Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. 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.

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FHIR Digital Health Telemedicine EHR 88

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. 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.

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RCM eCare Healthcare IT Mental health 97

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2020

" The researchers also pointed out that health information exchange availability might affect follow-up patterns in other settings, as could different patient populations. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Twitter: @kjercich.

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EHR Telemedicine HIE Health Information 164

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2023

"Some 70% to 80% of these DHA residents are established patients at Denver Health. "The majority of these patients are racial/ethnic minority populations (72%), dually eligible for Medicare/Medicaid, with multi-morbidity and high healthcare needs, and lower health and digital literacy," she added.

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Telehealth Digital Health Telemedicine Health Information 146

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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Primary Care Medicare Health Information Leadership 52

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Healthcare Data Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York.

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Health IT eHealth Meaningful Use Health Information 98

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. 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.

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Leadership HIE Nursing Life Science 96

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. This problem is only made worse by the silver tsunami of 10K baby boomers aging into Medicare coverage every day.

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eCare Healthcare IT Interoperability Digital Health 74

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Healthcare Data Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York.

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Health IT eHealth Meaningful Use Health Information 91

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2023

It will use the health information taken from regular monitoring to promote clinical decisions and actions that will improve patient well-being and outcomes. In addition, the project will form a new digital health workforce by training doctors, nurses and allied health professionals in both hospital and primary care.

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Primary Care EMR Digital Health Telehealth 126

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 17, 2022

These include specialist inpatient video and phone consultation items under the Medicare Benefits Schedule, complex specialist telephone consultations and level C or longer telephone consultations for general practitioners. The Australian government is briefly subsidising some telehealth services as it deals with a new COVID-19 outbreak.

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Telehealth Public Health Medicare Health Information 201

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Data Scientist position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York. This position reports to the Director, Analytics.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The SMART Health standard thankfully makes the patient’s job simple. A payer such as Medicare could just put a card on its web site for each patient to download. Once you have a card, uploading a URL or QR code to a web site should take no more effort than typing in your Medicare number. Medicare uses Blue Button 2.0

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FHIR Medicare Interoperability EHR 110

Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The ability of different systems, devices, and applications to work together and exchange information seamlessly is known as interoperability in healthcare. Medicare and a supplemental plan) to receive care from multiple providers (e.g., CMS Calls for FHIR Adoption to Enhance Interoperability in Healthcare IT.

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Interoperability FHIR Health Information Medicare 52

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. 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.

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Life Science Healthcare IT Health Information Telemedicine 105

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. 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.

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HIPAA Digital Health EHR Healthcare IT 86

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

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). Currently, perhaps 99% of health data exchange is initiated to support treatment. The Case for Federal Agencies.

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HIE eHealth Interoperability Health Information 62

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2023

We’re watching three trends that, if taken seriously, will surely help health plans capture their share of that $1 trillion healthcare improvement opportunity. Healthcare stakeholders are looking for ways to find support among financial uncertainties.

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Medicare FHIR Healthcare Improvement EHR 62

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. Monitoring and improving medication adherence is one of lowest hanging fruit in all of healthcare when it comes to improving patient outcomes.

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Telehealth Digital Health Medicare Health Policy 213

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2023

While the EHR Association has long supported the goals of the proposed rule, called Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing Proposed Rule (HTI-1), we have a number of real concerns about the impact it would have on the industry if finalized as proposed.

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Health IT EHR Interoperability Health Information 78

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

In June, Healthcare IT News and the other HIMSS Media brands, Healthcare Finance and MobiHealthNews, launched a new series of editorial webinars at the HIMSS Learning Center. We spoke with HIMSS Senior Director, Health Information Systems Rob Havasy about the data management challenges posed by remote care delivery.

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Telehealth eHealth Connected Health Health Policy 209

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 26, 2022

Welcome to the inaugural edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. 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.

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Drug Development Healthcare IT Health IT EHR 72

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 17, 2023

health plan across the U.S, Patient Pattern services Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plans, ACO REACH participants, and PACE programs. More than 27,000 long‐term and post‐acute care providers, over 2,800 hospitals and 2,000 ambulatory clinics, every major U.S.

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EHR healthcare technology Medicare Health Information 90

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

To get a better idea on what policies and regulations you need to be aware of and just how to get access to innovation funding, we reached out to our ever so talented Healthcare IT Today community for their insights and knowledge. Here is what they had to say. Since the U.S.

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Healthcare Innovation Life Science Meaningful Use Health Information 92

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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Telemedicine Nursing Mental health Health Information 157

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 19, 2022

Canvas provides a full-stack ambulatory EMR and digital health developer platform, enabling both established and startup healthcare providers to launch new patient experiences and business models faster. Founded in 2015, Canvas is reimagining the EMR for the future of healthcare.

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EMR Digital Health Primary Care RCM 52

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The latest policy update from The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) adds key provisions to the December 2022 proposed rule requiring adoption of a new NCPDP SCRIPT standard version. In the lead-up to a final rule, CMS is giving the industry impetus and edict to accelerate a new era in medication management.

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EHR Interoperability Medicare Health Information 84

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2023

Value-Based Care will Become more Popular As health systems are struggling financially and payers face rising healthcare costs, they will be looking into various programs, such as value-based care (VBC), to offset costs. Medicare saved $1.6 Mike has an extensive background in finance, business, and entrepreneurship.

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FHIR Interoperability Medicare Accountable Care 86

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Or are there areas in healthcare where past regulations are now too restrictive and are holding us back? In search of answers to these questions, we reached out to our incredibly beautiful Healthcare IT Today Community to see what areas they would add, remove, or update regulations. The following is what they had to say.

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Healthcare IT Interoperability HIPAA Nursing 126

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. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. THE PROBLEM.

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Digital Health Telemedicine Leadership Patient Experience 147

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 30, 2023

Medicare and other payers will require that evidence, both for tracking outcomes data, as well as preventing misuse of the new reimbursement codes. Health information can't be generic, out-of-the-box or outsourced to a call center. How do provider organizations handle this messaging? Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Remote care Nursing Medicare Health Information 139

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

This new offering will enhance the Netsmart CareFabric ® platform to expand data solutions and services for post-acute care organizations in the areas of quality measures reporting, benchmarking, assessment data and scrubbing, while increasing the quantity and quality of required data for health plans, Medicare and Medicaid.

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Nursing HIE Medicare EHR 52

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Prior to Amazon, she focused on developing innovative solutions for Medicare and Medicaid populations for companies such as Omada and Alere Health/Optum. Her experience in Medicaid and Medicare started during her tenure at the US Health and Human Service Department where she led policy programs for health information exchange.

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Primary Care Medicare Health Policy Leadership 52

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

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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Digital Health Leadership Pharmaceuticals Primary Care 52

The Digital Health Corner

JUNE 14, 2017

There are hospitals within the same healthcare system in many places with disparate EHRs which do not talk to each other or exchange information. Increasing healthcare consolidation of hospitals has exacerbated the problem of lack of interoperability. We need EHRs which are clinically oriented with good user interfaces.

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Digital Health EHR Interoperability Health Information 87

Meaningful HIT News

MARCH 30, 2017

For those not up on the lingo, “meaningful use” is the standard healthcare providers must meet to qualify for Medicare and Medicaid bonus payments for use of health information technology and/or avoid penalties for not being “meaningful” users of electronic health records.

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Meaningful Use Medicare Health Information Health IT 28

BHM Healthcare Solutions

JULY 16, 2019

Editor’s Note: Payers stay informed with information security trends to protect their patients’ data. Click HERE to learn how BHM’s investments into cyber-security protect your data.

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EHR Health Information Interoperability Medicare 40