Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2020

The pandemic presented a variety of problems when it came to continuing patient care during quarantine. The practice needed a reliable system that would enable seamless patient scheduling, HIPAA-compliant video conferencing and billing, Miller said. “This feature really mimics the patient experience of being in the office.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

" "Coupled with seamless EHR integration and clarity on reimbursement methodology, our new telemedicine infrastructure will push Sun River to thoughtfully consider patient experience in the development of a resilient yet flexible model of care." " James Sinkoff, Sun River Health. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 17, 2020

At present, though telehealth has been a lifeline for many, Smith said, "we have already seen that telehealth is not the great equalizer." "Our job should be to ensure that change is done with the goals of better outcomes and better patient experiences at a lower cost," said Alexander. " Payment parity.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Founded in 2006 by healthcare leaders, NYeC works to help New York State achieve the Triple Aim of improving the patient experience of care, delivering better health outcomes, and reducing costs. The duties of this position involve significant programming; prior experience is required. Tableau, ggplot).

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

To help us in scenario planning the next several years of virtual care adoption, the report gives us the gift of identifying five categories of environmental variables; while the report presents these factors as part of the value-generated framework, several will be useful for scenario planning exercises including: The type of practice: independent, (..)

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

To optimize communication strategies for attracting Medicare Advantage enrollment , a Mid-Atlantic health plan studied the media and social consumption patterns for older people, learning that the target population was more tech-savvy than presumed.

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Lloyd Price

MARCH 27, 2019

All requiring manual entry by the patient or even wired into some kind of central hub before being transmitted through a phone line. This presents numerous operational and patient experience challenges, but is also of questionable clinical utility. A finger pulse oximeter.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Remember the bulky Holter monitors worn at the waist to gather data about The AT-Patch from ATsens won an honoree award at CES 2021 , transforming the form factor and streamlining the patient experience of collecting electrocardiogram data over time.

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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

AUGUST 16, 2022

Our goal in this essay is presenting a roadmap for evolving operational best practices that make this evolution both possible and highly profitable. * * *. On the revenue side, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have indicated plans to cut reimbursements for home-based healthcare services by 4.2%

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care innovations

DECEMBER 26, 2018

And emerging as a key way to usher in that change is population health analytics, which providers are embracing as a means to offset the risk transferred to them by new guidelines from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Providing providers and payors with a richer level of insight into the patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 27, 2022

The demand for home health services is projected to grow nearly eight percent annually through 2030, which is fueled by the majority of the Baby Boomer generation reaching the Medicare age of 65 and growing orthopedic-related diseases. . At times a patient may not be home at the scheduled time.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

To that point, the first chart presents data from the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA) Value of OTC Medicines study which calculated that for every dollar spent on over-the-counter medicines, consumers save on average $6 to $7 to the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

Programs of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), a Medicare and Medicaid program designed for individuals aged 55 and above requiring nursing-home-level care, embraced the benefits of providing care at home prior to the pandemic, enabling this frail population to remain within their familiar home environments and communities.

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American Well

APRIL 26, 2016

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a long-awaited update to CMS bylaws to align key rules with those of health insurance coverage programs to modernize how states purchase managed care for beneficiaries and strengthens the patient experience. New Medicaid Rule Welcomes Telemedicine. MobiHealthNews.

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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. The defense of diagnostic errors in emergency situations is deemed of secondary importance to stabilizing the patient for subsequent diagnosing.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

During the World Congress Patient Experience & Engagement Summit in Boston, I led a panel with these innovative health systems, discussing how they are using virtual health assistants (e.g. AI Chatbots, Voice) to increase efficiency in care delivery and enhance the patient experience. Virtual Assistants in Healthcare.

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Mend

DECEMBER 7, 2020

It’s important to remember that a telemedicine practice also has to comply with several regulatory barriers, such as those from regulatory bodies like the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS), etc. A lot of evolving technologies are taking the world of telehealth by storm at present.

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HIStalk Interviews

JUNE 12, 2019

I started my career in revenue cycle, moved on to analytics and population health, and now we’re in the throes of value-based care and providing an understanding around the risk-based models that payers and CMS are presenting. When the patient presents to the ED, they want to see those discharge notes. Absolutely.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

I’m not suggesting that most current patients could be cared for remotely in a decade — but I do think we’re moving in that direction. Operationally, hospitals and health systems will be more designed around the patient experience rather than the patient accommodating to the hospital design and operations.

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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 News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2023

"Our third strategy, reducing alert volume, presented one of the greatest value adds to our alerting through Myia," Bannister said. "We don't ask the patients to pay for this service, which is most likely a barrier to adoption," he continued.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

In the first strategic partnership for Healthcare NExT, Microsoft worked with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to develop digital services intended to reduce drudgery for physicians and improve patients’ experiences. This year there was job posting for a HIPAA compliance lead for the Alexa team. How does it make you feel?

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mHealth Insight

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

An obvious example of how such limited thinking comprises your ability to see the opportunity is demonstrated by how Dr Sim has presented the concept that mHealth is somehow limited by adoption of smartphones. “Integration of Sensor, Smartphone, and Electronic Health Record (EHR) Data for Patients and Clinicians.

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