Value Based Care – 2024 Health IT Predictions
As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting. Check out our community’s predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media.
All of this year’s 2024 health IT predictions (updated as they’re shared):
John and ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 5, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Administration Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Regulations Revenue Cycle Management 2024 Health IT Predictions 9amHealth Andreessen Horowitz Anthony Hudson Anton Kittleberger Source Type: blogs
Econoclasm Chapter Two, continued: The Death Spiral
It ' s been a few days since the last post in this series, so I ' ll remind you that last time, we posed the question, " What would happen if insurers were simply required to cover people for pre-existing conditions? " Problem solved, right? No. Problem made worse. Imagine what would happen. All of a
sudden a whole lot of people with serious chronic diseases, who couldn ’t get
health insurance before, will buy it now. They’re expensive to cover, so the
premiums will go up for everybody. At that point some number of people who
don’t need it quite as badly will drop their coverage, leaving only sicker
people in th...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 5, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
PursueCare Completes Series B Fundraising Round and Acquires Digital Therapeutics Developed by Pear Therapeutics, Inc.
The Fundraising and Acquisition of Digital Therapeutics for SUD Strengthens PursueCare’s Ability to Provide Care for Individuals with Addiction
PursueCare, a digital addiction treatment provider, today announced the completion of a Series B fundraising round totaling $20 million. The Series B round was led by T.Rx Capital and Yamaha Motor Ventures, with participation from Seyen Capital and OCA Ventures. The proceeds from the financing will support PursueCare’s ongoing collaborative care initiatives with health systems across 11 states, as well as expansion into value-based care with Medicaid managed care and other heal...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 5, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Corey McCann Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Nicholas Mercadante OCA Ventures Pear Therapeutics PursueCare reSET reSET-O Seyen Capital T.Rx Capital Yamaha Motor Ventures Source Type: blogs
Telehealth and VR – 2024 Health IT Predictions
As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting. Check out our community’s predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media.
All of this year’s 2024 health IT predictions (updated as they’re shared):
John and ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 4, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring 2024 Health IT Predictions 98point6 Technologies Agora Andrew Norden Anish Sebastian Artisig Source Type: blogs
How Healthcare Can Manage Compliance with Fine-Grained Protection
The following is a guest article by Marlena Herrera, Director at Protegrity
Healthcare organizations are becoming more lucrative targets for hackers, as their data is rich with extremely sensitive information and is often susceptible to vulnerabilities. In the same step, the number of regulations governing the sector has grown in complexity, which stems from movements including the HIPAA Right of Access Initiative and fallout from the reversal of federally protected abortion access. Combining this with the increasing number of digital-first health applications and services on the market, protecting data at every touchpoint...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 2, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Analytics/Big Data Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Security and Privacy Data Protection Fine-Grained Data Protection Healthcare Compliance HIPAA Marlena Herrera Protegrity RBAC Role-Based Access Control Source Type: blogs
Econoclasm continued: What's this pre-existing conditions deal?
Since I interrupted this series, I will remind you that previously, we discussed the problem of adverse selection -- that people who are unhealthy are more likely to buy health insurance in a hypothetical Free Market. ™ But sellers of health insurance must find ways of predicting
and limiting their losses. The problem of adverse selection would not exist if
we had a universal system, as all other wealthy countries and some
not-so-wealthy do. Everybody would pay into the system, preferably according to
their mea ns. That way people who are healthy today subsidize the costs for
people who are not. If that strikes you as un...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 1, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The Rising Use of Telehealth for the Delivery of Outpatient Mental Health Services
The following is a guest article by Michael Levinson, M.D., J.D., Partner at Berger Singerman LLP
Telehealth has revolutionized the delivery of outpatient mental health services, and there has been exponential growth in the acceptance and delivery of remote care. No longer does a patient have to be sitting on a therapist’s couch to receive care. The sofa at home will work just fine. This was fostered in a large part by changes implemented during the Covid-19 pandemic. Prior to 2020, less than one percent (1%) of outpatient health care was delivered virtually. A national public opinion poll of U.S. adults by the American ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 29, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Regulations Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring American Psychiatric Association APA Berger Singerman LLP Digital Therapy IMLC Interstate Medical Source Type: blogs
Econoclasm Chapter Two, continued: Medical externalities
I ' ve had a request to say more about inflation. That ' s a bit off topic for the time being, but I ' ll get to it.Medicine is also unlike most other goods and services in the
extent to which it has important positive externalities – that is, benefits for
people outside of the transaction, who are not the providers or consumers. (Of
course it has negative externalities as well, including carbon emissions and
notably, a huge quantity of plastic waste.) A straightforward positive
externality is infectious disease control. Prev enting or curing infectious diseases
prevents them from being transmitted to others. This ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 26, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – December 24 , 2023 – 74% of orgs automating RCM operations, per-physician revenue exceeding expenses at U.S. hospitals, plus 19 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 Studies
Median hospital margins rose to 2% in November, according to the latest data from Syntellis, and per-physician revenue growth is outpacing per-physician expenses.
Nearly 3 in 4 (74%) healthcare organizations ar...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 24, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Accelecom Akasa Avel eCare Ayble Health Boston Children's Hospital Brightside Health Butterfly Network Cancer Moonshot Clarify Health Commure Engage Data Dimensions Digital Medicine Society Greenway Health Healthc Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 25th 2023
This study generates a comprehensive single-cell transcriptomic atlas of human atherosclerosis including 118,578 high-quality cells from atherosclerotic coronary and carotid arteries. By performing systematic benchmarking of integration methods, we mitigated data overcorrection while separating major cell lineages. Notably, we define cell subtypes that have not been previously identified from individual human atherosclerosis scRNA-seq studies.
Besides characterizing granular cell-type diversity and communication, we leverage this atlas to provide insights into smooth muscle cell (SMC) modulation. We integrate genome...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 24, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Concerted Effort to Define Responsible Use of AI in Healthcare is Sorely Needed
The following is a guest article by Amy Hester, PhD, RN, BC, FAAN, Chairwoman and CEO at HD Nursing
The growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) across a number of industries, particularly in healthcare, has shown both great promise as well as cause for alarm.
A perfect example of not only misusing AI, but also continuing to use a model to make decisions affecting individual care that can be error-prone involves a recent class-action lawsuit filed against one of the nation’s largest health plans and its subsidiary.
Both companies stand accused of illegally using an algorithm to deny rehabilitation care to seriousl...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 22, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Regulations Artificial Intelligence Dr. Amy Hester Ethical AI HD Nursing Healthcare AI Healthcare Automation responsible AI Source Type: blogs
Experian Health Acquires Wave HDC, Immediately Enabling Real-Time, Single Inquiry Insurance Discovery/Verification at the Point of Patient Registration
The Companies’ Combined Capabilities will Deliver Previously Unattainable Efficiencies, Contributing to Increased Staff Productivity and much Faster Collection of Millions in Payer Reimbursements
Experian, the global information services company, announces it has acquired Wave HDC, a healthcare technology leader that offers AI-enhanced data curation solutions to identify unknown insurance benefits coverage and critical patient demographics at the start of a patient’s healthcare journey. The acquisition bolsters the Experian Health business portfolio with more comprehensive and faster healthcare coverage identificatio...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 22, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Experian Experian Health Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Jordan Levitt Tom Cox Wave HDC Source Type: blogs
The Future of Healthcare: Integrated Data for Integrated Care
The following is a guest article by Venki Subramanian, SVP Product Management at Reltio
When data is missing, inaccurate, incomplete, or misdirected, it can have severe, sometimes life-altering impacts.
For example, in a survey by the Journal of the American Medical Association, approximately 1 in 5 patients who reviewed their electronic health record (EHR) ambulatory notes found an error–and 40% of these patients perceived the mistakes as serious, including mistakes in diagnoses, medical history, medications, test results, notes on the wrong patient, and sidedness.
Healthcare organizations are grappling with the challen...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 20, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Analytics/Big Data EMR-EHR Healthcare IT Data Management Healthcare Data Integrated Data Patient Care Regulations Reltio Security Threats Venki Subramanian Source Type: blogs
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Medicare could save money by requiring that all formulations of a drug be selected for negotiation and applying a single price across them, avoiding loopholes.
(Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog)
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - December 20, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Anna Kaltenboeck Source Type: blogs
Modeling the Financials of a Drug to Treat Aging
We live in the world in which the regulatory costs imposed on the development of new medicine are enormous. This leads to centralization and regulatory capture. Only the largest entities, the Big Pharma companies, have the funds needed to satisfy the demands of regulators. These companies exist in synergy with the regulators, guiding the regulators (and the politicians backing them) to ensure that (a) their revenue streams are large and stable, and (b) there are fewer challenges to those revenue streams. Big Pharma entities are easily viewed through a cynical lens because their "treating the world, improving lives" rhetori...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 19, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Longevity Industry Source Type: blogs
