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HHS Awards Funds to Increase Data Sharing Between HIEs & Immunization Registries

by Fred Pennic 01/19/2021 Leave a Comment

HHS Launches EHR Innovations for Improving Hypertension Challenge_HHS Funded Health Care Innovation Award Projects to Watch

What You Should Know: - The ONC today unveiled a series of investments to improve the sharing of health information related to vaccination. - The new investments will provide opportunities to track vaccination progress, help clinicians contact high-risk patients, and help identify patients due to receive the second dose of the vaccine. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services acting through the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)
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Why Hospitals Should Act Now to Create Clinical AI Departments

by John Frownfelter, MD, FACP, Chief Medical Information Officer at Jvion 01/13/2021 Leave a Comment

Why Hospitals Should Act Now to Create Clinical AI Departments

John Frownfelter, MD, FACP, Chief Medical Information Officer at Jvion A century ago, X-rays transformed medicine forever. For the first time, doctors could see inside the human body, without invasive surgeries. The technology was so revolutionary that in the last 100 years, radiology departments have become a staple of modern hospitals, routinely used across medical disciplines. Today, new technology is once again radically reshaping medicine: artificial intelligence (AI). Like the X-ray
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For Better Patient Care Coordination, We Need Seamless Digital Communications

by Catherine Thomas, VP of Customer Experience & Dr. Peter S. Tippett, Founder and CEO of careMESH 12/22/2020 Leave a Comment

For Better Patient Care Coordination, We Need Seamless Digital Communications

Catherine Thomas: Co-Founder and VP, Customer Engagement, careMESH  Peter Tippett MD, PhD: Founder and CEO, careMESH A recent Advisory Board briefing examined the annual Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Readmission penalties.  Of the 3,080 hospitals CMS evaluated, 83% received a penalty for payments to be made in 2021, based on expected outcomes for a wide variety of treated conditions. While CMS indicated that some of these penalties might be waived or
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Despite COVID-19: Providers Should Not Lose Sight of MIPS Compliance

by Courtney Tesvich VP, Regulatory at Nextech 12/11/2020 Leave a Comment

Despite COVID-19: Providers Should Not Lose Sight of MIPS Compliance

Courtney Tesvich, VP of Regulatory at Nextech When 2020 began, no one anticipated that complying with the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)—the flagship payment model of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Payment Program (QPP)—would look so different halfway through the year. Like many other things, the COVID-19 crisis has delayed, diverted, or derailed many organizations’ reporting efforts and capabilities. Lower procedure volumes, new remote work
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Rural Hospital Execs Can Beat COVID-19 By Shifting From Reactive to Proactive Care

by Donald Voltz, MD, Aultman Hospital and Eric Tran, Tulane School of Medicine 10/23/2020 Leave a Comment

Rural Hospital Execs Can Beat COVID-19 By Shifting From Reactive to Proactive Care

Eric Tran, Tulane School of MedicineDonald Voltz, MD, Aultman Hospital The COVID-19 virus is ravaging the planet at a scale not seen since the infamous Spanish Flu of the early 1900s, inflicting immense devastation as the U.S. loses more than 200,000 lives and counting. According to CDC statistics, 94% of patient mortalities associated with COVID-19 were simultaneously suffering from preexisting conditions, leaving a mere 6% of victims with COVID-19 as their sole cause of death. However,
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HHS Launches Initiative to Measure Office-Based Physician Use and Burdens of Health IT

by Jasmine Pennic 09/29/2020 Leave a Comment

HHS Launches EHR Innovations for Improving Hypertension Challenge_HHS Funded Health Care Innovation Award Projects to Watch

What You Should Know: - HHS launches an initiative to measure how office-based physicians use health IT, including key measures on interoperability and burden. - ONC awards a three-year cooperative agreement to the American Board of Family Medicine to develop key measures related to health IT use and the interoperability of health information, etc. Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched an initiative to measure health information technology (health
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Greenway Health to Launch EHR-Integrated Telehealth Solution to Support Virtual Care

by Jasmine Pennic 08/12/2020 Leave a Comment

Greenway Health to Launch EHR-Integrated Telehealth Solution to Support Virtual Care

What You Should Know: - Greenway announced the company will be developing and launching Greenway Telehealth, a secure, HIPAA-compliant solution designed with an easy-to-use interface for both providers and patients. - Powered by Twilio, the EHR integrated solution is among the first in Greenway’s larger virtual care portfolio.  Greenway Health, a health information technology, and services provider, today announced the company is also working to develop innovative virtual
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Greenway Health Taps AWS to Develop Cloud-Based, Data Services Platform

by Jasmine Pennic 07/30/2020 Leave a Comment

Deloitte, Amazon Web Services Partner to Create New Health Ecosystems Through Data

What You Should Know: - To help meet the needs of ambulatory care practitioners in a post-COVID environment, Greenway Health, a leading health information technology, and services provider, today announced a new strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS). - Leveraging AWS cloud services, Greenway is developing a new cloud-based, data services platform, Greenway Insights, that creates new data insights and healthcare interventions to advance the breadth of Greenway’s products and
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Give Your EHR a Makeover—Not a Do-Over

by David Lareau, CEO of Medicomp Systems 06/29/2020 Leave a Comment

Give Your EHR a Makeover—Not a Do-Over

David Lareau, CEO of Medicomp Systems EHRs have long been blamed for fueling clinician frustration and burnout. According to a recent study published in the Journal of Informatics in Health and Biomedicine, 70 percent of clinicians reported experiencing stress related to the use of health information technology. In an effort to address those issues, healthcare organizations have spent countless hours and revenue to rip out inefficient clinical systems and replace them with new
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Black Lives Matter: Health IT Industry, Where Are You?

by JohnMatthew Douglas, President And Founder at iPressForward, LLC 06/22/2020 Leave a Comment

Black Lives Matter: Health IT Industry, Where Are You?

All lives truly matter. However, the world does not exist in a vacuum void of institutional racism, subconscious, and implicit bias. As a result, every life within America is not valued the same, as is evident by the recent George Floyd murder. When all lives are not treated with the same opportunities and respect, whether in matters of criminal justice, employment, housing, education, health, and healthcare evidence shows the result is that only some lives actually matter. One cannot change the
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