The Role of Automation in Alleviating Staffing Shortages
The following is a guest article by Eric Demers, CEO at Madaket Health
The recent CWH Advisors’ 2022 Patient Pay study unearthed some troubling trends in the administration of RCM. The dearth of healthcare professionals impacting the entire healthcare industry is only adding fuel to the fire. 63% of respondents indicated that they were experiencing RCM staffing shortages, contributing to slower revenue cycles and affecting both patients and payers.
With a steady decrease in overall healthcare workers, the staffing shortages in revenue cycle departments are dire. A recent survey by Elsevier Health predicts that up to 75...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 8, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Administration Ambulatory Health IT Company Healthcare IT Revenue Cycle Management Administrative Burden CWH Advisors Data Management Platform DMP Elsevier Health Eric Demers Healthcare Automation Madaket Health No Surprises Act Source Type: blogs
Unveiling the global pandemic threat: insights into risk factors and urgent measures for prevention
As the current COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage across the globe, many are left wondering when the next pandemic will occur. The reality is that pandemics are not a new phenomenon, and throughout history, we have seen numerous instances of infectious diseases causing widespread devastation. While we cannot predict with certainty when the next pandemic
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Unveiling the global pandemic threat: insights into risk factors and urgent measures for prevention originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 4, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Ton La, Jr., MD, JD Tags: Policy COVID Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
Patents and Pandemic: A Balance Between Public and Commercial Rights
Daksh Sachdeva (Jindal Global University), Patents and Pandemic: A Balance Between Public and Commercial Rights (2023): The pandemic forced the entire civilization to adapt to the new normal. Covid-19 made people reimagine and recalibrate their ways of working. The field... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - June 3, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Surescripts Makes Interoperability Official
Surecripts is a company that is synonymous with e-prescribing. Increasingly, healthcare organizations are using the company’s platform to exchange more than prescription information. Vaccination status, demographic information and notes are increasingly shared. Surescripts recently announced its intention to become a QHIN, firmly positioning the company a player in the interoperability space. Why would they do this?
Healthcare IT Today sat down with Justin McMartin, Product Manager at Surescripts to get an answer to that question…and to learn more about the company’s interoperability efforts, their QHIN plans, and th...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 2, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability 2022 National Progress Report e-prescribing EHR Healthcare Information Exchange HIMSS HIMSS 2023 HIMSS23 Justin McMartin Medication History QHIN SureScripts Tara Dragert TEFCA Source Type: blogs
Growing problems, one year on: the state of children ’s health care and the Covid-19 backlog
This report investigates whether there have been improvements in the state of health and care for children and young people. It finds that, rather than diminishing, the problems facing children and young people ’s health care have worsened in many cases.Nuffield Trust - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - June 2, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Covid-19 NHS performance and productivity Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
Brookings Paper Is Not Concrete Evidence That a “Hard Landing” of the Economy Is Inevitable
Norbert Michel andJai KediaLast week atBrookings, Ben Bernanke, former Fed chair, and Olivier Blanchard, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, released an empirical study of the inflationary episode that followed the COVID-19 government shutdowns. According to the authors, the supply constraints caused by the pandemic shutdowns were initially a main factor, and the “easy fiscal and monetary policy” that followed made things worse.While this conclusionshouldn ’t surprise anyone, it ’s their prediction for the economy’s outlook that generatedsome buzz.Specifically, Bernanke and Blanchard conc...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 1, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Norbert Michel, Jai Kedia Source Type: blogs
Investigating Bacteria ’ s CRISPR Defense System to Improve Human Health
Credit: Adrian Sanchez Gonzales.
The earliest Andrew Santiago-Frangos, Ph.D., remembers being interested in science was when he was about 8 years old. He was home sick and became engrossed in a children’s book that explained how some bacteria and viruses cause illness. To this day, his curiosity about bacteria persists, and he’s making discoveries about CRISPR—a system that helps bacteria defend against viruses—as a postdoctoral researcher and NIGMS-funded Maximizing Opportunities for Scientific and Academic Independent Careers (MOSAIC) scholar at Montana State University (MSU) in Bozeman.
Becoming a Biologist...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - May 31, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Cells Bacteria Cellular Processes COVID-19 DNA Profiles Source Type: blogs
siRNA as a COVID-19 Treatment
Researchers at UMass Chan Medical School have developed a small interfering RNA (siRNA) technology that is stable enough for inhalation into the lungs, where it can potentially treat diseases as diverse as asthma, pulmonary fibrosis, and viral infections such as COVID-19. siRNA is not typically stable enough to survive for long in the lungs, but the researchers chemically modified the constituent nucleotides to stabilize the molecules and help them to evade immune destruction. The technology is designed to silence genes that are crucial in disease processes. In a demonstration of the potential of the technique, the researc...
Source: Medgadget - May 30, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Genetics Medicine UMass UMassChan Source Type: blogs
Fast Facts about Discretionary Spending
Romina Boccia and Dominik LettThe federal government will spend $6.3 trillion in 2023, 27 percent is discretionary and 73 percent is mandatory. Discretionary spending refers to federal programs that receive funding through annual appropriations. Less than half ofdiscretionary spending is for defense. More than half isfor nondefense activitiesincludingeducation, infrastructure, scientific research, and other programs.If Congress does not pass annual appropriations bills before October 1st (the beginning of the federal fiscal year), the government undergoes a partial “shutdown” where non‐essential functions are ha...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 30, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Romina Boccia, Dominik Lett Source Type: blogs
$9.3 Billion San Jose Subway Project Would Reduce Local Car Trips Less Than 0.4%
Marc JoffeA six ‐mile extension to the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system would have a minimal impact on personal vehicle emissions according to data in a federal travel forecast. Further, because the federal analysis is based on pre‐pandemic socioeconomic forecasts and travel patterns, it greatly ove restimates future ridership on the subway extension, which has a $9.3 billion estimated cost.A Federal Transit Administration (FTA)profile of the project shows that the BART extension would provide 32,900 passenger trips per weekday, or just over 9.5 million trips per year in 2040. The annual estimate is about 2...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 30, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Marc Joffe Source Type: blogs
Constitutional Contagion, The Courts, COVID, and Public Health
Wendy E. Parmet (Northeastern University), Constitutional Contagion, The Courts, COVID, and Public Health, Northeastern U. Sch. of L. Working Paper 435 (2023): More than three years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States is an unhealthy nation.... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - May 29, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Fax As An On-Ramp for Interoperability
The journey to achieve interoperability in healthcare has been too long and too expensive. To address this, companies have put effort into creating interoperability tools and platforms designed to make it easier to exchange data. To accelerate interoperability efforts, however, creating more technology may not the answer. Perhaps interoperability can gain more traction by putting a focus on getting more organizations on board the interoperability train.
Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity to discuss this topic with Scott Turicchi, CEO at Consensus Cloud Solutions, the world’s largest digital fax provider. Consensus h...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 25, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops CHIR cloud fax solutions Consensus Cloud Solutions FHIR Healthcare Fax Healthcare Interoperability Healthcare Scene Featured HIMSS HIMSS 2023 HIMSS23 Source Type: blogs
The Goal of RPM is Management, Not Monitoring
The following is a guest article by Lucienne Ide, MD, PhD, Founder and CEO at Rimidi
Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is a key capability in healthcare, particularly as we have seen multiple factors align in recent years: advances in medical device technology, decreased cost of cellular connectivity, new reimbursement models, and consumer demand that accelerated during the pandemic. RPM offers the ability to follow the patient from the clinic to the home and to provide a more complete picture of their health by collecting daily metrics such as blood pressure, blood glucose, weight, pulse oximetry, etc. But the healthcare in...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 25, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Chronic Conditions CMS Data Connection Data Interoperability Digital Transformation EMR Fi Source Type: blogs
Six Months to a Virtual ICU at Houston Methodist
Michelle Stansbury, VP of Innovation and IT Applications at Houston Methodist, discusses in this video their virtual hospital programs as well as hot technologies they’re looking at for the future. Their virtual ICU project started four years ago as a two-year project, but they managed to set it up in just six months as COVID-19 hit. Now they’re extending their insights into the whole hospital and beyond.
The video is full of intriguing details. For instance, they proudly offered every patient an iPad when the virtual ICU opened, to deliver care and allow patients to talk to their families outside the hospital....
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 24, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Scene Featured Houston Methodist ICU Care ICU Techno Source Type: blogs
The Oft Forgotten Benefits of Multi-Cloud in Healthcare
I remember the days when cloud was almost a dirty word in healthcare. Most healthcare CIOs probably saw the writing on the wall that cloud was the future, but there was a lot of fear going to the cloud. Now every healthcare organization is not just in the cloud but is multi-cloud. What’s interesting about healthcare’s move to the cloud is that we often forget the benefits of multi-cloud when it comes to things like patient outcomes and clinician experience.
This was the topic of discussion at the HIMSS 2023 annual conference in the session titled “CXO Spotlight: Improve Patient Outcomes and Clinicia...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 23, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Bill Wilson Clinician Experiences COVID-19 Geoffrey Brown Healthcare Cloud Healthcare Multi-Cloud Healthcare Scene Featured H Source Type: blogs
