AIOps Improving Service Assurance for the Healthcare Industry
The following is a guest article by Chris Menier, President of VIA AIOPS at Vitria Technology.
For healthcare providers and payers, improving the experience of members and patients requires replacing disconnected legacy systems with agile infrastructure and applications. Clinicians, technicians, and administrators can be more efficient and effective. Digital transformation of systems and platforms is changing the way hospitals and clinics are serving patients and the way insurers are acquiring and servicing members. Cloud and 5G is the powerful business platform for digital transformation and critical to adopting new techn...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 23, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops 5G AIOps Artificial Intelligence Augmented Reality Chris Menier Dan Schneider DevOps Digital Transformation Healthcare Sce Source Type: blogs
Fixing Medicare Advantage Payments
This article looks at the problem from the other side. Here, we adopt a position sympathetic to the hurdles facing Medicare Advantage plans and look at how they are trying to improve the quality of data.
A bit of cynicism is deserved here. Consultants who offer services to healthcare providers often cite “improving the quality of diagnoses” as a code phrase for “extracting the maximum payment you can for a given patient.”
I talked recently to Meleah Bridgeford, senior director of risk adjustment analytics at Episource, about how their analytics and billing solution can improve the quality of submiss...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 22, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Administration Analytics/Big Data Health IT Company Healthcare IT Regulations Revenue Cycle Management CMS Episource Healthcare Billing Medical Billing medical coding Medicare Medicare Advantage Medicare Audits Upcoding Source Type: blogs
AIOps Improving Service Assurance for the Healthcare Industry
The following is a guest article by Chris Menier, President of VIA AIOPS at Vitria Technology.
For healthcare providers and payers, improving the experience of members and patients requires replacing disconnected legacy systems with agile infrastructure and applications. Clinicians, technicians, and administrators can be more efficient and effective. Digital transformation of systems and platforms is changing the way hospitals and clinics are serving patients and the way insurers are acquiring and servicing members. Cloud and 5G is the powerful business platform for digital transformation and critical to adopting new techn...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops 5G AIOps Artificial Intelligence Augmented Reality Chris Menier Dan Schneider DevOps Digital Transformation Healthcare Sce Source Type: blogs
Here Is What Even Healthcare AI Companies Do With Your Data
Pictures, text prompts, documents and health metrics are just a few examples of data we’re giving away to different AI applications and thus, to different companies/organizations. While it’s always good to know what happens to your data, it is especially relevant in healthcare settings and regarding health data.
The rise of social media platforms signifies the beginning of a new era, one where individuals become valuable resources: providing tons of personal data that can be utilised for commercial purposes. But as the plethora of AI applications begins to enter our lives, we have to level up our games and become mu...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine digital health privacy AI data privacy digital health data Source Type: blogs
The Secret Ways Healthcare AI Companies Might Use Your Personal Data
Pictures, text prompts, documents and health metrics are just a few examples of data we’re giving away to different AI applications and thus, to different companies/organizations. While it’s always good to know what happens to your data, it is especially relevant in healthcare settings and regarding health data.
The rise of social media platforms signifies the beginning of a new era, one where individuals become valuable resources: providing tons of personal data that can be utilised for commercial purposes. But as the plethora of AI applications begins to enter our lives, we have to level up our games and become mu...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine AI data privacy digital health data digital health privacy Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – February 18, 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.
6 Organizations Approved As Initial QHINs Under TEFCA. CommonWell, eHealth Exchange, Epic, Health Gorilla, Kno2, and KONZA were named the inaugural QHINs. The announcement wasn’t much of a surprise, but John said it will be interesting to see which technology vendors ultimately get behind which QHINs. Read more…
Exploring LG’s Partnersh...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 18, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
The Path Forward for Healthcare ’s People Matching Problem
The following is a guest article by Rachel Podczervinski MS, RHIA, Vice President of Professional Services at Harris Data Integrity Solutions.
Efforts to identify the right path forward for healthcare’s patient matching problem are gaining a foothold as stakeholders from across the spectrum come together to remove obstacles and implement effective solutions. Most notably, in 2022, efforts by industry organizations like Patient ID Now led to the temporary removal of Section 510 from the U.S. House and Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-HHS) appropriations bills. While it was ul...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 15, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability Security and Privacy Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Black Book Research EHR Electronic Health Records EMPI Enterprise Master Patient Ind Source Type: blogs
All Three Legs of the Obamacare Stool Are Working Well
BY GEORGE HALVORSON
When the Affordable Care Act was passed, the politics were so intense and the debates were so filled with rhetoric in all directions that most people actually didn’t understand that there were three major component parts to the strategy and program that function very directly as a package, and should be looked at now in the context of several years of implementation to see how each part of that law is currently doing.
Medicaid was our first priority.
The first component part — and the one that had the highest need for passage when the law was passed because we were doing such a horrible job...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Affordable Care Act George Halvorson Medicaid Medicare Medicare Advantage Source Type: blogs
How Omnichannel Messaging Can Solve Headaches for Healthcare Communications
The following is a guest article by Sandro Stupar, Product Management Director at Mitto.
Navigating the healthcare system in America can be byzantine and time-consuming. Despite the many advances in telehealth, mobile apps and walk-in health clinics, patients and caregivers frequently find themselves waiting (often impatiently) in long phone queues to make an appointment, renew a prescription or obtain lab results. There should be a better way.
There is. Increasingly, medical providers are borrowing from the classical marketing playbook and weaving omnichannel messaging into their communications. And, just as it has in o...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Administration Ambulatory Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Automation Group Communication HealthGrades Improve Patient Outcomes Mitto N Source Type: blogs
CIO Podcast – Episode 49: Frictionless Billing with Joanne Mizell
For the 49th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Joanne Mizell, Chief Operating Officer at Banner|Aetna to talk about Frictionless Billing, an initiative to improve the patient billing process. Mizell shares with us some of the financial and revenue pressures that healthcare organizations are facing today and her answer may surprise you. Plus, she shares how being a “payvider” (provider and payer) provides a great opportunity to address problems like the Frictionless Billing effort they rolled out to improve the billing experience for patients. We also ask Mizell how...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 13, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Administration C-Suite Leadership Healthcare CIO Podcasts Healthcare IT Revenue Cycle Management Aetna Banner Banner Aetna CES CIO Leadership Health IT Leadership Healthcare Billing Joanne Mizell Patient Payment RCM Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 13th 2023
This study investigated whether taller Polish adults live longer than their shorter counterparts. Data on declared height were available from 848,860 individuals who died in the years 2004-2008 in Poland. To allow for the cohort effect, the Z-values were generated. Separately for both sexes, Pearson's r coefficients of correlation were calculated. Subsequently, one way ANOVA was performed.
The correlation between adult height and longevity was negative and statistically significant in both men and women. After eliminating the effects of secular trends in height, the correlation was very weak (r = -0.0044 in men and ...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 12, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Viral Infection in Middle Age Correlates with Later Dementia Risk
A range of evidence suggests that persistent viral infection contributes to the risk of suffering neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease. This may be due to mechanisms relating to amyloid-β accumulation, in its role as an anti-microbial peptide, a part of the innate immune system. It may have more to do with lasting chronic inflammation subsequent to infection. Researchers here note another addition to the epidemiological data on this topic, in this case linking severe infections requiring hospitalization with later dementia risk. The effect sizes here are large and last for a long time following infecti...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 10, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
What is Health Care ’ s LEGO?
BY KIM BELLARD
Last week the esteemed Jane Sarasohn-Kahn celebrated that it was the 65th anniversary of the famous LEGO brick, linking to Jay Ong’s blog article about it (to be more accurate, it was the 65th anniversary of the patent for the LEGO brick). That led me to read Jens Andersen’s excellent history of the company: The LEGO Story: How a Little Toy Sparked the World’s Imagination.
But I didn’t think about writing about LEGO’s until I read Ben’s Cohen’s Wall Street Journal profile of University of Oxford economist Bent Flyvbjerg, who studies why projects succeed or fail. His...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: The Business of Health Care Healthcare Kim Bellard LEGO Modularity Source Type: blogs
How direct primary care can revolutionize health care [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! The U.S. health care system ranks poorly among high-income countries, but the direct primary care (DPC) model offers a potential solution. In this model, primary care providers are paid a consistent fee through a retainer or membership program, rather than relying on insurance billing.
Read more…
How direct primary care can revolutionize health care [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 4, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Primary Care Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
Employee Fired for Inappropriately Accessing EHR Records
Even an ‘Internal Breach’ is a Breach
According to an announcement on its website, Alabama-based DCH Health Systems fired an employee for accessing and viewing over 2,500 patient records “without a legitimate business need related to the employee’s job duties.”
The notice said the breach was discovered “during a routine privacy audit.”
The records that may have been accessed and viewed without authorization include names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, dates of encounter, diagnoses, vital signs, medications, test results, and clinical/provider notes.
DCH said it does not know if t...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 27, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mike Semel Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Regulations Security and Privacy DCH Health Systems HIPAA HIPAA Audit HIPAA Breach HIPAA Breach Notification Rule HIPAA Fines HIPAA Internal Breach HIPA Source Type: blogs
