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Health Insurer Specialty Pharmacy Policies Threaten Patient Quality of Care

Regulators should prohibit health insurers from preventing hospitals and physicians in their networks from directly acquiring and storing drugs used in patient care. A number of large health insurers are requiring these providers to accept drugs purchased or handled by their own or affiliated pharmacies.

Alexa: ‘Will patients share their information with you?’

Amazon Alexa is now HIPAA compliant. The company recently launched six Alexa voice health tools built by providers, payers, pharmacy benefit managers and digital health coaching companies that allow organizations to securely transmit private patient information. The Alexa Skills Kit enables select covered entities and business associates subject to HIPAA to build Alexa skills so they can transmit and receive protected health information as part of an invite-only program.
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AHA Rural Health Care Leadership Conference 2018: AHA Digital Media Toolkit

Introduction As you attend various workshops and sessions throughout the 2018 Rural Health Care Leadership Conference,

Patient and Family-Centered Care: A Hospital Self-Assessment Inventory

This assessment inventory is designed to help hospital and health system leaders, trustees, medical staff and employees think about how a hospital, department, or clinical area operationalizes patient- and family-centered care.

Guidelines for Releasing Patient Information to Law Enforcement

Introduction Hospitals and health systems are responsible for protecting the privacy and confidentiality of their patients and patient information.

How You’re Transforming: Partners HealthCare

Innovation labs and centers of excellence continue to take shape as health care organizations look for ways to speed delivery system transformation and control costs better. Partners HealthCare, the Boston-based nonprofit and physicians’ network, became the latest to step up its activity in this space.