Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 28, 2024

There were a lot of challenges and bugs to work out, but there were also plenty of advantages and unforeseen benefits. And it is thanks to those advantages and benefits that healthcare at home is continuing, even as there are still challenges to work on and in-person operations return.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

“Video-consultations and telehealth services had not been used much and were poorly developed prior to COVID-19,” says Palsson. Now we need a concerted effort to use the experience from dealing with the pandemic and the IT solutions that were generated,” he says. Hybrid physicians.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2021

Among some other lessons learned by IT execs during the past year and a half: the importance of IT teams partnering with clinical, financial and operational teams at a moment's notice, and the difficulty of hiring key staff during a crisis that needed all hands on deck. Working with new workflows. Technology leaders at U.S.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 27, 2023

Felicia Sadler, MJ, BSN, RN, CPHQ, LSSBB, VP of Quality at Relias Despite the recent end to the COVID-19 global public health emergency, its effects linger. Use various communication channels and key moments like onboarding, surveys, town halls, and team meetings to ask employees about their individual needs.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

By Daniel Swartzman If public health is to prosper, we will need to overcome the after-effects of several failures of imagination. That is why the ACA’s Medicaid expansion doesn’t exist in 11 states , why the penalties for failing to have insurance under the “individual mandate” has been set to $0.00. Should we have seen this coming?

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Medisys Compliance

JULY 13, 2022

Skilled Manpower Shortage. According to a recent survey by AKASA, more than 57 percent of healthcare practices and hospitals have more than 100 open roles to fill, with one in four finance leaders needing to hire more than 20-plus employees to fully staff their revenue cycle departments. No Need to Hire Full Time Employees.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 3, 2022

It has led me to found Tapestry Health, a multispecialty medical practice that focuses on providing medical infrastructure in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), as well as Project Patient Care, a patient advocacy organization based in Chicago, Illinois. The COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated these challenges.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 18, 2021

The need to quickly integrate telemedicine, and an opportunity for a better patient care model, caused a digital transformation roadmap to get accelerated. The COVID-19 crisis put a laser focus on how apparent it is that data and advanced analytics can be powerful weapons in the fight against pandemics.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2021

In this newest installment in Healthcare IT News ' feature story series, Health IT Lessons Learned in the COVID-19 Era – read others in the series here – we talk with four health IT executives with very different vantage points: a CIO, a telemedicine director, a chief nursing informatics officer and an IT director.

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YouCompli

MARCH 29, 2023

In this article, she discusses several issues that hospitals and health systems need to consider as a result of the scheduled end of the COVID-19 public health emergency. population previously received at least one COVID-19 vaccination. population previously received at least one COVID-19 vaccination.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

An all-hands-on-deck push from heroic physicians and nurses to save the lives of as many COVID-19 inpatients as possible. An all-hands-on-deck push from heroic physicians and nurses to save the lives of as many COVID-19 inpatients as possible. A system-wide shift to remote work and virtual, cloud-enabled collaboration.

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Redox

MAY 21, 2020

The response to COVID-19 has shown that the US healthcare system is ill-equipped to address a huge spike in demand. At its core, remote patient monitoring is the use of technology to track patient health and stay connected with caregivers outside of traditional care settings. curb readmissions, and improve patient outcomes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2021

TRU Community Care, based in Lafayette, Colorado, had a vision for incorporating a telehealth/remote patient monitoring program: to meet the needs of patients in the new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services "Seriously Ill Population" (SIP) program. THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL.

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Provider Trust

JANUARY 25, 2024

Despite the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) efforts to target long-standing problematic areas (such as hospice, home health, hospital outpatient, and skilled nursing facility care), the battle against improper payments within Medicare fee-for-service programs remains challenging.

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Healthcare Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

No one questions the need for health policy creation and management. Covid-19 provided the perfect backdrop to accentuate the challenges of nursing policy management. During the recent pandemic, hospital organizations were concerned for the safety of their staff working in emergency departments.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Take a look and see if these ideas could be beneficial to you and your staff. Dr. Kikelomo (Dayo) Belizaire, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer at Pegasystems. During the pandemic, so much was asked of our healthcare workers that they began to get burnt-out and started to quit. So how do we get out of this cycle?

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 6, 2021

For this woman, the issue is not simply a matter of not having received what, in her view, was adequate training, but also the anxiety she feels about potentially causing harm to her husband each time she carries out a skilled level of care that she believes would be better left to a qualified healthcare professional. This woman is not alone.

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Medisys Compliance

AUGUST 12, 2022

Split/ shared visits are now defined as evaluation and management (E/M) visits in the facility setting that are performed in part by both a physician and nonphysician practitioner (NPP) in the same group. CMS reiterated that if a split/shared visit is performed in an office/clinic setting, incident-to criteria must be met.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2019

Focus on Workforce Development According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, the United States will see a shortage of between 46,900 and 121,900 physicians by 2032, including both primary care doctors and specialists. How can you minimize the effect of this trend on your healthcare organization? by May 10, 2019.

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AIHC

APRIL 5, 2022

Only appeal claims when you have evidence and supporting documentation to substantiate your right to payment. Providers may take documentation “short cuts” or feel overwhelmed with implementation of a new EMR (electronic medical record) system and clone or make documentation errors. at: [link] Is the date of service (DOS) correct?

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 24, 2024

The previous article in this series described how digital IT companies differ from clinical settings , and focused on the importance of clinicians deciding what their particular IT needs are. Even once you know what you need in your clinical setting, demonstrating the value of a new technology is hard.

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Hall Render

JUNE 22, 2022

Every year the rates in the final rule change slightly as CMS utilizes more current data, but, unless CMS makes a significant change to its proposed budget neutrality adjustment, agencies need to begin planning for a significant rate reduction in 2023. Although a 2.9% Permanent BA Adjustment Factor. Case-Mix Weights Budget Neutrality Factor.

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CMS.gov

APRIL 15, 2019

Mon, 04/15/2019 - 19:22. Ensuring Safety and Quality in America’s Nursing Homes. Jeremy.Booth@c…. Seema Verma. Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Nursing facilities. This duty is especially important when it comes to the care provided for some of the most vulnerable in our society, Americans residing in nursing homes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has put the healthcare industry through the wringer. It's required new ways of working, new methods of communication, new solutions to old problems and innovative solutions to new problems. Dr. Paul Testa, chief medical information officer at NYU Langone Health in New York City.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 4, 2021

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck the U.S. When new technologies were needed to solve fast-moving healthcare challenges, hospitals and health systems could not afford to wait the time it normally took to stand up IT. They needed help fast. CIOs and their teams came through, learning to produce quality work in record time.

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AIHC

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The GCPG standardized the seven Elements of a Successful Compliance Program, which differs slightly from the individual compliance guidance documents (CPGs) directed at various segments of the health care industry, such as hospitals, nursing homes, third-party billers, and durable medical equipment suppliers.

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AIHC

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The GCPG standardized the seven Elements of a Successful Compliance Program, which differs slightly from the individual compliance guidance documents (CPGs) directed at various segments of the health care industry, such as hospitals, nursing homes, third-party billers, and durable medical equipment suppliers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2021

Hospitals across the country have been slammed with challenges over the course of the past 12 months as the COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged the U.S., You can read past installments at this special theme portal. creating all kinds of chaos for CIOs and other health IT leaders to contend with. He's been very pleased.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Check out our community’s predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

One of the company’s key messages for CES 2021 was health care delivered outside of hospital settings – especially in a person’s home across the continuum-of-care — for virtual medical care, health promotion, and overall well-being. And these changes are here to stay.”.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

But only in the past few years have the medical professions tried to quantify and capture these factors. An example of calling out SDoH was cited by Dr. An example of calling out SDoH was cited by Dr. Sherri Onyiego, Medical Director for the Texas Market at Equality Health. Data can both call out SDoH and help to address its effects.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 13, 2023

Morgan Healthcare Conference is how our healthcare industry today is addressing the mental health needs of Americans. About 1 in 4 adult Americans have behavioral health conditions, which cost the economy about $900 billion annually – and that was looking at statistics from immediately before the COVID-19 pandemic.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 16, 2023

Big tech companies have not worked to improve healthcare from the inside out. Changing this system involves building the connective tissue to make disparate systems work together, and that’s a long, hard, and slow road. It’s also not a road big tech companies are set up to travel. Nate Fox, co-founder and CTO, Ribbon Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 13, 2023

Given the recent evolution of the DEA’s stance on prescribing via telemedicine, what has that experience been like as your company works to navigate these impending changes, and how do you see this impacting the industry in the years to come? But in the end, we are glad the DEA is taking the matter seriously.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 18, 2022

The potential fallout of this trajectory is alarming: The advisory cites the Association of American Medical Colleges’ estimate on clinician demand outpacing supply, with an anticipated shortage of between 54,100 and 139,000 physicians predicted by 2033. This is where clinicians need to embrace innovative approaches to self-care.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 1, 2023

to Recruit, Train Primary Care Students UAMS Gets $17.5M to Recruit, Train Primary Care Students UAMS Gets $17.5M to Recruit, Train Primary Care Students UAMS Gets $17.5M to Recruit, Train Primary Care Students UAMS Gets $17.5M to Recruit, Train Primary Care Students UAMS Gets $17.5M to Recruit, Train Primary Care Students UAMS Gets $17.5M

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 10, 2023

Children’s Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, is the only hospital in the state of Nebraska exclusively dedicated to pediatric care, serving a five-state region. "Moreover, children with chronic or complex health conditions have needs that go beyond in-person visits or care.

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