Introduction
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was designed to protect sensitive patient data and ensure compliance within the healthcare sector. However, a recent report from the Office of Inspector General (OIG) indicates…
In examining how the Office of Civil Rights administered its periodic Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act audit program from January 2016 through December 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office…
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What You Should Know:
– Hospitals across the country are facing an ever-increasing onslaught of claims denials from insurance companies, with denials up 20.2% in 2023, according to the American Hospital Association. These denials – triggered…
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What You Should Know:
– A new report from the Commonwealth Fund reveals that despite significant progress in expanding health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), millions of Americans still lack adequate and…
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What You Should Know:
– Tassat Group, Inc., the leading provider of private permissioned blockchain-based real-time settlement solutions, today announced its strategic partnership with Veuu, an innovative AI-powered healthcare fintech company, to improve the inefficiencies and…
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Steve Kim, CEO of Valer
As a physician, the odds that you’ve had a negative experience related to the prior authorization process are (unfortunately) highly likely. According to the American Medical Association’s (AMA) 2023 Prior…
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DigitalOwl, a company that uses natural language processing to help analyze and summarize EHRs, announced it is collaborating with ExamOne, a Quest Diagnostics company, to improve efficiency of record retrieval and analysis through DigitalOwl’s…
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Regulated mobile health applications are called digital health applications (“DiGA”) in Germany. To qualify for reimbursement by statutory health insurance companies, DiGA have to prove positive care effects in scientific studies. Since the empirical…
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Noah Nasser, CEO, datma
The healthcare industry is a wellspring of data, from electronic health records to data from wearables, health insurance claims, and a multitude of real-world data (RWD) points. While RWD has been…
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HealthTap, a virtual primary care provider, is partnering with AeroFlow, a company that delivers medical products and services, to enter the durable medical equipment market (DME), allowing patients to more easily access primary care…
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