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Optum Virtual Care said to be closing down

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 26, 2024

It was a 2,500% year-over-year increase, Kristi Henderson, a former Optum senior vice president for digital transformation and CEO of Optum Virtual Care, who is now chief executive officer of Confluent Health, has said. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Adelaide virtual care project gets state backing

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2023

A new health project in Adelaide seeks to provide virtually-delivered primary care services to patients with chronic conditions. million (around $700,000) in funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council. Led by Flinders University, the safe@home project has received nearly $1.1

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How UPMC's virtual-first healthcare model works

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The increase in telehealth adoption by physicians and patients alike continues to allow UPMC to develop new digital health tools that offer greater access to high-quality care from the comfort of their own home. UPMC in Central Pennsylvania is a large health system serving a wide geography covering more than 10 counties.

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How virtual care can be refined to reach those who need it most

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 16, 2020

"Telehealth has continued to grow and has continued to really set the pace" for digital innovation, said CHIME president and CEO Russ Branzell. Though the coronavirus crisis has certainly sped up that process, he said, the foundation for such growth has been laid overtime by digital health leaders.

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Canvas Medical Achieves ONC Certification, Raises $24MM to Power Clinicians and Developers Building and Scaling Digital Health Companies

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 19, 2022

Canvas Medical, the EMR that enables clinicians and developers to power the future of care delivery, has raised $24MM in Series B funding led by M13 with participation from Haystack and previous investors Inspired Capital, IA Ventures, Upfront Ventures, and Irongrey. Founded in 2015, Canvas is reimagining the EMR for the future of healthcare.

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Bonus Features – November 5, 2023 – Only 24% of healthcare organizations have successfully disrupted ransomware attacks, 83% of healthcare leaders say AI is or will be an essential skill, plus 20 more

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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Bonus Features – July 16, 2023 – 95% of patients are concerned about data breaches affecting their medical records, 81% incorrectly assume PHI collected by digital health apps is protected under HIPAA

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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Zealous for Wellness: Deciding What Kind of Change You Want

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The previous article in this series explained some of the ways payers, providers, and digital health companies demonstrate that they have made a positive difference in their patients’ lives. The technique involves finding data from public sources such as Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Bonus Features – October 15, 2023 – 66% of orgs hit by cyberattacks report disruptions to patient care, 75% of Americans don’t trust AI in a care setting, and 26 more

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 15, 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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Former CMS chief of staff previews 4 areas of value-based care in 2022

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Value-based care continues to take root in healthcare. This is why, as the new year approaches, Healthcare IT News has sat down with an expert in value-based care to get his views on what 2022 will hold for the payment system. The racial, ethnic and income-based health disparities in the U.S.

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The benefits and future of remote patient monitoring

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 12, 2021

The pandemic exposed the need for the rapid adoption of increasingly innovative digital health technologies. RPM is an effective way to ensure all patients are able to receive the quality, continuous care their condition requires. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Preventive Medicine is the Key to Value-Based Care

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 18, 2023

Value-based care makes care more affordable for patients while rewarding clinicians for improved care, and the industry recognizes the value. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has expanded Medicare Advantage through 2023 to make the shift, and digital health tools are crucial for support.

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Bonus Features, HLTH Edition – October 11, 2023 – Announcements from Best Buy, General Catalyst, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Walgreens, and more

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Welcome to the special HLTH 2023 edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Optum and Uber are partnering to make non-urgent medical transportation and healthy food delivery covered benefits for certain Medicare Advantage plans beginning in 2024. Highmark Health tapped Spring Health for increasing access to behavioral health.

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Concerning Health IT Trends: What Can We Do and What Happens if We Do Nothing?

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

What health IT trend has you concerned? We asked our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community these questions and the following is what they had to share. Dr. Sameer Ather, Co-Founder and CEO at XpertDox A major concern in health IT is cybersecurity. What can be done about it and what’s the impact if we do nothing?

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The The Five Biggest Areas of Opportunity for Digital Health

The Digital Health Corner

JUNE 14, 2017

Digital health is unquestionably becoming part of healthcare lexicon and fabric. Electronic health records (EHRs) and personal fitness trackers have helped create awareness through use. Sixty percent said social media improves the care they deliver.”

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Featured Health IT Job: Lead Data Architect – Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Lead Data Architect – Healthcare position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Vytalize Health and is remote in the US.

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AMA offers new tools to help doctors navigate COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

Its financial checklist offers physicians and administrators 14 tips to help business during the public health emergency, such as consolidating administrative resources like coding tools and making better use of digital health technologies. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media. THE LARGER TREND.

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Telehealth and RPM – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Digital health startups banked a record-breaking $29.1B

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Biofourmis Raises Additional Funding from Intel Capital in Series D Extension and Names Top Healthcare Leaders to its Board

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

Biofourmis continues to buck health tech funding trends with this Series D extension, which comes during a downturn in digital health investment. According to a recent Rock Health report , the first half of 2022 saw 329 digital health funding deals totaling $10.3 billion—down from $14.7

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Healthcare IT Regulations – What Needs to Be Added and What Needs to Be Removed

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Or are there areas in healthcare where past regulations are now too restrictive and are holding us back? In search of answers to these questions, we reached out to our incredibly beautiful Healthcare IT Today Community to see what areas they would add, remove, or update regulations. The following is what they had to say.

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Healthcare Fragmentation Isn’t So Bad, If It Comes with Better Outcomes

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

Because care is often decentralized across provider networks, specialists and hardware technology like Apple Watches and FitBits, essential pieces of data are lost when systems aren’t talking to each other. This could be data like lab results from a patient’s rheumatologist not being sent to their primary care doctor.

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Commonwealth Care Alliance shares key lessons from its robust telehealth program

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 17, 2023

CCA specializes in managing complex care for individuals dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, as well as those who narrowly miss the threshold for Medicaid. Follow Bill's HIT coverage on LinkedIn: Bill Siwicki Email him: bsiwicki@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare Workforce – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Almost 75% say that this impacts patient care moderately to severely.

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Bonus Features – April 30, 2023 – 68% of providers say improving patient collections is a high priority, hospital expenses have increased 2x the Medicare IPPS reimbursement rate since 2019, and more

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 30, 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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Health IT – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. With the shortage of healthcare professionals in the U.S.,

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Value Based Care – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Digital health will be critical for advancing health equity.

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As AI, virtual care reshape the healthcare workforce, remember the difference between 'tasks and jobs'

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 10, 2019

Patients too are playing a bigger role in their own health, with more and more of them – from Millennials to the Silver Tsunami – showing an appetite and an aptitude for digital health and "self-service" care. right now, primarily in the context of Medicare Advantage. Special Report:

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Telehealth and VR – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Medicaid is the single largest payer for mental health services in the U.S.,

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Bonus Features – January 8, 2023 – Omnibus bill extends telehealth expansion through end of 2024, 60% of solution providers pouring all event marketing money into in-person events, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 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. Partnerships.

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Bonus Features – September 17, 2023 – 20% of healthcare marketers worried about job security amid AI adoption, 53% of executives using AI to address drug diversion “very confident” in their efforts, and more

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 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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Telehealth Startup OpenLoop Raises $15 Million to Streamline Virtual Care Delivery

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 27, 2023

The company’s core telehealth solutions are thoughtfully designed to streamline and simplify go-to-market care delivery for companies offering virtual support to patients across an expansive array of specialties, across the entire U.S.

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With Vim as a Strategic Technology Partner, Pearl Health Launches Enhanced EHR Experience

Digital Health Global

MAY 9, 2024

Pearl Health enables primary care organizations to deliver more proactive, whole-patient care through data insights, financial tools, practice enablement technology, and a broad range of value-based care services. About Vim Vim is a middleware platform for healthcare. For more information, visit getvim.com.

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Pearl Health Raises $75M Series B Led by a16z to Accelerate Growth and Innovation in Value-Based Care

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

. “This latest round of funding, combined with our previous investments, will allow us to expand our network and accelerate the development of innovative solutions that place providers at the center of healthcare delivery and cost management.” ” Read more about Pearl Health’s Series B in this blog post. .

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Healthcare Consumerism – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Healthcare Workforce. Health Equity and SDoH.

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Optum Virtual Care said to be closing down

Adelaide virtual care project gets state backing

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How UPMC's virtual-first healthcare model works

How virtual care can be refined to reach those who need it most

Canvas Medical Achieves ONC Certification, Raises $24MM to Power Clinicians and Developers Building and Scaling Digital Health Companies

Bonus Features – November 5, 2023 – Only 24% of healthcare organizations have successfully disrupted ransomware attacks, 83% of healthcare leaders say AI is or will be an essential skill, plus 20 more

Bonus Features – July 16, 2023 – 95% of patients are concerned about data breaches affecting their medical records, 81% incorrectly assume PHI collected by digital health apps is protected under HIPAA

Zealous for Wellness: Deciding What Kind of Change You Want

Bonus Features – October 15, 2023 – 66% of orgs hit by cyberattacks report disruptions to patient care, 75% of Americans don’t trust AI in a care setting, and 26 more

Former CMS chief of staff previews 4 areas of value-based care in 2022

The benefits and future of remote patient monitoring

Preventive Medicine is the Key to Value-Based Care

Bonus Features, HLTH Edition – October 11, 2023 – Announcements from Best Buy, General Catalyst, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Walgreens, and more

Concerning Health IT Trends: What Can We Do and What Happens if We Do Nothing?

The The Five Biggest Areas of Opportunity for Digital Health

Featured Health IT Job: Lead Data Architect – Healthcare

AMA offers new tools to help doctors navigate COVID-19

Telehealth and RPM – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Biofourmis Raises Additional Funding from Intel Capital in Series D Extension and Names Top Healthcare Leaders to its Board

Healthcare IT Regulations – What Needs to Be Added and What Needs to Be Removed

Healthcare Fragmentation Isn’t So Bad, If It Comes with Better Outcomes

Commonwealth Care Alliance shares key lessons from its robust telehealth program

Healthcare Workforce – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Bonus Features – April 30, 2023 – 68% of providers say improving patient collections is a high priority, hospital expenses have increased 2x the Medicare IPPS reimbursement rate since 2019, and more

Health IT – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Value Based Care – 2024 Health IT Predictions

As AI, virtual care reshape the healthcare workforce, remember the difference between 'tasks and jobs'

Telehealth and VR – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Bonus Features – January 8, 2023 – Omnibus bill extends telehealth expansion through end of 2024, 60% of solution providers pouring all event marketing money into in-person events, and more

Bonus Features – September 17, 2023 – 20% of healthcare marketers worried about job security amid AI adoption, 53% of executives using AI to address drug diversion “very confident” in their efforts, and more

Telehealth Startup OpenLoop Raises $15 Million to Streamline Virtual Care Delivery

With Vim as a Strategic Technology Partner, Pearl Health Launches Enhanced EHR Experience

Pearl Health Raises $75M Series B Led by a16z to Accelerate Growth and Innovation in Value-Based Care

Healthcare Consumerism – 2023 Health IT Predictions

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