Verisys

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (GRC) in healthcare is an integrated approach that helps healthcare organizations manage their overall governance, enterprise risk management, and comply with regulatory requirements in a cohesive and aligned manner. What is healthcare data governance? What is GRC in Healthcare?

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 28, 2024

Garheng Kong, Founder and Managing Partner at HealthQuest Capital Hospital-at-home (HaH) and skilled nursing at home (SNaH) are two trends driving increased healthcare in the home for more acute patients. HaH is an innovative care model that provides hospital-level care in a patient’s home as a full substitute for acute hospital care.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 9, 2024

This approach to healthcare financing can harmonize the interests of patients, lenders, and healthcare providers for healthy outcomes for all. healthcare system does not provide universal coverage and there is a mix of publicly-financed government coverage and privately-financed health coverage. healthcare providers.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 2, 2023

This results in improved outcomes , including higher rates of vaginal births, fewer medical interventions, and greater patient satisfaction. From the late 1800s, white male obstetricians fought to move childbirth to a hospital setting where they could preside.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

Hospital at home programs are pretty popular in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. There's a lot of evidence, including some recent research showcased at HIMSS22 that they save money while improving patient satisfaction. Healthcare at your doorstep. David Chou serves as the CIO for a public academic health system.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 18, 2022

That said, hospital social workers and nurse discharge planners are accustomed to having to help patients with these types of issues during an inpatient admission. These social needs have not always been viewed as the purview of the traditional healthcare delivery system.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 24, 2022

These shifting demands change the expectations put on hospitals when it comes to both patient care and financial performance. Hospitals and systems across the U.S. Having a governance structure in place enables accountability and collaboration among the team, which ensures targets are being achieved and sustained.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

"The government verified and validated video platform that I use is not merely a video consultation between a clinician and a patient, it is the foundational support software for the digital transformation of healthcare in the other operating verticals of a family healthcare clinic, specialty clinics and small hospitals.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

About PointClickCare PointClickCare is a leading healthcare technology platform enabling meaningful collaboration and access to real‐time insights at every stage of the patient healthcare journey. More than 27,000 long‐term and post‐acute care providers, over 3,100 hospitals and health systems, 2,000 ambulatory clinics, every major U.S.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 21, 2023

According to our own research and data, there is roughly $58 billion in available patient funding, including drug manufacturer copay assistance, foundation grants, government plans, free drug programs, and living expense support. Similarly, improving patient satisfaction can help pharmacies build loyalty and boost the bottom line.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 2, 2022

The Stony Brook Medicine health system, which, before COVID-19, had already grown from a two-hospital system to a four-hospital system with the inclusion of Eastern Long Island Hospital and Southampton Hospital, reflects a diverse and geographically widespread patient population of more than 1.4

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

Devices for medication adherence, blood pressure, blood sugar, and others help patients track metrics from their homes and enable providers access to the information in real-time to manage care remotely. In this way, patients can more efficiently reach their health goals or obtain the support needed to avoid an ED visit or hospitalization.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2020

This community practice includes general acute care hospitals, rural health clinics, physician offices and critical access hospitals. Community hospitals are able to access specialty and subspecialty providers at another site, facilitated through a video connection. “Mayo Clinic has operated an RPM program since 2015.

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Medisys Compliance

MARCH 27, 2023

These terminologies are briefly discussed below for better understanding: Provider enrollment: This refers to the process of enrolling a healthcare provider with an insurance plan or government program, such as Medicare or Medicaid. This trust can lead to increased patient satisfaction and retention.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2022

But even now, hospitals and health systems should be preparing proactively to meet the regulatory demands of a post-PHE future. State government executive orders. But sooner or later, that provision of the Public Health Service Act will draw to a close. Providers have been promised at least 60 days' notice.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Patients overwhelmingly prefer to receive care at home, and providers and payers also support this shift because at-home care models improve outcomes and patient satisfaction, shorten lengths of stay, and lower the cost of care. The future of healthcare is in the home. Furthermore, healthcare data is ubiquitously messy.

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Dossier

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

For the first decade, they were mostly used by the government and large healthcare systems. Improved staff and patient satisfaction – When staff is properly trained, they deliver better care, and the patient experience improves. All of Dossier’s CSMs have worked or are currently working as nurses in hospitals.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 22, 2021

How interactive patient systems help hospitals support their nurses – ultimately allowing them to provide better patient care and work at the top of their licensure, while also educating patient in their care plans, and enhancing the overall patient experience with no expense to the nursing staff.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 16, 2022

DIABNEXT’s mobile app complements Glooko’s product portfolio and tracks diabetes data so that physicians can collaborate with their patients to monitor individual patient data and provide remote care. Avive Raises $22M for Connected AED Platform. Avive Solutions, Inc. RevSpring Expands Integrations with Cerner.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 21, 2023

It’s been a hot topic for revenue cycle management professionals for years that’s only getting hotter with the increasing pressures of staffing shortages, challenges with staff turnover and training and ever-changing policies and protocols at the government and payer levels.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Often licensing is state-specific, and the lack of multistate licenses makes it impossible for nurses to provide care for patients from different states. Patient satisfaction. We have already discussed barriers to telehealth adoption from the patient’s side. Government cooperation. Viable software.

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AIHC

OCTOBER 20, 2023

While some descriptions conflate value-based healthcare and cost reduction, quality improvement, or patient satisfaction, those important efforts are not the same as value, which focuses primarily on improving patient health outcomes. The government is reforming healthcare into a new health ecosystem. The result?

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The Digital Health Corner

APRIL 28, 2017

ACOs require scaling which small hospitals cannot provide. The costs for EHR and other technology acquisition and maintenance are too costly for smaller hospitals, and pressures of decreased payment rates are increasing on the provider side. Patients are affected directly and indirectly.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 3, 2023

"To accomplish this, we granulated all possible patient assessments and interventions and used our Professional Practice Council to formulate standard work and determine what can realistically be completed virtually as well as what should or should not be done virtually," Cook explained.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 7, 2023

The passing of the Telehealth Expansion Act of 2023 shows the federal government’s commitment to health equity, emphasizing the importance of increasing access to quality healthcare for all citizens, regardless of location or socioeconomic status. According to the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

The gamble is over for hospitals that avoided complying with CMS price transparency mandates. After a slow start since they were implemented more than 18 months ago, CMS has issued 350 warnings for noncompliance, 157 corrective action requests, and finally issued fines to two Georgia hospitals in June. The fines are significant.

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YouCompli

JUNE 20, 2023

For example, let’s assume you work as a compliance officer in a hospital. She advises doing shout-outs when a department has good audit results or positive patient satisfaction survey results in employee newsletter. The lab director says, “I found these sitting out.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

" The IVR system allows patients to pay using the phone without speaking to anyone. "We strive for great patient satisfaction," Pritchett said. "A patient's experience is not just the service they receive but the full gamut, so these things were important to us." " MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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AIHC

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Increasing importance on patient satisfaction, providing efficient and quality care, and minimizing costs have also led to higher telehealth implementation. Meeting Patient Expectations Patient utilizing telehealth during the pandemic may continue to expect remote care.

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The Digital Health Corner

JUNE 14, 2017

There are hospitals within the same healthcare system in many places with disparate EHRs which do not talk to each other or exchange information. Increasing healthcare consolidation of hospitals has exacerbated the problem of lack of interoperability. Clinical trials. What is in fact lacking in most cases is evidence for these claims.

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Health Care Law Brief

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Additionally, and as we touched upon in our January 7, 2021 post on the No Surprises Act , these new measures supplement state laws governing surprise medical billing, and so in cases where a state No Surprises law applies, the state law generally determines an individual’s OON payment rate. [1]. 2] See 86 Fed.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 1, 2021

With healthcare commercial intelligence, companies can untangle the messy web of data on delivery systems, physicians, payors, patients, government organizations and more to identify the people, opportunities and organizations that are the best fit for products. – How can I size the market for the products we sell to hospitals?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2021

For hundreds of years, healthcare data was pen and paper, housed in massive files in hospital basements that created a single picture of an individual patient's medical record and history. The same government regulations intended to make data more portable and available became a hurdle to new healthcare delivery services.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

This would create an incentive for payors to maintain patient satisfaction and invest in interventions that improve their health over the long run. Policymakers should do away with the MLR and introduce insurance mechanisms that extend payor risk over a longer time horizon beyond a single calendar year.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 24, 2023

.” Waystar will begin serving HealthPay24’s 2,000 healthcare provider locations and their patients, adding to Waystar’s existing reach of more than one million providers across care settings, and enabling millions of patients to benefit from modern patient financial experience software. patients.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 25, 2021

Healthcare organizations and providers need a new approach to IT that aligns the deployment of systems and technologies with the fundamental tenet of patient-centered care – the guiding principle of reform embraced by governments, hospitals, physicians, and insurers.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

By allowing AI-enhanced workflow, organizations can implement better data exchange between processes and immediately deliver results in cost and time savings, while significantly improving staff and patient satisfaction. No longer can a hospital survive doing 2-3 total knee arthroplasties in one operating room.

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