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. We are facing an estimated 900K deficit of registered nurses by the end of this decade. Read more… Healthcare IT Today: Health IT Potpourri.

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eCare Healthcare IT Interoperability Digital Health 94

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 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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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 96

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 161

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 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 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 144

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

We founded Zócalo Health to embrace the values and traditions from our culture and Latino identity and make them the heart of the primary care 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

AUGUST 25, 2022

The specialty care programs are delivered remotely by Biofourmis’ trained health navigators, who are frontline care coordinators, as well as a multidisciplinary team of licensed clinicians, including physicians, nurses and advanced practice providers. Dr. Jain contributes healthcare delivery reform insight.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 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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Nursing EHR Healthcare IT Primary Care 113

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The insights also can help healthcare organizations navigate vaccine distribution, as well as the ebbs and flows of patient volumes due to COVID-19 in the year ahead, according to the new report. Healthcare right-sizes after the telemedicine explosion. Health portfolios reshaped for growth. ” Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 30, 2021

In 2017, the health system – which has 100 continuing care locations, including home care, hospice, PACE programs and senior living facilities – was in a bind, facing double-digit hospital readmissions of 16% across its high-risk Medicare population. " Karen Joyce, RN, Trinity Health at Home. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 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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Telehealth Primary Care Healthcare IT Leadership 100

Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

It may be too early to start imagining a world where health care is truly owned by Big Tech — you order prescription drugs with your Amazon Prime account, see a nurse at the Apple Clinic, get your benefits statements from Google, and call an Uber instead of an ambulance when you need to go to the hospital. s National Health Service.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2023

As the industry increasingly recognizes the importance of data interoperability, healthcare companies are poised at the cusp of a data revolution that could redefine patient care. EHRs are real-time, patient-centered records that make information available instantly and securely to authorized users.

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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. Sagility employs SDoH to help manage the total cost of care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Healthcare IT News interviewed physical therapist Bronwyn Spira, founder and CEO of Force Therapeutics, to discuss the challenges and opportunities surrounding this area of virtual care. 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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Telemedicine Telehealth Medicare Healthcare IT 199

GlobalMed

MAY 12, 2020

In Nebraska, for example, 81 counties don’t have a single ICU bed and sending even a few nurses or doctors into quarantine could quickly leave hospitals and clinics with no medical professionals at all. Telehealth has been called the future of healthcare. An unexpected catalyst of change has arrived in COVID-19.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 14, 2020

He noted that this past week, HHS had announced new reporting modifications for hospitals that included information about seasonal influenza patients. " Azar, meanwhile, pointed out that HHS is working with state and local health information exchanges to encourage reporting to and use of data resources. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Digital Health Public Health Telehealth Interoperability 183

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 16, 2020

TigerTouch is a mobile-centric healthcare-communications platform that enables doctors, nurses and allied health professionals to communicate securely with patients via video, voice or text with a single, enterprise-grade app. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. WHY IT MATTERS. Convenient communications.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

By eliminating barriers and providing greater visibility into a patient's medical history and then providing bespoke recommendations or materials to support their care, interoperability and tech stand to provide a better patient experience anywhere as well as empower patients to take greater control over their healthcare journey, he said.

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Telehealth FHIR Interoperability Telemedicine 210