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Healthcare IT Regulations – What Needs to Be Added and What Needs to Be Removed
There are a lot of rules and regulations in place in the world of healthcare. These are put into place in order to protect patients and organizations. However, the world of healthcare is constantly changing and evolving as we come up with new ideas and solutions. Have the regulations done the same though? Or are there areas that are missing regulations? Or are there areas in healthcare where past regulations are now too restrictive and are holding us back?
In search of answers to these questions, we reached out to our incredibly beautiful Healthcare IT Today Community to see what areas they would add, remove, or update re...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 19, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Administration Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Regulations 1upHealth 4medica Amanda Heidemann Andrea Mazzoccoli Andrew Norden MD Bill Charnetski Cheryl Cheng Commur Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – September 17, 2023 – 20% of healthcare marketers worried about job security amid AI adoption, 53% of executives using AI to address drug diversion “ very confident ” in their efforts, 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.
News
Comments rolled in on the proposed Calendar Year 2024 Physician Fee Schedule. The EHR Association called for greater flexibility in the data completeness threshold and additional criteria to enhance patient matching accura...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 17, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT 4medica Accelecom Adventist Health Simi Valley athenahealth AvaSure Belong.life Brightside Health Brigitte Nettesheim Cerner eClinicalWorks eCW Edifecs EHR Association Epic GoodRx Healow Healthcare IT Today Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – September 3, 2023 – 60% of cybersecurity incidents impact patient care, the average medical device has six or more security vulnerabilities, 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.
News and Research
ONC renewed its contract for The Sequoia Project to be the Recognized Coordinating Entity for TEFCA implementation. That process will involve working with seven current Qualified Health Information Network can...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 3, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT AION Biosystems Akshay Sharma Alexander Group American Telemedicine Association Asimily ATA Atropos Health BeMe Health Carenet Health Claroty Cognizant Craig Hovda Digital Medicine Society eClinicalWorks eCW E Source Type: blogs
Hopes and Questions raised by Alzheimer ’s drug Leqembi (lecanemab)
The FDA has approved Leqembi, the first disease-modifying treatment for early-stage Alzheimer’s and a precursor condition, mild cognitive impairment. Medicare has said it will pay for the therapy. Medical centers across the country are scrambling to finalize policies and procedures for providing the medication to patients, possibly by summer’s end or early autumn.
It’s a fraught moment, with hope running high for families and other promising therapies such as donanemab on the horizon. Still, medical providers are cautious. “This is an important first step in developing treatments for complex neurodegenerative disea...
Source: SharpBrains - August 17, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Judith Graham at Kaiser Health News Tags: Brain/ Mental Health cognition early-stage Alzheimer’s Eisai FDA lecanemab Leqembi Medicare mild-cognitive-impairment Source Type: blogs
THCB 20th Birthday Classic: As I’ve always suspected, Health Care = Communism + Frappuccinos
By MATTHEW HOLT
Our 20th birthday continues with a few classics coming out. Back in 2005 I was really cutting a lyrical rug, and would never miss a chance to get that Cambridge training in Marxism into use. This essay about whether health care should be a public or private good has always been one of my favorites, even if I’m not sure Starbucks is still making Frappuccinos. And 18 years later the basic point of this essay remains true, even if many of you will not have a clue who Vioxx or Haliburton were or why they mattered back then!
Those of you who think I’m an unreconstructed commie will correctly suspec...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Matthew Holt Communism Frappuccinos Source Type: blogs
No, the Poor Don ’ t Always Have to Be With Us
BY KIM BELLARD
OK, for you amateur (or professional) epidemiologists among us: what are the leading causes of death in the U.S.? Let’s see, most of us would probably cite heart disease and cancer. After that, we might guess smoking, obesity, or, in recent years, COVID. But a new study has a surprising contender: poverty.
It’s the kind of thing you might expect to find in developing countries, not in the world’s leading economy, the most prosperous country in the world. But amidst all that prosperity, the U.S. has the highest rates of poverty among developed countries, which accounts in no small part ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Anti-Poverty Medicine Kim Bellard TANF Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – July 16, 2023 – 95% of patients are concerned about data breaches affecting their medical records, 81% incorrectly assume PHI collected by digital health apps is protected under HIPAA
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 Sequoia Project and AHIMA are co-sponsoring the Data Usability Taking Root initiative, which will aim to implement data usability guidance published by a Sequoia Project workgroup with input form more than 260 organizat...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 16, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Accelecom Arcadia AT&T Availity Brightside Health Cerner Christine Swisher ClearDATA CMS CommonWell Health Alliance Cotiviti CVS CareMark Dave Wichmann Dr. Amy Compton-Philips eClinicalWorks eCW eLovu Health Source Type: blogs
Rationing Health Care
Lately we ' ve touched upon the absurd cost of medical services in the U.S. -- we spend twice as much as the next biggest spender and three or four times as much as others -- and we ' re less healthy for it. There are a few reasons for this, but here I ' m going to touch the third rail.In the United States, in contrast to other nations, if the FDA approves a treatment, insurance has to pay for it. The FDA does not consider cost, but only whether there is evident of clinical benefit that outweighs risks or (non-financial) harms. The definition of benefit and harm, and how to value them, is of course far from obvious, but we...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 7, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
MA for Tomorrow: Moving Beyond the Status Quo to Advance Concrete Policy Changes for the Future of Medicare Advantage
BY CECI CONNOLLY AND MICHAEL BAGEL
Medicare Advantage (MA) has passed the tipping point, delivering coverage and care to more than half of the senior population in the US. The Congressional Budget Office projects more than 60 percent of people 65 years and older will be in the program by 2030. As enrollment soars and interest in value-based health care grows, it is imperative policymakers modernize the program that is expected to cost $7.5 trillion over the next decade.
Rather than taking the standard Washington posture of declaring victory or defending the status quo, our provider-aligned, nonprofit member pla...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Ceci Connolly MA for Tomorrow Medicare Advantage Michael Bagel Source Type: blogs
Asking Bard And ChatGPT To Find The Best Medical Care, I Got Truth And Truthiness
BY MICHAEL MILLENSON
If you ask ChatGPT how many procedures a certain surgeon does or a specific hospital’s infection rate, the OpenAI and Microsoft chatbot inevitably replies with some version of, “I don’t do that.”
But depending upon how you ask, Google’s Bard provides a very different response, even recommending a “consultation” with particular clinicians.
Bard told me how many knee replacement surgeries were performed by major Chicago hospitals in 2021, their infection rates and the national average. It even told me which Chicago surgeon does the most knee surgeries and his infection rate. When I...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech Uncategorized Bard ChatGPT Michael Millenson OpenAPI Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – May 7, 2023 – Less than 1% of all medical claims include an ICD-10 Z code, 78% of consumers say virtual health is important when considering health plans, 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.
News
CMS has opened the Hardship Exception application period for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) that participated in the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program in 2022. Hospitals may be exempt from...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 7, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Alan Bugos Alexander Group Amazon Amazon Web Services CAHs Carenet Health CarePort Connect CGI CharmHealth CMS Consensus Cloud Solutions Controlled Medications CrunchBase DAS Health DEA eClinicalWorks eCW Source Type: blogs
Preventing Genetic Testing Fraud: 5 Actions for Health Plans
The following is a guest article by Erin Rutzler, Vice President of Fraud, Waste, and Abuse at Cotiviti
In Delaware, more than 250 Medicare patients underwent unnecessary genetic testing based on telehealth consultations that often lasted less than two minutes—costing Medicare thousands of dollars per patient. Meanwhile, an emerging scheme for fraudulent and unnecessary cardiovascular and cancer genetic testing allegedly resulted in $174 million in false and fraudulent Medicare claims.
These are just two examples of what the Healthcare Fraud Prevention Partnership describes as a surge in fraud, waste and abuse associated...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 5, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Administration Genomics-Precision Medicine Health IT Company Healthcare IT Regulations Revenue Cycle Management Cotiviti CPT Codes Erin Rutzler Fraud Waste and Abuse FWA Genetic Testing Genetic Testing Fraud Healthcare Fraud Prev Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – April 30, 2023 – 68% of providers say improving patient collections is a high priority, hospital expenses have increased 2x the Medicare IPPS reimbursement rate since 2019, 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.
News and Studies
Compared to other industries, healthcare is leading the way in improving networks to support edge computing, according to the latest AT&T Cybersecurity Insights Report. Budgets for edge computing go into fo...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 30, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT AHA AltaMed AT&T AvaSure Butterfly Network Censinet Clearwater Clinician Nexus Conifer Health Solutions CWH Advisors Cyturus Datavant DrFirst eClinicalWorks eCW Fortified Health Security Healthcare IT Today Source Type: blogs
Approaching a Half-Century of Life With Type 1 Diabetes (T1D)
On July 24, 2023, I will mark 47 years of having lived with autoimmune Type 1 diabetes (T1D). I was diagnosed as a seven year old, so not quite fifty years ago, but much closer than I ever really anticipated. When I was diagnosed in 1976, no one told me that I should expect horrific complications or that I ' d die young because threats weren ' t part of the conversation; some may have been due to my age. But there was also no such thing as a certified diabetes educator
in 1976; instead, pediatric nurses instructed patients on how to give
themselves an injection. In fact, scientists had only
proven that Type 1 diabetes h...
Source: Scott's Web Log - April 26, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2023 50 years half century half-century joslin medal Source Type: blogs
