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Supplemental Benefits Skyrocket but Access to Care Remains a Challenge

Healthcare IT Today

The Medicare Advantage Star Ratings program includes a Health Equity Index (HEI) Reward Factor that will be introduced in 2027 to encourage plans to deliver equitable healthcare. Data from measurement years 2024 and 2025 will impact Star ratings in 2027.

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How Consumers and Physicians View Digital Health – An Update from the Consumer Technology Association

Health Populi

Most health care practitioners are also positive about the potential of digital health — recognizing room for improvement for better data integration, interoperability, and the opportunity to bridge gaps to achieve health equity and bolster access. annually to 2027 when the projected market would be over $42 bn.

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Impetus and Edict: What the Latest CMS Data Standards Mean for EHRs – Regulatory Talk Series

Healthcare IT Today

The Office of the National Coordinator’s (ONC) final HTI-1 rule will bring major compliance hoops for EHR developers to jump through as they carry the next stage of interoperability forward. As something of a space nerd, I find the parallels between interoperability and space exploration striking.

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CMS prior authorization rule finally crosses the finish line

Redox

My debut focused on how the CMS proposed Interoperability and Prior Authorization rule would dramatically improve prior authorization processes with electronic processing via APIs. CMS just finalized the CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule CMS-0057-F , or what many have called the “Interop 3” rule. ICYMI: It didn’t.

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How EiPaaS is Revolutionizing Healthcare Operations with Scalability and Agility

Healthcare IT Today

billion by 2027. Thanks to EiPaaS, systems have low latency and become increasingly interoperable, so every program talks to each other, allowing doctors to access data shortly after it is uploaded into the system. This solution is a rising star among businesses looking to overcome data-handling hurdles.

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How to connect your EHR to AWS

Redox

2 Seamless interoperability and integration management will be critical to this hybrid approach. In most cases, the legacy protocols need to be translated into the more modern HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) protocol which requires in-depth healthcare data knowledge and experience. HL7®v2, C-CDA, X12, etc.)

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Healthcare AI – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

are expected to reach $6 trillion by 2027, cost containment and the push to increased decentralization of care will be a top healthcare priority in 2024. Sandeep Akkaraju, CEO & Co-Founder at Exo As healthcare costs in the U.S.