Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 25, 2022

"Unless the Senate acts, we will be forced to go backward to pre-pandemic policies that ignore the innovative telehealth approaches that improve both patient safety and health equity." Those risks to maternal health have only increased during the pandemic.

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Cloud Blogs

MARCH 3, 2025

Leveraging multimodal AI for improved health insights Today, we are excited to announce new functionality in healthcare data solutions that allows customers to orchestrate multimodal AI insights directly into Microsoft Fabric. Now in public preview, orchestrating multiple modalities (e.g.,

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 26, 2023

signed a Letter of Intent with CRISP Shared Services to participate in a health data interoperability pilot program that will lay the foundation for OHIT’s Health Information Exchange in the Territory. What You Should Know: U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) Governor Albert Bryan Jr. Why It Matters OHIT Director Michelle M.

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Bookzurman

JUNE 30, 2021

EHR Vendor Cerner Links with Apple For Patient Health Data Exchange. Health Interoperability Standards. How to Measure the Value of Virtual Health Care. Researchers Flag Privacy Risks with De-Identified Health Data. Smile CDR is First Company to Receive Certification of Compliance With U.S.

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p3care

JULY 2, 2023

Thereby, they have mandated the use of ONC-certified health IT. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Promoting Interoperability (PI) Programs Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Third-party ONC-Authorized Certification Bodies (ONC-ACBs) ONC-ACBs are authorized by the ONC to evaluate health IT solutions.

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NASHP

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Postpartum care can also include counseling on nutrition, breastfeeding, and other preventive health topics that support maternal and neonatal health. Research shows that coverage after pregnancy facilitates access to care, supporting positive maternal and infant health outcomes after childbirth.

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Bookzurman

AUGUST 20, 2021

Healthcare providers, health information networks, and health IT developers of certified health IT are all required to implement these new rules. Perhaps you overlooked the details because you assumed the rules aren’t relevant if you don’t do business with Medicare/Medicaid?

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 8, 2022

The data represent the privately insured population, including Medicare Advantage and excluding Medicare Fee-for-Service and Medicaid. Launched in May 2020 as a free service, the Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker uses FAIR Health data to track how telehealth is evolving from month to month. percent in May.

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NASHP

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Over the past two years, the seven state teams that participated in the MCH PIP Policy Academy, comprised of officials from state Medicaid, public health, and other relevant agencies/groups (e.g., The state Medicaid agency is in the process of standing up this case management program based on input received during these sessions.

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NCQA

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Data on racial disparities shows that there can be no quality without equity. That’s why NCQA builds health equity into everything we do. We are proud that 16 states require NCQA Health Equity Accreditation for their Medicaid managed care plans—but there’s much more work to do.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 9, 2022

The FAIR Health data represent the privately insured population, including Medicare Advantage and excluding Medicare Fee-for-Service and Medicaid. Telehealth Utilization Decline. Following three months of growth, telehealth utilization declined 9.3 percent nationally in February 2022, from 5.4 percent in February.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 15, 2023

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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HIT Consultant

JULY 10, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has taken a significant step towards improving healthcare information exchange with the release of the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Patient Engagement, Information Sharing, and Public Health Interoperability (HTI-2) proposed rule.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 15, 2023

These technological advancements allow tailored care plans, utilization of social determinants of health data for risk identification, and the agility to create unique benefit plans. Generational and Segment Variations: Survey data highlights variations in satisfaction based on different demographics and plan types.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 16, 2023

The global interoperability standard can be used for exchanging health data between physicians and patients, as well as among clinicians and healthcare systems. patient-facing FHIR apps are a requirement for electronic health record certification in accordance with the 21st Century Cures Act. In the U.S.,

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 9, 2021

To date more than 300,000 people across the country — across Medicaid, Medicare Advantage, and commercial insurance — have come to Quartet to access quality care. At Quartet, during this time of increased demand, we’ve seen first hand the limitations of the system’s current capacity,” said Puneet Singh, CEO of Quartet Health.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 3, 2022

The company partners with both health plans and health systems to deliver various types of care to patients in their homes. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) announcement of the ACO REACH Model as “extremely favorable” to a combined Signify and Caravan Health business model.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Neena Patel, MHA, CSM, VP of Client Success at Chordline As population health initiatives for Medicare and Medicaid members pick up steam, one of the biggest obstacles to care transformation remains a lack of trust among healthcare’s key stakeholders.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 9, 2023

Rajesh Sharma, Vice President and General Manager of Systems Integration, Data Analytics and Interoperability Product Offerings, Gainwell Technologies The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has laid the critical groundwork to create a connected healthcare system in which patients, providers, and payers can easily exchange information.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This substandard access to quality care can lead to poor health outcomes.[6]. have a special health care need, and an estimated 44 percent of CYSHCN are enrolled in Medicaid.[7] In June 2022, NASHP convened a national forum with state health officials (e.g., Nearly 20 percent of children in the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 15, 2022

On the other end are patients experiencing multiple complex chronic diseases, particularly the Medicare and Medicaid dually eligible population. Regardless of which groups of patients an ecosystem seeks to serve, there are several common elements and requirements for establishing thriving healthcare data ecosystems. About Brett Furst.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In Connecticut a partnership between the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness and the Connecticut Department of Housing established an initiative to match Medicaid and HMIS data. This NASHP blog highlights Connecticut’s work to match Medicaid and HMIS data. Resources on Data Sharing. HMIS and Medicaid.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 9, 2022

While the healthcare industry has been extolling the virtues of data interoperability for years until recently it has remained one of the biggest obstacles to providing quality healthcare today. Yet, the tides are turning. Speaking about the report, Mary R.

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NASHP

JULY 24, 2023

2022 Prescription Drug Transparency Report Check out this 2022 report from the Maine Health Data Organization. 2021 Prescription Drug Transparency Report Check out this 2021 report from the Maine Health Data Organization. million in 2018.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Earlier this year, the Maine Health Data Organization released its first annual report evaluating savings the state could achieve if it referenced high-cost drugs in Maine to Canadian prices. The report found pre-rebate savings of $146.7 million for just 72 drugs. States have enacted over a dozen new laws.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 16, 2025

As a Senior Consultant focusing on data and analytics, how do you guide organizations through interpreting data from Trella Health to make strategic growth decisions? The most interesting aspect of my role is how varied organizations strategies are and how that variance impacts the interpretation of Trella Healths data.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 21, 2024

As states work to advance health equity, concurrent challenges such as workforce shortages , health care deserts , and disruptions in access to care and Medicaid coverage have hindered efforts to reduce health disparities. For example, the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) worked with the state’s U.S.-born

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GoMoHealth

JANUARY 2, 2022

These programs, in Medicaid and Medicare, have demonstrated reduction in cost of care, increase in performance and quality measures as well as patient satisfaction, and reduction in clinical fatigue with correlated increase in care management staff productivity.

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NASHP

AUGUST 31, 2023

This feedback, along with state-collected health data, helped shape Oregon’s five priority areas : institutional bias; adversity, trauma, and toxic stress; behavioral health; access to equitable preventive services; and economic drivers of health.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Collaboration aims to drive coordinated care and improve quality while reducing costs NS-EEH will strengthen its clinically integrated network (CIN) by incorporating Lumeris’ population health data platform into its value-based care strategy.

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NCQA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Behavioral Health Care Integration: Challenges and Opportunities for Quality Measurement , is our newest issue brief. The 12-page report: Discusses why measuring behavioral health care in primary care is hard. Incentivizing high-quality behavioral health measure performance. Recommends ways to make measurement better.

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NCQA

JULY 17, 2023

We want to evolve HEDIS as the best performance measurement system for: Improving health equity. With that goal in mind, we are revising HEDIS measures to: Better align with digital health data standards. Leverage electronic clinical data. Encourage standardized exchange of health information.

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Bill Of Health

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Namely, legal protections concerning personal health data may not apply when the entity offering the service is decidedly not a “provider.” To illustrate the issue, consider that the Privacy Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) expressly covers genetic information as a form of health data.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

As part of their obligations under the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) programs, hospitals are mandated to transmit ADT notifications to community providers. Additionally, a legal requirement mandates most California hospitals to comply with this regulation by January 31, 2024.

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NCQA

AUGUST 2, 2023

“Making Data Useful” is one of six themes or topics we’ll focus on at our Health Innovation Summit 2023. The Trouble With Today’s Health Data Remember when health data were scarce? Today, the amount and sources of data are vast. Those days are over.

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

States such as Texas, Wyoming , and New Jersey are adopting Medicaid reimbursement of collaborative care services and are addressing capacity to transition to CoCM. Integration of Substance Use Services and Supports States can align long siloed approaches to primary care, mental health, and substance use services through integration efforts.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 4, 2023

State agencies are beginning to unwind expanded Medicaid coverage in conjunction with the expiration of a 2020 federal provision requiring continuous enrollment. In alignment with PHE’s conclusion, other government bodies are rolling back pandemic-era measures.

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