HIT Consultant

JANUARY 25, 2024

CPQ tools are revolutionizing the management of complex business processes in healthcare, enabling seamless system integration. This integration is critical for maintaining accuracy in patient care planning and billing. Manual process handling leads to inefficiencies, higher error rates, and compromised patient safety.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 4, 2023

Designed to deliver optimized workflows and revenues, greater clinical insights, and enhanced patient safety and care quality, healthcare analytics plays an essential role in improving core competencies and strengthening operations across the care continuum.

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p3care

MAY 1, 2023

Electronic health records (EHRs) with encryption and access limits, Monitoring and auditing access to patient information, and confirmation of the veracity of patient and provider identities, etc. Detecting Fraudulent Medical Billing Services Healthcare fraud has negative effects on patient safety and the treatment standard as a whole.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 1, 2022

IoT SaaS is the interconnected use of remote IoT sensing and monitoring tools with AI-powered prescriptive analytics – essentially an enhanced version of traditional IoT sensing and monitoring technology that empowers healthcare facilities to collect, analyze and act on inventory performance data for compliance and patient safety.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 10, 2022

Yet this data is often locked away due to misunderstandings about HIPAA and misconceptions of how patient data will be used — or simply because no one directly asks patients about contributing their data to the greater good. Offer tangible support for providers to improve data quality and integrity.

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Life Sciences Patient Safety Quality Improvement Integration 94

Bill Of Health

MARCH 9, 2022

We are concerned that the uncritical promotion of touch as an integral part of the P-AT healing process may lead to an overreliance on touch to the detriment of therapeutic interventions that help build clients’ self-soothing capacities. While we do not endorse a slippery slope argument regarding touch (i.e., Mithoefer & Haden ).

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 14, 2023

This is evident in the US with the insurgence of both IDNs and ACOs, in France with the development of GHTs, and in the UK with the growth of ICSs (Integrated Care Systems). The mandate of these healthcare networks is clear – to improve patient experiences and population health outcomes while simultaneously reducing costs.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 6, 2023

In every instance, a potential threat to patient safety is present. Drug diversion can also pose risks to staff safety and regulatory compliance, as can be seen across all types of healthcare facilities and, across all clinical disciplines. Sandy Still, Pharm.D.,

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Health Populi

AUGUST 2, 2022

When I talk about patient support programs (PSPs), I’m most often focused on supporting peoples’ access to medicines due to costs, bolstering health literacy, and addressing health citizens’ risks of drivers of health that can be obstacles to optimal health outcomes (those challenging social determinants of health).

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Today, manufacturers and healthcare providers don’t need to wait on the government to improve patient safety. Here are four things I believe healthcare workers need to know about medical device recalls to improve patient safety. But I still find that healthcare workers are unaware of how rampant this problem is.

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Sheppard Health Law

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

It represents a compilation of OIG’s past guidance regarding basic compliance practices across a wide spectrum of industries and includes new guidance based upon lessons learned from negotiating and monitoring corporate integrity agreements and from enforcement actions and investigations.

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Lexis Nexis

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Digital health platforms are advancing capabilities to deliver care through live video chat, asynchronous video and chat, remote patient monitoring, and mobile device integrations. The industry will expand use of these tools to reduce administrative costs, capture patient market share, and manage caregiver burn out.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 12, 2022

As healthcare continues to digitally transform, integrating health data among various IT stakeholders demands much more collaboration than our predecessors could have imagined. Today, IT’s interaction with key organizational decision-makers is integral to safeguarding patient data, a primary component of delivering quality patient care.

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Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 7, 2022

During the PHE, CMS used a combination of emergency waivers, regulations, and sub-regulatory guidance to offer health care providers the flexibility needed to respond to the pandemic. In addition, CMS expects providers to have integrated practices to address any COVID-19 outbreaks into their normal operations.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 23, 2023

Not only was patient safety better protected through virtual monitoring, but Trinity Health was also able to reduce its costs by $23M by avoiding non-reimbursed services for those injuries. At Trinity Health, falls declined from as many as 62 in the second quarter of 2020 to as few as 28 in the third quarter of 2021.

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Icanotes

MARCH 3, 2023

Proper documentation of mental health services is also necessary for compliance with regulations and standards. General Process for Documentation — Intake to Discharge Clinical documentation impacts nearly every aspect of care, including the treatment you and other practitioners provide to your patients.

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Prevention Regulations Accountability Patient Safety 52

Bill Of Health

APRIL 4, 2024

Cross-sectoral EU laws First and foremost, the product as a whole must comply with the Medical Device Regulation (MDR) and the specific norms incorporated therein, as well as with GDPR requirements and ESG considerations, just to name a few. AI regulation has, for the most part, been sectoral rather than cross-sectoral.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 30, 2022

While Healthcare IT News readers have had a lot to focus on this year with cybersecurity imperatives and AI innovations, they also were very interested in new product launches, new regulator approvals, acquisitions and selloffs – including one of the most significant health IT M&A deals yet.

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

It includes examples from various states organized by the framework buckets: integrated primary and behavioral health care, crisis continuum of care, in-home and in-community based, and out-of-home and community. States have a range of tools and policy levers at their disposal to build capacity for integrated behavioral health approaches.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 27, 2023

What You Should Know: The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy® (NABP®) and IBM Consulting are pleased to announce their collaboration to build Pulse by NABP™, a new digital platform that is intended to bring visibility to the drug supply chain and help protect patients from counterfeit or substandard prescription medications.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 14, 2022

When determining which, if any, devices to integrate into trial design and use, sponsors will need to keep a few key aspects in mind. For example, those in drug development rely on therapeutic experts and medical specialists to know specifically which patient safety issues we should be concerned with and how to efficiently monitor each.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 8, 2023

What’s more, patients are begging for better digital experiences – and are frustrated with healthcare’s lack of functionality. Late last year, Redpoint Global found that 80% of patients prefer digital channels to communicate with their healthcare providers. Strict privacy and security regulations must be taken into account.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 16, 2024

David Ting, founder/CTO at Tausight In November, President Biden signed a new Executive Order – titled “Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence” – that promises to introduce new national AI regulations that focus on safety and responsibility in the use of this revolutionary new technology.

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Patient Safety Movement

JANUARY 31, 2024

“Make your commitment to ZERO… starting with culture of safety from your executive governing board down to the lowest paid employees.” In medicine, thousands of patients sustain preventable harm, and yet we do not know the actual number, as very little is reported.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 1, 2024

However, many organizations may even feel they have little choice in instigating change to keep up with demands from patients, payers, and regulators who seek improved care, safety, and access. This increased scrutiny will not only come from regulatory bodies but from patients themselves who may not trust it.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The capturing of every reportable item used in surgery is vital from a patient safety and business perspective. The FDA UDI regulations require all healthcare supply chain stakeholders to digitally track medical devices and implants throughout their lifecycle.

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Patient Safety Movement

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

” Joe Kiani, Founder Patient Safety Movement Foundation Letter from CEO In many parts of the world, February is the month for celebrating love. The Patient Safety Leadership Association is expected to play a key role in furthering the action plan set forth at the Mid-Year Event. “I believe in persistence.

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KHN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Any political pressure to rush pharmaceutical companies or lean on federal regulators to prematurely greenlight a vaccine would undermine a system put in place to ensure public safety. The FDA has said any coronavirus vaccine must be at least 50% effective to secure approval from regulators. AstraZeneca’s target is 50%.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 11, 2023

While a few countries have set the stage – Brazil’s DATASUS provides an integrated and open healthcare database, and Israel captures all patient data digitally from birth to death – we predict that the US will emerge as the leader in 2023.

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