Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Caravan Health President and CEO Tim Gronniger previously was chief of staff and director of delivery system reform at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In 2019 and 2020, its partners earned $300 million in Medicare savings, more than $120 million in shared savings, and quality scores exceeding 97%, the company reported.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2023

“Everything we do is designed to improve access to health care and health outcomes for polychronic patients by supporting their individual needs in their own homes, transforming the patient experience, especially for those who have been historically underserved.”. cities across 34 states.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2022

It is Brooklyn's tertiary care hub serving diverse communities with large Medicaid, Medicare and uninsured populations. In 2018, Maimonides' leadership established digital health as a strategic priority for the medical center. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 23, 2023

For example, as outpatient services such as infusions outpace projections , and as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services open the door to more outpatient procedures by moving 11 procedures off its “inpatient only” list, ambulatory providers must have the financial strength to make the investments needed to support growth.

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CMS.gov

MARCH 2, 2018

Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) Funding Opportunity: Measure Development for the Quality Payment Program. Leadership. They are concrete quality topics which reflect core issues that are most vital to high quality care and better patient outcomes. Jeremy.Booth@c…. Fri, 03/02/2018 - 16:30.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

Jain, a board-certified internal medicine physician, has 20 years of experience in clinical medicine, health policy, managed care and healthcare delivery leadership.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Another source of fresh foods for low-income people is FarmboxRx , often available through Medicaid and Medicare Advantage programs as part of SNAP or Healthy Food Card benefits. Using data and predictive analytics, TailorMed flags financially at-risk patients based on factors such as prescribed medications and insurance coverage.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Healthcare staffing shortages will continue to negatively impact patient experience in 2023. With healthcare professionals working longer hours and dealing with increased workloads, patient experience has fallen to the wayside. Almost 75% say that this impacts patient care moderately to severely.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 23, 2020

Plus, we shared the expansion of Medicare coverage and payment for telehealth. We wrote previously about HIPAA enforcement being suspended for telehealth during COVID-19 and more details on how to implement it. However, there were still many questions.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

” Half of Medicare beneficiaries who could be in an ACO are now in an ACO. […]. We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 11/22 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Travis Broome (@Travis_Broome) on the topic “How Does Health IT Enable Accountable Care?”

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Andrew Eye, CEO of the healthcare data science company ClosedLoop , estimates that about 15% of physicians collect SDoH-related data from patients and use it to assess their needs. Data can be spotty, according to Eye, who says for instance that data from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) often lacks racial identifications.

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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. Data, especially in an increasingly personalized healthcare system, is inevitably siloed.

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care innovations

JANUARY 2, 2019

2018 began with a bang, as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) officially “unbundled” CPT code 99091 to give eligible practitioners the ability to receive separate reimbursement for certain remote care services. I believe the common denominator in successful programs is courageous leadership,” he writes. “I

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CMS.gov

MAY 31, 2018

Leadership. We’re also eager to improve the clinician and patient experience through our Meaningful Measures initiative so that clinicians can spend more time providing care to their patients and improving the quality of care their patients receive. Quality Payment Program Exceeds Year 1 Participation Goal.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2024

In the next year, we’ll see further evolution of hybridized care models where parts of virtual care are leveraged to improve access and patient experience. Second, virtual care teams can help busy health system specialists manage chronic care patients, freeing up more of their time for new and/or more complex patients.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Ever since the announcement last year that three of America’s biggest companies — Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase — had united, Voltron-style, to fight for lower healthcare costs and forge “a better patient experience” for their combined 1.2 For the most part, we’re still waiting.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Like many SDoH tools, the analysis identifies vulnerable patients and does risk stratification. The Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) program, used by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to rate hospitals, now contain two measures of SDoH.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

Scott Pross, Vice President of Technology at Monalytic , a SolarWinds Company 2024 is going to be a transformational year for healthcare, as IT modernization efforts will improve the practitioner and patient experience. The healthcare landscape will likely witness challenges and adjustments in Medicare Advantage programs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

Then they can encourage those members to come in for required screenings that are part of the Medicaid and Medicare Advantage programs.”. “They need to understand all this information about individual members so that they can help direct and navigate that member to the right care at the right time,” continued Mason.

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Henry Kotula

MARCH 29, 2023

Not surprisingly, congressional lobbying was intense during the last two weeks of 2022 in a partially successful effort to ameliorate spending cuts for Medicare payments for physicians and hospitals. Changing leadership doesn’t change the new environment.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

It can also automate the review of incoming faxes, identify gaps in care, streamline tasks with robotic process automation, and even alert providers of patients most likely to miss an appointment. I’m excited to see how it will transform clinical workflows and, in the end, create a better patient experience in 2024.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

While innovation and leadership rank high on attributes, they are less important to global consumers than the integrity-authenticity-relevance factors. We capped the cost of insulin at $35 a month for seniors on Medicare. But, Big Pharma has been unfairly charging people hundreds of dollars – and making record profits. Not anymore.

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