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Bonus Features – December 11, 2022 – CMS holds off on good faith estimate enforcement, 61% of patients see primary care moving out of the doctor’s office, and more

Healthcare IT Today

“This exercise of enforcement discretion was necessary to allow time for providers and facilities to develop mechanisms for convening providers and facilities to request, and co-providers and co-facilities to provide, complete and accurate pricing information,” CMS said. Caregiver service provider Avanlee Care was named to Inc.

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Bonus Features – December 11, 2022 – CMS holds off on good faith estimate enforcement, 61% of patients see primary care moving out of the doctor’s office, and much more

Healthcare IT Today

“This exercise of enforcement discretion was necessary to allow time for providers and facilities to develop mechanisms for convening providers and facilities to request, and co-providers and co-facilities to provide, complete and accurate pricing information,” CMS said. Caregiver service provider Avanlee Care was named to Inc.

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Geisinger's journey to greatly expanded telehealth

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"Access to specialty care for many of our communities is scarce; these communities already are faced with primary care shortages, and for those who need to seek specialists and sub-specialists, long travels often are a costly and time-consuming reality," said Tejal A. THE PROBLEM. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Concerning Health IT Trends: What Can We Do and What Happens if We Do Nothing?

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In 2024, health systems need a more balanced approach to these critical populations, one that taps into emerging digital capabilities to affordably and effectively deliver care. The uncertainty of health tech startups’ longevity may lead some buyers to exercise greater caution in their partnerships with health tech in general.

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Pandemic-era burnout: Telehealth managers get pushed to the max

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

“Normally, it would have taken three to six months to roll out this type of platform to more than 650 providers, but we did it in less than two weeks – a testament to our amazing leadership and staff. "We rapidly scaled our telehealth solution from primary care to all specialty care in a span of less than two weeks."

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Parsing Volume to Value, Proxy Measures, and the Streetlight Effect

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There are many models of ACOs, but I would argue that a common thread for the successful ones is that they have maintained laser focus on two guiding principles: a) success will attract the right partners; b) great primary care is the keystone of an ACO. We call this Motivational Leadership TM (More on this in another blog post.).

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How Technology Can Help Us Achieve Health Equity

Healthcare IT Today

Whether it is integrating Apple Watch data, shortening emergency department wait times or providing better concierge care, these interventions can be helpful, or even great. (We And many of us can’t get into our primary care doctors, either). We do need to automate data collection, who wants to sit in an ER?