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From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

Health Populi

Weaving these ideas together is my mission in preparing a session to deliver at the upcoming AHIP 2024 conference in June, I’m thinking a lot about the evolving nature of health insurance, plans, and the organizations that provide them. Retail health-meets-Medicare. Walmart launched a ten-year collaboration with Optum in late 2022.

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Weekly Roundup – October 7, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

We are facing an estimated 900K deficit of registered nurses by the end of this decade. This problem is only made worse by the silver tsunami of 10K baby boomers aging into Medicare coverage every day. Read more… What Healthcare Interoperability Topic Are Not Enough People Talking About?

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HHS Secretary Azar touts Trump admin's digital health response to COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

During a brief speech Tuesday evening at the HLTH VRTL 2020 conference, Azar highlighted the efforts of HHS to collect data concerning COVID-19 patients and predicted that patients will see telehealth as "a durable and desirable part of their healthcare" in the long term.

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HIMSS names 2021 Changemaker Award winners

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The HIMSS21 Changemakers in Health Awards, meant to highlight leaders worldwide who are harnessing information and technology toward better outcomes, will be recognized at the 2021 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition, scheduled for August 9-13 in Las Vegas. President, Emirates Nursing Association. They are: Aysha Al Mahri.

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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

Further, state-by-state laws requiring in-person meetings between psychiatric nurse practitioners and psychiatrist collaborators should be reexamined as these can safely take place over video conferences. cut to physicians who treat the country’s most vulnerable patients through Medicare.

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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

The biggest news for healthcare IT was the extension of telehealth expansion under Medicare through the end of 2024. NextGen announced that clients using NextGen Population Health achieved an average of $9 million in savings in 2021 in the Medicare Shared Savings Program MSSP. 29, 2022, President Biden signed the omnibus spending bill.

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More Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

While at the HIMSS annual conference this year I spoke with many healthcare technology company leaders. Michael sees the persisting lack of interoperability as something that harms the patient, harms the provider, and raises cost. While at the HIMSS annual conference this year I spoke with many healthcare technology company leaders.

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