Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

To that end, the agency doubled its budget for audits in 2022. As proof, several health plans have been making headlines for coding errors and other issues that surfaced during audits: In just the third quarter of 2022, at least four audits have specifically targeted Medicare Advantage plans.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 17, 2022

They reported the breach to have occurred January 20, 2022. Looks like the review of the breach happened from June 13, 2022 and August 3, 2022 which seems like a long time to wait to notify patients of a potential breach of their information. Resolute Health Hospital. The Hospitals of Providence Memorial Campus.

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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. To learn more about these standards, check out my blog on the initial e-prescribing updates announced by CMS in December 2022.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 28, 2023

Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products. "It was critical to bring along our regulatory, legal, contracting, revenue, IT and clinical leadership to take this initiative forward. Click here to read the special report. " The U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Staffing issues, record losses, and burnout continued to plague the healthcare industry in 2022. Emily Goetz, Vice President of Commercial at Bright.md.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The funds will support the company’s launch of virtual primary care services in California, Texas, and Washington in 2022, introducing an improved and long overdue healthcare experience for Latinos built on trust, community, and culture. “We Erik is a healthcare tech strategist with more than 20 years of leadership experience.

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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. Threat actors know healthcare is a prime target for extortion and target them accordingly.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

For the health IT community, 2022 has been a big year. . For federal agencies and state and regional exchanges, this is an excellent time to demonstrate leadership in interoperability by joining a network that will likely provide a ready on-ramp to TEFCA.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

According to a recent Rock Health report , the first half of 2022 saw 329 digital health funding deals totaling $10.3 Jain, a board-certified internal medicine physician, has 20 years of experience in clinical medicine, health policy, managed care and healthcare delivery leadership. billion—down from $14.7

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 23, 2023

For example, as outpatient services such as infusions outpace projections , and as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services open the door to more outpatient procedures by moving 11 procedures off its “inpatient only” list, ambulatory providers must have the financial strength to make the investments needed to support growth.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

Data, especially in an increasingly personalized healthcare system, is inevitably siloed. Healthcare providers maintain different systems than payers, as do government entities like Medicare and Medicaid. He was recently named to Business Insiders 30 Under 40 Changing the Healthcare Industry in 2022.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. The statistic indicating that 70% of Individual Medicare Advantage members opted for value-based care providers in 2022 highlights a significant acceleration toward this model.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

13, 2022, unless it’s renewed yet again. Without action from Congress, most of the telehealth flexibilities will cease, cutting off telehealth access to a majority of Medicare beneficiaries. It would also stall much-needed progress to fully integrate telehealth as a central element of healthcare delivery.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

13, 2022, unless it’s renewed yet again. Without action from Congress, most of the telehealth flexibilities will cease, cutting off telehealth access to a majority of Medicare beneficiaries. It would also stall much-needed progress to fully integrate telehealth as a central element of healthcare delivery.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

A major justification for President Biden’s tax hike proposal is to shore up the tenuous finances of Medicare whose trust fund is forecasted to be depleted by 2028. Healthcare is arguably the only industry to have been made less productive by the introduction of technology.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra this week urging the agency to extend the COVID-19 public health emergency through at least the end of 2022. "Further, we support your signifying that the duration would be at least through the end of calendar year 2022. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Mason to get his take on the current state of health equity and to dive deeper into the impact his company is having. Then they can encourage those members to come in for required screenings that are part of the Medicaid and Medicare Advantage programs.”. Health Equity Defined. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) program, used by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to rate hospitals, now contain two measures of SDoH. ” (page 25) A similar call for equity through the use of SDoH data, including community engagement, was made in an IBM paper in 2022.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. 2) Over 60% of pediatricians said that they were burnt out and unhappy in their current practice in 2022. payers, health systems, etc.).

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