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The Economic Contours of the Change Healthcare Cyber Attack: Taking Stock So Far

Health Populi

That’s TMI for me to write about in the Health Populi blog, but this story has a current-events twist: the pharmacist could not electronically link with my insurance company to transact my payment. My own thought-patterns have begun to organize and assess the economic impacts of this historic adverse event on the U.S.

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Featured Health IT Job: eCQM/dCQM Measure Developer – CORE

Healthcare IT Today

They will additionally source solutions from, and contribute to, relevant open-source projects and participate in community events such as Health Level Seven (HL7) Connectathons. Source solutions from, and contribute to, relevant open-source projects and participate in community events such as Health Level Seven (HL7) Connectathons.

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Tweets at Lunch with Paul Krugman – Health IT Meets Economics

Health Populi

The speaker at this event was Paul Krugman, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics 10 years ago and today is an iconic op-ed columnist at the New York Times And Distinguished Professor of Economics at the City University of New York (CUNY). More #nurses than #miners #healthcosts.

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GenHealth.AI Accelerates into Healthcare AI Market with New Funding, Advisor Appointments and Use Cases Across Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

These datasets, which are critical to patient care, workflow processes, quality reporting, financial claims, and operational tasks, are encoded with granular medical event data and are represented using common data standards such as HL7, FHIR, EDI, and 837s, among others.

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How Technology Drives Value-Based Care

Healthcare IT Today

They’re goal is to have 100% of Medicare beneficiaries in a value-based care arrangement by 2030. We see a number of ACO approaches that make up these efforts, along with Medicare Advantage plans. An example of intervening in care early to prevent an adverse event from occurring is when a patient is being transferred to a SNF.

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Chicago Providers Charge Fees To Answer Clinical Questions Submitted Via Portals

Healthcare IT Today

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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OIG looking closely at telehealth as it weighs future enforcement

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Speaking via webcam, Lisa Re, assistant inspector general of legal affairs at OIG, offered an update on some of the legal liabilities and risk areas in the health IT space, related to the False Claims Act, the Anti-Kickback Statute and the Civil Monetary Penalties Law. They're not submitting a telehealth claim to Medicare.