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Best Practices for Hospitals Addressing Behavioral Health Platform Integration

Iris Telehealth

For many health systems, customized interfaces are expensive and labor-intensive In 2017, the American Hospital Association released data on the importance of interoperability in healthcare and how connected, shared health information can help achieve the best possible outcomes.

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Hint Health Acquires AeroDPC to Offer End-To-End Platform for Direct Primary Care Providers

Healthcare IT Today

Hint Health , the company powering the direct primary care (DPC) movement, today announced the acquisition of AeroDPC, a practice management and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) designed for DPC clinics. increase 241% from 2017 to 2021. Brad Brown from AeroDPC as the new Medical Director. The existing U.S. About AeroDPC.

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Feds Demand Additional Compliance Efforts from eClinicalWorks (eCW)

Healthcare IT Today

Back in mid-2017, EHR maker eClinicalWorks agreed to pay $155 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit accusing it of a broad list of violations. In addition to paying the fine, eCW was required to sign a Corporate Integrity Agreement (CIA) essentially requiring the vendor to keep its nose clean on several levels.

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Elation Health Acquires Medical Billing Company Lightning MD

Healthcare IT Today

The company was founded in 2017 by registered nurses Kelly Schoenfeld and Brian Esser. ” Lightning MD is a convenient billing solution focused on user experience for independent medical practices. Their goal was to make billing easier for practices.

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Modernizing Medicine To Pay $45 Million To Settle False Claims, Kickback Allegations

Healthcare IT Today

The lawsuit was filed in 2017 by law firms Phillips and Cohen LLP and Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC. And in 2017, eClinicalWorks settled civil fraud and kickback charges with the government for $155 million.

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5 Digital Health Predictions for 2018 by Lloyd Price

Lloyd Price

In Q1 2017 Epic launched a new program App Orchard – serving physician practices and hospitals to help them build customized apps. This will allow the developers to address issues in connecting their apps to the Epic EMR. The program also supports independent mobile app developers who target providers and patients.

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Why On Earth Are Physicians Still Collecting Patient Data Using Paper Forms?

Healthcare IT Today

According to CMS, reforms identified by Patients over Paperwork since it launched in late 2017 should save roughly 40 million hours and […]. As part of its “Patients over Paperwork” effort, CMS recently issued a Request for Information seeking new ideas on reducing levels of administrative burden.

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