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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has released the Uni...
- Department of Health and Human Services
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New OSHA ETS Resources
07/12/2021The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has released updates and additional resources to assist health care organizations as they wor...
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration
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Hospice Aide Services - RN Supervision
07/09/2021A November 2019 Office of Inspector General (OIG) report found that Registered Nurses (RNs) didn’t always: Visit hospice patient...
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- Hospice
FDA Updates
07/08/2021The following is a listing of recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updates and guidance: FDA Issues Final Guidance on Unique Device Id...
- Food and Drug Administration
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CDC Health Advisory Recall of LeadCare Blood Lead Tests Due to Risk of Falsely Low Results
07/08/2021As StayAlert! has previously reported, Magellan Diagnostics, Inc. and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have issued a recall notice con...
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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- Critical Access Hospitals,
- Hospitals,
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The CyberSecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently announced the creation of a catalog to document bad cybersecurity practice...
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Healthcare Safety Network receives weekly reports of COVID-19 data from Lon...
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Long Term Care
CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) continue to respond to the recent supply-chain ransomware attack leveraging a vulnerability in Kase...
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FDA Updates
07/03/2021The following is a listing of recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration updates and activities: Angiographic Guidewire Component by Medtronic Vas...
- Food and Drug Administration
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The Kansas Department of Health and Environment, the Texas Department of State Health Services, and the Minnesota Department of Health, with assistanc...
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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On February 15, 2021, DNV Healthcare USA Inc. announced changes to their survey scheduling approach for NIAHO® accreditation surveys in hospitals,...
- National Integrated Accreditation for Healthcare Organizations (DNV)
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FDA Updates
07/01/2021The following is a listing of recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updates and activities: Magellan Diagnostics Recalls LeadCare II, L...
- Food and Drug Administration
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FDA Updates
06/30/2021The following is a listing of recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration updates and activities: Certain Philips Respironics Ventilators, BiPAP, a...
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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released an Industrial Controls Systems (ICS) Medical Advisory on multiple vulnerabili...
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CMS Proposed Home Health Rule
06/29/2021The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued the CY 2022 Home Health Prospective Payment System (HH PPS) proposed rule. Accor...
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- Home Health,
- Hospice