Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2023

While the EHR Association has long supported the goals of the proposed rule, called Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing Proposed Rule (HTI-1), we have a number of real concerns about the impact it would have on the industry if finalized as proposed.

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Health Populi

MAY 16, 2019

A common theme at health care meetings these days is how and when health care will meet its Amazon, Apple, or Uber moment? Expand regulatory expertise that ensures self-service approaches meet safety and effectiveness standards similar to those for drugs, devices, and providers when cleared, accredited or credentialed.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 3, 2024

" MEETING THE CHALLENGE The virtual ICU enables the virtual providers to interact with patients via a telemedicine cart. The virtual physicians can access the EHR to adequately care for the patients and make all necessary documentation. The hospital uses Cerner for its electronic health record.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

As they roll out new leading-edge technologies – AI and automation, telehealth and remote monitoring, EHR optimization and patient engagement – they're realizing lasting positive outcomes for their patients and their bottom lines. million medication instructions without.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

But just like comparing different types of aircraft, the options for EHR solutions are widely separated in terms of complexity. The right cloud-based EHR solution is ideal for underserved and isolated providers. However, they’ve inadvertently made systems that function but have not created systems to meet their organization’s needs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2021

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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Digital Health Global

JANUARY 30, 2024

ADTs are simple electronic messages, typically sent by a hospital or SNF’s electronic health record (EHR), letting an assigned physician and care team know their patient has been admitted to a care setting, discharged from a care setting, or transferred to another care setting.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2023

Inflation will push Payers back into the Public Marketplace whether Statewide and Federal Health Exchanges, Medicaid and Medicare Before the pandemic, many payers left statewide health exchanges as they found more ways to become profitable outside of the public market. Overall, consumers are charting the way forward in healthcare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

Watauga Medical Center is a Medicare five-star-rated hospital and wanted a telehealth company that could provide the same high quality of care. "We needed to work with a company that has a seamless process of direct charting into our patients' EHRs, just as if they were on site. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. " RESULTS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 15, 2023

As an FQHC, 75% of patients are enrolled in Medicaid or Medicare; another 7% are uninsured. "Our first choice was to have a secure integrated solution with our EHR," Ajmal said. "Ryan Health uses eClinicalWorks as our EHR. Besides the telehealth platform, we lacked webcams and laptops for providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Further, state-by-state laws requiring in-person meetings between psychiatric nurse practitioners and psychiatrist collaborators should be reexamined as these can safely take place over video conferences. Healthcare IT systems, especially EHRs, played a key role in supporting documentation with the use of macros, smart phrases, and templates.

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TheraNest

MARCH 6, 2020

Meet Your Clients Where They’re At. By allowing clients to conveniently meet with you without having to leave home, they are more likely to keep appointments despite the last-minute complications that can arise in the face of illness. You can meet with your clients online through telehealth without the hassle of rescheduling.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

More than 85% of the patients served by Temple are covered by government programs, including Medicare and Medicaid. Patients dually eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid make up roughly half of the Medicare inpatient base. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. Temple also is a critical access point for vital public health services.

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Xealth

JULY 20, 2023

Because of the workflow required to approve new content and the IT work involved in loading it into Epic, Emmi content ordered through Epic was frequently out of date, often taking about a year for new content to be loaded into the EHR. Featured Client Stories and Outcomes 1. lower overall healthcare costs than patients who didn’t.

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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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Health Blawg

JANUARY 9, 2018

We are now back to the status quo ante, at least with respect to the question of whether and how texting may be used in hospitals subject to the Medicare Conditions of Participation (i.e., Fear not, gentle reader. most hospitals). Patient records must be kept confidential. This is clear. until the next clarification comes along.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

"Modernizing telehealth policy to meet the moment" is one of lawmakers' most important responsibilities, said Rep. Mahoney said the restrictions inadvertently create a "donut hole" for Medicare Fee for Service patients, allowing the health system to offer care to everyone but them. Doris Matsui, D-Calif.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

MEETING THE CHALLENGE Increasingly, patients demand higher-quality care from physicians who understand their healthcare history and can assist with the navigation of their total care needs. "It is integrated within our EHR, and seamless for our clinicians and patients alike." Click here to read the special report.

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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). At the time of the signing of HITECH, Medicare and healthcare costs were seen as a key driver of America’s long-term deficit spending at this low point in the national economy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2022

"Delivering the equipment often involved meeting in the facilities' parking lots, then waiting while the site contact brought the equipment inside so we could conduct the training," he recalled. "We procured an enterprise-wide solution integrated into our Epic EHR," Rheuban said. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 15, 2019

Health plans are eager to grow their Medicare business but may not be able to meet their goals unless they build out their tech and administrative infrastructure further, according to results from a survey backed by health plan technology vendor HealthEdge.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

" "Coupled with seamless EHR integration and clarity on reimbursement methodology, our new telemedicine infrastructure will push Sun River to thoughtfully consider patient experience in the development of a resilient yet flexible model of care. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. To read this special report, click here. "Doxy.me

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

McKinsey estimates $265 billion worth of care services for Medicare patients could shift from traditional facilities to the home by 2025. Data from these devices can be integrated into the EHR, giving providers access to information in real time to manage care remotely.

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Iris Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Now, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many health systems and community hospitals are turning to telepsychiatry to help meet the enormous behavioral health needs of their backed-up clinics and swamped Emergency Departments (EDs). Other hospitals have dabbled in telemedicine by providing telestroke or teleradiology services.

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Advanced Medical Reviews

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Another is the often time-consuming process of meeting Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requirements for quality and clinical reporting. A third and probably biggest reason for this burnout is stress from utilizing health information technology (HIT), specifically electronic health record (EHR) systems.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

Experience for clinicians, that fourth crucial leg of the Quadruple Aim (addressing reported ease of using tech like EHRs, percent of visits conducted virtually vs in-person, or percent of physician turnover year-on-year), and. throughput rates).

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 9, 2018

We are now back to the status quo ante, at least with respect to the question of whether and how texting may be used in hospitals subject to the Medicare Conditions of Participation (i.e., Fear not, gentle reader. most hospitals). Patient records must be kept confidential. This is clear. until the next clarification comes along.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

Facilitating this requires new modes of meeting the patient when and where is convenient for them, and ensuring limited gaps or delays in care. We believe better Care Ops technology in EHRs and Practice Management Systems are a better long term bet than standalone telehealth or symptom tracking point solutions.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 9, 2018

We are now back to the status quo ante, at least with respect to the question of whether and how texting may be used in hospitals subject to the Medicare Conditions of Participation (i.e., Fear not, gentle reader. most hospitals). Patient records must be kept confidential. This is clear. until the next clarification comes along.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 9, 2018

We are now back to the status quo ante, at least with respect to the question of whether and how texting may be used in hospitals subject to the Medicare Conditions of Participation (i.e., Fear not, gentle reader. most hospitals). Patient records must be kept confidential. This is clear. until the next clarification comes along.

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HIPAA Medicare Healthcare Cybersecurity HIE 60

Health Blawg

JANUARY 9, 2018

We are now back to the status quo ante, at least with respect to the question of whether and how texting may be used in hospitals subject to the Medicare Conditions of Participation (i.e., Fear not, gentle reader. most hospitals). Patient records must be kept confidential. This is clear. until the next clarification comes along.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 9, 2018

We are now back to the status quo ante, at least with respect to the question of whether and how texting may be used in hospitals subject to the Medicare Conditions of Participation (i.e., Fear not, gentle reader. most hospitals). Patient records must be kept confidential. This is clear. until the next clarification comes along.

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HIPAA Medicare Healthcare Cybersecurity HIE 60

Health Blawg

JANUARY 9, 2018

We are now back to the status quo ante, at least with respect to the question of whether and how texting may be used in hospitals subject to the Medicare Conditions of Participation (i.e., Fear not, gentle reader. most hospitals). Patient records must be kept confidential. This is clear. until the next clarification comes along.

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HIPAA Medicare Healthcare Cybersecurity HIE 60

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

If unaddressed, this could lead to significant data breaches, undermining the integrity of AI systems in healthcare, like those used in modern EHRs and medical coding. Sarah Carroll, Senior Vice President, Center for Care Transformation at AVIA Health Medicaid and Medicare have become one of the biggest quiet crises in health systems today.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 23, 2021

MEETING THE CHALLENGE. HEDIS Star Rating for United Healthcare Medicare. "Patients with labile hypertension or white coat hypertension had somewhat normal readings at home, which has been documented in the EHR," Vyas explained. Healthcare IT News recently published a special report on RPM vendors.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Final Rule, set forth by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), brings pivotal updates in healthcare reimbursement. This article aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of these changes, which are crucial for healthcare providers.

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GlobalMed

MARCH 30, 2021

Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial plans all have different reimbursement policies for telemedicine services. From simple DTC apps to all-in-one platforms, there are many telehealth options on the market – and not all of them will meet your program requirements. Understand reimbursement and licensing basics.

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