By Matt Fisher – Announced merger of Kaiser Permanente and Geisinger through the creation of a new non-profit parent entity ostensibly focused on value based care. The merger, which is still only announced, will bring together two prominent players in the integrated network space.
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By Art Gross – When it comes to HIPAA compliance, it’s easy to feel as if you’re being pulled in a million different directions at once. In part, this could be due to the fact that there are 4 different rules that go into HIPAA: the Privacy Rule, the Security Rule, the Breach Notification Rule, and the Omnibus Rule.
By David Garner – This is Nurses Week and we are highlighting challenges and issues facing our nursing professionals. Can analytics and AI help with today’s challenges? Garner says yes as he identifies some of the top issues.
By David Burda – What I looked for in the Rock Health survey were any signs that patients are assertively using technology to interact with businesses in the healthcare industry like they use technology as consumers to interact with businesses in other industries like banking or retail goods.
By Art Gross – While it’s easy to get caught up in the many, many words of policies and procedures, how your space physically looks and functions are just as important. Physical safeguards play a vital role in achieving HIPAA compliance and keeping sensitive data out of the wrong hands.
By Dmitrii Evstiukhin – Medical insurance claims processes create mounds of documents that often get backlogged or denied, slowing business operations and reducing efficiency. Now AI solutions are dramatically accelerating medical claims processing while reducing errors and enhancing overall efficiency.
By Matt Fisher – The development of new technology in healthcare and the massive expansion in sources of healthcare data have both created many complications when it comes to protecting and securing sensitive information about individuals.
By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez – Anger, devastation, and concern for her patients washed over Dr. Bridget Martinez as she learned that her residency training program in rural northeastern Nevada would be shuttered. The doctor in training remembered telling one of her patients that, come July of this year, she would no longer be her physician.
By Alena Nikuliak – Telehealth technology is centered around the development of apps and software. Healthcare organizations can choose to build custom telemedicine apps or choose a SaaS telehealth provider.