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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

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

Telehealth, remote patient monitoring, digital therapeutics, provider home visits, sharable medical records have "shown that care in the home can be at least equivalent to, if not better than, care offered in facilities. They also point to research showing home-based care to reduce likelihood of hospital readmissions.

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Where telemedicine is headed now that the PHE has ended

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

What can be expected in healthcare and health IT now that the PHE has ended, and what does this mean for the future of telehealth? Further, what should CIOs and other health IT leaders at hospitals and health systems be doing to address new telemedicine challenges?

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

care innovations

Much has been written about the benefits of telehealth services like remote care within the healthcare system. By improving patient engagement and healthy behaviors, telehealth has the potential to help keep employees out of the hospital. How Telehealth Helps Meets the Unique Challenges of Employee Health Coverage.

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

For employees over 55 years old, the hospital offers free Medicare and health claims assistance. These exceptional benefits landed the hospital on Best Companies AZ ‘s 100 Best Arizona Companies list for healthcare, and Phoenix Business Journal gave the hospital its HealthCare Leadership Award in 2017.