Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

In his study, Auerswald found that labor market barriers to entry, such as licensing requirements, and technical barriers to entry, such as regulatory approvals and interoperability standards, constitute "the most significant barriers to entrepreneurial entry." " WHY IT MATTERS.

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Digital Health Global

AUGUST 22, 2023

Chronic wounds are the leading risk factor for hospitalizations, with almost 20% of the Medicare population experiencing a chronic wound at any given time. Together, we can continue to revolutionize wound care for the millions of patients and providers in need.” Conservative estimates for the yearly cost of wound care in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

By Bill Siwicki | July 11, 2023 News Houston Methodist nurses use software to boost completions of advance care plans Further, when using this nurse-facilitated technology in patients’ homes, the percentages of.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 6, 2023

Wolters Kluwer and Unbound Medicine released a mobile app that digitizes Lippincott’s Nursing Drug Handbook. KMS Healthcare launched CONNECT , an interoperability platform for developers of digital health technology. Interoperability company Kno2 appointed Dr. Peter Schoch as Chief Health Officer. Wichmann and Pamela O.

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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. This could be an enabler for differentiating behaviors among users in senior housing, hospitals and nursing homes. Wi-Fi Enabled Fall Detection – and other room-smart changes.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 7, 2023

We are facing an estimated 900K deficit of registered nurses by the end of this decade. This problem is only made worse by the silver tsunami of 10K baby boomers aging into Medicare coverage every day. Read more… What Healthcare Interoperability Topic Are Not Enough People Talking About?

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Hospitals serving marginalized communities are less likely to participate in interoperable patient data exchange , according to the latest ONC research. For example, while 79% of patients trust their doctors and nurses, only 54% of front-line workers trust leaders in their organizations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

The patient engagement space will see M&A activity with those vendors with the most intuitive and interoperable user interfaces staying strong. Nursing agreements will also see a change to avoid upfront costs and reduce overall costs. They will seek supplier agreements that are more long term with lower upfront investments.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2021

President, Emirates Nursing Association. Al Mahri is also group chief nursing officer at Abu Dhabi Health Services Company, or "SEHA," where she was the first senior nursing leader to identify the importance of the nursing informatics specialty. They are: Aysha Al Mahri. Abu Dhabi, UAE. Isaiah Nathaniel.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Let’s be real—nurses are, to put it lightly, still being stretched very thin. I’ve been talking with hospitals all over the country this year, and in recent conversations I’ve heard more and more about virtual nursing. Check out our community’s healthcare workforce predictions.

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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 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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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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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. For instance, vulnerability to COVID-19 was closely associated with housing density (with residents of nursing homes and prisons clearly suffering the most).

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Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 9, 2020

Healthcare informatics provides electronic access to medical records for patients, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, insurance companies and health information technicians. Health Informatics Trend #1: Interoperability. The Northeastern MS in Health Informatics program addresses interoperability in two ways.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

Thus far, Remedy Partners has been involved in managing about half a million episodes of care, representing $12 Billion in medical spending, in 48 different DRG-based episodes – working with many hospitals, physician groups, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, all of which may bear risk in the program.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

Thus far, Remedy Partners has been involved in managing about half a million episodes of care, representing $12 Billion in medical spending, in 48 different DRG-based episodes – working with many hospitals, physician groups, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, all of which may bear risk in the program.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

Thus far, Remedy Partners has been involved in managing about half a million episodes of care, representing $12 Billion in medical spending, in 48 different DRG-based episodes – working with many hospitals, physician groups, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, all of which may bear risk in the program.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

Thus far, Remedy Partners has been involved in amanging about half a million episodes of care, representing $12 Billion in medical spending, in 48 different DRG-based episodes – working with many hospitals, physician groups, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, all of which may bear risk in the program.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

Thus far, Remedy Partners has been involved in amanging about half a million episodes of care, representing $12 Billion in medical spending, in 48 different DRG-based episodes – working with many hospitals, physician groups, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, all of which may bear risk in the program.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

government introduced the meaningful use program as part of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in 2009, LTPAC organizations – notably nursing homes – and the vulnerable patients they serve have been left behind. Since the U.S.

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HIStalk Weekender

JUNE 7, 2019

The six former National Coordinators express their support for the proposed interoperability rules of ONC/CMS. Vendor members of the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association raise “significant concerns” about proposed federal rules covering interoperability. Best Reader Comments. Maybe hospital chains start buying SNF and LTC chains.

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HIStalk Interviews

MAY 15, 2019

If you had a transitional care nurse or a licensed social worker who was managing that transition out of the hospital, they were the ones who knew the facilities and the home-based providers. Or maybe a skilled nursing facility is also involved. DINA is our digital nursing assistant. It’s starting to change.

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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

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

JANUARY 4, 2024

In 2024, nurse leaders will drive the paradigm shift toward AI-enabled virtual nursing. 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. Stephanie Lahr, President at Artisight, Inc.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

It may be too early to start imagining a world where health care is truly owned by Big Tech — you order prescription drugs with your Amazon Prime account, see a nurse at the Apple Clinic, get your benefits statements from Google, and call an Uber instead of an ambulance when you need to go to the hospital. But something is happening here.

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Clear Arch Health

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Over recent years, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have created and amended codes allowing for remote patient monitoring (RPM) reimbursement. The CPT codes apply to both standard Medicare Part B and Medicare Advantage programs. CMS Reimbursement for RPM and Chronic Conditions Care.

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HIStalk Weekender

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Politico reports that Pentagon investigators have found Madigan Army Medical Center’s new Cerner-based MHS Genesis software lacking in effectiveness, suitability, and interoperability. For people over 65 on Medicare, we’re Canada. Contribute regularly as a provider CIO, IT director, or informatics nurse (anonymous or not).

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Each interviewee was asked for thoughts in the context of the categories suggested by ChatGPT and any other categories that will improve the work processes for those in the care-related industries – home care, home healthcare, senior living care (including nursing homes), and hospital discharge processes to any of those.

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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. People Interoperability company Rhapsody named Sagnik Bhattacharya as Chief Executive Officer.

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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

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

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. SDoH can help predict who has a high risk of hospitalization and who will need interventions to prevent admissions to a long-term care facility such as a skilled nursing facility.

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HIStalk Interviews

OCTOBER 3, 2018

We help disparate stakeholders across the continuum — emergency, inpatient, skilled nursing facilities, mental health stakeholders, and even health plans and ACOs with their care managers – become aware when a patient needs them, particularly those vulnerable members who have figuratively fallen.

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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. 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. Now in a sense, that’s what a doctor or nurse does when they go in.

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