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Telemedicine triage kiosks reduce ER visits by 11% for ACO

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A large number of the beneficiaries present multiple complex chronic health conditions with a high coexistence of mental health conditions making the coordination of care more complex and inefficient. Over three quarters of 2018, AICNY inpatient expenditures saw a 6% reduction.

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Quality Payment Program Exceeds Year 1 Participation Goal

CMS.gov

Thu, 05/31/2018 - 12:00. Rural health. Remarkably, the submission rates for Accountable Care Organizations and clinicians in rural practices were at 98 percent and 94 percent, respectively. Quality Payment Program Exceeds Year 1 Participation Goal. keya.joy-bush@…. Seema Verma. Administrator, CMS. Billing & payments.

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Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

This selection focuses on interoperability, the patient matching technology that undergirds aspects of interoperability, and the benefits of these technologies in the development of tools to manage patient journeys in a manner that engages patients, caregivers and providers as partners in care, advancing the quadruple aim. Comments Comments.

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Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

This selection focuses on interoperability, the patient matching technology that undergirds aspects of interoperability, and the benefits of these technologies in the development of tools to manage patient journeys in a manner that engages patients, caregivers and providers as partners in care, advancing the quadruple aim. Comments Comments.

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How would you like to change HIPAA?

Health Blawg

There’s an RFI out right now, published as part of the federales’ “ Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care ,” announced by HHS Secretary Alex Azar in mid-2018. Could they use a nip and tuck, a little freshening up around the edges? But not a wholesale revision. Well, that moment has arrived (maybe).

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How would you like to change HIPAA?

Health Blawg

There’s an RFI out right now, published as part of the federales’ “ Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care ,” announced by HHS Secretary Alex Azar in mid-2018. Could they use a nip and tuck, a little freshening up around the edges? But not a wholesale revision. Well, that moment has arrived (maybe).

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