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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

To help out, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to see which healthcare regulations they foresee having a big impact on healthcare IT. Under this final rule, individuals and entities that violate the information-blocking requirements face a penalty of up to $1 million per violation.

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The New Health Information Exchange from Cloudticity: NLP, Catalogs, and Standards

Healthcare IT Today

Rapid exchange of patient data is crucial not only for coordinating care, but for research and public health.

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DirectTrust and EHNAC Announce Merger Agreement

Healthcare IT Today

DirectTrust and the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC) today announced an agreement to merge EHNAC with and into DirectTrust, effective January 4, 2023. DirectTrust is a non-profit healthcare industry alliance created to support secure, identity-verified electronic exchanges of protected health information.

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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. There are a great many telemedicine technology and services vendors on the health IT market today. MARKETPLACE.

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

Healthcare IT Today

Value-Based Care will Become more Popular As health systems are struggling financially and payers face rising healthcare costs, they will be looking into various programs, such as value-based care (VBC), to offset costs. billion in 2021 through its Shared Savings Program, which works with accountable care organizations.

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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. " Value-based care: New impetus for change. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication.

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Virtual Healthcare: Your Telehealth Questions Answered by a Doctor

American Well

That may mean seeing their doctor in-person, going to the emergency room, or ordering tests at a local health center. As with brick-and-mortar medicine, it is extremely important to protect patient health information. Is telehealth the future of healthcare? What about security issues?