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What the future holds for HHS-OIG health IT enforcement

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" VanLandingham, who is senior counselor, Medicaid Policy/Acting Health IT at the agency, will be presenting at HIMSS21 this summer, HHS-OIG colleague, Assistant Inspector General for Legal Affairs Lisa Re. "I hope that gives the health IT community a better sense of how we go about targeting cases and investigating," he said.

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The Direct Link Between Value-Based Health Care, Digital Transformation and Social Determinants – Insights from Innovaccer and Morning Consult

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Complementing and adding even more fire-power to assessing patients’ health risks, consumer-generated data from wearable tech and remote health devices and apps are expected to “explode” by 2025, according to the study.

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MedPAC members weigh future of telehealth coverage

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Tabor pointed out that under the Quality Payment Program, CMS designates alternative payment models including accountable care organizations, episode-based payment models and primary care-focused models. "It's going to be really important going forward to study and adjust.

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How Automation Can Help Ease Healthcare Worker Burnout

Healthcare IT Today

Once you’ve identified the opportunities you want to automate, study these processes and consider limitations and workarounds. Cultural adoption is crucial to success, so it’s important to get people involved in goal and roadmap structuring early on. This helps foster an automation-first culture.

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Zealous for Wellness: How to Replace Hype with Data

Healthcare IT Today

Clinical effects are established by various forms of research: clinical trials, longitudinal studies such as the historic Framingham Heart Study , and so on. Demonstrable correlations take a long time, and validation of results usually requires multiple studies. We want to avoid wellness fads.

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Bonus Features – February 18, 2024 – 89% of patients want a single platform for managing their health, 70% of organizations interested in AI plan to adopt solutions from their EHR vendors, plus 27 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Studies Among people receiving medical care in the last 12 months, 86% engaged with their providers using mobile devices , according to a Gozio Health survey.

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Welcome Back Kotter: New York’s next 1115 Waiver

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Maybe this is just semantics – but the term “research” invokes years of study and papers written in academic journals. For readers who haven’t tracked my career – I’ve worked in health IT for nearly 30 years – and (yes) I agree wholeheartedly that robust IT is an essential part of a healthy New York. .