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What the future holds for HHS-OIG health IT enforcement

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As one example, he pointed to telehealth, which has enormous potential to increase access to service and decrease burdens. At the same time, he said, "it's important that these new policies that have this great potential to improve care aren't compromised by fraud or abuse or misuse."

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Health IT execs offer thoughts on the big issues of 2021

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As vaccines continue to roll out, requiring meticulous record-keeping and specialized shipping and storage conditions (and that's to say nothing of the ongoing critical need for PPE and other lifesaving equipment) nowhere are interoperability and data visibility more important than with healthcare supply chains.

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The next investment priorities for telehealth, RPM and connected health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

When it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic and health IT, if there's just one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that telehealth has gone mainstream. These factors shot telehealth and related technologies and services like connected health and remote patient monitoring through the stratosphere. Moore is all for telemedicine.

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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

Mo Weitnauer, Chief Product Officer at MRO ACOs Impacted by Change to eCQM One of the biggest regulatory changes ahead directly impacts Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and their quality reporting processes. ACOs will soon transition away from Web Interface to electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) reporting.

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Welcome Back Kotter: New York’s next 1115 Waiver

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Exhibit 2: SDHN Structural and Funding Diagram. Social Care Data Interoperability Exchange. Goal #4: Creating Statewide Digital Health and Telehealth Infrastructure. Significant additional planning and investment is critical to create a robust infrastructure for telehealth, telephonic, virtual and digital healthcare.

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HIStalk Interviews Jeremy Bikman, CEO, Reaction Data

HIStalk Interviews

It’s interesting that they said that since CMS just said that they will materially up the reimbursement level for telehealth, telemedicine, or I guess I’ll use the macro term virtual health. Then they brought up the nebulous interoperability, which they couldn’t describe it at all. Now what are they doing?

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