Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 24, 2023

GI care platform Ayble Health is integrating with Commure Engage to make Ayble referrals available through EHRs. AI-supported diagnostic tools produce X-ray reviews 82% faster than readings without automation, according to data from SimonMed. Chicago-area RML Specialty Hospital chose ScImage to support cloud-based PACS.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 2024

Director at NTT DATA On February 8, 2024, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability (HTI-1) Final Rule in the Federal Register, which took effect on March 11, 2024. The following is a guest article by Nitin Kunte, Sr.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The EHR Association called for greater flexibility in the data completeness threshold and additional criteria to enhance patient matching accuracy, while MGMA called for a positive update to the Medicare conversion factor amid high inflation. East Tennessee Health Information Network chose 4medica to manage duplicate patient records.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 20, 2023

The following is a guest article by Dave Cassel, Chief Customer Officer at Health Gorilla and Former Executive Director of Carequality Talking about privacy and security in health information exchange is tricky. Health IT Security reported just last month that the number of health records exposed rose from 21.1

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2024

Only 22% of companies offering chronic condition management solutions to employees fully trust vendors to act in the employer’s best interest, according to a Quantum Health report. In other news, Quantum Health launched Premier Oncology , a cancer care navigation tool.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Many organizations are conducting a full analysis of their sites and some have found more than 50 tools that create privacy risks. This type of document will require not only top-notch billing tools but also new levels of contractual collaboration between separate provider entities.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2023

We’re watching three trends that, if taken seriously, will surely help health plans capture their share of that $1 trillion healthcare improvement opportunity. Introduced to Congress on April 3 the “Strengthening Medicare for Patients and Providers Act,” is intended to help Medicare payments keep pace with economic challenges like inflation.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

A lesser-known component of ARRA was Title XIII, the HITECH Act, which funded hospitals’ and physicians’ adoption of electronic health records systems (EHRs). The policy’s acronym fully spelled-out was the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009. GDP, in 2018.

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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.

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The Digital Health Corner

JUNE 14, 2017

Digital health is unquestionably becoming part of healthcare lexicon and fabric. Electronic health records (EHRs) and personal fitness trackers have helped create awareness through use. According to most recent statistics from the Office of the National Coordinator, use of EHRs has increased from 20% in 2004 to 87% in 2015.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2023

Little attention has been given to the faulty data foundations underpinning advanced health IT applications like risk modeling, care intervention, and machine learning. Medicare saved $1.6 In addition, Medicare has a goal for 2030 whereby all beneficiaries are to be treated by a VBC provider.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2023

Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. First-place winners were medical device maker Atapir and pain assessment tool CereVu Medical.

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CMS.gov

MARCH 4, 2013

Growing EHR Adoption and Meaningful Use. In January, we passed the 210,000 mark for the total number of providers, including nearly 200,000 eligible professionals, who received a Medicaid or Medicare incentive payment for successfully adopting, implementing, or upgrading or meeting meaningful use of EHR technology.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

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. Epic won top honors in the U.S.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 9, 2020

Sands: I trained in clinical informatics because of my belief that we needed to better empower healthcare professionals with information technology so they could take better care of patients, and spent many years creating and implementing these tools. Health Informatics (HI) is a relatively new, interdisciplinary field.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

This new offering will enhance the Netsmart CareFabric ® platform to expand data solutions and services for post-acute care organizations in the areas of quality measures reporting, benchmarking, assessment data and scrubbing, while increasing the quantity and quality of required data for health plans, Medicare and Medicaid.

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GlobalMed

AUGUST 3, 2021

Technical literacy, such as knowing how to use devices and interact with electronic health record (EHR) portals and video interfaces. These three components are known as digital health readiness – and when it comes to underserved patients, much of their readiness is limited by social determinants of health.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 19, 2022

Canvas provides a full-stack ambulatory EMR and digital health developer platform, enabling both established and startup healthcare providers to launch new patient experiences and business models faster. Since launching its self-serve suite of developer tools last fall, Canvas has seen more than 300% growth in customer accounts.

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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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CMS.gov

MARCH 7, 2013

Stage 2 of the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs. The next step on the path of meaningful adoption of health information technology (HIT) for providers—will launch later this year for hospitals and next year for eligible professionals. By Patrick Conway, MD, MSc.

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American Well

MARCH 17, 2016

API: An application program interface (API) is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications. The app shows heart rate, calories burned, cholesterol and other important vital information, as well as results of lab tests, diagnoses and medical examinations. Telehealth is on the rise in ACOs.

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American Well

MARCH 17, 2016

API: An application program interface (API) is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications. The app shows heart rate, calories burned, cholesterol and other important vital information, as well as results of lab tests, diagnoses and medical examinations. Telehealth is on the rise in ACOs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

” New players are expected to emerge, offering digital tools and analytics aimed at decentralized clinical trials, HRI suggested. ” Field staff should be upskilled, and the tools and content they use upgraded to be effective in virtual interactions, HRI added. Health portfolios reshaped for growth.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 13, 2022

This includes regular contact with a primary care provider and access to self-management resources like patient education, support groups, and technology tools. These components are essential for improving the health outcomes of people under chronic illness care. CCM includes: Structured documentation of patient health information.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 24, 2019

To succeed in the business of health information technology (HIT), a company has to be very clear on the problems it’s trying to address. Politics underpin what’s happening in health plans in the public sector, and I spoke a bit about Medicare and Medicaid. There’s surely lots of data to mine.

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GlobalMed

JULY 8, 2019

From misplaced faxes and handwritten notes to EHR systems requiring more than a dozen documentation steps, patients often fall through the cracks – or wait so many months for a specialist appointment that they forget about it. Schedule them for telemedicine visits while you reserve your exam rooms for commercial and Medicare patients.

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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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