving you time to prepare a response.

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Accepted Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Let’s start with some really easy questions: your background, where you grew up, and how on earth you got interested in admissions from biomedical engineering. [2:39] And basically I grew up in that city, that little small town in northwest Louisiana and now apparently the home district to our current speaker of the house.

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Accepted Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In the guide, you will learn how to prepare for interviews (including those difficult questions), how to make sure your body language matches your intent, and proper interview follow-up. And so we can pick those things up and how an applicant writes that personal statement or includes that in their secondary application.

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 6, 2023

By James McCormack On June 24, 2023 a subset analysis of primary prevention participants (n=4200) from the CLEAR Outcomes trial was published in JAMA. The June 24, 2023 results for the primary prevention subset (30%) of the CLEAR trial were as follows: 4,206 participants – average age 68, 59% female, mean LDL 143 mg/dL(3.7mmol/L).

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The Vox headline was “Mind-reading technology has arrived”, although the study had just seven participants and the error rate in the three test participants was 0.92 The costs and consequences of false negatives and positives need to be carefully weighed up [7]. 2023 May;26(5):858-66. 2023 Mar;30(6):1103-13.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 29, 2024

Department of State has confirmed that there is a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the identification or location of any individual linked to the ALPHV/Blackcat ransomware group, their affiliates, or links to a foreign government under the Rewards for Justice (RFJ) program. UnitedHealth Provides $2.5B

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2024

In the past year, the growth of prescription drug utilization and spending has much to do with the use of GLP-1 agonists to treat diabetes and obesity, along with immunology therapy, and lipid meds, along with specialty medicines now accounting for over half of spending — up from 49% in 2018.

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The Healthcare Blog

JULY 30, 2024

By JOSHUA SEIDMAN In 2023, U.S. For people who identified as lonely when they joined Fountain House , 58% experienced reduced loneliness at follow-up (typically 12 to 18 months after becoming members), a majority of whom had scores decline so much that they became “non-lonely” according to the UCLA 3-Item Loneliness Scale.

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Intercoast

APRIL 19, 2025

found that 86% of participants in a recovery program indicated no use of alcohol or drugs in the past 30 days at the 6-month follow-up. These courses provide a valuable opportunity to review exam content, practice test-taking strategies, and connect with other professionals in the field. For example, a study by Armitage et al.

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The Healthcare Blog

APRIL 4, 2024

That test already has a name -the RightEye GeoPref Autism Test. Its’ UC San Diego designer says it was 86% accurate in testing 400 infants and toddlers. Justice and sanity did catch up eventually, but it took decades, and that was before AI and neural networks. trained Chinese researchers at the very same university.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The Vox headline was “Mind-reading technology has arrived”, although the study had just seven participants and the error rate in the three test participants was 0.92 The costs and consequences of false negatives and positives need to be carefully weighed up [7]. 2023 May;26(5):858-66. 2023 Mar;30(6):1103-13.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

This post follows up Part 1 of a two-part series I’ve prepared in advance of the AHIP 2024 conference where I’ll be brainstorming these scenarios with a panel of folks who know their stuff in technology, health care and hospital systems, retail health, and pharmacy, among other key issues. For 2030, consider…. Consider the Wild Cards.

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Accepted Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

As of October 2023, the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins are examples of schools that fall into this category. Louis, and Loyola Stritch also belong to this group as of October 2023. You might as well send the school a balloon filled with confetti that says, “I do not follow instructions!”

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2024

He pointed to a visit to an emergency room, where “the debt is taken on unexpectedly and in a time of crisis,” as well as consumers dealing with “complexities with insurance” (consider: out of network providers, lack of up-front cost estimates, and trauma which prevents one from “shopping” for care).

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Accepted Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

If you’re interested in learning more, just go to accepted.com/freemedcall and sign up for invaluable guidance. Also, because there’s so much to cover, Accepted is providing a worksheet for you that you can use to take notes on today’s show or to set up a to-do list that you can use throughout the application process.

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Accepted Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

You can take up to eight weeks out of phase two, which is that 12-month period of time, and step out and go and do a project that could last up to eight weeks if you wanted to. I think you bring up this concept that I, as an admissions dean, I talk about this a lot, this concept. okay, all the way up to 4.0.

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Relias

DECEMBER 29, 2023

By late 2023, the Bad River Reservation of 2,000 people had lost a dozen lives. Tactics included providing sterile syringes and pipes, distributing the overdose-reversal medication naloxone, and encouraging the use of test strips to detect potentially lethal fentanyl or xylazine (“tranq”). began to crack down on opioid use.

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Scrubs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

. — Amari Marsh had just finished her junior year at South Carolina State University in May 2023 when she received a text message from a law enforcement officer. But I finally have the final report, and wanted to see if you and your boyfriend could meet me Wednesday afternoon for a follow up?” I didn’t know what to do.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

This means NPs can evaluate patients, diagnose, order, and interpret diagnostic tests, and initiate and manage treatments (including prescribing medications) under the licensing authority of the State Board of Nursing. Since 2023, 27 states and the District of Columbia have granted NPs full practice authority (AANP, 2023).

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