Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Today, we’re featuring the Data Scientist position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. Design, implement, maintain and enhance data workflows, quality assurance protocols, analytical processes, and reporting products (i.e. We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 23, 2023

News and Studies The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule from CMS would continue many of the public health emergency telehealth flexibilities, such as an expanded definition of telehealth practitioners, continued payments to rural health centers and FQHCs, and the expansion of originating sites.

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

“Health agencies will have to become at least as sophisticated as other consumer/retail industries in analyzing a variety of data that helps uncover root causes of human behavior,” Gartner recommended in 2017. That’s because “health” is not all pre-determined by our parent-given genetics.

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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. Remove unnecessary in-person visit requirements for telemental health services.

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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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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2021

with employer-sponsored health insurance worry that a major health event in their household could lead to bankruptcy, according to research gathered by West Health and Gallup in Business Speaks: The Future of Employer-Sponsored Insurance. Health Populi’s Hot Points: U.S. One in two people in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2021

It's become common knowledge, at this point, that the flexibilities enabled by the federal government at the start of the COVID-19 public health emergency prompted an atmospheric jump in telehealth use. " The uncertainty about when the public health emergency will lift creates "a lot of anxiety," said Hayes.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Patients and health plan members continue evolving into medical bill payers, with their homes and budgets baked into the concept. Of particular note is the organization’s “promise of health assurance – care that is more proactive, accessible, and affordable to people everywhere.” Retail health-meets-Medicare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2021

Leading healthcare industry stakeholders on Monday implored top leaders in the House and Senate to help ensure, among other imperatives, that "Medicare beneficiaries [don't] abruptly lose access to nearly all recently expanded coverage of telehealth." " WHY IT MATTERS.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 23, 2020

My focus in this Health Populi post is on the health consumer’s mindset in the age of COVID-19 and the re-shaped “enlightened” expectations of patients as the public health crisis persists longer than many people had anticipated. Regarding the most important health care issues U.S.

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The Digital Health Corner

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

The fastest path to widespread adoption of these technologies is the application to the most pressing public health needs. The mission of public health is to improve the public health and achieve equity in health status. In addition, some unintended consequences of at least one app were found.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 31, 2022

senators and representatives urged congressional leadership to safeguard Medicare telehealth services this past Friday. "Telehealth has been a critical tool during the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure that patients continue to receive the health care they need while keeping health care providers and patients safe," read the letter.

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Digital Health Global

JANUARY 30, 2024

The statewide nonprofit health information organization will send and receive Admit, Discharge, and Transfer (ADT) notifications at no cost for most CalHHS Data Exchange Framework (DxF) participants through new exchange EMERYVILLE, Calif.–(BUSINESS

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

In this post, I’ll share just a handful of insights that were particularly impactful to my work and my commitment to work toward health citizenship for all people in the U.S. First, consider the big health economics picture painted in the paper US Health Care Spending by Race and Ethnicity. than on white people.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 24, 2021

In March 2020, federal regulators temporarily relaxed restrictions for telemedicine visits for Medicare patients, raising payments to the same level as in-person visits and reducing cost-sharing, among other changes. " They pointed out the states will need data to inform debates on how best to regulate telemedicine.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

AUGUST 31, 2022

Politico’s recent investigation revealed a record number of cyber security breaches in healthcare, exposing the protected health information of an estimated 50 million people. Healthcare data is highly sought after. Detailing data breaches from March 2021 to March 2022. course-block-62233.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

HealthPolicyValentines pic.twitter.com/nZx2DcTCGI — MA Health Policy Commission (@Mass_HPC) February 13, 2024 Medicare could never negotiate your cost because you are priceless. Less fragmented health data. We hope you’ll enjoy a nice break this Valentine’s day. What does that mean for patients?

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

[Note: I may be biased as a University of Michigan graduate of both the School of Public Health and Rackham School of Graduate Studies in Economics]. health care, patient assistance programs, Medicare Advantage plans, and the bundling of proven high-value preventive services into the Affordable Care Act. .”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 30, 2023

The COVID-19 public health emergency came to an end on May 11. This also happens to coincide with the World Health Organization declaring an end to the COVID-19 global health emergency. What does the end of the public health emergency mean for the future of the healthcare industry?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2020

"Much of this transformation is dependent on temporary flexibilities extended to health systems and providers that are limited to the duration of the COVID-19 public health emergency declaration," the letter read. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., Meanwhile, U.S. Butterfield, D-N.C., and Glenn Thompson, R-Pa.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2023

In addition, the project will form a new digital health workforce by training doctors, nurses and allied health professionals in both hospital and primary care. It involves a monitoring kit that will allow patients to measure their own vital parameters at home and a digital tablet where they can upload their health data online.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2022

For those of you focused on serving Medicare or older patients, there are some important findings in the JLL study to add into your scenario planning assumptions. “This kind of patient self-reported data makes the leap to over-utilization way too simplistic,” Drobac told Modern Healthcare. This week, the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The platform's digital dashboard captures real-time patient performance data, helping clinical care teams track adherence, measure patient condition between visits and modify therapy to personalize care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2022

The Department of Health and Human Services once again (for the ninth time) extended the public health emergency this past month , stretching it beyond mid-July. But sooner or later, that provision of the Public Health Service Act will draw to a close. If Medicare coverage requirements for telehealth services (e.g.,

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Digital Health Global

AUGUST 24, 2023

.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Trilliant Health, the healthcare industry’s leading analytics and market research firm, today announced that it will open access to its dynamic, national provider directory , making information about America’s 2.7 Contacts Anna Jordan media@trillianthealth.com 229.506.2578

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2023

News The Sequoia Project and AHIMA are co-sponsoring the Data Usability Taking Root initiative , which will aim to implement data usability guidance published by a Sequoia Project workgroup with input form more than 260 organizations. Data analytics company Arcadia appointed Dr. Kate Behan as Chief Medical Officer.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 10, 2019

There have been calls for another stay on the roll out of Australia’s troubled My Health Record digital patient data scheme after figures revealed an increase in the number of data breaches. Source : [link]

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2022

The biggest difference among the three digital health types was for wearable tech ownership, where members of commercial insurance plans were far more likely to own a wearable device at a margin of 59% compared with 39% of people in Medicare, 29% of those enrolled in Medicaid, and 20% of the uninsured.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2022

Monash Health pilots virtual clinic for blood pressure management. Monash Health, a public health service in Victoria, has piloted its pharmacist-led virtual clinic for managing the blood pressure of patients with chronic diseases. Yarram District Health Service adopts Global Health's EMR, patient engagement tools.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

health care and that volumes turned downward in 2020. Deloitte’s actuaries actually developed this analysis using data from before the coronavirus pandemic. A new health economy bringing about the “end of the general hospital as we know it,” a dramatic change in health care financing in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

How would you improve what’s in the bill to optimize the use of telehealth in this challenging public health moment? For example, only health care providers that have an existing relationship with a Medicare patient would be eligible per the requirements in the legislation. The President signed the $8.3

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

AUGUST 7, 2018

Editor’s Note: Increasing costs for prescriptions is creating a long-term financial impact on Medicare Part D and its beneficiaries. With the cost of drugs a critical issue in healthcare, health insurance companies and government payers need to understand how new and existing drugs compare in terms of benefits and risks.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

News The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule continues many telehealth flexibilities first adopted during the public health emergency, such as an expanded scope of originating sites an expanded definition of qualified practitioners. Healthcare consumer data vendor Freshpaint launched its Healthcare Privacy Platform.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The GAO investigation was focused on urging the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to take steps to mitigate these risks. Concerning CMS telehealth, the GAO found privacy and security risks associated with Medicare, including issues such as the unauthorized disclosure of medical records.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Founded by the Mayo Clinic, Kaiser Permanente and hospital-at-home vendor Medically Home, the coalition says it hopes to work with Congress to ensure continuity of care beyond the COVID-19 public health emergency. Parodi noted that policymakers often want to be shown the data, as if to say: "Show me this improves care.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The GAO investigation was focused on urging the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to take steps to mitigate these risks. Concerning CMS telehealth, the GAO found privacy and security risks associated with Medicare, including issues such as the unauthorized disclosure of medical records.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2021

In the larger public and population health context, on the patient side, we can expect the burden of disease beyond COVID to increase due to postponed care and treatment backlogs. For Medicare Part B programs alone, the drug could consume one-half of the total $57 billion of medicines spending… as much as the U.S.

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