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. Introduced to Congress on April 3 the “Strengthening Medicare for Patients and Providers Act,” is intended to help Medicare payments keep pace with economic challenges like inflation.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 17, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. News In a blog post, ONC highlighted trends in patient access to electronic health information. Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. That process will involve working with seven current Qualified Health Information Network candidates, along with any future QHIN applicants.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 17, 2023

According to a recent McKinsey and Company study , the number of patients treated within the value-based care landscape could roughly double in the next five years. 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

JULY 16, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. When it comes to sharing data, patients are most comfortable doing it for reasons related to treatment (71%) as compared to payment (39%), operations (28%), or public health (23%).

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Thinking about their health care experiences, consumers most-highly ranked having open access to their medical records and partnering for shared medical decisions with their health care providers as key to meaningful health engagement. Some of the stress and anxiety felt across the U.S. The red bars indicate the percent of U.S.

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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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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. These codes, according to the proposal, are intended to be used to understand the effectiveness of and the patient's response to a prescribed therapy.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 26, 2022

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. California-based Centene subsidiary Health Net is now offering at-home COVID-9 vaccinations through a partnership with MedArrive to Medi-Cal (Medicaid) beneficiaries.

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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. The benefits of telehealth continues to grow, according to the WHO. The switch to telehealth services will also help stabilize the increasing healthcare costs.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Many studies and healthcare research findings show that a Chronic Care Model is an evidence-based approach to chronic illness care that can positively impact a patient’s well-being. Some advantages include increased utilization of recommended therapies, shorter hospital stays, fewer emergency room visits, and better health outcomes.In

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Advanced Medical Reviews

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Another is the often time-consuming process of meeting Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requirements for quality and clinical reporting. A third and probably biggest reason for this burnout is stress from utilizing health information technology (HIT), specifically electronic health record (EHR) systems.

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GlobalMed

AUGUST 3, 2021

Factors like race, gender, income, neighborhood, education, language, and incarceration history have influenced patient health. Now studies show they also correlate to someone’s likelihood of being able to participate in video visits or electronically request appointments or prescription refills.

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The Digital Health Corner

JUNE 14, 2017

According to a study in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine ER physicians spend only 28% of their time in direct face to face patient contact and can go through 4000 computer mouse clicks in one shift. Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) have been woefully underfunded and have fallen short of their vision. Social Media.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Telehealth services, which unite technology with healthcare, health information, and health education, have grown substantially over the past 15 years and are expected to increase due to new reimbursement strategies for Medicare providers who offer telehealth services as part of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA).

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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. The virtual care approach has been proven in multiple studies to achieve similar – or better – care outcomes. How do provider organizations handle this messaging?

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InTouch Health

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Studies have shown RPM can improve patient outcomes for those suffering from a chronic condition or illness and those recovering from surgery. Providers can review important health information on their own schedule while keeping high-risk patients out of the ER. The Benefits of Remote Patient Monitoring.

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GlobalMed

JULY 15, 2019

According to a study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine , not very personal at all. A Massachusetts General Hospital study found that patients reported strong personal connections with providers when using telehealth visits. But virtual health offers more subtle benefits as well.

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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. Part 2 – Four Countries’ Different Standards On Pump Safety.

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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. Read more here.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

Preparedness Of Community Health Centers For Telehealth. Despite the changes, many health centers may not be ready to implement high-quality telehealth. A study using 2016 data showed that only 38 percent of CHCs used any telehealth. At least 22 states have explicitly implemented telehealth parity for Medicaid.

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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. A recent UC Irvine School of Medicine study revealed telehealth PT was just as effective as in-clinic therapy. But where will those profits come from? Extending Engagement.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Out of the gate, Stanford used it to develop an app to enroll volunteers in a heart study. In one day 11,000 people enrolled - more users in 24 hours than most medical studies find in a year. Millions of people around the world have already joined medical studies using this infrastructure.

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GlobalMed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Improve community and population health. Avoid Medicare readmission penalties. According to a University of North Carolina study, 113 have shuttered since 2010. But consider that they’re also asked to: Provide an exceptional patient experience. Lower healthcare costs. Meet accountable care and risk contracts.

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GlobalMed

AUGUST 5, 2019

A 2016 Commonwealth Fund study found that 51 percent of U.S. adults struggled to get health care at nights and on weekends without visiting the emergency room. million; approximately $500,000 of those savings went to a managed care Medicare payer. They may have a hard time getting away from their jobs.

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LinkousThink

MARCH 3, 2010

Garth Graham, the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health in the Department of Health and Human Services. We spoke at the annual meeting of the Health Information Management Systems Society in a session titled: “ Underserved Communities and the Health Information Technology Landscape – the Necessity for Partnership.”

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Clear Arch Health

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Examples of improvements abound, but some studies have seen reductions of over 65% in return ER visits within a 30-day window and a 35% reduction in hospital admissions for heart failure patients monitored with RPM. (4). RPM, PERS and Social Determinants of Health. Logging in: Using patient portals to access health information.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

“Still, the shift to more decentralized, virtual studies has received a powerful push during the pandemic,” the report said. “Regulators, for their part, have tried to smooth the way for a pivot to virtual during the public health emergency. Health portfolios reshaped for growth.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Studies One in five healthcare marketers is concerned about job security amid growing adoption of AI , according to a survey by Tebra. The HHS Office for Civil Rights released v3.4

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. The biggest news for healthcare IT was the extension of telehealth expansion under Medicare through the end of 2024. 29, 2022, President Biden signed the omnibus spending bill.

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Xealth

AUGUST 22, 2023

Still salient (if not more now than ever) – Accenture’s COVID-19 Healthcare Provider Survey in 2020 revealed : 60% of patients were willing to use technology for communication and disease management With employers offering more digital healthcare solutions to their employees, the adoption of digital health is poised to increase even further.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In one study of more than 7,000 individuals with arthritis, the incidence rates of developing disabilities in activities of daily living (ADL) over a six-year period were significantly higher for Blacks (28%) and Spanish-speaking Hispanics (28.5%) as compared to whites (16.2%).

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The Digital Health Corner

MARCH 26, 2018

Herding a patient’s data from many sources into a single record has always been a lofty goal of digital health. According to an excellent whitepaper describing a case study of Medrec , a platform utilizing blockchain technology, health information interoperability is facilitated with the use of blockchain.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Products Disinfection technology company UV Angel demonstrated that its Clean Air units reduce bacteria in the air by 70% through a study with Trinity Health Senior Communities.

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GlobalMed

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reports that of $3.5 Deductibles in job-based health plans in the U.S. A study from the Commonwealth Fund found 24 million Americans with employer health plans are struggling with high medical costs. trillion in U.S. healthcare spending in 2017, Americans paid $365.5

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JUNE 30, 2022

On the other hand, insulin use has been linked to more prescription errors than any other form or class of drug, according to studies. RPM enables convenient and loyal communication between patients and clinicians via a variety of communication tools and the transmission of medical, imaging, and health information between sites.

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GlobalMed

MAY 12, 2020

A Kaiser Health News study found that overall, 18 million people live in ?counties Many restrictions have been lifted and providers can now offer telehealth services to Medicare patients and be paid equitably for a virtual visit just like a face-to-face visit. An unexpected catalyst of change has arrived in COVID-19.

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