Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 6, 2023

Wellvana has a proven record of succeeding in full risk-based contracting with technology-enabled tools that empower physicians to focus on what matters most – better quality of care for patients.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Without action from Congress, most of the telehealth flexibilities will cease, cutting off telehealth access to a majority of Medicare beneficiaries. Patients and providers deserve to have continued access to every tool at their disposal. Senate leadership urging them to take up the legislation.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2023

billion through Arcadia’s Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) service. Vista Credit Partners invests in innovative software businesses with established market leadership, providing non-dilutive credit solutions and counsel to help them achieve their next phase of growth,” said David Flannery, President at Vista Credit Partners.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Without action from Congress, most of the telehealth flexibilities will cease, cutting off telehealth access to a majority of Medicare beneficiaries. Patients and providers deserve to have continued access to every tool at their disposal. Senate leadership urging them to take up the legislation.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 29, 2023

Read more… Data Lineage Tools Help Unpack Complex Data Dependencies. Data lineage tools document the source, accuracy, and flow of regulated healthcare data – a key step in ensuring compliance and minimizing the impact of a data breach, noted Ernie Ostic at Manta. Transparency in how AI is developed and used can help here.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Increased utilization of physical therapy for Medicare patients with knee and hip pain reduces healthcare costs by up to $4,000 annually , according to the latest research from Luna. Avaamo integrated its generative AI tool with MyChart and is now available in the Epic Showroom. and eClinicalWorks AI capabilities.

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Dental software maker Henry Schein One is partnering with VideaHealth to release AI-enabled X-ray analysis tools. Marketing communications company Paubox launched a new contact management tool for Paubox Marketing , its marketing automation product. Urgent care EHR vendor Experity appointed Dr. Benjamin Barlow as Chief Medical Officer.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This will include tools such as temperature and humidity sensors, blood pressure sensors, thermal vision cameras, and fall risk detection sensors, alongside Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS)—while home settings could include monitoring Activities of Daily Living (ADL), integrated consumer wearables, and other home-based monitoring systems.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The past 18 months have seen an enormous uptick in interest and use of digital health tools, including those enabling telehealth , COVID-19 testing and data sharing , contact tracing and vaccine verification passes. But as Dr. Patrice Harris points out, not every tool is appropriate for every person, or every situation.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Sarah Carroll, Senior Vice President, Center for Care Transformation at AVIA Health Medicaid and Medicare have become one of the biggest quiet crises in health systems today. US hospitals regularly lose $100B annually on Medicaid and Medicare patients but continue to chase higher-margin commercial patients to drive toward profitability.

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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

AUGUST 28, 2023

Many organizations are conducting a full analysis of their sites and some have found more than 50 tools that create privacy risks. This type of document will require not only top-notch billing tools but also new levels of contractual collaboration between separate provider entities.

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CMS.gov

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Leadership. Just yesterday, we proposed requiring each Part D plan to adopt a real-time prescription benefit tool of its choosing by January 1, 2020. You Have the Right to Know the Price. Jeremy.Booth@c…. Tue, 11/27/2018 - 18:48. Seema Verma. Initiatives.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 17, 2024

Karl Ulfers, Co-Founder and CEO at DUOS We spend most of our time at DUOS working with Medicare Advantage Plans and working directly with the older adults that are a part of those plans and their caregivers. They’re also computationally quite intensive and their output is unpredictable.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2024

Brad Kittredge, Co-Founder and CEO at Brightside Health Digital mental health will be ingrained in Medicaid and Medicare. and one in four Medicare beneficiaries are living with mental illness, yet only 40-50% receive treatment. Medicaid is the single largest payer for mental health services in the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

She is a member of the clinical leadership at Done, a platform that connects patients with psychiatric board-certified medical professionals for services including online video consultations , diagnosis, care team support and prescription delivery. Overall, it's a great fit – and one that soared during the pandemic and beyond.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2024

Rick Dean, CEO at OncoHealth In 2023, Medicare Advantage (MA) health insurance companies began acting on and planning for massive changes to Part D coverage in response to the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). For members, the good news is that for each plan year, their Part D out of pocket costs will now be capped at $2,000.

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American Well

JULY 13, 2020

At a time of tremendous stress and uncertainty for our healthcare system and our nation as a whole, the health plans and health systems recognized in the four categories below have shown exceptional vision and leadership in scaling virtual care and improving health outcomes for individuals and communities. Leadership Alignment.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

And for healthcare facilities – many of which are struggling with operating costs – automation will further reduce these costs, allowing facilities to build better internal tools and automate even more. Patty Riskind, CEO at Orbita Clients tell us, emphatically, that they need tools to relieve the administrative workload burdening staff.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 13, 2024

Providers not using certified EHR may face downward payment adjustments to their Medicare reimbursements in the affected payment year. Non-compliance with predictive DSI requirements may result in penalties or loss of certification.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2022

Contributors include overwhelming workload, administrative burdens, lack of leadership support, limited workplace flexibility and autonomy, and of course, lack of human-centered technology. Hospitalizations, for example, do not always require the patient to be within a medical facility.

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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. Before joining Geisinger, she served as Pennsylvania’s secretary of health, where she developed an innovative payment and delivery model for rural hospitals. Isaiah Nathaniel. Philadelphia. Linda Reed.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

Yet, an intrinsic outcome of this personalization is data fragmentation — data points from different doctors, platforms and tools stored in multiple systems, completely disconnected from each other. Healthcare providers maintain different systems than payers, as do government entities like Medicare and Medicaid.

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Iris Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

This post will break down the benefits of a telepsychiatry program, tools for analyzing whether telepsychiatry is a good fit for your hospital, criteria for evaluating vendors, and helpful hospital implementation logistics. How a telepsychiatry program can benefit your hospital or health system.

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Digital Health Global

JANUARY 17, 2023

EsoGuard targets a well-established population of approximately 30 million at-risk patients and an estimated $60 billion addressable market based on an effective Medicare payment rate of $1,938, which is consistent with our per-test gross margins targets. Out-of-network payments received to date have respected the Medicare rate.

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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. Additionally, secure electronic documentation tools will be used to store key data, such as around a patient’s visits and medical history, and create clear treatment plans and monitor progress.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Data can be spotty, according to Eye, who says for instance that data from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) often lacks racial identifications. But there are clinically validated tools to ask about some problems. The percentage is much higher in some areas.

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Connected Health Initiative

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Recent Medicare data shows Blacks were hospitalized with COVID-19 at a rate nearly four times higher than Whites. We are at a tipping point for wider use of digital health tools because of the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Brian Scarpelli, senior global policy counsel, CHI. “As amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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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

AI-enhanced workflow tools will be used to enhance existing processes to become more efficient and solve legacy industry challenges such as staffing burnout and the lack of harmonization for healthcare operations. As modernization occurs, tool sprawl and new network vulnerabilities are inevitable.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2022

ONC released a framework to improve integration of health IT tools used to treat drug overdose patients. Cone Health insurance subsidiary HealthTeam Advantage chose Bamboo Health to provide real-time ADT notifications for its PPO and HMO Medicare Advantage plans.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Second, I would realign policy to incentivize payors and providers to prioritize the use of technological tools that can improve patient outcomes, provider workflow, and access to care. This data monitoring will allow leadership to clearly evaluate transformation, patient safety, and reliability.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 4, 2021

" Lexington's senior leadership is engaged, involved and supportive of efforts to move forward, he added. "With the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services relaxing telehealth rules, we could use platforms not previously considered to get the doctors set up and started with telehealth," he explained.

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CMS.gov

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services`. Leadership. That’s because true compassion is giving people the tools necessary to achieve self-sufficiency and to experience the dignity of a job, of contributing to their own care, and gaining a foothold on the path to independence. Jeremy.Booth@c…. Seema Verma.

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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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