Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

While’s it not quite possible to make booking doctors’ appointments as easy as making restaurant reservations, Andy Oram found that pragmatic steps can help organizations offer patient scheduling and pre-visit intake when it makes sense. Read more… Let’s Give Patients What They’re Asking For.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This is why, as the new year approaches, Healthcare IT News has sat down with an expert in value-based care to get his views on what 2022 will hold for the payment system. Caravan Health is a privately held company formed to create sustainable methodologies for health systems to excel in value-based care.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Their platform combines pharmacogenomics and medical history analytics to determine the risks of medications, which can be raised by interactions with other medications (perhaps unnoticed by the doctor doing the prescribing), and patient vulnerabilities related to age and medication conditions. offering in-home treatment.

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Health Blawg

JULY 2, 2018

We talked about the different incentives in fee for service and value-based payment systems, and noted that even in most value-based systems, individual provider level activity is usually coded in the same manner as activity in fee for service systems, thus potentially skewing individual provider incentives.

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Health Blawg

JULY 2, 2018

We talked about the different incentives in fee for service and value-based payment systems, and noted that even in most value-based systems, individual provider level activity is usually coded in the same manner as activity in fee for service systems, thus potentially skewing individual provider incentives.

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Health Blawg

JULY 2, 2018

We talked about the different incentives in fee for service and value-based payment systems, and noted that even in most value-based systems, individual provider level activity is usually coded in the same manner as activity in fee for service systems, thus potentially skewing individual provider incentives.

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Health Blawg

JULY 2, 2018

We talked about the different incentives in fee for service and value-based payment systems, and noted that even in most value-based systems, individual provider level activity is usually coded in the same manner as activity in fee for service systems, thus potentially skewing individual provider incentives.

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Health Blawg

JULY 2, 2018

We talked about the different incentives in fee for service and value-based payment systems, and noted that even in most value-based systems, individual provider level activity is usually coded in the same manner as activity in fee for service systems, thus potentially skewing individual provider incentives.

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Health Populi

JULY 6, 2018

This last graph comes out of the WHO/World Bank/OECD report: it illustrates consumers’ perceptions on whether their doctors provide easy-to-understand explanations. Census and who will be counted in the macro numbers; that database is one of the major go-to’s for policy makers in making resource allocation decisions].

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CMS.gov

MAY 31, 2018

I’m pleased to announce that 91 percent of all clinicians eligible for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) participated in the first year of the Quality Payment Program (QPP) – exceeding our goal of 90 percent participation. Leadership. Legislation. Physicians. Rural health. Meeting the Challenges Ahead.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 30, 2023

The chain integrates seamlessly with the broader Solve.Care ecosystem and adds to the full-stack digital healthcare platform that simplifies the healthcare experience for all stakeholders which include individuals and families, doctors and care providers, employers, insurance providers, government agencies, and more.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 7, 2023

Rising cost pressures from insurance companies, regulations aimed at reducing costs , and a generally complex and fragmented payment system can limit innovations that could improve patient outcomes. Getting information from one doctor to another? It’s all about the money, money, money. And it’s 2023!

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2021

These payment systems take into account the total cost of care for a patient, reward providers for keeping patients healthy and reducing wasteful spending, and are already designed to prevent overutilization.

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

million in federal funding Dignity Health – Memorial Hospital awarded Primary Heart Attack Center Certification Kaiser trash inspections end in $49M settlement L.A. Labor board official sues Colorado hospital over allegedly withheld nurse pay CONNECTICUT $14.5M There’s a group that doubts it deserves it.

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Redox

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Whereas previously doctors likely had to launch a portal, they could now view this information in the context of their normal workflows (see an example on slide 30 here ). Also included in this hot drop was a fun new feature: the ability for providers to query the registry for the historic information about a patient’s immunizations.

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Hall Render

AUGUST 4, 2023

1 CMS final rule boosts Medicare hospice payments by 3.1% Some local ER doctors are adamantly opposed. To Address SDOH Needs U.S. sues UnitedHealth over ‘thousands’ of denied claims What’s a fair price for a prescription drug?

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Hall Render

JANUARY 26, 2024

Children’s National Hospital taps Clearway to deliver $2.8M Children’s National Hospital taps Clearway to deliver $2.8M

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 12, 2023

Health Payment Systems announced that PayMedix increases cash yield for healthcare organizations as much as 9.5%. Users of Lark Health’s Heart Health program demonstrated a 17% increase in confidence in knowing when to call their doctor and a 20% increase in confidence in getting regular aerobic exercise.

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Hall Render

APRIL 21, 2023

health-tech startup MemoryWell pivots, eyes new funding to roll out software for insurers Department of Veterans Affairs health system kicks off multiyear Greater Washington expansion Georgetown to open Southeast D.C.

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Hall Render

MARCH 15, 2024

to 12.2%: 34 health systems ranked by operating margins Healthcare job cuts down 52% year over year Health care providers may be losing up to $100 million a day from cyberattack. From -6.8% HSHS moves up 2nd hospital closure How Dr.

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Kaiser Health News

JUNE 29, 2022

Under original Medicare, patients can see any doctor they want, though they may need to buy a supplemental policy to cover gaps in coverage. who chairs the influential Energy and Commerce Committee, said he was “deeply concerned” to hear that some patients are facing “unwarranted barriers” to getting care.

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Kaiser Health News

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

And the other is by an abortion provider, a doctor who says that these state restrictions hurt her ability to practice and hurt her patients. So if your doctor writes you Humira, the pharmacist doesn’t automatically give you that generic. And if you’re not going to pay less, why are you motivated to do that?

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