Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. This frees up staff to focus on more complex and strategic aspects of RCM. As telehealth and home healthcare expand, expect more clinicians to seek more roles that provide more flexibility.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The following us a guest article by Khalid Al-Maskari, CEO and Founder, Health Information Management Systems. Now that COVID-19 has triggered an explosion of telehealth, more clinics are recognizing virtual patient care as an essential aspect of the integrated care model.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Many startups that ballooned during the 2020-2022 digital health boom fuelled by cheap capital and telehealth hype, are now struggling. Companies with unproven revenue models or heavy burn rates, like some digital therapeutics or niche telehealth firms, are prime candidates for distress-driven M&A. Why the uptick?

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 27, 2020

But what you might not know is the significant impact Experian has in the healthcare space via their Experian Health division. We’ve all heard of Experian. We know them from our daily lives as a credit reporting agency.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Another not so sexy, but important part of every EHR is the RCM and billing functionality. healow is eClinicalWorks patient engagement platform for messages, telehealth, payments, and more. Talking with users, they were really interested in being able to upload the billing documents. We should streamline this for providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 8, 2025

Read more… Improving RCM With AI. And what the heck happened to retail health? Read more… This Weeks Health IT Jobs for May 5, 2025: Many roles in informatics and information management. RCM automation vendor Candid Health raised $52.5 Are Google, Amazon, and Apple still disrupting the market?

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2024

News and Studies Follow-up rates for telehealth and in-office visits have remained consistent since 2020 , according to analysis from Epic Research. That said, telehealth visits are more likely to result in follow-ups at the 7-, 30- and 9-day mark, especially in OB/GYN, podiatry, and internal medicine.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Research from athenahealth about telehealth usage throughout the pandemic found that nearly 1 in 4 patients (24%) used telehealth specifically to avoid an in-person visit. In addition, nearly 1 in 3 patients used telehealth to manage a chronic condition, with 23% scheduling appointments and another 9% opting for ad hoc check-ins.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 24, 2023

Read more… One Health System’s Roller Coaster Journey to Improved RCM. Pennsylvania-based Hyndman Area Health Centers lost two financial leaders in an 8-month span. Read more… How Telehealth Can Democratize Healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 27, 2025

Optum released Optum Integrity One , which automates middle RCM tasks such as coding and documentation. Sales West Virginia’s Coplin Health Systems chose 19Labs portable telehealth units for its its network of school-based health centers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. COPE also needed a way to bill for services that weren’t provided via telehealth. ” Through AXiOM, all of COPE’s technologies, including telehealth and revenue cycle management (RCM), can communicate with each other.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Telemynd needed a way to continue providing mental health services while patients were stuck at home. CharmHealth’s technology helped Telemynd expand its telehealth services, allowing the practice to scale up its operations and serve thousands of patients across the U.S. “We We put an entire team on it,” added Chellappa.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 10, 2022

The Sequoia Project has released additional documentation support the implementation of TEFCA , the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement for health IT interoperability. Wisconsin’s Marshfield Clinic Health System selected Force Therapeutics as the care management platform for its orthopedics practice.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

News The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule continues many telehealth flexibilities first adopted during the public health emergency, such as an expanded scope of originating sites an expanded definition of qualified practitioners. Sales Ohio-based Fisher-Titus chose RevSpring for RCM and payment processing. 31, 2024.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 9, 2022

MedStar Health received a $2 million grant to continue research into how telehealth access impacts health equity. The granted-funded, follow-up research will explore ways to connect patients with chronic conditions and other vulnerable populations to telehealth services.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

New Hampshire-based Dartmouth Health is continuing its partnership with Conifer Health Solutions for RCM services. and Texas-based Blue Bonnet Family Medicine Health and Wellness Clinic is using PRISMA. RCM vendor Savista named Michael Waite as Vice President of Sales.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Advice included looking at state-level data privacy laws, taking information blocking and price transparency rules seriously, and exploring new ways to use telehealth. Read more… How Telehealth Meets Members of the LGBTQIA+ Community Where They Are. FOLX Health CEO Liana M.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 24, 2022

Demand for care at home is rising, but traditional telehealth and remote monitoring doesn’t support examination and diagnosis in the patient’s home. Two-thirds of health systems use AI for at least some RCM tasks. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week. million.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Andy took a deep dive into LexisNexis Health Equity and Inclusion Insights , which takes steps to provide more granular data by drawing on non-traditional data sources and evaluating data in the context of a patient’s environment. Read more… Healthcare IT Today Podcast : 2023 Health IT Recap.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 23, 2023

News and Studies The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule from CMS would continue many of the public health emergency telehealth flexibilities, such as an expanded definition of telehealth practitioners, continued payments to rural health centers and FQHCs, and the expansion of originating sites.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

The quickly evolving COVID-19 public health emergency has warranted the growing use of telehealth and non-invasive remote monitoring devices to facilitate patient monitoring while reducing patient and healthcare provider contact and possible exposure to the virus.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2024

Responses from the Healthcare IT Today community included telehealth, messaging (for patients and physicians), and access to care in non-traditional settings. John and Colin Hung discussed the most anticipated topics for the upcoming event – namely, where AI and automation are actually impacting RCM.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 19, 2023

Read more… Moving the Industry Forward With an RCM Adoption Model. Healthcare has many models, but until recently RCM has been missing. Jeff Becker and John Yount at FinThrive described their roadmap for RCM implementation and realizing value as an organization.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Read more… Understanding MEDITECH’s Culture and Approach to Health IT. Andy interviewed two product leaders at Virtu about SecureCycle, an app they developed during a company hackathon to provide secure exchange of reproductive health data – an unfortunate gap in the vast majority of apps currently in use.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2022

5 Lessons from the Conifer Health Solutions Data Breach. Earlier this month, the RCM vendor reported a data breach that may have impacted patients at five Texas-based providers. Read more… OIG Highlights the VA’s Challenges in Boosting Telehealth Use. Last year, the VA issues 41,000 free iPads to veterans.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Read more… Telehealth Visits Can Improve Clinical Revenue – to a Point. Andy Oram talked to several experts about the future of telehealth. With costs rising and revenue flat, health systems and physician practices are struggling with interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 19, 2023

A survey from the Health Management Academy and Outbound AI reported that almost half (48%) of health systems are using AI technology for workforce management , and 85% expect to see a moderate to significant increase in the use of such tools in the next one to three years.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 1, 2023

Read more… Featured Health IT Job: PACS Administrator at Salinas, California-based Natividad posted to Healthcare IT Central. Funding and M&A Activity: RCM vendor Janus received a strategic growth investment from Enhanced Healthcare Partners. White-label telehealth service OpenLoop raised $15 million in Series A funding.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 24, 2022

WELL has built an innovative practitioner enablement platform that includes comprehensive end to end practice management tools inclusive of virtual care and digital patient engagement capabilities as well as Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) and data protection services.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 11, 2023

Read more… Using Telehealth to Serve Disparate Populations. Josh Wilda, CIO at University of Michigan Health-West, described the health system’s unique partnership with Exalta Health, which serves a population that’s largely uninsured and Spanish-speaking.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 14, 2023

Patient engagement technology from Luma Health is now fully integrated with MEDITECH Expanse ; in addition, Luma is an initial member of the MEDITECH Alliance program Virtual primary care provider LifeMD will be the exclusive telehealth provider for online pharmacy HealthWarehouse.com.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Read more… Understanding MEDITECH’s Culture and Approach to Health IT. Andy interviewed two product leaders at Virtu about SecureCycle, an app they developed during a company hackathon to provide secure exchange of reproductive health data – an unfortunate gap in the vast majority of apps currently in use.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 12, 2024

So in the healthcare industry what we’re doing is some of the technologies that DT Research is providing allows the doctors to have more patient visits and meet more people based on telehealth applications. We try to provide as much value and ROI as possible to them.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 19, 2022

Its offerings include an ONC-Certified EMR with intuitive care coordination and management workflows, a FHIR API and Workflow SDK that provide industry leading platform extensibility, and end-to-end RCM functionality. Founded in 2015, Canvas is reimagining the EMR for the future of healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 13, 2023

Interactive portals enable secure messaging, appointment reminders, and access to personal health information, fostering a stronger patient-provider relationship. Telehealth services, accessible through mobile devices, enhance access to care, particularly in underserved areas or for patients with limited mobility.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Read more… This Week’s Health IT Jobs for October 23, 2024: Multiple organizations with systems analyst roles to fill. Read more… Bonus Features, HLTH Edition, for October 22, 2024 : News from Amazon One Medical, GE HealthCare, Noom, NVIDIA, Suki AI, and Uber Health, among others.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 5, 2021

In this episode we talk about some of the hottest topics in health IT and talk about whether we’re buying that something is going to happen or selling since we don’t think it’s going to happen. Whether you’re […] Health IT: Buy or Sell

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