Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The merger will create a technology and data-powered health platform-as-a-service organization poised to tackle some of the industry’s biggest challenges. The combined entity will aim to improve health outcomes and lower costs for members and employers by empowering better information and decision-making.

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Dossier

DECEMBER 21, 2022

I am fortunate to meet and work with some really smart and admirable healthcare executives. We discussed the outlook for 2023. Her priorities and outlook align very well with what we also see at Dossier and with our customers. Her priorities and outlook align very well with what we also see at Dossier and with our customers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 14, 2021

The Clinic is a transformative joint venture between Cleveland Clinic and telehealth vendor Amwell that brings innovative digital health solutions to a new level with ease of use, advanced technologies and powerful outcomes. These are the beliefs of Frank McGillin, CEO of The Clinic by Cleveland Clinic. If so, why?

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Dossier

JANUARY 19, 2024

According to the World Health Organization , around 1 in every 10 patients is harmed in healthcare, and more than 3 million deaths occur annually due to unsafe care. These numbers show preventable harm is a leading cause of death and a major contributor to healthcare expenditures in the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 14, 2023

Khue Tran, Chief Strategy Officer at Azalea Health One of the most pressing issues in healthcare today is the growing talent shortage of qualified medical professionals. Many hospitals increasingly rely on contract labor from healthcare travel staffing firms to mitigate these talent shortages. billion annually. from 2019 to 2022.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 31, 2022

But often CME conferences have topics centered around traditional healthcare. Also, after being in healthcare for a decade, the topics are familiar and unless you’re in academia and research, probably not always that impactful on your medical practice day-to-day. Read on to see why you should attend.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

– The survey found only 7% of participating organizations performed in the first tier of the Kaufman Hall Healthcare Consumerism Index, which demonstrates having a dedicated focus and resources for building a consumer-centric infrastructure. .

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2023

The following is a guest article by Mike Pattwell, Principal Business Advisor, Value Based Care at Edifecs Consumers are at the heart of healthcare — their fears are forcing healthcare innovators to shift priorities to deliver consumer-centric digital health offerings. This is true today, tomorrow, and far into the future.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 31, 2024

Report: Security Breaches in Healthcare (Direct Download PDF, 1.9MB, 16 pages) An unwanted record was set in 2023 with 725 large security breaches in healthcare reported to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR), beating the record of 720 healthcare security breaches set the previous year.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 23, 2022

What You Should Know: – David Larsen, healthcare IT and digital health analyst at BTIG published a note highlighting his preview for health-tech Q2 earnings. Healthcare System also continues its push to value-based care (VBC) and risk-based deals, and at- risk groups may benefit from light volumes in 2Q:22. An Overview.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 17, 2023

Litten brings decades of healthcare leadership experience across health plans, provider organizations, regulatory agencies, and technology solution providers, with a proven track record of transforming and growing health technology pioneers. FACSM, as the organization’s new chief medical officer.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Radiologist shortage leading to improved compensation. Teleradiologist wage inflation and subsequent higher teleradiology reading service fees (+12% y-o-y global revenue per read projection in 2022) could be viewed as a barrier and deter some healthcare providers from outsourcing their diagnostic imaging workload.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 24, 2022

A recent report from the HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) turned heads across the healthcare industry after pointing to a notable rise in inpatient hospital stays where upcoding was believed to be the culprit. In contrast with high severity growth, medium- and low- severity inpatient stays dropped by 22% and 12% respectively.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

These solutions are evolving from detection-only AI algorithms of comparatively limited clinical value to well-rounded clinically useful solutions that incorporate decision-support and risk-based screening, which aim to deliver improved patient outcomes. Breast imaging AI: a growth opportunity.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 1, 2022

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Executive Coordinator position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. NYeC is propelling healthcare forward by facilitating the use of new and innovative technologies that will improve patient care.

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Health Outcomes 57

HIT Consultant

JANUARY 31, 2022

Tectonic shifts in the way healthcare organizations are reimbursed are unearthing the shortfalls of reactive systems that don’t get ahead of claims issues, denials management and the rapidly growing bad debt associated with patient responsible balances. Matt Seefeld, Executive Vice President, MedEvolve. And the primary culprit?

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 30, 2022

A similar trend is playing out in healthcare. The question becomes, how do we evolve and improve telemedicine so that it’s an even more viable option permanently? Doug McDonald, Director of Technology in the Office of the CTO at Extreme Networks. The current state of telemedicine and its limitations.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. Partnerships.

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Redox

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Investors have been pouring money into digital health for the past decade. I have to say, I have a bit of a content crush on these two as their enthusiasm and fresh view on the healthcare industry reminds me a bit of myself in my early days at Epic and, subsequently, Redox. (A But how has the pandemic changed this landscape?

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Hall Render

MARCH 22, 2024

NATIONAL 79 percent have positive outlook for senior living and care: NIC 12 key legal issues impacting health systems AHA: 94% of hospitals financially impacted by Change Healthcare’s cyberattack A conversation about the HHS plan on AI in health care A new kind of hospital is coming to rural America.

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Hall Render

MARCH 15, 2024

NATIONAL 3 things to expect from the pharmaceutical supply chain in 2024 Absence of AI hospital rules worries nurses American Academy of Dermatology votes to keep its diversity policies after anti-DEI proposal Are digital health partnerships replacing M&A? From -6.8% From -6.8%

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Hall Render

MARCH 8, 2024

NATIONAL 34.5% NATIONAL 34.5% NATIONAL 34.5% NATIONAL 34.5% of Health Services announces first-ever chief heat officer Valley exec on track to raise $2B for pediatric health system Gov.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 13, 2023

NATIONAL AHA asks CMS to stop telehealth rule AHA-supported bill would expand access to telehealth services Another strike notice possible at Kaiser, unions say Congress eyes endgame for PBM legislation Costco accused of sharing customers’ ‘highly personal’ health data with Facebook owner Meta General Catalyst eyes health system acquisition HHS proposed (..)

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Morgan Annual Healthcare Conference (the 40 th annual!), Morgan Conference – COVID-19, the jittery stock market, the future of Medicare Advantage and recent industry changes. Morgan Conference – COVID-19, the jittery stock market, the future of Medicare Advantage and recent industry changes.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Mary’s hospitals in $100M deal University of California reaches $975M deal to buy 4 hospitals from Tenet University of the Pacific doubles size of physician assistant program with new building in Oak Park How a new California agency aims to cap your health care costs California health care workers won a path to $25 minimum wage.

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

NATIONAL Amazon moves into healthcare generative AI with $4B investment Biden administration to ban medical debt from credit scores CMS encourages physicians to apply for new Making Care Primary model CMS settles $9.2M in Stark law self disclosures: 3 things to know CMS’ staffing proposal will cost nursing homes $6.8B

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 8, 2023

NATIONAL 8.5M Records Impacted By Welltok Data Breach Stemming From MOVEit Hack 60% of employed physicians required to sign noncompetes 6.9 NATIONAL 8.5M Records Impacted By Welltok Data Breach Stemming From MOVEit Hack 60% of employed physicians required to sign noncompetes 6.9 NATIONAL 8.5M NATIONAL 8.5M NATIONAL 8.5M NATIONAL 8.5M

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Newsom seeks changes to California’s new healthcare wage law Prime completes California hospital sale Rare disease tech company was rolled up two years ago. Newsom seeks changes to California’s new healthcare wage law Prime completes California hospital sale Rare disease tech company was rolled up two years ago.

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

NATIONAL 988 suicide hotline adds support for American Sign Language 3 Takeaways from Physician Compensation Trends Adventist Health completes merger with Montebello’s ailing Beverly Hospital AHA-supported bill to protect health care workers introduced in Senate AHA weighs in on CMS’ proposed ASC payment system AHA submits comments on CY 2024 (..)

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

NATIONAL Biden plans to end the Covid public health emergency this spring in a major shift to federal response Biden administration will end COVID-19 emergencies on May 11 Can a drugstore be your only doctor? Now hospitals are charging them.

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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

APRIL 21, 2023

NATIONAL 6 health systems using GPT and AI tools 100,000 nurses left industry during the pandemic, report finds AHA backs bill to delay Medicaid DSH cuts by 2 years AHA launches info hub for healthcare quality leaders AHA opposes MedPAC recommendations to Congress on site-neutral, Part B drug, wage index policies AHA ramps up 340B protection efforts (..)

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Hall Render

AUGUST 4, 2023

1 CMS final rule boosts Medicare hospice payments by 3.1% To Address SDOH Needs U.S. sues UnitedHealth over ‘thousands’ of denied claims What’s a fair price for a prescription drug? 1 CMS final rule boosts Medicare hospice payments by 3.1% To Address SDOH Needs U.S. 1 CMS final rule boosts Medicare hospice payments by 3.1%

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

leading cause of death is heart disease, Alabama’s matches that Alabama lawmakers put temporary hold on $1 billion contract for prison healthcare New rolling NICU a ‘game changer’ for critical babies in Alabama More than a dozen Alabama hospitals at immediate risk of closing; officials say hospitals suffer $1.5 billion since pandemic U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 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 an era where expanding the workforce isn’t always feasible, healthcare organizations must harness technology to enhance operations, reduce costs, and prevent staff burnout.

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Hall Render

JUNE 30, 2023

Maybe not amid the changing healthcare landscape in the US. 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?

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