What are the Cost Implications of Implementing Cloud Technology in Healthcare?
We have talked about implementing cloud technology in healthcare a lot, but there are still a lot of gray areas, such as the cost implications. Will it increase or reduce healthcare costs? More importantly, if we are looking to switch from the traditional on-premises infrastructure, how do the costs compare? Both in where we are today and in the long run?
In search of some answers to these questions, we reached out to our incredibly talented Healthcare IT Today Community. The following are their thoughts on this pressing topic.
Zach Evans, Chief Technology Officer at XSOLIS
The largest change for organizations implementing...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 6, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Security and Privacy 4medica Annmarie Ison AT&T Cybersecurity Charlie Clarke Chris Lance Cloud Cloud in Source Type: blogs
5 Must-Haves in a Patient Financial Communication Platform
The following is a guest article by Steven Dubner, Vice President of Product Management at Nordis Technologies
No matter how exemplary the clinical care, overall patient experience and satisfaction often hinge on the last interactions with providers—billing and payments. But many patients are, in fact, unhappy with the current state: 49% of all adults and 74% of millennials would consider switching providers for a better payment experience, according to InstaMed’s 2021 annual consumer survey on healthcare payments.
To improve this critical financial experience, healthcare technology and revenue cycle leaders are digita...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 25, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT Revenue Cycle Management Anne Goodwill Pritchett CCM Hackensack Meridian Health Healthcare Costs InstaMed Nordis Technologies Patient Billing Patient Communication Patient Satisfacti Source Type: blogs
Healthcare IT Regulations – What Needs to Be Added and What Needs to Be Removed
There are a lot of rules and regulations in place in the world of healthcare. These are put into place in order to protect patients and organizations. However, the world of healthcare is constantly changing and evolving as we come up with new ideas and solutions. Have the regulations done the same though? Or are there areas that are missing regulations? Or are there areas in healthcare where past regulations are now too restrictive and are holding us back?
In search of answers to these questions, we reached out to our incredibly beautiful Healthcare IT Today Community to see what areas they would add, remove, or update re...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 19, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Administration Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Regulations 1upHealth 4medica Amanda Heidemann Andrea Mazzoccoli Andrew Norden MD Bill Charnetski Cheryl Cheng Commur Source Type: blogs
How Policy Changes Can Fix Market Distortions in Healthcare and Improve the Country ’s Debt
The following is a guest article by Zach Markin, Co-Founder and CEO at HTD Health
American healthcare is the most dysfunctional industry in our country. Historically, it is the most prolific driver of family bankruptcy, and now it is on its way to bankrupting our country collectively. A major justification for President Biden’s tax hike proposal is to shore up the tenuous finances of Medicare whose trust fund is forecasted to be depleted by 2028. While this is important, such efforts address the symptoms of a dysfunctional industry rather than the root causes.
While the near-term liquidity and long-term financial health ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 12, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Regulations Revenue Cycle Management AMA Healthcare Barriers Healthcare Costs healthcare industry Healthcare Perverse Incentives HTD Health Me Source Type: blogs
Visana Health Raises $10.1 Million Seed Round to Bring Comprehensive Virtual Healthcare to Women Nationwide
Team of Women’s Healthcare Visionaries Builds a Comprehensive Virtual Clinic through a Whole-Person Care Model for Menstruation through Menopause
Available through Health Plans and Employer Benefit Plans, Visana Leapfrogs Narrowly Focused Women’s Health Point Solutions with Quality Longitudinal Medical Care from Visana-Trained Doctors and Nurse Practitioners
Visana’s Best-in-Class Clinical Model Caters to Complex Women’s Health Conditions without Driving Unnecessary Spend for Patients and Payers
Flare Capital Partners and Frist Cressey Ventures Co-Led Oversubscribed Seed Financing
Visana Health, a v...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 8, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Bill Frist M.D. Dr. Barbara Levy Flare Capital Partners Frist Cressey Ventures Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment inHealth Ventures Joe Connolly Margaret Malone Olivia Capra Source Type: blogs
Finding Balance in Patient-Centric RCM
The following is a guest article by Laxmi Patel, Chief Strategy Officer at Savista
Achieving a delicate equilibrium between automation and human engagement is critical. In the world of healthcare, this balance not only enhances the patient experience but also enables systems to effectively manage patient communication and financial obligations while delivering optimal clinical care. As the industry shifts focus to automation and processes to lower cost-to-collect, it is vital to ensure that these efforts remain patient-centric.
Instead of being seen as just a series of numbers, financial statements, and outcomes, a s...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 1, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Administration Ambulatory Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Revenue Cycle Management Care Journey Healthcare Costs Laxmi Patel Patient Communication Patient Education Pati Source Type: blogs
Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT
For something as important and as sensitive as healthcare, there are plenty of rules and regulations in place to protect both patients and organizations. However, with healthcare being ever-evolving our regulations are also ever evolving. This can make it extremely difficult to not only follow all of the ones in place today but to prepare our organizations for the upcoming regulations.
To help out, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to see which healthcare regulations they foresee having a big impact on healthcare IT. The following is what they had to say.
Stephen Sofoul, SVP, Data & Decision S...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 28, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Administration Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Regulations Andrew Harding athenahealth Brightside Health Cassie Choi Darena Solutions e4 Services Freshpaint Healthc Source Type: blogs
Marathon Health Acquires Cerner Workforce Health Solutions Clinics
Acquisition will Bring Marathon Health’s Unique Population Health Model to More Employers and Members
Marathon Health, a leading provider of direct primary care for employers, today announced the acquisition of Cerner Workforce Health Solutions (WHS), a group of dedicated onsite and near-site health clinics. The acquisition will expand Marathon’s footprint, accelerating the reach of its unique population health model to more employers, locations, and members.
The transaction closed on August 1, 2023.
“Marathon Health is singularly dedicated to helping employers control healthcare costs by transforming healthcare deli...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Ben Evans Cerner Cerner WHS Cerner Workforce Health Solutions Dr. Jeff Wells Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Marathon Health Stacie Clum Source Type: blogs
THCB 20th Birthday Classic: As I’ve always suspected, Health Care = Communism + Frappuccinos
By MATTHEW HOLT
Our 20th birthday continues with a few classics coming out. Back in 2005 I was really cutting a lyrical rug, and would never miss a chance to get that Cambridge training in Marxism into use. This essay about whether health care should be a public or private good has always been one of my favorites, even if I’m not sure Starbucks is still making Frappuccinos. And 18 years later the basic point of this essay remains true, even if many of you will not have a clue who Vioxx or Haliburton were or why they mattered back then!
Those of you who think I’m an unreconstructed commie will correctly suspec...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Matthew Holt Communism Frappuccinos Source Type: blogs
AI-First Health Plan Operations
The following is a guest article by Deepan Vashi, Executive Vice President and Global Leader at Firstsource
Practical AI Deployments can Enable Health Payers to Improve Efficiencies, Cut Costs, and Improve Stakeholder Experiences
While media pundits speculate on the future of AI, for healthcare payers, AI can be a very practical tool enabling them to increase operational efficiency, cut administrative costs, and improve member experiences. The key to success with today’s AI capabilities is focusing on applications that deliver real returns. Today, that means tackling two of the industry’s biggest costs: claims processi...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 11, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Administration AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Revenue Cycle Management AI Automation AI-First Claims Management Deepan Vashi Firstsource Health Plans LLM Source Type: blogs
Sustainable Healthcare: Reducing the Energy Burden and Environmental Impact of Caregiving
The following is a guest article by Steve Lazer, Global Healthcare and Life Sciences CTO at Dell Technologies
Healthcare services play a vital role in enhancing human well-being, but it’s essential to recognize that they also leave an environmental footprint contributing to environment-related health threats.
According to a report from the environmental advocacy group Health Care Without Harm, the U.S. healthcare industry is responsible for 7.6 percent of the nation’s total “climate footprint.” While this might seem like a relatively low number, when we are talking about working towards a net ze...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 10, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Climate Footprint Dell Technologies Emissions Energy Consumption Healthcare Climate Crisis Healthcare Costs Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 31st 2023
In conclusion, an SBP level below 130 mmHg was found to be associated with longevity among older women. The longer SBP was controlled at a level between 110 and 130 mmHg, the higher the survival probability to age 90. Preventing age-related rises in SBP and increasing the time with controlled BP levels constitute important measures for achieving longevity.
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Source: Fight Aging! - July 30, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Lobbying Efforts for the Development of Means to Treat Aging are at a Very Early Stage
That so many people turn their hand to lobbying government is a sad statement of the character of our era. Those engaged in getting things done start to feel, at some level of funding, that lobbying is a necessary defense on the one hand, against Big Pharma entities who will use regulators to impede and coerce competition, and on the other hand a way to access greater funding and publicity. The trough of public funds is ever an attractive proposition, and never as easy to access without tainting everything involved as people would like to think it is. A world with smaller, less powerful governments would be a world in whic...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 24, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Politics and Legislation Source Type: blogs
5 Ways Data (and Storage) are Powering the Evolution of Healthcare
The following is a guest article by Doug McLoughlin, Regional Manager at Western Digital
Healthcare technology is finally catching up with a digital revolution that’s been well underway for over a decade in other industries. The transformation was accelerated in the last three years when confined to our homes for months on end, doctors and patients alike turned to technology to try and stay healthy and connected.
From medical to consumer-grade devices, millions of new endpoints emerged, generating new volumes of data. Ranging from improving individual health to better patient outcomes to enabling more advanced research, ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 20, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Analytics/Big Data Health IT Company Healthcare IT IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops AI Data Storage Doug McLoughlin Healthcare Data Healthcare Data Storage Improving Patient Outcomes ML Reducing Costs RPM Western Digital Source Type: blogs
HHS Again Suspends Disbelief: The Medicaid Program Will Ignore the Greatest Health Threat to Medicaid Beneficiaries
BY DAVID INTROCASO
In May the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) simultaneously published two proposed Medicaid rules (here and here) intended to improve moreover access and quality. Both discussed at length the agency’s commitment to “addressing health equity.” The first sentence in both identified health equity as a Medicaid program priority. The proposed “ensuring access” rule stated CMS “takes a comprehensive approach to . . . better addressing health equity issues in the Medicaid program.” CMS went on to state “we are working to advance health equity by designing, implementing,...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Biden Administration Centers for Medicare and Social Services Climate Change David Introcaso Source Type: blogs
