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What to Know About the New E/M Coding Changes for 2021

Icanotes

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the American Medical Association (AMA) have made significant changes to Evaluation and Management (E/M) coding, which took effect on January 1, 2021. The CMS and AMA designed these changes to reduce the documentation burden that physicians face and give health care providers more time to focus on patient care.

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Health Is Everywhere at #CES2021 – CTA’s CES 2021 Tech Trends to Watch

Health Populi

Spending on connected health monitoring devices in the U.S. will reach $845 million based on the forecast of the Consumer Technology Association, convening the annual 2021 CES this week in a virtual format. CTA unveiled the 2021 key trends we’ll see presented this week through the online exhibition hall and in educational sessions on the CES.Tech platform.

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Is Your Covid Vaccine Venue Prepared to Handle Rare, Life-Threatening Reactions?

KHN

As the rollout of covid-19 vaccines picks up across the U.S., moving from hospital distribution to pharmacies, pop-up sites and drive-thru clinics, health experts say it’s vital that these expanded venues be prepared to handle rare but potentially life-threatening allergic reactions. “You want to be able to treat anaphylaxis,” said Dr.

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The challenges of health privacy: From the ER to virtual care

Healthy Debate

The post The challenges of health privacy: From the ER to virtual care appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Mental Health Notes

Icanotes

Counselors, psychologists, clinical social workers, and other behavioral health professionals need to take notes when they see clients. Mental health notes, such as assessments and progress notes, help counselors diagnose, treat and monitor clients. These notes keep behavioral health professionals from having to start from scratch every time they meet with a client.

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The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

Health Populi

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic drove U.S. consumers to increase spending on electronics, notably laptops, smartphones, and desktop computers. But the coronavirus era also saw broadband households spending more on connecting health devices, with 42% of U.S. consumers owning digital health tech compared with 33% in 2015, according to research discussed in Supporting Today’s Connected Consumer from Parks Associates. developed for Sutherland, the digital transformation company.

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Google Has Officially Acquired Fitbit. Now What?

Health Advances

By Andrew Matzkin, Partner, Co-Leader of the Health Advances Digital Health and Health IT Practice. Back in November 2019, Google announced an agreement to acquire Fitbit for $2.1B. The proposed deal quickly drew scrutiny from regulators in the US, Europe, and Australia out of concerns about privacy and antitrust. Yesterday, Google proclaimed that the Fitbit acquisition is complete.

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Post-event access to Leaders in Healthcare goes live

Leaders in Healthcare

Thursday, January 14, 2021 - 16:15 Those who could not attend the popular Leaders in Healthcare 2020 conference will now have the opportunity to purchase access to the talks from the conference for themselves and their teams. Customers will receive access to conference content for four months until 21 May 2021. Registration will give you full access to our virtual platform including all recorded and on-demand content, ePosters and the availability to view exhibitors until Friday 21 May 2021, giv

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Do-It-Yourself Innovation Comes to Health at Home – Telehealth, Fjord 2021 Trends and #CES2021

Health Populi

The pandemic has digitally transformed those people who could work from home, school at home, and undertake daily life-flows as health citizens tried to keep the coronavirus (and other people) at-a-distance. “Emerging hand-in-hand with place displacement, activity displacement is simply about the change in how people do things. Almost overnight, school lessons and doctors’ appointments were online.

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Is Your Covid Vaccine Venue Prepared to Handle Rare, Life-Threatening Reactions?

KHN

As the rollout of covid-19 vaccines picks up across the U.S., moving from hospital distribution to pharmacies, pop-up sites and drive-thru clinics, health experts say it’s vital that these expanded venues be prepared to handle rare but potentially life-threatening allergic reactions. “You want to be able to treat anaphylaxis,” said Dr.

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5 Essentials for Healthcare CIOs: A Provider Data Management Checklist

Complete and accurate provider data is essential for health organizations to operate effectively. A better understanding of your provider network helps to understand patients and consumers, identify gaps in care, and make the best possible decisions for your businesses. A modern provider data management solution should power a complete and accurate view of each of your providers, make this data easily accessible across functional groups, and be flexible and agile enough to scale. with your needs

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Significant Changes to Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute Finalized

Health Care Law Blog

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) recently issued two highly-anticipated final rules (collectively, the “Final Rule”) to modernize and clarify the regulations that interpret the Physician Self-Referral Statute (“Stark”) and the Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”). According to HHS, the Final Rule was intended to provide greater flexibility for healthcare providers to participate in value-based arrangements, ease unnecessary complia

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Five ways to lead disruption in health care

Osf Healthcare

The health care industry continues to change at a rapid pace. Here are five ways your health care system can influence that change.

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Trust Plummets Around the World: The 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer in #CES2021 and Microsoft Context

Health Populi

Citizens around the world unite around the concept that Trust is Dead. This is no truer than in the U.S., where trust in every type of organization and expert has plummeted in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, political and social strife, and an economic downturn. Welcome to the sobering 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer, released this week as the world’s technology innovators and analysts are convening at CES 2021, and the annual JP Morgan Healthcare meetup virtually convened.