Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The healthcare industry continues to fight the COVID-19 pandemic with innovation and grit. Kate Huey, who leads IBM’s Global Healthcare Transformation team, explains how COVID-19 has amplified: • Existing gaps in healthcare delivery. Many organizations pivoted to allow nonessential workers to work remotely.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A report released Tuesday by Foley & Lardner LLP found that the COVID-19 pandemic compelled state and federal policymakers to remove restrictions on and expand reimbursement for telehealth and virtual care at unprecedented rates. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In a recent white paper, Optimizing Health IT for Safe Integration of Behavioral Health and Primary Care , the two groups outline some recommendations to help support and improve such IT integrations. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Download our white paper, “ Leading enterprise content strategy with health information management: An executive guide for acquiring a document management and imaging platform.”. Beyond COVID-19: Thriving in the Evolving Healthcare Technology Landscape. . Beyond COVID-19: Data considerations when switching your EMR.

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MRO Compliance

APRIL 1, 2022

This is especially true in the wake of COVID-19 and increasing financial distress. Technology Rises to Meet Release of Information Needs. Hospitals continually seek new strategies to streamline operations and boost efficiencies. Savvy Health Information Management (HIM) leaders must steer their teams in new directions to succeed.

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Patient Satisfaction COVID-19 Hospitals 140

Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

“Americans are feeling incredible financial pressure as a result of the COVID outbreak,” John Thompson, Chief Program Officer with the Financial Health Network. adults 18 and over between May 7 and 11th 2020 by The Harris Poll, found that: 73% of Americans said the COVID-19 pandemic reduced their income.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 19, 2022

Coupled with duplicate rates that suggest as many as 20% of all records are incomplete (up to 40% of demographic data was missing from commercial laboratory test feeds for COVID-19), the problem balloons from what on the surface appears to be relatively innocuous into something much more severe.

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Ransomware Public Health COVID-19 Licensing 52

HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Additionally, a white paper published in 2021 shows that FFS “with no link to quality or value, still accounted for nearly 40% of all insurer payments, and the majority of payments in Medicaid and commercial insurance.”.

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Compliancy Group

JANUARY 8, 2024

Joseph’s Medical Center During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, St. Joseph’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The HHS resources include: Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center White Paper on AI-Augmented Phishing and the Threat to the Health Sector – PDF.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The National Governors Association released a white paper this week examining state policies around telehealth and outlining key considerations for governors to assess the potential implications of said policies going forward. THE LARGER TREND. " Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Total HIPAA

MARCH 29, 2023

We gathered most of our information from the organizations’ websites and white papers detailing their product. Other HIPAA compliant text messaging apps created for larger organizations (like hospitals and medical centers) exist. Above all, we recommend choosing a service that best fits the needs of your organization.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 29, 2020

As the groups noted in a letter to DEA Acting Administrator Timothy Shea, the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the need for providers to prescribe medication assisted treatment to patients with opioid use disorder. ON THE RECORD.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Dunleavy adds $9M to budget to address food stamp, Medicaid backlog New study provides snapshot of increase in maternal deaths in Alaska Mental Health Trust Grants $1.6M Dunleavy adds $9M to budget to address food stamp, Medicaid backlog New study provides snapshot of increase in maternal deaths in Alaska Mental Health Trust Grants $1.6M

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

Most health IT companies are held to a low standard of evidence of value and proof of ROI through marketing white papers and quantification that is not robust or systematically evaluated, rather than being required to demonstrate value through scientific peer review and journal publication.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 11, 2023

Physicians and their patients have increasingly been relying on virtual care and remote patient monitoring (RPM) solutions as the industry evolves to accommodate COVID-19. The digital transformation is proving not to be a fad necessitated by COVID-19, but a way to find better connections between practices and patients.

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Electronic Medical Records COVID-19 Compliance Hospitals 98

C&M Health Law

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Posted last August, CMMI issued a Strategic Refresh white paper proposing to address affordability directly through models that “focus on moderating drug prices” or indirectly through models that “target low-value care and sources of waste that drive up patient costs.” The Biden administration formally rescinded the MFN in 2021.

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