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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Acting on SDoH

Healthcare IT Today

In this article, I’ll show how many hospitals, payers, and other institutions are acting on that data. Of course, the staff of a clinic or hospital don’t go around looking for apartments the way they actively look for a long-term care facility.

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Bonus Features – September 24, 2023 – 72 percent of patients say affordability is the biggest challenge for paying medical bills

Healthcare IT Today

Hospital operations software maker symplr launched a survey management tool. The United States Department of Veteran Affairs expanded its use of CirrusMD to provide VA Health Chat in four additional states. Drummond Group unveiled FHIR Client Certification Program , which will enter its pilot phase on Oct.

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HIMSS names 2021 Changemaker Award winners

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

This helped the organization achieve HIMSS Stage 7 in 2017 – the first academic hospital in Canada to do so. Before joining Geisinger, she served as Pennsylvania’s secretary of health, where she developed an innovative payment and delivery model for rural hospitals. He earned a HIMSS Davies Award of Excellence in 2018.

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2023 may bring progress in SDOH tech, telehealth and interoperability

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

What I have been most excited about is the acceleration in the concrete steps that Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services states and accreditation organizations are taking to inspire action in the space of health equity. At the same time, we are seeing state Medicaid programs taking novel approaches to tackling issues of health equity.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

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 (..)