Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

cut to physicians who treat the country’s most vulnerable patients through Medicare. Every healthcare stakeholder needs to say out loud what we all know to be true—that the way we reimburse ambulatory clinicians under Medicare is fundamentally broken and in need of a major structural overhaul.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 12, 2023

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. As something of a space nerd, I find the parallels between interoperability and space exploration striking.

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CMS.gov

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

2018 Medicare Fee-For-Service improper payment rate is lowest since 2010. Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Leadership. 2018 Medicare Fee-For-Service improper payment rate is lowest since 2010 Significant progress in saving $4.59B in estimated improper payments for the Medicare Fee-For-Service program.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 9, 2020

Health Informatics Trend #1: Interoperability. Interoperability is the ability of different information systems, devices, and applications (“systems”) to access, exchange, integrate and cooperatively use data in a coordinated manner, within and across organizational, regional and national boundaries. Here are three of them.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2021

Before that she served as director of the State Innovation Models Initiative at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Department of Veterans Affairs' effort to modernize its IT systems and create an interoperable EHR shared among VA, the Department of Defense, the U.S. Isaiah Nathaniel. Philadelphia. Linda Reed.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

A study of Medicare beneficiaries published in JAMA Psychiatry and co-authored by CDC, CMS, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse found that emergency-authorized telehealth services for treating opioid use disorder during the pandemic was associated with improved medication retention and lower odds of medically treated overdose.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2023

For instance, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has 50 data sets pointing to available help; states and the Department of Veterans Affairs has other data sets. This past Spring, DUOS replaced their traditional Elasticsearch-based search engine with a much better one based on a large language model from Open AI.

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CMS.gov

JULY 18, 2018

Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The CHIO role will enhance my leadership team, working across CMS, with federal partners including the U.S. program—a universal digital format for personal health information—and our overhaul of the CMS EHR Incentive Programs to focus on interoperability. Mohanraj.Balas….

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

As a result, these provider types sit outside of current interoperability and health information exchange efforts and have been slow to adopt electronic health records (EHRs) due to a lack of government incentive programs. Since the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

Healthcare providers maintain different systems than payers, as do government entities like Medicare and Medicaid. Healthcare interoperability is the ultimate goal. Data, especially in an increasingly personalized healthcare system, is inevitably siloed.

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CMS.gov

MAY 31, 2018

Leadership. Added new bonus points for clinicians who are in small practices, treat complex patients, or use 2015 Edition Certified Electronic Health Record Technology (CEHRT) exclusively as a means of promoting the interoperability of health information. Quality Payment Program Exceeds Year 1 Participation Goal. keya.joy-bush@….

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Current staffing levels are barriers to accessing care at a time when the industry is focusing important thought leadership on health equity. Through interoperability via low-code integrations, improved accuracy on patient information and documentation will be available for more patients and people with access rights.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

While the key components of privacy (administrative, uses and disclosures, individual rights, and general security) are all necessary today, I would put privacy, security, breach – and relevant 21 Century Cures Interoperability topics – all together and make sure everyone handling any type of sensitive information be subject to these rules.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2023

The biggest news for healthcare IT was the extension of telehealth expansion under Medicare through the end of 2024. NextGen announced that clients using NextGen Population Health achieved an average of $9 million in savings in 2021 in the Medicare Shared Savings Program MSSP. 29, 2022, President Biden signed the omnibus spending bill.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2024

These new players and classifications in healthcare, coupled with a drive to create interoperability, highlight the need for a robust identity management strategy for both consumers and providers. Brad Kittredge, Co-Founder and CEO at Brightside Health Digital mental health will be ingrained in Medicaid and Medicare.

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HIStalk Interviews

OCTOBER 3, 2018

How do you see the company fitting into the interoperability landscape? I’m not sure I would even classify what we do as carte blanche interoperability. Interoperability is principally concerned with moving data from Point A to Point B. The state of Virginia had phenomenal leadership and vision.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) program, used by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to rate hospitals, now contain two measures of SDoH. Spatially Health applies geospatial analysis to expand a provider’s understanding of SDoH data.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

Interoperability and artificial intelligence will play a large role in the innovation of healthcare technology in 2024 and will be necessary to control the rising needs in healthcare data management and analytics. The healthcare landscape will likely witness challenges and adjustments in Medicare Advantage programs.

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HIStalk Weekender

AUGUST 10, 2018

CMS releases a draft rule that would overhaul the Medicare Share Savings Program. DoD will be first in line once it’s ready, so as to exhibit “leadership,”right?) Weekly News Recap. UnitedHealth Group is reportedly the only non-financial company that’s in the running to acquire Athenahealth. Vaporware? ).

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Interoperability Year: More Technologies in the Marketplace Drive the Critical Need for Interoperability: In the rapidly evolving landscape of clinical trials and the myriad of technologies going to market, the imperative for interoperability will become increasingly evident.

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