Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2024

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Healthcare Data Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York. This role has a hybrid work schedule.

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Health IT eHealth Meaningful Use Health Information 98

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2024

In a fast-paced exchanged with John Lynn of Healthcare IT Today, Rucker covers regulations and evolving data exchange standards that foster interoperability and data analytics. Watch the video for more details about pressures on Medicare Advantage plans, rules about prior authorization, FHIR APIs, and more.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Healthcare Data Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York. This role has a hybrid work schedule.

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Health IT eHealth Meaningful Use Health Information 91

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 25, 2023

CMS should get more information from Medicare users to help address their health disparities, suggests Ann Maxwell, deputy inspector general for evaluations at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General.

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Medicare 113

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

UnitedHealthcare has struck a deal with national physician group Privia Health under which it will offer more and better data on patients enrolled in the payer’s Medicare Advantage plans. The agreement builds on the payer’s relationship with Privia’s ACO, which has been in place since 2017.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

Healthcare IT Today caught up with Bobbi Weber, VP of Product Marketing & Customer Success at QliqSOFT , a company that provides HIPAA-compliant, real-time communication between doctors, nurses, caregivers and patients. We wanted to find out more about how the company is helping healthcare organization collect SDOH information.

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Accountable Care HIPAA Healthcare IT Nursing 94

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2023

A bipartisan group of legislators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies for Health Act – first introduced in 2016 – to expand opportunities and coverage for telehealth through Medicare. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.)

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 23, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 26, 2024

Meanwhile, Optum has been focused on reconnecting Change Healthcare's systems and on Monday, UHG reported in its latest update that pharmacy services and medical claims are back to near-normal levels. The company also said that a substantial portion of Americans' protected data had been stolen in the cyberattack.

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Telehealth Primary Care Healthcare IT Medicare 152

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Data Scientist position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. Evaluate the statistical methods and procedures used to obtain data to ensure validity, applicability, efficiency, and accuracy.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 17, 2023

While every institution talks about how they much they care about their patients, they still tell patients that they don’t need to see the data collected on them because they’re not equipped to use their own data. Data of value to rare disease patients is often scattered among different clinical studies.

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Healthcare IT Medicare Patient Experience 121

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2023

“We are grateful for the continued support of our investors, who recognize the value to be unlocked by transforming huge volumes of health data into actionable insights,” said Nassib Chamoun , Founder and CEO at HDAI. It also represents one of the largest deployments of Generative AI within healthcare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Data released this past week from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services show that more than 34.5 million services were delivered via telehealth in Medicare and in the Children's Health Insurance Program from March through June. " Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 3, 2024

THE LARGER TREND While the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently called its Acute Hospital Care at Home initiative successful in reducing hospital visits, it is likely unsustainable due to the costs and resources needed. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT Patient Experience Medicare Telehealth 149

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

by Healthcare IT News November 22, 2019. Many want to target drug costs and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has mandated hospitals to post a list of their standard charges by diagnostic-related group, in an effort for consumers to have transparent cost options. – Susan Morse, Senior Editor, Healthcare Finance News.

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Healthcare IT EHR Meaningful Use Interoperability 84

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

By Tyler Williams, Directory of Strategy, AR Optimization, ZOLL Data Systems. Prepare Now for Anticipated Changes to Medicare and Private Payer Rules. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is expected to issue new rules for telehealth in the release 2021 Physician Fee Schedule later this year.

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Public Health Medicare Telehealth Health Policy 141

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2023

Many facets of healthcare remained in a state of flux at the close of 2022, as care practices that started during the pandemic found their way into the mainstream, and enthusiasm for new data sources and interoperability outpaced the realities of implementation. We’re excited to see where this goes.

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FHIR Interoperability Medicare Accountable Care 81

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 5, 2024

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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RCM Healthcare IT Primary Care Interoperability 95

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 22, 2024

CPT 99454 is the monthly RPM code associated with monitoring and evaluating patient data transmitted from the connected device. Medicare was the first to cover RPM. The first – and this would be a very big deal – is the addition of a code that would cover two to 15 calendar days of collected and transmitted data.

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Medicare Remote care Telehealth Healthcare IT 160

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 18, 2023

Ushers in a New Era of the Company, Accelerates Launch of New Data & Decision Science Service Line with a World-Class Data & Analytics Platform and Team at BST MultiPlan Corporation (MultiPlan or the Company), a leading provider of technology and data-enabled cost management, payment, and revenue integrity solutions to the U.S.

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Medicare healthcare technology Healthcare IT Health IT 73

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Data masking and separate databases for each client are essential, he learned. Read more… Applying AI to Healthcare Decision-Making.

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Medicare HIPAA Healthcare IT Digital Health 98

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 23, 2023

Also on its policy agenda for the year ahead: advocating for data standardization, offering input for interoperability rulemaking and engaging with agencies and states to increase telehealth access. Budget leaders have asked, "How do you really know what the impact on the Medicare population and the Medicare Trust Fund will be?

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Health IT Telehealth Interoperability Medicare 150

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 11, 2024

In addition, it covers up to 60 million lives, representing 9 out of every 10 Medicare lives and partners with 5 of the Top 6 Medicare Advantage health plans. About Innovaccer Innovaccer is the data platform that accelerates care innovation through innovative AI technologies. billion in cumulative cost savings.

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Medicare Life Science EHR Health Technology 89

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2024

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just released data on its Acute Hospital Care at Home initiative , which thus far has admitted 11,159 patients suffering from respiratory infections, heart failure and severe sepsis. Where is this data going to come from and what must hospital and health system IT executives do here?

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Digital Health Patient Experience Healthcare IT Nursing 167

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2021

Using data from Blue Health Intelligence data repository – an independent data and analytics company that is a licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association – researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health compared claims data from March through June 2019 with March through June 2020.

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Telehealth Public Health Medicare Healthcare IT 200

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 31, 2022

senators and representatives urged congressional leadership to safeguard Medicare telehealth services this past Friday. So in the interim, a short-term extension of the kind letter signers are requesting would provide what they called "much-needed certainty" to healthcare providers and patients. Dozens of U.S. Led by Sens.

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Telehealth Medicare Leadership Public Health 128

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

eCare 89

eCare Healthcare IT Interoperability RCM 89

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This article is the second in the Healthcare Regulatory Talk series. More regulatory churn is coming to shake up e-prescribing, this time with new data standards to step up clinical decision support at the point of care. Let’s take a closer look at what’s coming as part of the latest CMS data standards for e-prescribing: 1.

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EHR Interoperability Medicare Health Information 84

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 9, 2024

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. That data’s valuable for improving efficiency. Read more… Healthcare IT Today Podcast : Entrepreneur Myth Busting.

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Healthcare IT EHR FHIR Mental health 89

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2024

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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FHIR RCM Healthcare IT Mental health 91

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 22, 2020

CMS has released a proposed rule that will require Medicaid managed care plans and other insurers offering products on the ACA Exchanges to support the sharing of patient data amongst themselves.

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Interoperability Health Data FHIR Medicare 144

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The technique involves finding data from public sources such as Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Sattelmair says that Wellframe uses claims data to determine patient outcomes, but that doing so has drawbacks. It might take twelve to eighteen months to get the claims data. ” The results?

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Medicare Primary Care Digital Health Telemedicine 94

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Medical Billing EHR Medicare BioTech 107

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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HIPAA Digital Health EHR Healthcare IT 82

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2021

We owe it to our patients to make health care access easier, and patients with Medicare should not be excluded from this opportunity," said Dr. Brian Hasselfeld, medical director of digital health and telemedicine at Johns Hopkins Medicine, in a statement. Data continues to emerge about telehealth utilization rates amidst COVID-19.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Medicare Connected Care 210

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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RCM Medicare EHR FHIR 92