MedTrainer

MARCH 8, 2024

This blog post will explore why compliance training is vital for an industry where mistakes or non-compliance can seriously affect patients, staff, and the organization. This blog post will explore why compliance training is vital for an industry where mistakes or non-compliance can seriously affect patients, staff, and the organization.

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Medisys Compliance

JANUARY 3, 2023

It’s difficult to ensure that your practice is paid for the services performed at the medical setting. On a similar note, what is more important is that there is a strong revenue cycle, which supports the expensive labor of providing healthcare services. However, you don’t need to worry, we have got your back.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Tips include improving legacy systems before moving them to the cloud, ensuring what gets moved to the cloud is optimized for scalability and flexibility, and weighing the appetite to maintain on-premises and cloud infrastructure in the interim. Read more… The Evolution of Suki’s Ambient Clinical Voice Solution.

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MedTrainer

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

For healthcare facilities, ensuring compliance with regulations and maintaining high standards of patient care is of the utmost importance. Let’s start with a checklist followed by tips for compliance reports to help you be CMS survey-ready. Waiting until the day of an inspection to get things together is just too risky.

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MedTrainer

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Medical assistants (MAs) embody a crucial component within healthcare organizations, directly influencing operational efficiency and patient care quality. Their role is foundational, blending clinical responsibilities with administrative tasks to ensure the smooth running of healthcare practices. Why Become a Certified MA?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Sriram Rajagopalan , Enterprise Agile Evangelist at Inflectra Today’s most significant risk regarding security and privacy issues in health services is consumers’ need for more awareness of personal health information. So, I recommend the steps below, urging all patients to practice extreme care. What do I mean?

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Medisys Compliance

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Extension of Telehealth Flexibilities for RHCs and FQHCs In an effort to maintain access to behavioral health services in rural and underserved areas, payment for telehealth services furnished in Rural Health Clinics (RHCs) and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) will be extended through December 31, 2024.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 9, 2021

Telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic has allowed many patients – especially those in under-resourced areas – unprecedented access to behavioral healthcare. Even as vaccines have become more readily available, Hasselberg estimates that about 60% of the team's ambulatory services are being provided via telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 27, 2023

Getting your hands on the data necessary to make breakthroughs in healthcare is a significant challenge given its sensitive nature. Historically, organizations have tried to get around this by using synthetic, abstracted, or pre-anonymized datasets, but that strategy just doesn’t cut it. Grab your fork.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2021

Paul Coyne, RN, assistant vice president of clinical practice and chief nursing informatics officer at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. ( @hspecialsurgery ). The building blocks assume that patients and providers are on-site, together, at the same time. "First, listen to patients. Nothing is off limits."

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Medisys Compliance

AUGUST 31, 2022

With more people becoming aware of psychological health issues and spending more money on psychiatry during the past ten years, the number of mental health experts and clinics has increased dramatically. This gap in billing is in turn burning up the money that you have earned and have put your hours into.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2021

Among some other lessons learned by IT execs during the past year and a half: the importance of IT teams partnering with clinical, financial and operational teams at a moment's notice, and the difficulty of hiring key staff during a crisis that needed all hands on deck. Beth Lindsay-Wood, CIO at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida.

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MedTrainer

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

They both play crucial roles in patient care and overall healthcare operations. Similar Titles with Distinct Variations While both roles are crucial to quality healthcare delivery and involve direct patient care, medical assistants have a broader scope that includes administrative tasks and typically work in outpatient settings.

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Compliancy Group

JUNE 29, 2022

million patients affected. Is your organization secure? Download the free cybersecurity eBook to get tips on protecting your patient information. EMR vendor Eye Care Leaders provides patient management software solutions for over 9,000 ophthalmology and optometry practices. Learn More! ×

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 21, 2019

Sign Up Customnize Your Content. From front line care delivery, including triage, clinical decision support and patient experience to back-office operations, such as billing and revenue cycle, algorithms and emerging technologies are already proving their value. Implementation best practices: Launching clinical decision support.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

Columbia Orthopaedic Group in Missouri, like so many ambulatory surgery centers across the country, do procedures today that are far more complex than those it did five years ago. Columbia Orthopaedic Group felt it was representative of its quality and reputation to create a system that improved the care it offered patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2023

This investment made it possible to deploy an innovative sepsis detection project that has enhanced patient safety across the entire organization. That is a much more complex data quality challenge.” Sepsis happens when an infection you already have triggers a chain reaction throughout your body.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Their core technology was OpenTDF , a free software library that advances a crucial goal in health care: patient control over their own data, in tandem with the ability to share data with their doctors and other people through access policies and encryption. Figure 1: The SecureCycle user interface. Few healthcare apps truly protect privacy.

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MedTrainer

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling regulates mental and behavioral health professionals. These agencies help maintain the integrity and quality of healthcare services in Florida , protecting the public and promoting patient safety.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 1, 2022

Visiting your primary care physician? There’s a good chance you had at least some interaction with a patient portal or telehealth platform. This transformation – which everyone had been predicting for years, but never really hit a tipping point until the pandemic – should be a boon for healthcare. Ordering takeout?

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

It does not matter if your company is a traditional clinic or a cutting-edge AI platform powered by PHI (protected health information). There are different approaches to comply with HIPAA, and organizations as varied as clinics and AI platforms typically employ these different approaches. Actions speak louder than words.

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YouCompli

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Enforcement agencies are prioritizing efforts to deter FWA as more individuals enroll in government healthcare programs like Medicare and Medicaid, and telehealth services continue to evolve post-pandemic. This three-pronged strategy focuses on educating patients and staff about how to avoid misconduct.

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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. Telemedicine is considered to be under the umbrella of telehealth and refers specifically to clinical services.

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American Medical Compliance

MARCH 30, 2023

All medical facilities must establish and follow proper infection control guidelines due to the high potential of exposure to infectious materials and patients that healthcare personnel face. For example, emergency medical workers can use triage protocols to assess patients suffering from respiratory infection.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Across generations, from younger to older patients, cost, transparency and convenience drive consumer satisfaction, Accenture’s latest health consumer survey found. Our starting point was the tipping-point statistic that over 50% of people in the U.S. People in middle-age tend to behave more like their kids than older parents.

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YouCompli

JUNE 15, 2022

This post looks at building trust among your colleagues. And he considered the Compliance department to be an unnecessary expense that just made healthcare more costly. And he considered the Compliance department to be an unnecessary expense that just made healthcare more costly. Four ways to build it.

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YouCompli

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Five tips for creating cultural change and showing how healthcare Compliance adds value. Most healthcare regulations focus on enabling hospital systems to keep patients safe, provide quality patient care, and reduce risk. What is a Department of Yes? In compliance, the law and regulations are the basis for everything we do.

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Pharmacy Law Blog

MAY 21, 2018

In Part 1 of this blog I began a list of tips that should serve you well if you are notified by your hospital or medical staff that you are the subject of an internal or external peer review action. Remember, future reviews of your statement may not be physicians (e.g., a judge) or may not be in your medical specialty.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 15, 2023

Healthcare providers have historically relied on teams of medical coders – people certified in understanding and assigning thousands of medical codes – to review clinical documentation and assign the coding required for billing. This organization sees 2 million patient encounters per year, yielding $1 billion in net patient revenue.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 8, 2024

One such solution is ambient clinical voice. Integrating this solution into your organization can save your clinicians a lot of time through documentation automation. The patient experience is being transformed by this technology, as physicians are able to focus on the conversation while feeling less tied to a computer screen.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 4, 2022

Care quality is often degraded, and patient accessibility is still lacking. "As a result of reaching a tipping point on these issues, I believe 2022 will see the beginning of a Peace Corps-type effort to address burnout through a combination of industry innovation and government incentives," he said. But for a U.S.

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CMS.gov

MAY 31, 2018

What makes these numbers most exciting is the concerted efforts by clinicians, professional associations, and many others to ensure high quality care and improved outcomes for patients. At the same time, we continue to put patients first by protecting the safety of our beneficiaries and strengthening the quality of healthcare they receive.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 7, 2020

The health system needed a platform to remotely connect clinicians, patients, families and community partners, within the inpatient setting and from home. Patient visitation restrictions brought on by the pandemic prevented families from being with their newborns in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. It kept COVID patients in isolation.

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MedTrainer

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In this article, we will share our top six tips along with ways that technology can help. 6 Accreditation Tips Straight From Surveyors The best way to alleviate the stress of an accreditation survey is to be proactive. We didn’t have to wait on the employees to find documents or watch them search through filing cabinets.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2024

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. Recognizing the pivotal role nurses play in patient care, there will be a growing emphasis on improving nurse compensation to enhance the overall healthcare system.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 20, 2021

As if all that wasn’t enough, new hospital workers must get additional vaccines before starting work, such as Hepatitis B and MMR. That too is a tall order as there is a historic influx of new hires in healthcare to compensate for those workers who have left due to vaccine policies, burnout and those needed to handle heavy patient loads.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 10, 2023

The new facility also offers patient families a variety of elevated amenities, including a larger cafeteria space, family waiting area, an expanded gift shop and additional space for visitor parking. "And given the wide geographic area we serve, each in-person visit can require hours of travel, depending on where a patient lives.

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