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Walmart Health announces partnership with Epic

Healthcare It News

Walmart announced this week that it would begin using Epic's electronic health record in its health centers, starting in Florida in early 2022. Eventually, all of Walmart's health and wellness lines of business will be supported by the Epic platform as it's rolled out. "The Epic system complements our omnichannel health care offerings – letting customers and healthcare professionals access care and health records to lead to more personalized care," said Dr.

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How CMS is boosting telehealth and RPM with new CPT codes

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In the latest Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed for the first time a set of CPT codes for remote therapeutic monitoring. These codes, according to the proposal, are intended to be used to understand the effectiveness of and the patient's response to a prescribed therapy. In particular, CMS specifies that these codes can be used to monitor medication adherence.

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MMIT/Evaluate Acquire Panalgo To Bring Speed and Trust To Pharma Analytics and Decision-Making

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Managed Markets Insight & Technology (MMIT) and Evaluate (a Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe and Hg portfolio company)—which joined forces last month to become a $1.6 billion global pharma commercial intelligence provider—announced the acquisition of […].

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Varied Uses for Artificial Intelligence in Health Care Show AI’s Riches

Healthcare IT Today

Industries, researchers, and governments have only scratched the surface of what they can do with artificial intelligence. Recently I spoke with three companies using AI in creative and unexpected ways in health care. Here are their stories. Personalized Medication Administration by Dosis Over-the-counter cough medicines and aspirins make dosage sound simple: a teaspoon of liquid […].

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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How hospitals should engage in the 'information war'

Healthcare It News

A report out this week from Boston Digital examines the role that original digital libraries of health topics can play in hospitals' web-traffic performance. Among the top 20 U.S. hospitals, as ranked by U.S. News & World Report , 68% of all search traffic comes purely from health information content, said the report. "Hospital sites with comprehensive health content libraries are earning exponentially more traffic than those without them," wrote Philip Chevalier, director of s

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The future of the waiting room, and how telemedicine and mobile health could change it

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, patients often had to wait for hours in hospital and doctor's office waiting rooms. After the pandemic quickly mainstreamed telehealth and prescheduling technologies, patient wait times were significantly reduced. So what does this mean for patients and providers moving forward? Dr. David Berg, cofounder and chairman of the board of Redirect Health, a primary care national healthcare organization featuring telemedicine and mobile health, believes the heal

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Amazon taps VR, voice assistant startups and 8 others for inaugural digital health accelerator

Fierce Healthcare

Amazon taps VR, voice assistant startups and 8 others for inaugural digital health accelerator. hlandi. Tue, 09/28/2021 - 14:54.

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AWS pledges focus on underserved communities with new $40M initiative

Healthcare It News

On Monday, Amazon Web Services announced the launch of a new initiative to help organizations worldwide build IT-powered social and healthcare programs to help patients in underserved communities. WHY IT MATTERS. AWS is pledging $40 million over three years for the effort, which will offer company credits and technical expertise to help organizations around the world build and maintain programs aimed at underserved communities: increasing access to healthcare providers, tackling social determina

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HHS watchdog: State oversight needed for behavioral telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General issued a data brief this month aimed at providing insight into state evaluations and oversight of tele-behavioral services. The brief, which examined oversight efforts as of January and February 2020, stemmed from a survey of Medicaid directors from 37 states, as well as structured interviews with relevant stakeholders.

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HHS Announces Funding for Public Health IT Workforce Development Program

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) today awarded $73 million in cooperative agreements as part of its Public Health Informatics & Technology […].

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Poll: Majority of U.S. voters approve of giving Medicare drug price negotiation authority

Fierce Healthcare

Poll: Majority of U.S. voters approve of giving Medicare drug price negotiation authority. rking. Wed, 09/29/2021 - 15:53.

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Epic's vaccine credential tech now available to 25M patients

Healthcare It News

The electronic health record vendor Epic said its vaccine credential technology is now available to 25 million individuals through their MyChart account. "Once we got buy-in, we went up to 25 million over the course of four weeks," Nick Frenzer, implementation executive at Epic, told Healthcare IT News. "We're really excited about this project – we need all the tools we can get right now," said Frenzer.

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Virtual reality for pain management has potential, but hurdles remain

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A study published this week in the Journal of Medical Internet Research found that virtual reality can be a useful, scalable and appealing alternative to existing pain management approaches. At the same time, however, UC San Francisco researchers noted that challenges remain when it comes to adoption of the technology, especially for addressing the needs of diverse populations.

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How Retail-Style Digital Engagement Can Leverage Your EHR’s power

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Paul Shorrosh, CEO and founder, AccuReg. Healthcare consumers (aka “your patients”) have easily purchased goods and services on the Web for years and now expect that level of ease with their healthcare experience. So, […]. The article How Retail-Style Digital Engagement Can Leverage Your EHR’s power appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Everything You Wanted to Know About FACIS, but Didn’t Know to Ask

Speaker: Amy Anderson

FACIS® helps organizations mitigate patient and organizational risk. Maintaining compliance and safeguarding against fraud and abuse in today’s changing healthcare landscape can be challenging. Most healthcare organizations screen and monitor providers against the OIG but that’s only ONE of FACIS®’ primary sources. FACIS® pulls data for every taxonomy from the lowest level employee to the highest level licensed professional.

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VR can help underserved patients, but reimbursement challenges stymie broader adoption, study finds

Fierce Healthcare

VR can help underserved patients, but reimbursement challenges stymie broader adoption, study finds. hlandi. Thu, 09/30/2021 - 11:14.

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GPW Health Center gains $30,000 with text-enabled automated waitlist

Healthcare It News

GPW Health Center, a federally qualified health center in Northern Virginia, faced many issues that are common in a community health center setting. Some of these issues include high no-show rates, low ratings and low patient engagement. THE PROBLEM. Low volume of confirmed appointments led to high no-show rates. A part of this issue was having to rely on phone calls and a voicemail system that patients did not listen to.

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Femtech startups nearly double funding dollars from last year, but still make up small percent of market

Mobi Health News

Women+ funding still only accounts for 7% of the total U.S. digital health deals through August 2021, according to Rock Health.

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Harris Healthcare’s Data Integrity Solutions, RightPatient Partnership Closes The Gap On Efficient, Accurate and Secure Patient Identification

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Harris Healthcare’s Data Integrity Solution Business Unit – which includes patient data integrity powerhouses Just Associates, Inc., and QuadraMed Corporation – have entered a strategic partnership with RightPatient to integrate biometric patient identification into its existing suite of master patient index (MPI) management solutions.

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Ensure Continuous Patient Care: How to Avoid Disruptions Due to Ransomware

The industry has seen an increasing pace of ransomware, zero-day, and remote-code execution attacks. Learn how to defend against these against these attacks in this eBook.

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Right-wing physicians profit off of fake COVID-19 treatments, report finds

Fierce Healthcare

Right-wing physicians profit off of fake COVID-19 treatments, report finds. agliadkovskaya. Thu, 09/30/2021 - 16:03.

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How minimally disruptive medicine improves care experience

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Abu Dhabi on track to operate world’s first city-wide medical drone network

Mobi Health News

The UAE capital’s Department of Health is working with the General Civil Aviation Authority, Abu Dhabi’s SkyGo, and the California-based Matternet to establish the network in 2022.

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Community Connection – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 10/1 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by John Lynn (@techguy) from @hcittoday on the topic “Community Connection.” COVID has been brutal for everyone. The world as we know it has changed and is continuing […].

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Generative AI for Contracts Is Here: New Tools to Accelerate Drafting and Editing

The emergence of generative AI is reshaping the landscape of contract management, enabling businesses to generate and negotiate legal agreements with greater ease and speed. In this on-demand webinar, Hal Marcus, VP of Product Marketing at Evisort discusses how Evisort's generative AI transforms contract creation and negotiation, empowering legal teams to streamline processes while reducing risk.

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Medicare Advantage premiums to decline slightly in 2022, Part D to rise by nearly 5%

Fierce Healthcare

Medicare Advantage premiums to decline slightly in 2022, Part D to rise by nearly 5%. rking. Wed, 09/29/2021 - 14:49.

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More empathetic care key to alleviating patient and provider loneliness

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UnitedHealth calculator helps schools, workplaces design COVID-19 testing strategies

Mobi Health News

The calculator shows the estimated number of COVID-19 infections during the testing period, how much testing will cost per person and the number of potential false positives.

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Wide Variety of Topics at #AHIMA21

Healthcare IT Today

The 2021 edition of the annual AHIMA conference was virtual for the second year in a row. This year’s event featured a wider array of session topics, a more diverse set of speakers and a different technology platform. It was, in my opinion, even better than last year’s event from an attendee perspective. David Pogue […].

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Labor shortages in healthcare expected to rise as demand grows, report finds

Fierce Healthcare

Labor shortages in healthcare expected to rise as demand grows, report finds. agliadkovskaya. Wed, 09/29/2021 - 16:45.

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How AdaRose is empowering patients as consumers

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Telehealth and the school nurse – with Marcos Domiciano

Mobi Health News

TytoCare's Marcos Domiciano joins host Jonah Comstock to discuss the challenges and opportunities of telehealth in schools.

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4 Ways 5G is Transforming Healthcare & Patient Care

HIT Consultant

Bent Philipson, Founder of Philosophy Care. We hear a lot about 5G technology, but for many of us, it’s link to our lives goes as far as our smartphones and mobile service providers. But to think that 5G technology is only valuable for making our data speeds faster is like saying that electricity is great because it allows us to read books before bed.

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Best Practices for Sharing Protected Health Information (PHI)

In this ebook, you will learn about the 18 PHI indicators, the legal requirements and penalties surrounding PHI, and how your healthcare teams should securely exchange this data. Key takeaways from this ebook: Gain confidence in identifying PHI. Acquire practical implementation strategies for exchanging PHI within your organization. Emphasize the importance of using compliant communication tools within healthcare teams.