Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2020

The Alliance for Integrated Care of New York (AICNY) oversees the healthcare needs of roughly 6,200 dually eligible Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Many AICNY beneficiaries reside in group homes and use Federally Qualified Community Health Centers. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In the latest Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed for the first time a set of CPT codes for remote therapeutic monitoring. These codes, according to the proposal, are intended to be used to understand the effectiveness of and the patient's response to a prescribed therapy.

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Continue Education Journal

JUNE 12, 2019

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which will help ensure providers have the ability to set patients up with proper at-home treatment and monitoring systems. Webinar options: Southern California Telemedicine Learning Center , American Telemedicine Association and Midwest Alliance for Health Education.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 7, 2023

This problem is only made worse by the silver tsunami of 10K baby boomers aging into Medicare coverage every day. Read more… Featured Health IT Job: Chief Health Information Officer , a position located in Minneapolis, MN, posted by Hennepin Healthcare at Healthcare IT Central.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 9, 2020

Health Informatics (HI) is a relatively new, interdisciplinary field. HI (also called Health Information Systems) uses information technology to organize and analyze health records to improve healthcare outcomes. Tools include medical terminology, information and communication systems, and computer technology.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

Health data should be protected by a similar assessment requirement for health plans and providers to receive federal funds. Department of Justice should step up enforcement of the False Claims Act against medical providers who accept Medicare and Medicaid payments but fail to implement a reasonable level of cybersecurity.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Over 60 million Latinos live in the United States today – the nation’s largest minority group. Prior to Amazon, she focused on developing innovative solutions for Medicare and Medicaid populations for companies such as Omada and Alere Health/Optum. By 2050, they’ll make up more than 30% of the population with 132.8

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

Jain, MD, MBA, president and CEO at SCAN Group and SCAN Health Plan. Fetter led one of nation’s largest for-profit health systems. Jain, a board-certified internal medicine physician, has 20 years of experience in clinical medicine, health policy, managed care and healthcare delivery leadership.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 13, 2022

This includes regular contact with a primary care provider and access to self-management resources like patient education, support groups, and technology tools. The Chronic Care Model was originally developed in the mid-1990s by a group at the MacColl Center for Health Care Innovation at Group Health Research Institute, led by Edward H.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2022

It is Brooklyn's tertiary care hub serving diverse communities with large Medicaid, Medicare and uninsured populations. It was an early adopter of electronic health records and sponsored one of New York State's first health information exchanges. THE PROBLEM.

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GlobalMed

AUGUST 3, 2021

Home broadband use varies by age, race, income, and educational level with patients from ethnic minority or lower income groups more likely to rely on their phones for Internet service rather than broadband connectivity in the home. Like many patients in her situation, she is covered by Medicaid and Medicare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

As the pandemic experience varies at different times across different regions of the country, local partnerships between healthcare providers, payers, community groups and government agencies can help power a more informed response, it added. Health portfolios reshaped for growth.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

For Medicare, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) expanded access to telehealth beyond designated rural areas, loosened HIPAA requirements around telehealth platforms, and instituted parity in reimbursement with in-person visits. At least 22 states have explicitly implemented telehealth parity for Medicaid.

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InTouch Health

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

According to a recent study from Spyglass Consulting Group, 88% of hospitals and health systems surveyed have invested or plan to invest in remote patient monitoring to help providers manage the health of high-risk patients, including those who are considered unstable and at-risk for hospital readmissions or unexpected emergency department visits.

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In Hand Health

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Traditional PT clinics are now competing with companies that offer online-only, virtual appointments with their own group of physical therapists. Over the past two months, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has begun shifting its policies in favor of telemedicine and telehealth services. Extending Engagement.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 30, 2023

Additionally, there is a focus on improving the work environment and well-being of health professionals to help reduce burnout and increase retention. To ensure quality care for patients, health systems are exploring new solutions and innovations, such as the use of digital health records and other health information technology.

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GlobalMed

AUGUST 5, 2019

PCPs, physician groups and health systems using telemedicine for after-hours care are finding it boosts revenue and patient retention for several reasons: Care continuity. million; approximately $500,000 of those savings went to a managed care Medicare payer. The estimated cost savings exceeded $1.55

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 20, 2023

The following is a guest article by Dave Cassel, Chief Customer Officer at Health Gorilla and Former Executive Director of Carequality Talking about privacy and security in health information exchange is tricky. This certification puts Health Gorilla in an elite group of healthcare organizations.

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Clear Arch Health

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Which of these is most important to you depends on your position as a direct provider or physician group, home healthcare agency, or a hospital system or payer/insurance provider, but RPM offers multiple benefits to all types of healthcare organizations. . The CPT codes apply to both standard Medicare Part B and Medicare Advantage programs.

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American Well

MARCH 17, 2016

The app shows heart rate, calories burned, cholesterol and other important vital information, as well as results of lab tests, diagnoses and medical examinations. American Well is integrated with Apple Health to allow telehealth physicians to immediately access and track a patient’s health information with just one click.

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American Well

MARCH 17, 2016

The app shows heart rate, calories burned, cholesterol and other important vital information, as well as results of lab tests, diagnoses and medical examinations. American Well is integrated with Apple Health to allow telehealth physicians to immediately access and track a patient’s health information with just one click.

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CMS.gov

MAY 31, 2018

Added new bonus points for clinicians who are in small practices, treat complex patients, or use 2015 Edition Certified Electronic Health Record Technology (CEHRT) exclusively as a means of promoting the interoperability of health information. Increased the opportunity for clinicians to earn a positive payment adjustment.

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LinkousThink

MARCH 3, 2010

Garth Graham, the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health in the Department of Health and Human Services. We spoke at the annual meeting of the Health Information Management Systems Society in a session titled: “ Underserved Communities and the Health Information Technology Landscape – the Necessity for Partnership.”

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LinkousThink

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Although it has already come under attack by many groups, the Finance Committee proposal, put forward by Sen. But it does address many areas directly related to the use of telecommunications technology and health and opens the door for more specific provisions that might get added later.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Health care is incredibly backward in its use of information and consumer technologies and there are ample opportunities to improve patient care while reducing cost. By June more than 500 hospitals were connected to the Health Records app representing 50 health systems. That is more than any tech firm except Apple.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2023

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. 29, 2022, President Biden signed the omnibus spending bill.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

It also experimented with at-work clinics, piloting a health center at its Seattle headquarters, and dove deeper into patient data analysis via sophisticated natural language processing. And as part of its efforts to target the aging infirm, the company began offering Prime discounts to Medicare recipients.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

And Optum, one of the largest conglomerates that is a subsidiary of United Health Group, increased its net revenue growth by 25% to $54.1 Policymakers can learn from these various payment models and use them to inform the plans implemented in their own state or region in order to improve healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

They also obtain public health data by ZIP code and data from a Health Information Exchange (HIE). That data can reveal important information that might not make it into the patient’s own record, such as an emergency room visit.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Patients with state-funded Medicaid and federally funded Medicare plans also encounter logistical barriers to securing musculoskeletal care, including lower referral rates to orthopedic surgeons. Orthopedic specialists are 13% less likely to accept new Medicaid patients than they are Medicare patients or those with commercial insurance plans.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

IllumiCare showed that its Smart Ribbon platform helped collect data on care gaps at the point of care, leading to a 25% increase in recapture rate for one health plan. Overall, 31% of users achieved a Medicare Advantage Star rating of 4 or more.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

Had PPS been required to have broader governance – including community-based organizations, health plans, faith-based organizations, Health Information Exchanges, and other nonprofits, we would have had more balanced governance decision-making that would have supported the policy goals of the program more consistently statewide.

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LinkousThink

APRIL 19, 2010

Physicians and specialty groups have supported strong licensure laws in an effort to block out of state physicians from providing services in their own state in competition for patients and health services. There has been talk by some parties that the same policy should be extended to physicians providing services to Medicare patients.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JUNE 27, 2018

The possible new mandates, buried in a 479-page Federal Register “Notice of Proposed Rule Making” from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), could become part of hospital “conditions of participation” in Medicare. What does “health information” mean? We think patients want the complete medical record.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 6, 2018

Blockchain's interoperability could underpin data exchange, serving as an alternative to today's health information exchanges (HIEs); essentially, it would act as a mesh network for transmitting secure, near real-time patient data for healthcare providers, pharmacies, insurance payers and clinical researchers, according to IDC.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 24, 2019

To succeed in the business of health information technology (HIT), a company has to be very clear on the problems it’s trying to address. Health care surely doesn’t feel like the best retail experience, and that’s especially true for health plans. Health insurance plans? Not so much.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 16, 2020

Clinicians can conduct 1-on-1 or group conversations via text, voice or video with patients, so enhancing remote care while avoiding potential exposure to COVID-19 or other infectious diseases. The system enables providers to engage patients at each touchpoint during a health event, from diagnosis, to hospitalization, to recovery.

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