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Technology Trends In Healthcare In 2019

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Thanks to the advent of technologies, we can witness irreversible changes in our daily life today. It is now easier to cope with our everyday routine because we have smart solutions that speed up the pace of our life and make it more convenient. Healthcare is where technologies are expected to revolutionize treatment and research […].

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In the U.S., Patients Consider Costs and Insurance Essential to Their Overall Health Experience

Health Populi

Patients in the U.S. assume the role of payor when they are enrolled in high-deductible health plans. People are also the payor when dealing with paying greater co-payments for prescription drugs, especially as new therapeutic innovations come out of pipelines into commercial markets bearing six-digit prices for oncology and other categories. For mainstream Americans, “the math doesn’t add up” for paying medical bills out of median household budgets, based on the calculations i

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Four Common Revenue Cycle Management Mistakes: And How Your Practice Can Improve Billing Performance

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Marvin Luz, senior director of revenue cycle management transformation, Greenway Health. The move to value-based care not only impacts the approach providers take to serving their patients, but it also changes the way they document, account for, and bill patients — quickening billing cycles and creating a need for better cost containment.

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HRSA rolls out drug pricing site for 340B hospitals

FierceHealthIT

After multiple delays, the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) has finally launched an online tool that 340B hospitals can use to determine what drug companies can charge for drugs.

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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Two-Thirds of U.S. Healthcare Providers Are Behind the Curve In Digital Health Transformation

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Nearly two-thirds of healthcare providers rate themselves as being behind the curve on their digital health initiatives, citing clinician resistance and interoperability of legacy systems with digital/mobile technologies as the top barriers, according to new research from Unisys Corporation.

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2019 Annual “WITCH Report” On Healthcare Technology Consulting Firms

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Despite ending 2018 with a slow Q4, the outlook for technology services in healthcare remains strong, with opportunities in the provider space, robust M&A activity, newly introduced U.S. operations by India heritage firms, and more. The WITCH Report is a comprehensive review of the financial and market performance of global technology firms in healthcare and […].

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The 2019 Innovator Awards Semifinalists: Technology Bolsters Creation of Compass Medical’s Lung Cancer Screening Program

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

In addition to the four winning teams this year, our editorial staff also selected six organizations as runners-up.

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Smart Wound Protection To Visually Identify Bacteria In Minutes

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. A new technology which uses visual warnings to warn healthcare workers of infection could improve diagnosis and recovery times of human skin wounds, according to the University of Bath’s Biophysical Chemistry Group. The team worked with British clinicians to produce “Smartwound,” a dressing which releases a warning as soon as bacterial toxins are detected.

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How One Georgia Health System Has Leveraged IT to Improve Hand Hygiene

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

The Floyd Health integrated system in Rome, Georgia, has leveraged health IT to improve hand hygiene and reduce healthcare-associated infections

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The Secret to Supercharging Your Organizations Communications

Effective collaboration among all care team members is critical to delivering better patient outcomes. A key element to achieving effective collaboration is through the implementation of a clinical communication and collaboration platform. In a fast-paced, high-stress and critical environment, people tend to do whatever gets the job done. Therefore will scramble and use the systems, people, or processes around them to get an outcome more quickly - which can often be at the expense of quality.

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NTT DATA Services To Acquire State Healthcare Consulting Practice from Cognosante

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. NTT DATA Services announces that it has acquired Cognosante Consulting, LLC, the consulting division of Cognosante. Cognosante Consulting provides IT strategy, planning, quality assurance and project management for state HHS agencies undergoing large-scale Medicaid and related human services IT and business transformation programs.

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Healthcare groups renew calls for CMS to remove Hospital Compare ratings until methodology addressed

FierceHealthIT

Healthcare groups, including the American Hospital Association and the Association of American Medical Colleges, are calling for major changes to how the federal hospital ratings website Hospital Compare calculates its comparisons for consumers. And until it does, those groups say, the site ought to be taken down.

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How Precision Medicine Can Change the Drug Pricing Conversation

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Alif Saleh, chief executive officer, Scipher Medicine. One of the sole national issues that the government can agree on is bringing down the astronomical costs of drug prices in the United States. The Senate Finance Committee and House Oversight Committee began to take on drug prices by holding two hearings this year on the […].

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Study: People with behavioral health conditions less likely to meet Medicaid work requirements

FierceHealthIT

People with behavioral and chronic health conditions are more likely to struggle to meet work requirements than other Medicaid beneficiaries.

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Ambiq’s neuralSPOT HeartKit™ enables Real-Time Heart Monitoring AI Applications

Ambiq®, a leading developer of ultra-low-power semiconductor solutions that deliver a multifold increase in energy efficiency, introduces HeartKit, its latest addition to neuralSPOT. This optimized AI model enables running various real-time heart monitoring applications to help users and their healthcare providers quickly identify any irregular events to take necessary actions.

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Meru says digital health app can help prevent physician suicide

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Workforce Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Meru says digital health app can help prevent physician suicide Featured Decision Content:

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Why policymakers should consider ACOs' 'unique' paths to success

FierceHealthIT

Affordable care organizations are finding their own paths to success—and industry stakeholders should consider those unique needs as they shape policy, a new survey suggests.

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These Industries are Most at Risk for ACA Penalties From the IRS

ACA Times

The home healthcare, staffing, restaurant, and construction industries are under fire from the IRS for failing to comply with the Affordable Care Act. Companies within these industries have been shocked…. The post These Industries are Most at Risk for ACA Penalties From the IRS first appeared on The ACA Times.

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Study: West Virginia shows Medicaid expansion, public health methods can impact opioid crisis

FierceHealthIT

West Virginia is ground zero for the nation’s opioid crisis. That makes it fertile ground to study the impacts of Medicaid expansion on treatment.

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The 2023 Behavioral Health Industry Report

This report explores current issues in the behavioral health industry in 2023. Topics covered include quantitative statistics describing the overall increase in behavioral health issues, the impact of psychologist and staff burnout, how HIPAA compliance is once again at the top of our minds & much more!

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The 2019 Innovator Awards Semifinalists: Nevada Expands Ambitious Population Health Study

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In addition to the four winning teams this year, our editorial staff also selected six organizations as runners-up.

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Managed care linked to shorter inpatient stays, increased suicide rates in Missouri—study

FierceHealthIT

Teens and children living in Missouri have had a much greater incidence of attempted suicide since the expansion of Medicaid managed care organizations, according to a study from the Missouri Hospital Association.

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The 5 Sustainability Opportunities for Service Execution

SightCall

Companies that are committed to sustainability are increasingly efficient, use fewer resources, create less waste to generate a unit of revenue, and produce higher returns on investment. In fact, Aberdeen found that nearly half of the Best-in-Class companies currently have a service-specific sustainability initiative in place. More telling than current adoption rates is the reason why organisations are looking to sustainability initiatives in the first place – to increase productivity and

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CMS finalizes plan to expand MA benefits to include home air quality devices, food

FierceHealthIT

CMS has finalized a plan to expand the supplemental benefits that people enrolled in Medicare Advantage can access.

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Patient Engagement & Cultural Competence Training Roadmap: A Guide to Reducing Staff Burnout

Speaker: Dr. Mauvareen Beverley, Patient Engagement and Cultural Competence Specialist

If you’re a healthcare provider, chances are you have experienced symptoms of burnout yourself or have colleagues who are currently facing extreme career dissatisfaction. One of the many ways to partially alleviate burnout is active patient engagement. By engaging with patients to understand their needs and preferences, healthcare providers can develop treatments tailored to the individual patient.

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HIStalk Interviews G. Cameron Deemer, President, DrFirst

HIStalk Interviews

G. Cameron “Cam” Deemer is president of DrFirst of Rockville, MD. Tell me about yourself and the company. I’ve been president of DrFirst for about 14 years. DrFirst is primarily a technology platform company working in the medication management space. To de-jargonize that, we provide core technologies such as electronic prescribing, controlled substance prescribing, and a lot of things around medication history and interoperability.

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Healthcare Roundup—Fresenius to pay $231M to settle DOJ bribery charges

FierceHealthIT

Germany-based kidney care company Fresenius Medical Care agreed to pay approximately $231 million to resolve bribery allegations and more healthcare headlines from around the web.

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Why You Shouldn’t be Discouraged by Reports Citing Low Telehealth Adoption Rates

InTouch Health

How Telehealth Adoption Rates Continue to Change We’ve seen several reports recently citing low telehealth adoption rates. According to a recent study, telemedicine accounts for just 8.2% of patient interactions among small practices, while it was 26.5% for large practices. Adoption rates also remain low in both rural and urban areas, despite statutes specifically designed to encourage telehealth use in rural areas.

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Health IT Roundup—Leading healthcare groups want more time on interoperability rules

FierceHealthIT

About 20 healthcare and health IT organizations are asking CMS and ONC for more time to comment on new interoperability rules; telehealth use jumped 53% from 2016 to 2017; plus more health IT headlines.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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World Telehealth Initiative: Bringing Healthcare to Underserved Communities

InTouch Health

How Telehealth Can Provide Aid for Those Need Around the World According to the World Health Organization (WHO), half of the world’s population lacks access to essential healthcare services. In many countries and regions of the world, there simply aren’t enough healthcare providers to go around. While the United States has a doctor for every 400 people, countries like Malawi aren’t as fortunate, with one doctor for every 55,500 people.

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Payer Roundup—HRSA launches 340B drug pricing website 

FierceHealthIT

The Health Resources & Services Administration has rolled out a website with drug pricing information for 340B hospitals, plus more payer headlines.

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These Industries Are at Risk for ACA Penalties from the IRS

ACA Times

3 minute read: The home health care, staffing, restaurant and construction industries are under fire from the IRS for failing to comply with the Affordable Care Act. Companies within these industries have been shocked to receive ACA penalty notices from the IRS that they are in the millions of dollars. Of course, all types of organizations – school districts, municipal governments, non-profits, other industries – are receiving IRS penalty notices.

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