Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Most healthcare consumers have experienced certain pain points in receiving care for family and friends. For the health system, improving the way it delivers care to patients starts with meeting them at the place of their needs. "Amwell became our partner in both video visits and inpatient use cases," Bard said.

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Telemedicine Urgent Care Integration Quality of Care 357

Healthcare It News

MARCH 18, 2022

GSR Ventures, a $3 billion assets under management venture firm investing in early-stage digital health companies, is an unusual venture firm: The partners all are former practicing physicians and former successful healthcare technology entrepreneurs themselves. Dr. Justin Norden is a partner at GSR Ventures.

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Medicaid Telemedicine Hospitals Clinical Practice 362

p3care

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

From the next performance year (2021), Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) expect different reporting requirements under the Medicare Shared Savings Program. The purpose of the new proposed rules is to lower down the administrative burden of ACOs and to improve the quality of patients’ outcomes. Quality of Care by ACOs.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 30, 2022

"Beneficiaries’ use of telehealth during the pandemic also demonstrates the long-term potential of telehealth to increase access to healthcare." I know there are a lot of outstanding questions about how telehealth could substitute for in-person care, how it couldn't substitute for in-person care, and so on and so forth.

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Medicare Medicaid Integration Quality of Care 299

Healthcare Success

MAY 31, 2022

The pandemic fast-tracked the growing notion of healthcare consumerism , spurring several changes in the healthcare industry. It is well-established that longer patient wait times negatively impact patient satisfaction , specifically regarding patient confidence (in the provider) and perceived quality of care.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 10, 2025

. – PESP has released a statement expressing deep wariness about the potential impact of this takeover on patient care, worker safety, and the company’s financial stability. In the healthcare sector specifically, private equity-backed companies accounted for 21% of bankruptcies in 2024, a figure that remained unchanged from 2023.

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Quality of Care Accountability Healthcare 52

HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

What You Should Know: – Abridge , a provider of generative AI solutions for healthcare, today announced a $250M Series D funding round, bringing its total capital raised to over $425M. Ensuring auditability: All AI-generated outputs are linked to source information, ensuring transparency and accountability.

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Integration Quality of Care Accountability Healthcare 52

p3care

MAY 31, 2024

An ACO (Accountable Care Organization) works for the better care of patients. Consider it as a group that combines hospitals, doctors, and other healthcare specialists for the sake of providing healthcare and is a team in care decisions. So that they can focus on the quality of care by constant monitoring.

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Quality of Care Doctors Medicare Patient Experience 130

p3care

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

ACO or Accountable Care Organization is a group of doctors, hospitals, medical centers, and other healthcare providers. This unit works together to care for and look after a patient’s health. Their main goal is to improve the quality of care for patients. Primary care doctors and specialists.

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p3care

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

ACO or Accountable Care Organization is a group of doctors, hospitals, medical centers, and other healthcare providers. This unit works together to care for and look after a patient’s health. Their main goal is to improve the quality of care for patients. Primary care doctors and specialists.

Doctors 130

Doctors Accountability Healthcare Providers Accountable Care 130

Home Health Care

JANUARY 22, 2025

Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the CMS chief actuary decided to expand the HHVBP model to further reduce Medicare spending and enhance the quality of care. To ease the reporting burden, HHAs are not required to submit additional data.

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Medicare Hospitals Quality of Care Nursing 77

NCQA

OCTOBER 29, 2024

By Brett Kay, Director, Healthcare Quality Strategy, Strategic Customer Group, J&J Innovative Medicine Although there are many ways to measure the quality of care patients receive, not many focus on what patients want and need from the healthcare system, beyond a clinical outcome.

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Accountability Medicaid Medicare Quality of Care 52

NCQA

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

But what if football teams only rewarded the offense for points scored or yards driven, or rewarded the defense for sacks, tackles and interceptions, without the mutual accountability to reach a common goal? Thats where we are in quality measurement. Visit our Digital Quality Hub for help designing your digital quality playbook.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 16, 2024

What You Should Know: – inVio Health Network and CVS Accountable Care Organization, a division of CVS Health , have announced a collaboration to participate in the new Medicare Accountable Care Organization (ACO) REACH program. CVS Accountable Care contributes its extensive experience and resources.

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Center for Health Progress

AUGUST 8, 2023

We all deserve quality healthcare. However, we will never achieve a vision of health and wellness while our healthcare workforce is exploited–with this burden carried by Black and Brown people who are hyper-exploited in these systems. We don’t need bandaids. The system needs a shakeup.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, HHI) but also the quality of care provided by their competitors. For instance, it wouldn’t be clear if quality of care from the competitor impacted the index hospital or the quality of care of the index hospital impacted the competitor.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 1, 2024

Key Allegations The lawsuit alleged that TRG engaged in improper billing practices related to radiology services provided to hospitals and other healthcare providers across the country. The government alleges that TRG radiologists did not adequately review these drafts before finalizing the reports sent to healthcare providers.

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Quality of Care Regulations Federal Healthcare Healthcare Providers 97

HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This level of care is the standard in healthcare, but historically, the billing and payments components haven’t reflected that. Personalized, seamless payment journeys that are easy to understand for the patient should be the standard for healthcare—after all, it’s their job to soothe painful experiences.

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Healthcare Doctors Quality of Care Accountability 105

HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

What You Should Know: KLAS Research , a leading healthcare IT research and consulting firm, has announced the winners of its 2025 Best in KLAS Awards , recognizing the top vendors and service providers in the healthcare technology and services industry.

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Accountability Integration Nursing Healthcare 52

Home Health Care

JUNE 13, 2022

The yearlong study that collected information from over 1,000 agency sites found that home health agencies with registered nurse case manager caseloads under 25 have the highest star ratings for quality of care and patient satisfaction. It also focused on technology, palliative care, staffing and future care delivery models.

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Quality of Care Population Health Nursing Accountability 122

HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 31, 2022

As the relationship between healthcare providers and patients evolves, the healthcare industry is beginning to acknowledge and encourage patients as active partners in their care journey. The 21 st Century Cures Act is enabling patient-driven healthcare information exchange.

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Healthcare Quality Healthcare Quality Improvement Healthcare Innovation 98

HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Alok Mandal, Head of Healthcare Consulting, Virtusa Massive disparities continue to plague healthcare in the United States. Many Americans do not have access to quality care, leading to higher rates of diseases like diabetes, hypertension, cancer, and obesity. we can identify gaps and define appropriate next actions.

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Home Health Care

JULY 18, 2024

New Day Healthcare has made Jeff Bonham its senior leadership executive and operations project specialist. Bringing Jeff on board is a huge lift for New Day as we continue to ‘Burn the Ships’ and change the way home health care is delivered,” New Day CEO G.

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Home Care Healthcare Primary Care Medicare 84

Home Health Care

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The Oklahoma City-based home health provider Carter Healthcare will pay $22.9 The taxpayer dollars that fund Medicare and Medicaid are meant to support the delivery of health care services most suitable for beneficiaries,” Mike Stapleton, acting special agent in charge at the U.S. “The

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Tricare Medicare Medicaid Integration 105

HIT Consultant

JUNE 2, 2022

In addition, CareMax will fund a Medicare receivable to Steward covering accounts receivable related to 2021 and the pre-close period of 2022. – The acquisition will expand CareMax’s comprehensive and coordinated healthcare delivery system designed to improve overall health outcomes for senior value-based care patients.

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Medicare Primary Care Quality of Care Accountability 95

HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

What You Should Know: – KLAS Research , a leading healthcare IT research and consulting firm, has announced the winners of its 2024 Best in KLAS Awards , recognizing the top vendors and service providers in the healthcare technology and services industry.

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Accountability Nursing Population Health Integration 105

HIT Consultant

JANUARY 9, 2025

What You Should Know: – The Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI) announced the formation of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Taskforce dedicated to evaluating and improving the administrative performance of AI technologies in healthcare. – The initiative brings together leaders from major U.S.

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Healthcare Quality of Care Accountability Health Technology 52

Home Health Care

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Care Advantage Inc. has acquired the Reston, Virginia-based Lighthouse Healthcare Inc., a private-pay personal care company. Care Advantage CEO Tim Hanold told Home Health Care News that Lighthouse “complements” what the company is already accomplishing in Northern Virginia. “We’ve and North Carolina.

Home Care 98

Home Care Quality of Care Accountability Nursing 98

Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

“The COVID-19 pandemic…has highlighted like never before the pitfalls of paying for healthcare based on the number of patients seen and services rendered,” a Modern Healthcare article asserted in mid-June 2020. Driving efficiency and accountability. In other words, the U.S.

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Primary Care Medicare Accountability Hospitals 110

HIT Consultant

MARCH 28, 2023

Now, as mental health-related visits in emergency departments (EDs) continue to rise , healthcare professionals must consider: “How can we create better behavioral health supports for people in crisis?” It’s a question that has significant implications for quality of care as well as cost.

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Quality of Care Population Health Hospitals Medicaid 98

Healthcare ECONOMIST

JULY 18, 2022

The Oncology Care Model (OCM) is dead. The Oncology Care Model was a voluntary, alternative payment model (APM), that “ included financial and performance accountability for episodes of care surrounding chemotherapy administration to cancer patients.

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Medicaid Quality of Care Accountability Patient Experience 98

HIT Consultant

MARCH 4, 2022

Over the past several years, nearly all of the leading health systems in the United States have adopted some form of AI , such as machine learning (ML) or natural language processing (NLP), to assist in managing healthcare operations. For low-acuity care situations, such as a sore throat, a provider-agnostic approach works best.

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Urgent Care Primary Care Accountability Healthcare 98

Lexis Nexis

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Better Healthcare Digital Experience Good for Members and Payers As healthcare evolves toward more digital tools and offerings, consumer expectations about the online experiences their providers and plans offer have never been higher. Benefits of a Strong Healthcare Digital Experience?

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Quality of Care Accountability Medicare 52

HIT Consultant

MAY 16, 2022

On the surface, the blossoming of the digital ecosystem is a tremendous step forward in the use of technology to address gaps in traditional healthcare. However, “an app for everything” mentality has significant downsides, namely a complex and disjointed patient experience – and arguably, does not result in better quality of care.

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Patient Experience Integration Patient Safety Primary Care 98

HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 20, 2023

According to a study in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society , non-fatal falls cost an estimated $50 billion in medical expenses, while fatal falls account for an estimated $754 million. According to the Journal of the American Geriatric Society study, a significant percentage of healthcare expenditures among seniors in the U.S.

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Rehabilitation Pharmaceuticals Prevention Biotechnology 105

HIT Consultant

AUGUST 7, 2023

Cameron Wood, Head of Client Services & COO at NGA Healthcare The healthcare landscape is constantly evolving, with changes in technology , patient care, and the business of medicine all occurring at a rapid pace. About Cameron Wood Cameron Wood is the Head of Client Services & Chief Operating Officer at NGA Healthcare.

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Medical Services Quality of Care Accountability Prevention 95

HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2023

This is especially true in a healthcare industry ravaged by layoffs , where every line item is scrutinized and every budget is tight. Physicians should emphasize their value in terms of patient outcomes, quality of care, and cost-effectiveness. This prevents errors and helps accurately represent services provided.

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