Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2022

TEFCA aims to create one unified technical framework to exchange data across the country between healthcare providers, health plans, public health agencies, and individuals. . For many of us in health IT communications, TEFCA has been greeted with both excitement and skepticism. About Zach Finn.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Health Equity and SDoH. Healthcare Analytics and Interoperability.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 21, 2020

BIDI, which is under the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) in Thailand, is a 240-bed tertiary care hospital with 1000 staff under normal circumstances, Dr Sirikwin explained. Samitivej and BNH Group of Hospitals operate under Bangkok Dusit Medical Services (BDMS), the largest private hospital network in Thailand.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

COVID-19 forced a spike in policy-makers’ interest and willingness to invest in public health; a spike that is unfortunately retreating to the old business as usual. I consulted several experts in health IT to ask how such IT could improve data collection and sharing in public health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 17, 2020

Russell Libby is the lead physician at Fairfax, Virginia, pediatric group practice and board member of the Physicians Foundation. ” The group practice also needed payer support to make sure it could get compensated for telehealth visits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 25, 2023

Hong Kong's Health Department to hasten public health digitalisation The Hong Kong Department of Health has recently tied up with technology incubator Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation to pursue public health digitalisation.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

Although most health care organizations and company leaders view the adoption of AI as promising, most Americans are concerned providers will adopt AI technologies too quickly rather than too slowly. adults would be uncomfortable if their health care provider relied on AI for their medical care, according to the Pew Research Group.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Such was the case at the first ever collaborative conference for health information exchange (HIE), interoperability, public health, and health equity. The four-day summit focused on the evolving role of HIE, new interoperability successes and the valuable implications of harnessing data to advance health equity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2021

Cuomo's proposal would make permanent many flexibilities that are currently in place during the COVID-19 public health emergency. Charlie Baker signed into law a wide-ranging bill that includes expanding access to telehealth after the COVID-19 public health emergency abates. " WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2023

The following is a guest article by Chris Anello, Director of Digital Platforms at iTech AG The COVID-19 pandemic pushed healthcare organizations to the edge and exposed both challenges and opportunities related to public health data.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 10, 2021

LAS VEGAS – One year ago this week, a group of digital health experts formulated the Riyadh Declaration on Digital Health, which outlined priorities and recommendations for the global health community in response to COVID-19 and other future pandemics. Dr. "Federal leadership in the U.S,

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Deloitte’s Global CEO, addressed four key stakeholder groups for resilience and sustainability: our people/workforce, organizations, society, and leadership’s ability to lead. It’s also useful to see data and interoperability ranking a growing priority among two-thirds of CFOs here. In July 2020, Punit Renjen.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2024

Quincy has great trust in this health care system, appreciating that customization also takes into account peoples’ values, ethnicities, and clinical needs. Clinicians partner with patients, often in teams and group-based care. Telehealth happens across the U.S. as clinicians do not face issues of State licensure barriers.

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Health Populi

MARCH 23, 2021

Assemble an advisory committee of representatives from community groups to guide implementation and development of health equity programs. Address institutional racism within the organization and recruit health care workers from under-represented groups. health care — especially expressed by health disparities.

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E-CareManagement

JUNE 27, 2021

While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing. • Data of all kinds has an important role in public health, logistics management, and the healthcare supply chain. • Scott Stuewe, President & CEO, DirectTrust.

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E-CareManagement

OCTOBER 19, 2020

While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing. • Data of all kinds has an important role in public health, logistics management, and the healthcare supply chain. • Scott Stuewe, President & CEO, DirectTrust.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Gradually, payers and clinicians are incorporating social determinants of health into their care, including attempts to empathize with the cultural views and immediate surroundings of the patients. This is a tall order, requiring public health interventions that go beyond clinicians’ reach.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 7, 2023

News CMS has opened the Hardship Exception application period for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) that participated in the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program in 2022. The analysis also found that Z-codes are most frequently used in behavioral health and acute care settings.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

In March 2020, online health care consults in the UK doubled to 1.8 This report was written with additional context of and wisdom gained through the coronavirus public health crisis. The program yielded eight major lessons and action areas: Digital access and skills are a social determinant of health. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2021

I had the opportunity to attend the session, and want to share the health and wellness-related insights David shared in his fast-paced view on the role of color in bolstering wellbeing and community looking out to 2022/23. Foundation, for example, has several micro-themes embodied in its color group like dreaming, resting, and writing.

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 13, 2024

The latest advancements in digital health technologies This could include discussions on artificial intelligence, machine learning, telehealth, and other emerging technologies. Demand for services is unsustainable and health systems are cracking under the pressure. For: Innovators who want to improve outcomes with data.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Turning to ChatGPT some 123 years later, I queried, “What is a health plan?” The response: A health plan is a comprehensive package of healthcare services and coverage that helps individuals or groups manage and finance their healthcare needs. Connectivity as a social determinant of health.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Patient matching issues also impact response to public health emergencies, as was seen throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Missing data, including an estimated 40% of demographic data missing from commercial laboratory test feeds for COVID-19, hindered contact tracing, vaccination, and public health reporting efforts.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

As cases are automated on communication platforms, there is a growing need to interoperably share care plans for patients/persons beyond the case worker team and out within the community’s ecosystem of stakeholders.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The funding for this coordination of these social determinants of health aims to break down siloed efforts and better align care and social service providers – ideally enabling better health outcomes, reducing costs and protecting vulnerable populations.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 27, 2023

Read more… Looking at Fax As An On-Ramp for Interoperability. Scott Turicchi at Consensus Cloud Solutions told Colin that the ubiquity of fax shouldn’t be ignored as the industry aims for interoperability, especially since faxes can easily be converted to structured, digital documents.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 9, 2021

With the new version, Vivify's remote care platform is significantly more interoperable with EHRs, medical devices and other systems, the company said. The groups of telehealth and RPM CPT codes that will be automated include: CCM codes for two or more conditions. Remote physiologic monitoring codes.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 19, 2023

Partnerships Home care technology platform HHAeXchange added six companies to its Partner Connect Program : ADP, Caribou Rewards, Perry, Vitable Health, Remote Focus, and IMA Group. Interoperability engine Infor Cloverleaf Integration Suite is now available in AWS Marketplace.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 14, 2023

News In a temporary rule, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) extended telemedicine flexibilities for prescribing controlled medications for six months following the end of the public health emergency, through November 11.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Senate to permanently extend the telehealth flexibilities and waivers put in place during the public health emergency. Interoperability and workflow platform Edifecs launched a point-of-care prior authorization tool. Device implementation service provider BrightInsight selected Lyniate as its data interoperability platform.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Sherri Onyiego, Medical Director for the Texas Market at Equality Health. They also obtain public health data by ZIP code and data from a Health Information Exchange (HIE). The rest of this series examines what companies and public health agencies are doing in these areas of SDoH.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 23, 2022

The second group to benefit from this National EHR Database was public health. Ellison highlighted how public health didn’t have a way to look across the health of a population. From a public health perspective, it begs the question of whether you need all the health records like Ellison envisions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

Connected Health Mobility Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth How contact tracing, contactless experiences and remote monitoring will redefine healthcare and public health. A study by non-profit group FAIR Health suggests a 4,000% increase in telehealth claims across the country.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

Telehealth always has been a key pillar of technology-enabled care delivery that helps hospitals, health systems and group practices deliver quality care at a distance – and often also gain efficiencies, improve patient and provider satisfaction and save costs.

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David Chou

JUNE 21, 2022

It also makes it challenging for research teams at public health agencies to conduct studies on big groups of people, since they're frequently restricted to the patient data available within their hospital network, he added. Ellison outlined the well-known challenges with the U.S. healthcare industry.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Mimi Winsberg, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer at Brightside Health We have been in an uncertain time for regulation around telemedicine, and there are a few key trends to watch. physicians, hospital care, freestanding imaging centers, ambulatory surgical centers, etc.)

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

These perspectives reinforce each other as she works to improve the regulatory landscape shaping security and interoperability in her role at CHIME overseeing congressional engagement efforts focused on effective use of health IT. Five years from now, Leslie expects that cybersecurity and interoperability will be much improved.

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