Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2022

However, the question remains: How can it be solved? The pandemic has added to these challenges due to hospitals facing capacity issues during surges in cases, increased patient deaths, clinician health and safety risks, and uncertainty over treatments, which has led to a feeling of helplessness. How can this be solved?

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

But in a time when our industry is facing high staff overtime and burnout, there’s simply no way that we can be aware of everything happening in health IT. This then results in certain topics being neglected – regardless of their quality and how much you would personally like to see them trend. advertising platforms).

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 4, 2024

Chaim Linhart, Chaim, Co-founder and CTO at Ibex Medical Analytics Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is set to transform the field of diagnostics, similar to how X-rays and genetic tests revolutionized healthcare in the past.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

HRI also interviewed numerous thought leaders from throughout the industry and frontline clinicians to understand their on-the-ground experiences during a historic year. This is according to a new annual report from research and consulting giant PwC entitled “Top health industry issues of 2021: Will a shocked system emerge stronger?

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 15, 2023

Historically, value-based care has been harder to implement in behavioral healthcare due to difficulty measuring outcomes—it isn’t as simple as physical health. This has been becoming a more popular mode of healthcare delivery, as it can reduce costs for insurance companies and other payors while rewarding excellent quality of care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2021

SIP provides incentives for TRU Community Care facilities to provide interim care for patients who have historically high hospital utilization rates. " Payment models like the Medicare Advantage hospice carve-in necessitate a change in care delivery, he added, and telehealth helps ensure affordable, high-quality care.

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AIHC

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

As the cost of providing care grew, payers started instituting methods to curb expenses and how claims were paid. Hospital reimbursement also changed. The HAC Reduction Program encourages hospitals to improve patients’ safety and implement best practices to reduce their rates of infections associated with health care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 18, 2021

The COVID-19 crisis put a laser focus on how apparent it is that data and advanced analytics can be powerful weapons in the fight against pandemics. "Addressing the technology comfort level of the clinicians about how well they can do their jobs via video is another matter," Darrow observed.

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AIHC

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

As the cost of providing care grew, payers started instituting methods to curb expenses and how claims were paid. Hospital reimbursement also changed. The HAC Reduction Program encourages hospitals to improve patients’ safety and implement best practices to reduce their rates of infections associated with health care.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 12, 2023

As the financial markets turned south, many institutions saw their investment income stagnate, reducing the support it historically provided to hospitals’ thin operating margins. Worst of all, the predicted rebound in procedure volumes as the pandemic waned never materialized. Mudit Garg, CEO and Co-founder of Qventus.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Ned Dimitrov, VP of Data Science, StackAdapt. There are three campaign tactics that healthcare marketers can consider leveraging in the coming months. Given the number of users that begin their healthcare-related searches on Google, it is advantageous that marketers serve ads directly on a page while a user is reading relevant content.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 29, 2024

The ALPHV/BlackCat is known to exfiltrate data in its attacks, the group claimed to have stolen 6TB of data, and a ransom of $22 million was paid to a Blackcat account to prevent the release of the stolen data. So far, UnitedHealth Group has not identified the publication of any of the stolen data on the dark web.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

More generally, how have televisits affected clinicians’ revenues, and how is the effect likely to change? The American Telemedicine Association maintains a US bills related to telemedicine and their status. Actually, the prevalence of televisits is less than it seemed to many of us. More appointments kept.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Harris put forth a number of strategies to address this, including the launch of a new initiative to design birthing-friendly hospitals and partnerships with nonprofits and private companies to invest in innovative care models. There's also the cost: Even if you have the option of broadband, can you afford it?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 15, 2020

As hospitals and health systems nationwide grapple with the fast-moving demands of the coronavirus crisis, they're also faced with an added challenge: fending off a sustained upswell in cybersecurity threats, perpetrated by bad actors taking advantage of the pandemic's chaos.

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Hall Render

APRIL 19, 2024

to Study Treatments for Vascular Abnormalities Federal Appeals Court Hears Arguments on Nation’s First Ban on Gender-affirming Care for Minors Jason Demke Hired as COO at Mercy Hospital Fort Smit Pulaski Tech Awarded $5.7M

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

NATIONAL 382 rural hospitals cut chemotherapy, breakdown by state 1 year after Amazon-One Medical deal finalized: What’s happened since ACOs want increased participation of long-term and post-acute care providers ‘Behind the times’: DC tries to catch up with AI’s use in health care CMS finalizes DSH payment cuts for some safety-net hospitals: (..)

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

Power is that only one in ten Americans have ever used telehealth or virtual health to substitute for an in-person visit to a doctor’s office, hospital, ER or urgent care clinic in the past year. Power polled 1,000 consumers in June 2019. The top-line finding from J.D. Now that we’ve looked at J.D.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Antoinette posed three questions for all of us to brainstorm, addressing various aspects of health equity. As Antoinette posed her question using the noun telemedicine, I parsed the word into its two parts to respond to the question. ” With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S.,

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

AMA scrutinizes lack of competition, consumer harms in Medicare Advantage plans. Rural hospitals plan to reject Congress’ program. Staff shortages make patient surges harder for children’s hospitals — and the situation won’t get better soon. Alabama hospital officials weigh in on ‘tripledemic’ concerns.

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Total HIPAA

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Explore the full article to gain a holistic understanding of the law or use the table of contents below to find the specific information you need. HIPAA can also be enforced by State Attorneys General. Any information that ties medical data to a specific person constitutes PHI and must be protected accordingly.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 7, 2023

Excitingly, this bill provides us with a bigger picture of what health equity can look like as we implement it from practice into policy. Excitingly, this bill provides us with a bigger picture of what health equity can look like as we implement it from practice into policy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2023

With nearly a decade of successfully running a virtual ICU and a virtual care hospital known today as Mercy Virtual Care Center , Mercy in St. "We follow these patients longitudinally, meaning when someone enrolls with us, we will manage them alongside their primary care physician and specialists throughout their entire care journey.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Becoming patient centric in your organization isn’t something that you can do all at once. But how exactly does digital transformation impact the patient experience? Marmmett Horton, MSW, ACM-SW, Senior Vice President & General Manager, US at Strata Health Solutions. Read down below for their responses.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Many health systems have begun using new screening technologies to ask patients questions about the factors outside of the clinic and hospital that contribute to an individual or family’s health status, also known as the social determinants of health (SDOH). 1 Potential Data Extraction Points from SDOH Intervention Data Cycle.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

Gabriel Mecklenburg, Co-Founder & Executive Chairman at Hinge Health Gabriel Mecklenburg shares his predictions on how technology will shape healthcare in 2024. As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 16, 2023

Instead, they’ve endeavored to make money via their respective core businesses: Apple aims to drive hardware adoption (Apple Watch), Google tried to tackle big data applied to clinical questions (Verily), and Amazon has worked to leverage its supply chain strengths (Pillpack). It’s also not a road big tech companies are set up to travel.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 28, 2022

We’ve bifurcated this market information between hard data (facts) and the accumulation of our anecdotal experience (observations). Valuations are undeniably falling but remain at a very high level when put into a historical context. Between 2010 and 2020, the NASDAQ experienced a 17.1% HGP Facts and Analytics.

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MedTrainer

JUNE 29, 2023

Every time a patient seeks care — whether with their primary physician, a specialist, or for emergency care — that visit generates an incredible amount of data. Today, thanks to electronic health records (EHRs), providers are able to capture more data than ever before — and centralize it all in one place.

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Hall Render

APRIL 12, 2024

in billing fraud Arizona system names new CEO Banner Health CEO Peter Fine to retire after 24 years, handing the reins to health system president Four UArizona bioscience startups selected for Flinn Foundation program Gov.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 19, 2024

NATIONAL 13 major health systems partner with high schools in $250M Bloomberg initiative Acute Hospital Care at Home data released AI can help identify social determinants of health American Hospital Association Sues Over Updated HIPAA Guidance Bill aims to push price transparency to ASCs Billing for patient messages to clinicians is increasing, study (..)

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

NATIONAL 988 suicide hotline adds support for American Sign Language 3 Takeaways from Physician Compensation Trends Adventist Health completes merger with Montebello’s ailing Beverly Hospital AHA-supported bill to protect health care workers introduced in Senate AHA weighs in on CMS’ proposed ASC payment system AHA submits comments on CY 2024 (..)

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Ransomware attacks against hospitals put patients’ lives at risk, researchers say States, FTC continue to target noncompetes: 3 updates The best hospital in each state, per Newsweek What to know about Stark law’s $9.2M

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Healthcare Law Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

On November 6, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released the contract year 2025 proposed rule for Medicare Advantage (“MA”) organizations and Part D sponsors (the “Proposed Rule”). Below is a summary of some of the Proposed Rule’s key changes.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 15, 2023

NATIONAL AHA pushes back on HHS proposal to penalize hospitals for cyberattacks AHA urges Congress to oppose H.R. Newsom seeks changes to California’s new healthcare wage law Prime completes California hospital sale Rare disease tech company was rolled up two years ago.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

With the Transparency in Coverage rule now in effect, in 2023 we will see price transparency data become more accessible as healthcare enterprises begin to invest more in the technology and infrastructure needed to manage this data. As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions.

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Jill Biden will lead new initiative to boost federal government research into women’s health Joint Commission says acute, critical access hospitals must join safety network Lawsuit claims UnitedHealth AI wrongfully denies elderly extended care Most Rural U.S.

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