Healthcare It News

JUNE 28, 2023

Healthcare IT News spoke with Autumn Gertz, project manager at the computational epidemiology lab at Boston Children’s Hospital and project manager of the Outbreaks Near Me team, to get answers and a deep dive into the survey results. Are these results surprising or expected?

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Our latest topic for the Healthcare IT Today community was the topics that leaders can’t afford to ignore. 2024 CHIME CIO of the Year Shafiq Rab at Tufts Medicine chatted with John about what projects today will have the greatest impact in 10 years , along with his advice for aspiring healthcare IT leaders.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

By Bill Siwicki | May 06, 2020 Topic: Connected Health Mobile Patient Engagement Telehealth Short Headline: Remote Patient Monitoring Featured Decision Content: Project Promo: Hospital-at-home, RPM and other related telehealth services are an increasingly large component of the care-delivery equation for many hospitals and health systems.

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MRO Compliance

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This important topic was also the opening theme of the HIMSS Cybersecurity Forum held in Boston last December. To that end, The Sequoia Project recently released the final version of its “Data Usability Implementation Guide.” At the end of the day, balancing patient privacy and data sharing is not just an IT project.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Marx decided to enter the world of health information and management after watching his daughter defy death through the power of technology and clinical care. Incidentally, I had the opportunity to speak to Purushotaman on this topic – you can find that interview here.

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AIHC

JUNE 14, 2023

This article explores recent research on the topic of AI and patient-centered outcomes research. As AI is integrated into patient care and medical coding, billing and accounts receivable management, will we risk the human connection of empathy and compassion which builds trust in the physician-patient relationship?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This time we’re diving into revenue cycle management (RCM). McGruder shares the topics and projects he’s keeping an eye out for. Here’s a look at the questions and topics we discuss on this episode: We’re here at the HCP Conference, what are the hot topics? What are you listening for?

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MedTrainer

JANUARY 30, 2024

The professionals who manage compliance are the front lines of preventing medical errors, deterring fraud, and staying in good standing with federal payers like the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). A bachelor’s degree in healthcare management, nursing, business, or a similar discipline is often preferred.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 13, 2023

There will be more than 60 sessions over the 3-day event where attendees can hear from architects, engineers, contractors, and healthcare providers, and gain takeaways to implement in their current and upcoming projects, as well as earn up to 15.25 CEUs from the AIA, IDCEC and EDAC. The tours will take place on September 18, 1-5 pm.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

By Bill Siwicki | June 15, 2023 News How one practice's EHR helped offset its declining Medicare reimbursements The all-in-one practice management system reduced the amount of time a patient needs to spend in.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

– Utilizing flexible staffing programs, to address resource gaps and IT catch-up projects, stands as a top-of-mind focus for hospital and health system CIOs, according to Stoltenberg Consulting’s 10th annual Health IT Industry Outlook Survey. Aligning with industry hot topic concerns, cybersecurity (23%) took the No.

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Innovaare Compliance

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 redesigned the benefit phases and reallocated cost sharing among beneficiaries, manufacturers, Medicare and drug plans; understanding the significant changes to actuarially project costs for 2025 becomes imperative. Given the magnitude of changes to Part D, the bidding instructions should be handy. [2]

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 21, 2023

Attendees I talked to spoke of the need for faster, lower cost, straight-through processing of documents and forms and better data insights and manageability. One of Apria’s priorities for the project was an easy installation, which is why they chose Pega’s low code, off-the-shelf solution to integrate into their existing system.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 6, 2023

Local language and related translation issues can also cause a challenge for call centers when they must manage requests in the local language to provide support for both customer and regulatory requirements. However, that needs to be weighed against cost and scalability limitations, particularly to meet rapidly changing local market needs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 27, 2022

This role will report to the Marketing Manager and work collaboratively with other members of the marketing team in the U.S., Interviewing thought leaders at Genzeon and our clients on relevant topics. Proficient In: Strong time management skills and ability to prioritize workloads. white paper, byline, etc.).

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

This then results in certain topics being neglected – regardless of their quality and how much you would personally like to see them trend. To help shed a light on these topics, we reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community to see what health IT trends they believe deserve more attention.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

No doubt these are topics that we’ll be discussing at the MRO booth (#213) at the upcoming HFMA conference. All the while, health systems must manage this growing demand while also remaining focused on accuracy and disclosure integrity for the patient data they protect.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

By Bill Siwicki | September 27, 2023 News AI-enabled efficiencies can improve patient outcomes and reduce clinician burnout "By prioritizing healthy data management practices through the deployment of AI, IT leaders. Region Tag: Global Edition Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Patient Engagement

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 13, 2022

The new dataset released by CPHLR provides a helpful overview of the policy landscape on this topic and lays a foundation for policy surveillance datasets that would create some of the legal data necessary to evaluate these impacts. Katie Moran-McCabe, JD, is a special projects manager at the Center for Public Health Law Research.

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Hall Render

JUNE 12, 2023

Information on the financial suitability to operate a nursing facility, including financial projections for operational expenses and revenues, such as realistic occupancy and reimbursement rates and the disclosure of any related party transactions, projected for the first three years of operation.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Ryan Howells is Principal at Leavitt Partners and Program Manager of the CARIN Alliance , a multi-sector stakeholder alliance focused on consumer-directed exchange. Another nonprofit, the Commons Project Foundation , has created the software to implement the SMART Health care reader.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Owner & Managing Partner, Assured Senior Living Katherine Wells, CEO, Serenity Connect A demographic shift is looming, and we aren’t as prepared as we think. Nationwide, the 85 and older population is projected to more than double from 6.7 Francis LeGasse, Jr., million, second only to Alaska in the U.S. million in 2020 to 14.4

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Health Law RX

APRIL 21, 2022

These applications request information on topics such as education, training, experience, and financial requirements. Biographical information – Many applications require background screening for the owners or managers of the applicant. Requests for pro forma financial projections often are based upon a certain time frame (e.g.,

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MedTrainer

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Instead, use ChatGPT for the smaller asks you often save for the end of a project, like writing the course description or objectives. Write Educational Case Scenarios Using examples provides clarity and context, especially when dealing with complicated compliance topics. Generative AI is great for writing educational case scenarios.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 29, 2022

A recent report by the International Coalition on Medicines Regulatory Authorities 2 provides insights into how AI might be managed and deployed across several areas in our industry. Barry has over 18 years of experience in pharmacovigilance and risk management and has operated as an EU Qualified Person for Pharmacovigilance.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

listening to music); “Responses” that can be psychological, physiological, social and/or behavioral; and, “Outcomes” for disease prevention, health promotion, disease management, or treatment of a condition. learning a new arts skill such as painting, drawing or journaling), social interaction (e.g.,

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HIT Consultant

MAY 23, 2022

As automation inevitably advances, this hybrid paper-digital environment becomes increasingly risky as paper-based processes are inadequate to manage the vast amounts of data produced by automation. A critical component of this ecosystem is the electronic laboratory instrument management system (ELIMS).

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Verisys

DECEMBER 22, 2021

133 also covers several other topics related to billing and directory operations not mentioned above. Insourced projects like provider directories often take an IT-based approach instead of a broad-industry product approach. Ensure key provider attributes are verified and up to date. Include more perspectives.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

John and Colin debated some hot topics in health IT, including whether big tech is interested in acquiring a payer or provider or whether EHR vendors are making enough strides to make pure-play analytics vendors obsolete. Automation’s Role in Proactive Capacity Management.

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Hall Render

MARCH 28, 2023

I was lucky to have supportive colleagues who were willing to teach me, and I was proactive in identifying topics that interested me and seeking authoritative information. Once I had a basic understanding, I would volunteer to write an article; by the time I was finished with the project, I had a solid grasp of the issues. .”

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Similarly, while the health information management (HIM) department and privacy officers were once knee-deep in paperwork, they’ve transitioned efforts to the privacy of electronic data, including addressing right-to-access requests and concerns.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2021

These dynamics and these young health citizens’ coping mechanisms are captured in the report, Coping with COVID-19: How Young People Use Digital Media to Manage Their Mental Health. Compared with 2018, all online health search topics fell in engagement except for smoking/vaping.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 26, 2023

Preventing and managing chronic disease is not solely a job for an individual and their doctors, though. Mapping out Challenges Recently, I joined a working group on this very topic. The conditions in which we work, live, and play can impact our health dramatically.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

One rationale for adopting digital health records was to be able to measure, and then better manage, health care outcomes and, eventually, spending. This was the topic of a recent meet-up convened by NTCA – The Rural Broadband Association, discussing the economic returns of telemedicine. Why would a grocer lobby for such a project?

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AIHC

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This paper hopefully provides some insight to new managers on how to succeed in a competitive, challenging industry. Are you leader, manager or both? The terms leadership and management tend to be used interchangeably, but they are not the same, although health care leaders must have strong management skills.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The Myers-Briggs Company, whose workplace tests on personality many of us have undertaken, offers advice for World Mental Health Day on workplace wellness and managing stress. News and World Report , on the topic. The gig economy can also impact mental health for better or for worse, detailed in this Healthline essay.

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Health Populi

MARCH 8, 2018

Appropriately, privacy and security were hot topics at HIMSS Annual Conference this year, in respond to providers’ demands for more education and concerns around the challenges. Privacy and cybersecurity ranked the second highest priority to hospitals and healthcare providers polled in HIMSS 2018 Healthcare Leadership Survey.

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