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Impetus and Edict: What the Latest CMS Data Standards Mean for EHRs – Regulatory Talk Series

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The latest policy update from The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) adds key provisions to the December 2022 proposed rule requiring adoption of a new NCPDP SCRIPT standard version. Both will require EHRs to redevelop different aspects of their roadmap simultaneously.

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Bonus Features – October 22, 2023 – 57% of patients accessed portals or medical records in 2022, 21 orgs make Level 10 in the 2023 CHIME Digital Health Most Wired Survey, and more

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 22, 2023

News Nearly six in 10 (57%) of patients accessed online medical records or patient portals in 2022 , according to the latest ONC data brief. Reproductive care decision support technology from Fairtility is now integrated with four leading EHRs for fertility. This total has doubled since 2017.

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How Do 2022 State ePrescribe Mandates Impact Behavioral Health Providers?

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FEBRUARY 25, 2022

According to the American Psychiatric Association , e-Prescribing is defined as “the electronic transmission of a drug prescription directly to a pharmacy through EHR technology, or via a standalone electronic prescribing suite.” currently have ePrescribe mandates in place as of January 2022. Retrieved January 28, 2022, from [link].

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Bonus Features – November 13, 2022 – HCA extends 30-year relationship with MEDITECH, cost of care replaces pandemic as top reason to defer care, and more

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NOVEMBER 13, 2022

HCA Healthcare signed a new agreement for a large-scale deployment of MEDITECH Expanse , continuing a relationship with the EHR vendor that has spanned three decades and been recognized with the 2021 CHIME Collaboration Award. News and Research. healthcare system to keep them healthy. The all-time total number of messages is ow close to 3.5

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OmniLife Health Survey Shows Rapid Adoption of Clinical Workflow Automation Among U.S. Healthcare Organizations

Digital Health Global

MARCH 1, 2023

This is one of several key learnings from a recent Becker’s Healthcare benchmark survey of health systems, hospitals and transplant centers in partnership with OmniLife Health in late 2022. The EHR was built around a fee-for-service care delivery model, largely for billing,” said Dalton Shaull, co-founder and CEO, OmniLife Health. “The

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FirstHealth of the Carolinas solves access problem with Virtual Provider program

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 26, 2023

"Once the ER or Convenient Care provider enters an order in the Epic EHR for the virtual provider, the patient’s visit is then scheduled," Kapa said. " Annual wellness visits And the third component of the program sees the virtual provider assisting PCPs by completing Medicare annual wellness visits for patients.

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Bonus Features – May 7, 2023 – Less than 1% of all medical claims include an ICD-10 Z code, 78% of consumers say virtual health is important when considering health plans, and more

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 7, 2023

News CMS has opened the Hardship Exception application period for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) that participated in the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program in 2022. Global venture capital funding was just $21 billion in April 2023 , a 56% drop from April 2022, according to Crunchbase.

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Altera Digital Health and Bergen New Bridge Medical Center Expand Partnership

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APRIL 6, 2023

In addition to expanding the successful partnership between the two organizations, the medical center will also implement Paragon® Ambulatory Care EHR, as well as Microsoft Azure hosting and several other Altera solutions. In May 2022, Altera joined N.

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When is E-prescribing Mandatory for Psychiatrists?

TheraNest

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The American Psychiatric Association has historically petitioned the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to relax certain requirements around e-prescribing due to various challenges around its use. E-prescribing via EHR systems improves accuracy by making prescriptions easier to read. Benefits of E-prescribing . Cost-efficient.

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Why Electronic Health Record Interoperability is a Key Step Toward Fair Drug Prices

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2022

With recent legislation allowing Medicare to negotiate prices, it’s likely that the movement will grow , given the high and constantly rising costs of pharmaceuticals, especially gene therapies and other innovative or personalized drugs. EHR interoperability will also help empower patients.

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Pearl Raises $75M for VBC Enablement

Digital Health Wire

JANUARY 30, 2023

The Pearl Platform assists primary care providers participating in Medicare’s ACO REACH model with identifying patients who are driving expenses, then incentivizes them to deliver high-value care. Unlike many competing platforms, Pearl doesn’t require an EHR integration.

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Avoiding Red Flags: Finding the Right Productivity Balance

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The number of Medicare TPEs and commercial payer take-back audits alone is skyrocketing. They also look to flag “items and services that have high national error rates and are a financial risk to Medicare.” Meanwhile, Medicare also has a Fee for Service Recovery Audit Program. Tricare and Medicare).

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Bonus Features – May 5, 2024 – Kaiser Permanente taps Innovaccer (and former CTO) for AI, report finds security flaws in Merge DICOM Toolkit, plus 18 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 5, 2024

Growth in hospital labor expenses is outpacing non-labor expenses for the first time since late 2022 , according to the latest monthly report from Strata. Intuity Medical received Medicare Part B coverage for POGO , its automatic blood glucose monitoring system. He’s currently CTO at Innovaccer.)

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Bonus Features – June 26, 2022 – Walgreens gets into clinical trials, ONC offering SDOH grants, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 26, 2022

The first is addressing health equity and SDOH using a combination of open-source technology and EHR systems. This amounts to savings of 55% to 70% for Medicare beneficiaries who are part of a knee or hip replacement bundled payment program. Applications are due Monday, Aug.

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Bonus Features – December 4, 2022 – 34% of Americans take anti-anxiety meds during the holidays, hospital margins at -2% but show signs of hope, and more

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Urgent care EHR vendor Experity appointed Dr. Benjamin Barlow as Chief Medical Officer. Medicare ACO platform Vytalize Health named Frank Bordonaro as Senior VP of Value-Based Care and Network Development. Ohio-based Dayton Children’s Hospital chose VisiQuate for revenue and denials management.

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Bonus Features – August 6, 2023 – 83% of hospitals are collecting SDoH data, 46% of hospitals planning to use large language models in the call center, and more

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 6, 2023

Healthcare accounted for 36% of all enterprise data breaches in 2022 , according to the latest research from ForgeRock. The report also cited a 50% increase in breaches from 2022 as compared to 2021. California’s Orange County Migraine & Wellness Center selected eClinicalWorks Cloud EHR and healow.

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Bonus Features – August 28, 2022 – Epic data shows only 5% of OD patients get tested for fentanyl, 40% of clinicians plan to add AI to their day-to-day work, and more

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2022

The aptly named Integration Framework covers how to integrate state Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) with clinical systems such as EHRs, HIEs, and pharmacy systems in hospital, primary care, and outpatient settings. ONC released a framework to improve integration of health IT tools used to treat drug overdose patients.

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3 Ways Consumers are Putting the Pressure on Health Plans

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2023

Inflation will push Payers back into the Public Marketplace whether Statewide and Federal Health Exchanges, Medicaid and Medicare Before the pandemic, many payers left statewide health exchanges as they found more ways to become profitable outside of the public market. million in 2022 and 16.3 million this year.

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Consumers or Patients: Who Does Your Health System Target?

Xealth

AUGUST 22, 2023

Data Liberation: A Double-Edged Sword The advent of electronic health records (EHRs) brought about a remarkable breakthrough in making patient health information (PHI) accessible. However, leveraging digital health solutions such as Xealth has helped many providers encourage eligible and existing Medicare patients to participate in AWVs.

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Bonus Features – September 4, 2022 – CIOs struggling to retain talent and seek flexible staffing models, Sequioa Project set to begin receiving QHIN applications Oct. 3, and more,

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

A study of Medicare beneficiaries published in JAMA Psychiatry and co-authored by CDC, CMS, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse found that emergency-authorized telehealth services for treating opioid use disorder during the pandemic was associated with improved medication retention and lower odds of medically treated overdose.

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Data Quality Scrutiny, SDoH, Value-Based Care…What are the New Healthcare Truths of 2023?

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2023

Many facets of healthcare remained in a state of flux at the close of 2022, as care practices that started during the pandemic found their way into the mainstream, and enthusiasm for new data sources and interoperability outpaced the realities of implementation. Be sure to check out last year’s New Healthcare Truths of 2022 ) 1.

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Bonus Features – January 8, 2023 – Omnibus bill extends telehealth expansion through end of 2024, 60% of solution providers pouring all event marketing money into in-person events, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2023

29, 2022, President Biden signed the omnibus spending bill. The biggest news for healthcare IT was the extension of telehealth expansion under Medicare through the end of 2024. DirectTrust and the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission completed their merger , which was first announced in November 2022.

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The intersection of remote patient monitoring and AI

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is one of the organizations that sets the standard of care in the U.S. In 2022, CMS launched CPT codes for remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM). There are other companies working on sensors in clothing that are covered by Medicare.

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Reactions to the Ascension Healthcare Ransomware Attack and Suggestions for Healthcare Organizations

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

Department of Justice should step up enforcement of the False Claims Act against medical providers who accept Medicare and Medicaid payments but fail to implement a reasonable level of cybersecurity. Health data should be protected by a similar assessment requirement for health plans and providers to receive federal funds.

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Will CMS' Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver program become permanent?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver program from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has grown to 125 health systems and 289 hospitals in 37 states in less than three years. For those who don't know, please describe the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver program from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

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Health Privacy and Security in the Time of TEFCA: Raising the Bar for Trusted Exchange

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 20, 2023

million in 2021 – and 35 percent more patients were impacted in the second half of 2022. In particular, electronic health record (EHR) hacking is on the rise and the reasons for these are manifold. Health IT Security reported just last month that the number of health records exposed rose from 21.1 million in 2019 to 28.5

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Telehealth and RPM – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

With the market downturns we’ve seen in 2022, that trend will shift. We believe better Care Ops technology in EHRs and Practice Management Systems are a better long term bet than standalone telehealth or symptom tracking point solutions. Fight for quality investors. Digital health startups banked a record-breaking $29.1B

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Healthcare Workforce – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Staffing issues, record losses, and burnout continued to plague the healthcare industry in 2022. Instead, we anticipate a more mix and match, custom approach to EHRs. In 2022, physicians reported unsustainable workloads, exacerbated by a widespread staffing crisis and administrative burdens on staff that are driving many to burnout.

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Not All QHINs Will Be Created Equal

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

For the health IT community, 2022 has been a big year. . The following is a guest article by Jay Nakashima, Executive Director at eHealth Exchange. Key QHIN selection considerations for federal agencies and state and regional exchanges around control, innovation and flexibility.

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Value Based Care – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2024

Rick Dean, CEO at OncoHealth In 2023, Medicare Advantage (MA) health insurance companies began acting on and planning for massive changes to Part D coverage in response to the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). For members, the good news is that for each plan year, their Part D out of pocket costs will now be capped at $2,000.

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Mercy Virtual Care Center: A deep dive into a virtual hospital

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2023

" The Myia Health platform integrates through an API to Mercy's Epic EHR. "Epic EHR is our source of truth and so it was really important that Myia be directly connected bi-directionally" he continued. As of October 2022, it has 4,474 active lives under management and 207 patients waiting to onboard.

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Healthcare AI – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 2023

In medicine, AI approaches are currently both developed and deployed at a rapid rate, fueled by the dearth of data that already exist from different modalities (genetic, genomic, images, EHR, etc.), as well as the continuous streams of data that are provided by wearables. We must ensure AI is used to bridge the care gap, not widen it.

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Health IT – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

2) Over 60% of pediatricians said that they were burnt out and unhappy in their current practice in 2022. The healthcare landscape will likely witness challenges and adjustments in Medicare Advantage programs. With an increased number of touch points with the health system comes a more personalized approach to medicine.

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Impetus and Edict: What the Latest CMS Data Standards Mean for EHRs – Regulatory Talk Series

Bonus Features – October 22, 2023 – 57% of patients accessed portals or medical records in 2022, 21 orgs make Level 10 in the 2023 CHIME Digital Health Most Wired Survey, and more

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How Do 2022 State ePrescribe Mandates Impact Behavioral Health Providers?

Bonus Features – November 13, 2022 – HCA extends 30-year relationship with MEDITECH, cost of care replaces pandemic as top reason to defer care, and more

OmniLife Health Survey Shows Rapid Adoption of Clinical Workflow Automation Among U.S. Healthcare Organizations

FirstHealth of the Carolinas solves access problem with Virtual Provider program

Bonus Features – May 7, 2023 – Less than 1% of all medical claims include an ICD-10 Z code, 78% of consumers say virtual health is important when considering health plans, and more

Altera Digital Health and Bergen New Bridge Medical Center Expand Partnership

When is E-prescribing Mandatory for Psychiatrists?

Why Electronic Health Record Interoperability is a Key Step Toward Fair Drug Prices

Pearl Raises $75M for VBC Enablement

Avoiding Red Flags: Finding the Right Productivity Balance

Bonus Features – May 5, 2024 – Kaiser Permanente taps Innovaccer (and former CTO) for AI, report finds security flaws in Merge DICOM Toolkit, plus 18 more stories

Bonus Features – June 26, 2022 – Walgreens gets into clinical trials, ONC offering SDOH grants, and more

Bonus Features – December 4, 2022 – 34% of Americans take anti-anxiety meds during the holidays, hospital margins at -2% but show signs of hope, and more

Bonus Features – August 6, 2023 – 83% of hospitals are collecting SDoH data, 46% of hospitals planning to use large language models in the call center, and more

Bonus Features – August 28, 2022 – Epic data shows only 5% of OD patients get tested for fentanyl, 40% of clinicians plan to add AI to their day-to-day work, and more

3 Ways Consumers are Putting the Pressure on Health Plans

Consumers or Patients: Who Does Your Health System Target?

Bonus Features – September 4, 2022 – CIOs struggling to retain talent and seek flexible staffing models, Sequioa Project set to begin receiving QHIN applications Oct. 3, and more,

Data Quality Scrutiny, SDoH, Value-Based Care…What are the New Healthcare Truths of 2023?

Bonus Features – January 8, 2023 – Omnibus bill extends telehealth expansion through end of 2024, 60% of solution providers pouring all event marketing money into in-person events, and more

The intersection of remote patient monitoring and AI

Reactions to the Ascension Healthcare Ransomware Attack and Suggestions for Healthcare Organizations

Will CMS' Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver program become permanent?

Health Privacy and Security in the Time of TEFCA: Raising the Bar for Trusted Exchange

Telehealth and RPM – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare Workforce – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Not All QHINs Will Be Created Equal

Value Based Care – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Mercy Virtual Care Center: A deep dive into a virtual hospital

Healthcare AI – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Health IT – 2024 Health IT Predictions

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