New On Demand Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist: With guest Shiv Rao, MD, the co-founder and CEO of Abridge, which uses groundbreaking machine learning to help people understand the details of their care and follow through on their doctors’ advice.
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By Devin Partida – The Office for Civil Rights has issued a notice of enforcement regarding HIPAA regulations and COVID-19 vaccine-scheduling apps. The update states that the OCR won’t impose HIPAA noncompliance penalties related to good-faith use of these services.
By Art Gross – With February being Heart Month & romance in the air for the Valentine’s Day holiday, we thought we’d shine a light on the ways that HIPAA can be affected by love in the workplace and what rules are in place to address it.
By Deirdre Ruttle – Today’s patients owe more for their healthcare than ever before. Steady increases in health plan premiums and high deductible plans lead to ever-growing patient financial responsibility.
By Katherine Capps – Employers want a better health care system. They want to decrease waste and ensure that their employees have access to effective, efficient, high-value care. They are focusing on managing chronic conditions and medication costs, and rightly so.
By Joel Diamond MD FAAFP – While perhaps not as definitively as Newton’s law of gravitation, most providers embrace “early detection” as a truism for improving outcomes of most diseases and disorders. This is certainly the pervasive view in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
By Brett Andriesen – Even if you’re not a standards guru, it’s not a stretch to say that standards help the world go ‘round, especially in the world of health information technology. ONC is excited to share the 2021 Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA) Reference Edition.
By Jordan Rau – In America’s health care system, dominated by hospital chain leviathans, New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, North Carolina, is an anomaly. It is a publicly owned hospital that boasts good care at lower prices than most and still flourishes financially.
New On Demand Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist: With guest Rob Kowal, MD, PhD Chief Medical Officer, of Medtronic and a cardiac electrophysiologist who has been part of the incredible progress and innovation that have taken place in implantable cardiac devices.