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Bonus Features – February 25, 2024 – 73% of digital health vendors use FHIR APIs, 83% of clinicians think telemedicine is good for chronic condition management, plus 28 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

The 29 members of the EHR Association shared concerns with ONC about upcoming deadlines for Certified EHR Technology deadlines given the complexity of needs specified in HTI-1 and beyond. A survey published in JAMIA found 73% of digital health vendors are using standards-based FHIR APIs when integrating with EHR systems.

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Policy Ingredients for Real-Time Improvements in Health Care, Prior Auth, and Claims

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Don Rucker, MD, chief strategy officer at 1upHealth , shows us in this video how current regulations and FHIR standards will actually make that happen. Watch the video for more details about pressures on Medicare Advantage plans, rules about prior authorization, FHIR APIs, and more.

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Vital Lines November 2023

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Top stories Health systems will increase 2024 IT budgets More than 85% of health systems are boosting next year’s spend on digital health and IT projects, with cybersecurity and EHR modernization topping the list. Build an HL7 ® FHIR ® data store for your health system, minus the missteps. Healthcare IT leaders weigh in.

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Toward a Wider Adoption of Digital Insurance Cards

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HL7 , which has been setting standards for health care since 1987, leapt into the modern age of computer standards by adopting the FHIR standard. One of the FHIR standards, conveniently enough, is a digital insurance card. A payer such as Medicare could just put a card on its web site for each patient to download. Version 2.0

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RPM helps lower A1c below 9% for 84% of patients at Leon Medical Centers

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Leon Medical Centers serves Medicare patients in South Florida. Leon was attracted to the Rimidi platform for four key reasons, Dapena explained: The platform integrates directly with Leon's Hyperspace Epic EHR, providing clinicians the ability to see a more holistic view of their patients' status within their existing workflow.

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CMS Proposes”CMS-0057-P” to Streamline Prior Authorizations with Real-Time Approvals Using Interoperability in Healthcare

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Medicare and a supplemental plan) to receive care from multiple providers (e.g., Interoperability is essential in healthcare because it allows providers to access and use relevant patient information from different sources, such as electronic health records (EHRs), lab results, psychological testing, and radiology images.

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Bonus Features – September 24, 2023 – 72 percent of patients say affordability is the biggest challenge for paying medical bills

Healthcare IT Today

Medicare Advantage costs are 12% lower than similar beneficiaries covered under fee-for-service Medicare, according to research from Inovalon and Harvard Medical School. Also, Oracle Health is collaborating with Valeos , providing access to EHR data and cloud infrastructure to modernize the organ transplant system.