Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital researchers created a motion and muscle engagement monitoring system for unsupervised physical rehabilitation, which could help with injuries and better mobility for the elderly and athletes, they say. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 5, 2023

In addition, the rule includes a proposal to revise and rebase the IRF market basket, as well as a proposal to modify its regulations to allow hospitals to open and begin billing Medicare for an excluded IRF unit anytime within the cost reporting year. This Fact Sheet discusses the provisions of the proposed rule.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 6, 2024

WHY IT MATTERS SMHS, which provides hospital and community-based public health care services in southern metropolitan Perth, started the LifeFit SurgFit in 2020-2021 as a "holistic approach" to preparing patients for surgery. It was initially implemented without a digital platform.

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Meditech

JULY 26, 2023

At the heart of healthcare is the people. As Juneau County’s sole full-service hospital, Mile Bluff serves an estimated 55,000 residents in an eight-county region. From providers to patients, human connection leads the care experience, and the Mile Bluff Medical Center in Mauston, WI embraces that philosophy.

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Meditech

MARCH 26, 2024

Regardless of the healthcare organization, patients are always the focus of the services and care that is provided. That’s what makes the healthcare industry special. Hospitals often transfer patients out for a higher level of care or to rehabilitation providers. Teamwork is necessary from organization to organization.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Montana has unique challenges in providing healthcare to its widely dispersed population of just over 1 million people. The cost of travel and long distances between healthcare providers and patients are commonly cited reasons for patients to delay or avoid medical care. THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 20, 2022

Health Journeys targets specific behavioral health challenges that military service members face, including anxiety, sleep deprivation, burnout, chronic pain, depression, anger, PTSD, grief, addiction, traumatic brain injury and injury rehabilitation. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. " Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 5, 2024

Jessica Rengstorf, Director of US Healthcare Strategy at Endava Augmented reality and virtual reality are innovative technologies that can provide tremendous benefits to the healthcare industry, bringing a deeper understanding of complex medical concepts to healthcare professionals and patients alike.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 29, 2023

Digital patient pathways had been deployed in over 20 speciality areas and at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and SA Dental. Since then, it has reduced workload pressure on front-line hospital staff while providing convenient care access to patients.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 13, 2022

The surgical pre-rehabilitation programme dubbed My Prehab was developed in partnership with Health Translation SA, The Hospital Research Foundation, and healthcare tech company Personify Care. The Central Adelaide Local Health Network has launched a new digital programme which aims to help make a patient fit for surgery.

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Meditech

MAY 3, 2022

After speaking with Julia Hanigsberg, the President & CEO of Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, it’s easy to see why she’s received so many accolades.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 2, 2023

What You Should Know: CareSource , a nonprofit managed care organization, today announced a $1M investment in Augment Therapy , a digital health company enhancing rehabilitative healthcare and exercise through immersive and gamified technology.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Serving veterans in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico from its 70 offices, the organization develops training and career services, works on accessibility in public buildings and spaces and provides health and rehabilitation opportunities. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 20, 2021

A special balance test originally used by NASA in its space programmes has been adopted by an Abu Dhabi hospital to help determine the cause of prolonged or recurrent dizziness. NASA continues to utilise EquiTest for the routine evaluation and balance rehabilitation of its astronauts. ” ON THE RECORD.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

a global healthcare company focused on innovative therapies, today announced the first full-body, non-tethered immersive virtual reality (VR) healthcare offering. Using Immersive Virtual Reality to Improve Healthcare. The need for innovative rehabilitation therapy has never been greater.

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Briggs Healthcare

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

progress in preventing several important healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in Acute Care Hospitals (ACHs). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released the 2022 National and State Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) Progress Report. The year 2022 showed U.S. Click here to continue reading…

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In December, the program went live at the South Australian Medical Imaging (SAMI) Nuclear Medicine Theranostics Service of The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (TQEH) in Adelaide. The service's previous digital survey solution relied on patients to complete the survey while in the clinic waiting room using a hospital-supplied device.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

hospitals’ operating margins went negative in January 2021 after turning north for the first time in December 2020 since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the February 2021 Hospital Flash Report from Kaufman Hall, commissioned by AHA, the American Hospitals Association.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

– The survey found only 7% of participating organizations performed in the first tier of the Kaufman Hall Healthcare Consumerism Index, which demonstrates having a dedicated focus and resources for building a consumer-centric infrastructure. Only 12% of respondents are very or extremely concerned about volume recovery.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 22, 2024

What You Should Know: – ShiftMed , a leader in on-demand healthcare workforce technology acquires CareerStaff Unlimited from Genesis HealthCare, a national post-acute care provider. ShiftMed’s “Intelligent Routing” Advantage ShiftMed’s existing technology adds an additional layer of efficiency.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Virtual and augmented reality are gaining wider acceptance in healthcare. "Needle procedures can be very stressful for children of all ages," Dr. David Seo, senior vice president and chief information and digital officer for Nicklaus Children’s Health System, told South Florida Hospital News in July.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This first event featured healthcare leaders from across the country and took place in Nashville. Healthcare IT News sat down with Doug Duskin, Avel eCare's chief executive, to get a debriefing on the conference and find out the major themes and learnings. Then, there are other companies that are doing rehabilitation programs.

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Briggs Healthcare

JUNE 1, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. On Friday, May 27, 2022, CMS posted updates to QSO-21-03-Hospitals/CAHs. On July 29, 2020, HHS published updated guidance for hospital COVID-19 reporting: [link]. Data Reporting Elements and Reporting Mechanisms. Facilities to Report.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

JANUARY 14, 2022

There is mixed evidence about whether hospital mergers improve quality. 2022) investigates the impact of a recent hospital merger on quality in New York. The merging hospitals were described as follows: NYU Langone Health (NYULH) is an urban academic medical system. A recent paper by Wang et al.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 7, 2022

What You Should Know: – Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Massachusetts General Hospital have created an unsupervised physical rehabilitation system called MuscleRehab. Virtual Reality Driven Physical Rehabilitation.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Codoxo , a provider of healthcare artificial intelligence solutions for healthcare payers and agencies, today released a new study revealing that among the 41% of provider specialties showing statistically significant increases for telehealth adoption, up to 15 percent of telehealth claims are non-compliant with CMS guidelines.

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Health Care Success

OCTOBER 4, 2021

You’ll need to throw out much of what you know about healthcare marketing. To learn how healthcare organizations successfully rise to the top of consumers’ hearts and minds, I asked Johnny Smith, Vice President of Marketing Services at Encompass Health, to join me on a recent podcast. health care provider for rehabilitation hospitals.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 29, 2022

With a shortage of physicians to address the growing need for care, a lack of providers who accept Medicaid, and access issues due to transportation or office hour challenges, healthcare organizations are looking to technology to help bridge the gap. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Briggs Healthcare

MAY 10, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is providing a virtual training program that will review the updated guidance for the IRF-PAI 4.0 and the LCDS 5.0 for providers in the IRF and LTCH settings. Part 1 of the Virtual Training Program is now available.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. Power called telehealth, “the best consumer healthcare experience you’ve never tried.”

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2021

In the early chaos of the coronavirus pandemic, the healthcare industry struggled to keep up with an influx of patients amidst a shortage of necessary resources. Cybercriminals took advantage of the opportunity, and since the start of the pandemic to late 2020, cyberattacks on healthcare firms in the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

during 2017-2022, creating a substantial economic burden for affected hospitals. Opioid overdose patients that present to the ED are at high risk for multiple organ failure, hospitalization, increased costs due to ICU stays and unplanned readmissions following discharge. hospitals are $95.43 billion annually, or 7.86

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The Tyler, Texas-based Choice is home health, hospice and rehabilitation services provider. Prior to joining the company as CFO, Kreger was executive vice president and CFO at VITAS Healthcare. Interim HealthCare Inc. Interim HealthCare Inc. In the midst of growing its franchise network, Interim HealthCare Inc.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 25, 2022

Personify Care has recently supported several digital transformation initiatives across hospitals and health facilities in Australia by implementing its digital pathways. One of them, the Central Adelaide Local Health Network , was able to launch a surgical pre-rehabilitation programme, which helps patients become fit for surgery.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 31, 2022

This lack of public transportation limits those living in rural areas from accessing healthcare and other social and educational services. "Telemedicine directly to patients also was used to address the ongoing healthcare needs of patients with chronic illnesses to reduce in-person clinic visits," she continued. MARKETPLACE.

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Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 14, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Q4FY22 release of the Critical Access Hospital (CAH) Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER) with statistics through September 2022 is now available for download through the PEPPER Resources Portal.

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CiscoHealth

JUNE 2, 2021

Established in 2006, Medcare Hospitals & Medical Centres is a healthcare network based in the United Arab Emirates. Comprised of four hospitals and 15 medical centres, as well as four more centres opening this year, the multicultural network provides preventive, curative, and rehabilitative healthcare globally.

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