Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

As they roll out new leading-edge technologies – AI and automation, telehealth and remote monitoring, EHR optimization and patient engagement – they're realizing lasting positive outcomes for their patients and their bottom lines. million medication instructions without.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

This is due in large part to increased expenses (from 25$ for labor to 90% for maintenance) and revenue reductions from denials (more than 20% from commercial plans and nearly 60% from Medicare Advantage plans). More than 85% of health systems are increasing IT and digital budgets for 2024 , a Guidehouse analysis found.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 6, 2023

We also asked the Healthcare IT Today community to weigh in on how data analysis in particular can effectively address inequity in healthcare. John and Colin offered their thoughts on whether ChatGPT, AmazonCare, and EHR APIs are here to stay or will fade away. Hayes, M.D.,

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 7, 2023

News CMS has opened the Hardship Exception application period for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) that participated in the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program in 2022. The analysis also found that Z-codes are most frequently used in behavioral health and acute care settings.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The number of Medicare TPEs and commercial payer take-back audits alone is skyrocketing. Medicare’s Targeted Probe and Educate audits use data analysis to identify clinics who have high claim error rates or unusual billing practices. Meanwhile, Medicare also has a Fee for Service Recovery Audit Program.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

Department of Justice should step up enforcement of the False Claims Act against medical providers who accept Medicare and Medicaid payments but fail to implement a reasonable level of cybersecurity. Health data should be protected by a similar assessment requirement for health plans and providers to receive federal funds.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 29, 2023

We heard about the benefits of access to real-time data, the importance of data standards, and the need for mature data analysis and data management infrastructures. Helping clinicians troubleshoot within the EHR can improve workflows and job satisfaction , Bill Lewkowski at HCTec pointed out. million in seed funding.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Many organizations are conducting a full analysis of their sites and some have found more than 50 tools that create privacy risks. 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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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2023

Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) Data Analysis will Gain Traction Once again, SDoH generated a lot of buzz over the past year. Medicare saved $1.6 In addition, Medicare has a goal for 2030 whereby all beneficiaries are to be treated by a VBC provider. We’re excited to see where this goes.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

A study of Medicare beneficiaries published in JAMA Psychiatry and co-authored by CDC, CMS, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse found that emergency-authorized telehealth services for treating opioid use disorder during the pandemic was associated with improved medication retention and lower odds of medically treated overdose.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 26, 2022

The first is addressing health equity and SDOH using a combination of open-source technology and EHR systems. Imaging vendors Intelerad Medical Systems and DiA Imaging Analysis have come together to offer DiA’s LVivo Seamless AI-based cardiac ultrasound software as part of Intelerad’s cardiac imaging product known as IntelePACS.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

A lesser-known component of ARRA was Title XIII, the HITECH Act, which funded hospitals’ and physicians’ adoption of electronic health records systems (EHRs). At the time of the signing of HITECH, Medicare and healthcare costs were seen as a key driver of America’s long-term deficit spending at this low point in the national economy.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Dental software maker Henry Schein One is partnering with VideaHealth to release AI-enabled X-ray analysis tools. Urgent care EHR vendor Experity appointed Dr. Benjamin Barlow as Chief Medical Officer. Medicare ACO platform Vytalize Health named Frank Bordonaro as Senior VP of Value-Based Care and Network Development.

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The Digital Health Corner

JUNE 14, 2017

Electronic health records (EHRs) and personal fitness trackers have helped create awareness through use. According to most recent statistics from the Office of the National Coordinator, use of EHRs has increased from 20% in 2004 to 87% in 2015. EHRs were designed as documentation centers for billing and regulatory purposes.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Final Rule, set forth by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), brings pivotal updates in healthcare reimbursement. This article aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of these changes, which are crucial for healthcare providers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2021

Before that she served as director of the State Innovation Models Initiative at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Department of Veterans Affairs' effort to modernize its IT systems and create an interoperable EHR shared among VA, the Department of Defense, the U.S. Isaiah Nathaniel. Philadelphia.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced new codes that can be used by healthcare providers to submit claims for reimbursement for the time and resources spent on providing remote care to patients. Electronic Health Records (EHRs). Mobile Health Apps.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Create and maintain high-quality documentation that describes in detail the specifications, design, and implementation of each analytics solution, particularly those created to support efficient data acquisition, aggregation, and analysis. Other duties as assigned. Experience and Skills: Bachelors degree in STEM or related field required.

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HIStalk Interviews

JANUARY 21, 2019

What are the implications of predicting the outcomes of patients who may not even know they have a problem, as you did in applying machine learning to EHR data to identify people likely to eventually have chronic kidney disease? We use data science methods to do that. That’s the million-dollar question. We’re not there yet.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 9, 2020

In 2009, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act was created to promote and expand the adoption of health information technology, specifically, the use of electronic health records (EHRs) by healthcare providers. Before the introduction of the HITECH Act, only 10 percent of hospitals had adopted EHRs.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Look for features like electronic health records (EHR) integration, scheduling capabilities, secure messaging, appointment reminders, and patient engagement tools. Therefore, healthcare providers participating in Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) programs may receive additional reimbursement and support for RPM services.

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Clear Arch Health

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Over recent years, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have created and amended codes allowing for remote patient monitoring (RPM) reimbursement. The CPT codes apply to both standard Medicare Part B and Medicare Advantage programs. EHR integration with your RPM Program. Optional EHR integration.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 2024

Providers not using certified EHR may face downward payment adjustments to their Medicare reimbursements in the affected payment year. The HTI-1 Final Rule particularly focuses on enhancing algorithmic transparency for predictive DSIs defined broadly, encompassing technologies from simple algorithms to advanced machine learning models.

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HIStalk Weekender

JUNE 7, 2019

A KLAS report on newly developed small-hospital inpatient EHRS from Athenahealth, EClinicalWorks, Epic, and Meditech finds that only Meditech has brought sites live. Interoperability became a regulatory issue because despite making all that money on MU largesse, EHR vendors were not moving the ball on interop. NonInterOp ).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver program from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has grown to 125 health systems and 289 hospitals in 37 states in less than three years. For those who don't know, please describe the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver program from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

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HIStalk Weekender

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Nova Scotia’s province-wide EHR selection nears completion, with all vendors except Allscripts and Cerner failing to make the cut in a process that has raised questions about possible bias. For people over 65 on Medicare, we’re Canada. Weekly News Recap.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Instead, we anticipate a more mix and match, custom approach to EHRs. The 2023 final Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) eased supervisory requirements for care delivered by a licensed professional counselor or licensed marriage and family therapist. Susan Taylor, VP, HCLS Core Administration at Pegasystems.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

“Sixty-two percent of physicians responding to a 2018 survey by the Physicians Foundation found that issues such as third-party authorizations, treatment protocols and EHR design were hurting patient care,” the report stated.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2024

Rick Dean, CEO at OncoHealth In 2023, Medicare Advantage (MA) health insurance companies began acting on and planning for massive changes to Part D coverage in response to the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). In 2024, healthcare organizations will turn to vendors to facilitate robust data analysis and reporting of SDOH findings.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

for the thirteenth consecutive year and was also the top EHR in Canada and Europe. An analysis of nearly 500,000 deliveries in the Truveta Research database found that Black women with preeclampsia are two times more likely to experience heart failure than white women. Epic won top honors in the U.S.

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David Chou

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The back office is just as important as the EHR.”Organizations he says.One way that vendors are addressing this challenge is to support more strategic analysis in addition to traditional outcome management, Kilmer says. Organizations such as Children’s Mercy have several motivations for implementing an ERP system, Chou says.

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HIStalk Interviews

JULY 25, 2018

What changes have you seen in the big four inpatient EHR vendors of Epic, Cerner, Meditech, and Allscripts? Hospitals and clinics have learned that an EHR is not the panacea it was made out to be, or I should say, it was mandated to be. I’m not sure the vendors really understood that it’s not just putting in the EHR.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

We need front-line, agile program definition, rapid-cycle outcome analysis and the ability to change course when the evidence directs us. The program(s) – often described as the “Meaningful Use Incentive Programs” – or “MU,” provided incentive dollars for medical providers who made meaningful use of certified EHR technology.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

There’s not a lot of it in the EHR data either. We don’t have the tools to break down our analysis by things that makes sense for people. You’ll hear CMS soon – Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Institute of Medicine. That’s not in that administrative data; it’s not even in claims data.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 2023

In medicine, AI approaches are currently both developed and deployed at a rapid rate, fueled by the dearth of data that already exist from different modalities (genetic, genomic, images, EHR, etc.), Intelligent call centers are comprised of chatbots equipped with natural language processing, speech recognition, and text analysis.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 24, 2019

Now that EHRs are well-adopted in physicians’ practices and hospitals, patient data have gone digital, and can be aggregated and mined for better diagnosis, treatment, and intelligent decision making. Politics underpin what’s happening in health plans in the public sector, and I spoke a bit about Medicare and Medicaid.

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