Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2024

Products Augmedix launched Augmedix Go , ambient AI medical documentation for the ED, and announced HCA Healthcare as a pilot user. Truveta released a mother-child EHR dataset to drive research from pre-pregnancy through childbirth and pediatric care. Health information network Availity appointed Sean Barrett as Chief Product Officer.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2024

Rucker points out that the current data exchange standard in health care, the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) , is “anchored on 1990s document exchange” and is useful for slow-moving bureaucratic decisions, not providing continuous access to data for improved health care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 3, 2024

The virtual physicians can access the EHR to adequately care for the patients and make all necessary documentation. "A good portion of our patients are older and in the Medicare population, which we were concerned would be a problem with virtual care. The hospital uses Cerner for its electronic health record.

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Digital Health Global

MARCH 1, 2023

It also revealed several misperceptions about CWA, including the belief that electronic health records (EHR) offer the same care collaboration and communication automation capabilities as programs like OmniLife Health’s FlowHawk platform. Given the adoption speed, it’s no surprise CWA is one of the fastest-growing segments of digital health.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

This type of document will require not only top-notch billing tools but also new levels of contractual collaboration between separate provider entities. The AHA’s aim was to reduce unnecessary documentation and streamline the coding process. cut to physicians who treat the country’s most vulnerable patients through Medicare.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

But just like comparing different types of aircraft, the options for EHR solutions are widely separated in terms of complexity. The right cloud-based EHR solution is ideal for underserved and isolated providers. The right solution can also offer a roughly 50% reduction in time and cost management of EHR infrastructure.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 9, 2023

The HIMSS EHR Association urged ONC to avoid moving too quickly with the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability proposed rule. Research from Inovalon and Harvard Medical School highlighted growing differences in enrollment of fee-for-service Medicare and Medicare Advantage , which now accounts for 48% of all Medicare beneficiaries.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 17, 2023

“Over the past ten years, we’ve worked hard to integrate a care management philosophy and capabilities directly into our EHR,” said Dr. Steven Buslovich , Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Patient Pattern. About Patient Pattern Patient Pattern is a leading value-based care EHR and integrated care management platform.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 21, 2024

Research from Inovalon and Harvard Medical School found enrollees in Medicare Advantage HMO plans tend to be more socioeconomically disadvantaged than enrollees of MA PPO plans. Carequality Interoperability Framework Implementer Innovar Healthcare is partnering with Tele911 to deliver clinical documents to emergency healthcare services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 15, 2023

As an FQHC, 75% of patients are enrolled in Medicaid or Medicare; another 7% are uninsured. "Our first choice was to have a secure integrated solution with our EHR," Ajmal said. "Ryan Health uses eClinicalWorks as our EHR. Besides the telehealth platform, we lacked webcams and laptops for providers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

Watauga Medical Center is a Medicare five-star-rated hospital and wanted a telehealth company that could provide the same high quality of care. "We needed to work with a company that has a seamless process of direct charting into our patients' EHRs, just as if they were on site.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 7, 2023

News CMS has opened the Hardship Exception application period for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) that participated in the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program in 2022. Partnerships Patient education and engagement vendor Mytonomy has connected Mytonomy Cloud for Healthcare with Oracle Health EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Partnerships Greenway Health integrated Data Dimensions’ Providerflow platform into its new release, Greenway Document Manager. GI care platform Ayble Health is integrating with Commure Engage to make Ayble referrals available through EHRs. Chicago-area RML Specialty Hospital chose ScImage to support cloud-based PACS.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Five in six (84%) Atrium Health clinicians reported an improved documentation experience using Nuance DAX Copilot. Partnerships Brightside Health is now offering telemental health access to Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries through partnerships with payers such as Centene, Optum, and various Blues plans.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2023

Supporting organizations include Epic, the HIMSS EHR Association and HCA Healthcare. The most notable approval is USCDI v3, and others include two implementation guides from CMS for Quality Reporting Document Architecture and three HL7 standards (for C-CDA, FHIR, and QRDA).

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Finally, the company noted more than two-thirds of clinicians using Nuance DAX Copilot for AI-powered documentation had an improved experience providing care. 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.

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Advanced Medical Reviews

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Another is the often time-consuming process of meeting Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requirements for quality and clinical reporting. A third and probably biggest reason for this burnout is stress from utilizing health information technology (HIT), specifically electronic health record (EHR) systems.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

Mahoney said the restrictions inadvertently create a "donut hole" for Medicare Fee for Service patients, allowing the health system to offer care to everyone but them. Michael Burgess, R-Texas, raised an interesting challenge: how to ensure telehealth provision itself doesn't become overly burdensome.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2020

"Then we had to ensure the correct coding and documentation was satisfactory for insurance billing purposes." Staff members were unsure if Medicare and Medicaid would honor the prospective payment-system rate. Percentage of patients screened for depression with treatment plan documented. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

The Sequoia Project expects to begin the QHIN application process on Monday, October 3 and has released several documents to walk potential Qualified Heath Information Networks through the application and onboarding process. ONC referred to this document release as “moving into the operational phase” of implementing TEFCA.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 29, 2023

Data lineage tools document the source, accuracy, and flow of regulated healthcare data – a key step in ensuring compliance and minimizing the impact of a data breach, noted Ernie Ostic at Manta. Helping clinicians troubleshoot within the EHR can improve workflows and job satisfaction , Bill Lewkowski at HCTec pointed out.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

We combine a Medicare ACO, virtual and in-home doctors’ office, and a digital health platform to equip our network of physicians with everything they need to be successful in caring for their patients and staying ahead in a rapidly changing healthcare system.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Early on in the pandemic, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) extended telehealth waivers that helped bring virtual care services into the mainstream. That is an amalgamation of telehealth, RPM, clinical documentation surveillance and analytics tools in a way that will position you to be reimbursed.

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Redox

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Increasingly, machines are much less discriminating between a finely structured FHIR document and a poorly scanned PDF—and the latter may be richer than the former. Parting thoughts With 2024 well underway, the only surprise so far has been that no one has acquired a major Medicare Advantage payer.

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GlobalMed

JULY 15, 2019

Because that isn’t much time to devise a care plan and complete documentation, many providers want their patients to quickly get to the point of the visit. Consider what the Annals of Internal Medicine found: Physicians spent 27 percent of their office day on direct face time with patients and 49 percent on EHR and desk work.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2022

"We procured an enterprise-wide solution integrated into our Epic EHR," Rheuban said. "We are grateful for the Medicare waivers and hope that Congress will take action to eliminate the 1834 restrictions in the Social Security Act that hampered the scaling of telemedicine prior to the PHE," she concluded.

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The Digital Health Corner

JUNE 14, 2017

Electronic health records (EHRs) and personal fitness trackers have helped create awareness through use. According to most recent statistics from the Office of the National Coordinator, use of EHRs has increased from 20% in 2004 to 87% in 2015. EHRs were designed as documentation centers for billing and regulatory purposes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 23, 2021

HEDIS Star Rating for United Healthcare Medicare. "Patients with labile hypertension or white coat hypertension had somewhat normal readings at home, which has been documented in the EHR," Vyas explained. " Eden Internal Medicine achieved a 4.95

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

. “ NCQA’s eMeasure Certification (eMC) program is designed for organizations that develop, license, and sell quality-measure reporting software that calculates electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) using electronic health record (EHR) data. ” eMeasure Certification Process.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JULY 16, 2019

It can be difficult to effectively document sensitive health information of pediatric patients and older adults whose family members have access to their patient portals without violating the patient’s privacy, according to a viewpoint article in AAP News and Journals.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 21, 2022

Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), FHIR) and the versioning process. Office of National Coordinator (ONC) electronic health record (EHR) certification preferred. Other desired experience includes using and contributing to open-source code projects. Experience using query languages and working with complex data models.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Create and maintain high-quality documentation that describes in detail the specifications, design, and implementation of each analytics solution, particularly those created to support efficient data acquisition, aggregation, and analysis. Tableau, ggplot).

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Henry Kotula

MAY 19, 2020

based health system ended the period with an operating loss, according to recently released unaudited financial documents. To offset financial damage from COVID-19, Tower Health has furloughed about 1,000 employees and received $166 million in advance Medicare payments, which must be repaid. The health system reported revenue of $1.6

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2019

In theory, electronic prescribing of controlled substances should be in wide use these days, as there’s never been more pressure of doctors to be very aware of and document carefully such prescriptions. However, a new blog item from ONC notes that this is not exactly how things stand.

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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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The Digital Health Corner

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Clinical or other predetermined data relevant to a given patient can be collected real-time from anywhere the patient is seen, regardless of the data’s EHR vendor of origin. In addition, the way in which the data is viewed real-time can be customized according to the viewer’s profile. Provide real-world data for regulators.

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