Digital Health Global

APRIL 4, 2024

Through the Navierre partnership, these transformative tools will now be accessible to a broader audience, breaking down barriers to specialty cardiovascular care. By making innovative diagnostic tools more accessible and convenient no matter where patients are located, cardiovascular specialty care can be scaled.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2024

Only 22% of companies offering chronic condition management solutions to employees fully trust vendors to act in the employer’s best interest, according to a Quantum Health report. In other news, Quantum Health launched Premier Oncology , a cancer care navigation tool.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Clearwater is partnering with 25m Health to develop a cybersecurity and compliance program for health tech startups. Product and Company News Authenticx introduced a generative AI tool for summarizing recorded customer conversations. Health information network Availity issued five principles for the responsible use of AI.

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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.

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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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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

AUGUST 28, 2023

Many organizations are conducting a full analysis of their sites and some have found more than 50 tools that create privacy risks. This type of document will require not only top-notch billing tools but also new levels of contractual collaboration between separate provider entities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

How to manage the new 'data tsunami' As providers rushed to roll out new telehealth services in response to the pandemic, many weren't – and many still aren't – prepared to manage the upsurge of new data, and new data types, streaming into their electronic health records. How to shore up telehealth cybersecurity.

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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.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

That process will involve working with seven current Qualified Health Information Network candidates, along with any future QHIN applicants. Health insurance consumers are increasingly comfortable with digital tools, the latest Voice of the Member survey from Cognizant said. That said, operating margins were 1.1%

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 5, 2019

And in February, ONC proposed a further rule change that would allow individuals to securely and easily access structured Electronic Health Information using applications for smartphones and other mobile devices. Medicare Advantage changes may revive tech-enabled home care services. million unfilled jobs by 2026.

mHealth 108

mHealth Interoperability Medicare Digital Health 108

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.

Digital Health 40

Digital Health Health Technology Medicare Connected Health 40

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

JANUARY 23, 2023

Little attention has been given to the faulty data foundations underpinning advanced health IT applications like risk modeling, care intervention, and machine learning. Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) Data Analysis will Gain Traction Once again, SDoH generated a lot of buzz over the past year. Medicare saved $1.6

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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. Since launching its self-serve suite of developer tools last fall, Canvas has seen more than 300% growth in customer accounts.

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EMR Digital Health Primary Care RCM 52

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.

Telemedicine 145

Telemedicine Nursing Mental health Health Information 145

Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

How do Amazon and One Medical protect private health information? The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) governs what One Medical, Amazon, and others can do with Protected Health Information and this includes information like medication history, medical conditions, and treatment information.

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Primary Care Mental health Health Information HIPAA 167

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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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.

Nursing 52

Nursing HIE Medicare EHR 52

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

A lesser-known component of ARRA was Title XIII, the HITECH Act, which funded hospitals’ and physicians’ adoption of electronic health records systems (EHRs). The policy’s acronym fully spelled-out was the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009.

Digital Health 154

Digital Health EHR Telehealth Health Information 154

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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Telemedicine Telehealth mHealth Psychiatry 160

Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 9, 2020

Sands: I trained in clinical informatics because of my belief that we needed to better empower healthcare professionals with information technology so they could take better care of patients, and spent many years creating and implementing these tools. Health Informatics (HI) is a relatively new, interdisciplinary field.

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Interoperability Health Information Health science EHR 73

Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 2023

This article also serves as a case study for PART-I of our article series, which identifies and explains the leading federal and state laws requiring healthcare language services for practitioners who serve Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries or those who work in federally funded settings.

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Telehealth Mental health HIPAA Medicare 98

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. Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) have been woefully underfunded and have fallen short of their vision. We need EHRs which are clinically oriented with good user interfaces.

Digital Health 87

Digital Health EHR Interoperability Health Information 87

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 30, 2023

At discharge, patients may be medicated, overwhelmed and anxious – not ideal for absorbing complex information. Now that remote care-management technology is an accepted and reimbursable modality, healthcare providers have more tools at their disposal to effectively educate patients and monitor their progress.

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Remote care Nursing Medicare Health Information 128

GlobalMed

AUGUST 3, 2021

Like many patients in her situation, she is covered by Medicaid and Medicare. Amy receives care at a rural Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), built to provide whole person care for patients like herself. We can’t achieve full health equity until we bring all healthcare advances to all patients.

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Telemedicine Mental health Telehealth Digital Health 111

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 13, 2022

This includes regular contact with a primary care provider and access to self-management resources like patient education, support groups, and technology tools. These components are essential for improving the health outcomes of people under chronic illness care. CCM includes: Structured documentation of patient health information.

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Primary Care Nursing Medicare Health Information 40

CMS.gov

MARCH 4, 2013

In January, we passed the 210,000 mark for the total number of providers, including nearly 200,000 eligible professionals, who received a Medicaid or Medicare incentive payment for successfully adopting, implementing, or upgrading or meeting meaningful use of EHR technology. By Elizabeth Holland. Moving into Stage 2.

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EHR Meaningful Use HIE Medicare 26

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

” New players are expected to emerge, offering digital tools and analytics aimed at decentralized clinical trials, HRI suggested. ” Field staff should be upskilled, and the tools and content they use upgraded to be effective in virtual interactions, HRI added. Health portfolios reshaped for growth.

Life Science 208

Life Science Pharmaceuticals Mental health Telehealth 208

Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

For Medicare, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) expanded access to telehealth beyond designated rural areas, loosened HIPAA requirements around telehealth platforms, and instituted parity in reimbursement with in-person visits. At least 22 states have explicitly implemented telehealth parity for Medicaid.

Telehealth 41

Telehealth Primary Care Medicare HIPAA 41

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. In Hand Health Virtual Visits help PT clinics cast a wider net for profitability at all three stages of engagement: Creating Engagement. But where will those profits come from?

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Telehealth Telemedicine Remote care HIPAA 59

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Fragmented Healthcare Data is Costly for Patients and Providers Signed into law by President Obama in 2009, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) mandated the adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) across healthcare systems.

Interoperability 98

Interoperability EHR Health Information Health Data 98

Xealth

AUGUST 22, 2023

Data Liberation: A Double-Edged Sword The advent of electronic health records (EHRs) brought about a remarkable breakthrough in making patient health information (PHI) accessible. However, this deluge of data presents challenges for providers and health systems. The AWV, free for qualifying patients, has shown a 5.7%

Digital Health 98

Digital Health EHR Medicare Health Information 98

GlobalMed

JULY 8, 2019

Digital appointment reminders, self-scheduling features, mobile apps and other online tools can help reduce no-shows and keep patients engaged and motivated. Schedule them for telemedicine visits while you reserve your exam rooms for commercial and Medicare patients. Delegate Medicaid patients with low-acuity issues.

Telemedicine 40

Telemedicine Primary Care Health Policy Mental health 40

American Well

MARCH 17, 2016

API: An application program interface (API) is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications. The app shows heart rate, calories burned, cholesterol and other important vital information, as well as results of lab tests, diagnoses and medical examinations. Telehealth is on the rise in ACOs.

Telehealth 48

Telehealth EMR HIPAA Telemedicine 48

American Well

MARCH 17, 2016

API: An application program interface (API) is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications. The app shows heart rate, calories burned, cholesterol and other important vital information, as well as results of lab tests, diagnoses and medical examinations. Telehealth is on the rise in ACOs.

Telehealth 48

Telehealth EMR HIPAA Telemedicine 48

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 20, 2023

The following is a guest article by Dave Cassel, Chief Customer Officer at Health Gorilla and Former Executive Director of Carequality Talking about privacy and security in health information exchange is tricky. Saying you want to improve it implies that it isn’t good enough now, and that’s never the message we want to send.

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Interoperability Health Information Health Data Medicare 59