Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

Below is what they had to share on this topic! doctors lose an estimated $125 billion in revenue each year to avoidable errors, such as incorrect patient or provider information, invalid or missing codes, duplicate billing and missing documentation. But if any part is misaligned, the whole sculpture can be disformed or even fall apart.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

It was the topic of countless articles, reports and even court cases. The right application of automation and AI can turn a “staffing” problem on its head and essentially enable more work with less resources and better financial outcomes. Matt Seefeld, EVP of MedEvolve Artificial intelligence (AI) dominated the headlines in 2023.

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AIHC

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

If your practice is currently using a telebehavioral health approach for patient treatment, or if you organization is considering implementing this approach, we hope this article will give some food-for-thought on the topic. This article is not intended as legal or consulting advice.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 24, 2024

Consider this scenario: A customer calls their insurance company with a question about their vision bill. Eric Prugh, Chief Product Officer at Authenticx Healthcare leaders should champion human-AI collaboration by having people work with AI to validate insights and develop engagement strategies. Improve customer and employee satisfaction.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 14, 2021

“The explosion of telehealth will certainly be a hot topic at HLTH. Providers need more supportive resources to be successful in more meaningful and broadly distributed risk models. Virtual and hybrid care, policy changes, and wearable devices are some of the larger topics we will see because of the pandemic.

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YouCompli

JULY 27, 2022

The specific issues alleged involved inappropriate payments to physicians and improper billing to federal healthcare program payers. Sharon Parsley, JD, MBA, CHC, CHRC , is a health law attorney, compliance officer, author, speaker, investigator, and problem solver. They came to meetings prepared to actively participate.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 21, 2023

Patient engagement is a hot topic among healthcare provider organization executives. Especially as people have begun approaching providers more as consumers than patients, it is critical that providers be able to engage with their patients as effectively as possible. He has a lot of experience connecting provider organizations and patients.

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AIHC

JUNE 14, 2023

Although the United States is making progress in developing domestic AI regulation, including with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) AI Risk Management Framework, the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights , and existing laws and regulations that apply to AI systems is still a work-in-progress.

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CMS.gov

MARCH 2, 2018

Billing & payments. By giving external entities needed resources to help guide their measure-development efforts though this funding opportunity, CMS can leverage the unique perspectives and expertise of these external entities, such as clinician and patient perspectives, to advance the Quality Payment Program measure portfolio.

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Medisys Compliance

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

If you work as a medical professional or oversee a healthcare facility, you’ve probably encountered a myriad range of challenges on the surface and deep-rooted ones when it comes to medical billing and collections. Your medical billing function can be outsourced, which is a terrific approach to handle such issues.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The previous article in this series introduced the topic of generative AI in the back office of healthcare. Dushyant Mishra, co-founder and CEO of RapidClaims , says that five to ten percent of costs in clinical institutions goes to billing and revenue management. This article starts to look at healthcare generative AI use cases.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

While the key components of privacy (administrative, uses and disclosures, individual rights, and general security) are all necessary today, I would put privacy, security, breach – and relevant 21 Century Cures Interoperability topics – all together and make sure everyone handling any type of sensitive information be subject to these rules.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting. Jake Pyles, CEO at CipherHealth The path to value-based care is anything but a straight line.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Health equity and technological innovation are top priorities for the healthcare industry – with new standards, technology and policy driving the way. Despite innovations, a new study from the Yale School of Public Health finds the nation is losing ground on access to healthcare, with more barriers now than 20 years ago.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 2, 2023

As a result, health equity has been a hot topic and organizations have been searching for solutions. SDoH billing codes included in EHRs allow providers to paint the full picture of the external influences on a patient’s condition and enable more tailored patient treatments. In healthcare, the place to start is with data.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 13, 2023

This, among other policy shifts, has a direct impact on healthcare provider organizations and telemedicine companies delivering care virtually. On another front, telepsychiatry keeps gaining ground in the post-public health emergency landscape. But in the end, we are glad the DEA is taking the matter seriously.

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AIHC

DECEMBER 2, 2021

At a recent AIHC HIPAA training event, this topic came up. We would like to share some resources to the question that was asked. Do you have an idea of where I should look or any additional resource I can use to support that an employee should not access his/her own records? It most likely should be.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting.

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SQA

AUGUST 8, 2023

The laboratories are those intended for evaluations with clinical purposes, such as the collection and analysis of biological samples for the diagnosis of diseases. Regulation of the link between the collection station (Type II service) and the clinical laboratory (Type III service).

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 16, 2022

We spoke with the health IT vendor executive to get her expert views and 2023 predictions on these issues as well as other topics such as social determinants of health and EHR optimization. Her informed takes on these important subjects can help guide leaders through the year to come. There is the issue of creating autonomous operations.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2024

However, in order to achieve this, the right data collection methods must be used to prioritize accurate and meaningful algorithm development. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes.

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C&M Health Law

JANUARY 25, 2023

trillion spending package, which consists of all 12 fiscal year (FY) 2023 appropriations bills and funds the federal government through September 30, 2023, provides additional assistance to Ukraine, and makes numerous health care policy changes. 117-164 ) (the “Act”)—an approximately $1.7

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