Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 7, 2024

In December, SCAN Group, a mission-driven organization whose holdings include SCAN Health Plan, one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit Medicare Advantage Plans, made a strategic investment in Dina. SCAN is also a Dina customer. ” Walsh has joined the Dina board. “As

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2024

In this way, hospitals and health systems can save costs by reducing the strain on healthcare workers making personal visits while improving patient outcomes to help guarantee the CMS program's continuation. This is largely driven by an aging population and increasing preferences for care in familiar surroundings.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2024

Paulo Pinho, MD, Chief Medical and Strategy Officer at Discern Health , highlighted to us that analytics have to be explainable to be trusted. Ben Hsieh, Vice President of Product, says that Discern Health works with payers, providers, and Health Information Exchanges (HIE). Contact us here or on Twitter at @hcitoday.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 9, 2023

Nashville-based Ardent Health Services says it will roll out a new remote care platform from Cadence to help its providers better manage chronic conditions such as hypertension, congestive heart failure, diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A study published this week in the Journal of Medical Internet Research found that virtual reality can be a useful, scalable and appealing alternative to existing pain management approaches. Health Tech, a health equity incubation partner at UCSF, and AppliedVR, a platform that provides therapeutic VR for pain management.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 3, 2023

" As has been shown many times, lack of access to care is a key hurdle to health equity and chronic disease management. TimeDoc Health is a vendor of virtual care management, chronic condition management and remote patient monitoring technologies and services. But telehealth can help in a significant way.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 16, 2023

The 2023 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition kicks off in Chicago on Monday, and among all the many other health and tech news that will be made there, HIMSS will officially debut its newest maturity model, designed to focus on IT innovation in the non-acute spaces where most care is delivered.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Gary Hamilton, CEO of patient engagement technology vendor InteliChart, believes three things about virtual care that, he says, deserve more attention: Telehealth services can offer healthcare providers the opportunity and capability to reach broader populations – and they can serve as disease prevention tools for these populations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Minority and lower-income populations are less likely to have orthopedic surgery – and more likely to experience poor outcomes when they do. Disadvantaged populations face many barriers to care, including low referral rates, lack of Medicaid acceptance and transportation difficulties. Access challenges are partly to blame.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 4, 2024

Expanded Personalized Population Health Capabilities Support Better Health Journeys for Patients Carenet Health , a trusted partner in helping organizations simplify and power the business of healthcare, is excited to announce it is acquiring Health Dialog , a worldwide leader in delivering clinical decision support offerings.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS Today, NJCC and Veris Health, a subsidiary of New York-based PAVmed Digital Health, announced that the cloud-based clinician portal was successfully integrated into the oncology practice's information technology systems. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 7, 2024

New Investment is Led by Sands Capital, with Participation from Comcast Ventures, and Follows Enterprise Health System Expansions HealthSnap , a Miami-based Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and Chronic Care Management (CCM) solution for healthcare providers, today announced its Series B financing totaling $25 million.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 15, 2022

Salesforce Health Cloud introduced a suite of new technologies this past week designed for remote patient monitoring, connected health, medication management and more. Salesforce's Intelligent Appointment Management is meant to help patients schedule appointments on their computers or mobile devices. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Montana has unique challenges in providing healthcare to its widely dispersed population of just over 1 million people. Out of 56 counties in Montana, 55 are designated as Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs), limiting access to both urgent and routine medical visits. THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 13, 2024

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Read more… Securing Patient Data in Open-Source Healthcare Content Management Systems. Read more… Bonus Features for April 7, 2024.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Federally Qualified Health Center Community Health Network, operating in Brazoria, Harris and Galveston counties in Texas, has partnered with Wysa to integrate its artificial intelligence-guided mental health platform to offer adjunctive behavioral health support throughout patient care journeys and give clinicians and administrators insights.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Mount Sinai Health System, based in New York City, has been having a problem with digital health inequities. Almost 25% of New Yorkers lacked the infrastructure for basic internet connectivity to see their healthcare clinicians, and approximately 1.6 " Dr. Robert Fields, Mount Sinai Health System. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

To address rural healthcare access disparities, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health office at the National Institutes of Health seeks to create a scalable vehicle platform that can provide advanced medical services outside of a hospital setting. "PARADIGM will do the same for advanced hospital-level care."

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 21, 2024

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 2, 2024

Investment Follows Strong Employer and Health Plan Demand as Substance Use Management Moves from Niche Solution to Essential Benefit Resulting in 287% Revenue Growth in 2023 and 100% Client Retention Growth Follows 500% Increase in Substance Use Disorder-Specific RFPs from Employers and Payers in the Past Twelve Months Platform Covers More than 3.4

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 7, 2021

Cedar Gate Technologies (Cedar Gate), a leading value-based care performance management company, today announced its acquisition of Enli Health Intelligence (Enli), a market leader in population health management technology solutions.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

So let’s take a deeper look into healthcare at home to see how it has evolved over time, the technology that is driving this change, and how it is impacting our patients and providers. We reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today community to get their insights into this topic. The following is what they had to say.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

A study published this week in the American Heart Association journal Hypertension found that 12 months of pharmacist-managed home blood pressure telemonitoring and pharmacist management lowered hypertension for two years. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

A Health Affairs study found that telemedicine use during the COVID-19 pandemic was lower in communities with higher rates of poverty – suggesting that the industry must address the digital divide in order to ensure widespread access to virtual care. " Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Since their system was and is being broadly used in France, they were able to see and work on all the problems associated with medication management and discover the solutions that worked across a wide swath of patients and environments. He then shares what Synapse Medicine has done to address these three challenges. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 10, 2024

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 22, 2024

There are two RPM device monitoring codes – 99453 and 99454 – and two timed RPM management service codes – 99457 and 99458. CPT 99457 is for spending a minimum of 20 minutes of clinical staff time providing care management services related to patient readings and their treatment plan. He is an expert in RPM coding.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2024

Providence, a 52-hospital health system based in Renton, Washington, views digital innovation as an important vehicle to overcoming industrywide challenges and transforming care delivery for the betterment of the communities it serves.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Zoom this week announced expanded Zoom AI Companion capabilities for its regulated healthcare and education customers at its virtual event, Zoomtopia 2023. WHY IT MATTERS Users can now manage their AI Companion settings for meetings, team chat, whiteboard and mail all in one place in the Zoom web portal.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2024

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. 2024 Health IT Predictions : Health Equity. Read more… 2024 Health IT Predictions : Cybersecurity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Though the coronavirus crisis has certainly sped up that process, he said, the foundation for such growth has been laid overtime by digital health leaders. "When designing telehealth interventions, we must ask ourselves, 'How can recent advances in health technology help achieve health equity in the populations we serve?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 8, 2020

Jaan Sidorov, CEO of the Population Health Alliance in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a network of 152 independent community-based providers, says he and his colleagues are quickly learning how the COVID-19 crisis will change their practice patterns. "Now, my duty is to serve an entire patient population."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 22, 2024

In the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland, individual healthcare providers offer their own patient portals. This means if a person visits multiple facilities, they must use different portals to access their health data. After all, people, especially those in vulnerable health situations, crave human touch and a reassuring voice.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The next public health pronouncement or clinical treatment might emerge from synthetic data : rows of totally invented people that contain no real data but reflects the actual characteristics of a population such as race, gender, and medical conditions. A typical application described by Rubel is hypothesis testing.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 11, 2024

In addition, it covers up to 60 million lives, representing 9 out of every 10 Medicare lives and partners with 5 of the Top 6 Medicare Advantage health plans. Innovaccer has helped its customers unify health records for more than 54 million people and generate over $1.5 This marks Innovaccer’s second acquisition in 3 months. “We

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

The report examined a cross-section of vendors leading the virtual care management charge, noting that solutions go beyond carrying out remote appointments. They give us the opportunity to genuinely transform how patients and providers experience healthcare." " Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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