Healthcare It News

JANUARY 23, 2025

As healthcare continues to advance with accountable care organizations and value-based care models, the industry is starting to see some real traction after a decade of groundwork in the form of CMS claims for the Medicare Shared Savings Program. It's promising to see healthcare finally catching up in this regard.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Optum study: Accountable Medicare Advantage models produce better outcomes, greater efficiency pminemyer Fri, 02/17/2023 - 13:40

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 13, 2023

Optum expects to treat 4M in fully accountable, value-based models this year. Fri, 01/13/2023 - 07:31.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Handwashing adherence is on the up-and-up as more hospitals are holding their leadership accountable for hand hygiene, patient safety watchdog The Leapfrog Group reports. |

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Health Care Dive

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Last year, the healthcare industry accounted for 23% of data breaches handled by financial and risk advisory firm Kroll, compared with 18% in 2023.

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Health Care Dive

JANUARY 17, 2025

Healthcare fraud investigations accounted for more than half of the Department of Justice’s settlements and judgments in 2024, which totaled north of $2.9

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Healthcare Success

APRIL 14, 2025

Video isnt just another healthcare marketing toolits rocket fuel for engagement, trust, and conversions. In this episode, Stewart Gandolf, CEO of Healthcare Success, and Tony Gnau discuss the power of video marketing in healthcare. The best healthcare videos start with a plan. Consider where your videos will live (e.g.,

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The virtual-first approach to healthcare that some hospitals and health systems are taking is helping to reshape how patients receive care. He points to greater accessibility, data integrity and consistency, improving healthcare outcomes, and greater affordability. healthcare system has serious accessibility issues.

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Health Care Dive

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Physicians accounted for nearly half of departures from 2021 through 2022, with staffing shortages putting care quality at risk, according to a new report from Definitive Healthcare.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Ron Wyden, Oregon, and Mark Warner, Virginia, introduced the Healthcare Information Security and Accountability Act on Thursday to beef up cybersecurity for hospitals. Democratic Sens. Democratic Sens.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

There's no shortage of attention on rising pharmaceutical costs, but policymakers need to have the full picture of trends in this space to work off of, according to a new study.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 24, 2025

This week and in the days ahead, technology companies, including Infinitus, Ambience Healthcare and Anthropic, release new artificial intelligence tools that could bolster trust and ease of use for patients, physicians and revenue cycle managers. The provider built an in-house tool that leveraged Anthropic’s Claude 3.5

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 18, 2024

Federal agencies want to hear from the public about monopolistic and anticompetitive behavior within the healthcare industry. | FTC, DOJ and HHS said that information and accounts received from the public could plant the seeds for formal investigations into healthcare companies' monopolistic or anticompetitive practices.

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Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The department hasn’t implemented some policies recommended by the watchdog, which could pose a risk to cybersecurity in the sector as attacks increase, according to the Government Accountability Office.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 24, 2025

What You Should Know: – Fortified Health Security , a managed security services provider (MSSP) specializing in healthcare cybersecurity released its 2025 Horizon Report. – The semiannual publication provides valuable insights into the latest cybersecurity trends, threats, and solutions for healthcare organizations.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Traditionally, healthcare data has centred around clinicians and institutions who largely controlled patient interaction. Lately, however, there has been a shift to consumer-centred systems. The session was moderated by Andrew Pearce, Senior Digital Health Strategist, Analytics, HIMSS.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 22, 2024

WHY IT MATTERS MOHW is launching the e-ICU project as part of solutions to address the lack of healthcare resources and infrastructure in regional medical institutions. Two regions and their medical hospitals will be initially chosen to set up a remote ICU next year; the ICUs are expected to become operational by 2026.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Mateusz Krempa, COO, Piwik PRO 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).

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 21, 2025

He said a combination of being in the right place at the right time and several key decisions were pivotal in giving him opportunities to gain practical experience in digital transformation and in shaping his career as a healthcare CIO and digital advisor.

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Etactics

JANUARY 24, 2025

This is especially true in the healthcare industry. Thats why accounts receivable (AR) is such a vital process to boost within your revenue cycle management (RCM) system. First, RCM is the process of tracking the revenue of a patient from the beginning of their healthcare experience to the end. Lets get started!

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 23, 2021

Paddy Padmanabhan When David Feinberg, head of Google Health, announced this past week that he was departing to take up the CEO role at the EHR company Cerner , media reports took it as an admission of defeat by Google in the campaign to win in the healthcare space. There was no shortage of commentary on social media.

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p3care

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

These code sets can be Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10), Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) guidelines These organizations help physicians navigate through the complex billing system.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Would-be policy reformers on both the left and right always seem to want major overhauls of the American healthcare system. | As clinicians, it's critical for us to be open and accountable for adopting technologies and processes that can help us better serve our patients while meeting the needs of the business.

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p3care

DECEMBER 3, 2024

An Overview of the Patient Call Report Services Patient call reporting primarily refers to documenting patient details like the reason for the call, major symptoms, subsequent actions taken by healthcare providers, and the follow-up instructions given on the phone call. If there are any empty blanks, the software lets you know accordingly.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 18, 2022

In the inaugural Fairness in AI grant announcement, NSF said it works closely with academic researcher grant recipients to address issues of fairness, transparency and accountability and to develop bias-free AI systems. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

A new study published in this month's issue of Health Policy and Technology found, however, that healthcare organizations may face obstacles when it comes to complying with the law. They argue that, in general, healthcare organizations face a lack of regulatory clarity and uncertain likelihood around reinforcement. WHY IT MATTERS.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Itzik Cohen, CEO at PayZen Hospitals serve as the lifeblood of our communities, delivering essential healthcare services to millions while also providing critical jobs nationwide. healthcare system is in the midst of an affordability crisis that hurts both patients and healthcare providers. healthcare system.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 14, 2024

It aligns healthcare organizations with its customers – highly digital patients. This is one of the most important topics healthcare CIOs and other C-suite and health IT leaders can be talking about today. Data integration and interoperability are critical components of successful digital transformation in healthcare.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Some behavioral healthcare practices have begun advancing their patient portal and mobile app offerings. Why is it important for behavioral healthcare practices to embrace patient portals? Why is it important for behavioral healthcare practices to embrace patient portals? This tends to make the relationship transactional.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 16, 2025

From AI-powered diagnostics to personalized medicine, we asked twenty four healthcare executives their insights on trends and technologies that will transform patient care in the coming year. Expect to see more shared accountability evolve through the standardization of metrics and shared investments to make healthier populations.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 2, 2025

Further, giving patients some of their time back always is a priority in healthcare. "While we had a strong presence digitally, our patient experience needed to improve to meet the needs of consumers, especially mobile users who account for about two-thirds of our traffic," he continued.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Valerie Reich, vice president of healthcare strategy at Hero Digital, a customer engagement and process optimization firm, believes three primary changes will occur in the healthcare industry this year. And third, the focus this year will expand to include the caregiver experience alongside the patient experience.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 13, 2023

Approximately 22% of gross Medicare Part D spending can be attributed to 10 top-selling prescription drugs, according to analysis from KFF. | A new analysis shows a small number of prescription drugs disproportionately make up Medicare Part D spending.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 12, 2024

Patty Hayward, vice president and general manager for healthcare and life sciences at Talkdesk (in Booth 1991 at HIMSS24), said genAI has a clear and non-clinical use case in contact centers – which is perfect for healthcare since experts agree it's best to prove genAI in non-clinical settings first.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 17, 2025

"Notably, although a video camera records any movements during sleep, the current standard for interpreting the test does not take any of that into account, and no automated tool currently exists for interpreting video data," During noted.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

What You Should Know: – HealthTap , a leading virtual healthcare provider delivering affordable, high-quality primary care, today announced its launch into the durable medical equipment (DME) market with its first partner, Aeroflow Healthcare. HealthTap is also at the forefront of innovation in virtual healthcare.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Zack Schuler, Executive Chairman and Founder of NINJIO Organizations in the healthcare sector face particularly acute cyber threats. Cybercriminals recognize that there are many vulnerabilities in the healthcare sector, which has led to a surge in cyberattacks. million globally versus an overall average of $4.45

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