Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 31, 2025

Healthcare IT Today caught up with Yurcisin at the 2024 NCQA Health Innovation Summit in Nashville, TN. By digitizing HEDIS measures into machine-readable formats like Clinical Quality Language (CQL), NCQA is cutting down interpretation errors and paving the way for standardized healthcare quality assessments. .”

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This strategic acquisition underscores Health Commons Project’s commitment to expanding its impact by improving data interoperability, enhancing care coordination, and promoting public health across Washington. We are excited to expand our capabilities to improve healthcare outcomes for all.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The inability to prescribe buprenorphine via telehealth for substance abuse disorder has been a concern since before the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency. " 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 News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2025

Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Email: afox@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Enterprise Taxonomy: Social determinants of health Health and Wellness Behavioral health Patient Access Telehealth Population and Public Health Regulation Care Public Policy

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2025

Recently, Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand released its first Health Infrastructure Plan, which outlines "a national, long-term approach to renewing and expanding the country’s public health facilities."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The Connected Health Initiative on Monday published an open letter to Sen. expressing support for the Telehealth Modernization Act and stressing the urgency of safeguarding access to virtual care before the public health emergency is set to expire. Department of Health and Human Services to expand telehealth in Medicare.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2025

In this video, President Jay Nakashima explains the role they play, particularly in public health, scaling FHIR and TEFCA. eHealth Exchange is working with the industry and with regulators to improve response rates so public health agencies can get the data they need to protect Americans health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2021

It's become common knowledge, at this point, that the flexibilities enabled by the federal government at the start of the COVID-19 public health emergency prompted an atmospheric jump in telehealth use. " The uncertainty about when the public health emergency will lift creates "a lot of anxiety," said Hayes.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 13, 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

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Read more… The Role of Analytics in Identifying and Addressing Population Health Challenges. Standardized security protocols would help, too.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Nearly 60 other services will be temporarily extended until the end of the calendar year in which the public health emergency expires. "Passing these bills would go a long way toward ensuring all Medicare beneficiaries have continued access to telehealth services after the COVID-19 public health emergency," said Johnson.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

He holds a master's degree in communications and leadership theory from Gonzaga University and has extensive experience in health system IT and clinical and business operations, as well as in the public health and environmental health sectors. We spoke with Scott to get a sneak preview of this timely HIMSS25 session.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 8, 2025

AI and virtual care models continued to be the craze in healthcare, owing to their clear support for improving clinician productivity and patient outcomes. How could digital health transformations proceed in the new year? Which trend in health technology in your country will you see continuing in 2025?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Population and Public Health Clinical decision support Coordinated care Health Information Exchange Digital Health Patient Access Care Quality Care Data and Information Technology

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Shelley, a professor in the Department of Policy and Public Health Management at the New York University School of Global Public Health. "But primary care doctors are the front line of healthcare in this country, and their patients still needed care." Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The American Telemedicine Association, the Connected Health Initiative and other industry groups issued a letter to Congress on Friday urging legislators to extend temporary telehealth flexibilities until the end of 2021. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2025

For the 88th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Ray Lowe, SVP and CIO at AltaMed to talk about the wildfires in Southern California. Next, we talk about the impact this disaster is having on healthcare organizations. What happens when a medical facility is just gone? Did you go to telehealth?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Associations such as HIMSS (parent company of Healthcare IT News ), the American Health Information Management Association, the American Telemedicine Association, the American Pharmacists Association and the National Association for Behavioral Healthcare. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because theres so much happening out there in healthcare IT we arent able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure youre 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

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The Telehealth Benefit Expansion for Workers Act would amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income and Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow employers to treat benefits for telehealth services like excepted benefits. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2021

Using data from Blue Health Intelligence data repository – an independent data and analytics company that is a licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association – researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health compared claims data from March through June 2019 with March through June 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 1, 2021

"OIG is conducting significant oversight work assessing telehealth services during the public health emergency. She pointed to recent rulemaking in which the OIG recognized the promise that digital health technologies, including telemedicine, have for improving care coordination and health outcomes.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. The former Epic employee, now at HTD Health, talked to John Lynn for more than two hours. Read more… Implementing Healthcare AI Responsibly.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

"Health plans are offering more telemedicine and digital health coverage as part of a broader acceptance of virtual care; changes we believe will largely remain even after the Public Health Emergency ends," said Nathaniel Lacktman, partner and chair of the firm’s national telemedicine and digital health industry team, in a statement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Along with telehealth, remote patient monitoring programs grew during the COVID-19 pandemic because federal rules gave providers the flexibility to use RPM for the duration of the public health emergency. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2023

The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center said in its latest analysis that the Clop ransomware gang has shifted tactics, directly impacting the healthcare and public health sector. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Email: afox@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 24, 2022

Teladoc Health. In the near term, ATA Action says it is pushing for at least a year's extension of the temporary flexibilities put in place during the COVID-19 public health emergency, along with longer-term goals of making policies permanent. Chamber of Commerce and Healthcare IT News parent company HIMSS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 1, 2021

What's less certain, however, is what that utilization will look like in the future, particularly as the end of the public health emergency looms. Hadi Chaudhry sat down with Healthcare IT News to share his perspective and weigh in on what needs to happen to safeguard access to virtual care beyond the end of COVID-19.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2020

" Covered entities seeking to use audio or video communication tech to reach patients where they live "can use any non-public facing remote communication product that is available to communicate with patients," said the agency. Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media. " Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2020

Three hundred and forty healthcare organizations published an open letter Monday asking Senate and House leaders to permanently enshrine changes to policies that would make telehealth accessible in the long term. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

Lots of industry groups want to see the temporary government waivers enacted early on during the COVID-19 public health emergency – the ones enabling the vast expansion of telehealth and remote patient monitoring over the past four months – to be made permanent once the storm has subsided. And some legislators do too.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2021

The legislation proposed this week would eliminate that requirement, as well as calling for a study and report on utilization of mental health services provided via telehealth to be submitted to Congress no later than one year after the end of the public health emergency. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2021

At the same time, stakeholders and thought leaders voiced concerns about health inequity, and lobbyists mounted the pressure for long-term regulatory reform. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. WHY IT MATTERS. Twitter: @kjercich. Email: kjercich@himss.org.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 25, 2021

Authorize the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service to continue reimbursement for telehealth for 90 days beyond the end of the public health emergency. Make permanent the disaster waiver authority, enabling Health and Human Service to expand telehealth in Medicare during all future emergencies and disasters.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Telehealth was held up as a "panacea," said Adaeze Enekwechi, a board member at the Public Health Institute and the Alliance for Health Policy, at the final installment of the American Telemedicine Association's EDGE policy conference on Tuesday. " Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 14, 2025

Dr. Ateev Mehrotra is chair of the department of health services, policy and practice at Brown University School of Public Health. Healthcare IT News sat down with him for a wide-ranging discussion on the future of telemedicine reimbursement and regulation. He is an expert in telemedicine policy.

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