Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2020

Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Population Health Telehealth Workflow Workforce On the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic, UW has ramped up telemedicine capabilities and made immediate changes to its EHR to support COVID-19 care. Keep everyone connected and regularly updated.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2020

Layla McCay ‘Necessity is the mother of invention’ is an old proverb proving true as health services across the world race to adapt to manage the challenges of the current coronavirus pandemic. During the coronavirus pandemic, digital innovation and transformation is arriving at pace in health systems in the UK and beyond.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This infographic illustrates that with statistics that include how those stakeholders are planning to invest in connected care and telehealth relative to overall technology spending this coming year.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Friend of the Pharmacist RFID relies on tiny tags smaller than postage stamps affixed to each medication container, kit, and tray. These tags store critical information and respond by reflecting radio waves from RFID readers. By optimizing kits and trays the pharmacy can also reduce costs by minimizing expired inventory.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

How RTLS Works Most RTLS systems depend on a combination of tags, sensors, and software. Tags are attached to any vital assets that need to be tracked including equipment, supplies, devices, and even people. These tags come in a variety of sizes and will vary in range and data quality.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 15, 2024

After Being Selected by Leading PBMs, Benefits Navigators, and Health Plans as the Virtual Cardiometabolic Provider of Choice, 9amHealth Increases the Round’s Total to $25M 9amHealth , the leading virtual provider for cardiometabolic health, announced it has raised $9.5 million in a Series A extension round today.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Clinical Decision Support Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Government & Policy Patient Engagement AHRQ is helping the transition towards evidence-based recommendations to guide clinical decision-making that incorporates patients' needs and preferences. healthcare system needs to aspire to and is working towards.

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MRO Compliance

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Founded in 2000 by Elliott Noble-Holt, MediCopy serves primarily outpatient healthcare providers to help them manage the release of Protected Health Information (PHI). The acquisition expands MRO’s footprint across the healthcare continuum and strengthens MRO’s position as a leading provider of clinical data release solutions.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 29, 2022

Dr Pritesh Mistry It is inarguable that the process of change has already started, and the seeds we are planting now will determine the future of digital health and care. It’s difficult, perhaps impossible, to predict the future especially considering the health and care system is complex.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Video visits, temperature sensors and wearables can replace the need for clinic visits. Video visits, infrared temperature sensors, mobile health, and wearables replace the need for clinic visits.

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Hall Render

MARCH 28, 2023

On January 30, 2023, the Biden Administration announced the COVID public health emergency (“PHE”) will expire and end on May 11, 2023. The blanket waivers currently impacted by the end of the PHE include: Pre-Admission Screening and Annual Resident Review (PASRR). The F-Tag associated with this regulation is F-886.

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McBrayer Law Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Included are many familiar provisions from the March CARES Act, with a particular emphasis on small business benefits and relief for health care providers. More > Tags: Congress , coronavirus , Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act , COVID-19 , Medicare , Payroll Protection Program (PPP) , PPP , SBA.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Health system IT leaders need to be ready to enable care delivery anywhere, anytime, to any patient. It feels like every company has a health cloud offering these days. It will be challenging to have many healthcare cloud-like solutions.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Many of these treatments are drug-based gene therapies–- but they come with an extremely high price tag. Payers, including insurance companies and government agencies, cannot help but look at the bottom line. The latest example–and most expensive medication to date– is bluebird bio’s recently-approved $2.8 But at what price?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 27, 2023

Artificial Intelligence Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Telehealth Workflow Workforce A balanced approach to deploying new IT that reduces the burden on employees and provides patients with enhanced services is key to stabilizing and advancing healthcare industry processes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

Cloud Computing Network Infrastructure Population Health Telehealth Workforce The COVID-19 crisis has demanded innovative agility, relentlessly applied – proving again that information technology teams are crucial strategic partners for future goals. Mike Restuccia is chief information officer of Penn Medicine.

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Healthcare Law Today

DECEMBER 8, 2022

CMS has identified three (3) specific CoP tags for surveyors to cite, including: 42 C.F.R. a) (Emergency Preparedness, Emergency Plan), indicating that CMS expects the emergency preparedness plan to be “based on, and include, a documented, facility-based and community-based risk assessment, utilizing an all-hazards approach.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Connected Health Government & Policy Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth The fate of virtual care adoption is tied to the fate of broadband expansion. "Broadband is now revered as the super-social determinant of health because it has a direct impact on all of the other social determinants of health."

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Compliancy Group

JUNE 16, 2023

The US Health and Human Services has issued updated guidance on online tracking, and it’s bad news for those of us in the medical field. It collects and stores user data, including protected health information (PHI) , which makes it subject to HIPAA compliance rules and regulations. Attention healthcare providers!

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Privacy and scalability, where assuring the security of health citizens’ protected health information (PHI) must be designed into HaH programs. Varda Shalev of Team8 discussed prospects for Care At Home Transformed tag-teaming with Deborah Di Sanzo, President of Best Buy Health.

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Hall Render

MAY 2, 2023

to establish a new requirement for nursing homes to test their nursing home residents and staff, including individuals providing services under arrangement and volunteers. The F-Tag associated with this regulation is F-886. The F-Tag associated with this regulation is F-887. The F-Tag associated with this regulation is F-888.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

The following is a guest article by Moliehi “Mo” Weitnauer, Chief Product Officer at MRO Providers are witnessing an explosion in health plan requests for medical records. Reasons for the spike include upticks in claims denials, more risk adjustment reviews, and increases in mandatory HEDIS reporting. Therein lies the rub.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 20, 2023

But providing consistent and excellent customer experiences is a critical differentiator for health systems and health plans, and is challenging. In a market with ever-increasing customer choices, including those offered by non-traditional players such as Amazon and CVS, differentiating requires a significant focus of time and effort.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

As the healthcare industry becomes more interconnected in response to a wide range of economic and societal factors, the landscape is changing for all parties involved, including payers, providers, and patients. That includes improving price transparency. the opposite of a simple price tag. Care providers are managing burnout.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

That’s because the capabilities patients value most—including appointment scheduling, prescription refill requests, and bill payments—aren’t always convenient (i.e., This convergence of negative patient experience scores, employee burnout, and lost revenue is, unsurprisingly, keeping hospital and health system leaders up at night.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2020

Connected Health Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Government & Policy Patient Engagement Telehealth With its three-pillar approach to modernization, the U.S. A recent study showed that clinical implementation of precision oncology is feasible across the across the VA health system, including rural Veterans.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 31, 2021

Patient Engagement Population Health Precision Medicine This is the second article in a series regarding process-based opportunities as the healthcare industry begins to emerge from the challenges of the pandemic. Population health and precision medicine defined. health system. The problem.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

Government & Policy Interoperability Population Health Telehealth One of the more remarkable features of the NHS’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has been its rapid uptake of technology in the UK says director of international relations at NHS Confederation, Dr Layla McCay. A second wave of digital transformation?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2020

A few weeks ago the World Health Organisation (WHO) commended the UAE for leading the way in COVID-19 by conducting the highest level of testing per million in the world, which is an effective strategy of keeping track of the virus, which is pertinent to knowing the necessary measures to take in combating the epidemic.

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Healthcare Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

The benefits of policy management software include efficient and effective ways to manage the policy life cycle throughout your organization, helping to ensure that all policies are up-to-date, consistent, and compliant with regulations. Audit trails: Track changes made over time, including who made changes and who approved the documents.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 23, 2023

In a recently published analyst note , the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) draws attention to the practice of SEO poisoning – a tactic often used by malicious actors to trick individuals into disclosing sensitive information or downloading malware.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Even for organizations that have steered clear of both cyberattacks and regulatory fines, vigilance is essential to maintaining a clean bill of (cybersecurity) health. For example, prescriptive cybersecurity controls, including automated threat detection and mitigation, are quickly becoming essential.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 19, 2023

John Vivoda, Senior Director of Patient Strategy at Wolters Kluwer Health, Technology has drastically changed the way we consume information in our daily lives. Department of Education, 80 million people have low health literacy, with more than 65% of that group coming from minority communities. According to the U.S.

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Bill of Health

MAY 10, 2022

Jackson Women’s Health , Justice Amy Coney Barrett acknowledged that previous cases addressing abortion rights relied on a consideration of the burden of parenting and forced motherhood. The post Safe Haven Laws and Anti-Abortion Politics appeared first on Bill of Health. By Laury Oaks. It was signed in 1999 by then-Governor George W.

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McBrayer Law Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Posted In Code Enforcement , Hospitals It may seem like hair-splitting, but including the wrong diagnostic codes for malnutrition on hospital inpatient claims – using codes for severe malnutrition in place of other forms of malnutrition – is a costly mistake.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 28, 2022

Analytics Cloud Computing Population Health Telehealth Workforce One CIO names the technologies and leadership strategies he'll be focused on this year: platform design, 'Virtual Care 3.0' David Chou serves as the CIO for a public academic health system. Region Tag: Global Edition. ' and more.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

health care system, especially laying bare inequities and inertia in American health care, explained in The Progress We Need: Ten Health Care Imperatives for the Decade Ahead from Manatt Health. Achieve health equity. Stability the safety net and rebuild public health. Address social determinants of health.

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