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

Healthcare IT Today

Data analytics platform Arcadia launched a point-of-care generative AI assistant to improve risk factor documentation. Healthcare marketplace Zocdoc launched Zocdoc Practice Solutions to support practices with online scheduling, patient intake, and virtual care services.

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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

Another likely forthcoming requirement that will exacerbate the existing challenges: in the coming years, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will implement the provision for convening providers to incorporate projected costs from co-providers on an estimate for a care episode.

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DirectTrust and EHNAC Announce Merger Agreement

Healthcare IT Today

DirectTrust serves as a governance forum, trust community, standards organization, and accreditation body for persons and entities engaged in exchange utilizing PKI mechanisms for trusted, secure information exchange like Direct Secure Messaging and trusted, compliant document submission.

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Featured Health IT Job: Lead Data Architect – Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

What You Will Do Design, implement, and optimize the schemas and data dictionaries across a broad ecosystem of platforms and vendors Manage the data lifecycle for all source, derived, and exported data ensuring accuracy and consistency Manage the systems that clean, normalize, and translate various data flows in HL7, FHIR, and other common healthcare (..)

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Health IT execs offer thoughts on the big issues of 2021

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"It's no secret that many providers and payers relied heavily on the use of fax machines and printed documentation," said Paul Joiner, chief operating officer of health information network Availity. "The old way of sending transactions, clinical documentation and policy changes transformed overnight."

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3 Ways Collaborative Care Can Drive Better Outcomes

Hinduja Global Solutions

While electronic data exchange solutions and accountable care contracts have been implemented, the improvement in resolution is negligible, according to HGS internal research, at less than 5% in best cases. Most providers and accountable care organizations (ACOs) have more than 200 required reporting metrics.

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Telemedicine triage kiosks reduce ER visits by 11% for ACO

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A large number of the beneficiaries present multiple complex chronic health conditions with a high coexistence of mental health conditions making the coordination of care more complex and inefficient. All that information is sent from HealthEC to eClinicalWorks.