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IT execs talk priorities and predictions for 2022

Healthcare It News

Data is everywhere, but not always available or decipherable to help manage myriad challenges. Progress toward accountable care is halting. Financial and revenue cycle disruptions are significant. Relentless cyberattacks are an ongoing threat. But still there are reasons to be cheerful.

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The Health Data Interoperability Highway Is Coming. Is Your Organization Ready?

HIT Consultant

The TNAP program is designed to accommodate stakeholders that will exchange data, including QHINs, other health information networks, health information exchanges, accountable care organizations, data registries, labs, providers, payers, vendors, and suppliers.

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HHS Finalizes Rules to Penalize Healthcare Providers Engaging in Information Blocking

HIT Consultant

Medicare Shared Savings Program: Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) found to be blocking information may be excluded from the program for at least a year, forfeiting potential revenue. Those entities face potential civil monetary penalties of up to $1 million per violation.

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Opioid Settlements are Making Headlines; Is Now The Time to Soften Guidelines?

HIT Consultant

Therefore, unlocking the correct data–at the individual patient and population levels–is critical to reversing this crisis. If providers could easily and securely access dynamic and actionable behavioral health data, they could develop more effective treatment plans based on a patient’s complete history.

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Signify Health Sees Caravan Health Acquisition as Key to Driving Value-Based Arrangements

Home Health Care

One thing that has remained constant, though, is the organization’s push towards a value-based health care system. For Signify, the recent completion of its Caravan Health acquisition — an accountable care organization (ACO) manager — is a major move toward driving more participation and success in value-based payment arrangements. “We’re

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Council of Accountable Physician Practices Elects Joe Kimura, MD, MPH, Atrius Health, to Board of Directors

Accountable Care Doctors

Kimura’s contributions as we chart a course toward care integration, new payment models, interoperability and transparent quality measures.”. Dr. Kimura is a practicing primary care internist with a specialization in clinical informatics.

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The Direct Link Between Value-Based Health Care, Digital Transformation and Social Determinants – Insights from Innovaccer and Morning Consult

Health Populi

This is a transition phase wherein the vanguard systems are investing in digital transformation, but many not leveraging the SDoH data in population health programs yet by, say, integrating the determinants of health data in clinical workflows or using software to identify at-risk patients.