CHICAGO (September 30, 2022)—Relias, trusted partner to more than 11,000 health care organizations and 4.5 million caregivers, and Hucu.ai, a patient-centered secure messaging platform, are now partnering to better serve their health care customers.
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AMSTERDAM (March 17, 2022)—Royal Philips, a global provider of health technology, announced the expansion of its medical device cybersecurity services portfolio at HIMSS22. Philips is introducing Secure Remote Access Management Service, leveraging the broad set of security capabilities enabled by the integration of SecureLink’s critical access management and governance technology with Philips Remote Services’ secure connectivity framework for technical and clinical support.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (January 4, 2022)—The U.S.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (September 30, 2021)—The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) announced the appointment of Lisa J. Pino as director of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR).
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HARTFORD, Conn. & ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.(January 17, 2020)—CareCentrix, a provider of in home-based and post-acute care (PAC) solutions, announced today it has entered a strategic alliance with Synzi, a technology enabler for post-acute care. The alliance creates virtual delivery of post-acute services to deeply personalize the work that CareCentrix already does caring for patients.
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (November 26, 2019)—Casamba, one of the largest providers of electronic medical records (EMR) for home health and hospice, has been at least partly offline due to a malware attack, officials said.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (November 8, 2019)—Synzi, a virtual care company, has announced that Aspire Home Health and Hospice (Aspire), a home health and hospice provider in Salt Lake City, is using Synzi’s virtual care communication platform to better care for and engage their patient population throughout the Salt Lake, Davis and Weber counties.
Agoura Hills, Calif. (August 26, 2019)—Casamba, a provider of electronic medical record (EMR) solutions for contract therapy providers, skilled nursing facilities, home health and hospice agencies, and outpatient therapy, today announced nVoq has been added as the preferred speech recognition partner.
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DALLAS (June 10, 2019)—Home health care provider, Axxess has released Axxess Hospice, a software solution to address the unique needs of hospice providers. Axxess Hospice was custom-built by hospice professionals with decades of industry experience to offer unique and intuitive capabilities that help hospice professionals more easily deliver the highest quality compassionate care.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (April 30, 2019)—On Friday, The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released new interpretations to the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009 regarding HIPAA violations.
The HITECH Act outlined four tiers of violations for covered entities by level of culpability:
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