Bonus Features – March 24, 2024 – Data infrastructure investments have 124% ROI, 85% of healthcare workers believe AI can improve the patient experience, plus 28 more stories
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.
News and Surveys
More than half (52%) of provider organizations use entirely manual workflows for credentialing and network management, according to a survey from Medallion.
A survey from Hakkoda found 92% of healthcare organiz...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 24, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Ardent Health Services athenahealth Availity Carta Healthcare Christine Gall Collette Health DrFirst DUOS FOLX Health Forbes Gary L. Harton Gattaca Genomics Gene Scheurer Greg Coticchia Greg Sottolano Hakkoda Source Type: blogs
Medicare Drug Pricing Negotiations: Assessing Constitutional Structural Limits
Erica N. White (Arizona State University), Mary Saxon (Arizona State University), James G. Hodge (Arizona State University), Joel Michaels (Arizona State University), Medicare Drug Pricing Negotiations: Assessing Constitutional Structural Limits (Ariz. St. U. Sandra Day O ’Conner Coll. of L. Legal... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 18, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – March 17, 2024 – 65% of nurses think AI will negatively impact healthcare, 14% of EHRs have known cybersecurity vulnerabilities, plus 24 more stories
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.
News
CHIME provided some clarity on the Smart Hospital Maturity Model initiative, noting it’s meant to “complement and enhance” the existing Digital Health Most Wired Program. The organization also announced C...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 17, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Akasa Apixio Availity Avalon Healthcare Solutions CenTrak CharmHealth CHIME Christina Rassi Claim.MD Claroty ECRI Institute Encoda Epic Research Evry Health Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features HealtheLink HIM Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features, HIMSS2024 Edition – March 13, 2024 – AI news from AWS, Google, Innovaccer, Microsoft, and Oracle Health, plus 18 more stories
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 2024 in sunny Orlando. As always, there have been a lot of new products and partnerships announced at the event, and we wanted to try and cover as much as we could for the Healthcare...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 13, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT AHIMA Amazon Web Services DocuSign emtelligent First Databank Google Cloud Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features HIMSS HIMSS 2024 HIMSS24 Innovaccer James Henderson KeyCare Lightbeam Health Solutions Linus Health Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – March 10, 2024 – Only 36% of CEOs have assessed how to govern the risks of AI, Emory Healthcare is deploying Epic on MacBook Air, plus 27 more stories
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.
News
The Biden Cancer Moonshot is advancing a recommended minimum set of key cancer-related data elements under USCDI+ Cancer, a subset of United States Core Data for Interoperability.
Atlanta’s Emory Healthcare is deploy...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 10, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Alayacare Amwell Apple Vision Pro Cancer Moonshot CCS CHG Healthcare ClearDATA Dr. Geeta Nayyar Emory Healthcare Epic Hyperspace Ernst & Young eXeX Experis FDB FertilAI Google Cloud Healthcare IT Today Bonus Source Type: blogs
Is It Worth Buying Dexcom CGM Sensors from Best Buy Health? The only way to know with certainty is to do the math!
Last autumn, on October 9, 2023, the electronics retailer Best Buy announced (seehttps://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231009526652/en/Best-Buy-to-Sell-Continuous-Glucose-Monitoring-Systems/ for the press release) that it had started a mail order business called "Best Buy Health"https://wellness.bestbuyhealth.com/ which it said would sell CGM sensors among other products. Best Buy Health aims to sell more than just CGM sensors. Its LinkedIn page https://www.linkedin.com/company/best-buy-health/ describes the business this way:" Best Buy Health aims to enrich and save lives through technology and meaningful connections. ...
Source: Scott's Web Log - March 9, 2024 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2023 2024 Best Buy Best Buy Health Costco Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – March 9, 2024
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.
Diving Into Epic’s Partnerships with Microsoft and Nuance. John Lynn spoke to Peter Durlach, at Microsoft via Nuance, about Epic’s integration with Nuance DAX Copilot and how it reduces documentation by 50% per clinical episode. They also touched on Epic’s work with Microsoft Azure. Read more…
Devoting AI to Process Improvement in the...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 9, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
First Analysis Invests in Dina, Provider of Home-Centered Care Coordination Solutions
Digital Network Management and Coordination Solutions to Help Health Plans and Providers Improve Access to Home Centric Care
First Analysis, a leading venture capital investor, has made a new investment in Dina, a provider of digital network management and coordination solutions for the Medicare Advantage and Managed Medicaid markets, with a focus on coordinating supplemental benefits and long-term services and supports (LTSS).
First Analysis led the $7 million Series B round, with participation from existing investors Osage Venture Partners and First Trust Capital Partners, LLC.
In December, SCAN Group, a mission-driven o...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 7, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Andrew Walsh Ashish V. Shah Corey Greendale dina First Analysis First Trust Capital Partners Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Osage Venture Partners SCAN Group Source Type: blogs
The Battle for Medicare
Isaac Buck (University of Tennessee), The Battle for Medicare, 16 Saint Louis U.J. Health L.& Pol ’y (2023): America is aging. From 2019 to 2060, the total population of Americans over sixty-five will grow from fifty-four million to ninety-five million.... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 7, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Policy Ingredients for Real-Time Improvements in Health Care, Prior Auth, and Claims
Many of us look forward to digital interactions in health care that work as simply as a retail sale or airline reservation. Don Rucker, MD, chief strategy officer at 1upHealth, shows us in this video how current regulations and FHIR standards will actually make that happen.
In a fast-paced exchanged with John Lynn of Healthcare IT Today, Rucker covers regulations and evolving data exchange standards that foster interoperability and data analytics. “The real point of interoperability is continuous, real-time computing,” according to Rucker. He points out that not just payers, but some employers, are demanding ac...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 5, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability Regulations 1upHealth Don Rucker FHIR FHIR APIs Health Data Exchange Healthcare APIs Healthcare Interoperability Source Type: blogs
RapidClaims Uses AI to Help US Healthcare Providers Address $250B in Denied Claims
RapidClaims Launches from Stealth with $3.1M Funding to Tackle the Core Issues Behind Claims Denial
Healthcare organizations are turning to automation with “revenue cycle management” to protect operating margins and the increasing claim denials from the payors. Every year, close to $265B in claims made by US healthcare organizations are denied because of the way claims are coded on payor documentation and delayed submissions are two chief reasons for the denials. Coding errors account for over 40% of claim denials, while untimely submissions contribute to 35% of denials; eligibility and prior authorization being some o...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 5, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Abhinay Vyas Ankit Jain Better Capital DeVC Dushyant Mishra Girish Mathrubootham Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Infinitus Jot Sarup Sahni Manav Garg Mass General Neon Source Type: blogs
Fee-For-Service: Predominant, Winning & Stupid
By MATTHEW HOLT
In recent days and weeks, there have been three stories that have really brought home to me the inanity of how we run our health care system. Spoiler alert, they have the commonality that they all are made problematic by payment per individual transaction—better known as fee-for-service.
First, several health insurers who sold their reputation to Wall Street as being wizards at understanding how doctors and patients behave had the curtain pulled back to reveal the man pulling the levers was missing a dashboard or dial or three. It happened to United, Humana and more, but I’ll focus on Agilon becau...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Matthew Holt Change Healthcare Colorado fee for service Humana UCHealth United HealthGroup Source Type: blogs
What Health IT Trend Has You Most Excited?
Burnout is something that can slowly creep up on you but take a long time to crawl out of. This serious problem is something that happens with you are overworked and overstressed from the problems you are tasked with at work. In the world of healthcare, where we are constantly looking for ways to make things better, it is no surprise that we are facing a high burnout rate. While burnout is hard to recover from, it is possible. Taking time off and finding things that you enjoy and are excited about are key to letting your brain reset and being ready to get back to work.
While there are countless problems and struggles in he...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 28, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System 86Borders Arcadia Authenticx AVIA Health Blake Richards Dan McDonald Elucid Eric Prugh Health IT Trends Healthcare AI Source Type: blogs
Generative AI in Your Desk Drawer: Revenue Management
This article starts to look at healthcare generative AI use cases.
Is it any surprise that new technologies in health care pop up quickly in the area of reimbursements? Payments are the constant obsession of every manager.
Claims
Abhishek Sharma, principal of business transformation at Sagility, says that payers question why a doctor ordered an MRI instead of a less costly CT scan, and that precise details in the patient’s medical record and clinical demographic history have to be culled to justify the decision.
Dushyant Mishra, co-founder and CEO of RapidClaims, says that five to ten percent of costs in clinical i...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 27, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Administration AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Revenue Cycle Management Abhishek Sharma Administrative Burden AI Advantage Akshay Sharma Anna Twomey Artificial Intelligence Automated Medical C Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features, ViVE Edition – February 27, 2024 – GE and Biofourmis collaborating on care at home, DeepScribe and AWS Health Scribe partnering, plus 20 other stories
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 the first days of ViVE 2024. There have been a lot of new research reports, products, and partnerships announced in Los Angeles. We wanted to try and cover as many announcements for the He...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 27, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT 2morrow AvaSure AWS HealthScribe Axil Health Biofourmis Cancer Moonshot CenTrak Clearstep Health Coeus Health CPSI DeepScribe Dolbey Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin GE Healthcare Healthcare IT Today Source Type: blogs
