Healthcare It News

MAY 4, 2023

NorthSight Recovery is an evidence-based behavioral health agency in Arizona specializing in complex mental health diagnoses, co-occurring problematic substance abuse and social determinants of health. It approaches treatment through data-driven modeling powered by analytics.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Craig Parker, JD, CPA and CEO, Guideway Care Hospitals, health systems and group practices nationwide are finding value and effectiveness by partnering with an outsourced care guidance resource to extend clinical staff and strengthen care management support.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Rich Steinle, Carium CEO Despite positive proof points, the expansion of virtual care and remote patient engagement strategies – including RPM – continues to be hampered by misconceptions among potential users and misalignment of financial incentives among providers and payers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 9, 2023

RTM, which is reimbursable , lets patients connect with their doctors and nurses via care management apps on their smartphones to report non-physiological data, ask questions, watch videos and report outcomes to get better – anytime, day or night. Given that nearly half of adults in the U.S.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 9, 2022

Primary care in the U.S. On one hand, the value of primary care physicians has never been higher. The evidence of that is in the tens of billions of dollars of investment in healthcare – more than $39 billion invested in the sector last year alone, with a notable focus on primary care. primary care today?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 26, 2022

Telehealth and remote patient monitoring have proven themselves to be not only convenient but necessary tools for patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic. And he will share strategies for extending these digital platforms in areas – both urban and rural – with limited broadband internet access. Dr. Shawn P.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 24, 2022

What You Should Know: – Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced the launch of the next AWS Healthcare Accelerator—this year with a new focus on health equity. Tackle Health Disparities. based operations through a four-week technical, business, and mentorship program. Recent AWS Health Equity Initiative Projects.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 16, 2024

These factors can significantly impact their ability to effectively manage their condition and achieve optimal health outcomes. As detailed in a recent brief from the Center for Health Care Strategies, HRSN are prevalent among Medicaid beneficiaries, particularly those living with chronic conditions like IRD.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Americans might run on Dunkin’ — but the healthcare industry runs on data, specifically structured and unstructured data. SDOH includes a variety of non-clinical factors impacting an individual’s health, including education, healthcare access, neighborhoods and built environments, social community and socioeconomic status.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Previous articles in this series introduced the importance of social determinants of health (SDoH) and explained how it can be captured and classified. Of course, the staff of a clinic or hospital don’t go around looking for apartments the way they actively look for a long-term care facility.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. 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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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2022

According to Africa CDC, as of September 2022, Africa, the second most-populated continent, has only vaccinated 21% of its people; an inadequate number In comparison to other populated countries such as India (65%) and China (89%). Health resources are unevenly distributed and often of poor quality.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Healthcare spending is projected to exceed $6 trillion by 2028 , largely driven by rising costs of care for an aging population and the growing number of Americans suffering from chronic physical conditions such as pulmonary disease, diabetes and hypertension. Sheila Talton, CEO of Gray Matter Analytics.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 8, 2023

Approximately 46 million Americans – roughly 14% of the population – experience some form of communication disorder, according to "School Programs in Speech-Language Pathology." We may sound hoarse, lose our voices easily, talk too loudly or through our noses, or be unable to make sounds.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Rich Steinle, Carium CEO Despite positive proof points, the expansion of virtual care and remote patient engagement strategies – including RPM – continues to be hampered by misconceptions among potential users and misalignment of financial incentives among providers and payers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 30, 2023

Ever since CMS released the new CPT codes for remote therapeutic monitoring last year, health systems have been eager to use them, but unsure of the criteria. With the new CPT codes, providers can get reimbursed for: Educating patients on how to use a remote care-management platform.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Ross, President of SSM Health Foundation. Community health is more than how someone’s physical health needs are being met. It involves all the physical, social, and environmental factors — access to nutritious food, stable income and housing, education opportunities, and more.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 24, 2023

What You Should Know: – Health equity – or the lack thereof – is one of the biggest challenges facing US healthcare organizations today. Through these actions, one could synthesise health inequities’ leading causes and effects. The statistics are staggering.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

The following is a guest article by Patrick Tarnowski, Chief Commercial Officer at OneStep As many as 91% of patients who could benefit from physical therapy (PT) do not access care, and of those who do, only 30% complete their course of care. There are numerous reasons why.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 10, 2022

The fastest way to access healthcare in the United States isn’t through a primary care physician or urgent care or orchestrated referrals processes. It comes through three taps of a button: Nine, one, and one. So how can providers optimize and ensure that patients not only have easier paths to care?

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Over recent years, the virtual speech therapy delivery model has intersected with a host of healthcare disruptions — value-based care delivery, the COVID-19 pandemic and the influence of social determinants of health (SDoH) have reshaped healthcare delivery. They also experience poorer health and depression.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This is according to a new annual report from research and consulting giant PwC entitled “Top health industry issues of 2021: Will a shocked system emerge stronger?”

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

To do this well, clinicians need to understand the whole person and the context in which they live — their race, gender identity, native language, socioeconomic status, or zip code, among other things — to ensure equitable care. Yet, health inequities abound in our healthcare systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In the world of Healthcare, there isn’t much room for making guesses. When you’re in charge of someone’s well being, it is critical that all of your decisions are well thought through and based on data. This is where AI can be very useful to your organization. This is what they had to say.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In the Spring of 2020, a number of institutions—health, education, judicial, and others—went through a wrenching technological transformation: To prevent the spread of COVID-19, they took refuge online. More generally, how have televisits affected clinicians’ revenues, and how is the effect likely to change?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2021

Telemedicine can have long-term health equity benefits, including allowing providers to reach more patients in remote regions without travel requirements and see an increased number of patients in need who have historically avoided care due to stigma. How do distance and equity come together? Smile Train has a very different approach.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The New York State Health Home program is designed for the neediest Medicaid patients and aims to reduce overall healthcare costs by decreasing inpatient costs (and utilization) by addressing social determinants of health such as housing, transportation and food. " Dr. Sumir Sahgal, Essen Health Care.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 9, 2022

Healthcare, however, has been an outlier in this regard. While the healthcare digital transformation has been in play for years, it’s still taken longer for the paradigm shift to gain momentum. Healthcare stakeholders have long relied on paper-based processes. Healthcare stakeholders have long relied on paper-based processes.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 18, 2022

No one would argue that a crisis is looming for healthcare professionals and their employers. We asked 22 healthcare and health sciences leaders for their thoughts; here’s what they said. Critical care workers are all human. How can clinical caregivers ease the corrosive effects of grief on their lives?

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Michael Pattwell, Principal Consultant, Value-Based Care at Edifecs. Amid the difficulties of the last year, a bright spot has emerged that may provide a strong indication of renewed movement toward the transformation of the healthcare industry that we know today. Building a Foundation for Value-Based Care.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 28, 2022

The results are one example of the gains that can be made in addressing health inequities—differences in health status or distribution of health resources by race, population, gender, income and more—by exploring the nuances that perpetuate disparities in health outcomes. Digging Deeper into Disparities in Care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Virtua Health's successful "get human fast" online engagement platform propelled patients to interact with staff and clinicians expanded to virtual consultations, chatbots and RPM. The enterprise health system created six distinct service lines supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Morgan Healthcare Conference, the iconic Transamerica pyramid is not too far away. Therefore, keeping patients out of the hospital and post-acute facilities as medically possible and appropriate and effectively managing medications should result in a large reduction in the total cost of care, right?

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 10, 2022

The advisory committee would be required to have a reasonably representative sample of enrollees of the population enrolled in the D-SNP or other individuals representing those enrollees. This proposal intends to ensure enrollees are engaged in defining, designing, participating in, and assessing their care systems.

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Healthcare Law Blog

MAY 16, 2022

Except as noted below, the requirements of the Final Rule are effective January 1, 2024. The Final Rule also requires D-SNPs to consult with their enrollee advisory committees on various issues, including ways to improve access to covered services, coordination of services, and health equity for underserved populations.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2023

trillion in funding across a range of domestic initiatives, including certain appropriations to healthcare and related programs. The Act extends certain flexibilities for Medicare coverage and payment for telehealth services through December 31, 2024. The Act provides for nearly $1.7 Telehealth. Definition of “Originating Site”.

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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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