Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

For federal agencies and state and regional exchanges, this is an excellent time to demonstrate leadership in interoperability by joining a network that will likely provide a ready on-ramp to TEFCA. State and regional HIEs are critical to our nation’s goal of comprehensive interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2023

While the EHR Association has long supported the goals of the proposed rule, called Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing Proposed Rule (HTI-1), we have a number of real concerns about the impact it would have on the industry if finalized as proposed.

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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. And then what?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 28, 2022

And basic Medicare still does not cover, although Medicare Advantage plans (like United Healthcare , for example) in some locations do. Customers with severe hearing loss will still need an audiologist – the traditional hearing aid reseller. Wi-Fi Enabled Fall Detection – and other room-smart changes.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Further, state-by-state laws requiring in-person meetings between psychiatric nurse practitioners and psychiatrist collaborators should be reexamined as these can safely take place over video conferences. cut to physicians who treat the country’s most vulnerable patients through Medicare.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Luckily, with recent technological improvements, buyers can now find enterprise-level interoperable healthcare solutions and revenue cycle performance services with the horsepower and reliability of legacy on-premises solutions but with a manageable implementation effort and at a rural-friendly cost.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 21, 2022

The duties of this position can be carried out remotely if this meets the business needs of CORE. Code, test and maintain electronic clinical quality measures using Clinical Quality Language (CQL) and Fast Healthcare Interoperable Resources (FHIR). Flexible work schedules and telecommuting are available if needed and /or desired.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

Personalized healthcare meets people where they are as an individual with unique behaviors, medical histories and life circumstances. When friends meet for dinner, there’s no confusion about which dining hall they’re going to; no fragmentation. Healthcare interoperability is the ultimate goal. million in 2020.

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Health Intersections

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

On Friday last week, an article by Wendy John was published by Wild Health , in which I’m quoted as saying, regarding the My Health Record and the Strengthening Medicare Taskforce report : FHIR guru Grahame Grieve has advocated for interoperability standards in healthcare for over two decades.

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Digital Health Global

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Critically, while more than half of surveyed organizations (61%) have invested effort and resources into meeting the requirements of the Cures Act, only 36% report having the necessary comprehensive data quality programs in place to do so. To download the full report, click here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

By Bill Siwicki | July 14, 2023 News Epic-linked voice AI improves provider experience at Franciscan Missionaries The Louisiana health system is using the technology to help meet other Quadruple Aim goals of.

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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. 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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BHM Healthcare Solutions

MAY 1, 2018

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed transformative patient-centered care changes to the payment systems for services furnished by a range of medical facilities. Click HERE to discuss how BHM helps payers. . This will inform next steps to advance this critical initiative.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 5, 2022

What I have been most excited about is the acceleration in the concrete steps that Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services states and accreditation organizations are taking to inspire action in the space of health equity. Q: You suggest interoperability will play a big role in healthcare innovation in 2023.

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Redox

OCTOBER 12, 2023

AI reimbursement Medicare and Medicaid are beginning to reimburse for AI applications on a per-use basis, though adoption is still in its infancy. However, cloud hyperscalers are quickly building out their AI infrastructure to meet rising demand. Two states have enacted such measures.

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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. Washington.

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CMS.gov

JULY 18, 2018

Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The challenge is great, but so is the reward—building the next generation of interoperable health systems for millions of Americans and affecting national and global health IT for good. CMS Doubling Down on Health IT; Patients. Mohanraj.Balas…. Thu, 07/19/2018 - 00:03.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 2024

Director at NTT DATA On February 8, 2024, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability (HTI-1) Final Rule in the Federal Register, which took effect on March 11, 2024. The following is a guest article by Nitin Kunte, Sr.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The siloed nature of such data repositories can be attributed to various factors, including using different EHR systems, varying data capture standards, and a historical lack of emphasis on system interoperability. The solution to these challenges lies in the adoption of interoperable data systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

This requires an in-person meeting between the administrator and clinician, where the clinician provides an ID. Traditionally, the DEA required patients to meet in person with the clinician before that clinician can issue a controlled substance prescription. Each clinician is registered to prescribe controlled substances.

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CMS.gov

MAY 31, 2018

Meeting the Challenges Ahead. 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. The technical assistance networks also responded to 98.7

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Clear Arch Health

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Are they flexible and able to meet your organization’s needs as those needs change? . Improved patient outcome and higher quality measures that help organizations meet requirements for CMS Value-based health programs . The CPT codes apply to both standard Medicare Part B and Medicare Advantage programs.

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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 5, 2023

Through interoperability via low-code integrations, improved accuracy on patient information and documentation will be available for more patients and people with access rights. Supply in healthcare was not meeting demand before the pandemic. Healthcare Information Exchanges (HIEs) will continue to evolve in 2023.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2024

Providers who can rapidly scale their workforces and technology to meet demand will lead the pack in this now highly competitive space. 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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The pandemic generated uneven experiences for millions of Americans as physicians, therapists, nurse practitioners, hospitals and other caregivers – all coming to telehealth with varying levels of experience themselves – tried suddenly to meet patients where they were, said PwC researchers. Health portfolios reshaped for growth.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The EHR Association called for greater flexibility in the data completeness threshold and additional criteria to enhance patient matching accuracy, while MGMA called for a positive update to the Medicare conversion factor amid high inflation. The main reason: 60% say navigation services employer’s existing carriers don’t meet employer needs.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2018

That deficiency is, in three words, lack of interoperability; that challenge has required one-half of physician-users to use work-around’s to make their EHR investments more useful. ” Interoperability wasn’t baked into the original legislation. Neither was an objective to enchant users with streamlined experience.

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The Digital Health Corner

MARCH 26, 2018

The blockchain rubber meeting Wall Street’s road is already here. According to an excellent whitepaper describing a case study of Medrec , a platform utilizing blockchain technology, health information interoperability is facilitated with the use of blockchain. One may also imagine the implications for healthcare data security.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 9, 2021

IT vendor Salesforce is rolling out new healthcare tools designed to help healthcare and life sciences organizations meet their patients, members and customers where they are to deliver the right care, at the right time, from anywhere. This can integrate with Epic's EHR. Enable providers to schedule video visits.

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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. They didn’t just talk about interoperability that could move data from A to B.

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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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CMS.gov

MARCH 7, 2013

Stage 2 of the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs. Accountable Care Organizations can also report quality measures from their EHRs to meet reporting requirements for participating eligible professionals. By Patrick Conway, MD, MSc. How Providers Benefit. Learn more at HIMSS.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

Here goes: the front-loading of the DSRIP program caused dollars to go to PPS sponsors for setting up the program and for checking boxes (literally – “we had a meeting with so-and-so”) to satisfy reporting requirements and subsequent payments. This is likely the paragraph that will get me in the most trouble.

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CMS.gov

MARCH 5, 2013

Health IT vendors are working hard to build the kind of technology that will realize true electronic interoperability. The truth is that each of these initiatives will have a significant impact on the practice of medicine, but taken together they have the potential to dramatically transform the delivery of health care.

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HIStalk Weekender

AUGUST 10, 2018

CMS releases a draft rule that would overhaul the Medicare Share Savings Program. This is the great golden spike moment for interoperability – except with the Carequality Railroad traversing the entire continent to connect CommonWell San Francisco trolley network. Weekly News Recap. Vaporware? ). In Case You Missed It. News 8/10/18.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 6, 2018

In essence, blockchain could help reshape healthcare interoperability by serving as a next-generation middleware that couples health data with decentralized, distributed, and immutable qualities, according to a new report by IDC Health Insights. To date, however, the VA has yet to test blockchain related to its massive healthcare system.

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