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The Importance of Family Health & Fitness Day
Held on Saturday, June 12th, Family Health & Fitness Day promotes the importance of parks and recreation helping keep families and communities active.
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The QliqMINUTE: How Can Healthcare Leaders Leverage Digital Tools to Improve Disaster Preparedness?
The recent tornadic activity across the United States is part of a growing trend of climate-related disasters that has more than doubled in 2021 over the previous year. According to the National Centers for Environmental Information, the U.S. broke the record at 18 climate disasters by October.
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The QliqMINUTE: How Can Hospitals Best Support Staff During The Labor Shortage?
1 in 5 healthcare workers has already quit their jobs since the pandemic began. More alarming is that nearly 20 percent of remaining professionals have considered leaving healthcare altogether. We spoke with Heather Rambeau, the Chief Nursing Officer at Coryell Health, to learn what strategies genuinely make an impact.
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The QliqMINUTE: Should Employers Accept Results from At Home COVID-19 Test Kits?
The rising popularity of home COVID-19 tests faces PTO challenges. Employers are urged to consider OSHA guidelines for a healthier workplace.
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The QliqMINUTE: Will the New Omicron Variant Devastate the Already Strained Healthcare System?
Got a minute? Each week we distill the healthcare news cycle into 60 seconds or less via the QliqMINUTE.
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Krishna Kurapati
The Role of Communication in a New Healthcare World
Under the existing yet flawed fee for service provider reimbursement model that has dominated medicine for the last couple of decades, providers have had little financial incentive to engage in a dialogue with a patient outside of an office visit.
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The Role of Peer-to-Peer Encryption in the HIPAA Omnibus Era
It’s every compliance officer’s worst nightmare. You’re sitting at your desk on a weekday afternoon, perhaps catching up on the latest posts on the qliqSOFT blog, when all of a sudden your CIO calls you up and frantically explains how one of your vendors suffered a major data breach. Over thirty thousand patient records are lost, and there is no way to know what has been done with the data so far.
Krishna Kurapati3 min read
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The Role of Technology in Addressing Healthcare Inequalities
COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted healthcare access in underserved communities, but cultural understanding can go a long way toward addressing health equity. This month we’re exploring this issue in our three-part Cultural Comptency series.
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Ben Henson
The Top 10 HIPAA Data Breaches of 2017 (So Far)
2017 is still several months away from ending and it is already shaping up to be one of the most volatile years on record for PHI data breaches. So far, 178 incidents are under investigation by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, impacting well over 3 million individual patient records. Below is a list of the top 10 HIPAA data breaches as of August 2017.
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The True Cost of a HIPAA Data Breach
Another week, another HIPAA data breach. On September 10th, healthcare behemoth Kaiser Permanente sent out a letter to 670 patients, notifying them that their PHI had been impermissibly emailed out of network. But in light of all these recent data breaches and security failures, one might ask, “who cares?” If fixing the issue is as simple as writing an apology letter like Kaiser did, why go through all the hoops of encryption and access control and HIPAA compliance? After all, HHS still has the ultimate discretion of whether to assess penalties, right?
Krishna Kurapati3 min read
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Bobbi Weber
Turning Gaps into Gold: Revenue Strategies in Rural FFS Primary Care
Optimize rural primary care revenue by closing gaps in care. Use digital outreach for preventive screenings and patient engagement.
Bobbi Weber4 min read
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The QliqMINUTE: What are the Top Barriers to Digital Transformation for Healthcare?
ver the last two years, healthcare organizations have had to rapidly adopt digital technologies to adapt to fluctuating changes brought on by the pandemic. Unfortunately, even though many of these solutions provided excellent results in the short term, many organizations are struggling to integrate these solutions successfully as long-term strategies.
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