Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

The Washington State legislature passed House Bill 1155, aka the My Health, My Data Act , last week. The bill expands privacy protections for Washington State’s health citizens beyond HIPAA’s provisions. ” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Healthcare delivery is migrating away from hospitals. P atient burnout is a growing issue – long waits, short appointments, large bills, pushing people towards telehealth interactions as a first step. Health risk identification moved away from institutions to the pharmacy and home.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

The following is a guest article by Isaac Smith, Billing, Coding, and Reimbursement Specialist at Medcare MSO ASCs are types of medical facilities that are subject to stringent regulations. ASCs must stay current on healthcare regulations that affect billing. ASCA members can view an ASC-specific surveyor tag tool.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Healthcare delivery is migrating away from the hospital. P atient burnout is a growing issue – long waits, short appointments, large bills – pushing people towards telehealth interactions as a first step. Meanwhile providers in that same survey noted that staffing shortages prevented them from providing better access.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 21, 2019

From front line care delivery, including triage, clinical decision support and patient experience to back-office operations, such as billing and revenue cycle, algorithms and emerging technologies are already proving their value. Information and technology comprise the backbone of smart, digital hospitals and systems. Collection.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Regulations now require primary care doctors be notified if their patients have an ED visit or are admitted to a hospital. Far too often the primary care doctor never learns about these health issues that are addressed at hospitals. It’s beautiful that PCPs can be informed in order to coordinate the care for their patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2022

A survey from digital health platform Babylon found that 46% of Americans have gone into debt from their medical bills , while 34% are currently struggling to pay their medical and insurance bills. DoseData released an RFID-tagged drug database to help pharma companies monitor drug supplies within hospital inventory systems.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2023

BEAD is the largest component of the $65 billion in broadband programs contained in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, also known also as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill. Telehealth can harness and focus broadband and hospital IT investments into digital advancements for urban and rural communities.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 2, 2022

Patients with chronic diseases or those who are discharged from hospitals may benefit from the use of RPM technology to monitor significant chronic diseases like diabetes, hypertension or congestive heart failure, and especially to avoid a recurrence of an issue that would require readmission. . Passive: Remote monitoring of activity.

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GlobalMed

MAY 28, 2019

When a medical emergency hits – say, a car accident or a heart attack – no one’s first concern should be about the price tag attached to the ambulance or medical air transport. Instead, they call an Uber or ask a family member to come home from work and drive them to the hospital. Consider Summit Hospital in Arizona.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2018

Brownlee, now an SVP at the Lowns Institute and Co-Founder of the Right Care Alliance, pointed out the dangers of super-sized medicine, from unnecessary radiation exposure and hospital infections to medical errors and duplication of services. The second chart illustrates patient-borne costs for early stage breast cancer.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Many want to target drug costs and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has mandated hospitals to post a list of their standard charges by diagnostic-related group, in an effort for consumers to have transparent cost options. by Bill Siwicki January 17, 2019. by Bill Siwicki April 05, 2019. Collection. " News.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 26, 2022

The news articles pile up – assisted living and nursing home staffing shortages ; stranding older adults without home health care ; keeping patients in hospitals longer because of lack of care; nursing home staffing crisis ; Medicaid paying family members to provide care , low wages and low unemployment worsen care situation , and on and on.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 11, 2020

Amwell is now moving forward to help providers offer ‘ hospital at home’ – now part of multiple insurance offerings. Brooks Rehab and Sonifi Health (170 healthcare provider locations). “The nonprofit post-acute hospital has partnered with SONIFI Health to install an interactive technology system in each of the patient rooms.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 31, 2020

Then hospitals limited admissions in anticipation of an onslaught – and limiting their revenue-generating business – and some shut down completely. Given that response, it also followed that those over age 65 were not too worried about being able to pay the bill for smartphone or broadband use. And on and on.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The application of security vocabulary as request context (purposeOfUse), response obligations (do not re-disclose), and data tags (confidential and sensitive). And consent is still local when it comes to billing requests. These are beyond Treatment, Payment, and Normal hospital operations.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2022

Note: Humblest apologies to Dr. Smart for typing her name wrong in the video and for not tagging her properly @KatharineSmart ]. The only difference is that Lotus continues to bill the provincial single-payer and not patients directly. As the pandemic wanes, more physicians and hospital services are moving back to in-person visits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

With much of the country shut down earlier this year, the typical number of weekly virtual care visits grew from dozens, to hundreds, to thousands at hospitals and health systems across the country. This put a lot of pressure on the physicians who oversee telehealth programs at these providers: the telehealth managers.

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GlobalMed

OCTOBER 7, 2019

at least, we now expect that extensive medical treatment – whether that’s chemotherapy, ongoing dialysis visits or surgery to repair a broken femur – may involve significant medical bills. Hospital stays, outpatient visits, tests and medications can all add up, even when patients have health insurance. In the U.S. trillion in U.S.

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Redox

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Approval indicates the insurer will pay when they get the bill. According to the 2020 CAQH index , PA is the single largest expense for the healthcare industry with a total price tag estimated at about $767 million annually. Delays can result in life-threatening events, hospitalization, and/or death. It’s expensive.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JUNE 10, 2018

Physicians and other licensed clinicians express increased frustration – no, outrage – that the electronic health records support billing, not clinical care. To be able to pull data from participating hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies, and personal health apps. Tagging features for encounters (categorizes like visits).

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 11, 2023

The service, known as “teleSANE,” is new at Shelley’s hospital. Before, sexual assault patients faced mountains of obstacles — literally — when they had to travel to a hospital in another county for care. If rural hospitals train nurses, they still might not have enough to provide round-the-clock coverage.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 11, 2023

The service, known as “teleSANE,” is new at Shelley’s hospital. Before, sexual assault patients faced mountains of obstacles — literally — when they had to travel to a hospital in another county for care. If rural hospitals train nurses, they still might not have enough to provide round-the-clock coverage.

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