Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Hospitals and health systems, especially larger ones, are using AI in myriad new ways – including leveraging it for improved patient experience, and for better patient engagement with the goal of reducing health inequities. How did you originally see AI being a fit for improving the patient experience?

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Health Populi

AUGUST 22, 2022

What fuels that transformation is data and the insights the right data can generate. And that data will be generated from many sources, frequently siloed and decentralized which can prevent aggregation, mash-up, and analysis.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

DispatchHealth Raises $330M for Hospital-at-Home Care. DispatchHealth , a provider of in-home medical care raises $330M led by Optum Ventures with support from current investors such as Humana (NYSE: HUM), Oak HC/FT, Echo Health Ventures and Questa Capital. MEDITECH, SeamlessMD Collaborate on Digital Health Integration.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Real-time access to patient data : This capability is critical during emergencies when quick access to a patient’s medical history can potentially save a life. This not only offers significant health benefits but also promises substantial economic savings for the state and patients alike.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

What You Should Know: – Today, Wellsky announced the acquisition of TapCloud , a virtual, interoperable, and AI-driven patient engagement platform that allows patients to share symptoms and other health data with providers via virtual visit technology, secure messaging, and remote symptom screening protocols.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

This is a transition phase wherein the vanguard systems are investing in digital transformation, but many not leveraging the SDoH data in population health programs yet by, say, integrating the determinants of health data in clinical workflows or using software to identify at-risk patients.

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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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GoMoHealth

JANUARY 12, 2024

As it relates to the revenue side of healthcare, AI aids proactive healthcare by identifying high-risk individuals for preventive interventions and better chronic condition management. Patient Engagement at the Forefront In the world of healthcare, patient engagement is stepping into the spotlight as a game-changer for health outcomes.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 29, 2023

Advantus Health Partners forms a new 10-year, $2.9B strategic partnership with Medline to establish agility and scale, supply chain resiliency and enhanced clinical integration with the nurses and physicians who use Medline’s product. Also, Virgin Pulse will provide Headspace offerings to its employees (approx. 2,000 people worldwide.)

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Cloud Blogs

APRIL 26, 2021

Instead of focusing improvement resources on limited populations and acute care, effective PHM strategies drive transformation that addresses all levels of healthcare delivery, including prevention and care management. diet, exercise, tobacco use, alcohol, and drug use), clinical care (e.g.,

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The plaintiff alleged that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, was using its Pixel tracking technology to access patient information from websites and portals of hospitals and health systems for targeted marketing. What about the ways companies like Meta are working with hospitals and health systems, more generally?

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

The bill expands privacy protections for Washington State’s health citizens beyond HIPAA’s provisions. The My Health, My Data Act defines “consumer health data” as “personal information that is linked or reasonably linkable to a consumer and that identifies a consumer’s past, present, or future physical or mental health.”

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 13, 2022

What You Should Know: – Innovaccer has launched Public Health Command Center , an innovative solution designed to help hospitals fight the pandemic more effectively at scale. And it’s available at no cost to public health departments and hospitals for the first three months of use.

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GoMoHealth

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The MHM program nurtures participants, integrating personalized content and messages with interactive components such as real time, secure chat with care managers and bi-directional surveys. Thanks to the health data received from the mother’s connected blood pressure cuff, Heather was able to intervene and ultimately save her patient’s life.

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Bill Of Health

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

By the late nineteenth century, North American public policy made use of large-scale isolated institutions, such as nursing homes, asylums, boarding homes, psychiatric hospitals, and group homes to provide services for those labeled as having disabilities. public health policy (e.g., public health policy (e.g., However, the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

hours/ day to serve their patients if they followed the national recommended guidelines for preventive and chronic care. Virtual visits that don’t solve capacity challenges or integrate into existing workflows need to change. First, mental health should not be seen as some adjunctive problem to solve.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 7, 2021

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. – Physical: Proper controls must be in place for all hardware, workstations, and servers where data is held or accessed.

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Health Business Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Consumers stake a claim to their own health data. Hospital-based health systems are trying to be consumer-centric, but few are succeeding. Here I’m writing from personal experience in Boston, including a recent consumer nightmare that was resolved only when the CEOs of my health plan and hospital agreed to intervene.

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Sheppard Health Law

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

If finalized, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Proposed Rule on Advancing Interoperability and Improving Prior Authorization Processes will require payers to participate in electronic payer-to-payer data exchange and implement automated prior authorization processes.

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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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Patient Safety Movement

APRIL 27, 2023

We in the medical profession must be sure that this organ donor does not sustain any preventable harm by ensuring that all healthcare safety measures are adhered to. Many have reported significantly less preventable patient harm in their healthcare system. Evidence-based best practices must be in place but must also be followed.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The “National Forum on Advancing High-Quality, Equitable Care Coordination for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs” centered on two key topics for improving care coordination systems for CYSHCN: integrated care coordination and the care coordination workforce.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Instead of jumping in and writing scripts using Python, developers must have knowledge of and experience with Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), a standard for exchanging healthcare information electronically that aims to simplify implementation without sacrificing information integrity. The future of healthcare APIs.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

It’s not purely a data problem, but a data engineering problem.The critical data is already being created, it’s just a mess, lives all over the place, and needs to be combined, cleaned, and curated to be useful. Health data from different countries and organizations, for instance, vary in data entry and quality.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

That second point is illustrated by the first diagram, showing the interconnected nature of data sources that are generated by the U.S. health/care ecosystem of: Some 3,000 health departments and boards of health. 59 state and territorial health departments. Tribal health departments. Health plans.

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NASHP

MAY 8, 2023

The state created the Minnesota Electronic Health Record COVID Consortium , comprised of health system partners to aggregate data from their electronic health records to paint a picture of COVID-19-related statistics statewide. Those data provided 93.4 percent of race/ethnicity and 98.9

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NASHP

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The Washington Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) maintains integrated client databases that link data across multiple sectors including Medicaid, behavioral health and housing. The HMIS agency partner agreement and interagency data sharing agreement are publicly available on the state’s HMIS website.

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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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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2021

These pharmacies can be co-located with grocery store chains, Big Box stores, or be morphing into vertically integrated health/care delivery organizations like CVS Health or Walgreens-Village MD. Brian Owens noted on our call on the evolving wellness consumer that, “health and hygiene will emerge as the next digital.”

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Enter the Healthcare Data Lake – a collection of datasets focused on patient claims history, analytical output from quality measurement and risk adjustment programs, clinical data from Electronic Health Record systems, and social determinants of health data.

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Lexis Nexis

APRIL 28, 2023

In this article we explore the top lessons learned to make SDoH data effective, and three actionable examples of organizations who have turned data to analysis and action. What are the gaps in your clinical data, and how could social determinants of health data address them? What SDoH data do you have today?

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 17, 2022

In today’s digitalized healthcare environment, keeping the best outcomes for patients at the center of all activity increasingly depends on the smart use of medical data. A digital platform that assembles and structures a wide variety of data in a user-friendly format has the potential to remedy this situation.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 12, 2024

Telling home health care’s story HHCN Editor Andrew Donlan: You mentioned that Medicare Advantage is recognizing that home health care is driving a lot of savings. That it’s a preventative service. And I think the payer involvement in home health is a recognition of that, one that will continue to evolve.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Integrated Health Information Systems, Singapore's national healthcare technology agency, has collaborated with Google Cloud and Accenture to promote the development of data-driven applications to "deliver more high-quality and digital-first healthcare experiences."

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

It includes examples from various states organized by the framework buckets: integrated primary and behavioral health care, crisis continuum of care, in-home and in-community based, and out-of-home and community.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The important question remains: how should we best approach the pivotal task of integrating two critical healthcare transformations? Under new interoperability rules, health plans will be required to make an updated patient roster available to providers. Building a Foundation for Value-Based Care.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 30, 2022

RPM provides that level of care delivery through a combination of devices for tracking and communicating health data directly from the home to the physician, bridging the space between the traditional healthcare setting and where the patient lives. Patients can communicate with their providers from virtually anywhere.

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