Healthcare It News

JANUARY 26, 2023

THE LARGER TREND While RPM is still in its early days of integration into the healthcare system, the pandemic accelerated this trend by illustrating its need and value, said Robin Farmanfarmaian, author and Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur working in artificial intelligence. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

Hospitals 348

Hospitals COVID-19 Doctors 348

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 31, 2022

"Our combined efforts are expected to demonstrate how best to advance our nation’s technical infrastructure to enable SDOH interoperability as supported by ONC’s United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) Version 2," ONC authors Ryan Argentieri, Samantha Meklir and Jawanna Henry wrote in ONC's HealthITbuzz blog.

Licensing 255

Licensing Health Outcomes Medicaid Medicaid 255

Healthcare It News

JANUARY 5, 2023

Overall growth in patient portal engagement has been encouraging, but prior studies have identified persistent disparities in patients’ access and use of online medical records, wrote study co-author Chelsea Richwine, an economist with ONC's Office of Technology, in Thursday's HealthITbuzz blog post summarizing the findings.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 26, 2024

In a 2021 piece she authored on Optum.com , she noted that digital health tools enabled more connected experiences, complementing the standard approach to care, and that hybrid system "expands consumers’ choice and convenience while increasing engagement and access to care," she said. Enterprise Taxonomy:

Payment Systems 102

Payment Systems Ransomware Medicare Medicare 102

Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

It can complete prior authorizations electronically and respond to claim rejections, according to the company's website. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. DrFirst's intelligent medication management platform can enhance e-prescribing workflows with optimized clinical data usability.

Patient Satisfaction 199

Patient Satisfaction Health Outcomes Doctors HIPAA 199

Healthcare It News

JANUARY 31, 2024

"Consumer trust hangs in the balance," Deloitte authors pointed out in a separate analysis on the emergence of generative AI in healthcare. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Email: afox@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Enterprise Taxonomy:

Governance 257

Governance Compliance 257

Healthcare It News

JANUARY 8, 2024

"With AI, we're able to augment and we're able to see things," the AI and healthcare author and host of GPT Podcast said. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Stanford Healthcare has also used machine learning models to coordinate in-patient care and reduce clinical deterioration events.

Health Outcomes 212

Health Outcomes Doctors Hospitals 212

Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

He said that new AI-driven features in athenaOne are already helping to improve healthcare efficiency and address clinician burnout by cutting administrative tasks, such as the proactive identification of missing prior authorization information achieving an 18% reduction in task completion across EHR users. Enterprise Taxonomy:

Nurses 291

Nurses Medicare Medicare 291

Healthcare It News

JANUARY 6, 2023

According to Odia Kagan, partner and chair of GDPR compliance and international privacy for Fox Rothschild LLP, the decision means: The company can no longer rely on a legal basis of contractual necessity to run behavioral ads and will instead have to ask users for their consent. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

HIPAA 296

HIPAA Compliance Hospitals 296

MRO Compliance

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

HIMSS TV 2023 Forecast: Balancing Patient Privacy and Data Sharing I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Andrea Fox, senior editor of Healthcare IT News, a HIMSS TV publication, to discuss the future of balancing patient privacy and data sharing. Here are four valuable highlights from my HIMSS TV interview with Andrea.

HIPAA 130

HIPAA Governance 130

Healthcare It News

MAY 12, 2023

" Since launching its claims platform, a series of new capabilities, including prior authorizations and denials management, has been added. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Providers can include in-house clinical guidelines for their optimal and exclusive use. Enterprise Taxonomy:

HIPAA 293

HIPAA Medical Billing FDA Licensing 293

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Ranck, the firm's senior analyst, has explored state-of-the-art processes for AI bias and risk mitigation and how develop more trustworthy machine learning tools for healthcare. Email: afox@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

Telemedicine 230

Telemedicine Hospitals 230

Healthcare It News

JULY 21, 2023

" Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. "The FTC is again serving notice that companies need to exercise extreme caution when using online tracking technologies and that we will continue doing everything in our powers to protect consumers’ health information from potential misuse and exploitation."

Hospitals 189

Hospitals HIPAA Telemedicine 189

Healthcare It News

JULY 28, 2022

ReferralPoint credits objective data for its provider and facility rankings and automation for handling authorizations, scheduling and related patient and provider communications. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. With 24/7 access, patient wound reports can be read and acted on in real-time.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 21, 2023

Since a Congressional mandate in 2017, DHA has consolidated, integrated and directly managed all military hospitals and clinics, with all those in the United States fully under the agency's authority by December 2021, according to its website. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Enterprise Taxonomy:

Hospitals 340

Hospitals Governance 340

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

THE LARGER TREND In the throes of the pandemic, the study's primary author, A. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. "Health systems may need to adjust productivity expectations for physicians and develop strategies to address EHR documentation burden for physicians," they concluded.

COVID-19 170

COVID-19 Telemedicine Doctors Governance 170

Healthcare It News

JANUARY 30, 2023

Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Email: afox@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication.

Electronic Medical Records 217

Electronic Medical Records HIPAA Doctors 217

Bill of Health

APRIL 25, 2023

12 Economist Dr. Andreas Backhaus quipped about the Great Barrington Declaration and one of its authors, Dr. Sunetra Gupta, by saying: I thought about writing a paper that estimates how long it takes for a country or region to suffer from a severe COVID19 outbreak after the GBD crew said that it had already reached herd immunity.

COVID-19 364

COVID-19 Doctors Hospitals COVID-19 Vaccine 364

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The member organization was one of many healthcare stakeholders that widely advocated for the omnibus appropriations bill to include a two-year extension for Medicare telehealth flexibilities authorized when the COVID-19 public health emergency was declared. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

Public Health 158

Public Health COVID-19 Medicare Medicare 158

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The use of blockchain for healthcare – distributed ledger technology, with no central authority over data, that provides secure, reliable real-time data storage and sharing – has been promising but limited so far, said Dr. John Halamka, president of the Mayo Clinic Platform. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

Telemedicine 180

Telemedicine Doctors 180

Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

"This unlawful collection of data is done without the knowledge or authorization of the patient, like plaintiffs, in violation of federal and state laws as well as Facebook's own contract with its users," the court document said. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Email: afox@himss.org.

Fraud 249

Fraud HIPAA Compliance Hospitals 249

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 27, 2023

"Notably, the HIPAA Privacy Rule prohibits conditioning care on an authorization to disclose patient information," they said, asking Amazon to provide information and itemized lists on what data is being collected, how it's used and if it's used to promote or sell any other Amazon products or services.

HIPAA 125

HIPAA Telemedicine Licensing 125

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 14, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS Indranil Bardhan, a professor of information, risk and operations management at UTexas, and his co-authors, Sezgin Ayabakan of Temple University and Zhiqiang 'Eric' Zheng of UTexas at Dallas, examined telehealth through the theory of process virtualization – replacing physical interactions with virtual ones.

COVID-19 90

COVID-19 Telemedicine Health Outcomes Hospitals 90

Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Physicians can use the free DocsGPT to prepare referrals, certificates of medical necessity and prior authorization requests or to write a letter about a medical condition and much more. Doximity's members can fax their AI-created authorizations and communications directly to health insurers by logging in from DocsGPT.

Doctors 253

Doctors HIPAA Health Insurance 253

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

"By actively measuring deep muscle engagement, we can observe if the data is abnormal compared to a patient's baseline, to provide insight into the potential muscle trajectory," said Junyi Zhu, MIT CSAIL PhD student and lead author on a paper about MuscleRehab in today's announcement. Email: afox@himss.org.

Hospitals 202

Hospitals 202

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Fixing prior authorization burdens. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Resneck said the joint findings demand the action outlined in the AMA Recovery Plan for America's Physicians , a roadmap released in June that addresses the needs of doctors with five key goals: Supporting telehealth.

COVID-19 140

COVID-19 Doctors Public Health Medicare 140

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 11, 2023

State Medicaid programs have broad authority to cover telehealth without federal approval, and they are assessing telehealth quality. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Email: afox@himss.org. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. Enterprise Taxonomy:

Medicaid 135

Medicaid Medicaid Medicare Medicare 135

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2023

"The chatbot responses were preferred over physician responses and rated significantly higher for both quality and empathy," according to the study authors. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. times higher prevalence of empathetic or very empathetic responses. The implications are mind-boggling."

Doctors 153

Doctors Telemedicine Licensing Compliance 153

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Platforms for electronic prior authorization and virtual nursing have released some of the pressure on providers. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Email: afox@himss.org. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. Enterprise Taxonomy:

COVID-19 134

COVID-19 Nurses Doctors Hospitals 134

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 25, 2023

A suite of new tools for both patients and providers target aspects of pharmacy logistics that have been known to delay or complicate care, such as getting real-time pharmacy benefits information and obtaining prior authorizations. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Enterprise Taxonomy:

Prescription Drug Pricing 123

Prescription Drug Pricing Doctors FDA Health Insurance 123

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 3, 2023

The North Carolina Health Information Exchange Authority, housed within the state's Department of Information Technology, announced this week that it's working North Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services to launch the N.C. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Stroke Registry.

US Department of Health and Human Services 109

US Department of Health and Human Services Health Analytics Hospitals Public Health 109

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 23, 2023

Most state Medicaid programs want to keep telehealth expansions and have broad authority to do so without federal approval, according to the report. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Email: afox@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. Enterprise Taxonomy:

Medicare 144

Medicare Medicare Governance Medicaid 144

Healthcare It News

AUGUST 22, 2023

Companies like the Seattle-based Outbound AI are looking to AI to augment human talent, from reducing claims and billing burdens to moving prior authorizations forward. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. "The solution provides unprecedented configuration and promotion integrity."

Health Insurance 181

Health Insurance 181

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

"Screening using common smartphones significantly increased the detection rate of therapy-relevant atrial fibrillation," said lead study author Axel Bauer, professor at Innsbruck Medical University, Austria, in the study's announcement last year. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

Health Outcomes 235

Health Outcomes 235

Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 30, 2022

FDA authorizes at-home COVID-19 tests from Amazon, Roche, Siemens. At the start of the year, the Biden Administration authorized a handful of new at-home COVID-19 tests for use. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. There is always some degree of both hope and concern." Email: afox@himss.org.

Nurses 308

Nurses COVID-19 Public Health Hospitals 308

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 3, 2022

It adds 20 new presumptive conditions and locations for Agent Orange and radiation exposure and authorizes toxic exposure screening for every veteran enrolled in VA Healthcare. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Email: afox@himss.org. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. Enterprise Taxonomy:

Department of Veterans Affairs 189

Department of Veterans Affairs Nurses Governance Doctors 189

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Under the CARES Act, Congress granted the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services authority to waive certain restrictions for Medicare coverage of telehealth. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. THE LARGER TREND. Email: afox@himss.org. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. Enterprise Taxonomy:

COVID-19 120

COVID-19 Medicare Medicare Public Health 120