Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

A lesser-known component of ARRA was Title XIII, the HITECH Act, which funded hospitals’ and physicians’ adoption of electronic health records systems (EHRs). The policy’s acronym fully spelled-out was the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009.

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Continue Education Journal

DECEMBER 30, 2021

These public programs include Medicare, the ACA, federal employee insurance, VA insurance, and more. Data interoperability, the ability to make health information flow seamlessly among providers, is the final part of Cutler’s proposal. With the majority of payers in the U.S. With administrative spending taking up ?-¼

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 17, 2022

These include specialist inpatient video and phone consultation items under the Medicare Benefits Schedule, complex specialist telephone consultations and level C or longer telephone consultations for general practitioners. The Australian government is briefly subsidising some telehealth services as it deals with a new COVID-19 outbreak.

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Electronic Health Reporter

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The following includes the key takeaways from the […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 22, 2025

Here’s a quick look at some of the health IT jobs we found: Systems Analyst 1- EMR and Clinical Workflows – Oracle Manager Data Health Informatics – MLK Community Healthcare Director, Software Engineering – Midi Health Business Office Representative Clerk – Owensboro Surgery Center – SCA Health Behavioral Health (..)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2020

" The researchers also pointed out that health information exchange availability might affect follow-up patterns in other settings, as could different patient populations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2023

It will use the health information taken from regular monitoring to promote clinical decisions and actions that will improve patient well-being and outcomes. In addition, the project will form a new digital health workforce by training doctors, nurses and allied health professionals in both hospital and primary care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 30, 2021

In 2017, the health system – which has 100 continuing care locations, including home care, hospice, PACE programs and senior living facilities – was in a bind, facing double-digit hospital readmissions of 16% across its high-risk Medicare population. THE PROBLEM. Trinity needed to reduce readmissions to single digits.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 2, 2019

1, 2019, the Centers for Medicare […]. Beginning Oct. The article AHIMA and AHCA Partner To Train Skilled Nursing Facilities In Coding Ahead of Upcoming Reimbursement Overhaul appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 23, 2020

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), in conjunction with the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) announced a policy of enforcement discretion […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 28, 2024

I helped build the reference products like Blue Button and Data at the Point of Care at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that became part of these regulations.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 8, 2024

Here’s a quick look at some of the health IT jobs we found: Assistant General Counsel – Supply Chain Management & IT – NYU Langone Health Associate Network Engineer – Cedars-Sinai Manager, Medical Digital Imaging Systems (Hybrid Position) – RUSH University Medical Center IT Manager – Network of Care – Stanford (..)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In the latest Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed for the first time a set of CPT codes for remote therapeutic monitoring. These codes, according to the proposal, are intended to be used to understand the effectiveness of and the patient's response to a prescribed therapy.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Privacy and scalability, where assuring the security of health citizens’ protected health information (PHI) must be designed into HaH programs. Doing so is central to building trust between patients, families, and providers.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 5, 2019

In January, 2019, the coordinating body for Health IT (ONC) released interoperability advice, connecting people to their care , that requires representing the relationship between a patient and another person (provider, caregiver, or family member). Medicare Advantage changes may revive tech-enabled home care services.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 1, 2023

Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

How to manage the new 'data tsunami' As providers rushed to roll out new telehealth services in response to the pandemic, many weren't – and many still aren't – prepared to manage the upsurge of new data, and new data types, streaming into their electronic health records. How to shore up telehealth cybersecurity.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Effective Health Information Exchange (HIE) requires a secure and reliable Health Information Service Provider (HISP) infrastructure to provide HIPAA-compliant delivery of healthcare information. She shares several popular and impactful use cases, including how they’re looking at provider and payer collaboration.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 16, 2025

Pear Suite launched the Pear Cares Provider Network of more than 1,000 community health workers PointClickCare unveiled Transitions of Care , which helps Medicare Advantage plans get members’ admission and discharge information. Women’s health clinic Tia chose Nabla as its AI assistant for nearly 100 clinicians.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 25, 2024

million Australians had their health information stolen in the recent MediSecure hack. Individual healthcare identifiers, Medicare card numbers, and prescription medications and instructions are some types of information that were exposed in the hack, it added.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Key Components of CCM Chronic Care Management (CCM) services encompass several essential components that work together to provide a comprehensive care plan for Medicare beneficiaries, particularly older adults with multiple chronic conditions. As healthcare increasingly relies on technology, securing patient data is critical.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Thinking about their health care experiences, consumers most-highly ranked having open access to their medical records and partnering for shared medical decisions with their health care providers as key to meaningful health engagement. Some of the stress and anxiety felt across the U.S. The red bars indicate the percent of U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2024

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized new standards for electronic prescribing on June 13, concluding a complicated, 18-month regulatory process that came in fits and starts and went by without attracting much industry scrutiny. This article is the fourth in the Healthcare Regulatory Talk series.

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Health Populi

JULY 2, 2024

The FAS notes that the Medicare and Medicaid programs in the U.S. cover about 40% of Americans, and therefore have the opportunity to design and scale responsible AI to patients in these plans. As part of the agency’s AI strategy, the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2020

The Alliance for Integrated Care of New York (AICNY) oversees the healthcare needs of roughly 6,200 dually eligible Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Many AICNY beneficiaries reside in group homes and use Federally Qualified Community Health Centers. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 20, 2025

My name is Vatsala Kapur, and I’m the Vice President of External Affairs at Bamboo Health. My career spans over three decades in health information technology, health policy and public health, including roles at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation and in state government.

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TheraNest

MARCH 18, 2020

If your client’s private health information is compromised due to using a non-HIPAA compliant telehealth platform, the consequences for your client are still the same even if you do not get fined. Private health information that is compromised may result in economic harm, embarrassment, or discrimination for the client.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 22, 2024

Consider how medically trained interpreters deal with Protected Health Information (PHI), maintain patient privacy, and uphold security standards. PHI is any information that can identify a patient and is created, used, or disclosed by a healthcare provider during the course of providing a healthcare service.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 9, 2023

Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Continue Education Journal

JUNE 12, 2019

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which will help ensure providers have the ability to set patients up with proper at-home treatment and monitoring systems. The benefits of telehealth continues to grow, according to the WHO. The switch to telehealth services will also help stabilize the increasing healthcare costs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2023

"Some 70% to 80% of these DHA residents are established patients at Denver Health. "The majority of these patients are racial/ethnic minority populations (72%), dually eligible for Medicare/Medicaid, with multi-morbidity and high healthcare needs, and lower health and digital literacy," she added.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

Myndshft works with leading providers, payers, and health information exchanges. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the National Coordinator for Health IT. Our solutions are used by more than 350,000 prescribers, 71,000 pharmacies, 270 EHRs and health information systems, and over 2,000 hospitals in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2023

While the EHR Association has long supported the goals of the proposed rule, called Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing Proposed Rule (HTI-1), we have a number of real concerns about the impact it would have on the industry if finalized as proposed.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In January, the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) became a reality, and in October applications opened for organizations seeking designation as Qualified Health Information Networks (QHINs). Currently, perhaps 99% of health data exchange is initiated to support treatment. The Case for Federal Agencies.

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Digital Health Global

JANUARY 30, 2024

The statewide nonprofit health information organization will send and receive Admit, Discharge, and Transfer (ADT) notifications at no cost for most CalHHS Data Exchange Framework (DxF) participants through new exchange EMERYVILLE, Calif.–(BUSINESS

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Under this final rule, individuals and entities that violate the information-blocking requirements face a penalty of up to $1 million per violation. This final rule does not apply to healthcare providers but instead is directed at health information networks and health information exchanges, as well as developers of certified health IT.

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