Symplr

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Bending the trend on high costs in healthcare continues to be a big challenge for hospital administrators, especially quality directors and physician leaders such as CMOs and department chairs. Unfortunately, quality review activities sometimes come with a hidden price tag, especially if they’re inefficient or outdated.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 27, 2023

Reduce physician email clutter and simplify cumbersome physician documentation through ambient listening functionality Home care monitoring. Region Tag: Global Edition Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: Healthcare's new equation = technology + operations Featured Decision Content:

Telemedicine 150

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The future will see chronic disease being managed more from homes and physicians' offices than in a hospital setting. While nothing can beat an in-person experience, physicians can check in on them digitally, through remote patient monitoring tools or video consults. However, that should not affect their care. Video visits.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 1, 2019

Primary topic: Workforce Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Meru says digital health app can help prevent physician suicide Featured Decision Content:

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McBrayer Law Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

On January 1, 2021, changes in Evaluation and Management (‘E/M’) codes for physicians took effect. These changes, proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (‘CMS’), primarily impact 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (‘MPFS’) reimbursements.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 9, 2020

At Monument Health in South Dakota, CIO Stephanie Lahr points out, "When we talk about wanting to do telehealth visits from home, I remind people I have physicians and other caregivers who live between two slabs of granite here in the Black Hills."

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McBrayer Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Often, these procedures require the supervision of a licensed physician or nurse practitioner, creating a unique regulatory issue.

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Foster Swift

JANUARY 11, 2021

Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) recently issued two highly-anticipated final rules (collectively, the “Final Rule”) to modernize and clarify the regulations that interpret the Physician Self-Referral Statute (“Stark”) and the Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2020

"Unlike a weather event or a shooting, our response to COVID-19 is a continuously evolving process that has no endpoint and requires us to adapt by the hour," said Dr. Jane Fellner, a UW Medicine physician who provides clinical guidance for EHR changes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

For instance, we commonly seek those with nursing, pharmacy, revenue cycle and physician experience as part of our recruiting process. Region Tag: Global Edition Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: A look back on 2020: reshaping the healthcare IT landscape Featured Decision Content:

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 20, 2022

Artificial Intelligence Connected Health Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Patient Engagement Workflow As ambient technologies improve, additional use cases to leverage voice will emerge – that leaves us with the question of how patients and physicians are responding to voice-enabled tools in their healthcare encounters.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2020

to virtually “step into” field hospitals and assist physicians, in real-time, when treating wounded service members. Region Tag: Global Edition Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Technology is radically improving care for veterans Featured Decision Content: Department for Veterans Affairs.

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Department of Veterans Affairs Doctors Governance Hospitals 198

HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

However, a strong case can be made to place the physician at the center. After all, it’s the physician who diagnoses and treats the patient. However, it’s becoming increasingly clear that physicians bear more of the onus for the care experience. A 2017 study found that physicians were spending 10 hours a week on administration.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2018

Consumers are more bullish demanding virtual and digital health tools from their physicians than doctors are in providing it, based on the research findings in What can health systems do to encourage physicians to embrace virtual care? from Deloitte. One-fourth of doctors plan to implement this capability in the next two years.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 1, 2022

Visiting your primary care physician? But by the time we were finished leaving voicemails, playing phone tag and more often than not, missing the mark, we tallied the total cost to actually get a member scheduled while on the phone at about $190 per attended appointment.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

More than one-in-three patient interactions will go virtual globally – as the physician will no longer be the automatic first touchpoint. Several hospitals are limiting the presence of sales personnel in hospitals due to COVID-19, the majority of physicians believe these restrictions will continue.

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US Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 COVID-19 Vaccine Hospitals 211

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

While Congress and CMS have considered permanently expanding access to telehealth and virtual care, there is a big price tag attached. This is an important issue in light of widespread concern about physician burnout. Both of these were discussed but not ultimately finalized in the 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 23, 2021

Healthcare consumers value their relationships with their physicians. Region Tag: Global Edition. Incubating a primary care service offering for a few hundred employees and scaling it to 50 states are efforts that are entirely different orders of magnitude. He is the founder and CEO of Damo Consulting. Featured Decision Content:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

The hospital at home has seen a boost in popularity, but the models have been hampered by physician uncertainty and piecemeal reimbursement arrangements. Region Tag: Global Edition. The technology is straightforward, but establishing a full-time command center operations that can monitor many patients simultaneously is essential.

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Patient Satisfaction Hospitals Telemedicine Public Health 135

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 27, 2022

You can imagine the EHR Product Manager that had the great idea to alert physicians to a drug to drug interaction or an allergy issue. Patients love it and doctors are coming around on the idea that these messages can actually save them time since then they don’t have to play phone tag with the patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The researchers note that a number of factors may have contributed to the findings, such as patients not having access to a usual source of care (such as a primary care physician) or being sicker. Black and Latino patients had higher adjusted odds of using either the ER or office visits versus telehealth than either white or Asian patients.

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COVID-19 162

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

In addition to providing doctors with relief from unnecessary administrative burden, patients are looking to DPC for higher quality healthcare with a transparent price tag. As a DPC physician myself, bringing Hint Health and AeroDPC together is extremely exciting and powerful for DPC as a whole” says Dr. Brown.

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Electronic Medical Records Doctors 54

Healthcare Law Today

DECEMBER 8, 2022

CMS has identified three (3) specific CoP tags for surveyors to cite, including: 42 C.F.R. §482.13(c)(2) c)(2) (Patient Rights, Privacy and Safety) obligation to care for patients in a safe setting. §482.15(d)(1)

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

the opposite of a simple price tag. According to Mercer’s 2021 analysis of the healthcare industry , the demand for primary care physicians, mental health workers, low-wage healthcare workers, and registered nurses are all expected to grow significantly in the years to come. That includes improving price transparency.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

By Bill Siwicki | May 04, 2023 News Tampa General tech decreases sepsis early death rate from 6% to 4% What's more, data work surrounding the early warning system helped spur physician use of. Region Tag: Global Edition Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2022

They are never seen in the same room at the same time, working as “Clark Kent and Superman” – tag-teaming with love, resilience, and faith. [To To get a sense of what that caregiving experience is like, check out her blog post, Confessions of an Exhausted Caregiver ].

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Many health care professionals think the strength of the patient-provider relationship is determined solely by the face-to-face interactions between patients and physicians, and that all problems begin and end there. According to HealthGrades , 80% of patients prefer physicians who offer online scheduling. Telephone triage.

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Patient Satisfaction Health Care Access HIPAA Doctors 66

HIT Consultant

JULY 26, 2022

The same McKinsey report shows that only 32% of physicians – the very people administering care online – feel that telehealth can improve the patient experience. Even something as routine as an at-home test includes touchpoints with a primary care physician, insurance agent, pharmacy, testing clinic, specialists, and support staff.

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Medisys Compliance

AUGUST 23, 2022

Physicians and Healthcare Providers across the US are always in need of excellent attention to their revenue cycle management, which cannot be disregarded in any situation. The new standards and coding revisions, however, may have a detrimental effect on the reimbursement on the claims submitted.

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Medical Billing Services Medical Billing Medical Billing Outsourcing 97

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

And abortion's price tag isn't always covered by insurance, which could put it out of reach financially. As Dr. Jacquelyn Yeh from Physicians from Reproductive Health pointed out, "there are still obstacles in abortion care for patients."

COVID-19 172

COVID-19 Telemedicine FDA Public Health 172

Medisys Compliance

JANUARY 5, 2023

Firstly, let us understand why mental health physicians require help from mental health billing companies. You can ensure that each claim is being tagged appropriately and sent out when you delegate the difficulties of your billing process to mental health billing experts. The process of repayment can be delayed when claims are denied.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

Most importantly, physicians don't necessarily refer to Apple's Health app data in their patient care, an added factor that can slow down the growth of the services. Region Tag: Global Edition. Despite the integration with patient data in EHR systems, the apps operate as stand-alone solutions.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 14, 2023

Sarah Krouse and Anne Steele, the WSJ journalists, tag-team doing a great job quantifying the women’s fiscal force, quoting Blair Kohan, an agent with UTA who represents Greta Gerwig, the Barbie movie’s director, saying, “Women have always been a deeply underestimated economic force.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2021

Map physician workflows and win their confidence. Implementing a remote patient monitoring program in a hospital involves the stakeholders and physicians from all specialties with virtual care. The physician inputs can help identify and prioritize specialty services when defining the roadmap for remote patient monitoring programs.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Enhance communications – In the past, connecting with physicians outside of appointments often turned into a game of phone tag and resulted in multiple voicemails. But with the cloud supporting patient portals, video chat and text messaging, patients and their providers have more ways to communicate.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

"It helps to strengthen the patient/physician relationship, as all content and care protocols are prescribed and shaped by the patient's physicians. "It gives our physicians reassurance and real-time feedback to make changes to their protocols if necessary," Lovewell said.

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Patient Satisfaction Doctors Nurses Telemedicine 120

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic essentially forced healthcare provider organizations, the government and payers to embrace telehealth as an essential way to enable physicians to see patients. This put a lot of pressure on the physicians who oversee telehealth programs at these providers: the telehealth managers.

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Telemedicine COVID-19 US Department of Health and Human Services Doctors 164