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What COVID-19’s Attack on Healthcare Cybersecurity Taught Us About Its Shortcomings

HIT Consultant

While healthcare facilities are still dedicated to providing the best care to patients impacted by COVID-19, it is imperative that healthcare practices, especially those like skilled nursing facilities, take cybersecurity seriously to prevent data leaks, care disruption, financial setbacks, and more.

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Roundups: 22 Recent Strategic Digital Health Partnerships

HIT Consultant

strategic partnership with Medline to establish agility and scale, supply chain resiliency and enhanced clinical integration with the nurses and physicians who use Medline’s product. Ballad Health partners with MedAware to leverage an artificial intelligence platform to improve patient safety and optimize pharmacy workflows.

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HHS OIG Report On Prior Authorizations Under Medicare Advantage

Sheppard Health Law

Denial of payment requests delayed or prevented payments for services that providers had already delivered. The article also pointed out the role of prior authorization as “an important patient safety, cost-saving, and waste-prevention tool.”. 1] CMS, Medicare Managed Care Manual , Ch.

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FCC Awards Additional $42.7M in Round 2 of COVID-19 Telehealth Program

HIT Consultant

– Bingham Memorial Hospital in Blackfoot, Idaho, was awarded $840,111 for the purchase of tablets, webcams, and headsets, along with remote monitoring software, to provide telehealth services to patients in a county without ubiquitous broadband coverage. – Community Health Centers, Inc., – Compass Health in St. .

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Behavioral Health System Modernization along the Continuum

NASHP

The commission was created in the New Hampshire Legislature in 2000 (NH RSA Chapter 12-J), which established the Alcohol Fund, directing a part of proceed from sales of alcohol to prevention, harm reduction treatment, and recovery services. An action plan dashboard tracks targets.

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Newsletter, February 2023

Patient Safety Movement

All week, hospital administrators and healthcare professionals take time to focus on what they can do to improve patient care and protect patients from harm. This week emphasizes the vision of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation “Zero Preventable Patient Harm by 2030.”

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P3Care Investigates the Importance of Physicians Credentialing Service

p3care

The significance of medical credentialing works out in countless ways from securing patient outcomes to avoiding lost reimbursement opportunities fines and penalties to encourage streamlined working culture as per the best standards in the Healthcare facilities. 2) Protects your patient’s safety.