Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In the Spring of 2020, a number of institutions—health, education, judicial, and others—went through a wrenching technological transformation: To prevent the spread of COVID-19, they took refuge online. More generally, how have televisits affected clinicians’ revenues, and how is the effect likely to change?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2020

COVID-19 spurred Houston-based AccessHealth to quickly scale up its telemedicine offerings, just as it did with most other health systems nationwide. And just like those other health systems, AccessHealth faced numerous challenges at first, in trying to adapt to this new normal. THE PROBLEM. " Jared M. Williams, AccessHealth.

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McGuire Wood

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Q: Can you tell us about Ambulatory Management Solutions (AMS)? We put the patient to sleep and provide that anesthesia service to the surgeon or proceduralist. You’d be surprised how many organizations don’t even track that, let alone offer it to clients. We deliver an unmatched number of value-adds to our clients’ facilities.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

When I graduated from medical school and took the Hippocratic Oath, I vowed to not just treat the illness on a patient’s medical history form but to treat the person behind the diagnosis. Yet, health inequities abound in our healthcare systems. Beyond race and community, even employment status has a great effect on one’s health.

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AIHC

JUNE 6, 2023

Written by Joanne Byron , BS, LPN, CCA, CHA, CHCO, CHBS, CHCM, CIFHA, CMDP, COCAS, CORCM, OHCC, ICDCT-CM/PCS Artificial intelligence (AI) technology has created new opportunities to progress on critical issues such as health, education, and the environment. In some cases, AI may do things more efficiently or methodically than humans.

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AIHC

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Part 1 is an overview of challenges many health care leaders face with shifting reimbursement. 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2023

The following is a guest article by Sonia Chambers, Executive Director at West Virginia Health Information Network. Infrastructure is available nationally for states to leverage and customize locally for their unique Health Information Exchange needs. Resources for All States. An Established and Reliable Platform.

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AIHC

JUNE 6, 2023

Written by Joanne Byron , BS, LPN, CCA, CHA, CHCO, CHBS, CHCM, CIFHA, CMDP, COCAS, CORCM, OHCC, ICDCT-CM/PCS Artificial intelligence (AI) technology has created new opportunities to progress on critical issues such as health, education, and the environment. In some cases, AI may do things more efficiently or methodically than humans.

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Hall Render

APRIL 19, 2024

Can lawmakers do anything about it? Cedars Leads Latest Round Of Funding In Yolo County, 16,000 Medi-Cal patients lose doctors in Dignity Health dispute with Partnership HealthPlan Kaiser med school names CEO Kaiser Permanente launches food-is-medicine hub Kaiser, Vizient target healthcare greenhouse gas emissions L.A.

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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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Hall Render

MAY 20, 2022

. $15 million program will tackle behavioral health barriers in LTC. AHA responds to report on hospitals’ requested price hikes to insurers. AHA asks HHS to continue the public health emergency until conditions stabilize. Considerations for Social Determinants of Health Screening Design. Arkansas Gets $3.9M

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Hall Render

JUNE 30, 2023

Report: Amazon Pauses 50-State Virtual Care Service Expansion UnitedHealth acquires Amedisys for $3.3B after home health provider reneges on Option deal Will the doctor see you now? Here’s why. Maybe not amid the changing healthcare landscape in the US.

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Redox

APRIL 29, 2019

Almost everyone agrees that digital health is a benefit to their organization and to their patients. Yet systems, culture, history, beliefs, and habits make it difficult to figure out how to actually make the adaptations needed for better digital health. Laying the foundation for Health IT.

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

CMS locks in court-ordered 340B drug payment rates for 2023, though back payments still to come. CVS Health, Walgreens each to settle all opioid cases for $5B. USDA funds 11 rural Alabama health care projects with $7.3 Rural Alabamians getting improvements in health care with federal grant. That Number is 3.

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Hall Render

APRIL 22, 2022

1B joint venture sets sights on ASCs, medical office buildings. HHS Secretary Outlines FY 2023 Mental Health Investments at Senate Hearing. million in ARP funds to train health workers in local communities. Patient generated data can be a key factor in reducing health inequity. 3 hacker gangs targeting hospitals.

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Healthcare Law Blog

MAY 16, 2022

On April 29, 2022 , the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”), issued the final rule on Contract Year 2023 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Programs (the “Final Rule”). CMS noted these changes were broadly supported by public commenters. and 422.107).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 14, 2022

Of all the medical specialties impacted by telemedicine during the course of the pandemic, perhaps the one with the most wholesale and immediately lasting effects is behavioral and mental health. 's treatment of mental health issues? there has been a negative stigma around receiving mental health care.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Patients receive these on evenings and weekends, resulting in delays until a patient can speak to their physician. Preventing information blocking is important, but we have to find a way to get systems in place so that patient needs are met without asking clinicians to review results and call patients 24×7.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 4, 2021

But for health IT, things sped up. When new technologies were needed to solve fast-moving healthcare challenges, hospitals and health systems could not afford to wait the time it normally took to stand up IT. John Jay Kenagy, senior vice president and CIO at Legacy Health, based in Portland, Oregon. ( @OurLegacyHealth ).

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 16, 2023

From a digital health perspective, 2022 was a reset year for many and a serious reality check. To me, the biggest surprise of 2022 was that despite the market tanking, digital health companies continued to truck forward with huge deals. Nate Fox, co-founder and CTO, Ribbon Health. Oliver Kharraz, CEO & Founder, Zocdoc.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Now more than ever before, patients are interested in being active participants in their care, selecting the right health partner, and connecting with their providers.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 1, 2023

to Recruit, Train Primary Care Students UAMS Gets $17.5M to Recruit, Train Primary Care Students UAMS Gets $17.5M to Recruit, Train Primary Care Students UAMS Gets $17.5M to Recruit, Train Primary Care Students UAMS Gets $17.5M to Recruit, Train Primary Care Students UAMS Gets $17.5M to Recruit, Train Primary Care Students UAMS Gets $17.5M

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Hall Render

MARCH 3, 2023

NATIONAL 14 rural senators push CMS to extend low-wage hospitals’ payment bump in FY2024 American Hospital Association voices support for telehealth expansion bill Behavioral health market to hit $262B by 2029 Biden administration moves to establish ‘guardrails’ for telehealth prescriptions CMS Officials Confirm End of PHE Nursing (..)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 22, 2020

Oftentimes when people think about telemedicine, they envision a patient in a clinic with a technological setup they address, with physicians on the other end at another clinic far away doing the same. Sheth, chief medical officer at the Wright Center for Community Health in Scranton, Pennsylvania. " remarked Dr. Jignesh Y.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 10, 2022

On January 6, 2022 , the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued the proposed rule on Contract Year 2023 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Programs (the “Proposed Rule”).

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

NATIONAL Amazon Pharmacy, One Medical pilot program integrates medication consultations Bad news for FTC’s noncompete ban Cigna to sell Medicare business to HCSC for $3.3B Opens in North Little Rock CHI St.

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Kaiser Health News

JUNE 16, 2022

Ariane Buck, a young father in Arizona who sells health insurance, couldn’t make an appointment with his doctor for a dangerous intestinal infection because the office said he had outstanding bills. ” The three are among more than 100 million people in America ? “I wanted to be a mom,” she said.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 22, 2023

health care spending hits $4.5 health care spending hits $4.5 health care spending hits $4.5 health care spending hits $4.5 health care spending hits $4.5

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The CDC has stopped printing them Telehealth Visits Decline 46%, But Telebehavioral Healthcare Still High URAC to offer health equity accreditation Walgreens CIO is latest to leave in company’s C-suite shakeup AI is creating a complex landscape for healthcare executives ALABAMA Alabama hospital to remain on Cerner after sale Alabama gets $3.6M

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The CDC has stopped printing them Telehealth Visits Decline 46%, But Telebehavioral Healthcare Still High URAC to offer health equity accreditation Walgreens CIO is latest to leave in company’s C-suite shakeup AI is creating a complex landscape for healthcare executives ALABAMA Alabama hospital to remain on Cerner after sale Alabama gets $3.6M

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Hall Render

APRIL 15, 2022

Bipartisan Bill Aims to Increase Access to Virtual Mental Health Services. HHS reveals strategy on social determinants of health. HHS extends COVID-19 public health emergency for another 90 days. How Hospitals Are Using AI to Save Lives. Major insurers are scamming billions from Medicare, whistle-blowers say.

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Hall Render

AUGUST 25, 2023

NATIONAL AHA shares proposals for drug shortage legislation with House committee America’s biggest hospital landlord sees deals souring Babylon Health files for bankruptcy Bankruptcies mounting in troubled nursing home industry Calls grow for national patient safety board: 3 leaders weigh in CMS details plan to allow Part D beneficiaries to pay (..)

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

. ‘Already a three-headed dragon’: Medical groups rebuke judge’s approval of UnitedHealth, Change merger. Amazon PillPack Founders to Leave in Latest Health-Care Shakeup. Congress presses Meta about health data privacy after hospitals remove Facebook tracker. Monkeypox vaccine eligibility expanded in Alaska.

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Hall Render

APRIL 1, 2022

AHA Urges DOJ to Protect Health Care Workers??from Coalition of hospitals, health plans and others urge for stronger guidance around third-party apps. Hospital, long-term care groups again petition Becerra to extend COVID-19 public health emergency. Alabama health officer on omicron variant: ‘Spreading like wildfire’.

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Hall Render

AUGUST 12, 2022

Amazon’s One Medical buy has implications for the healthcare industry. Senator calls on FTC to probe Amazon’s One Medical acquisition. Hospitals still fall short on price transparency, consumer group says. HHS awards more than $1 million to Alabama community health centers. Adventist Health lays off staff.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2024

Wisdom from the speech: “But now more than ever before, America is forced to grapple with this problem, for the shape of the world today does not afford us the luxury of an anemic democracy. Suffice it to say, We’re Still Not #1 for health outcomes , albeit we’re the biggest spender on healthcare, per health citizen, in the world.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 16, 2023

Wisdom from the speech: “But now more than ever before, America is forced to grapple with this problem, for the shape of the world today does not afford us the luxury of an anemic democracy. Suffice it to say, We’re Still Not #1 for health outcomes , albeit we’re the biggest spender on healthcare, per health citizen, in the world.

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