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How Does Health IT Enable Accountable Care? – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

This week’s chat will be hosted by Travis Broome (@Travis_Broome) on the topic “How Does Health IT Enable Accountable Care?” We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 11/22 at Noon ET (9 AM PT).

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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. Healthcare IT systems, especially EHRs, played a key role in supporting documentation with the use of macros, smart phrases, and templates.

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Former CMS chief of staff previews 4 areas of value-based care in 2022

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Value-based care continues to take root in healthcare. This is why, as the new year approaches, Healthcare IT News has sat down with an expert in value-based care to get his views on what 2022 will hold for the payment system. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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CVS Health to purchase Signify Health for $8B

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In March, Signify Health acquired Caravan Health , which serves Medicare beneficiaries through accountable care organizations. "The Signify deal coincides with the ongoing trend of healthcare shifting from the hospital to the home, and as technology plays a bigger role in remote care models. Email: afox@himss.org.

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Healthcare, Heal Thyself! How the Industry Can and Should Play the Trust Card

Health Populi

Richard Baron, CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine, who wrote in the American Journal of Accountable Care , “Rebuilding trust within our healthcare system and nurturing an ecosystem in which trust is a core operating principle requires a more comprehensive and sustained effort. We need everyone.”.

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What the future holds for HHS-OIG health IT enforcement

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Department of Health and Human Services aims to protect the integrity of federal healthcare programs, in addition to the health of beneficiaries. "Even pre-pandemic, we looked at how high-performing [accountable care organizations] used telehealth … as one tool in their toolbelt," he said. in Venetian Lido 3104.

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Four Ways Data Transparency Helps Advance Shared Savings in Your Post-Acute Network

Healthcare IT Today

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) “Pathways to Success” rule for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) has five goals: accountability, competition, engagement, integrity, and quality, all aimed at improving patient care. But as today’s […].