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HHS Finalizes Rules to Penalize Healthcare Providers Engaging in Information Blocking

HIT Consultant

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a new final rule today aimed at preventing information blocking in healthcare. – The final rule establishes disincentives for healthcare providers who engage in practices that interfere with a patient’s access to their electronic health information (EHI).

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23andMe Launches Health Action Plan Based on Genetic/Health Data

HIT Consultant

. – Health Action Plan is a helpful first step when it comes to prevention and early risk detection. It offers customers specific actions and next steps on their health journey. – 23andMe reminds customers that they should not use Health Action Plan to replace a visit to their primary healthcare provider.

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Singapore to Pass Comprehensive Health Data Law

Triage Health Law

On December 4, 2023, Singapore’s Ministry of Health (Ministry) announced that the nation’s first ever comprehensive health data law, the Health Information Bill (Bill), will be introduced in mid-2024. A set of Cyber & Data Security Guidelines for Healthcare Providers (Guidelines) was also published.

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Why The Time Is Now for Healthcare Provider Cloud Migration

HIT Consultant

To ensure data privacy and security are maintained, companies can enforce different layers of protections including identity access management, security monitoring for anomalies and regular compliance audits. This is because IaC allows security best practices to be written into the infrastructure code.

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OSF deploys care transition program, reduces readmission rate from 29% to 9%

Healthcare It News

Patients discharged from hospitals often were readmitted due to complications that could have been prevented with better monitoring and more proactive management, said Matt Nieukirk, director of the SNF practice at OSF HealthCare. "All interventions and patient outcomes are thoroughly tracked and analyzed," he added.

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Microsoft releases data-driven updates for healthcare cloud

Healthcare It News

Data integration toolkit with unified display for provider IT administrators and tools to advance health data exchange within organizations. Dataverse Healthcare APIs that support bi-directional integration capabilities of FHIR data. LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Addressing behavioral health resources and costs in Ohio

Healthcare It News

The self-governed ONEcare networks will have access to clinical and operational process improvements and remote patient engagement tools that will enhance value-based care agreements that recognize and incentivize increasing access to care, patient outreach and satisfaction, preventative care and avoidance of unnecessary health costs, Alera said.