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Vital Lines November 2023

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Learn more Remote patient monitoring RPM boosts outcomes but drives up costs In a new study, RPM reduced hospital stays among Medicare patients with hypertension but also raised costs per patient. Build an HL7 ® FHIR ® data store for your health system, minus the missteps. The post Vital Lines November 2023 appeared first on Redox.

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

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Verinovum’s SWAT (Strategic Workforce and Tactics) team has been closely following these trends and has made predictions about how nine of them might play out in 2023. (Be Medicare saved $1.6 In addition, Medicare has a goal for 2030 whereby all beneficiaries are to be treated by a VBC provider.

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Bonus Features – November 5, 2023 – Only 24% of healthcare organizations have successfully disrupted ransomware attacks, 83% of healthcare leaders say AI is or will be an essential skill, plus 20 more

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Studies and Reports So far in 2023, only 24% of healthcare organizations were able to disrupt a ransomware attack before attackers encrypted their data , according to a Sophos survey. Product and Company News FHIR platform 1upHealth integrated 1up Population Connect with Epic, Oracle Health, and athenahealth.

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Weekly Roundup – July 29, 2023

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John Lynn spoke to Mo Weitnauer at MRO about using FHIR-based APIs to automatically fulfill the vast majority of requests in minutes or seconds – not weeks. Access to medical records makes for better decision-making within payer organizations, but requests can create a burden on short-staffed providers.

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Bonus Features – September 24, 2023 – 72 percent of patients say affordability is the biggest challenge for paying medical bills

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Medicare Advantage costs are 12% lower than similar beneficiaries covered under fee-for-service Medicare, according to research from Inovalon and Harvard Medical School. Drummond Group unveiled FHIR Client Certification Program , which will enter its pilot phase on Oct.

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Bonus Features – November 26, 2023 – 85% of healthcare orgs boosting IT spending in 2024, 70% of orgs actively considering generative AI, plus 18 more stories

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This is due in large part to increased expenses (from 25$ for labor to 90% for maintenance) and revenue reductions from denials (more than 20% from commercial plans and nearly 60% from Medicare Advantage plans). More than 85% of health systems are increasing IT and digital budgets for 2024 , a Guidehouse analysis found.

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The healthcare executive’s guide to AI

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In 2023 at least 11 states considered healthcare AI legislation, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) AI legislation tracker. AI reimbursement Medicare and Medicaid are beginning to reimburse for AI applications on a per-use basis, though adoption is still in its infancy.

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