Risk Management
The highest-risk Medicare program has grown from 27 providers when it started in 2016.
Three employee email accounts were hacked in November, exposing PHI, including financial data and Social Security numbers for some.
Health systems are using NLP tools to maximize the performance of existing risk arrangements and expand participation in value-based care programs.
Investigation indicated employee targeted patients with prescriptions for controlled substances, local primary care doctor, system says.
The OneCare Vermont accountable care organization is taking on capitated risk, with its provider physicians receiving a per member, per month fee.
While Longs Peak Family Practice was investigating a Nov. 5 ransomware attack, its infosec team discovered another hack into its system on Nov. 10.
Under the new law, data brokers could create a new product useful for population health and potentially sellable.
HHS Office for Civil Rights offers a new perspective on the privacy law as it relates to mental health and substance abuse, clinical research.
Even among the majority of practices that have a policy, current training methods are too passive, MGMA experts say.
Best practices are emerging that healthcare organizations can use to optimize care and reduce ICU utilization that results from the procedures.