By Eric Tran MS & Donald Voltz MD – For years, hypertension has dominated the healthcare field, afflicting 45 percent of all adult Americans, inducing a number of lethal complications in patients across the country. Another disease that has gained renown in the world of healthcare is diabetes, afflicting 10.5 percent of the U.S. population with its own complications.
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By Devin Partida – If you work in the health care industry, now is an excellent time to start ironing out your compliance priorities for the rest of 2021. Here are five areas worth focusing on as the year progresses.
By Sarah Kwon – Last summer, Anna Ramsey suffered a flare-up of juvenile dermatomyositis, a rare autoimmune condition, posing a terrifying prospect for the Los Angeles resident: She might have to undergo chemotherapy, further compromising her immune system during a pandemic.
By Matt Fisher – With the federal information blocking regulation now in full effect many prior hurdles that individuals faced in accessing their own medical records have been removed or reduced. Individuals can more readily request that records be sent to applications of their choosing or just get to their records in other ways.
By Matt Dickson – May is Mental Health Awareness Month, which means it’s a good time to raise awareness of those living with mental or behavioral health conditions. Through patient engagement strategies, your health system can connect patients with the right resources, provide support, and reduce the stigma about mental health.
New On Demand Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist: With guest Abboud Chaballout, founder/CEO of Diagnoss, the medical coding “whisperer” company. He discovered the challenge of many practices and systems was trying to manage their debt and revenue cycle which all served as a foundation to creating Diagnoss a company using AI insights to offer real time help to doctors.
By Alison Greco PsyD – May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and after a year of a pandemic which brought deep suffering to the world and laid bare the deep inequities in our culture, we are in the midst of a second pandemic of mental health suffering.
By Art Gross – While the world is moving to electronic storage as a standard, there are still physical documents within healthcare that need to be protected and fall under HIPAA regulations. Let’s take a look at how that should be handled.
By Matthew Rahn – Time flies! It has been over a year since ONC’s Cures Act Final Rule was first released and since then ONC has been busy advancing the USCDI and enabling the healthcare industry to voluntarily implement newer versions of adopted standards via the SVAP for the purposes of the ONC Health IT Certification.