Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 30, 2023

Medicare and other payers will require that evidence, both for tracking outcomes data, as well as preventing misuse of the new reimbursement codes. As data flows back to providers, they can be alerted if the patient is off course or reports pain or other symptoms that need attention.

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In Hand Health

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Over the past two months, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has begun shifting its policies in favor of telemedicine and telehealth services. That’s a big deal, especially because about 20 percent of PT patients drop out of treatment within the first three visits, and 70 percent fail to complete their full course of care.

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LinkousThink

MARCH 3, 2010

Garth Graham, the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health in the Department of Health and Human Services. We spoke at the annual meeting of the Health Information Management Systems Society in a session titled: “ Underserved Communities and the Health Information Technology Landscape – the Necessity for Partnership.”

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Embedded in Apple’s Health app, the new feature will bring together medical data from participating hospitals and clinics, as well as from the iPhone itself, giving millions of Americans direct digital control of their own health information for the first time. Verily Verily, formerly Google Life Sciences, was founded in 2015.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

It also experimented with at-work clinics, piloting a health center at its Seattle headquarters, and dove deeper into patient data analysis via sophisticated natural language processing. And as part of its efforts to target the aging infirm, the company began offering Prime discounts to Medicare recipients.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

They also obtain public health data by ZIP code and data from a Health Information Exchange (HIE). That data can reveal important information that might not make it into the patient’s own record, such as an emergency room visit.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

The process for eligibility renewals will continue to play out over the course of the next year since states have until mid-2024 to update all Medicaid enrollees’ eligibility status. There have been several iterations of APMs —over 50 models—but the one common theme is that all of them generally seek to reward better care.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

Had PPS been required to have broader governance – including community-based organizations, health plans, faith-based organizations, Health Information Exchanges, and other nonprofits, we would have had more balanced governance decision-making that would have supported the policy goals of the program more consistently statewide.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 23, 2020

We are also grateful that Congress included Medicare coverage for telemental health services, just one of the many clinical specialties that benefitted from telehealth during the COVID-19 public health emergency," said Johnson. Although the U.S. ON THE RECORD.

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LinkousThink

APRIL 19, 2010

Of course, inherent in this is the assumption that some states are lax in their policing of physicians or that becoming a doctor in some states is easier than in others. There has been talk by some parties that the same policy should be extended to physicians providing services to Medicare patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

When it's not clear whether an emergency visit is required, physicians can conduct remote consultations with patients to determine the best course of action. Physicians and frontline staff spend significant time entering detailed data into electronic health record systems and travelling between clinical locations. In the U.S.,

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