Healthcare It News

MAY 2, 2022

Aparna Dial, senior director of Sustainability and Strategic Services at OSU, sat down with Healthcare IT News to discuss the team's findings, along with how the healthcare industry can be environmentally sustainable in the long term. Research indicates that barriers to transportation can result in poor access to healthcare.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 25, 2023

It's a new year, and healthcare technology vendors are rolling out their latest innovations, market approvals, acquisitions and staffing shake-ups. In October, Optum, UnitedHealth Group's pharmacy services company, merged with data clearinghouse Change Healthcare.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

faces a shortage of 17,325 primary care specialists, and increasing shortages of physicians, nurses, and other care staff are projected for years to come. Against this industry backdrop, chief information and medical officers at healthcare providers and payers are exploring generative AI’s potential to transform clinician productivity.

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p3care

JULY 12, 2023

So, today, we bring you exciting news from MIPS 2022 reporting. Breaking News for Providers: MIPS 2022 Final Score Preview Available Now! So, all healthcare providers, it’s the moment you all have been eagerly waiting for. After the completion of the performance period, the clinicians are excitingly waiting for their scores.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 2, 2022

"Telemedicine can improve healthcare access and health outcomes in medically underserved communities by addressing structural barriers like transportation, excess wait times, childcare responsibilities, inconvenient appointment times, and regional medical provider shortages," wrote the study authors. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 20, 2022

Digital health startup investments reached a new high in 2021, closing the year with more than $30 billion in venture capital funding. Over the past couple of months, the sobering news of high-flying startups coming back to earth has been a steady drumbeat in the background. Unicorns to 'uni-gones'?

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Those standards include requirements to provide notice to patients about how PHI may be used and disclosed by the organization, the requirement to obtain valid authorization for certain types of uses and disclosures, and the requirement to obtain certain assurances before disclosing PHI to vendors. million individuals.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

" Meanwhile, the operations of the practice handles a daily flood of patient messages, insurance and prior authorization requests, and coordination of appointments and follow-ups. Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Groups Recover Together is a national healthcare company for individuals with opioid use disorder. Staff did all this with great uncertainty about what the future might look like. ? Will staff be able to perform their jobs at a high level? ? Will staff see a degradation of outcomes? THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare Success

MAY 2, 2022

What’s more, consistently distributing press releases to the right media outlets allows healthcare organizations to build credibility with journalists and patients. . Since it’s written in the style of a news article, press releases are easy wins for journalists looking for a quick way to turn around an article.” .

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Healthcare It News

JULY 25, 2023

" Access to more high-quality, actionable information for providers, with minimal impact to current workflows, also was imperative for staff. Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products. Decreasing the cost of care across the continuum.

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Healthcare Success

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

When patients take their grievances out on their healthcare provider, it can be frustrating—not only for the provider but also for the administration. More than ever before, healthcare organizations have to worry about the threat of legal action. . It’s important to show healthcare consumers they are heard and understood.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Specifically, the bill requires certain health care facilities in the state to raise the hourly minimum wage for covered health care workers — including support staff members like janitors and groundskeepers. The news will be greeted warmly by caregivers in the Golden State.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Chris Bowen, founder and CISO at ClearDATA In healthcare, sensitive data comes with great responsibility. Limit data collection to only what’s necessary The first step in fortifying the security of healthcare data is to limit data collection to the bare essentials.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 23, 2022

" As pediatric vaccinations were coming in the spring of 2021, staff knew getting access to scheduling for thousands of kids in Denver public schools was going to be a burden for the call centers. As the safety net health system for Denver Metro, Denver Health vaccinated many people who were not regular patients. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

"This drastically reduces data errors generally introduced with the manual entry of patient data by front desk staff." CORE schedulers use Curogram to create and modify online availability for new and existing locations on a regular basis. " MEETING THE CHALLENGE. ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 9, 2024

Editor's Note: This is the fifth in a series of features on top voices in health IT discussing the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare. Artificial intelligence continues to learn, and with generative AI is taking on much more of what we have traditionally attributed to human capabilities, like generating new content.

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Healthcare Success

MAY 2, 2022

What's more, consistently distributing press releases to the right media outlets allows healthcare organizations to build credibility with journalists and patients. . Since it’s written in the style of a news article, press releases are easy wins for journalists looking for a quick way to turn around an article.” .

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

When it comes to early detection of cancer cases in Egypt, one of the main challenges cited is the low level of health literacy amongst the general population, as well as the average level of training amongst primary healthcare professionals who can recognise early symptoms of cancer. More medical staff are required. Population: 6.9

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center in New Haven, Connecticut, as a community health center, always had faced a range of treatment barriers that made it difficult, if not impossible, for patients to attend in-person appointments pre-COVID – and for which telemedicine would have been a viable alternative. THE PROBLEM.

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Home Health Care

MAY 5, 2023

“To get Medicare Advantage right, you have to be prepared for a sea change in your cost structure and the way that you operate your business,” Frontpoint Health CEO Brent Korte told Home Health Care News. Korte and his staff have specifically tailored the company’s strategy to be successful taking on mostly MA business.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 3, 2022

In this Voices interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Eric Gordon, Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer of Element5, to learn why post-acute care organizations are turning increasingly to automation tools to make staff and patients happier. Gordon: Our mission is to enable staff to work at the top of their licenses.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 29, 2023

In this interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Ronda Howard, Vice President, Revenue Cycle and CAHPS, HEALTHCAREfirst , to talk about working through the challenges affecting a home-based care agency’s bottom line. Home Health Care News: What career experiences do you most draw from in your role today?

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The good news is the hiring outlook may be starting to improve, even compared to just a few months ago, so there is a reason for hope. If you’re still unsure, ask them to come in for an hour or two to “shadow” an existing staff member. Be Thorough. That will give you and them a better idea if the fit is right. Be Precise.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 10, 2022

For more than 15 years, the country has been served by only one e-prescribing network, Surescripts (which this week appointed Frank Harvey as its new chief executive following the retirement of CEO Tom Skelton.). We interviewed FDB President Bob Katter, who went in-depth on e-prescribing.

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Briggs Healthcare

JULY 27, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Kaiser Health News published this eye-opening piece – Hospital-acquired pneumonia is killing patients. Kaiser Health News published this eye-opening piece – Hospital-acquired pneumonia is killing patients. What about your own oral hygiene habits?

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 6, 2023

Guilherme Macagnan, CEO, AMX Healthcare The market demand for data-driven technology solutions in healthcare is on the rise. Today, one-third of the world’s data is generated by the healthcare industry. This can save time and resources, which can ultimately result in cost savings for the healthcare system.

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Sheppard Health Law

MARCH 20, 2023

For example, a recent study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) associated one or more outpatient behavioral health treatments with lower healthcare costs for certain patients. [5] See Why Blue Shield of California Made Its Wellvolution Platform Available to Medi-Cal Members , Med City News (Feb.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

This issue has ranked high in the Medscape study for a while, exacerbated during the implementation of electronic health records and other administrative burdens like prior authorizations. If there is good news here in the immediate moment, it’s that only 1% of physicians said they attempted suicide; but 13% has had thoughts of suicide.

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Home Health Care

JULY 5, 2022

Home Health Care News: This session is titled Education Pathways for Caregivers: An Untapped Opportunity For Employers with CareAcademy. She has also co-authored publications with senior researchers who have more than 20 years of experience in long-term care and health-services research concerning older populations.

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Patient Safety Movement

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

As someone who works in a clinic that serves marginalized and underserved communities, she describes the important role pharmacists can play on a healthcare team alongside doctors and nurses to ensure patients get the appropriate medications with minimal drug interactions. Adverse drug events accounted for 39.0%

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 11, 2023

This article is based on a Home Health Care News discussion with Ashley Puchalski, senior director of Care Coordination at Ohio’s Hospice, Hannah Patterson, vice president and general manager of Workforce Management at Netsmart, and Divesh Aidasani, vice president of Strategy at BAYADA. This article is sponsored by Netsmart.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 21, 2023

It’s been a hot topic for revenue cycle management professionals for years that’s only getting hotter with the increasing pressures of staffing shortages, challenges with staff turnover and training and ever-changing policies and protocols at the government and payer levels. What’s driving denials? Patients rely on us to do our jobs right.

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Etactics

AUGUST 10, 2021

Many nurses, healthcare workers, doctors, EMTs, and other individuals have commented on Morris’s videos. Authorization was not obtained from the patients and the doctors created public amusement at the expense of the patients. People use social media so often today, and there is no sign that it will slow down. Embed Block. Learn more.

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Medical GPS

MAY 27, 2021

Many healthcare facilities are making the shift from fee-for-service care to value-based care, optimizing the utilization of a team of medical professionals to care for patients, and inevitably increasing the potential for interpersonal conflict. Emotionally-Charged Patients. Conflict De-Escalation Techniques.

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Medical GPS

MAY 13, 2021

Last week we began looking at APPs (advanced practice providers) as valuable members of a patient’s healthcare team , especially in today’s current shift from fee-for-service healthcare, to value-based healthcare. APPs in Healthcare Today. Authors write, “In response to COVID-19, 78.6 Awkward Tension.

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Etactics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Doctors and staff can share PHI to provide treatments or to collaborate. If the patient authorizes a disclosure, then a doctor can share the information legally. You also can’t pressure the healthcare professionals assigned to the patient to give you information. He clicks on a few files and looks at the patient records.

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