Healthcare IT Today

MAY 21, 2024

The following is a guest article by Phyllis Wojtusik, Executive Vice President of Value-Based Care at Real Time Medical Systems. They’re goal is to have 100% of Medicare beneficiaries in a value-based care arrangement by 2030. We see a number of ACO approaches that make up these efforts, along with Medicare Advantage plans.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

This is the final article in a series about social determinants of health (SDoH). Previous articles covered the definition, collection, sharing, and use of SDoH. Clara Lambert, director of financial navigation, points out that out-of-pocket costs keep rising, reaching $8,300 per year now for Medicare Advantage.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

The following is a guest article by Ritesh Ramesh, CEO at MDaudit Safeguarding revenues in the coming year requires healthcare systems to proactively navigate an evolving landscape with cross-functional collaboration, technological innovation, and increased AI investments.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 10, 2021

The following is a guest article by Phyllis Wojtusik, RN, Executive VP, Health System Solutions at Real Time Medical Systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 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. BronxCare Health System selected Force Therapeutics for digital care management for orthopedics patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Previous articles in this series showed why social determinants of health (SDoH) are the hottest recent addition to data used by the medical industry. This article shows how organizations are collecting it. We’ve explored how SDoH data is defined and shared. The percentage is much higher in some areas.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The following is a guest article by Rebecca Darnall, R isk Adjustment Leader at Episource. As proof, several health plans have been making headlines for coding errors and other issues that surfaced during audits: In just the third quarter of 2022, at least four audits have specifically targeted Medicare Advantage plans.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

We asked our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community these questions and the following is what they had to share. If unaddressed, this could lead to significant data breaches, undermining the integrity of AI systems in healthcare, like those used in modern EHRs and medical coding. What health IT trend has you concerned?

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The world of healthcare IT is similar to the birth and expansion of our universe. And now, just like the expansion of our universe, healthcare IT is only picking up speed and getting bigger and bigger. And thank you to all of you for watching the video and reading this article! The video below is a compilation of their answers.

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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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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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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 13, 2023

The following is a guest article by Paul Barnes, Partner at CWH Advisors Today, there is widespread consensus that Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) have an impact on health inequities among various populations; resource scarcity in food, housing and other areas result in different health utilization and outcomes. Paul has a Ph.D.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 17, 2024

So while at ViVE 2024 we thought we could do our own friendly little predictions for healthcare. We asked our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community to pull out their divination skills and predict what unexpected surprise will happen in healthcare in the next 6 months. The video below is a compilation of their predictions.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 14, 2022

The following is a guest article by Sachin Patel, CEO at Apixio. The use of AI in healthcare is gaining fast traction, with the total market expected to grow over 46% CAGR, reaching $96 billion by 2028. Is the algorithm in question used for Medicare, Medicaid, or ACA populations? Health coverage program.

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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 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

While there are countless problems and struggles in healthcare, there are a lot of ideas and technologies right now that are working to make things better. We reached out to our wonderful Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them: which health IT trend has you most excited and why is it exciting?

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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 IT Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The following is a guest article by Mandy Fogle, Healthcare Value Engineering at Shift Technology. Telehealth is becoming the future of healthcare delivery across the globe. Since the COVID pandemic began, healthcare has never had further reach of accessibility. Traditional office visits are becoming a way of the past.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The following is a guest article by Pete Heydt, President at Patient Pay Ninety-five percent of healthcare leaders expect outpatient volumes to increase, with many anticipating increases of 10% or more this year, a recent survey found.

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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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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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care innovations

JANUARY 2, 2019

2018 began with a bang, as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) officially “unbundled” CPT code 99091 to give eligible practitioners the ability to receive separate reimbursement for certain remote care services. You can read the full article here. Read Bryan’s full article here. The next month, the U.S.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2024

In order to help shine a light on the topics that been overlooked, we reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community at ViVE 2024. Second, they do an incredible job at going from that need to the actual proper blend of a Medicare Advantage benefit and government program (we train it on our side so we can do the right sequencing).

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 2024

The following is a guest article by Nitin Kunte, Sr. This comprehensive regulation introduces vital updates to the certification program, promotes algorithm transparency, and establishes critical standards for information sharing among healthcare providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The previous article in this series introduced the topic of generative AI in the back office of healthcare. This article starts to look at healthcare generative AI use cases. The next article continues to look at interesting uses for generative AI in the back office of healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The following is a guest article by Zach Markin, Co-Founder and CEO at HTD Health American healthcare is the most dysfunctional industry in our country. A major justification for President Biden’s tax hike proposal is to shore up the tenuous finances of Medicare whose trust fund is forecasted to be depleted by 2028.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The following is a guest article by Amy Hester, PhD, RN, BC, FAAN, Chairwoman and CEO at HD Nursing The growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) across a number of industries, particularly in healthcare, has shown both great promise as well as cause for alarm.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The following is a guest article by Michael Levinson, M.D., On the federal level Medicare policy broadened the acceptance of virtual care. Partner at Berger Singerman LLP Telehealth has revolutionized the delivery of outpatient mental health services, and there has been exponential growth in the acceptance and delivery of remote care.

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