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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

To help out, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to see which healthcare regulations they foresee having a big impact on healthcare IT. As a result, the industry struggles to provide meaningful insights and harness the power of data to drive positive change. The following is what they had to say.

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Reactions to the Ascension Healthcare Ransomware Attack and Suggestions for Healthcare Organizations

Healthcare IT Today

We reached out to our network of security experts to get their opinions and perpsectives on the Ascension ransomware attack and what healthcare should learn from it. Health data should be protected by a similar assessment requirement for health plans and providers to receive federal funds.

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Where telemedicine is headed now that the PHE has ended

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Some of those expansive measures, like expanded Medicare reimbursement for telehealth, will remain, at least temporarily, and others, like continuous Medicaid enrollment, will be phased out entirely in the next few months. Third, produce as much actionable data from an operational and policy perspective as possible.

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Health systems, care delivery groups, Amazon launch hospital-at-home initiative

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

They noted that the upsurge in virtual adoption over the past year has shown not only that Americans have an appetite for at-home care, but that the data has borne out its feasibility, safety and efficacy. Encourage greater flexibility for home-based care services to meet commercial and Medicare Advantage network adequacy standards.

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RPM strategies for moving from discharge to hospital-at-home care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

McKinsey estimates $265 billion worth of care services for Medicare patients could shift from traditional facilities to the home by 2025. Hospital-at-home is not a discharge from the hospital, it is providing the hospital level care in the home. With that said, hospital-at-home takes the home setting to an all-new level.

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