article thumbnail

Practice Fusion to Pay $145 Million In Fines To Resolve Kickback Investigations

Healthcare IT Today

Practice Fusion, a San Francisco-based EHR vendor with a controversy-rich history, has agreed to pay $145 million to settle allegations that it engaged in a kickback scheme designed to increase opioid prescriptions and issues with their meaningful use EHR certification. This had been […].

article thumbnail

Finding the future of interoperability with Redox: Part 3 – How Carequality can solve disconnected data for digital health

Redox

We have been a Carequality implementer since 2018 and more than 6,000 organizations are connected to Carequality via Redox Access. This new designation called “Treatment On Behalf Of (OBO)” allows organizations to apply for and use Carequality on behalf of healthcare organizations that are on the network and providing treatment.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

Check out some of my other short takes from HIMSS 2018 , too. Check out some of my other short takes from HIMSS 2018, too. Gerard Scheitlin, Chief Risk Officer – VP Security, Risk & Assurance, Orion Health. Comments […] article was originally published on HealthBlawg and. Comments Comments. Comments Comments.

article thumbnail

Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

Check out some of my other short takes from HIMSS 2018 , too. Check out some of my other short takes from HIMSS 2018, too. Gerard Scheitlin, Chief Risk Officer – VP Security, Risk & Assurance, Orion Health. Comments […] article was originally published on HealthBlawg and. You should follow me on Twitter: @healthblawg.

article thumbnail

Is Patient Portal a Thing of the Past?

Healthcare IT Today

According to the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) Stat poll, by 2018 patient portals were employed by about 90% of the surveyed providers. . healthcare providers’ initiative or, should we say, their need to comply with Meaningful Use. In fact, the wave of patient portal deployment wasn’t caused by patients’ interest.

EHR 62
article thumbnail

2019 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Could Expand RPM Reimbursement

care innovations

Just as it did for the 2018 calendar year , the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is seeking to further expand reimbursement for remote patient monitoring, virtual visits and other telehealth services as part of its proposed 2019 Medicare physician fee schedule.

article thumbnail

Telemedicine Today: June 2016

American Well

Meaningful use and payer incentives for adoption (13%). Avizia was acquired by American Well in July of 2018. The biggest drivers for expediting adoption of telehealth were: Increase patient volumes and loyalty (29%). Care coordination of high-risk patients (17%). Reduce costs for access to medical specialists (17%).