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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

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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Why Electronic Health Record Interoperability is a Key Step Toward Fair Drug Prices

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The following is a guest article by Girisha Fernando, Founder and CEO at Lyfegen. With recent legislation allowing Medicare to negotiate prices, it’s likely that the movement will grow , given the high and constantly rising costs of pharmaceuticals, especially gene therapies and other innovative or personalized drugs.

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Interoperability EHR Pharmaceuticals Medicare

CMS Proposes”CMS-0057-P” to Streamline Prior Authorizations with Real-Time Approvals Using Interoperability in Healthcare

Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 21, 2022

What Is Interoperability in Healthcare? The ability of different systems, devices, and applications to work together and exchange information seamlessly is known as interoperability in healthcare. Medicare and a supplemental plan) to receive care from multiple providers (e.g.,

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Bonus Features – May 5, 2024 – Kaiser Permanente taps Innovaccer (and former CTO) for AI, report finds security flaws in Merge DICOM Toolkit, plus 18 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 5, 2024

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Products GE HealthCare announced FDA 510(k) clearance for Portrait VSM , its portable vital sign monitor.

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RCM Healthcare IT Primary Care Interoperability

Bonus Features – April 21, 2024 – 89% of physicians said generative AI vendors need to be transparent about where info comes from, 73% of consumers expect a 4-star rating before they’ll engage with a provider, plus 21 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 21, 2024

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Additionally, patient feedback volume has increased 150% in five years.

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Bonus Features – April 28, 2024 – 22% of employers fully trust chronic condition management vendors, Common Agreement v2.0 requires support for FHIR API exchange, plus 29 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2024

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Health information network Availity appointed Sean Barrett as Chief Product Officer.

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Bonus Features – July 9, 2023 – Providers spend 11% less time writing clinical notes than they did three years ago, 54% of surgeons unsure about first-to-market products, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 9, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Consumer engagement company Carenet Health hired Rhonda Gibler as Chief Sales Officer.

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Bonus Features – February 25, 2024 – 73% of digital health vendors use FHIR APIs, 83% of clinicians think telemedicine is good for chronic condition management, plus 28 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Edifecs said it will now enable compliance with CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule.

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FHIR Digital Health Telemedicine EHR

Bonus Features – July 23, 2023 – Number of people impacted by data breaches up 56% compared to last year, CMS keeps temporary telehealth expansion in 2024 Medicare fee schedule, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 23, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. ONC has released the United States Core Data for Interoperability Version 4 Standard , better known as USCDI v4.

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Medicare Telehealth Telemedicine RCM

Bonus Features – November 19, 2023 – Critical access hospitals 16% less likely to participate in data exchange, two-thirds of orgs plan to increase AI spending by 25% in the next three years, plus 36 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Partnerships Interoperability service provider MedAllies was selected to the MEDITECH Alliance Innovator Program.

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eCare Healthcare IT Interoperability RCM

Prior Authorization Takes a Leap Forward in CMS Regulation

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have taken a bold step by mandating a standard for prior authorization. A Process in Urgent Need of an Upgrade Clearly, prior authorization is crying out for standardization and interoperability. The workflow is illustrated in a diagram in an article on the FHIR web site.

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FHIR Interoperability Medicare Healthcare IT

Bonus Features – December 17, 2023 – 97% of hospitals now capable of enabling electronic access to patient records, 70% of hospitals face hidden business continuity challenge, plus 31 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. In addition, AVIA published its Top Interoperability Companies Report , with Andor Health topping the list.

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Weekly Roundup – October 7, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. This problem is only made worse by the silver tsunami of 10K baby boomers aging into Medicare coverage every day.

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eCare Healthcare IT Interoperability Digital Health

Toward a Wider Adoption of Digital Insurance Cards

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

So I was intrigued when Mark Scrimshire, chief interoperability officer of OnyxOS , introduced me to developments over the past few years that will make digital insurance cards feasible. A payer such as Medicare could just put a card on its web site for each patient to download. Medicare uses Blue Button 2.0 Version 2.0

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FHIR Medicare Interoperability EHR

Impetus and Edict: What the Latest CMS Data Standards Mean for EHRs – Regulatory Talk Series

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The following is a guest article by Nick Barger, PharmD, Vice President, Product at DrFirst. This article is the second in the Healthcare Regulatory Talk series. For more information on how to prepare for the ONC HTI-1 rule , read the first article in our Regulatory Talk series.

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EHR Interoperability Medicare Health Information

Bonus Features – May 7, 2023 – Less than 1% of all medical claims include an ICD-10 Z code, 78% of consumers say virtual health is important when considering health plans, and more

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 7, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Remote monitoring vendor Health Recovery Solutions welcomed Alan Bugos as Chief Technology Officer.

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Bonus Features – August 6, 2023 – 83% of hospitals are collecting SDoH data, 46% of hospitals planning to use large language models in the call center, and more

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 6, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. KMS Healthcare launched CONNECT , an interoperability platform for developers of digital health technology.

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

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2023

The following is a guest article by Mike Noshay , MSE, Founder and Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer at Verinovum. Be sure to check out last year’s New Healthcare Truths of 2022 ) 1. Medicare saved $1.6 In addition, Medicare has a goal for 2030 whereby all beneficiaries are to be treated by a VBC provider.

FHIR

FHIR Interoperability Medicare Accountable Care

Not All QHINs Will Be Created Equal

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The following is a guest article by Jay Nakashima, Executive Director at eHealth Exchange. For federal agencies and state and regional exchanges, this is an excellent time to demonstrate leadership in interoperability by joining a network that will likely provide a ready on-ramp to TEFCA.

HIE

HIE eHealth Interoperability Health Information

Embracing and Prioritizing Cloud-Based Care in Rural Communities

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The following is a guest article by Nathan Shepard, SVP of Product at Azalea Health As rural providers look to replace legacy solutions, they’re confronted with several critical decision points. Rural healthcare administrators need a modern system to help them navigate the challenges they regularly encounter.

EHR

EHR Interoperability Meaningful Use Patient Experience

ONC’s HTI-1 Places Undue Burdens on Healthcare Providers, Health IT Developers

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2023

While the EHR Association has long supported the goals of the proposed rule, called Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing Proposed Rule (HTI-1), we have a number of real concerns about the impact it would have on the industry if finalized as proposed.

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Health IT EHR Interoperability Health Information

Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Population Health Precision Medicine Telehealth Workforce From vaccines to virtual care, enterprise imaging to precision medicine, these are the growth areas that will shape the direction of healthcare, this year and beyond. The year 2020 has been a year unlike any other year in our history.

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Telehealth Interoperability Medicare Pharmaceuticals

Rethinking approaches to remote health and telehealth in Australia

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

“Medicare and Medibank were set up as face-to-face systems and they still are face-to-face systems. ” Securing the nuts and bolts in healthcare. Whilst we’re keen to have the architecture right, we need interoperability so it can be integrated,” she said.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Acting on SDoH

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Previous articles in this series introduced the importance of social determinants of health (SDoH) and explained how it can be captured and classified. In this article, I’ll show how many hospitals, payers, and other institutions are acting on that data. She says they are currently hesitant to use it.

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Bonus Features – September 4, 2022 – CIOs struggling to retain talent and seek flexible staffing models, Sequioa Project set to begin receiving QHIN applications Oct. 3, and more,

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. In addition, The Sequoia Project released v0.1

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Psychiatry HIE Healthcare IT Leadership

New Healthcare Truths for 2021

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The following is a guest article by Mike Noshay, MSE, Founder and Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer at Verinovum. As 2020 comes to a close, healthcare industry leaders are looking ahead to 2021 with excitement and anticipation.

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Mental health Medicare Interoperability Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Regulations – What Needs to Be Added and What Needs to Be Removed

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Or are there areas in healthcare where past regulations are now too restrictive and are holding us back? In search of answers to these questions, we reached out to our incredibly beautiful Healthcare IT Today Community to see what areas they would add, remove, or update regulations. The following is what they had to say.

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Healthcare Innovation Funding – Regulations and Disrupting Traditional Models

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

To get a better idea on what policies and regulations you need to be aware of and just how to get access to innovation funding, we reached out to our ever so talented Healthcare IT Today community for their insights and knowledge. Thank you to everyone that left a quote for us and thank you to everyone reading this article!

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Healthcare Fragmentation Isn’t So Bad, If It Comes with Better Outcomes

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

The following is a guest article by Nate Maslak, Founder & CEO at Ribbon Health. Data, especially in an increasingly personalized healthcare system, is inevitably siloed. Healthcare providers maintain different systems than payers, as do government entities like Medicare and Medicaid.

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Primary Care Telehealth Interoperability Healthcare Innovation

Privacy Issues with Patient Portals

BHM Healthcare Solutions

JULY 16, 2019

It can be difficult to effectively document sensitive health information of pediatric patients and older adults whose family members have access to their patient portals without violating the patient’s privacy, according to a viewpoint article in AAP News and Journals.

EHR

EHR Health Information Interoperability Medicare

Healthcare Workforce – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. The crisis is touching every area of healthcare and requiring ultra-marathon level heroics from HC workers. Almost 75% say that this impacts patient care moderately to severely.

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HTI-1 Final Rule: Implications for Healthcare Providers – Focus on DSI and Algorithmic Transparency

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 2024

The following is a guest article by Nitin Kunte, Sr. Director at NTT DATA On February 8, 2024, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability (HTI-1) Final Rule in the Federal Register, which took effect on March 11, 2024.

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The Future of Healthcare: Integrated Data for Integrated Care

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The following is a guest article by Venki Subramanian , SVP Product Management at Reltio When data is missing, inaccurate, incomplete, or misdirected, it can have severe, sometimes life-altering impacts. The solution to these challenges lies in the adoption of interoperable data systems.

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Interoperability EHR Health Information Health Data

Bonus Features – March 10, 2024 – Only 36% of CEOs have assessed how to govern the risks of AI, Emory Healthcare is deploying Epic on MacBook Air, plus 27 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 10, 2024

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Atlanta’s Emory Healthcare is deploying Epic Hyperspace natively on MacBook Air.

Medicare

Medicare Healthcare IT Interoperability

Health Privacy and Security in the Time of TEFCA: Raising the Bar for Trusted Exchange

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 20, 2023

The following is a guest article by Dave Cassel, Chief Customer Officer at Health Gorilla and Former Executive Director of Carequality Talking about privacy and security in health information exchange is tricky. We are all excited – and rightly so – about its potential to further break down barriers to interoperability.

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Interoperability Health Information Health Data Medicare

Electronic Prescribing for Controlled Substances Set to Take Off

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

This article explains the complexities that makes it so hard to implement electronic prescribing for controlled substances (EPCS), summarizes the intended impacts of the bills, and introduces Imprivata digital identity technology, which has been used in health care for such purposes for many years. Two bills in U.S.

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Telemedicine Medicare Interoperability Telehealth

Bonus Features – September 17, 2023 – 20% of healthcare marketers worried about job security amid AI adoption, 53% of executives using AI to address drug diversion “very confident” in their efforts, and more

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. People Interoperability company Rhapsody named Sagnik Bhattacharya as Chief Executive Officer.

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Nursing EHR Healthcare IT Primary Care

Bonus Features – January 8, 2023 – Omnibus bill extends telehealth expansion through end of 2024, 60% of solution providers pouring all event marketing money into in-person events, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. 29, 2022, President Biden signed the omnibus spending bill.

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Telehealth Primary Care Healthcare IT Leadership

Bonus Features – February 12, 2023 – Epic tops Best in KLAS for 13th straight year, 89% of healthcare finance leaders remain confident in 2023, and more

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Overall, 31% of users achieved a Medicare Advantage Star rating of 4 or more.

eHealth

eHealth Healthcare IT EHR Interoperability

The Role of RCM in Health Equity

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The following is a guest article by Leigh Poland RHIA, CCS, VP of Coding Services at AGS Health. Reimbursement is also closely linked to quality because of the use of outcome measures by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to determine a hospital’s overall quality, including: Mortality. Safety of care. Excess stay.

RCM

RCM Medicare Interoperability Patient Experience

Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Why Electronic Health Record Interoperability is a Key Step Toward Fair Drug Prices

Trending Sources

CMS Proposes”CMS-0057-P” to Streamline Prior Authorizations with Real-Time Approvals Using Interoperability in Healthcare

Bonus Features – May 5, 2024 – Kaiser Permanente taps Innovaccer (and former CTO) for AI, report finds security flaws in Merge DICOM Toolkit, plus 18 more stories

Bonus Features – April 21, 2024 – 89% of physicians said generative AI vendors need to be transparent about where info comes from, 73% of consumers expect a 4-star rating before they’ll engage with a provider, plus 21 more stories

Bonus Features – April 28, 2024 – 22% of employers fully trust chronic condition management vendors, Common Agreement v2.0 requires support for FHIR API exchange, plus 29 more stories

Bonus Features – July 9, 2023 – Providers spend 11% less time writing clinical notes than they did three years ago, 54% of surgeons unsure about first-to-market products, and more

Bonus Features – February 25, 2024 – 73% of digital health vendors use FHIR APIs, 83% of clinicians think telemedicine is good for chronic condition management, plus 28 more stories

Bonus Features – July 23, 2023 – Number of people impacted by data breaches up 56% compared to last year, CMS keeps temporary telehealth expansion in 2024 Medicare fee schedule, and more

Bonus Features – November 19, 2023 – Critical access hospitals 16% less likely to participate in data exchange, two-thirds of orgs plan to increase AI spending by 25% in the next three years, plus 36 more stories

Prior Authorization Takes a Leap Forward in CMS Regulation

Bonus Features – December 17, 2023 – 97% of hospitals now capable of enabling electronic access to patient records, 70% of hospitals face hidden business continuity challenge, plus 31 more stories

Weekly Roundup – October 7, 2023

Toward a Wider Adoption of Digital Insurance Cards

Impetus and Edict: What the Latest CMS Data Standards Mean for EHRs – Regulatory Talk Series

Bonus Features – May 7, 2023 – Less than 1% of all medical claims include an ICD-10 Z code, 78% of consumers say virtual health is important when considering health plans, and more

Bonus Features – August 6, 2023 – 83% of hospitals are collecting SDoH data, 46% of hospitals planning to use large language models in the call center, and more

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

Not All QHINs Will Be Created Equal

Embracing and Prioritizing Cloud-Based Care in Rural Communities

ONC’s HTI-1 Places Undue Burdens on Healthcare Providers, Health IT Developers

Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021

Rethinking approaches to remote health and telehealth in Australia

Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Acting on SDoH

Bonus Features – September 4, 2022 – CIOs struggling to retain talent and seek flexible staffing models, Sequioa Project set to begin receiving QHIN applications Oct. 3, and more,

New Healthcare Truths for 2021

Healthcare IT Regulations – What Needs to Be Added and What Needs to Be Removed

Healthcare Innovation Funding – Regulations and Disrupting Traditional Models

Healthcare Fragmentation Isn’t So Bad, If It Comes with Better Outcomes

Privacy Issues with Patient Portals

Healthcare Workforce – 2023 Health IT Predictions

HTI-1 Final Rule: Implications for Healthcare Providers – Focus on DSI and Algorithmic Transparency

The Future of Healthcare: Integrated Data for Integrated Care

Bonus Features – March 10, 2024 – Only 36% of CEOs have assessed how to govern the risks of AI, Emory Healthcare is deploying Epic on MacBook Air, plus 27 more stories

Health Privacy and Security in the Time of TEFCA: Raising the Bar for Trusted Exchange

Electronic Prescribing for Controlled Substances Set to Take Off

Bonus Features – September 17, 2023 – 20% of healthcare marketers worried about job security amid AI adoption, 53% of executives using AI to address drug diversion “very confident” in their efforts, and more

Bonus Features – January 8, 2023 – Omnibus bill extends telehealth expansion through end of 2024, 60% of solution providers pouring all event marketing money into in-person events, and more

Bonus Features – February 12, 2023 – Epic tops Best in KLAS for 13th straight year, 89% of healthcare finance leaders remain confident in 2023, and more

The Role of RCM in Health Equity

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