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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

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To help out, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to see which healthcare regulations they foresee having a big impact on healthcare IT. Healthcare IT systems, especially EHRs, played a key role in supporting documentation with the use of macros, smart phrases, and templates.

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Health systems, care delivery groups, Amazon launch hospital-at-home initiative

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Encourage greater flexibility for home-based care services to meet commercial and Medicare Advantage network adequacy standards. They also point to research showing home-based care to reduce likelihood of hospital readmissions. Many healthcare leaders have seen the trend moving in this direction for some time. THE LARGER TREND.

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Resilience Healthcare to Implement Altera Digital Health’s Paragon® EHR and Ventus Solutions

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Paragon is delivered in the Azure cloud, providing healthcare organizations with a reliable, scalable system bolstered by Microsoft’s advanced security controls. I look forward to working with the Resilience Healthcare team to ensure smooth implementations and provide support across the organization in the years to come.”

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Orlando Health to launch Hospital Care at Home program

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Orlando Health's program is the first in Central Florida to be approved by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and represents an expansion of a federal enhanced care model created during the pandemic to extend the scop of hospital resources. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Where telemedicine is headed now that the PHE has ended

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Some of those expansive measures, like expanded Medicare reimbursement for telehealth, will remain, at least temporarily, and others, like continuous Medicaid enrollment, will be phased out entirely in the next few months. What does the end of the PHE mean for the future of telemedicine? Enterprise Taxonomy:

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RPM strategies for moving from discharge to hospital-at-home care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

McKinsey estimates $265 billion worth of care services for Medicare patients could shift from traditional facilities to the home by 2025. Hospital-at-home is not a discharge from the hospital, it is providing the hospital level care in the home. With that said, hospital-at-home takes the home setting to an all-new level.

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How Employer Health Plans Can Utilize Telehealth as a Value-Added Service

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Most employers who can embrace these benefits are already doing so: Healthcare IT News ’ Bill Siwicki points to a survey finding that “virtually all employers (96 percent)” are offering some form of telehealth in 2018 if allowed to do so by state law. Keeping hospital admissions to a minimum. Improving general employee satisfaction.