Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Today, we’re featuring the Data Scientist position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. NYeC is propelling healthcare forward by facilitating the use of new and innovative technologies that will improve patient care. We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JANUARY 6, 2024

Beginning January 1, 2024, a significant change in Medicare billing practices greatly impacted Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and Rural Health Clinics (RHCs). For the first time, these centers can bill Medicare separately for Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and Remote Therapeutic Monitoring (RTM) services.

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Health Populi

MARCH 29, 2023

Equity is an over-arching concept that the health care ecosystem has begun to embrace as a key metric for what looks good (or not) in U.S. health care. ” Importantly and pragmatically, this definition includes both the technology deployed and the data practices implemented when using technologies.

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The Digital Health Corner

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Digital health technology has seen an incredible growth in the last few years, fueled by a combination of consumerization of wearable technologies, ubiquity of mobile devices, proliferation of technology incubators, attention by government health and regulatory agencies and involvement of large companies heretofore not focused on healthcare.

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Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2021

For older people who are digital immigrants, they will remember their initial Zoom get-together’s with much-missed family, ordering groceries online in the first ecommerce purchase, and using telemedicine for the first time as a digital health front-door. Wrist-worn health. Medical grade wearables for data collection, and.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 6, 2023

News and Research Five in six (83%) of hospitals are collecting SDoH data , according to the latest ONC Data Brief, with 74% using structured, electronic screening tools. Another 60% of hospitals are receiving SDoH data from outside sources, primarily from HIE entities.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2024

Additionally, the company announced the launch of its enhanced measurement-informed care system, which will allow it to elevate the care experience for clients and providers and make value-based behavioral care accessible for all patient populations, including Medicaid and Medicare members.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2022

Through a mobile app, pharmacists on-site can receive patients' real-time vital sign data collected through a Bluetooth-powered blood pressure cuff. With the data, pharmacists are able to adjust their medication dose online using a guideline-based protocol. Australia offers telehealth subsidy for COVID-19 antiviral prescription.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Home health technologies will have an increasingly larger role to play in healthcare delivery as the silver tsunami of the aging population strain the system. Home-based health technologies are any preventive care technology tool that elevates health. Today they’re used much more broadly.

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Connected Health Initiative

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The data from CMS supports findings by CHI Steering Committee member University of Virginia Center for Telehealth that waiving many of the restrictions on telehealth increased access to healthcare without leading to overuse. For too long, Congress cited unnecessary utilization as a reason not to make these waivers permanent.

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Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 2, 2023

CHI is a broad coalition of medical research centers, health associations, small businesses, and connected health companies that all see the importance of connected devices and software in healthcare. For example, RPM and RTM are both subject to the 20 percent copay required for Medicare coverage.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Fourteen professional healthcare, life science, and consumer organizations formed the Digital Health Collaborative to advance evidence and value in digital health technology. in January , according to the latest data from Syntellis. Median hospital margins hit 5.2%

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Connected Health Initiative

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The data from CMS supports findings by CHI Steering Committee member University of Virginia Center for Telehealth that waiving many of the restrictions on telehealth increased access to healthcare without leading to overuse. For too long, Congress cited unnecessary utilization as a reason not to make these waivers permanent.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2023

.” Google Cloud released new capabilities in Vertex AI Search for healthcare and life sciences, highlighting Hackensack Meridian Health and Highmark Health in its announcement. Available in preview, the new features aim to provide a common architecture for deidentified data from disparate sources within Microsoft Cloud.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Dan McDonald, CEO at 86Borders SDOH data will continue to be a key focus for health IT professionals and teams in 2024 but with a new requirement: the ability to analyze collected social determinants data and deliver actionable insights. However, the aggregation and analysis of SDOH data lags.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

How can digital health and other consumer-facing technologies help our health? First, consider the stark data point(s), and then we can better respond to the question’s answer in the Hot Points , below.

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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. billion in 2018.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) made significant changes to its CPT codes to incentivize more providers and clinics to deploy remote patient monitoring (RPM). For an RPM program, this refers to billing clients for remotely monitoring their health while providing healthcare. CPT Code 99091. Check with your payers.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 8, 2024

So there was much consternation recently when the Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI) released a report saying that digital interventions weren’t helping people with diabetes much and weren’t worth their added costs. It provides data that might be useful, but one must act on data to turn it into an outcome.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

health citizens face physical, financial, and mental health challenges of a syndemic, inflation, and stress – all of which will shape peoples’ demand side for health care and digital technology, and a supply side of providers challenged by tech-enabled organizations with design and data chops. Entering 2023, U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

The cohort study, which researchers called "the first large-scale study to characterize inequitable access to telemedical care," relied on data from nearly 150,000 unique patients who scheduled telemedicine visits from March 16 to May 11, 2020. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., But it will take coverage parity too, she added.

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Digital Health Today

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Andrew shares his perspectives and experiences for securing reimbursement and investment in what are often labeled “squishy“ innovations; these include innovations in spaces such as behavioral, wellness, health equity, and social determinants of health. Q1: Discuss the power of digital health technology reimbursement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Megan Mahoney, clinical professor of medicine, primary care and population health at Stanford Health Care, in a statement provided to Healthcare IT News. "When designing telehealth interventions, we must ask ourselves, 'How can recent advances in health technology help achieve health equity in the populations we serve?'"

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JULY 31, 2022

2021 marks a year of change as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced its final rule on the new reimbursement codes for RPM, which may be considered the most significant product of health care reform in many years. This is done to create coordinated patient data, from which RPM can easily measure outcomes.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JUNE 8, 2022

a multi-award-winning leader of Connected Health Technology, announced today its winning contract with ProHealth Partners, a well-established network of primary care physicians and specialists in the Greater Long Beach area with expansion into Los Angeles and Orange County areas with more than 200 physicians spanning more than 80 locations.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The healthcare industry experiences more data breaches than any other industry, with over 700 reported breaches in 2020 alone. This alarming statistic underscores the importance of protecting patient data in the healthcare industry. What is Healthcare Cybersecurity? How it Differs from Traditional Cybersecurity?

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Digital Health Today

DECEMBER 12, 2022

These include innovations in spaces such as behavioral, wellness, health equity, and social determinants of health. Q1: Discuss the power of digital health technology reimbursement. Medicare only reimburses for diabetes and stage three renal care. The big caveat is that we can’t go near Medicare.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Lead investor Mercia, alongside Intuitive Ventures and Black Opal, invests in Optellum’s pioneering AI-powered lung-health technology. Its expertise in reimbursement and health economics will assist Optellum, which recently announced a New Technology Ambulatory Payment Classification for Medicare patients in the USA.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 12, 2021

The pandemic exposed the need for the rapid adoption of increasingly innovative digital health technologies. Medicare currently doesn't reimburse federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) or rural health centers (RHCs) for RPM. Then COVID-19 hit.

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Digital Health Today

DECEMBER 16, 2022

These include innovations in spaces such as behavioral, wellness, health equity, and social determinants of health. Q1: Discuss the power of digital health technology reimbursement. We use data and technology to personalize the experience and scale the positive outcomes. . Medicare Advantage.

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The Digital Health Corner

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Registries have traditionally been viewed as static repositories of data to be reviewed in a summary fashion after a predetermined time period. The expanding need for drilled down relevant data has led to the development of creative sophisticated data analytics technologies. Provide real-world data for regulators.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Also in September, Medicare changes were introduced encouraging technology use by health providers, particularly telehealth services -- perhaps boosting the use of telehealth technology (for example remote visitations) which has seen a rise of consumer interest in recent polling , though not well-adopted yet by the majority of physicians.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 30, 2023

To address these challenges, healthcare providers are adopting innovative solutions, such as electronic health records and digital health technologies. These solutions enable the effective use of healthcare data, which is essential to deliver coordinated care and improve outcomes.

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The Digital Health Corner

JUNE 14, 2017

Relevant clinical patient management data workflow was not a priority and remains a major pain point for clinicians today. the regulatory and billing data entry should be performed by someone else and relegated to an (almost) invisible part of the EHR. EHRs were designed as documentation centers for billing and regulatory purposes.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Decision support in the Chronic Care Model enables clinicians to deliver care consistent with scientific data and patient preferences. By coordinating care for patients with multiple chronic conditions, providers can help improve patient outcomes and reduce health disparities. We will talk about the CPT codes in the next sections.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Additionally, secure electronic documentation tools will be used to store key data, such as around a patient’s visits and medical history, and create clear treatment plans and monitor progress. Jason Gorevic, CEO at Teladoc Health. Steve Lefar, Chief Strategy Officer at Strata Decision Technology.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

As iFit’s Bluetooth connected heart rate monitor connected with NordicTrack the device also connects with wearable tech from Garmin, Polar, Wahoo and WHOOP, an example of the growing data ecosystem emanating from consumer-generated health devices. ” TOTO collects data from fecal matter deposited in the toilet.

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