Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

He notes that we’re really just getting started: When the Recovery Act was enacted in 2009, the EHR adoption rate nationally was about 10%, and that rate got up over 50% in 2013. Since we couldn’t expect interoperability before a critical mass of providers were using EHRs, 2014-15 was the timeframe for starting to think about it.

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Interoperability EHR FHIR HIE 60

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Also, Oracle Health is collaborating with Valeos , providing access to EHR data and cloud infrastructure to modernize the organ transplant system. Data analytics platform Arcadia launched a point-of-care generative AI assistant to improve risk factor documentation. HCPLAN also added the advocacy group Accountable for Health.

Medical Billing 100

Medical Billing EHR Medicare BioTech 100

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Another likely forthcoming requirement that will exacerbate the existing challenges: in the coming years, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will implement the provision for convening providers to incorporate projected costs from co-providers on an estimate for a care episode.

Healthcare IT 128

Healthcare IT Telemedicine Medicare EHR 128

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

What You Will Do Design, implement, and optimize the schemas and data dictionaries across a broad ecosystem of platforms and vendors Manage the data lifecycle for all source, derived, and exported data ensuring accuracy and consistency Manage the systems that clean, normalize, and translate various data flows in HL7, FHIR, and other common healthcare (..)

Health IT 104

Health IT Medicare HIPAA EMR 104

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 10, 2024

This makes the patient-provider interaction more human and engaging, because providers spend less time clicking through EHRs on screens and more time connecting with and caring for patients — whether the appointment is in-person or virtual. This is not something a generic enterprise-grade EHR will allow them to provide.

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Patient Experience Nursing EHR Healthcare IT 132

GlobalMed

JULY 31, 2019

When patients decide to see a primary care provider or specialist who is out of network or operating in a different hospital system, several repercussions happen: Clinicians and hospitals lose the reimbursement for medical services that are provided elsewhere. Referral challenges.

Telemedicine 49

Telemedicine Primary Care Accountable Care Telehealth 49

American Well

MARCH 17, 2016

EHRs: Electronic Health Records (EHRs) go one step beyond EMRs by tracking clinical data from multiple facilities and agencies. EHRs share a patient’s medical history from all providers involved in his or her care, and are often digitized to improve efficiency, care and cost.

Telehealth 48

Telehealth EMR HIPAA Telemedicine 48

American Well

MARCH 17, 2016

EHRs: Electronic Health Records (EHRs) go one step beyond EMRs by tracking clinical data from multiple facilities and agencies. EHRs share a patient’s medical history from all providers involved in his or her care, and are often digitized to improve efficiency, care and cost.

Telehealth 48

Telehealth EMR HIPAA Telemedicine 48

Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

OCR has done a bang-up job elucidating the regs through a series of sub-regulatory guidance documents , and I would urge both regulators and the regulated community to start with the regs and those guidance documents and see whether any changes are really needed, or whether the problem is with communication and education.

HIPAA 60

HIPAA Health Data Accountable Care Meaningful Use 60

Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

OCR has done a bang-up job elucidating the regs through a series of sub-regulatory guidance documents , and I would urge both regulators and the regulated community to start with the regs and those guidance documents and see whether any changes are really needed, or whether the problem is with communication and education.

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HIPAA Health Data Accountable Care Meaningful Use 60

Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

I’ve cut/pasted selected sentences from the DOH document to make it easy to follow here – but (of course) the full document has more detail/explanation. So with this too many/too few framework – let’s parse the Kotter Edition and see how we are doing. HERO, therefore, opens the door to the same challenges we had with DSRIP.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Telehealth HIE Public Health 52