Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In 2019, Cleveland-based University Hospitals saw an opportunity to use automation and digital care technologies to improve patient engagement, clinical care and outcomes. The organization wanted to offer its patients tools and options that support their personal healthcare journeys in these ways.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

But they're also gaining big benefits in quality improvement, cost efficiency, and more. And many forward-thinking CIOs and other technology leaders see how fast AI tools are evolving, and they are looking excitedly to a future where further clinical innovation will occur at rapid speed.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

One big question in healthcare when it comes to the digital divide: How can people in these households get access to telemedicine ? A recent study by the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research found telehealth is nearly as effective as in-person primary care visits when it comes to addressing patient needs. Census Bureau 2022 ACS data.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 22, 2024

AI-mediated computer vision has been in use in oncology for more than 20 years; however, its arrival in other medical fields, notably dentistry, is more recent. Dentistry is particularly notable here, because while relatively few people have seen an oncologist, almost everyone sees a dentist at least every few years.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

" The article also makes a point to emphasize that the medical workforce in the U.S. is "aging and stretched thin," with the country needing "thousands more primary care doctors." What are the challenges that chronic care management faces today and into the future? In August, it named Brian Esterly CEO.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Some healthcare provider organizations are using conversational AI to help caregivers and patients. The technology is being used in healthcare for such things as patient chatbots, medical triaging and patient support, patient data management and access, and access to medical services.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

And if more consumers embrace preventative care that can easily be done in the home. This includes tools like blood pressure cuffs, weight scales, thermometers and other screening tools that can be used to gauge a biometric value. In the past, many of these innovations were limited in coverage and use to Medicare seniors.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 21, 2022

The importance of data-sharing and interoperability were two dominant themes at HIMSS22, with leadership repeatedly emphasizing how the COVID-19 pandemic shined a light on the consequences of siloed information. The ability to represent things uniformly is a bigger win than just, "I can move it from here to there."

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Healthcare It News

JULY 25, 2023

Community Health Systems operates more than 80 affiliated hospitals and more than 1,000 outpatient sites of care in 16 states. Give patients peace of mind and more assurance their conditions are appropriately managed. This supports our clinicians while also supporting their patients.

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Healthcare Success

JULY 5, 2022

What’s more, most doctors work in a hospital or multilocation medical practice, making it even more challenging to identify key decision-makers. Not only are doctors and decision-makers difficult to reach—and even more difficult to persuade—you have to contend with a ton of competition. Target Your Best Prospects.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 24, 2022

One of the next big shifts in patient care will be precision medicine will be "an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyle for each person," as the Precision Medicine Initiative describes it. Click here to access all the features.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In 2018, it made strategic moves to more easily meet the needs of its patients and communities by investing in telehealth. With every visit, the organization's team evaluates whether patients are best served by a virtual or an in-person appointment. THE PROBLEM. Then COVID-19 emerged. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Gastroenterology Associates of New Jersey needed to optimize care and capacity: Reimbursement gets tighter every year while patient demand grows. The practice aims to improve access for necessary in-person care and procedures while offering patients complementary proven interventions ideally suited for telemedicine.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 13, 2023

From the comfort, ease and safety of their own homes, patients are seeing doctors of all stripes. But what about what happens with patients between doctor appointments, namely for patients with chronic illnesses? This is where a form of telemedicine – remote patient monitoring – can play a big role.

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p3care

MAY 20, 2022

Each performance category accounts for a particular percentage of the overall score, which determines how much payment adjustment a clinician will receive for the following MIPS year’s performance. So today, we will be discussing the MIPS Quality Measures linked to Allergy and Immunology. 2022 MIPS Measure no. during their visit.

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p3care

APRIL 17, 2023

Especially in COVID days, the vast utility of telemedicine for reaching the patient is quite evident. Here, we must admit the significant role of medical billing services. In this blog, we will look at how medical billing services can help your practice grow. Let’s dig into the topic for today!

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p3care

MAY 9, 2023

Hackers and data thieves have also modernized their hacking techniques. Today, medical billing services depend more on EHRs and automated billing systems. Also, we will see how healthcare IT has planned to identify and mitigate the risks. Phishing Attacks Medical billing services handle sensitive patient information.

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Clearwave Inc

MAY 3, 2024

Reading Time: 4 minutes Today’s healthcare landscape is becoming increasingly competitive for optometry practices. Capture Cleaner Data for Improved Claims Processing One of the most critical aspects of revenue cycle management in optometry is ensuring that you capture accurate and complete patient data from the very beginning.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 25, 2022

Behavioral Nutrition is a holistic eating disorder outpatient clinic that treats adolescents and adults using behavioral therapy and nutritional counseling. They needed technology that was consistent and did not require a high bandwidth, while being user-friendly for the staff and patients. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 28, 2023

Erica Jain, CEO and co-founder of Healthie Healthcare providers depend on comprehensive patient data to make fast, informed decisions. These silos of data were constructed around intentional business decisions to hold data, making it harder for new entrants – both EHR platforms and practices.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

With the rise of the coronavirus Delta variant, two out of five American adults would use telehealth to get medical care, according to a recent Jarrard poll. Use of virtual care spiked big-time last year, and remains in wide use today. So where does healthcare go from here with the technology?

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Healthcare Success

MAY 9, 2022

We know that today’s healthcare consumers want instant and accessible services. . The QR code allows hospitals and healthcare providers to satisfy this need with immediate physician-patient interaction and engagement – all through smartphones and tablets. . Placed strategically, the QR code does wonders for marketing.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 23, 2021

Google wasn't alone in making news. My friend and digital health entrepreneur Sherri Douville, whose post on LinkedIn went viral, summed it up like this: "If companies misunderstand evidence-based medicine, they have no business bringing technology into medicine at all (as opposed to consumer or administrative use)."

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This article is based on a Home Health Care News discussion with Naomi Goldapple, SVP, Data and Intelligence at AlayaCare. I also think the world of wearables is becoming more and more of a reality, so it’s less gimmicky than it was before. These are areas that have practical uses right now. What about long term?

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Vie Healthcare

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Episode Introduction Zach explains why the lack of timely, accurate data can delay recovery of credits, and why most hospitals only have 50% visibility into their spend and accounts payable processes. And then, for duplicate payments, that’s a large revenue stream for us. So, that starts in the data scrub team.

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Healthcare Success

MAY 31, 2022

These changes include modernizing business processes and focusing on improvements that positively impact patient wait times and appointment times. . It is well-established that longer patient wait times negatively impact patient satisfaction , specifically regarding patient confidence (in the provider) and perceived quality of care.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 6, 2023

The oldest members of Generation Z (born in 1997 or later) turn 26 this year, making them officially ineligible for coverage under their parents’ health plan. The company helped more than 500,000 students in the Fall 2022 semester alone.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

During the conversation, Lobley also talked about how tango is making sure home health providers are getting compensated for the total cost of care and the synergistic opportunities that come with being backed by The Vistria Group. Listen today on Apple Podcasts or SoundCloud. Can you talk more about this?

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 18, 2022

Early last year, Baptist Health, a health system based in Louisville, Kentucky, was taking note of the lessons staff had learned and the data gathered through the first year of the pandemic to reassess the organization's overall virtual care strategy and current digital health tools. THE PROBLEM. " Dr. Brett A.

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Cloud Blogs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

It is reinventing customer engagement, ensuring every connection adds value to customer relationships, enriching employee experiences to be more creative, and reshaping business processes with automated and 360-degree views of a company’s operations. Meeting Prep for financial services: Application Concept for Microsoft Teams.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Groups Recover Together is a national healthcare company for individuals with opioid use disorder. It completed the transition in just four days – no small feat considering it served more than 5,000 members across six states at the time. Their "keep us up at night" questions were: ? THE PROBLEM.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

He had me at the statement, “I believe health data is medicine.”. Those were the words of Ardy Arianpour, CEO and Co-Founder of Seqster, when sharing with me how his company was founded. That’s why Seqster calls this solution “patient-centric interoperability.”.

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p3care

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Moving from one benchmark to another, participants have collected the MIPS reporting data. We know that every category of MIPS reporting has separate data completeness requirements. So, it is not an easy task to complete or exceed data completeness criteria. Now the question is, how could we submit data to CMS?

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Cloud Blogs

APRIL 12, 2023

Healthcare organizations continue to face complex challenges of evolving patient expectations, talent shortages, workforce burnout, and financial operational insecurity. This application provides a comprehensive view of member data and member insights in one place for payor organizations.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Many people lacked convenient access to medical care and providers, making it difficult for them to receive the care they needed. "Patients often had to see multiple providers for different health issues and it was difficult for providers to keep track of a patient's medical history and treatment plan.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In 3 years’ time, globally, 7 in 10 clinicians expect that both physicians AND nurses will be expert int he use of digital health technology, and would be a desirable outcome. Today, three in four clinical encounters happen face-to-face; clinicians expect this to decline to 2/3 in the next 5 years.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Jon Bloom, MD, CEO and Co-founder of Podimetrics Sukanya Soderland, SVP, Chief Strategy Officer at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts During Diabetes Awareness month (November) – and every month – someone is having a limb amputated due to diabetes every three-to-four minutes here in the United States.

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