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OTHER HEALTH CARE LINKS

Health Breach Notification Updates:
FTC Warns Health Apps and Connected Device Companies to Comply With Health Breach Notification Rule (September 15, 2021)

STATEMENT OF THE COMMISSION On Breaches by Health Apps and Other Connected Devices (September 15, 2021)

FTC Health Breach Notification Rule (August 29, 2009)

HUDDLE FOR CARE - An exciting new resource for improving care transitions, in partnership with the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation An interactive website and mobile application for story sharing among care transition innovators and implementers. The site is a collaborative to discuss challenges and develop solutions for transitional care programs that are tailored to specific program and patient needs.

Healthcare Quality Strategies, Inc.

HQSI, working in partnership with the federal government, has been serving as an important and free resource to New Jersey’s healthcare community since 1984. Although our name has changed over the years (you may remember us as The Peer Review Organization of New Jersey, Inc., or as PRONJ), our mission – accelerating healthcare quality improvement in New Jersey– has remained constant. Working together, we can achieve better patient care, improved population health and reduced healthcare costs through quality improvement. In so doing, we will achieve a shared goal – ensuring that every patient receives the right care every time.

Medical Peer Review Services

Medical Peer Review Services, L.L.C. (MPRS) partners with your healthcare organization to provide comprehensive, unbiased quality and medical necessity external peer review. Our board certified, actively practicing physicians can quickly render solutions on complex care management issues using evidence based medicine and practice guidelines. MPRS reviews, responds, resolves.

myhealthfinder Tool

Preventive Services Recommendations from the US Department of Health and Human Services at healthfinder.gov. These recommendations are generated by the myhealthfinder tool, which provides consumers with personalized, evidence-based clinical prevention recommendations in just a few clicks. The myhealthfinder recommendations come from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) as advised by organizations including the American Academy of Pediatrics (through the Bright Futures cooperative agreement) and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine).

CIMRO

CIMRO, a URAC accredited Health Utilization Management organization with greater than 35 years experience, conducts independent peer review nationwide. We offer unbiased opinions regarding the utilization and quality of medical services as part of healthcare facilities' internal QI activities. Our nearly 700 credentialed peer reviewers provide determinations utilizing current standards of practice. Our full range of review services include standard of care patterning, sentinel/adverse events, mortality, medical imaging/radiology overreads, experimental/investigational, and fair hearing expertise.

www.nairo.org

The National Association of Independent Review Organizations (NAIRO) was formed by the majority of URAC-accredited independent review organizations (IRO). The need for uniform regulations from state to state and a uniform application process is what brought NAIRO together. The primary objective of NAIRO is to simplify the regulated independent review organization application process and independent medical peer review requirements among the states. NAIRO is dedicated to protecting the integrity of the independent medical peer review processes. Utilizing the expertise of hundreds of board-certified clinicians throughout the country, NAIRO members embrace an evidence-based approach to independent medical peer review, in order to resolve coverage disputes between enrollees and their health plans.

http://www.drdnj.com

DRD Consulting, Inc., formed in 2004, provides innovative effective consultative services to a variety of stakeholders, focusing on organizational and personal development and quality management. DRD Consulting Inc. emphasizes the accurate assessment of individuals and organizations. DRD assists organizations to compare their current state to their desired state and to design and implement programs to close gaps. DRD consultants include seasoned physician executives, expert nursing professionals, quality management professionals, hospital CEOs, attorneys, human resources professionals and financial analysts.

http://drdpracticemanagement.com/

Quality minded, tech savvy and financially competent, the DRD team includes individuals with medical, healthcare IT, billing, strategic planning and coaching expertise. We've been in your shoes. We understand the interface between what you need to do to take care of patients and what you need to do to be profitable, happy in your work and with a reasonable work life balance. We can show you what you need to know to make your practice work for you and your patients - we can train you, your staff and your colleagues to accomplish your goals. We will show you how to make your practice work for you, instead of the other way around. Medical practice can be fun again, and still pay the bills!

http://psnet.ahrq.gov

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) announced it has launched a new Web site, Patient Safety Network (PSNet), which is a national "one-stop" portal of resources for improving patient safety and preventing medical errors. PSNet is the first comprehensive effort to help health care providers, administrators, and consumers learn about all aspects of patient safety. The site provides a wide variety of information on patient safety resources, tools, conferences. PSNet users can customize the site around their unique interests and needs by creating a "My PSNet" page. PSNet is the latest patient safety improvement endeavor by AHRQ, which leads the federal government's effort to improve patient safety and reduce medical errors. AHRQ's mission is to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans.

http://www.qualityforum.org

The National Forum for Health Care Quality Measurement and Reporting (National Quality Forum or NQF) is a not-for-profit membership organization created to develop and implement a national strategy for health care quality measurement and reporting.

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)

HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) is the healthcare industry's membership organization exclusively focused on providing leadership for the optimal use of healthcare information technology and management systems for the betterment of human health.

The American Health Quality Association

The American Health Quality Association represents Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) and professionals working to improve the quality of health care in communities across America. QIOs share information about best practices with physicians, hospitals, and nursing homes. Working together with health care providers, QIOs identify opportunities and provide assistance for improvement.

CDC

Centers for Disease Control

THE MAYO CLINIC

The Mayo Clinic

PUBMED

PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE

Obtain access to NLM for literature searches, research information, thousands of images and FREE direct access to MEDLINE. This valuable website should be bookmarked STAT!

THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES

The Association of American Medical Colleges is a non-profit association founded in 1876 to work for reform in medical education. Originally representing only medical schools, the AAMC represents the nation's 125 accredited medical schools, nearly 400 major teaching hospitals, more than 105,000 faculty in 98 academic and scientific societies, and the nation's 66,000 medical students and 97,000 residents.

QUALITY MANAGEMENT RESOURCES, LTD

Providing clear advice and practical solutions to easily achieve full compliance and accreditation through mock surveys, electronic support, and on-site consultations. Assistance in areas of State licensure, CMS (formally HCFA) compliance, JCAHO and AAAHC accreditation, and practical implementation of needed improvements.

HEALTH CARE ANALYTICS, INC.

Steven Littman, MS "Employing state of the art technology and advanced analytic methods, Health Care Analytics delivers innovative solutions for measuring and managing health care cost and quality."

THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIAN SPECIALISTS, INC. (AAPS)

The American Association of Physician Specialists, Inc. (AAPS), is a national organization representing thousands of physicians in all specialties and types of practices throughout the United States.