Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Taoyuan City, Taiwan has become the second-highest-ranking organisation in the latest HIMSS Digital Health Indicator. Based on the assessment, it scored 349/400 overall, achieving strong scores in each DHI dimension. In the area of interoperability, CGMH was commended for its "highly structured documentation and medical records" that have enabled "advanced and effective" clinical decision support and data collection for research.

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Bill Of Health

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

By Nina Kohn and Irina D. Manta This month, New York became the latest to join the growing list of states that have ended their requirements for routine masking in hospitals and other healthcare settings. In response, at least one of the state’s largest hospital systems is throwing off the mask despite the continued high level of virus transmission in New York City and most of the rest of the state.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020 and everything shut down, it became imperative for healthcare provider organizations to adopt telemedicine to deliver care. But so many organizations had no telemedicine programs, and thus technology, in place. So, many provider organizations scrambled and turned to what they could. And in so many cases, this was Zoom – a video conferencing technology that today practically everyone is familiar with.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Tillmann Schwabe, General Manager of Everphone U.S. The Great Resignation changed how companies approach attracting and retaining talent. These days, it’s not enough to offer a competitive salary and traditional benefits like health insurance and a 401k. Employees have put an increased focus on flexibility – and the tools that support it. Phones and tablets aren’t the flashiest perk a company can offer.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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The Rand Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The slow degradation of infrastructure and disaster response is less a spectacle than an overflying balloon, but the train derailment and chemical spill in Ohio highlights just how bizarre such a focus on perceived external national security threats has become. The far greater threat may be from within.

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The Rand Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The White House identified eight research priorities to better manage America's current mental health crisis. RAND researchers highlight why each area is critical for veteran mental health and how RAND is contributing to address them.

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CiscoHealth

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Cisco Live EMEA wrapped up last week. And while the event is over, the momentum continues to build.

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Healthy Debate

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The post #codePink: Canada must protect mental health of our children and youth appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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CiscoHealth

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Encryption is paramount to providing integrity and confidentiality to protect our federal customers’ data.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Both the Inflation Reduction Act and Affordable Care Act contained language that made cost-effectiveness analysis difficult to implement, while allowing for the analysis of comparative effectiveness with respect to the relative health benefits across treatments. This leads to the natural question, how often are would reimbursement decisions based on comparative effectiveness alone be the same as those based on cost-effectiveness?

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HIStalk

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

LVHN reports cyberattack from suspected Russian ransomware group Lehigh Valley.

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Sequence Health

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The competition for health services today is fierce. And ensuring that your healthcare call center is providing the best patient satisfaction and support is key in standing out among the rest. Of course, the nature of call centers is one-on-one support. This is incredibly helpful, however, it becomes a challenge because one agent can only be on one call at a time.

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Best Medical Billing Company | Physicians Revenue Group, Inc.

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

prgseo February 20, 2023 Improving Collection Procedures with Orthopedic Billing Services Orthopedic billing is the most critical aspect of orthopedic medical services. Transparent coding and billing in orthopedic billing can make more claims go through, increase the cash flow, and help your business grow. Denials often occur when making the orthopedic claims submission, and if the correct initiative is taken on time, one can save the whole ordeal of denials and claims re-submissions.

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Healthcare Leadership

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Blog post by Joe Babaian It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has. ~ William Osler We’ve been wrong about what our job is in medicine. We think our job is to ensure health and survival. But really it is larger than that. It is to enable well-being.” ~ Atul Gawande With these quotes, we know right away that the art of medicine was and continues to be understood by those who take the time to think about the bigger picture!

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Clearwave Inc

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Reading Time: 5 minutes Patient demand is increasing, yet so are costs. Considering that less than two-thirds of medical practices hit their revenue goals in recent years, and labor costs are increasing by 30% year-over-year, h igh-growth practices are leaning into technology to scale for growth. Is it time to make similar adjustments at your practice?

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Nordic

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Health systems across Canada are in the midst of the Big Squeeze , where demand has reached record levels due to a host of clinical factors (longer life expectancy, aging population, COVID-19, Long COVID, other viruses, and the COVID-induced backlog) at the same time as they face dire workforce shortages. Solutions such as virtual care and data interoperability reduce the need to have people in a particular place but can’t succeed unless we get organizations away from paper-driven care processes

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HIStalk

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

ChatGPT and similar tools continue to be some of the.

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Briggs Healthcare

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare INFORMATIONAL LETTER NO. 2427-MC-FFS DATE: February 17, 2023 TO: Iowa Medicaid-Enrolled Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS), Nursing Facilities (NF), Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) APPLIES TO: Managed Care (MC), Fee-for-Service (FFS) FROM: Iowa Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Iowa Medicaid RE: Quality Assurance Assessment Fee (QAAF) and NF Rate Increase EFFECTIVE: April 1, 2023 HHS has proposed changes to t

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HIStalk

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Sachin Agrawal, MSc is CEO of EVisit of Mesa, AZ.

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Briggs Healthcare

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS posted this notice on Friday, February 17, 2023: CMS is excited to announce that the transition of the Minimum Data Set (MDS) assessment submission and reporting functionality to the Internet Quality Improvement and Evaluation System (iQIES) will occur on Monday, April 17, 2023.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

China Medical University Hospital in Taichung, Taiwan has proven its capability in digital health by scoring well above the global average in the latest HIMSS Digital Health Indicator. The DHI measures an organisation's progress in building a digital health ecosystem in four dimensions: predictive analytics, interoperability, predictive analytics, person-enabled health and governance and workforce.

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Briggs Healthcare

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The next Home Health, Hospice & DME Open Door Forum is scheduled for Thursday, February 23, 2023 PM at 2:00 PM-3:00 PM Eastern Time (ET). Please call at least 15 minutes prior to the forum start time. **This Agenda is Subject to Change** Opening Remarks Chair – Brian Slater, Center for Medicare, CMS Co-Chair- Kelly Vontran, Center for Medicare, CMS Moderator – Jill Darling, Office of Communications, CMS Announcements &

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

There is even less competition then we may have thought according to a paper out this month by Socal et al. (2023) : We identified a total of 565 facilities producing 1,379 unique generic APIs across forty-two countries. India, China, and Italy were the top producers; 14 percent of APIs were manufactured in the US. About a third of APIs were manufactured by a single facility, and another third were manufactured by two or three facilities.

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