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CareCloud Launches Pay-Per-Visit Telemedicine Solution for Physician Practices

by Fred Pennic 06/29/2017 Leave a Comment

CareCloud Launches Pay-Per-Visit Telemedicine Solution to Remove Physician Practice Barriers

CareCloud, a practice management platform for medical groups has announced the launch of their new fully integrated pay-per-visit telemedicine solution. The integrated solution features a fully integrated solution that includes built-in insurance eligibility checking and scheduling tools, a unique pay-per-visit pricing model, and one-click activation. Simplifying clinical workflows, this approach to telemedicine seamlessly connects the dots between efficient practice management and secure video
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Without Interoperability, EHRs Are Too Expensive

by Irv Lichtenwald , CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation 06/28/2017 Leave a Comment

EMR Mantras EHRs

Would you pay top dollar for anything—a car, phone, television, whatever—that promises truly transformational technology at some unspecified future date?I doubt you would. We generally buy products for what they offer now, not what the company says they will eventually do (vaporware, as IT calls it).And yet, so many hospitals pay multi-billions of dollars for healthcare IT systems that promise to integrate patient care … eventually. Why? Some argue the primary reason is a false market that was
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CareSet Labs Releases Next-Gen Medicare Doctor Referral Dataset

by HITC Staff 06/28/2017 Leave a Comment

CareSet Labs Releases Next-Gen Medicare Doctor Referral Dataset

CareSet Labs has announced the release of Root NPI Graph, a new version of the “shared Medicare patients in time” provider teaming dataset. The Root NPI graph is the next-generation version of the Doctor Referral teaming dataset commonly available from Medicare. The dataset can be used by data scientists, researchers and innovators including pharmaceutical companies to help decode Medicare claims data to guide new drug launches.Created by Fred Trotter through the Freedom of Information Act
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Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care Goes Live on MEDITECH EHR

by Jasmine Pennic 06/28/2017 Leave a Comment

Canada’s Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care (Waypoint) announced this week that it is now LIVE with MEDITECH’s 6.1 EHR. The 301-bed psychiatric hospital located in Penetanguishene, Ontario, partnered with Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences (Ontario Shores) in Whitby to implement MEDITECH’s fully-integrated EHR.To ensure effective and efficient use of resources in alignment with the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care’s Health Information System (HIS) Renewal Strategy,
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Women’s Care Florida to Deploy eClinicalWorks Healow Mom App to 273 Providers Across 62 Locations

by Fred Pennic 06/28/2017 Leave a Comment

Women’s Care Florida to Deploy eClinicalWorks Healow Mom App to 273 Providers Across 62 Locations

Women’s Care Florida, an independent, fully integrated OB/GYN groups has selected eClinicalWorks to deploy the company’s Healow Mom mobile app for its 273 providers across 62 locations.Once live, the Healow Mom App will provide enhanced communication and encouraged patient engagement Once live, healow Mom app provides Women’s Care Florida with access to the healow app health tracker which is integrated with the eClinicalWorks EHR to give their providers up-to-date information on blood pressure,
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Change Healthcare: $262B in Healthcare Claims Initially Denied in 2016

by Fred Pennic 06/27/2017 Leave a Comment

Change Healthcare: $262B in Healthcare Claims Initially Denied in 2016

A new analysis by Change Healthcare of $3 trillion in medical claims submitted to payers last year revealed 9% of charges, representing $262 billion, were initially denied. For the typical health system, as much as 3.3% of net patient revenue, an average of $4.9 million per hospital, was put at risk due to denials. While 63% of these claims were recoverable on average, reworking each denial costs providers roughly $118 each, or as much as $8.6 billion in appeals-related administrative
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Medtronic, Aetna Form Outcomes-Based Partnership for Diabetic Patients

by Jasmine Pennic 06/26/2017 Leave a Comment

Medtronic Partners with Aetna to Measure Health Outcomes for Diabetic Patients

Medtronic, a medical technology provider has entered into a new outcomes-based, risk-sharing agreement with Aetna for type 1 and type 2 diabetes patients currently on multiple daily insulin injections for their diabetes management. The agreement will measure health outcomes for a patient with diabetes who transition to Medtronic’s insulin pump therapy that constantly self-adjusts to keep patients’ blood sugar levels in range based on their personalized needs.This outcomes-based, risk-sharing
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Why Social Determinants of Health Is The Future of Value-Based Care

by Abhinav Shashank, CEO at Innovaccer Inc. 06/26/2017 1 Comment

Social determinants of health

Editor’s Note: Abhinav Shashank is the CEO & Co-founder at Innovaccer Inc., a datashop integrating complex data across multiple distributed sources to give healthcare organizations greater insights to provider better care.Race, gender, socioeconomic status have been known to affect a person’s health, access to care, costs incurred, and the outcomes. The defining conditions of how we live, learn, work, and play not only influences our health but goes on to define and impact an entire
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KLAS Report: TeleTracking, Epic Takes Lead in Patient Flow Performance

by Jasmine Pennic 06/23/2017 Leave a Comment

KLAS Report: TeleTracking, Epic Takes Lead in Patient Flow Performance

A recent KLAS report reveals that TeleTracking and Epic are market leaders in managing the patient flow of patients. Managing the flow of patients in an acute care setting is one of the more complicated challenges confronting providers today. Providers who were interviewed by KLAS reveal that TeleTracking leads every vendor in overall satisfaction of the operational and clinical staff, who rely most heavily on patient flow functionality.Providers who have compared the solutions report that
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Infographic: Bridging the Medication Reconciliation Gap

by HITC Staff 06/23/2017 Leave a Comment

Infographic: Bridging the Medication Reconciliation Gap

Adverse drug events (ADEs) cost up to $5.6 million each year per hospital, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The same agency estimates that anywhere from 28 percent to 95 percent of ADEs can be prevented by reducing medication errors through computerized monitoring systems.With inpatient medication errors costing hospitals $16.4 billion each year, hospital leaders have turned their attention to identifying proven technologies and processes to help reduce the risk of
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