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Reducing Administrative Costs Within US Healthcare: A Summary

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Health Care ” by David Cutler for the Hamilton Project at Brookings outlines a detailed perspective on how to understand and alleviate the weight of unnecessary healthcare spending. These public programs include Medicare, the ACA, federal employee insurance, VA insurance, and more. We will go through them in detail below.

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What's ahead for health IT policy and legislation in 2023 

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Also on its policy agenda for the year ahead: advocating for data standardization, offering input for interoperability rulemaking and engaging with agencies and states to increase telehealth access. Budget leaders have asked, "How do you really know what the impact on the Medicare population and the Medicare Trust Fund will be?

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III: What We Learned in 2020 & What We’re Expecting This Year

Redox

Prescription 2: Make interoperability a greater priority. I talked about interoperability last week in this blog post (above). Today, let’s address how to facilitate telehealth through better infrastructure. . Prescription 1: Double down on innovation. Prescription 3: Facilitate telehealth through infrastructure.

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Impetus and Edict: What the Latest CMS Data Standards Mean for EHRs – Regulatory Talk Series

Healthcare IT Today

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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Featured Health IT Job: eCQM/dCQM Measure Developer – CORE

Healthcare IT Today

Code, test and maintain electronic clinical quality measures using Clinical Quality Language (CQL) and Fast Healthcare Interoperable Resources (FHIR). Applies health data standards and interoperability such as HL7 FHIR Accelerator activities and the Office of National Coordinator certification regulations and policies.

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Featured Health IT Job: Healthcare Data Analyst

Healthcare IT Today

NYeC supports providers in navigating the complex landscape of healthcare information technology provider assistance programs, practice transformation, vendor selection, Promoting Interoperability (formerly Meaningful Use) attestation, and health information exchange utilization.

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The Health Care Cost Curve is Bending Down – A New View from Deloitte

Health Populi

Deloitte provides a provocative argument for how to bend America’s unsustainable health care cost curve while enabling patients – morphing from consumers to health citizens “owning their care and health,” in Deloitte’s words. and a slowing of mass/general pharma manufacturing.