HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Patty Riskind, CEO of Orbita Three phenomena conspire to drive healthcare organizations towards digitization: 1) patient demand for the same online experience as other consumer sites (e.g., But one primary barrier stands in the way: the historically poor performance of chatbots. Let’s face it.

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Hall Render

MARCH 3, 2023

NATIONAL 14 rural senators push CMS to extend low-wage hospitals’ payment bump in FY2024 American Hospital Association voices support for telehealth expansion bill Behavioral health market to hit $262B by 2029 Biden administration moves to establish ‘guardrails’ for telehealth prescriptions CMS Officials Confirm End of PHE Nursing (..)

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2022

So, what can be done about that? A good portion of Cordani’s presentation was focused on Cigna’s Evernorth initiative, which includes pharmacy and benefits management (Express Scripts, eviCore), care (MDLive and behavioral health) and intelligence (analytics, predictive models) offerings. Morgan Healthcare Conference.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2022

agilon health noted modest COVID-related Medicare Advantage inpatient utilization, partially offset with a pronounced shift to outpatient care, based upon agilon’s latest data. Sitting in front of my computer this year for the first day of the 2022 J.P. Morgan Annual Healthcare Conference (the 40 th annual!), So, let’s start there.

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Redox

DECEMBER 4, 2020

We are well on our way back towards normalcy, right? Those challenges can be broken down into two general categories: How do we get it to everyone? The vaccine is coming. As an aside, I definitely enjoyed Pfizer’s bump from 90% to 95% efficacy after Moderna’s announcement …yay for capitalism?

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Hall Render

JULY 22, 2022

Amazon to buy primary health-care provider One Medical for roughly $3.9 Cases of monkeypox have doubled in Alabama, but vaccine is on the way. Bicycle Health flies staff into Alabama to save hundreds of its patients from losing access to care under new law. Alaskans can now dial 988 to reach mental health crisis hotline.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

Business of Healthcare and Value Based Care. Price Transparency: In 2022, we saw CMS’s Transparency in Coverage rule go into effect, requiring health plans and providers to publish their rates for care to the public. As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. Healthcare AI.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Over the last almost two years, healthcare has seen organizations rely on technology and the cloud to get accurate, trusted information to patients and direct them to the appropriate resources and care at scale. But what does all of this mean for the future of patient care? Remote monitoring has also moved into the mainstream.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 7, 2022

Alabama health care systems overwhelmed due to Omicron. Report: Alaska health care jobs projected to increase. COVID-19 hospitalizations up in 34 states. FDA expands use of Pfizer vaccine, green-lights boosters for children 12-15. Fitch Ratings: Kronos ransomware attack harms healthcare public finance sector.

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Hall Render

APRIL 21, 2023

NATIONAL 6 health systems using GPT and AI tools 100,000 nurses left industry during the pandemic, report finds AHA backs bill to delay Medicaid DSH cuts by 2 years AHA launches info hub for healthcare quality leaders AHA opposes MedPAC recommendations to Congress on site-neutral, Part B drug, wage index policies AHA ramps up 340B protection efforts (..)

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Hall Render

AUGUST 11, 2023

NATIONAL 7 new ASCs in the South in 1 month 6 Congressional moves could impact ASCs this year 5 recent moves from The Joint Commission 90% of healthcare organizations look to adopt digital health platforms A cyberattack has disrupted hospitals and health care in 5 states AHA: Site-Neutral Payment Policies Hurt Hospitals AHA Voices Concern Re: FY 2024 (..)

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 20, 2023

At the end of each year since I launched the Health Populi blog, I have put my best forecasting hat on to focus on the next year in health and health care. For this round, I’m firmly focused on the key noun in health care, which is the patient – as consumer, as Chief Health Officer of the family, as caregiver, as health citizen.

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Hall Render

MAY 12, 2023

NATIONAL 4 Healthcare Design And Construction Trends To Watch AHA urges court to preserve ACA preventive services requirement pending appeal AI may pose ‘existential threat,’ physicians warn in BMJ Biden’s nursing home staff mandates expected soon CareFirst, Noom program aims to ‘retrain’ the brain of members with obesity, (..)

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Drug & Device Law

JULY 31, 2023

We have blogged several times about the somewhat esoteric issue of whether intangible items – chiefly computer software, website algorithms, and other electronic information – is treated as a “product” for purposes of imposing strict liability on their creators. Rustad, “Products Liability for Software Defects in Driverless Cars,” 32 S.

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