Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Furthermore, health plan members now see themselves as medical bill payers, seeking value and consumer-level services for their health insurance premium investment. Patients and health plan members continue evolving into medical bill payers, with their homes and budgets baked into the concept.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 6, 2023

Partnerships Fintech company Cedar is working with Google Cloud to build AI-powered tools to hep patients understand medical bills. KMS Healthcare launched CONNECT , an interoperability platform for developers of digital health technology. Interoperability company Kno2 appointed Dr. Peter Schoch as Chief Health Officer.

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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 News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 23, 2020

We are also grateful that Congress included Medicare coverage for telemental health services, just one of the many clinical specialties that benefitted from telehealth during the COVID-19 public health emergency," said Johnson. Although the U.S.

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HIStalk Weekender

AUGUST 2, 2019

The country’s biggest technology companies reaffirm their commitment to healthcare interoperability. CMS announces a pilot project to display a patient’s claims data to Medicare fee-for-service providers. It appears that it only gives them data for Medicare FFS patients. Cerner signs a partnership deal with Amazon Web Services.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2023

There’s a sort of health care “shrinkflation” that has been shaping patients-as-payors of medical bills. Further refining the point that patients’ medical bills and expenses are now part of their household and retail financial budgets, the Federal Reserve published this report on households’ well-being, asserting that 23% of U.S.

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