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

MAY 7, 2023

News CMS has opened the Hardship Exception application period for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) that participated in the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program in 2022. Partnerships Patient education and engagement vendor Mytonomy has connected Mytonomy Cloud for Healthcare with Oracle Health EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 29, 2023

Read more… Public Health Transparency Improves Outcomes in San Bernardino County. Earlier this month, we highlighted Colin Hung’s conversation with San Bernardino County Department of Public Health about embracing GIS technology. Concierge care platform Gradia Health secured $4.2

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 15, 2023

Ryan Health has seven primary care centers, seven school-based health centers, two community outreach centers at transitional housing sites, and one mobile health center, all located throughout Manhattan. As an FQHC, 75% of patients are enrolled in Medicaid or Medicare; another 7% are uninsured.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

As we've shown this month, there's been progress on unlocking data from EHRs , but still much work to be to be done with information sharing on a community level , even as a wide variety of interoperability groups throw their weight behind an array of different efforts.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2023

Supporting organizations include Epic, the HIMSS EHR Association and HCA Healthcare. Studies A report from Health Gorilla found that 95% of patients are concerned about the possibility of data breaches affecting their medical records , and 65% distrust “Big Tech” to store their data.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 31, 2020

To further support clinicians during the COVID-19 public health emergency, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has extended the deadline for COVID-19 related 2020 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances Exception applications to February 1, 2021.

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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. More than 40% of total inpatient cases include a behavioral health diagnosis.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

"As a result, Sun River's program did not typically utilize technologies that operated on non-health center network infrastructure and faced ongoing challenges in sustaining telemedicine programming." with its existing EHR capabilities," Sinkoff explained. To read this special report, click here. "Doxy.me

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Mimi Winsberg, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer at Brightside Health We have been in an uncertain time for regulation around telemedicine, and there are a few key trends to watch. 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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2022

In addition, as a federally designated Telehealth Resource Center, UVA Health also worked to provide expanded technical assistance to providers and health systems across the nine-state Mid-Atlantic Region. "We procured an enterprise-wide solution integrated into our Epic EHR," Rheuban said. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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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. out of the Great Recession. GDP, in 2018.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

An end to the Public Health Emergency (PHE) is likely to be announced and end mid-January followed by a grace period of approximately 5 months. And with the Public Health Emergency (PHE) set to expire in January, stakeholders are urgently calling upon Congress to pass the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID-19 Act of 2021.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Position Summary: This dynamic team is seeking a Data Scientist for the Analytics team within NYeC to use directly contribute to moving the needle on New York’s pressing healthcare needs you will leverage HIE and savvy data analytics to serve public health needs, address health inequities, and mature NYeC’s analytics capacity.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

This list would include major healthcare payers like the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Tricare, public health agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Department of Education, which coordinates supportive health services for some student populations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2021

Before joining Geisinger, she served as Pennsylvania’s secretary of health, where she developed an innovative payment and delivery model for rural hospitals. Before that she served as director of the State Innovation Models Initiative at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. CIO, Delaware Valley Community Health.

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HIStalk Weekender

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Athenahealth prepares to take second-round bids as inside sources report that Cerner and UnitedHealthcare have passed on buying the EHR vendor. Atul Gawande, MD taps former Comcast digital health GM Jack Stoddard to be COO of the still unnamed joint healthcare venture of Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan. Weekly News Recap.

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CMS.gov

JULY 18, 2018

CMS Doubling Down on Health IT; Patients. Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. It’s 2018—most doctors are using electronic health records (EHRs) and most patients have access to the Internet and a smartphone, providing many ways to view healthcare data securely. Mohanraj.Balas…. Seema Verma.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

“Regulators, for their part, have tried to smooth the way for a pivot to virtual during the public health emergency. "Early on, CMS relaxed several administrative requirements; that resulted in physician relief, at least for the duration of the public health emergency.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 13, 2022

However, the Chronic Care Model offers approaches that could help us address this critical public health crisis. The Chronic Care Model is a framework that identifies the essential elements of a health system that promotes high-quality chronic illness care. What Are the 6 Key Elements of the Chronic Care Model?

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Redox

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Lisa is an excellent health tech policy follow, by the way). But unfortunately for us, ubiquity is only part of the story, as this particular function (like many public health apparatus) has withered away in recent years. Since there is no consensus transport standard that states and public health agencies use for the reporting.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver program from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has grown to 125 health systems and 289 hospitals in 37 states in less than three years. A number of other health systems and hospitals have secured waivers but haven't yet implemented a program.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Kelly says that a federal bill in 2021 required EPCS for Medicare prescriptions. Just as one large state (such as California or Texas) can create a mandate that leads companies to implement a change in all states, a mandate for EPCS in Medicare has led providers to adopt platforms that allow EPCS for everyone. Another bill, the EPCS 2.0

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 9, 2021

This can integrate with Epic's EHR. With the new version, Vivify's remote care platform is significantly more interoperable with EHRs, medical devices and other systems, the company said. Enable providers to schedule video visits. Since RPM is not considered a telehealth service, it did not face those restrictions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

Connected Health Mobility Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth How contact tracing, contactless experiences and remote monitoring will redefine healthcare and public health. The same guiding principle applies to seamless communication on home-care models.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

AUGUST 17, 2015

From difficulties implanting new HER systems to the re-evaluation of Medicare reimbursements, rural hospitals are looking for new ways to stay afloat. Implementing EHR and Cloud Computing. Implementing EHR (electronic health records) systems has been on the rural hospital horizon for some time.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

Ankit Gupta, Founder and CEO at Bicycle Health The opioid epidemic is the most acute and urgent public health crisis in America. Large organizations, including non-profit health systems, may strategically divest unprofitable assets to bolster margins. payers, health systems, etc.). Personalized medicine–i.e.,

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American Well

JULY 13, 2020

M Health Fairview (MHF) went live with a telestrokepilot program in 2018. After a successful launch, MHF identified the opportunity to integrate telestroke into the Epic EHR via Context-Aware Linking (CAL), which streamlined the workflow and enabled providers to practice telemedicine from within their standard EHR workflow.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

Those with political power will retain it, and true public health decisions will be elusive. . Investments in Social Determinant of Health Networks (SDHNs) Development and Performance. We have certainly seen this with Covid-19, where elected county leaders made decisions that were in conflict with public health objectives.

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CMS.gov

MARCH 5, 2013

What is the most important electronic initiative in health care today? The widespread adoption and use of electronic health records (EHRs) to provide an infrastructure for electronic data exchange? We are living in a time of rapid and unprecedented change for health IT.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

Eskenazi Health (Indianapolis). The Indiana Public Health Association recognized Eskenazi Health for its workplace culture in the Public Health is Good Business category, which complements the American Heart Association’s platinum-level fit-friendly worksite honor also bestowed on the health system.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

AI can listen to patient visits and integrate accurate notes and next steps directly into the EHR. Meghan Schaeffer, National Public Health Advisor & Epidemiologist at SAS Forecasting and modeling are rapidly becoming the cornerstone of public health work, but government needs help. Enter academia.

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