Compliance & Legal
Working toward EMRAM Stage 7 showed the need for leadership to drive digital transformation and ensure data is used effectively to improve patient care, says Ana Prado, CMIO at Hospital de Cascais in Portugal.
Measuring digital maturity using tools such as EMRAM enables the NHS to track progress of the global digital exemplars against international standards, says Will Smart, CIO for Health and Social Care in England.
Anthem last year was required to pay $16 million in the most costly HIPAA fine ever, for what remains the largest data breach for the industry.
Testimony is expected to center on the impact of the merger on pharmacy benefit management markets, judge says.
Teva colluded with 20 competitors on 86 generic drugs to avoid price erosion and keep inflated prices high, lawsuit says.
Operations continue, wages are unaffected and none of the health system's three hospitals or other care centers will close, Astria says.
Fraudulent medical practice is estimated to cost the federal government between $90 to $300 billion dollars annually.
Medicaid paid Acadia's facilities a much higher amount for blood and urine tests than its lab had charged for the analysis.
HIPAA doesn't big changes, just some work around the edges, says Matt Fisher, a partner at Mirick, O'Connell, DeMallie & Lougee.
This includes the protection of medical conscious of practitioners, says OCR Director Roger Severino.