Health Populi

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Among those people who do not yet use health apps or wearable tech for health, cost is the top reason they haven’t adopted digital health tools, Morning Consult found. Why do people own and use health wearables? In a distant third place is encouragement in losing or controlling weight (13%).

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In the world of health IT and healthcare policy, this is the day we love to share our love (and some disdain) for healthcare in what we call #HealthPolicyValentines. HealthPolicyValentines pic.twitter.com/nZx2DcTCGI — MA Health Policy Commission (@Mass_HPC) February 13, 2024 Medicare could never negotiate your cost because you are priceless.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Andrew Eye, CEO of the healthcare data science company ClosedLoop , estimates that about 15% of physicians collect SDoH-related data from patients and use it to assess their needs. According to vice president Ted Hill, it can modernize how public health agencies serve today’s needs.

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CMS.gov

JULY 18, 2018

CMS Doubling Down on Health IT; Patients. Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Through MyHealthEData, CMS envisions a future in which all patients have access to their own health data and use it to make the right decisions for themselves and to get the best value. Mohanraj.Balas…. Seema Verma.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2024

Rucker points out that the current data exchange standard in health care, the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) , is “anchored on 1990s document exchange” and is useful for slow-moving bureaucratic decisions, not providing continuous access to data for improved health care.

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Redox

JULY 31, 2023

cut in physician fees The proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for 2024 has landed, igniting backlash from many industry groups. Get the details Health plan costs expected to increase by 7% PwC researchers predict 2024 health plan costs will climb higher than in the previous two years. Top stories CMS proposes 3.4%

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

For the health IT community, 2022 has been a big year. . In January, the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) became a reality, and in October applications opened for organizations seeking designation as Qualified Health Information Networks (QHINs). Does the Exchange Allow Participants Full Control Over Their Data?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Effective Health Information Exchange (HIE) requires a secure and reliable Health Information Service Provider (HISP) infrastructure to provide HIPAA-compliant delivery of healthcare information. As the industry standard, Direct Secure Messaging continues to expand nationally.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digital health can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. Improve health care for all New Yorkers, 2.

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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.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 17, 2023

The marriage of an integrated care management platform with population health data will prove to be a major differentiator for us.” health plan across the U.S, Patient Pattern services Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plans, ACO REACH participants, and PACE programs.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It’s been long stigmatized, it was mental health 5 years ago, and now everyone’s talking about their mental health, but a lot of people still aren’t comfortable talking about their gut health.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 26, 2022

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has some money for you. The latest Leading Edge Acceleration Projects (LEAP) in Health IT funding opportunity will award grants to applicants working in two areas. The first is addressing health equity and SDOH using a combination of open-source technology and EHR systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 10, 2021

The following is a guest article by Phyllis Wojtusik, RN, Executive VP, Health System Solutions at Real Time Medical Systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Specifically, what if the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) rescinds the emergency orders it has put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic? I talked to a number of health IT and telehealth experts in a search for answers to these questions. Ultimately, the study found small reductions to overall health care costs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2022

Dr. Maulik Majmudar, chief medical officer and cofounder at Biofourmis, a vendor of personalized, predictive health IT – who prior to that served as Amazon’s medical officer who led the launch of Halo – sat down with Healthcare IT News to discuss the crisis and potential solutions. Please expand on this.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Remote monitoring company Clear Arch Health released a mobile app that patients access to health data, educational resources, and messages from providers. Medicare ACO platform Vytalize Health named Frank Bordonaro as Senior VP of Value-Based Care and Network Development.

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Medicine and Technology

APRIL 1, 2013

Don't miss the upcoming Health Datapalooza IV. Explore the "Practical Application of Health Data Usage." June 3-4 for Health Datapalooza IV—the premier national conference on liberating health data to achieve better healthcare outcomes. " Join key healthcare influencers in Washington D.C.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2023

Maternal health data platform eLovu Health is integrating with Brightside Health and Ruth Health , providers of telemental health and virtual maternity care, respectively. Health information network Availity was awarded Compliance Leader Verification by the Ethisphere Institute.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 14, 2022

Similar situations could arise around specific medical conditions where clustering around common environments for physically distant regions could provide higher volumes of data. Health coverage program. Is the algorithm in question used for Medicare, Medicaid, or ACA populations?

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Henry Kotula

JULY 7, 2021

Released on Friday, the wonks at the Congressional Research Service (CRS) urged officials going into the long holiday weekend to remember amid the celebrations that we still don’t know the final toll of the pandemic, especially when it comes to long-term consequences for behavioral and mental health. Not Medicare.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 23, 2018

Interoperability is an overlapping set of technical and policy challenges, from data access to common data models to information exchange to workflow integration – and these challenges often pose a barrier to healthcare innovation. Today, as health IT community leaders get together at the CMS Blue Button 2.0

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HIStalk Weekender

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Atul Gawande, MD taps former Comcast digital health GM Jack Stoddard to be COO of the still unnamed joint healthcare venture of Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan. Verity Health (CA) files for Chapter 11 in an effort to survive the health IT missteps of Patrick Soon-Shiong, MD who acquired the health system in July 2017.

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Meaningful HIT News

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

In fact, Health Data Management just published a story I wrote about, in part, the launch of the Alliance for Connected Care. 2:00 Shocking numbers about Medicare beneficiaries with Parkinson’s who don’t have a regular neurologist. MP3, mono, 128 kbps, 16.3 Running time 17:54.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 20, 2023

As with many things, there are degrees – and when it comes to health data, you can never be too private or too secure. By creating an on-ramp for the superhighway of nationwide health data exchange, TEFCA makes sure patient records follow the patient wherever they go. million in 2019 to 28.5

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Embedded in Apple’s Health app, the new feature will bring together medical data from participating hospitals and clinics, as well as from the iPhone itself, giving millions of Americans direct digital control of their own health information for the first time. Source : [link]

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It’s always been pretty obvious that factors such as wealth, race, education, and the quality of food and water have enormous impacts on health. Given that the field is increasingly digitized and data-driven, health IT is responsible for collecting and analyzing social determinants of health (SDoH).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services earlier this year temporarily lifted restrictions on the technology that could be used during the pandemic. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. So there were many options to choose from. MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. All of this year’s 2023 health IT predictions: Healthcare Security and Risk. Health Equity and SDoH. This has not served the interests of health systems and care delivery organizations, clinicians or patients well.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2023

There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. "The acuity model, which utilizes electronic health record and zip code social determinants of health data, sets appointment cadence to match patients' right level of acuity assigning a risk status of high, medium or low.

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