Two healthcare provider groups, the American Hospital Association and the Medical Group Management Association, have both responded critically to the Department of Health and Human Services’ just-released final rule on information blocking disincentives.In separate statements…
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What You Should Know:
– The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a new final rule today aimed at preventing information blocking in healthcare.
– The final rule establishes disincentives for healthcare providers…
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By Anuja Vaidya
June 14, 2024 – Adding nurse care management to home telemonitoring reduced blood pressure (BP) more significantly among low-income Black and Hispanic stroke survivors than home telemonitoring alone, according to new research.
Published in…
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At the end of March, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services discussed its plans to create a centralized resource to help improve cybersecurity coordination for healthcare.
These plans come amid the fallout from…
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights updated its Change Healthcare cybersecurity incident frequently asked questions page on Friday to address questions the agency has received asking which entities…
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Bevey Miner EVP, Healthcare Strategy & Policy for Consensus Cloud Solutions There’s been a strong push for a FHIR standard for information sharing in healthcare. Although a standard built on application programming interfaces (APIs)…
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The K2 Collaborative and its related summit each year bring positive examples of payer and provider collaboration to the forefront. These stories show what is possible in payer-provider relationships. Micky Tripathi, the national coordinator…
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Arun Shrestha, CEO and Co-Founder of BeyondID
Between January 1 and April 1, 2024, at least 16.6 million individuals were impacted by data breaches across the healthcare industry. Of those, 16.3 million – or 98…
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Monday announced a new funding commitment designed to improve hospital cyber resiliency.The new National Institutes of Health initiative, Universal PatchinG and Remediation for Autonomous DEfense,…
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The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange is asking the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to do more to help health systems, health plans and other healthcare organizations manage the increasingly disruptive fallout…
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