As healthcare providers increasingly embrace big data, they find themselves at a crossroads: the challenge of using relevant data to improve patient care while ensuring the highest levels of privacy and compliance with regulations like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Violations of HIPAA can result in reputation damage, loss of patient trust, and also severe penalties—up to $50,000 per violation, alongside potential criminal charges. These legal parameters are
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The Health IT Needed to Implement Harris’ Medicare Home Care Proposal
Vice President Harris’ proposal to expand Medicare to include home care for seniors and people with disabilities could potentially provide up to 20 hours of weekly in-home care. The eligibility requirements for recipients is that they must face challenges with daily activities or suffer from serious cognitive impairments like Alzheimer’s.
Given this could potentially open up access to home care to millions of Americans who currently can’t afford to pay for it, will undoubtedly place an
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How Medicare Advantage Programs Can Address Social Risk and Improve Health Outcomes
There are almost 33 million people enrolled in eligible Medicare programs. Nearly half are enrolled in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, and that number is expected to continue its climb. While many MA plans offer services that align with social determinants of health (SDOH) goals, there are still gaps in how these services reach and support vulnerable populations. This challenge is multifaceted. Critical issues include:
An incomplete understanding of how MA services impact different SDOHs
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Avel eCare Acquires Hospital Pharmacy Management, Expanding Telepharmacy Services
What You Should Know:
- Avel eCare, a provider of telemedicine services, today announced the acquisition of Hospital Pharmacy Management, Inc. (HPM), a company specializing in remote medication order review and onsite pharmacy management for hospitals and health systems.
- The strategic acquisition significantly expands Avel eCare's telepharmacy capabilities and strengthens its commitment to supporting healthcare providers, particularly in addressing the growing shortage of
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Why Healthcare Execs are Hesitant to Embrace Long-Term AI Contracts
AI promises significant advances in patient care and healthcare operations, from improved diagnostics and personalized treatments plans to streamlining administrative tasks. Yet, a clear pattern has emerged in the decisions healthcare technology leaders are making around AI adoption within their organizations. Leaders are grappling with how to balance cutting-edge innovation with the risks and complexities of adopting an AI solution.
Despite the enormous potential of AI, healthcare executives
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KLAS Revenue Cycle Management Summit 2024: Top Challenges and Solutions
What You Should Know:
- The KLAS Revenue Cycle Management Summit 2024 brought together 117 revenue cycle management (RCM) leaders to address pressing challenges, explore emerging technologies, and enhance cybersecurity in healthcare.
The KLAS Revenue Cycle Management Summit provided healthcare leaders navigating the evolving RCM landscape with practical solutions and best practices for optimizing revenue cycle operations.
Top RCM Challenges and Solutions
Summit attendees
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Transforming The Contact Center Into A Value-Based Care Engine
The most effective way to reduce the amount of money our country spends annually on healthcare – which now exceeds $4.1 trillion – is to help people avoid becoming sick in the first place. That’s the fundamental premise of value-based care (VBC), which focuses on improving patient outcomes and quality of care while driving down costs.
VBC is great in intent and theory, but many provider organizations today are struggling to meet the quality and financial metrics stipulated under these
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Unlocking Value-Based Care Through Accurate Provider Data
There’s no better illustration of the healthcare system’s data problems than this: 80% of entries in the nation’s five largest health plans were inaccurate as recently as last year. With a majority of patients relying on their health plan’s provider directory to select a physician, it’s not hyperbole to say incorrect provider data is dragging the entire industry down.
How can value-based care be realized when patients can’t find the provider information they need? Something as small as
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New Orleans Saints Partner with PatientPoint to Enhance Player Health and Performance
What You Should Know:
- The New Orleans Saints are excited to announce a new partnership with PatientPoint, the trusted leader in patient and provider digital health engagement for over 35 years.
- This program will deliver customized nutrition and sports medical content through PatientPoint’s interactive devices in their practice and training facilities.
Empowering Health and Performance: PatientPoint® Partners with the New Orleans Saints and Launches Sports
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Could AI Revolutionize the Physical Exam? New Study Explores LLMs as Physician Aids
What You Should Know:
- A new study published in the Journal of Medical Artificial Intelligence explores the potential of large language models (LLMs), like GPT-4, to act as valuable tools for clinicians.
- Study author Marc D. Succi, MD, strategic innovation leader at Mass General Brigham Innovation, and his team investigated the use of GPT-4 in recommending physical exam instructions based on patient symptoms. For example, if a patient presented with a painful hip, GPT-4 would
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