Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

As was the case with many healthcare organizations, the COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a significant increase in telehealth visits for Phoenix Children’s Hospital – especially in outpatient clinics. THE PROBLEM For a children’s hospital, this meant that often for the first time, parents and/or extended family could attend a doctor’s visit virtually and take a more active role in the care of their children.

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Andrew Lockhart, CEO, Fathom Health. Healthcare has a vibrant startup and innovation ecosystem, but that doesn’t mean everyone shares the perks that come with technological developments. Historically, payors have often been ahead of the […] The article How AI Is Changing the Game for Providers: 4 Predictions for 2024 appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

“Wellness” has become a new mantra for healthcare organizations. Medicare Advantage programs are vaunting their support for “wellness,” and you see wellness campaigns at pharmacies, employers, and elsewhere. Particularly pertinent to the Healthcare IT Today blog, wellness is a goal promised by many digital apps. Do these programs give us what we seek?

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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

UnitedHealthcare is facing a potential class action lawsuit following allegations that it used an algorithm to deny claims for post-acute care services in Medicare Advantage. | UnitedHealthcare is facing a potential class action lawsuit following allegations that it used an algorithm to deny claims for post-acute care services in Medicare Advantage.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Physician peer to peer review ensures reliability of medical decisions while fostering continuous development of internal clinical staff. The post Physician Peer to Peer Review Revolution appeared first on BHM Healthcare Solutions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Federally Qualified Health Center Community Health Network, operating in Brazoria, Harris and Galveston counties in Texas, has partnered with Wysa to integrate its artificial intelligence-guided mental health platform to offer adjunctive behavioral health support throughout patient care journeys and give clinicians and administrators insights. Wysa is also being deployed at MyCHN for provider mental health support.

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Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Artificial Intelligence has the potential to revolutionize the healthcare industry, but how patients react to content produced by AI tools remains a question. A recent study examines the impact of AI-powered chatbots in the treatment of urolithiasis. AI has emerged as a transformative force in various fields, and its application in healthcare is no exception.

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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Primary care player Forward unveiled this week what it has been quietly working on the past two years—self-serve CarePods that use artificial intelligence to screen and diagnose health conditions.< | Primary care player Forward unveiled this week what it has been quietly working on the past two years—self-serve CarePods that use artificial intelligence to screen and diagnose health conditions.

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Dr. Patrick Carroll, chief medical officer at Hims & Hers, describes the company's EMR and how its datasets power MedMatch, its new AI offering for mental health providers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Gastroenterology Associates of New Jersey needed to optimize care and capacity: Reimbursement gets tighter every year while patient demand grows. The practice aims to improve access for necessary in-person care and procedures while offering patients complementary proven interventions ideally suited for telemedicine. THE PROBLEM "Gastroenterology is a complex specialty," said Dr.

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DigitalHealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

A new guidance letter from NHSE to trusts on industrial action suggests investment for frontline digitisation may be pulled from more mature trusts

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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Nine in 10 polled medical practices say their regulatory burden has increased over the past year with prior authorization, audits and appeals, the Medicare Quality Payment Program (QPP) and require | The latest annual poll of practices' regulatory burden outlined prior authorization, audits and appeals, Medicare QPP and other leading pain points that physicians say are weighing down theor staff and ability to deliver care.

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Michigan-based cancer care center and medtech giant will create a framework to support scalable solutions that help advance precision medicine in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

A new after-hours clinical telehealth service will be offered shortly to rural communities in New Zealand. This comes after the contract to deliver the said service nationwide over three years was awarded to a consortium of telehealth providers, which is composed of Reach Aotearoa, Practice Plus and Emergency Consult. WHAT IT'S ABOUT Commissioned by Te Whatu Ora and Te Aka Whai Ora, the new service will provide after-hours care on weekdays and will be available round-the-clock on weekends an

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The following is a guest article by Nick Barger, PharmD, Vice President, Product at DrFirst. This article kicks off the Healthcare Regulatory Talk series. There’s a collective holding of breath right now in health IT as the ONC appears likely to issue its final HTI-1 rule with new data standards for the next stage of healthcare interoperability soon.

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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The country's largest pharmacy benefit manager is taking a page out of Mark Cuban's book. | The country's largest pharmacy benefit manager is taking a page out of Mark Cuban's book.

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The acquisition brings UpLift's offerings to Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas and California, helping to speed up its ability to expand nationally.

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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.

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The acquisition brings UpLift's offerings to Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas and California, helping to speed up its ability to expand nationally.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Yosi Health offers a full suite of virtual patient intake services that lets patients fill out forms and complete their intake before they come in for clinical visits, online self-scheduling of appointments, two-way text communication, billing, patient surveys, telehealth and more. In a recent video interview with CEO Hari Prasad, he describes how they have overcome the traditional barriers to patient self-scheduling and other insights into their unique approach to the patient intake process.

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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As the industry continues to debate the promise and risks of artificial intelligence in healthcare, patients are bullish on the potential for generative AI to improve access and even lower healthca | As the industry continues to debate the promise and risks of artificial intelligence in healthcare, patients are bullish on the potential for generative AI to improve access and even lower healthcare costs.

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The healthcare generative AI company's Sculpted AI leverages Amazon's Bedrock, Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon SageMaker Canvas.

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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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DigitalHealth

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Digital Health Networks has launched The Birmingham Declaration; a statement providing a focus and a framework of priorities for the next five years.

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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. Jim Wallace, CEO of DecisionRx , writes to me that, “Payer incentives for wellness are largely stuck at the water’s edge, so to speak: few payers have gotten a lot of people to go in for a swim.” Their incentives (health club memberships, subsidies for over-the-counter healthcare products)

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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

New York has proposed a slew of new cybersecurity regulations for the state’s hospitals and plans to funnel $500 million from its FY24 budget to help facilities upgrade their technology systems, Go | Should its proposal be finalized, the Empire State will give hospitals a year and access to a $500 million fund to bring their facilities into compliance.

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Boston-based company will allow employers to customize benefits packages to include adoption, assisted reproductive technologies and surrogacy options.

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. MDaudit announced today the release of Service Provider Workflow. This latest enhancement to its industry-leading billing compliance and revenue integrity platform supports billing when rendering providers differ from service providers, reducing audit risks related to […] The article MDaudit Releases Service Provider Workflow to Support Line Service Provider Audits, Enhanced Provider Educati

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The recent turn to a more holistic health care system—such as the interest in dealing with social determinants of health, covered in a recent SDoH series on this site —places a new urgency on connecting patients to services that provide counseling, food, transportation, and other needs that affect their health. Many people among impoverished and under-represented populations don’t use the services to which they’re entitled.

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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

A coalition including the NAACP and other civil rights organizations released a scorecard Thursday grading each state on its policies handling the Medicaid unwinding period. | Just one state received a passing score on Medicaid redeterminations from a coalition of nationally recognized civil rights groups.

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