Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

That’s the mantra coming out of this week’s annual Capitol Conference convened by the National Association of Benefits and Insurance Professionals (NABIP). FYI you might know of NABIP by its former acronym, NAHU, the National Association of Health Underwriters).

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2022

At this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, the topic of the COVID-19 pandemic and its destructive impact was central to many of the discussions that took place. It’s easy to blame low vaccination rates on community unwillingness and distrust, but this may be rushing to a conclusion that is not supported by enough data.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 26, 2023

Unlike fitness supplemental benefits traditionally offered by health plans, Mighty Health provides holistic health guidance beyond fitness, paired with human accountability and a fun, vibrant community. The app has supported more than 200,000 individuals to date, with exciting plans for expansion and new offerings.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 20, 2024

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. The Healthcare IT Today community emphasized the need to focus on proven AI use cases, apprehension about generative AI for clinical content, and meaningful discussions about the ethical use of AI.

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Health Populi

APRIL 13, 2023

A key objective of the effort is to make the teams’ solutions available via open-source and license-free to communities who can benefit from these programs. Among these were Wi-Fi and connectivity, caregiving resources and “bandwidth,” and some of the classic social determinants of health: especially food security.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We asked this question to the Healthcare T Today community at the recent Civitas Conference. Read more… The Benefits – and Challenges – of Public, Private, and Multi Cloud.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 5, 2023

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to weigh in on Internet of Things security – an important topic as medical devices grow in importance and abundance.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 12, 2024

I can add elements of different models of counseling and also add psycho-educational topics that impact the students in school.” While investment in SEL programs continues to grow as seen with the U.S. Department of Education’s announcement last year of a 13.6% Originally announced February 8th, 2024

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Both are reminders of the need to make online resources accessible to all. To make this happen, develop a culture in which healthcare communications and decision-making keep accessibility at the forefront. Promote ongoing dialogue in Slack and Teams and make the topic a part of regular meetings.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

To better understand ways that RCM can be optimized and how to best prepare for any needed adjustments, we reached out to our incredibly talented Healthcare IT Today Community for their insights. Below is what they had to share on this topic! Proactively addressing affordability ensures that bad debt and uncompensated care are avoided.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 1, 2022

It brings together a great community of healthcare financial professionals with a lot of healthcare CFOs and revenue cycle management pros. I’d say the hottest topic at the conference was the lack of workforce available and the impact that is having on organizations. I think this is a glimpse at the future of health IT.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Read more… How Health Research Can Benefit From Synthetic Data. The average Explanation of Benefits is crammed with so much information that most people don’t understand them.

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Health Populi

JUNE 17, 2020

In response, 7 in 10 employers are taking action to address workforce mental health: 32% of companies are making significant investments naming behavioral health a top priority for human resource departments; and, 39% are making “some” investment or putting interventions in place to address mental health.

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YouCompli

APRIL 12, 2023

This article will focus on two of the topics she addressed in the DOJ Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs (ECCP) released in March. These topics are incentives within healthcare compliance as well as compensation structure and consequence management. Are there financial penalties for misconduct?

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 13, 2023

Extractive AI does not permit the possibility of hallucination and will or can be developed to provide source and cite resources utilized to create any response. Any discussion regarding artificial intelligence would be remiss if we did not address the topics of trust, ethics, and bias. Bias is the most challenging topic of all.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 28, 2021

With conversations about NFTs and blockchain prominent in the news today, the future of such technology is a hot topic. An exciting benefit of blockchain for patients is that they have control over their records, allowing them to choose who can access their personal information. About Matthew Doyle.

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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. Substance use disorders impact a significant number of individuals, families, and communities.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

The Prime Minister confirmed all GPs in England will be able to refer patients experiencing loneliness to community activities and voluntary services by 2023. ” This topic set the context for my conversation with Maneesh Juneja, digital health futurist and global speaker on health, technology and people.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2022

And it has been a huge benefit to everyone with mobility issues. And can we break them in a way that we all benefit? We reached out to the Healthcare IT Today Community to get their insights on this topic. Therefore they will benefit disproportionally from technologies that optimize time and streamline practice workflows.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

We reached out to our incredibly talented Healthcare IT Today Community for their comments and insights on the impact AI can have on data. As this year is going to be a lot about making the most with the resources you have, automating data security is also freeing precious engineering time for more valuable work.

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C&M Health Law

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Government Benefits Determination. SOPs for various topics, including Dispute Resolution and QHIN Cybersecurity Coverage, are posted under “Common Agreement Resources” on the RCE’s website. Health Care Operations. Public Health. Individual Access Service. There are a couple of interesting notes on the QTF standards.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Access to care is a central focus for healthcare given several factors: a growing population being impacted with chronic conditions, increased resourcing constraints, and growing fatigue and workload among providers. Matt Dickson, Senior Vice President of Stericycle Communication Solutions. Shireen Abdullah, CEO of Yumlish.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

" In 2021, "it will be critical for hospitals and health systems to put policies and resources in place that make the safety and well-being of frontline workers a top priority," said Lang. But for all its benefits, it's not enough to simply have screen-mediated virtual consults. There’s no going back."

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 22, 2021

Some diagnoses or conditions have thirty-plus teaching topics to achieve. All of these resources minimize the nurse’s workload and streamlines the care delivery process. Nurses also are required to assess patient comprehension and document what was taught when, what materials were used, and who was educated.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Sustainability of our healthcare system was an interesting topic at Day 2 of the 42 nd Annual J.P. Thus, a service like that provided by Iris or Vital Decisions (acquired by Evolent in 2023) can benefit patients while easing the physicians’ burden. Morgan Healthcare Conference.

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AIHC

JUNE 14, 2023

Recently NIST launched the Trustworthy and Responsible AI Resource Center (AIRC), which will facilitate implementation of, and international alignment with, the AI RMF. Click Here for additional articles on various HIPAA topics. The question remains, how will the use of AI be regulated for health care use?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2021

While this has created an opportunity for health systems to digitally transform their care delivery model, not all health systems have the right resources and the organizational support to drive this change. Remote patient monitoring uses three primary FHIR resources: Patient. Observation.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Contributions may address, but are not limited to, the below topics. How are persons with disabilities affected by efforts to reduce carbon emissions in different sectors (such as transportation, urban planning, products and services, agriculture, and natural resources)? THE MULTIPLE BENEFITS OF DISABILITY-INCLUSIVE CLIMATE ACTION.

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Hall Render

JULY 14, 2023

CMS states it “has heard that beneficiaries have had difficulty receiving home health aide visits under the Medicare home health benefit. Providers need to be aware of any Home Health Resource Group (“HHRGs”) where the LUPA threshold will increase for 2024. This is especially important for the LUPA changes.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In search of some answers to these questions, we reached out to our incredibly talented Healthcare IT Today Community. The following are their thoughts on this pressing topic. Scalability allows for cost-effective resource adjustments. This gives little motivation to move everything to the cloud immediately.

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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. Check out our community’s predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In search of answers to these questions, we reached out to our incredibly beautiful Healthcare IT Today Community to see what areas they would add, remove, or update regulations. The topic of incidents, cybersecurity, and breach requirements would also be included and consistently applied across all types of entities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the important role that community-based organizations play in helping people stay healthy, and emphasized how much work we have to do in achieving health equity in the U.S. At the same time, we are seeing state Medicaid programs taking novel approaches to tackling issues of health equity.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 19, 2023

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Eli Ben-Joseph at Regard talked to John about the benefits of analyzing EHR data to find old data relevant to new treatment , along with the importance of making this functionality available with a single click.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 10, 2019

And they offer advice on a comprehensive array of topics health IT workers face when working in the field of telehealth. ” Dedicated telehealth resources from operations and IT form the program team and can work with clinicians and vendors to develop, implement and train other providers, he continued.

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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. Check out our community’s predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

To elevate policy issues related to food/nutrition security hosting a White House Conference on the topic in early 2022. Folks could tie their benefit card to the Amazon account, thus expanding Prime to a new group of potential member-consumers. Leslie Sarasin, President and CEO of the Food Industry Association (FMI), and.

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