HealthIT Answers

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Moving our healthcare system into the digital age, better outcomes, controlling and reducing costs, and patient access to their health data. The post Sharing Health Data Update February 2024 appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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HealthIT Answers

JANUARY 17, 2024

Moving our healthcare system into the digital age, better outcomes, controlling and reducing costs, and patient access to their health data. The post Sharing Health Data Update January 2024 appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 9, 2024

IPO drought: No digital health companies went public in 2023, adding to the uncertainty. 2024: Facing Reality and Embracing Change Labeled Rounds Return, But with Adjustments: Startups that bought time in 2023 will need to raise again, likely at lower valuations and with a renewed focus on outcomes and commercial viability.

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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. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) reports that 80% of the U.S. population previously received at least one COVID-19 vaccination.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 22, 2024

Octapharma identified suspicious activity within its network on April 17, 2024, and confirmed that an unauthorized third party had breached its network and disrupted certain parts of its operations. As of April 22, 2024, Octapharma is not showing on the group’s data leak site.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 2, 2024

1525, 118th Congress (2023-2024), to change the burden of proof to “clear and convincing” evidence and reduce numerous abuses commonly associated with drug arrests. Sterling Johnson, JD, MA is a Research Analyst at the Center for Public Health Law Research at Temple University Beasley School of Law and a Ph.D.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

News The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule continues many telehealth flexibilities first adopted during the public health emergency, such as an expanded scope of originating sites an expanded definition of qualified practitioners. of the Common Agreement and committed to having TEFCA support FHIR-based exchange within 2024.

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Provider Trust

JANUARY 25, 2024

Though HHS has made efforts to address the challenges outlined in this year’s report, there are still many opportunities for improvement in 2024. We’ve broken down the report’s primary themes and how they affect healthcare organizations moving forward in 2024. With Medicaid, the challenges are equally formidable.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

HealthPolicyValentines pic.twitter.com/nZx2DcTCGI — MA Health Policy Commission (@Mass_HPC) February 13, 2024 Medicare could never negotiate your cost because you are priceless. HealthPolicyValentines — Eric Michael Garcia (@EricMGarcia) February 13, 2024 Roses are red; A color intense. What does that mean for patients?

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

WA Health extends cloud contract with Atos Atos will continue delivering managed services, hybrid cloud, and core infrastructure services to Health Support Services (HSS), the ICT service provider for WA Health, following a contract extension. It has been working with HSS on the digital transformation of WA Health since 2019.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 9, 2023

For any practitioner-patient telemedicine relationships that have been or will be established up to November 11, 2023, the full set of telemedicine flexibilities regarding the prescription of controlled medications established during the COVID-19 PHE will be extended for one year – through November 11, 2024.

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Hall Render

MAY 2, 2023

The CMS Memo confirms that this requirement will remain in effect until May 21, 2024 unless additional regulatory action is taken. In the CY 2022 Rule, CMS set December 31, 2024, as a termination date for most COVID SNF notification requirements. The F-Tag associated with this regulation is F-887. COVID Staff Vaccine.

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Hall Render

JULY 14, 2023

On Friday, June 20, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) posted a pre-publication copy of the Calendar Year (“CY”) 2024 Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update (“PPS Rule”), which has since been published in the Federal Register and is currently open for comment. in June 2022.

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Healthcare Law Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

million omnibus spending bill that became law December 29, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) extended, through December 31, 2024, the Acute Hospital Care at Home (H@H) initiative whereby individual hospitals may seek waivers to operate H@H programs. As part of the $1.7

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Compliance Now

JUNE 28, 2023

By: Megan Diehl, MZQ Consulting Late last week, the IRS published additional guidance modifying the COVID-19 coverage that high deductible health plans (HDHPs) can provide while maintaining their HSA-qualified status. This notice was provided in response to the end of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) and National Emergency Period.

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HealthIT Answers

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Food and Drug Administration has released its comprehensive FDA Information Technology Strategy for Fiscal Years 2024 to 2027 (IT Strategy), marking a defining roadmap for the agency's technological advancement and the alignment with its broader public health mission.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

Generative AI can either deepen and restore trust or exacerbate mistrust and introduce new skepticism among consumers and health care stakeholders alike,” Deloitte explained in a report on the emergence of GenAI in health care. Layered on top of this is health citizens’ eroding trust in other aspects of U.S.

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Healthcare Law Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Under the Second Temporary Rule, practitioners may continue to prescribe schedule II-V controlled medications via telemedicine for new and existing patients without conducting a prior in-person medical evaluation through 2024.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Congress can’t agree on much before the 2024 summer recess, there’s one bipartisan stroke of political pens in Washington, DC, that could provide some satisfaction for both patients and doctors: bring telehealth back to patients and providers permanently. Too many patients have not returned to the health care system.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Public Health Use Cases: Case Reporting and Laboratory Data Exchange Coinciding with the platform launch, ONC welcomes data element submissions and feedback for two USCDI+ Public Health use cases: Case Reporting and Laboratory Data Exchange. Updated datasets will be released in late Spring.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In the FY 2024 IPPS Final Rule (the “Final Rule”), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) incorporated certain social risk factors into the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (“VBP”) Program (“the Program”).

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 5, 2024

The acquisition advances Healthy Together’s mission to improve collective health and make government and enterprises more efficient. Early detection supports rapid interventions throughout the public and private healthcare ecosystem. ” said Inder Singh , Founder of Kinsa Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 23, 2023

News and Studies The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule from CMS would continue many of the public health emergency telehealth flexibilities, such as an expanded definition of telehealth practitioners, continued payments to rural health centers and FQHCs, and the expansion of originating sites.

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Kaiser Health News

AUGUST 3, 2023

Note: CMS waived HAC penalties for 2023 because of the public health emergency but they are being reinstituted for 2024.) You can search by hospital name or location, look at all hospitals in a particular state and sort penalties by fiscal year.

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Medisys Compliance

APRIL 1, 2024

After December 31st, 2024, new POS codes specifically for telehealth will be implemented: POS 02 – Telehealth (originating site is not the patient’s home) POS 10 – Telehealth (patient’s home is the originating site) HCPCS Codes These codes identify specific telehealth services beyond a standard visit.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Jason Considine, Chief Commercial Officer at Experian Health Staffing shortages will continue to be a major pain point for providers in 2024 and have a direct impact on their bottom line. Morgenstern.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 25, 2022

With those flexibilities due to sunset 151 days after the federal Public Health Emergency expires, HIMSS is calling on its members to contact their senators and representatives and urge them to extend coverage of telehealth services under Medicare until at least December 31, 2024.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 2, 2024

The depth of this challenge and some modern solutions for managing identities in healthcare was illustrated really well in a session at the HIMSS 2024 conference by Todd M. Rogow, CEO and President at Healthix , who shared their use of Verato to address their Patient Identity challenges.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 10, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services said it would temporarily extend telemedicine flexibilities for the prescription of certain controlled medications granted under the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, which is set to expire on May 11.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Additionally, a legal requirement mandates most California hospitals to comply with this regulation by January 31, 2024. Similarly, SNFs are encouraged to adhere to the January 2024 deadline by sending ADT notifications to DxF participants.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

The Tasmanian government has recently released a four-year strategy to transform outpatient services across its public health system. Tasmania's Transforming Outpatient Services Strategy seeks to shorten wait times, improve communication, and modernise processes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 26, 2022

The American Telemedicine Association and its ATA Action affiliate on Monday expressed support for a bipartisan bill that would extend the virtual care flexibilities of the public health emergency another two years. They also called for the legislation to safeguard two other provisions they said were key to health equity.

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Compliance Now

AUGUST 10, 2023

As background, according to federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) rules, individuals have 60 days from losing CHIP and Medicaid eligibility to elect coverage under their group plan. The real potential of this number growing daily is what has prompted the Agencies to issue this “request.”

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 29, 2024

Affected providers have been urged to try to get answers from regional points of contact for their health plans in the first instance, and to use the provided contact information if they are unable to get a response. UHG has also confirmed that the forensic investigation has uncovered the source of the intrusion.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

House of Representatives passed by a 416-12 vote the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2021 , which would extend the telehealth flexibilities put in place during the public health emergency until the end of 2024.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 9, 2024

The deployment of FeelBetter’s platform is scheduled for 2024 to facilitate the management of polypharmacy for patients across Atlantic Health’s three Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), which cater to a collective of over 100,000 Medicare beneficiaries and more than 420,000 commercially attributed beneficiaries.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Regarding telepsychiatry, she says in 2024: 1. Telehealth will continue to grow because it fills a void in the mental health space by creating improved access for many individuals who lacked this access previously. The first of your three predictions for telepsychiatry in 2024 concerns access.

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