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Legislators float bipartisan bill to safeguard telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The bill, the Telehealth Extension Act , would also end geographic and site restrictions on approved telemedicine services for Medicare beneficiaries. Despite being broadly popular on both sides of the aisle , the geographic- and site-related Medicare provisions the new bill would establish have yet to be enshrined by Congress.

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8 must-know lessons from telehealth's new normal

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Virtual care poses distinct privacy and security risk factors that must be managed, with new tools and data streams to safeguard and new responsibilities on both the patient and provider side. We spoke with HIMSS Senior Director, Health Information Systems Rob Havasy about the data management challenges posed by remote care delivery.

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Featured Health IT Job: Data Scientist

Healthcare IT Today

This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York. Lead methodological development, data scrubbing, validation, and computation with data science tools such as machine learning, multiple regression, multiple imputation, natural language processing, geospatial, and temporal modeling. Tableau, ggplot).

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Weekly Roundup – July 29, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

Read more… Data Lineage Tools Help Unpack Complex Data Dependencies. 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. Transparency in how AI is developed and used can help here.

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Bonus Features – February 12, 2023 – Epic tops Best in KLAS for 13th straight year, 89% of healthcare finance leaders remain confident in 2023, and more

Healthcare IT Today

One initiative of interest to the healthcare IT community is CancerX, a public-private innovation partnership to develop tools such as cancer care coordination systems, support services for community-based organizations, and platforms for engaging patients post-treatment.

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#WWBR Week of September 22, 2014

Chilmark Research

Medicare’s Pioneer program down to 19 ACOs after three more exit. This blog from Health Affairs talks about how quality measures should focus on effectiveness and be responsive to the need for innovation rather than being simply tools for weeding out costly interventions.” And plenty of other great reading too.

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Northwell Health’s Patients engage with AI ChatBot for guidance & support through their care journey

Consumer eHealth Engagement

Pamela, a 78 year old Medicare patient has just been discharged from a Northwell Hospital for a heart failure episode. care management tool/HIE), Pamela receives these personalized chats from her specific Nurse Navigator at Northwell and the chat content is tailored for her specific care journey.

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