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2018 Year in Review: The Year’s Biggest Remote Care News & Developments

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2018 was a historic year for telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM), as a series of developments played out that helped extend these important care delivery services to more patients than ever before. January 18, 2018. June 21, 2018. January: Unbundled CMS Code Increases Remote Care Reimbursement. Read more here.

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Maimonides Medical Center completes massive digital health initiative in two years

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It is Brooklyn's tertiary care hub serving diverse communities with large Medicaid, Medicare and uninsured populations. It was an early adopter of electronic health records and sponsored one of New York State's first health information exchanges. THE PROBLEM.

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The Consumer and the Payor, Bingo and Trust: My Day At Medecision Liberator Bootcamp

Health Populi

To succeed in the business of health information technology (HIT), a company has to be very clear on the problems it’s trying to address. Health care was the top issue driving voters to the 2018 mid-term elections. There’s surely lots of data to mine. Finally, patients are political.

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Addressing the Most Common Concerns about Remote Health Management

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As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposes to ramp up reimbursement for remotely delivered services, and the many success stories of its successful implementation continue to dominate industry headlines , remote health management has become one of healthcare’s most widely discussed buzzwords.

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CMS Doubling Down on Health IT; Patients

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CMS Doubling Down on Health IT; Patients. Thu, 07/19/2018 - 00:03. Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. It’s 2018—most doctors are using electronic health records (EHRs) and most patients have access to the Internet and a smartphone, providing many ways to view healthcare data securely.

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Quality Payment Program Exceeds Year 1 Participation Goal

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Thu, 05/31/2018 - 12:00. Leadership. Rural health. For example, we reviewed many of the MIPS requirements and developed policies for 2018 that continue to reduce burden, add flexibility, and help clinicians spend less time on unnecessary requirements and more time with patients. keya.joy-bush@…. Seema Verma. Initiatives.

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Healthcare has never experienced anything like Amazon’s combination of logistics, voice AI expertise and data analytics. The impact could be huge.

Lloyd Price

If you consider its leadership team (led by surgeon and best-selling writer Atul Gawande) and Amazon’s yearslong gesturing toward healthcare and previous comments by Berkshire Hathaway founder Warren Buffett, some clues come into focus. It might be giving them the ability to store [their] information. It’s a win-win.”

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