Can the Health Insurance System Handle Massive Medicaid Reductions?
For many who have or will soon lose Medicaid as monthly redeterminations restart, and for millions more who could lose insurance due to other factors like job loss, three recent policy developments might increase the chances that they find new health care coverage. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - May 12, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Christine Eibner Source Type: blogs
Health Equity: Searching for a New Angle
In Disney’s Big Hero 6, the protagonist, Hiro Hamada, will get stuck in a problem after working on it for a while because he’s becoming too set in his way of thinking. And he is only able to find the solution thanks to his brother’s, Tadashi Hamada, words ‘find a new angle, look for another way out.’ Health inequality and discrimination is not a new problem in healthcare. It is a problem that people have been fighting for since the very beginning but we still have not found the solution to achieving health equity. So it might be time to listen to Tadashi and shake things up. Maybe by taking a...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 10, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Administration Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Aaron Brandwein AdvancedMD Alex Rothberg Allyson Livingstone Amanda Hanse Source Type: blogs
How Technology Can Help Us Achieve Health Equity
There has been an incredible rise in technological advancements in the world of healthcare recently due to our sudden need for everything to be digital when COVID hit. While the cases of COVID have gone down and we’ve settled into a new normal, that isn’t the only crisis that we need a tech fix too. We need to start searching for how we can use technology, new or old, to fix health inequality and discrimination.
We reached out to our beautiful Healthcare IT Today Community to get their insights on the role technology can play in working towards health equity. The following is what they had to say and be sure to...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 5, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Regulations Alex Rothberg Andrew Kobylinski Ben Zaniello MD Bronwyn Spira Cardio Diagnosti Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – April 29, 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.
A Tribute to Casey Quinlan – Advocate and Renaissance Woman. Colin Hung wrote a heartfelt tribute to Casey Quinlan, an outspoken advocate for increased patient involvement in healthcare decision-making and a more accountable (and affordable) healthcare system. She may be gone, but her legacy remains strong. Read more…
Improving Device Management ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 29, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Rationing by red tape
One of the worst features of our absurd Rube Goldberg non-system of Medicine is that it buries people in paperwork in order to get the benefits they ' re entitled to. When my mother went into a nursing home, I assumed I could complete the application to get her onto Medicaid myself, but it turned out that even for a guy with a Ph.D. in Social Policy who was a full-time professor of health services, policy and practice, it was impossible. I had to hire a lawyer, and we have to pay the lawyer every year to do the required re-determination. And by the way, the only entity that ' s ultimately paying my mother ' s lawyer is the...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 28, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
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Limit, Save & Grow Act would require adults 19ؘ–55 without dependents to meet work requirements to qualify for Medicaid; this has been shown to be a failed policy.
(Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog)
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - April 27, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sara Rosenbaum Source Type: blogs
Leveraging Data to Reduce Member Churn, Maintain Access to Care, and Avoid Care Gaps as a Result of the Medicaid Redetermination Process
The following is a guest article by Ashley Perry, MPH, Chief Strategy and Solutions Officer at Socially Determined
When Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, it decoupled the Public Health Emergency (PHE) from the Medicaid program’s continuous enrollment provision, which was implemented as part of the PHE in March 2020. It also established April 1, 2023 as the date on which the Medicaid redetermination process would resume nationwide.
The continuous enrollment provision resulted in substantial growth in Medicaid enrollment nationwide and helped bring the national uninsured rate to an all-time low...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 26, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Ashley Perry California Department of Health Services CBOs CHWs CMS Community Health Workers Community-Based Organizatio Source Type: blogs
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States can use Medicaid funds to provide prerelease services to people leaving jails and prisons that will improve health outcomes and address disparities.
(Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog)
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - April 26, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Kinda Serafi, Virginia E. Morgan, Cindy Mann Source Type: blogs
The GOP ’s Modest Debt Limit Proposal
Romina BocciaHouse Republicans expect to vote on a plan to raise the debt ceiling this week. TheLimit, Save, Grow Act put forth by Speaker McCarthy would raise the debt limit by $1.5 trillion or suspend it until March 31, 2024 —whichever comes first. This is a modest proposal that would begin to put a dent in the fiscal challenge. The plan allows fiscal conservatives to assert themselves by clawing back spending driven by the Biden administration ’s priorities and reining in the regulatory power of Washington bureaucrats. It would neither stabilize the debt nor address the main drivers of future spending...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 25, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Romina Boccia Source Type: blogs
Health Data Cloud Leader 1upHealth Raises $40 Million Series C led by Sixth Street Growth
Company to invest in scaling its health data platform, providing payers, providers and digital health companies with an end-to-end solution for interoperability and open computing
1upHealth today announced the close of a $40M Series C investment led by Sixth Street Growth with participation from existing investors F-Prime Capital, Jackson Square Ventures, and Eniac Ventures. 1upHealth will use this latest investment to expand product development and customer growth teams and accelerate efforts to lead the digital transformation of the healthcare industry in the cloud.
1upHealth’s FHIR®-native platform designed for inter...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 25, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability 1upHealth 1upHeath Data Cloud API CMS ACO Digital Transformation Eniac Ventures F-Prime Capital FHIR Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Jackson Square Vent Source Type: blogs
MedArrive Raises $8 Million Investment to Bring More Care Into the Home
New funding led by Cobalt Ventures will support continued business growth and expansion of health plan relationships
Mobile-integrated care management platform company, MedArrive, today announced $8 million in new funding led by Cobalt Ventures, a wholly owned subsidiary of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City (Blue KC). The investment follows MedArrive’s $25 million series A round in November 2021 and brings the company’s total funding to $40.5 million to date.
MedArrive supports both adult and pediatric populations, providing a white-labeled care management solution that powers care into the home – often ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 24, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT At Home Care behavioral health Blue Cross and Blue Shield Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City Blue KC Bright Health Care Management Cobalt Ventures Dan Trigub David Eichler Health IT Funding Source Type: blogs
A bit about the history of Medicaid
Medicaid was actually something of an afterthought in the 1965 Medicare legislation. As Moore and Smith write, “There was so little comment that Medicaid did, indeed, seem like a casual add-on. A legislative draftsman said that he could scarcely recall working on Medicaid.” Since retirees receiving Social Security were covered by Medicare, Medicaid originally benefited only recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children, AFDC, the program generally known at that time as “welfare,” and the smaller categories of recipients of aid for the blind and disabled.Although state participation in Medicaid was voluntary...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 21, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Scene Health Secures $17.7 Million Series B Financing Led by ABS Capital Partners
Funding Will Grow Medication Adherence Services for Medicaid and Other Under-Resourced Populations
Scene Health, the leading medication engagement company, has closed an oversubscribed $17.7 million Series B growth financing led by ABS Capital Partners with participation from existing investors Claritas Health Ventures, as well as Healthworx, the innovation and investment arm of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, PTX Capital, and Kapor Capital.
The investment is the latest validation of Scene Health’s unique video-based platform, which empowers people to take medication properly through person-to-person connections, ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT ABS Capital Partners Cal Wheaton CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Chronic Conditions Claritas Health Ventures Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Healthworx Kapor Capital Medicai Source Type: blogs
Health Privacy and Security in the Time of TEFCA: Raising the Bar for Trusted Exchange
The following is a guest article by Dave Cassel, Chief Customer Officer at Health Gorilla and Former Executive Director of Carequality
Talking about privacy and security in health information exchange is tricky. Saying you want to improve it implies that it isn’t good enough now, and that’s never the message we want to send. But improvements can always be made, and must be made.
As with many things, there are degrees – and when it comes to health data, you can never be too private or too secure.
Established by the 21st Century Cures Act, the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) holds so much promis...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 20, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Analytics/Big Data EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability Security and Privacy Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services CMS Dave Cassel Electronic Health Record Health Gorilla Health IT Security Healthcare Priva Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features, HIMSS Edition – April 18, 2023 – Amazon, Microsoft, and generative AI dominate the headlines, plus news from Oracle, Orion Health, Salesforce, Surescripts, WebMD, and more
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
This edition is a special dispatch from HIMSS 2023, which returns to Chicago for the first time in eight years. As always, there have been a lot of new products and partnerships announced at the event, with a heavy emphasis on g...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 18, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features HIMSS HIMSS 2023 HIMSS23 Source Type: blogs
