Connected Health Initiative

MARCH 12, 2020

Senate 322 Hart Senate Office Building Dear Speaker Pelosi, Leader McCarthy, Leader McConnell, and Leader Schumer: We applaud your leadership in developing a bipartisan supplemental appropriations package responding to the coronavirus, or COVID-19. Thank you for considering our request.

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Digital Health Global

MARCH 8, 2023

Campaigns can be executed quickly and in alignment with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services guidelines. Flagstad spent nearly 16 years in executive leadership roles at UnitedHealth Group. “We

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2020

At the same time, say industry leaders, vulnerable groups – especially people of color – are being left behind. "Regrettably, minority groups are being left behind by the telehealth revolution," said David Smith, executive director for the Medicaid Transformation Project, in an interview with Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 10, 2023

Company Adds Two Board Members and a Senior Executive to Lead its Medicare Advantage Business Aledade , the largest network of independent primary care practices in the country, today announced the closing of a $260 million Series F funding round to enhance and acquire services and technology to support its practices.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 5, 2020

In separate letters to Congressional leadership and CMS Administrator Seema Verma , the Premier healthcare alliance applauded the flexibility from various federal agencies since the coronavirus crisis. WHY IT MATTERS. There's no reason to revert back to the status quo just because patients may seek different avenues for treatment."

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2023

With its new strategic syndicate, Monogram’s investor base now serves over 30% of Medicare Advantage members nationwide and supports upwards of 40% of the U.S. I’m proud to work alongside Monogram’s focused leadership team to continue to propel the company as the sustainable clinical leader for patients across the United States.”.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 29, 2023

Read more… Healthcare Needs More Gender Diversity in Leadership. Bonus Features for July 23, 2023: Number of people impacted by data breaches up 56% compared to last year, while CMS keeps temporary telehealth expansion in 2024 Medicare fee schedule. Harris Computer , an operating group of Constellation Software.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

As proof, several health plans have been making headlines for coding errors and other issues that surfaced during audits: In just the third quarter of 2022, at least four audits have specifically targeted Medicare Advantage plans. The New York Times claimed eight of the 10 largest Medicare Advantage insurers had padded their bills.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 27, 2023

Despite the best efforts of industry leadership and management, the gap between the numbers of patients and families seeking assistance and the availability of workers to provide that care is accelerating at an unsustainable pace. Optum, a division of United Health Group , has launched a $3.3

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Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2019

A timely report from Optum Bank (a unit of UnitedHealth Group) asks, “is financially preparing for a chronic condition possible?” The treatment was approved last week for payment by Medicare for some patients. In 2019, today, we see CAR-T therapy can cost $1.5 million all-in.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

cut to physicians who treat the country’s most vulnerable patients through Medicare. Every healthcare stakeholder needs to say out loud what we all know to be true—that the way we reimburse ambulatory clinicians under Medicare is fundamentally broken and in need of a major structural overhaul.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

As for telehealth, AMA points physicians to the fact that the government has also waived many telehealth requirements for new patients during the emergency, and is allowing for enhanced use of telehealth under Medicare for federally qualified health centers.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Increased utilization of physical therapy for Medicare patients with knee and hip pain reduces healthcare costs by up to $4,000 annually , according to the latest research from Luna. Pediatrix Medical Group deployed Sonio for prenatal care reporting and image management. It’s the company’s first customer in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 14, 2022

Is the algorithm in question used for Medicare, Medicaid, or ACA populations? Depending on the covered groups, data scientists must consider socioeconomic factors. Health coverage program. Sachin has also held positions with Citigroup Investment Banking and began his career in engineering roles with Cisco and IBM.

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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. In 2018, Maimonides' leadership established digital health as a strategic priority for the medical center. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

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

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

She is a member of the clinical leadership at Done, a platform that connects patients with psychiatric board-certified medical professionals for services including online video consultations , diagnosis, care team support and prescription delivery. Overall, it's a great fit – and one that soared during the pandemic and beyond.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Data can be spotty, according to Eye, who says for instance that data from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) often lacks racial identifications. Strategic Solution Group, LLC (SSG) has a low-code software platform called Casetivity. The percentage is much higher in some areas.

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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. Erik is a healthcare tech strategist with more than 20 years of leadership experience. Prior to Amazon, she focused on developing innovative solutions for Medicare and Medicaid populations for companies such as Omada and Alere Health/Optum.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Kyle Faget, Partner and Co-Chair of Healthcare Practice Group at Foley & Lardner – Coverage and reimbursement for telehealth services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2021

Al Mahri is also group chief nursing officer at Abu Dhabi Health Services Company, or "SEHA," where she was the first senior nursing leader to identify the importance of the nursing informatics specialty. Before that she served as director of the State Innovation Models Initiative at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2023

For instance, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has 50 data sets pointing to available help; states and the Department of Veterans Affairs has other data sets. Because getting this data is hard, the company also relies on geographic proxies to categorize groups of people.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Sarah Carroll, Senior Vice President, Center for Care Transformation at AVIA Health Medicaid and Medicare have become one of the biggest quiet crises in health systems today. US hospitals regularly lose $100B annually on Medicaid and Medicare patients but continue to chase higher-margin commercial patients to drive toward profitability.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

When the same group of friends meets at the dining hall, there needs to be more specificity about which location they’re referencing. Otherwise, the group becomes lost and disjoined with fragmented information. . Healthcare providers maintain different systems than payers, as do government entities like Medicare and Medicaid.

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HIStalk Interviews

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Then they acquire two more medical groups of a couple of hundred providers. Compliance officers stay in the mindset of looking for areas where they can ensure that their organizations are billing appropriately, not over-billing Medicare things and like that. What are the top issues in billing compliance?

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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 Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Health plans, hospitals, health systems, and medical groups have achieved much success in capturing SDOH data over the past several years. However, the aggregation and analysis of SDOH data lags. In 2024, organizations that have figured out (or continue to figure out) how to harness data effectively will be tomorrow’s leaders.

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Digital Health Today

APRIL 17, 2019

I recently had the pleasure of attending two events in Washington, DC: West Health’s Healthcare Costs Innovation Summit and URAC’s Telemed Leadership Forum. This recognition was clearly shared by participants in the Telemed Leadership Forum days later. ” ~ Carrie Nixon. Implement transparency in healthcare pricing. Carrie Nixon.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 9, 2020

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed an Interoperability and Patient Access Rule which introduces new policies that will expand access to health information and improve the seamless exchange of data in healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 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. Current staffing levels are barriers to accessing care at a time when the industry is focusing important thought leadership on health equity.

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HIStalk Weekender

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

I think a lot of women exclude themselves from some pursuits early on in life (computers, science, leadership roles, etc.). One group of doctors publicly claims that eating nuts is more effective that vaccines for preventing illness (insert your own nut-related pun here).

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CMS.gov

MAY 31, 2018

Leadership. We also want to thank all of you who participated in our various listening sessions and user groups throughout the year. percent of initial referrals for additional support from the Quality Payment Program Service Center and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Regional Offices within 1-business day.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

If you consider its leadership team (led by surgeon and best-selling writer Atul Gawande) and Amazon’s yearslong gesturing toward healthcare and previous comments by Berkshire Hathaway founder Warren Buffett, some clues come into focus. KPMG’s Shehata views Haven’s leadership hirings as proof that it’s taking data concerns seriously.

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American Well

JULY 13, 2020

At a time of tremendous stress and uncertainty for our healthcare system and our nation as a whole, the health plans and health systems recognized in the four categories below have shown exceptional vision and leadership in scaling virtual care and improving health outcomes for individuals and communities. Leadership Alignment.

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Henry Kotula

AUGUST 5, 2020

Broadly speaking, health systems and physician groups that rely almost exclusively on activity-based payment revenues have struggled the most during this pandemic. Accountable Care Organizations have only managed at best to save a “few percent of Medicare spending , [but] the. Accelerated innovation in care delivery resulted.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 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. The statistic indicating that 70% of Individual Medicare Advantage members opted for value-based care providers in 2022 highlights a significant acceleration toward this model.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2023

The biggest news for healthcare IT was the extension of telehealth expansion under Medicare through the end of 2024. NextGen announced that clients using NextGen Population Health achieved an average of $9 million in savings in 2021 in the Medicare Shared Savings Program MSSP. 29, 2022, President Biden signed the omnibus spending bill.

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