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By James Swann for Bloomberg BNA A Dallas pediatric hospital is on the hook for a $3.2 million penalty after years of noncompliance with a federal health data security rule and after failing to request a hearing on the penalty. Children’s Medical Center of Dallas filed data breach reports with the Health and Human Services Office…
By Mackenzie Bean for Becker’s Hospital Review February 6, 2017 Here is a list of the 50 states and the District of Columbia ranked by total number of hospital inpatient days per 1,000 residents. This list is based on data from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Data was accessed Feb. 6. Data includes information for community hospitals, which…
CONCORD, OH – February 7, 2017 CONCORD, Ohio — Dolbey has earned the 2017 Category Leader award from KLAS, the leading health care research company. Every year, KLAS collects evaluations from health care providers regarding the technology and services they use. From those evaluations, KLAS ranks the best of the best across many categories. Dolbey’s…
By Emily Rappleye for Becker’s Hospital Review January 23, 2017 President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday evening aimed at immediately lessening the economic burden of the ACA as Republican lawmakers work on a repeal and replacement plan. Here are five things to know about the scope of the executive order. 1. The order offers…
Article by Mary Butler. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on January 1, 2017 and is republished here with permission. While the healthcare industry plays “wait and see” with regard to what a Trump Administration means for the regulatory landscape of the last eight years, the events of this past year offer a…
By Bruce Y. Lee for Forbes Welcome to the future…a bad future. In September 2016, a female in her 70s died from an infection caused by carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), bacteria that was resistant to all available antibiotics. Yes, resistant to all available antibiotics. Yes, doctors could do nothing to stop her infection. Yes, a bad…
By Luke Dormehl for Digital Trends Why it matters to you. Keeping medical records secure is of utmost importance and using a patient’s heartbeat data could be just the way to do it. Whether it’s instantaneous diagnoses or simply making patients more directly responsible for their own wellbeing, there are plenty of things that are exciting…
By Maggie Van Dyke for H&HN 5 steps for hospitals to prepare for MACRA’s Quality Payment Program The Jan. 1 launch of Medicare’s new clinician payment system under the MACRA law — the Quality Payment Program — promises to tie a greater percentage of payment to performance, and to accelerate health care’s shift to new…
By Modern Healthcare | November 28, 2016 (Story updated at 11:04 a.m. ET) U.S. Rep. Tom Price was nominated to be HHS secretary by President-elect Donald Trump, according to a person familiar with the decision. Seema Verma, who helped craft Indiana’s conservative Medicaid expansion will lead CMS. Price, an orthopedic surgeon from Georgia, would be a key part…
By Tamara Rosin for Becker’s Hospital Review Preventing the rate of hospital closures from rising will require hospitals to focus on improving efficiency and continuing to seek opportunities to consolidate, Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove, MD, told Fox Business Network. “Hospital occupancy across the United States is about 65 percent,” said Dr. Cosgrove. “For example, in…