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What the future holds for HHS-OIG health IT enforcement

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"We believe health technology should be used in the service of care to achieve better health and value," said VanLandingham. As one example, he pointed to telehealth, which has enormous potential to increase access to service and decrease burdens.

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What facilitated telehealth can do to improve care for high-need groups

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

For example, factors like lower education levels, poor diet, smoking and insufficient exercise may contribute to developing heart disease. In many cases, the same factors that lead to poor health and poor access to care contribute to low use of digital health services.

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Employers Take on Health Activism, Embracing Behavioral Health, Virtual Care, AI, and Transparency

Health Populi

One-third of large employers will adopt new delivery and payment models like accountable care organizations and high-performing networks in 2019. More employers will also channel employees and dependents to Centers of Excellence for focused clinical areas like cancer treatment, cardiovascular care.

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Telemedicine triage kiosks reduce ER visits by 11% for ACO

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A large number of the beneficiaries present multiple complex chronic health conditions with a high coexistence of mental health conditions making the coordination of care more complex and inefficient. “Another important aspect of the project includes an interface between three software programs,” Schielke noted.

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Cindy Friend, Caradigm and Population Health – Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

Caradigm is focusing on population health by stratifying patients with multiple chronic conditions, and supporting ACOs in managing their care. PHQ-9’s may be administered by primary care providers), so that the behavioral health data may be integrated into the analytics framework used to manage population health.

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MedPAC members weigh future of telehealth coverage

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

During the public health emergency, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services temporarily expanded that coverage – for example, allowing clinicians to provide services to patients in their homes and in non-rural settings. "A key issue is how to achieve the benefits of telehealth while limiting the risks," said Tabor.

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Health Data Analytics Institute (HDAI) Announces $31 Million Funding Round to Scale Predictive Risk Platform

Healthcare IT Today

HDAI’s implementation at Houston Methodist is one of the most comprehensive, system-wide AI/machine learning (ML) care optimization solutions in production enabling data-informed actions by clinicians at the point of care and by population health managers at the system level.