Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

By Bill Siwicki | June 15, 2023 News How one practice's EHR helped offset its declining Medicare reimbursements The all-in-one practice management system reduced the amount of time a patient needs to spend in.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 29, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We asked members of the Healthcare IT Community to share their thoughts on the growing role of the Internet of Medical Things in managing healthcare data.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Lead Data Architect – Healthcare position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Vytalize Health and is remote in the US.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The number of Medicare TPEs and commercial payer take-back audits alone is skyrocketing. They also look to flag “items and services that have high national error rates and are a financial risk to Medicare.” Meanwhile, Medicare also has a Fee for Service Recovery Audit Program. Tricare and Medicare).

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 11, 2019

A recent study by the HHS Office of Inspector General suggests that Medicare ACOs coordinate care more effectively when they have the right health IT tools in place, particularly when ACO members share one EHR platform and have access to a robust HIE. Folks, I know that reading OIG reports can be about as exciting […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 17, 2019

The following is a guest blog post by Jim Tate, Founder of EMR Advocate & MIPS Consulting. Just as the Meaningful Use (MU) EHR Incentive program brought potential audits to providers, so it will be with the MIPS program. Both programs were enacted by Federal legislation, and while there are differences, they are also similarities.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Cookeville has all the worries and pressures of rural practices: lots of Medicare and Medicaid patients, reimbursements that don’t keep up with inflation, and the looming threat of competition from high-tech companies and big insurers. Cookeville Medical Clinic , a provider with four clinics in central Tennessee, proves this.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The health system said that patients on Medicare will pay fees ranging from $3 to $10, while consumers with Medicare Advantage or private insurance might face co-pays similar to those paid for video visits or in-person consultations. Private pay consults for patients without insurance will cost $35.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Data Scientist position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York. Tableau, ggplot).

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2023

Another article recommended by Rose points out that medication adherence for some of the most important and effective medicines (statins, hypertension, diabetes) directly determine about 9% of the Star Ratings for Medicare Advantage health plans.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 6, 2019

In another step in fleshing out its interoperability efforts, CMS has announced plans to launch a pilot program giving clinicians access to claims data. During the pilot, which is called “Data at the Point of Care” or DPC, clinicians will be able to access the claims data from CMS’s Blue Button 2.0 functionality. The idea […].

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. 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. See you at #HLTH2022!

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2022

With recent legislation allowing Medicare to negotiate prices, it’s likely that the movement will grow , given the high and constantly rising costs of pharmaceuticals, especially gene therapies and other innovative or personalized drugs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Elder care takes center stage and brings challenges: Coined the “gray tsunami,” approximately 10,000 people per day cross the Medicare eligible threshold.

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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 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 Today

JUNE 7, 2023

In the comments that we will submit to ONC on HTI-1, we’ll also be encouraging ONC and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to work more closely together to address the misalignments that frequently occur between when ONC tells software developers to deploy new certified versions and when CMS requires providers to be using them.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 19, 2019

Earlier this year, ONC and CMS issued new draft guidelines requiring that all insurers and providers serving the Medicare population make their data available electronically by 2020.

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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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HIStalk Interviews

MAY 15, 2019

As much as I love many of the great healthcare IT companies that are out there, no one is really focused on this part of the space. People don’t talk through EMRs. They don’t manage interventions in real time through EMRs. What kinds of things does your virtual care coordinator recommend?

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 22, 2020

CMS has released a proposed rule that will require Medicaid managed care plans and other insurers offering products on the ACA Exchanges to support the sharing of patient data amongst themselves.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 23, 2022

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Thanks for reading and be sure to check out our latest Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundups.

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The Digital Health Corner

OCTOBER 28, 2016

The Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) has been used since 2015 as a metric to determine negative Medicare payment adjustments to providers who do not meet quality standards. I will discuss below some of the most useful applications of such exemplary registries. Provide real-world data for regulators.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 22, 2020

With COVID-19 transmission risks remaining high, many medical practices have been forced to change their business model from one built on face-to-face appointments to delivering patient care via telehealth visits virtually overnight.

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HIStalk Interviews

APRIL 10, 2019

I’ve been in healthcare IT for a long time. The big EMR push, Meaningful Use, and even ICD-10 took people’s attention away from the post-acute care side. With some of the Medicare Advantage plans, people who are taking on risk can manage and direct patients to places if it’s their own population.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 29, 2019

In retrospect, we probably should have predicted that once Meaningful Use was put into place, some physicians would be better situated than others to take advantage of the program. Now, research has emerged to suggest that not only did MU create HIT winners and losers, it might also have helped to foster long-term differences between […].

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2019

In theory, electronic prescribing of controlled substances should be in wide use these days, as there’s never been more pressure of doctors to be very aware of and document carefully such prescriptions. However, a new blog item from ONC notes that this is not exactly how things stand. In their recent item, doctors Andrew Gettinger […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. To support these efforts, we expect healthcare IT leaders to adopt new approaches to network management, including AI-enhanced monitoring (AIOps) and observability.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 20, 2023

Joining a QHIN will not be mandated, but the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has indicated that belonging to one will satisfy interoperability requirements for reimbursement adjustments – incentivizing participation as soon as this year.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2023

With the goal to have all Medicare payments processed through value-based care by 2030, the clock is ticking for providers to manage these data challenges head-on. Providers are under pressure to ensure that every piece of patient information is accurate, accessible, and integrated—a herculean task that must be addressed.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. But what most healthcare professionals don’t realize is that AI can do so much more than respond to patient messages.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 24, 2022

The platform supports a clinic’s end-to-end operations, from patient intake to scheduling, communication, assessments, electronic medical records (‘EMR’), revenue cycle management, home exercise plans, adherence tracking and patient lifecycle management.

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