Xealth

MARCH 30, 2023

Louis, and her hometown hospital in Kansas City is on a different EHR. The shift to home-based care is happening and an estimated $265 billion of Medicare services could be delivered in the home by 2025! She literally joked about getting the X-ray images mailed to her on a CD. It’s 2023, this should not be a problem.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

McKinsey estimates $265 billion worth of care services for Medicare patients could shift from traditional facilities to the home by 2025. The very term discharged, by definition, means to release from obligation. By 2030, all Baby Boomers will be over 65 – all as alternative care models emerge.

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Xealth

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

T alk about a win-win: clinicians don’t have to leave the EHR, and patients are engaged in programs, content, and apps that help them on their health journey. Enabling the patient journey Patient access is a multilayered challenge that requires attention to internal operations and the individual patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

If unaddressed, this could lead to significant data breaches, undermining the integrity of AI systems in healthcare, like those used in modern EHRs and medical coding. Sarah Carroll, Senior Vice President, Center for Care Transformation at AVIA Health Medicaid and Medicare have become one of the biggest quiet crises in health systems today.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Final Rule, set forth by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), brings pivotal updates in healthcare reimbursement. This article aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of these changes, which are crucial for healthcare providers.

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American Well

MARCH 17, 2016

EHRs: Electronic Health Records (EHRs) go one step beyond EMRs by tracking clinical data from multiple facilities and agencies. EHRs share a patient’s medical history from all providers involved in his or her care, and are often digitized to improve efficiency, care and cost.

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Telehealth EMR HIPAA Telemedicine 48

American Well

MARCH 17, 2016

EHRs: Electronic Health Records (EHRs) go one step beyond EMRs by tracking clinical data from multiple facilities and agencies. EHRs share a patient’s medical history from all providers involved in his or her care, and are often digitized to improve efficiency, care and cost.

Telehealth 48

Telehealth EMR HIPAA Telemedicine 48

HIStalk Interviews

OCTOBER 31, 2018

We got our start with IT consulting, then over a period of time, moved into revenue cycle consulting and EHR implementations and so forth. Compliance officers stay in the mindset of looking for areas where they can ensure that their organizations are billing appropriately, not over-billing Medicare things and like that.

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HIStalk Interviews

JANUARY 28, 2019

Jason Krantz, MBA is founder and CEO of Definitive Healthcare of Framingham, MA. Definitive Healthcare was started in 2011. Why did HIMSS sell its HIMSS Analytics business and how did Definitive Healthcare end up acquiring it? The match with Definitive is about being a good shepherd of that data. Absolutely.

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Life Science Pharmaceuticals EHR Medicare 60

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The siloed nature of such data repositories can be attributed to various factors, including using different EHR systems, varying data capture standards, and a historical lack of emphasis on system interoperability. EHRs are real-time, patient-centered records that make information available instantly and securely to authorized users.

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Interoperability EHR Health Information Health Data 90

Redox

DECEMBER 4, 2020

As an aside, I definitely enjoyed Pfizer’s bump from 90% to 95% efficacy after Moderna’s announcement …yay for capitalism? Immunization administration was a key workflow within the EHR; therefore, sharing that to the registry automatically seems like a no-brainer to reduce the burden on providers. The government thought the same.

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Meaningful Use EHR Public Health Medicare 52

Health Blawg

MARCH 5, 2018

Fred’s shorthand definition: “Using FOIA requests and other sorts of collaborations to get covered-over data out of the realm of the useless and into the realm of the useful.” EHRs used to be so far behind the firewall at healthcare organizations that they weren’t really vulnerable.

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Health Blawg

MARCH 5, 2018

Fred’s shorthand definition: “Using FOIA requests and other sorts of collaborations to get covered-over data out of the realm of the useless and into the realm of the useful.” EHRs used to be so far behind the firewall at healthcare organizations that they weren’t really vulnerable.

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EHR Medicare Health IT HIPAA 60

Health Blawg

MARCH 5, 2018

Fred’s shorthand definition: “Using FOIA requests and other sorts of collaborations to get covered-over data out of the realm of the useless and into the realm of the useful.” EHRs used to be so far behind the firewall at healthcare organizations that they weren’t really vulnerable.

EHR 60

EHR Medicare Health IT HIPAA 60

Health Blawg

MARCH 5, 2018

Fred’s shorthand definition: “Using FOIA requests and other sorts of collaborations to get covered-over data out of the realm of the useless and into the realm of the useful.” EHRs used to be so far behind the firewall at healthcare organizations that they weren’t really vulnerable.

EHR 60

EHR Medicare Health IT Healthcare Innovation 60

Health Blawg

MARCH 5, 2018

Fred’s shorthand definition: “Using FOIA requests and other sorts of collaborations to get covered-over data out of the realm of the useless and into the realm of the useful.” EHRs used to be so far behind the firewall at healthcare organizations that they weren’t really vulnerable.

EHR 60

EHR Medicare Health IT Healthcare Innovation 60

Health Blawg

MARCH 5, 2018

Fred’s shorthand definition: “Using FOIA requests and other sorts of collaborations to get covered-over data out of the realm of the useless and into the realm of the useful.” EHRs used to be so far behind the firewall at healthcare organizations that they weren’t really vulnerable.

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EHR Medicare Health IT Healthcare Innovation 60

The Digital Health Corner

MARCH 26, 2018

A good definition of blockchain is: “A blockchain , [1] [2] [3] originally block chain , [4] [5] is a continuously growing list of records , called blocks, which are linked and secured using cryptography. [1] now that it has entered the digital world (albeit tepidly) via EHRs and IT support.

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HIStalk Interviews

JULY 25, 2018

Everybody defines it in their own way, and if they can define it their own way, then we don’t have a definition. I don’t know how you attack a problem that has a nebulous definition. What changes have you seen in the big four inpatient EHR vendors of Epic, Cerner, Meditech, and Allscripts? You really do.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2023

"We were growing and changing and the appeal of iteratively evolving Myia's solution with clinician feedback was definitely well received," he continued. " The Myia Health platform integrates through an API to Mercy's Epic EHR. Myia pulls patient demographic data on a nightly basis.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

By focusing on medical definitions of success (generally expressed as HEDIS measures), the program medicalized social problems and failed to explicitly recognize the significant role that social determinants play in the health of our communities. Did this happen everywhere? This was a minority of PPS. But it happened.

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Primary Care Telehealth HIE Public Health 52

HIStalk Weekender

AUGUST 10, 2018

CMS releases a draft rule that would overhaul the Medicare Share Savings Program. However once you hit “whole organization” level systems, as you do with an organization-wide EMR/EHR, putting a bit of distance between you and the primary vendor becomes important. Weekly News Recap. Brian Too ). A Rose By Any Other Name ).

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Nursing EHR EMR Leadership 28

Society for Participatory Medicine

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

There’s not a lot of it in the EHR data either. If you don’t meet that very narrow definition, you’re excluded from that measurement piece. So, we’re removing patients because they don’t meet a very narrow definition. That’s not in that administrative data; it’s not even in claims data.

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EHR Pain management Health Policy Medicare 52

HIStalk Weekender

JUNE 8, 2018

A Stanford Medicine poll finds that more than half of doctors are dissatisfied with EHRs and desire short-term changes that include user interface redesign. Illinois rejects Cerner’s challenge of the EHR selection of Epic by its customer, University of Illinois Hospitals. ( Sam Lawrence ). Dr. Gonzo ).

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

Employers will endeavor to artfully design consumer-directed benefit plans (CDHPs) that nudge insured workers toward healthier habits, while integrating a broader definition of wellness.

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