Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

As if that weren’t enough, a tech track at Argentum’s annual (now virtual) conference included a session on Voice First (with aRyan Elz and Nick Patel , sponsored by CDW Healthcare) in a long list of tech enablement session entries. And on 9/24 Amazon announced CareHub, a way to monitor family members from afar.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2021

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 12, 2021

Medicare currently doesn't reimburse federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) or rural health centers (RHCs) for RPM. Q: Who on the care team should be managing RPM (doctors versus nurses, case managers, etc.)? But for RPM to live up to its potential, our industry needs reimbursement reform.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2020

“The athenaTelehealth solution met the challenge we were facing by allowing us to initiate video conference calls with our patients to continue treatment and care,” Miller stated. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a detailed listing of numerous telemedicine vendors. To read this special report, click here.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 26, 2022

Home care companies, senior living companies, skilled nursing facilities are all desperate for workers to address this increasingly overwhelming market. Telehealth vs. in-person: the Covid-19 public health emergency declaration to reimburse doctors for providing telehealth services for Medicare recipients has been repeatedly renewed.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2019

Browse the education sessions scheduled for the American Telemedicine Association's annual conference and expo in New Orleans next month, and you'll notice that many of them are geared toward elderly patients, home-based care and aging in place. " At home, in the nursing home, in the hospital or clinic, telehealth can help.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 5, 2020

" Not to mention, he added, that increasing reimbursement developments as part of both Medicare and the CHRONIC Care Act are increasingly favorable to innovative technological developments. An inside look at the innovation, education, technology, networking and key events at the HIMSS20 global conference in Orlando.

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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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Digital Health Today

DECEMBER 16, 2022

During this year’s HLTH conference, Demi Radeva, one of Digital Health Today’s global ambassadors, had a one-on-one with Andrew Parker, Founder and CEO of Papa. Andrew: There was recognition that people who were lonely and isolated needed support, but not in the context of the traditional home services or nursing services.

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Digital Health Today

DECEMBER 11, 2022

During this year’s HLTH conference, Demi Radeva, one of Digital Health Today’s global ambassadors, had a one-on-one with Andrew Parker, Founder and CEO of Papa. Andrew: There was recognition that people who were lonely and isolated needed support, but not in the context of the traditional home services or nursing services.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

As if that weren’t enough, a tech track at Argentum’s annual (now virtual) conference included a session on Voice First (with aRyan Elz and Nick Patel , sponsored by CDW Healthcare) in a long list of tech enablement session entries. And on 9/24 Amazon announced CareHub, a way to monitor family members from afar.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

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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GlobalMed

JUNE 16, 2021

Today’s primary care provider also faces competition from retail clinics like CVS and Walgreen’s, as well as urgent care centers that hire nurses to work extended hours. Medicare has also dramatically loosened its restrictions on telehealth coverage. We can help you discover the right telemedicine solution for you. Contact Us.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Data can be spotty, according to Eye, who says for instance that data from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) often lacks racial identifications. Rutledge and Tina Burbine of Healthlink Advisors say that in-patient visits can turn up aspects of SDoH that you wouldn’t get in an office visit or even a virtual conference.

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Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 24, 2020

In just a few short months, we made more progress in opening up Medicare and Medicaid to telehealth visits, remote patient monitoring (RPM) tools, and other connected health solutions than in the previous decade. Previously, Medicare would only pay for real time telehealth visits conducted using both live voice and video.

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Enzyme Health

JUNE 19, 2019

The ATA hosts an annual telehealth conference each year and provides educational resources on its website. CMS : Stands for the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services. CMS is the federal agency that administers HIPAA standards and develops Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement policies for telemedicine.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Throughout the recent Connected Health Conference, the key theme was the need to balance technology with the human element. Pamela, a 78 year old Medicare patient has just been discharged from a Northwell Hospital for a heart failure episode. Think about a patient’s journey today.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 8, 2019

In April, at Fortune’s Brainstorm Health conference in San Diego, Bruce Broussard, CEO of health insurer Humana, said he believes technology will help patients receive help during medical crises, citing the benefits of home monitoring and the ability of doctors’ visits to be conducted by video conference.

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HIStalk Interviews

MAY 15, 2019

If you had a transitional care nurse or a licensed social worker who was managing that transition out of the hospital, they were the ones who knew the facilities and the home-based providers. You can’t get everyone from all these provider organizations and family members together at the same time in a conference room or conference call.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

While at the HIMSS annual conference this year I spoke with many healthcare technology company leaders. Aprima belongs to CommonWell, has done some FHIR development, and Michael would like to see Congress condition Medicare reimbursement on real interoperability. I am pleased to share some of those conversations here.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

While at the HIMSS annual conference this year I spoke with many healthcare technology company leaders. Aprima belongs to CommonWell, has done some FHIR development, and Michael would like to see Congress condition Medicare reimbursement on real interoperability. I am pleased to share some of those conversations here.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

While at the HIMSS annual conference this year I spoke with many healthcare technology company leaders. Aprima belongs to CommonWell, has done some FHIR development, and Michael would like to see Congress condition Medicare reimbursement on real interoperability. I am pleased to share some of those conversations here.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

While at the HIMSS annual conference this year I spoke with many healthcare technology company leaders. Aprima belongs to CommonWell, has done some FHIR development, and Michael would like to see Congress condition Medicare reimbursement on real interoperability. I am pleased to share some of those conversations here.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

While at the HIMSS annual conference this year I spoke with many healthcare technology company leaders. Aprima belongs to CommonWell, has done some FHIR development, and Michael would like to see Congress condition Medicare reimbursement on real interoperability. I am pleased to share some of those conversations here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 10, 2019

People worry now about nursing retirements, etc. By that I mean some tasks that nurses or pharmacists or even doctors might do, like information gathering or simple routine advice. At one of our conferences recently, someone said he could envision machine intelligent algorithms running an ICU. This is a global phenomenon.

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HIStalk Interviews

JULY 18, 2018

We are comfortable in the conference room thinking all we want about dashboards and information, but in the moment when people are busy, nobody has any time to do something about it. A nurse we worked with at that time said, I don’t have time to figure out 30 percent chance do this, 40 percent chance do that.

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LinkousThink

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

The bill calls on the federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and other parts of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to compile data and launch pilot programs designed to reduce hospital readmissions. The bill calls for immediate data collection and enforcement actions related to this issue starting in 2012.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

It may be too early to start imagining a world where health care is truly owned by Big Tech — you order prescription drugs with your Amazon Prime account, see a nurse at the Apple Clinic, get your benefits statements from Google, and call an Uber instead of an ambulance when you need to go to the hospital. But something is happening here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The pandemic generated uneven experiences for millions of Americans as physicians, therapists, nurse practitioners, hospitals and other caregivers – all coming to telehealth with varying levels of experience themselves – tried suddenly to meet patients where they were, said PwC researchers.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 30, 2020

The Washington State nursing home deaths and the virus presence in multiple nursing homes have an immediate result. Nursing home visits are now restricted nationwide – and it appears, despite lack of clarity, that also means assisted living – the combination spanning 2.5 Technology innovation from HIMSS 2020. million nationally.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2023

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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HIStalk Weekender

AUGUST 10, 2018

CMS releases a draft rule that would overhaul the Medicare Share Savings Program. Theresa Brown, RN, PhD notes that doctors generally ignore those feelings as documented in the EHR’s nurse notes. Now in a sense, that’s what a doctor or nurse does when they go in. It’s something that’s taught at nursing school.

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HIStalk Interviews

JULY 25, 2018

When you’re a hospital trying to run your organization in dealing with state mandates, local mandates, employers, payers, and Medicare, it’s tough. Looking back at the HIMSS conference, how are vendors approaching the market? You wrote some funny stuff about the HLTH conference. You really do.

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CMS.gov

MARCH 5, 2013

If you are at the HIMSS conference in New Orleans today, I hope you will stop by our CMS Town Hall (Session 81, 1:00-2:00 pm, New Orleans Theater C) to hear more about our eHealth initiatives. We are living in a time of rapid and unprecedented change for health IT.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

In a global model, the lead health system VBP entity—whether part of an integrated delivery system or clinically and financially integrated IPA or ACO—would extend successes and performance across payor types, including Medicaid fee-for-service (FFS), Medicaid managed care, Medicare FFS, Medicare Advantage, and/or commercial plans.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

Advocate Health Care, one of Chicagoland’s largest employers, has more than 35,000 associates, including 11,000 nurses and nearly 6,300 affiliated physicians. The health system provides employees opportunities to take part in global mission trips, and its wellness program offers incentives for maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 14, 2020

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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