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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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State. Tableau, ggplot).

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) made significant changes to its CPT codes to incentivize more providers and clinics to deploy remote patient monitoring (RPM). For an RPM program, this refers to billing clients for remotely monitoring their health while providing healthcare. Check with your payers.

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Connected Health Initiative

JULY 14, 2021

CHI’s Value-Based Care Task Force (Task Force) report is based on a review of the healthcare ecosystem’s implementation of value-based care models to date, including in the context of Medicare. HHS should advance the appropriate two-way flow of health information to enhance value throughout the care continuum.

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Continue Education Journal

JUNE 12, 2019

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which will help ensure providers have the ability to set patients up with proper at-home treatment and monitoring systems. How to Become a Telehealth Specialist. The benefits of telehealth continues to grow, according to the WHO.

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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. For more information on how to prepare for the ONC HTI-1 rule , read the first article in our Regulatory Talk series.

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Connected Health Initiative

JULY 14, 2021

CHI’s Value-Based Care Task Force (Task Force) report is based on a review of the healthcare ecosystem’s implementation of value-based care models to date, including in the context of Medicare. HHS should advance the appropriate two-way flow of health information to enhance value throughout the care continuum.

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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 News - Telehealth

JANUARY 30, 2023

With the new CPT codes, providers can get reimbursed for: Educating patients on how to use a remote care-management platform. Providers now can get reimbursed for educating patients on how to use remote care management platforms. How do healthcare provider organizations go about this education?

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Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 9, 2020

Health Informatics (HI) is a relatively new, interdisciplinary field. HI (also called Health Information Systems) uses information technology to organize and analyze health records to improve healthcare outcomes. Tools include medical terminology, information and communication systems, and computer technology.

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GlobalMed

AUGUST 3, 2021

Technical literacy, such as knowing how to use devices and interact with electronic health record (EHR) portals and video interfaces. These three components are known as digital health readiness – and when it comes to underserved patients, much of their readiness is limited by social determinants of health.

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Insulin Nation

AUGUST 20, 2015

The report announced goals of establishing a unique device identification system, incorporating collection and analysis of electronic health information, and developing national and international device registries for selected medical devices.

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care innovations

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposes to ramp up reimbursement for remotely delivered services, and the many success stories of its successful implementation continue to dominate industry headlines , remote health management has become one of healthcare’s most widely discussed buzzwords.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

” "In the year ahead, the industry will work to determine which virtual visits make the most sense, and where and how they should take place." " Payers may wrestle with how to reimburse and, in some cases, provide virtual care. ” The FDA is hinting that some of these changes could be here to stay.

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Digital Health Today

OCTOBER 16, 2019

As consumers, we struggle with the basics – we wait 29 days to get primary care appointments, we’re faced with higher deductibles and narrower networks, drug prices are increasing at five times the rate of inflation, and health care expenses cause about 2/3rds of U.S. If you add in health care taxes, it’s even more. bankruptcies.

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care innovations

AUGUST 24, 2018

Now, they don’t write code, or use advanced applications, but they certainly know how to write emails, text message, download applications, go shopping online, and watch their favorite TV shows. Fast forward twenty years to today: My-89-year old parents both use an iPhone, an iPad, a Mac computer, and a smart TV.

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In Hand Health

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Over the past two months, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has begun shifting its policies in favor of telemedicine and telehealth services. But they want to make sure that an e-visit or other remote care is just as good as they’d get in person, and that their health information stays private.”.

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Clear Arch Health

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Over recent years, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have created and amended codes allowing for remote patient monitoring (RPM) reimbursement. The CPT codes apply to both standard Medicare Part B and Medicare Advantage programs. Logging in: Using patient portals to access health information.

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care innovations

JANUARY 2, 2019

2018 began with a bang, as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) officially “unbundled” CPT code 99091 to give eligible practitioners the ability to receive separate reimbursement for certain remote care services. January: Unbundled CMS Code Increases Remote Care Reimbursement.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Even though the CCPA doesn’t cover all healthcare data, healthcare organizations will still collect additional information that could be subject to CCPA, which means more compliance obligations, Fisher says. Other states are considering how to jump on the privacy legislation bandwagon, which means that regulatory requirements will increase.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Patients with state-funded Medicaid and federally funded Medicare plans also encounter logistical barriers to securing musculoskeletal care, including lower referral rates to orthopedic surgeons. 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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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.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

It also experimented with at-work clinics, piloting a health center at its Seattle headquarters, and dove deeper into patient data analysis via sophisticated natural language processing. And as part of its efforts to target the aging infirm, the company began offering Prime discounts to Medicare recipients.

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