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Private healthcare the ‘ new normal’ in the UK?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Common procedures that patients are getting through private health insurance include blood tests, knee replacements, peripheral nerve blocks, eardrum surgery and tonsil removal. Moreover, private hospitals in England are providing more care for NHS patients–similar to how the VA may outsource some care to private providers.

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IHH Healthcare migrates Malaysia, S'pore database systems to cloud

Healthcare It News

Private healthcare group IHH Healthcare has moved several on-premise database systems of its hospitals across Malaysia and Singapore to the cloud. Consolidating its disparate on-premise systems in the cloud is part of IHH's efforts to modernise hospital operations in its home markets.

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AHA says OCR's online tracking tool rules need to go

Healthcare It News

In a letter to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, the American Hospital Association said the U.S. The association said the rule has resulted in consequences that contravene OCR's efforts to encourage hospitals to share non-private healthcare information with the public.

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ONC launches SDOH interoperability pilot

Healthcare It News

" Since HL7 pledged to share the standards free of charge under licensing terms, many partnerships and collaborations with both public and private healthcare entities have bloomed.

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60% of Ground Ambulance Rides Were Out of Network in 2022

HIT Consultant

of the distribution, according to other findings reported in a FAIR Health brief released today, A Window into Utilization and Cost of Ground Ambulance Services: A National Study of Private Healthcare Claims. of female patients in that age group were admitted to a hospital after ground ambulance transport. percent in 2018 to 30.6

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HHS & DOJ FY 2022 Enforcement Targeted Fraud in COVID-19, Telemedicine, Opioid and Prescription Drugs, and Substance Use Treatment Centers, Among Other Initiatives

Sheppard Health Law

HCFAC uses advanced data analytics to monitor and target high-risk public and private healthcare programs, providers, and trends to identify HHS’s most significant risk areas and to better target fraud, abuse, and waste. During fiscal year 2022 (FY 2022), over $1.7 billion was returned through HCFAC’s enforcement actions.

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Singapore Consults on Groundbreaking Health Information Bill

Triage Health Law

Mandatory participation by all licensed healthcare providers in the National Electronic Health Records (NEHR) First and foremost, the Bill will mandate participation by private healthcare providers in a centralized database of patient health records, known as the NEHR. This includes: Patient Demographics (e.g.,