Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 1, 2023

Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.

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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. Arizona-based VBCare Network selected Spatially Health for identifying barriers to health equity in Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 17, 2023

We’re thrilled to join forces with PointClickCare as we march toward our collective goal of helping clinicians better predict and document risk, close care gaps, and improve patient outcomes. The marriage of an integrated care management platform with population health data will prove to be a major differentiator for us.”

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State. Tableau, ggplot).

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) made significant changes to its CPT codes to incentivize more providers and clinics to deploy remote patient monitoring (RPM). For an RPM program, this refers to billing clients for remotely monitoring their health while providing healthcare. Check with your payers.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 4, 2024

This represents a significant portion of the healthcare market, estimated to be around 20% of all Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial outpatient, office, and home health expenditures; this partnership positions Cardio Diagnostics at the forefront of this ongoing shift in healthcare delivery. healthcare spending could be virtualized.

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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 Today

JULY 16, 2023

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). Health information network Availity was awarded Compliance Leader Verification by the Ethisphere Institute.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 7, 2023

This problem is only made worse by the silver tsunami of 10K baby boomers aging into Medicare coverage every day. Read more… A Look at Nabla Copilot’s Automatic Clinical Documentation. We are facing an estimated 900K deficit of registered nurses by the end of this decade.

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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. Sold on the dark web, healthcare data is used for false identification documents and to make false Medicare claims, amongst other things.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2020

The Alliance for Integrated Care of New York (AICNY) oversees the healthcare needs of roughly 6,200 dually eligible Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Many AICNY beneficiaries reside in group homes and use Federally Qualified Community Health Centers. THE PROBLEM.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 2023

This article also serves as a case study for PART-I of our article series, which identifies and explains the leading federal and state laws requiring healthcare language services for practitioners who serve Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries or those who work in federally funded settings. Read More

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Health Law Blog | Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2020

The initial $30 billion was allocated based on the providers’ 2019 Medicare fee for services payments. The next $20 billion will also reach providers who receive only a small amount of Medicare revenue, e.g., children’s hospitals. An additional $10 billion will go to hospitals in rural areas and rural health clinics (“RHCs”).

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Health Law Blog | Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2020

The initial $30 billion was allocated based on the providers’ 2019 Medicare fee for services payments. The next $20 billion will also reach providers who receive only a small amount of Medicare revenue, e.g., children’s hospitals. An additional $10 billion will go to hospitals in rural areas and rural health clinics (“RHCs”).

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JULY 16, 2019

Editor’s Note: Payers stay informed with information security trends to protect their patients’ data. Click HERE to learn how BHM’s investments into cyber-security protect your data.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 30, 2023

Medicare and other payers will require that evidence, both for tracking outcomes data, as well as preventing misuse of the new reimbursement codes. In a virtual care process, interactions still need to be meaningful, measurable and well-documented. Health information can't be generic, out-of-the-box or outsourced to a call center.

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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. Given that some new Medicare rules for reimbursement mandate a visit minimum of 20 minutes, it’s clear that telemedicine can help many patients enjoy increased attention.

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The Digital Health Corner

JUNE 14, 2017

EHRs were designed as documentation centers for billing and regulatory purposes. There are hospitals within the same healthcare system in many places with disparate EHRs which do not talk to each other or exchange information. Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) have been woefully underfunded and have fallen short of their vision.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 13, 2022

By coordinating care for patients with multiple chronic conditions, providers can help improve patient outcomes and reduce health disparities. Fortunately, it has become easier in recent years, with Medicare now offering reimbursements for CCM services. CCM includes: Structured documentation of patient health information.

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GlobalMed

JULY 8, 2019

Most offer the same reasons: Medicaid reimbursement rates are typically lower than other insurers and the documentation requirements can be burdensome. Schedule them for telemedicine visits while you reserve your exam rooms for commercial and Medicare patients. Almost a third of physicians don’t accept Medicaid patients.

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Mend

JANUARY 31, 2024

Welcome to the inaugural post of our six-part blog series, unraveling the intricacies of becoming a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC). In this series, we will navigate through the essential requirements outlined by the Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA) to shed light on the path toward achieving CCBHC certification.

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LinkousThink

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

The Finance Committee issued a document that describes the proposed bill in relatively plain language. The comments and referenced page numbers here are based on this document. Much of the bill takes a broad approach to health reform; financing, insurance options, etc., It’s available at [link].

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

"Despite all the HIPAA regulations, your health data can also be utilized without your permission and for profit if it is anonymized," said Kat Kuzmeskas, CEO and co-founder of SimplyVital Health. "It's " Health Nexus enables different levels of access to patient health information.

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Clear Arch Health

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Some of the documented benefits RPM can offer your patients is the ability to reduce acute care use for patients with cardiovascular disease and COPD, and improve their quality of life. . The CPT codes apply to both standard Medicare Part B and Medicare Advantage programs. By the year 2023, the US is projected to have $4.2

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American Well

MARCH 17, 2016

The app shows heart rate, calories burned, cholesterol and other important vital information, as well as results of lab tests, diagnoses and medical examinations. American Well is integrated with Apple Health to allow telehealth physicians to immediately access and track a patient’s health information with just one click.

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American Well

MARCH 17, 2016

The app shows heart rate, calories burned, cholesterol and other important vital information, as well as results of lab tests, diagnoses and medical examinations. American Well is integrated with Apple Health to allow telehealth physicians to immediately access and track a patient’s health information with just one click.

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LinkousThink

MARCH 3, 2010

Garth Graham, the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health in the Department of Health and Human Services. We spoke at the annual meeting of the Health Information Management Systems Society in a session titled: “ Underserved Communities and the Health Information Technology Landscape – the Necessity for Partnership.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 30, 2021

In 2017, the health system – which has 100 continuing care locations, including home care, hospice, PACE programs and senior living facilities – was in a bind, facing double-digit hospital readmissions of 16% across its high-risk Medicare population. "Document all of this essential information in a scope statement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

“These processes have been simplified through risk-based, data-driven approaches that have reduced the dependence on 100% source document verification. Health portfolios reshaped for growth. “Traditionally, the sponsor and CROs have shared responsibilities in monitoring and overseeing clinical trial sites.”

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

I would continue to advance CMS’ directive that by 2030 all Medicare and the bulk of Medicaid beneficiaries be in care engagements governed under a value-based contract. A National Patient Identifier (NPI) would help get all patient documentation into one location vs. spread out among multiple providers and healthcare systems.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

It also experimented with at-work clinics, piloting a health center at its Seattle headquarters, and dove deeper into patient data analysis via sophisticated natural language processing. And as part of its efforts to target the aging infirm, the company began offering Prime discounts to Medicare recipients.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

Had PPS been required to have broader governance – including community-based organizations, health plans, faith-based organizations, Health Information Exchanges, and other nonprofits, we would have had more balanced governance decision-making that would have supported the policy goals of the program more consistently statewide.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 29, 2019

The closest we have come to this ideal in healthcare is in health information exchanges (HIE), and even those have failed to gain traction due to a variety of issues. Users are slow to adopt digital health platforms For a platform economy to succeed, consumers have to use the platforms.

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HIStalk Interviews

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Patti, who is a pretty intimidating and awesome lady, told them to “build a computer program” for what she was doing in a circulated Word document and they did. Health information exchange has made tremendous advancements, particularly in the last several years, in linking communities together to unify a care record.

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