AAPC Expands Its Technology Solutions Portfolio with the Acquisition of Semantic Health
Semantic Health’s AI-Powered Auditing Software Will Supplement AAPC’s Suite of Business Solutions that Safeguard Against Revenue Cycle Errors
AAPC, a leading global solutions provider in healthcare revenue cycle management, is pleased to announce the successful acquisition of Semantic Health, an early-stage healthcare technology company focused on creating AI-powered inpatient medical auditing software for health insurance plans and hospitals.
“We are thrilled to integrate Semantic Health’s advanced technology and skilled AI team into AAPC,” said Bevan Erickson, CEO at AAPC. “This acquis...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 7, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT AAPC Bevan Erickson Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Nicola Sahar MD Raemarie Jimenez Semantic Health Source Type: blogs
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As millions are disenrolled from state Medicaid programs, the health insurance marketplaces can serve as a critical coverage safety net.
(Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog)
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - December 6, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Rachel Swindle, Sabrina Corlette Source Type: blogs
Predictive Analytics from eClinicalWorks Serves Front-line Clinics
CareSTL Health has to conserve resources. As a federally qualified health center (FQHC) in St. Louis, MO, CareSTL Health serves people with no insurance. Patients often have trouble getting access to health cares services, suffer from serious illnesses, and need a lot of reassurance and communication to establish trust. Analytics in their eClinicalWorks EHR helps this front-line organization in several ways, according to Chief Medical Officer Hari Nallapaneni, M.D.
CareSTL, for example, makes use of the new AI-powered tool from eClinicalWorks that can help identify patients who are a most likely to miss their appointment (...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 6, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT CareSTL Health eClinicalWorks eCW FQHC FQHCs Hari Nallapaneni Healthcare AI Healthcare Analytics Healthca Source Type: blogs
Securing Healthcare Data in AWS: Best Practices and Compliance
The following is a guest article by Boris Dzhingarov.
In today’s technologically advanced world, the healthcare system is also undergoing a rapid digital transformation, especially in regard to data storage and protection. Hospital records contain sensitive data, including diagnostic details and sensitive personal health information. This information must be protected to avoid any legal implications and ensure compliance with privacy regulatory laws, like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud computing platform that allows you to process, store, and manage a...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 30, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Security and Privacy Amazon Web Service AWS Boris Dzhingarov Data Protection dzhingarov.com Electronic Protected Health Information ePHI Healthcare Data Healthcare Scene Source Type: blogs
Amazon Can Still Surprise Me
By KIM BELLARD
It’s Cyber Monday, and you’ve probably been shopping this weekend. In-stores sales on Black Friday rose 2.2% this year, whereas online sakes rose almost 8%, to $9.8b – over half of which was via mobile shopping. Cyber Monday, though, is expected to outpace Black Friday’s online shopping, with an estimated $12b, 5.4% higher than last year.
Lest we forget, Amazon’s Prime Day is even bigger than either Cyber Monday or Black Friday.
All that shopping means lots of deliveries, and here’s where I got a surprise: according to a Wall Street Journal analysis, Amazon is now the leadin...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech The Business of Health Care Amazon AWS Delivery Kim Bellard Pharmacy Pillpack Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – November 25, 2023
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
Looking at the Latest in Real-Time Clinical Note Generation. John Lynn spoke to Dr. Noah Crampton at Mutuo Health Solutions about the importance of integrating the consent process into the user experience for ambient clinical voice, along with the company’s larger focus on privacy and data governance. Read more…
Deriving More Value from Autom...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 25, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Toward a Wider Adoption of Digital Insurance Cards
This article looks at what it will take to let us all check in to our doctor’s office as easily as we wave our cell phone before a scanner in a retail store.
Start with Standards
A typical digital validation in health care must be recognized by software on the patient’s device as well as sites at multiple institutions: providers, payers, pharmacies, and more. Therefore, standards are a prerequisite to digital insurance cards. Luckily (as the saying goes), there are many to choose from.
HL7, which has been setting standards for health care since 1987, leapt into the modern age of computer standards by adopting...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 22, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability CARIN Alliance Commons Project Foundation Digital Insurance Card FHIR hl7 JP Pollak Leavitt Partners Mark Scrimshire OnyxOS Patient Identificat Source Type: blogs
Further Evidence for Reduced Blood Pressure to Lower Risk of Dementia
The raised blood pressure of hypertension causes a great deal of downstream damage. It is a way for low-level biochemical damage associated with aging to become actual physical damage to the body. Pressure damage can occur in delicate tissues throughout the body, and raised blood pressure increases the pace at which capillaries and other small vessels rupture. Further, increased blood pressure can accelerate the development of atherosclerosis, and also contributes to the pathological enlargement and weakening of heart muscle. All of this downstream harm is why forcing a reduction in blood pressure, without addressing any o...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 21, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Will We All Have To Become Biologically Enhanced Superhumans?
Okay, hands up who can tell who’s the most famous biologically enhanced superhuman in the world? True, it’s a quite close call between Captain America and The Incredible Hulk (sorry Spidey, you’re not even close). But are human-invented superhumans just a thing of a Stan Lee comic, or is it an actual scientific idea from a real laboratory?
As a matter of fact, enhancing human capabilities has been on the minds of people for ages, but it has come a long way from ancient training methods to exoskeletons. Enhancing our abilities, be it permanently or temporarily is a tempting but risky matter. Will it be possibl...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Forecast Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Augmented Reality Bioethics Biotechnology Cyborgization Digital Health Research E-Patients Genomics Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Policy Medical Education Robotics Science Ficti Source Type: blogs
Zealous for Wellness: The Ongoing Quest for Standard Measures
The previous articles in this series showed how payers, providers, and digital health companies try to prove that they’re helping to create healthier patients. Sara Shanti, a partner specializing in health care at law firm Sheppard Mullin, says that organizations in the wellness space are searching for strong algorithms. But they also want to ensure that technology leads to, and clearly reflects, improved and worthwhile outcomes. This is not likely to emerge for some time. But this final article looks at how some organizations are filling the gap.
Rigor at a Weight Loss Clinic
Dr. Brett Osborn, author of the book G...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 16, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Arcadia Behavior Change behavioral health BPCI Brett Osborn Clinical Source Type: blogs
Will the AMA Support A Move Toward Single Payer Health Care?
By MIKE MAGEE
The Politico headline in 2019 declared dramatically, “The Most Powerful Activist in America is Dying.” This week, 4 1/2 years later, their prophecy came true, as activist Ady Barkan succumbed at age 39 to ALS leaving behind his vibrant wife, English professor, Rachael King, and two small children, Carl,7, and Willow,3.
His journey, as one of the nation’s leading activists for a single-payer health care system began, not coincidentally, began with his diagnosis of A.L.S. in 2016, 4 months after the birth of his first child. His speech at the Democratic National Convention fully exposed his conditio...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Ady Barkan AMA Mike Magee Single payer Source Type: blogs
How Healthcare Can Embrace the Cloud Without Jeopardizing Data
The following is a guest article by Rodman Ramezanian, Global Cloud Threat Lead at Skyhigh Security
Healthcare, like other sectors, is undergoing a massive digital transformation to meet the changing needs of patients and workers. As part of this transformation, there are a growing number of roles that can be performed virtually – such as grant administrators, clinical trial coordinators, or telehealth care providers – although some workers, like emergency room physicians, must still be present onsite. Since remote and hybrid employees need to be able to collaborate anytime, anywhere, and from multiple devices, many he...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 2, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Security and Privacy Cloud Security Cybersecurity Digital Transformation Healthcare Cloud Healthcare Cybersecurity PHI Protec Source Type: blogs
The 2023 Healthcare Power Ranking Of Tech Giants
Major tech companies have been venturing into healthcare for years, and we’ve been following and analysing their progress along the way. We have scrutinized their efforts individually (see: Google, Apple, Amazon, NVIDIA, Microsoft, IBM) and in summaries and more summaries, analysed what we can learn from the tech giants-healthcare-collaborations and even dared to publish some forecasts about what we expect their next moves will be.
And most recently we finished a major update on one of our most popular e-books, Tech Giants In Healthcare. As the book is out now, here is a 2023 power ranking of the most important non-...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 2, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Artificial Intelligence in Medicine IBM Innovation technology microsoft AI NVIDIA amazon apple digital health google Source Type: blogs
Rube Goldberg Would Be Proud
By KIM BELLARD
Larry Levitt and Drew Altman have an op-ed in JAMA Network with the can’t-argue-with-that title Complexity in the US Health Care System Is the Enemy of Access and Affordability. It draws on a June 2023 Kaiser Family Foundation survey about consumer experiences with their health insurance. Long stories short: although – surprisingly – over 80% of insured adults rate their health insurance as “good” or “excellent,” most admit they have difficulty both understanding and using it. And the people in fair or poor health, who presumably use health care more, have more problems.
Health insurance...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 31, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Employers Health system change Kim Bellard Medicare PBMs Source Type: blogs
How Can You Use AI In Your Healthcare RIGHT NOW?
This study from March 2023 reports how an app developed to help patients’ bowel preparation can increase compliance and thus, the number of successful colonoscopies.
In some cases, health chatbots are also able to connect patients with clinicians for diagnosis or treatment, but that is one step further down the line. The general idea is that in the future, these talking or texting smart algorithms might become the first contact point for primary care. Patients will not get in touch with physicians, nurses, or any medical professional with every one of their health questions but will turn to chatbots first. If the ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 31, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: imported Healthcare AI artificial intelligence digital health Source Type: blogs
