HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

When America’s seniors went to their first doctor’s appointment, they couldn’t have imagined that their health history would be stored anywhere but in a manila folder. Now, nine out of every 10 physicians use electronic health records (EHRs) , and patient’s health data lives on cloud servers.

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Patient Safety Movement

JULY 28, 2023

As many measures as possible should be generated from real-time automated electronic health data. 2B: Create a Learning Ecosystem and Shared Accountability System to Ensure That Evidence Based Practices are Implemented and Goals for Reduced Harms and Risks of Harm for All Americans are Realized.

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Patient Safety Movement

JULY 28, 2023

As many measures as possible should be generated from real-time automated electronic health data. 2B: Create a Learning Ecosystem and Shared Accountability System to Ensure That Evidence Based Practices are Implemented and Goals for Reduced Harms and Risks of Harm for All Americans are Realized.

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Bill Of Health

JUNE 13, 2023

Balancing competitiveness with the need for risk prevention, Europe aims to become a major digital player through its AI framework strategy, particularly in the field of digital health. It also takes into account the treaties in force or emerging at the level of the Council of Europe and its 46 Member States.

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Bill Of Health

AUGUST 18, 2021

In the long run, I actually believe this will be bad for innovation and technology adoption because of lingering uncertainty regarding data protection. In fact, much of the health data we collect on our phones and apps have few privacy laws protecting it.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Substance use/abuse, language barriers, and health literacy rank at the top of the list of SDoH factors that would be captured by one-half or more health systems this year — specifically, alcohol usage, tobacco usage, other controlled substance usage, English as a second language, and health literacy.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Telehealth alone accounts for up to 17% of all patient visits across specialties, and this number is only going to grow as people discover its benefits. The ability to transfer healthcare data is a common industry challenge. Electronic health data exchanges speed up this process, but it’s not a catch-all solution.

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Bill Of Health

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Namely, legal protections concerning personal health data may not apply when the entity offering the service is decidedly not a “provider.” To illustrate the issue, consider that the Privacy Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) expressly covers genetic information as a form of health data.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Edifecs and Empowered-Home announced a partnership to provide automated prior authorizations to medical associations, Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), Independent Physician Associations (IPAs), medical groups, and home healthcare agencies. Edifecs Partners with Empowered-Home to Deliver Automated Prior Authorizations.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2021

” Health Populi’s Hot Points: HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, was signed into law in 1996 by President Bill Clinton. This week, Ken Mandl and Eric Perakslis co-wrote an essay in The New England Journal of Medicine on HIPAA and the “leak of ‘deidentified’ EHR data.”

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NCQA

JULY 17, 2023

We want to evolve HEDIS as the best performance measurement system for: Improving health equity. With that goal in mind, we are revising HEDIS measures to: Better align with digital health data standards. Leverage electronic clinical data. Encourage standardized exchange of health information.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 13, 2021

million in five years— health IT developers need to take several facts into account while mapping out their API strategy. Another issue is that it could be complicated to use FHIR extensions and profiles, which are necessary to deal with specialty health data, due to their need for deep domain knowledge.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Virtual care and RPM can bridge the gaps for seniors while controlling costs through more proactive, preventive care – but aren’t they too technologically averse to participate? Broadband remains extremely important for supporting audio-visual telehealth interactions, access to personal health data, and many remote monitoring devices.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 3, 2023

Having spent sixteen years perfecting the ability to capture health data from multiple areas of the body and developing solutions for third parties, I am excited for Valencell to embark on a new chapter. Globally, more than a billion people suffer from hypertension, and it accounts for approx. Meeting Demands Under Pressure.

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Healthcare Leadership Council

JUNE 2, 2023

These collaborations include partnerships with federally-qualified health centers, houses of worship, and local nonprofit organizations. The health system is advocating for the development and adoption of national social determinants of health data standards.

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Bill Of Health

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In the post- Dobbs fight to safeguard reproductive healthcare, a new spotlight has been placed on two existing federal laws: the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA). . Becerra prevented the enforcement of CMS’ EMTALA Guidance in Texas.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

There is some truth that patients can struggle if they must record their own vital data (temperature or blood pressure). In this way, these small wearable patient monitoring devices can continuously and automatically monitor and track vital patient health data for multiple days uninterrupted. About Arik Ben Ishay.

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Twistle

JULY 9, 2021

Greater Patient Accountability. The more patients are connected to their care, the more accountable they are to the results. Patients are engaged and feel supported when they know that their health data is being transmitted directly to their provider and receive custom communication based on their unique data.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Virtual care and RPM can bridge the gaps for seniors while controlling costs through more proactive, preventive care – but aren’t they too technologically averse to participate? Broadband remains extremely important for supporting audio-visual telehealth interactions, access to personal health data, and many remote monitoring devices.

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NASHP

MAY 8, 2023

The Tennessee Health Disparity Task Force of 800 community partners worked together to address health disparities by disseminating information, linking people to requested resources, and building trust, in part through storytelling and exchange of personal narratives. Louisiana Department of Health, 2021.

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Etactics

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Preventing denial codes is essential if you want to keep a steady revenue flow. This is an easily preventable billing error, which we are going to go over in this blog. These codes allow for data collection on new services, procedures, and technologies to substantiate widespread usage. 99397 - Preventive exam (over the age 65).

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Health Populi

JANUARY 10, 2020

The HRS/CTA guidelines offer pros and cons of wearable tech, providing a balanced view on the current state of efficacy, quality, and physician willingness to accept consumers’ use of digital health tools. On the “pro” side of the equation are, Immediate access to real-time health data.

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NASHP

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

from maternal-related causes , with more than 80 percent of these deaths being preventable. A new Moms & Babies data mart is in development to allow Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) to access Medicaid enrollment and claims data. Over 800 women die each year in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2022

Supporting the medical community for research and innovation, physician-patient relationships, and bolstering public health. Central to Apple’s health support for consumers is putting “health data in one place,” a goal on which the Apple Watch and the Health app have been built.

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Lexis Nexis

APRIL 28, 2023

And it’s been found that  private insurance companies spend $1.87B  on SDoH data, with the top six insurers accounting for 72% of that SDoH spend. And  And while the data is a few years old,  a study found that 57 health systems  invested at least $2.5B What SDoH data do you have today?

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Etactics

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is the federal law that helps protect your health information. Protected health information (PHI) is the fancy term that’s used to categorize health information. We call this electronic protected health information (ePHI).

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Health Business Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Consumers stake a claim to their own health data. Consumers stake a claim to their own health data. Data tokenization by Datavant and HealthVerity enables mixing and matching of disparate sources at the patient level and the generation of valuable clinical and commercial insights. COVID becomes less political.

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Cloud Blogs

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

One is the rapid emergence of virtual care through digital tools such as telehealth and remote monitoring that have made it safer and more convenient for patients to connect with their doctors during the pandemic, and that is empowering individuals to take charge of their health in entirely new ways.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 29, 2023

Atropos Health , the developer of the first physician consultation service, and Datavant , the nation’s largest health data ecosystem partner to facilitate personalized medicine at scale while also generating significant clinical and fiscal ROI. healthcare spending.

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Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 26, 2024

The Proposed Rule also required Impacted Payers to provide a mechanism to allow for patients to opt out of providing their health data to the Provider Access API. CMS noted that it wanted to learn more about the technological and administrative barriers that may prevent Impacted Payers from meeting shorter timeframes.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Partnerships are strongest when they are based on a collective impact model, focusing on a common vision and developing shared accountability. 18] This study involved collaboration with accountable care organizations, MCOs, the state Medicaid agency, community-based organizations, and other stakeholders. Leveraging Data and Technology.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Under new interoperability rules, health plans will be required to make an updated patient roster available to providers. The aim of such an initiative is to smooth workflows, reduce unnecessary churn, and prevent data stagnation. WEDI has close working relationships with both CMS and CAQH.

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NASHP

AUGUST 31, 2023

A precondition of sustaining these partnerships is sustained investment in state and local public health capacity. State leaders play a critical role in convening key internal and external partners, implementing engagement and input processes that foster shared ownership and accountability toward goals at the state and community levels.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 30, 2022

population is over the age of 65, but they account for nearly one-third of healthcare spending, much of which is going into specialty care. This makes patients' health data potentially more accessible and actionable, with the promise of saving both the patient's and provider's time by reducing office visits.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 4, 2022

Data is everywhere, but not always available or decipherable to help manage myriad challenges. Progress toward accountable care is halting. "These solutions help providers perform at-home health interventions that prevent sometimes costly and logistically impossible doctors' visits."

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Bill Of Health

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Legally enforceable regulation is essential to create accountability towards preventing algorithmic bias. Two recently proposed rules by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) are a promising starting point. have sought to prevent racial bias in algorithms through investigations and proposed legislation.

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

The commission was created in the New Hampshire Legislature in 2000 (NH RSA Chapter 12-J), which established the Alcohol Fund, directing a part of proceed from sales of alcohol to prevention, harm reduction treatment, and recovery services. States may bolster behavioral health screening and assessments to expand early identification.

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