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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

To help out, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to see which healthcare regulations they foresee having a big impact on healthcare IT. Healthcare IT systems, especially EHRs, played a key role in supporting documentation with the use of macros, smart phrases, and templates.

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Health systems, care delivery groups, Amazon launch hospital-at-home initiative

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Encourage greater flexibility for home-based care services to meet commercial and Medicare Advantage network adequacy standards. They also point to research showing home-based care to reduce likelihood of hospital readmissions. Many healthcare leaders have seen the trend moving in this direction for some time. THE LARGER TREND.

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The Healthcare Cybersecurity Ecosystem: A System in Need of Comprehensive Care

Healthcare IT Today

Consider the Change Healthcare breach of 2024, costing $3 billion (and rising) and exposing 190 million individuals data. The lapse didnt just hit hospitals; it disrupted insurers, pharmacies, providers, and patients nationwide. This breach shows how far the ripples reach. Reputations can tank. And the cost of inaction?

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Orlando Health to launch Hospital Care at Home program

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Orlando Health's program is the first in Central Florida to be approved by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and represents an expansion of a federal enhanced care model created during the pandemic to extend the scop of hospital resources. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Budget 2024: Private hospitals tapped to provide psychiatric telehealth amid crisis

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Australian Private Hospitals Association (APHA) has recently shared that it was advised that the 2024-2025 Budget also introduces temporary Medicare Benefit Schedule (MBS) items for the admission and some subsequent teleconsultation of inpatients in private hospitals.

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RPM strategies for moving from discharge to hospital-at-home care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

McKinsey estimates $265 billion worth of care services for Medicare patients could shift from traditional facilities to the home by 2025. Hospital-at-home is not a discharge from the hospital, it is providing the hospital level care in the home. With that said, hospital-at-home takes the home setting to an all-new level.

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Resilience Healthcare to Implement Altera Digital Health’s Paragon® EHR and Ventus Solutions

Digital Health Global

Paragon is delivered in the Azure cloud, providing healthcare organizations with a reliable, scalable system bolstered by Microsoft’s advanced security controls. I look forward to working with the Resilience Healthcare team to ensure smooth implementations and provide support across the organization in the years to come.”

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