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AI & Digital Twins: The Future of Disease Detection & Treatment

HIT Consultant

In healthcare, the technology provides a pathway for doctors to improve outcomes and save lives. In healthcare, this presents a multitude of benefits, including the ability to proactively intervene to prevent a patient’s health from declining.

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Why Avoiding Costly Coding Mistakes Is More Critical Than Ever

HIT Consultant

Hilton Hudson, MD, FACS, and CEO of HPC International In May 2022, a California doctor was sentenced to nearly eight years in prison for his involvement in a $12 million Medicare fraud scheme. Minimize Denials and Appeals: Preventing denials through proper documentation and coding reduces the need for appeals, saving time and resources.

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Rise of Retail Healthcare: Challenges and Opportunities for Payers

HIT Consultant

Over the years, rural doctors who historically performed house calls have been replaced with regional physician groups and community hospitals that are owned and managed by large health systems with multiple locations. Adam Rarick-Varner, Sr.

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Biggest Challenges Behavioral Health Clinicians Will Face in 2021

Icanotes

A doctor can also educate patients using telehealth. Info blocking denies access to electronic health information to a doctor, health care provider or the patient themselves. Using health IT to prevent EHI from completely traveling between health information technology systems or contribute to health IT fraud.

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Expanding the Possibility of Human Experience - A Conversation with David Feinberg, MD, VP Healthcare, Google Health

The Beryl Institute

It is not just about process improvements, though we aspire to realize them. Burnout started (and continues today) because doctors couldn't get things they needed for their patients.” When we still could be taking care of you and preventing you from getting sick? So what do we call you when you're not sick?

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Why It’s Time for Healthcare Organizations to Start Treating Patients Like Consumers

HIT Consultant

Pent-up patient demand for non-emergency, preventative services–everything from cancer screenings to mental health support to birth control to smoking cessation–would eventually draw patients back into the healthcare system. If they have phone and internet access, they can conveniently access care 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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Infusing Telehealth & Virtual Care Into Patient Care Plans With Thomas Foley | Ep.15

Vie Healthcare

As Thomas asks, according to CDC data, patients only spend 15 hours in front of doctors in any given year, ‘’What happens to the other 8,745 hours?… They only spend 15 hours in a given year in front of their doctor. They see nine different doctors in a given year. His expertise is virtual care.

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