Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 2, 2023

Home Care Magazine provided details about the just-announced Dementia Care policy changes, called the GUIDE Model , including care coordination services, support and payment to family caregivers to help keep care recipients out of nursing homes, and respite help. New progress for dementia care. BoundaryCare. Learn more at Toch Sleepsense.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 22, 2023

It’s at the point where the surgeon general recently declared it to be a serious health risk : " 29% increased risk of heart disease, a 32% increased risk of stroke, and a 50% increased risk of developing dementia for older adults. Our virtual companions extend the reach of both the provider and health plan into the home. CareAngel. "AI

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Nursing 62

Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points: One of the earliest and most important books on the benefits of “doing less” in healthcare was Shannon Brownlee’s Overtreated , which I’ve covered here in Health Populi since the start of the blog in 2007. It’s not enough to open up doctors notes to patients.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Necessity will drive AI usage in care work across all five care types (healthcare, home health care, home care, senior living, and Skilled Nursing Facilities). Population health will transform into a population of one. Avatars are emerging built on health protocols and voluminous data sets.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

Medicare Payment Resources CMS implemented an Ambulatory Payment Classification-based payment methodology in 2008. Visit the Medicare payment resources page on the ASCA website to learn about the changes that CMS has made to the payment system and ensure that your ASC is paid appropriately.

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Medicare Medical Billing HIPAA Medical Billing Services 52

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Mergers & Acquisitions Network Infrastructure Telehealth Health system CIOs are reducing their tech footprint and consolidating their IT systems for agility and efficiency. At nearly $15 billion, the funding surpasses the amount for the full year 2020.

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Digital Health EHR Primary Care Connected Health 150

Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 9, 2022

It would be inappropriate for a Billing/Payment use-case to invoke Break-Glass. But would require that there be some yet-to-be-defined code to indicate that Break-Glass may be useful The FHIR Bundle that is returned might have a Bundle.meta.security tag that indicates that some data were redacted ( REDACTED ).

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 30, 2020

Dive Brief: The financial impact on primary care practices due to the COVID-19 pandemic has been profound and will likely continue in the months ahead, according to a new study published in Health Affairs. Dive Insight: Medical practices across the United States have been hit hard by the COVID-19 outbreak.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Interoperable Consent Standards My main focus is on enabling Health Information to flow given proper Security and Privacy. The application of security vocabulary as request context (purposeOfUse), response obligations (do not re-disclose), and data tags (confidential and sensitive). This would be a "Payment" purpose of use.

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Interoperability FHIR EHR Health Information 93

American Well

JUNE 28, 2015

Hear from a health law expert as he breaks down the variances in telehealth policy and looks at what the future holds. As a patient of Franciscan Health System’s primary care clinic in Port Orchard, Soderberg learned about an alternative option: virtual urgent care, at the cost of $35. ” Read More.

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Telemedicine Telehealth Primary Care Medicare 48

Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 5, 2023

With the launch of its new Chart Note Assist, the company incorporated sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) into its electronic health record (EHR) platform to instantly surface relevant patient data, providing physicians with key diagnostic insights and generating potential treatment plans. CEO of CharmHealth. “By

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FHIR EHR Interoperability mHealth 88

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2022

Based on the comments from the healthcare keynotes and from the digital health + medtech entrepreneurs roaming the aisles of the exhibit hall – there are encouraging signs that healthcare may weather the economic downturn better than other industries. That’s what Alaffia Health is doing. Colin Hung (@Colin_Hung) June 22, 2022.

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Primary Care Telehealth Patient Experience Digital Health 92

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 4, 2022

Systems get access to rich, structured data that can power care management and population health analytics. Patients can also get automated care plans, intelligent nudges on next steps, and enhanced health literacy." Learn more. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , AgeTech , healthcare , telehealth.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Pharmaceuticals Health Analytics 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 20, 2020

But realistically how will that process change, given that it is typically done by state health agencies , which are not likely to be overstaffed? category tags: covid-19 , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF). Lawyers are at the ready.

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Nursing 136

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 4, 2022

Systems get access to rich, structured data that can power care management and population health analytics. Patients can also get automated care plans, intelligent nudges on next steps, and enhanced health literacy." Learn more. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , AgeTech , healthcare , telehealth.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Pharmaceuticals Health Analytics 62

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 20, 2020

But realistically how will that process change, given that it is typically done by state health agencies , likely not overstaffed? category tags: covid-19 , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF). Lawyers are at the ready.

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Nursing 111

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Therasa Bell, Cofounder, President and CTO at Kno2 , has spent her career in healthcare IT, so it’s very meaningful to hear her speak of Kno2’s intention to become a designated QHIN (Qualified Health Information Network) under the TEFCA, asserting, “This is a turning point”. And that’s where Bell places TECFA; it’s meaningful.

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Interoperability FHIR EHR Healthcare IT 59

Redox

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Prior authorization “is a non-computerized kabuki of payment” that “needs to get rethought.” Many of us have experienced a prior authorization (PA) process – when a doctor requests approval from a health insurance company before providing a medical service or treatment. ” Don Rucker, former ONC Director.

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Interoperability EHR Patient Experience 59

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies. Bardy Diagnostics.

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Connected Health Telehealth Pharmaceuticals EHR 183

FierceHealthIT

JULY 20, 2023

Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chair Sen. | The influential Democrat's legislation is slated for committee markup next week, but is already being speared by Republicans for its price tag and hospitals for measures requiring site-neutral payments.

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Primary Care 98