Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 23, 2023

Also on its policy agenda for the year ahead: advocating for data standardization, offering input for interoperability rulemaking and engaging with agencies and states to increase telehealth access. Budget leaders have asked, "How do you really know what the impact on the Medicare population and the Medicare Trust Fund will be?

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Or are there areas in healthcare where past regulations are now too restrictive and are holding us back? In search of answers to these questions, we reached out to our incredibly beautiful Healthcare IT Today Community to see what areas they would add, remove, or update regulations. The following is what they had to say.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2024

In a fast-paced exchanged with John Lynn of Healthcare IT Today, Rucker covers regulations and evolving data exchange standards that foster interoperability and data analytics. “The real point of interoperability is continuous, real-time computing,” according to Rucker.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2022

With recent legislation allowing Medicare to negotiate prices, it’s likely that the movement will grow , given the high and constantly rising costs of pharmaceuticals, especially gene therapies and other innovative or personalized drugs. EHR interoperability will also help empower patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

In his study, Auerswald found that labor market barriers to entry, such as licensing requirements, and technical barriers to entry, such as regulatory approvals and interoperability standards, constitute "the most significant barriers to entrepreneurial entry." Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2025

We reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community to get their insights on what will happen in the coming year and boy did they deliver. At the same time, interoperability and data analytics tools are maturing to the point where networks can access information about specialist performance. Let us know on social media.

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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. Listen and subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today Interviews Podcast to hear all the latest insights from experts in healthcare IT.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Other times patients and sections of healthcare can be overlooked or forgotten, which can result in outdated or missing policies. We reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community to ask What role do policy changes play in advancing health equity and how can healthcare providers advocate for such changes effectively?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

By eliminating barriers and providing greater visibility into a patient's medical history and then providing bespoke recommendations or materials to support their care, interoperability and tech stand to provide a better patient experience anywhere as well as empower patients to take greater control over their healthcare journey, he said.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The following is a guest article by David Lareau, CEO at Medicomp Systems A couple of years ago, we predicted an impending “explosion” of Medicare Advantage (MA) fraud and penalties. The Failure of Reactive Approaches The current approach to combating Medicare fraud is woefully inadequate. This mindset needs to change.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 28, 2024

The following is a guest article by Shannon West, Chief Product Officer at Datavant Since the dawn of electronic medical records, American healthcare delivery systems have traced a winding path toward the dream of seamless and timely health data interoperability.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

As we've shown this month, there's been progress on unlocking data from EHRs , but still much work to be to be done with information sharing on a community level , even as a wide variety of interoperability groups throw their weight behind an array of different efforts. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2024

" Mike Miliard is executive editor of Healthcare IT News Email the writer: mike.miliard@himssmedia.com Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Patient Access Analytics Clinical and business intelligence Interoperability Core Technologies EHR Care Data and Information Technology

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 19, 2020

No objections were made by Allscripts during the requisite 6 month period prior to the issue of our trademark," said CarePortMD CEO Dr. Ashok Subramanian in a statement to Healthcare IT News. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 3, 2024

As CMS targets having all Traditional Medicare beneficiaries and most Medicaid beneficiaries in accountable care relationships by 2030, there is an urgent need for healthcare providers, particularly those serving the 65+ demographic, to adopt value-based approaches. .

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2025

We reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community to get their insights on what will happen in the coming year and boy did they deliver. Patty Hayward, General Manager of Healthcare and Life Sciences at Talkdesk In the coming year, we will see even more emphasis on efficiency and driving positive returns on investment.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 4, 2025

Nationally, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has reported that only 18% of TCM visits were billed. Hospitals experience an average of 17 readmissions per 100 Medicare discharges. The timing of Reveleums solution is critical. Regulatory reforms in the U.S. billion by 2032.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 14, 2024

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. 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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

The patient engagement space will see M&A activity with those vendors with the most intuitive and interoperable user interfaces staying strong. The enterprise imaging IT space will drive up to $2 billion in investments toward imaging workflow efficiency, interoperability and analytics.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Patients must agree to allow Unite's platform to access and unify their medical data from multiple providers, Theo Ahadome, Unite's chief commercial officer told Healthcare IT News on Wednesday. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Email: afox@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2024

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. 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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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2024

For SNFs that utilized the interventional analytics, the data showed a reduction in Medicare spending per beneficiary, a decrease in hospitalizations due to infections acquired during the SNF stay, and an increase in the rate of successful transitions back to home or community settings. As the study highlights, there were approximately 1.7

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 21, 2022

What Is Interoperability in Healthcare? The ability of different systems, devices, and applications to work together and exchange information seamlessly is known as interoperability in healthcare. Medicare and a supplemental plan) to receive care from multiple providers (e.g.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 25, 2022

She has written four books, including The Patient as CEO: How Technology Empowers the Healthcare Consumer and, most recently, How AI Can Democratize Healthcare: The Rise in Digital Care. Healthcare IT News spoke with Farmanfarmaian to discuss where AI is impacting remote patient monitoring today, and how AI can democratize healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have taken a bold step by mandating a standard for prior authorization. A Process in Urgent Need of an Upgrade Clearly, prior authorization is crying out for standardization and interoperability. A CMS fact sheet offers more details on CMS’s thinking and plans.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 30, 2024

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. 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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 9, 2021

With the new version, Vivify's remote care platform is significantly more interoperable with EHRs, medical devices and other systems, the company said. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. This can integrate with Epic's EHR. Enable providers to schedule video visits. Vivify Health is in HIMSS21 booth 4217.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

The good news for telehealth is that the reimbursement environment has improved, with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services bringing telehealth and eVisits on par with in-person visits for the duration of the pandemic, along with a relaxing of rules for virtual consults across state lines.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2023

Many facets of healthcare remained in a state of flux at the close of 2022, as care practices that started during the pandemic found their way into the mainstream, and enthusiasm for new data sources and interoperability outpaced the realities of implementation. Be sure to check out last year’s New Healthcare Truths of 2022 ) 1.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 1, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Healthcare Data Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 6, 2019

In another step in fleshing out its interoperability efforts, CMS has announced plans to launch a pilot program giving clinicians access to claims data. During the pilot, which is called “Data at the Point of Care” or DPC, clinicians will be able to access the claims data from CMS’s Blue Button 2.0 functionality. The idea […].

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

” The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Interoperability and Prior Authorization rule , finalized this January, will require health plan investment in advanced technology to ensure compliance with federal prior authorization requirements.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 22, 2025

In case you need some help starting this goal, we reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community to ask how can healthcare organizations address social determinants of health (SDoH) to reduce disparities and promote health equity in underserved communities?

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

So I was intrigued when Mark Scrimshire, chief interoperability officer of OnyxOS , introduced me to developments over the past few years that will make digital insurance cards feasible. A payer such as Medicare could just put a card on its web site for each patient to download. Medicare uses Blue Button 2.0 Version 2.0

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 9, 2023

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. 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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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 5, 2024

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. 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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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 21, 2024

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. 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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