Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The pandemic prison has utilized several of the worst features of incarceration as a foundational part of how the institution governs “public health” for its captives. And because prisons are never as removed from society as proponents like to think, these protocols redound far beyond the prison system itself.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Currently, law enforcement and intelligence agencies can buy sensitive personal data, including location information and search histories, from data brokers without any court oversight. Government agencies would no longer be able to simply buy Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter user data from data brokers like Clearview AI.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Computer Assisted Professional Coding One of the tasks that Dr. Computer Assisted Professional Coding One of the tasks that Dr. Kushner and her team looked to eliminate at St. So, when we looked to see how we were going to do that, we saw that computer assisted coding could take a big burden away.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 3, 2022

Since California expanded health coverage under the Affordable Care Act, a large number of people have been mistakenly bounced between Covered California, the state’s marketplace for those who buy their own insurance, and Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program for low-income residents. No one contacted her to verify the changes.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Innovation in healthcare moves quickly — Bonfire Analytics enables those companies advancing the boundaries of healthcare and technology to quickly identify and partner with healthcare providers that are looking to better patient care,” said Ed Wilson, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Impulsum Ventures. “We

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Take a closer look into the statistics on the use of telehealth to manage patients with chronic disease: endocrinologists and physicians treating diabetes were the specialty most likely to report the use of telehealth to diagnosed and treat patients, at 72% — and to manage chronic disease for 92%. Vision care, and.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 7, 2022

This includes resistance from the end users and how to get buy-in from others like the CFO. And for an exclusive look at our top stories , subscribe to our newsletter. Contact us here or on Twitter at @hcitoday. When I watch doctors and nurses on Twitter talk about burnout, one common theme emerges. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

The integrated payments capability from EverHealth allows practices to accept payments from patients across multiple points of contact – via the website, via SMS text messages, and in-person at the office. To do that, we surround our customers with assets that meet them where they are.” The small and medium practice market is unique.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The second step was to set a vision of what great IT looks like to deliver on veterans' and their care stakeholder needs. Secretary for Information and Technology and Chief Information Officer Kurt Delbene says his goal is to make the U.S. "Very flat organizations are typically the most effective ones," he said.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

They don’t want to buy another tool. But despite the availability of FHIR and of APIs from many vendors, interoperability is often described as “difficult and “not frictionless” according to Loyd Bittle, CEO and Founder at Innovar Healthcare. Most IT organizations have the tech chops to be interoperable.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

They’re now saying this is sort of like Black Friday or Cyber Monday, we’re buying companies and now’s the time. And for an exclusive look at our top stories , subscribe to our newsletter. Contact us here or on Twitter at @hcitoday. First it was the pandemic leaving us to figure out how to stay safe.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 7, 2023

The organization is bringing new capabilities to improve patient experience, lower cost and improve outcomes. Mercy took an experience design approach and developed new capabilities using both its Epic EHR foundational capabilities along with custom-developed systems from its development teams and vendors.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

In those early days, it was difficult for Mason to get plans and providers to buy into his vision, but he stuck with it. A decade ago, he was already championing more equitable access to care for people with low income and low health literacy. Health Equity Defined. This is what Mason realized a decade ago. Understanding Health Plan Members.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

" Broadband and Wi-Fi To achieve this, a health system must look at their patient population and assess their access to broadband and Wi-Fi, she added. The technology and internet space have rapidly proliferated over the last 30 years.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 12, 2023

In addition to eliminating manual processes and reducing the amount of patient contact and billing information floating around, technology advancements ensure that patient communication as well as payment information is HIPAA compliant. d’Artagnan Osborne, GM of Payment Solutions at Kareo, a Tebra Company. Speed up patient time to payment.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

"We carefully looked at all aspects of bedside care and had substantial discussions to identify what could be completed virtually and what required direct bedside care." Virtual nursing is gaining significant momentum as an effective way to redesign and redistribute nursing workload. Click here to read the special report.

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Kaiser Health News

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Yet federal officials say complaints are rising from seniors tricked into buying policies — without their consent or lured by questionable information — that may not cover their drugs or include their doctors. The problems are especially prevalent during Medicare’s open-enrollment period, which began Oct. 15 and runs through Dec.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 27, 2023

Memorial Hospital in New Hampshire is considering buying land to build affordable housing for its staff members as well. McLaren Health is looking for a Manager of Corporate Real Estate. United Healthcare Group’s fourth-quarter earnings increase by 17% to $4.9 Overall, its 2022 earnings rose 16% to $20.1

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Redox

JULY 18, 2023

Sponsored by Redox, the InfoBrief analyzes the technology-buying perspectives of 205 clinical and clinical IT leaders at medium-to-large-sized healthcare organizations in the United States. Providers are looking for nimble vendors who can clinically validate their solutions and differentiate the way they care for patients,” Bonney said.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 16, 2023

In healthcare, an industry known for complex customer journeys, increasing volumes of communication, attrition of front desk and contact center employees, rising customer expectations, and delayed or inefficient adoption of digital solutions have left CX departments scrambling to catch up. And the stakes are high.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

I’ll finish with a look at some specific areas of intervention. A patient who signs up to be a member of Wellframe provides SDoH information, which the Wellframe platform then shares information with care managers who can contact the members to address the problems. Conduit Health Partners is one organization that does so.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

The buying process has become consumer-driven, rather than through in-person ordering with a salesman. By taking a more modern and flexible approach, it can improve the buying process through incorporating technology pioneered outside of healthcare. Just as in retail, where the U.S. Just as in retail, where the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Best Buy Health and Geisinger expand their work together to bring a better level of care to more patients within the Geisinger network. Developing innovative care models by leveraging advanced technology and logistics services, Best Buy Health and Geisinger are looking to scale the way chronic disease can be managed at home.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

They have technology that’s barking at them and asking them to pay attention and look at tasks and alerts and information. And while virtual visits are not the solution for every patient, it’s a solution for many, as providers and patients utilize the available technology to make the pathway for patient-provider contact easier.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 23, 2023

Nate Maslak, the co-founder/CEO of Ribbon Health Price Transparency: In 2022, we saw CMS’s Transparency in Coverage rule go into effect, requiring non-hospital entities like health plans and providers to publish publicly available rates for care. Organizations should expect financial pressures to drive decision-making in the new year.

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Hall Render

MARCH 30, 2023

The increase poses challenges for hospitals , particularly for providers with lower credit ratings as they look to borrow funds, complete construction projects and control labor costs. The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by another 25 basis points, bringing the Fed’s benchmark target to between 4.75

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Hall Render

MARCH 24, 2023

The Harvard Business Review published an article titled What Happens When Private Equity Firms Buy Hospitals? VMG Health released its 2023 Healthcare M&A Report. now at 6%) from Q3 to Q4 due to interest rate movement; construction activity has continued to rise with 37.7

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 13, 2022

With an RTLS platform, contact tracing could be done in a matter of a few clicks since the location and duration of contact between staff and patients is stored (provided both have RTLS enabled badges/ID bands). Look for a solution that will not require extensive changes or additions to your existing infrastructure.

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YouCompli

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Social Currency This concept relates to the things we talk about that make us look good to others or enhance our social status. These are just a few examples where the effort you put into your work will result in your healthcare leaders looking good—which means they will tell others about what you did for them. That’s social currency.

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Healthcare Law Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The government buys billions of dollars in healthcare-related goods and services every year, and no government procurement is perfect. The solicitation informs prospective bidders of what the agency will look for and consider in their proposals, as well as how the agency will weigh elements of the proposals.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 26, 2021

As businesses look to “do their part” to combat cybersecurity threats, they will need to be strategic in how they allocate resources, as well as in the types of activities they undertake to protect valuable assets. How in the world can a small private company protect itself against such an attack?

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YouCompli

JUNE 15, 2022

This post looks at building trust among your colleagues. Realizing I needed to find a way to obtain his buy-in, I asked if I could spend a day shadowing his staff. Four ways to build it. Anstine is a compliance professional and consultant in Colorado. He is writing a series of articles on compliance culture for the YouCompli blog.

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YouCompli

JULY 3, 2023

She shares an example of a compliance officer who was contacted for guidance after a hospital system purchased 1,500 iPads for field staff without securing funds to encrypt the devices.   As Ken Zeko notes, operational compliance committee meetings are the perfect venue for asking questions such as, who’s going to buy something new?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

They want to manage their own health affairs online—with a click or a swipe—much like they buy goods on Amazon, order transportation on Uber, or book a hotel room on Expedia. The following is a guest article by Stephen Dean, Healthcare CRM Expert and Co-Founder of Keona Health. Providers are feeling the squeeze. Telephone triage.

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Verisys

JANUARY 20, 2022

For many healthcare organizations, it’s difficult to keep up with medical credentialing – after all, you are in the business of healing, not chasing after provider data. Whether you use paper, spreadsheets, email, or fax, the credentialing process can be long and frustrating when you’re doing it internally. What’s the solution?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 15, 2023

Ryan Health is a federally qualified health center based in Manhattan that has been providing comprehensive and affordable primary and specialty care to New York’s diverse and underserved communities since 1967. As an FQHC, 75% of patients are enrolled in Medicaid or Medicare; another 7% are uninsured.

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