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Vendor Notebook: Salesforce extends AI to public health services, DrFirst acquires Myndshft

Healthcare It News

Myndshft provides eligibility and benefits verification for 95% of insured patients across the United States and verifies prior authorization requirements for thousands of health plans and payers, according to the announcement.

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Recovering Routine Immunization Rates — State Strategies to Move beyond COVID-19 

NASHP

In the United States, new data indicate that nearly 27 percent of surveyed households had at least one or more children who missed or delayed a preventive visit because of the pandemic. New strategies are needed to identify and catch-up children who have missed routine immunizations to prevent future outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases.

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HHS Issues Proposed Rule to Provide Clarity on Rights of Conscience in Healthcare

Sheppard Health Law

In this article we provide a brief summary of the Proposed Rule, while also examining the statutory amendments and previous rulemakings that create its foundation. BACKGROUND The Proposed Rule is the latest in a long line of federal legislation and rulemakings governing the conscience rights of healthcare providers and entities.

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Information Blocking Rule: 6 Key Takeaways Since Meaningful Use

HIT Consultant

The first class of exceptions contains those that reflect a decision or inability to not fulfill requests to access, exchange or use EHI: the Preventing Harm, Privacy, Security, Infeasibility, and Health IT Performance Exceptions. Sharing data with patients is different from connecting with other providers, laboratories, or pharmacies.

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HHS OIG Publishes Eagerly-Anticipated Federal Information Blocking Enforcement Final Rule

Sheppard Health Law

The proposed rule for appropriate disincentives is scheduled to be published in September 2023 per the fall 2022 regulatory agenda. Further, the OIG anticipates its enforcement priorities may lead to investigations of anti-competitive conduct or unreasonable business practices.

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NASHP Launches a New Public Health Modernization Project

NASHP

The demands of the pandemic have made it clear that the public health system cannot work in a silo to do the foundational public health work of communicable disease prevention; maternal, child, and family health services; access to and linkage with clinical care; and preventing chronic disease and injury.

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State Strategies to Increase Diversity in the Behavioral Health Workforce

NASHP

The 2020 West Virginia Behavioral Health Workforce Development Plan , a product of a state-university partnership funded through the federal State Opioid Response (SOR) grant, places specific emphasis on SUD treatment workforce, and highlights the need to engage equity and diversity leaders in behavioral health workforce development.