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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Redox

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Learn more HCOs: Let doctors use telehealth from home More than 100 organizations are urging CMS to preserve a waiver allowing providers to bill Medicare for telehealth services delivered from their homes. Read more Remote patient monitoring RPM use expands by more than 300% Providers’ RPM use increased from 20% in 2021 to 81% in 2023.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 25, 2022

With those flexibilities due to sunset 151 days after the federal Public Health Emergency expires, HIMSS is calling on its members to contact their senators and representatives and urge them to extend coverage of telehealth services under Medicare until at least December 31, 2024.

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Xealth

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Now, social determinants of health (SDOH) are front and center as I think about how a digital front door strategy impacts all stages of the patient journey. A health data aggregation platform can be the engine of holistic patient care. Facilitating ride sharing opportunities (e.g., Let’s begin with your low-hanging fruit.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Medicare Part B coverage for RPM services opens up avenues for healthcare professionals to harness physiological data, refine care plans, and minimize denied claims. Any patient covered by Medicare Part B is eligible to enroll in RPM, receiving 80% coverage for the program. Accessibility and Coverage: The good news?

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

With “Economy” embodied in the law’s name, a rationale for including HITECH in ARRA was, in part, to help stimulate the nation’s economy beyond the revenues of health IT companies many of whom, in the short-term, directly benefited from the law. Wegman was CEO and advocated for the statewide health information network.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 21, 2022

Source solutions from, and contribute to, relevant open-source projects and participate in community events such as Health Level Seven (HL7) Connectathons. Assists with defining user requirements and testing strategies for ensuring functionality of digital measure technologies.

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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

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? Medicare created new codes to cover remote patient monitoring in January 2020, according to Anderson and Null. The change took place in almost a twinkling of an eye.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2022

Rather, as evidenced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Acute Hospital Care at Home program launched in November 2020, acutely ill patients can be equally – if not better – cared for in their homes than in the hospital.

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Health Blawg

JUNE 11, 2018

It is always a pleasure to speak with David Goldsmith ( @dsgold ), Chief Strategy Officer at WEGO Health. and about the related idea that patient access to health data is so important that it should be a Medicare Condition of Participation.) I, for one, hope that we don’t have to wait five years.

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Life Science Interoperability Digital Health Health Data 60

Health Blawg

JUNE 11, 2018

It is always a pleasure to speak with David Goldsmith ( @dsgold ), Chief Strategy Officer at WEGO Health. and about the related idea that patient access to health data is so important that it should be a Medicare Condition of Participation.) I, for one, hope that we don’t have to wait five years.

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Life Science Interoperability Digital Health Health Data 60

Health Blawg

JUNE 11, 2018

It is always a pleasure to speak with David Goldsmith ( @dsgold ), Chief Strategy Officer at WEGO Health. and about the related idea that patient access to health data is so important that it should be a Medicare Condition of Participation.) I, for one, hope that we don’t have to wait five years.

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Life Science Digital Health Health Data Healthcare Innovation 60

Health Blawg

JUNE 11, 2018

It is always a pleasure to speak with David Goldsmith ( @dsgold ), Chief Strategy Officer at WEGO Health. and about the related idea that patient access to health data is so important that it should be a Medicare Condition of Participation.) I, for one, hope that we don’t have to wait five years.

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Life Science Digital Health Health Data Healthcare Innovation 60

Health Blawg

JUNE 11, 2018

It is always a pleasure to speak with David Goldsmith ( @dsgold ), Chief Strategy Officer at WEGO Health. and about the related idea that patient access to health data is so important that it should be a Medicare Condition of Participation.) I, for one, hope that we don’t have to wait five years.

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Life Science Digital Health Health Data Healthcare Innovation 60

CMS.gov

JULY 18, 2018

CMS Doubling Down on Health IT; Patients. Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Sustaining our exceptional healthcare depends now more than ever on driving down costs, and a major part of the CMS strategy to drive down costs depends on smart and innovative use of information technology (IT). Mohanraj.Balas….

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 23, 2018

Open standards, open specifications, and open source tools are essential to facilitate frictionless data exchange. This requires a variety of technical strategies and ongoing collaboration for the industry to converge and embrace emerging standards for healthcare data interoperability, such as HL7 FHIR and the Argonaut Project.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In order to improve patient care, care teams should emphasize the patient’s central role in managing his or her own health. This means using effective self-management support strategies, including assessment, goal-setting, action-planning, problem-solving, and follow-up. Delivery System Design to Improve Chronic Care.

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Digital Health Global

DECEMBER 12, 2023

With recently proposed disincentives for hospitals and health systems, organizations are under pressure to invest in the right data infrastructure strategy MCCLEAN, Va.–(BUSINESS Most (89%) agree that an MDM/hMDM system is required to manage the increase in data captured in different systems.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

Karlin is formerly the head of clinical, informatics and regulatory strategy at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals. has already established relationships with data brokers, the healthcare and insurance companies that already sell anonymized patient data. Both SimplyVital Health and Hu-manity.co Hu-manity.co "It's not fair.

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Clear Arch Health

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

When seeking a good partner, consider the following attributes: Experience building programs that fit in a digital health strategy. In addition, a system that employs both telehealth/RPM and PERS provides clinicians with reliable electronically captured patient-generated health data (PGHD). up to $77.19 , each 30 days.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

So let’s take inventory: software for medical research, new sensor technology that provides activity data and remote diagnostics, health records, medical clinics and a powerful soft asset – consumer trust. To round out their strategy, Alphabet has a many notable collaborations – J&J, GSK and Fitbit are just a few.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Blockchain for Secure Health Data Exchange Blockchain technology offers a secure and transparent way to exchange health data. This analysis helps in predicting disease risks, understanding health outcomes, and tailoring prevention strategies to individual needs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2023

"Five years later, in 2020, we turned to Myia Health's cloud-based RPM platform to help us accomplish four RPM strategies reaching more patients without having to add more team members," she explained. Mercy Virtual implemented four remote patient monitor program strategies. Risk stratify the patient population.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Health systems, hospitals, and related providers must comply with 629 discrete regulatory requirements across nine domains and spend nearly $39 billion a year on regulatory administrative activities, while an average-sized hospital dedicates 59 full-time equivalent employees to regulatory compliance, over one-quarter of whom are doctors and nurses.

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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. The first quarterly Healthcare IT Market Report from Pivot Point Consulting hinted at a continued need for providers to develop long-term strategies around virtual care, customer relationship management, and RCM optimization.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Partnerships Inovalon and Amazon Web Services are collaborating to improve risk score accuracy for health plans. Wolters Kluwer Health announces its Health Language Platform , a FHIR Terminology Server that will work with Microsoft Azure Health Data Services. Cutter is founding partner of Precision Strategies.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JUNE 10, 2018

SPM advocates vociferously for patient ownership of their own data. They result from persistent long-term effort, strategy, and tactics. The business of health data is powerful and entrenched. Paradoxically, the technology for patient control of their health data is much less challenging than will, policy, and money.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 6, 2018

In essence, blockchain could help reshape healthcare interoperability by serving as a next-generation middleware that couples health data with decentralized, distributed, and immutable qualities, according to a new report by IDC Health Insights. Under current federal guidelines for Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

There is huge potential to use this data to impact health care, life sciences, discovery, treatment, and every point along the continuum to transform patients’ lives. For example, a patient can proactively take an at-home heart health panel and seek out treatment before serious problems arise.

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mHealth Insight

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

. “A major challenge of mobile health is the high drop-off rate in sensor and app usage. 41 Strategies to improve engagement include discussion between patient and provider of goals for tracking and clear plans for attaining them. 46 As patients independently bring mobile health data to clinicians (e.g.,

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