ITX, a custom software producer, has launched Vitals Update, a solution enabling remote monitoring while patients quarantine due to COVID-19. Vitals Update is being offered free. ITX said it can reduce...
Prime Care Tech upgrades with app and predictive tools
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 16, 2019
Prime Care Technologies has released a mobile app and new predictive tools for its primeVIEW application. The company’s cloud-based business intelligence application for post-acute care integrates...
Kansas suing nursing home that failed to protect privacy after closing
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 15, 2017
State of Kansas officials are suing a nursing home that’s been closed for almost a year, alleging the owner did not remove personal information of former residents or employees from the subsequently...
PadInMotion offering HIPAA-compliant EZCall tool for SNFs
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Kimberly Marselas
Nov 04, 2020
Interactive patient experience provider PadInMotion now offers its EZCall application to skilled nursing facilities and hospitals to empower quick and secure engagement with loved ones via one-touch connectivity....
Lawyers: Lack of HIPAA fines doesn’t reflect compliance
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Haymarket Media
Mar 13, 2007
While there have been 20,000 complaints, no fines have been issued to providers, payers or clearinghouses under the four-year-old Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, according to privacy...
Coursebook, guide focus on healthcare compliance
Oct 17, 2017
First Healthcare Compliance demonstrated its recently released “The Fundamentals” course and guidebook during the American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living convention...
Regulators: Rejected Medicare claims no indication of NPI success
Jun 05, 2008
Despite a spike in rejected Medicare claims, the implementation of the National Provider Identifier number requirement has met with no huge problems so far, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
Remote patient monitoring system debuts
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Elizabeth Newman
Dec 04, 2018
YouThisMe has launched a new remote patient monitoring platform for clinical and non-hospital medical settings that serve seniors.
Medical records firm sues HHS over HIPAA document fees
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 11, 2018
A technology company that helps healthcare providers complete medical records requests is suing the Department of Health and Human Services over “irrational, arbitrary” HIPAA limits that cap...
LifeAssist wins awards
Jun 28, 2017
LifeAssist recently was honored by Red Herring and the Health Information Resource Center for its Circura and Rosie technology.