Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2023

For physician practices, payers, hospitals, and health systems, the takeaway is clear. But what does this mean for incumbents? What technologies will be involved, and what are the key factors of success that must be considered? Now operating 32 clinics in five states, it recently announced significant expansion plans.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

While doing some research, Eres came across remote patient monitoring technology company Optimize Health online and requested a demo. Optimize Health explained its program in detail, showed Eres exactly how it would look in real time and let him ask all the questions he had. THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL. " MARKETPLACE.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 6, 2024

The same poll found that 56% of American adults wait more than a week for an appointment, while many others skip healthcare altogether, with 30% saying they don’t have the time and 25% saying it takes too long to get an appointment. What’s standing in the way? On the demand side, the U.S. has an aging population.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

It has set the stage for CIOs and other health IT executives to rethink their approach to accomplishing new tasks. This is the sixth instalment in Healthcare IT News ' feature story series, "Health IT Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Era." " ( Click here to visit the portal with all the feature stories.).

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2021

Our feet have become an important health focus during the pandemic, as the importance of exercise-as-medicine and mental health helper has looked to walking, running, and biking as good-for-us physical activities. Walking, running, going outside for fresh air required shoes and for many people, new shoes.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The previous articles in this series showed how payers, providers, and digital health companies try to prove that they’re helping to create healthier patients. Sara Shanti, a partner specializing in health care at law firm Sheppard Mullin , says that organizations in the wellness space are searching for strong algorithms.

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Healthcare Blog

JULY 26, 2023

Managers and policymakers Managers and policymakers must create policies that comply with federal health regulations and meet the criteria for accreditation as determined by the organization’s accrediting organization. Policy management requires many hours of work by experienced healthcare professionals.

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Jane Sarashon

APRIL 18, 2023

Consider the key drivers of supply and demand in health care, globally, right now: On the medical delivery supply side, the shortage of staff is a limiting factor to continuing to deliver care based on the usual work-flows and payment models.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 22, 2021

How interactive patient systems help hospitals support their nurses – ultimately allowing them to provide better patient care and work at the top of their licensure, while also educating patient in their care plans, and enhancing the overall patient experience with no expense to the nursing staff.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

With much of the country shut down earlier this year, the typical number of weekly virtual care visits grew from dozens, to hundreds, to thousands at hospitals and health systems across the country. To see all of the feature stories in the Burnout in the Age of COVID-19 series, click here. How stress manifested as telehealth visits boomed.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 1, 2023

As unbelievable as it may seem, soothsayers peered into crystal balls aiming to help seekers look into the future for guidance, while prospectors would rely earnestly on divining rods as they attempted to locate underground riches of water or oil. One recent report valued the global DTx market at $4.2 Enter precision engagement.

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YouCompli

OCTOBER 5, 2023

” Dr. Berger’s book explores the science behind why certain ideas, products, or messages go viral while others do not. Berger’s book explores the science behind why certain ideas, products, or messages go viral while others do not. Identify lost revenue for a department director while conducting a billing and coding audit.

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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. Typically, the care team walks through the instructions and gives the patient a large, printed packet. Direct patient/provider messaging within the platform.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 12, 2023

Vijay Kedar, Co-Founder and CEO at Tomorrow Health. While inflation will stabilize, many of these challenges will persist as health systems enter a new normal where substantial inpatient procedure volumes have shifted to outpatient, ambulatory, and home-based settings, but hospitals’ fixed costs remain high.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 6, 2021

And while she knows how to carry out these functions, she nonetheless remains fearful of inadvertently introducing bacteria into the line and the consequences that could result. It doesn’t take you to a health plan website. This woman is not alone. Who Cares for the Caregivers? Try Googling the word “caregiving.”

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. At the push of a button, a virtual nurse can walk through the admission checklist or answer other general questions for the patient, which then frees bedside nurses up to answer calls and tend to physical patient needs faster.

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Dossier

MARCH 8, 2022

While the U.S Overwhelmed clinical AND non-clinical staff are leaving for better pay, more benefits, and less stress. Healthcare workers chose to work in healthcare because of their passion to help others. Healthcare workers chose to work in healthcare because of their passion to help others. Authored By: Geir Arnhoff.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

There’s a shortage of medical providers in the United Kingdom, a nation where healthcare is guaranteed to all Britons via the most beloved institution in the nation : The National Health Service. The NHS “supply shortage” is a result of financial cuts to both social care and public health.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

VillageMD announced today it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Summit Health-CityMD , a leading provider of primary, specialty and urgent care. Together, VillageMD and Summit Health-CityMD will create a multi-payor platform to deliver quality, affordable care for all patients.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

Consumers who have long purchased over-the-counter medicines, anti-dandruff shampoo, whitening toothpaste, and cosmetics-with-benefits at food, drug and mass merchant retailers are switching to other places to shop for health, new data from AT Kearney and GMDC have found. GMDC and AT Kearney had a meeting in June 2017.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A year of constantly shifting gears to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic and meet patient needs further solidified the essential role urgent cares play during large-scale public health crises. David Stern, M.D., cofounder & CEO of Experity. Subsequently, the pandemic is continuing to change the way patients use and view urgent care.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

AI automation is still so new that it’s hard to tell what the exact impact will be. Check out what they had to say down below! There are so many challenges that we are currently facing in the world of healthcare, that possibly adding another one is overwhelming to think about. However, where does the automation end?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

But looking ahead, it's worth taking stock of what lasting digital health changes might emerge from this ongoing crisis. A national patient identifier is a must for effective care coordination and population health management. On those fronts and many others, HIMSS has been working hard, he says.

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AIHC

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The GCPG is a reference guide for the health care compliance community and other health care stakeholders and provides information about relevant Federal laws, compliance program infrastructure, OIG resources, and other information useful to understanding health care compliance.

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AIHC

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The GCPG is a reference guide for the health care compliance community and other health care stakeholders and provides information about relevant Federal laws, compliance program infrastructure, OIG resources, and other information useful to understanding health care compliance.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Patients whose inability to take time off work or secure childcare limits in-person visits. ? Many cannot afford the financial burden of co-pays, childcare, transportation, time off work or the out-of-pocket cost of receiving care when uninsured. Access challenges are partly to blame. Patients who speak English as a second language.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 13, 2022

Asher shared the success of their Staff Duress solution at a 150-bed behavioral health center in the Midwest: “As you can imagine, they have violent situations almost on a weekly basis. Through RLTS platforms, security teams can be alerted to the exact location of staff who need immediate assistance. Increasing Violence and Duress.

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Redox

APRIL 13, 2023

And so a lot of these organizations are finding that if you’ve got somebody who’s good at business, let’s get together with them so we can get back to treating patients, and that’s what a lot of consolidated organizations are doing, whether it’s us or even hospitals. This transcript may contain errors.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 14, 2021

Even before COVID-19, Baptist Health, a health system based in Louisville, Kentucky, had a system-wide initiative to provide more patient-centric care, part of which included providing patient care on patients' terms. That's when Oliver started talking with AI-powered remote patient monitoring technology vendor Current Health.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Now more than ever providers and their staff are faced with a growing number of challenges that prevent or delay them from doing what they are all there to do: get patients in front of a doctor to determine how to get them well. What is an RTA? One of the biggest villains in this story is the old fax machine.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

What do Centene, CVS Health-Aetna and Humana all have in common? Trying really hard not to start off with a “three health plans walk into a bar” joke…). Estimates vary widely in the marketplace, from $12 billion (MedPac) to $200 billion (Richard Kronick, Health Affairs). Well, if you were at the 41st annual J.P.

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Hall Render

MARCH 3, 2023

NATIONAL 14 rural senators push CMS to extend low-wage hospitals’ payment bump in FY2024 American Hospital Association voices support for telehealth expansion bill Behavioral health market to hit $262B by 2029 Biden administration moves to establish ‘guardrails’ for telehealth prescriptions CMS Officials Confirm End of PHE Nursing (..)

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Hall Render

AUGUST 4, 2023

sues UnitedHealth over ‘thousands’ of denied claims What’s a fair price for a prescription drug? 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.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Ransomware attacks against hospitals put patients’ lives at risk, researchers say States, FTC continue to target noncompetes: 3 updates The best hospital in each state, per Newsweek What to know about Stark law’s $9.2M

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2022

Gary Shapiro, President and CEO of CTA, introduced today’s CES keynote speaker, Robert Ford, as the “ first-ever keynote speaker from health care” at CES, calling out the fact that Abbott’s Freestyle Libre System garnered one of CES 2022’s Innovation Awards.

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

What’s next when they want to retire?

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