HIPAA and mHealth: Is Your App Covered?
By Yana Yelina – When it comes to mHealth app development, HIPAA compliance is the first thing a customer wants to hear about the delivered product.
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What’s Going On with Blockchain in Healthcare?
Keeping up with technologies is changing how healthcare is delivered. Can a continuously growing chain of blocks using cryptography have applications in healthcare? News from Nebula Genomics and HSBlox. And a new eBook to download.
MPI vs. EMPI: Comparing Patient Matching Value and Performance for the Healthcare Enterprise
By Gevik Nalbandian – Patient matching issues that result in duplicate records cost hospitals $1.5M a year, at an average of $1,950 per patient, and the U.S. healthcare system over $6 billion annually, according to a new survey by Black Book Research.
An Unnecessary Privacy Risk?: Online Nursery Photos
By Matt Fisher – Privacy and security of personal information are topics of constant discussion inside and outside of healthcare. Current events keep the heat on as one or the other never strays very far from headlines.
How Healthcare Organizations Can Tackle the Rise of Ransomware
By Brad Spannbauer – The healthcare industry is under constant threat from hacking and cyber-attacks. High volumes of valuable data, stored on systems with lapse security controls, make a welcoming proposition for data thieves.
Care Affordability — How HDHPs Are Reshaping Payment Collection
By Marty Callahan – Is your organization scrambling to solve escalating revenue loss created by high-deductible health plans? You’re not alone. The rising volume of patient out-of-pocket payments reported as uncollected correlates directly to the increasing portion of insured patients covered by HDHPs.
How the IoT Is Changing Healthcare IT
By Kayla Matthews – The Internet of Things (IoT) is impacting society in many different ways. Although the IoT is useful in roles involving industrial manufacturing, advanced business intelligence and similar niches, its effects are felt nearly everywhere — including healthcare.
CMS Issues Proposed Rule for 2019 Payment and Policy Updates
CMS issued proposed updates to Medicare payment policies and rates under the Inpatient Prospective Payment System and the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System, as well as a Request for Information to solicit feedback on ways to better achieve interoperability.
The FDA is Asking for More Information on Application Forms
By Christopher Leptak MD PhD – To be most effective, electronic health records use a systematized and standardized nomenclature for the hundreds of thousands of clinical terms that characterize patient care.