HIT Consultant

APRIL 1, 2024

Perhaps more, striking, however, is that many, if most, of these deaths, were preventable. While we do not have a vaccine to protect against hypertension, there are preventive measures that can be effective. So why, even with these prevention options, does heart disease remain the silent killer?

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DECEMBER 14, 2022

Read the blog below, authored by Evelyn McKnight, to learn more about preventing unsafe injection practices. Healthcare providers reused syringes during administration of my chemotherapy, which led to 99 people, including me, contracting hepatitis C.

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MAY 30, 2024

Desert Oasis Healthcare provides medical care and wellness services to communities in California's Coachella Valley, as well as in Riverside and San Bernardino. THE PROBLEM Desert Oasis was facing a challenge many healthcare organizations must contend with: getting patients to follow their care plans.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Jeff Fox, Operating Partner at Chicago Pacific Founders Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) remains a widespread health concern, affecting more than one in seven US adults and posing a substantial burden on healthcare systems worldwide. Fortunately, the convergence of innovative technologies offers promising solutions to address this pressing issue.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Microsoft this week unveiled new capabilities to help solve some common roadblocks to enhancing patient engagement and effective health team collaboration, and to help support healthcare organizations more easily leveraging their enterprise data warehousing to fuel clinical and operational analytics. WHY IT MATTERS. LARGER TREND.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 6, 2024

Healthcare fraud is a significant issue in the U.S. and one that continues to grow in scale as fraudulent actors seek to exploit the healthcare system for their own financial gain. the cost of healthcare fraud in the country is close to $100 billion a year. According to the U.S. Department of Justice (D.O.J.),

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HIT Consultant

MAY 10, 2023

In the healthcare sector, however, that number skyrocketed to $10.1 Why is an attack on a healthcare organization so much more costly? While part of this comes down to the fact that healthcare organizations often have big budgets, and so might be able to pay big ransoms, the biggest part of the answer is consequences.

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APRIL 8, 2024

Adopting a collaborative model of care is one approach that can help temper the rising cost of healthcare globally. Island Hospital, a private quaternary hospital in Malaysia, is providing a case for this by building an integrated health ecosystem that fosters cooperation and collaboration among stakeholders. "The VESALIUS.m

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Best Medical Billing Company | Physicians Revenue Group, Inc.

MARCH 16, 2023

Admin March 16, 2023 How Does Medical Billing Audit Help Prevent Revenue Loss? Providing health care in rush hours to critical cases results in the immediate exchange of medical information. Furthermore, this results in quick delivery of services between patients and providers. Physicians Revenue Group, Inc.

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Best Medical Billing Company | Physicians Revenue Group, Inc.

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

prgseo February 23, 2023 Why External Medical Billing Audits Vital for Healthcare Providers? If there is one thing every healthcare facility wants to sail through and simultaneously fear a lot, it is medical billing audit in compliance with legal healthcare authorities. We at Physicians Revenue Group, Inc.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 10, 2024

What You Should Know: Cedars-Sinai is expanding virtual healthcare for children and Spanish speakers in California through its mobile app Cedars-Sinai Connect, a fast-growing online option that allows patients to quickly access top healthcare professionals for acute, chronic and preventive care. and weekends from 8 a.m.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 21, 2023

Shameem Hameed, CEO of blueBriX Now more than ever, the healthcare sector is under pressure to curb rising costs, increase accessibility, alleviate issues caused by worker shortages, and improve both clinician and patient outcomes. Increasingly, there is a challenge of transparency in reimbursement models within healthcare.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Diabetes prevention is one of the biggest challenges in the healthcare industry as more than 37 million Americans (11.3% These areas, many of which are in the Deep South, map directly to known food deserts , pharmacy deserts , designated healthcare provider shortage areas , and lower rates of health literacy.

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Icanotes

JANUARY 17, 2023

Knowing how to prevent medical errors in healthcare means setting up a system that simplifies the process, catches errors and helps you stay organized. Common Types of Documentation Errors in Healthcare. Many providers think their notes are perfectly fine, only to learn at an audit they've been leaving out key details for years.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Jacob DeWitt, MD, U H SM Ambassador and Founder, Integrative Direct Primary Care In an era when healthcare costs continue to soar, a deviation from the status quo is becoming increasingly necessary. Enter the Direct Primary Care model, a revolutionary approach to modern medicine that can be likened to “Netflix for healthcare.”

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Healthcare Associates

MARCH 18, 2022

How To Prevent a Sore Throat From Allergies. To prevent a sore throat from allergies, you’ll want to take steps to limit your exposure to the substances you are allergic to. One study found that lavender essential oil prevents allergy-related inflammation and mucus production. dog dander) can help reduce your symptoms.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 24, 2024

OSF HealthCare, a health system that serves Illinois and Michigan, had a big challenge: Managing the high rate of patient readmissions from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities and eventually to home care. This continuous engagement helps to maintain the stability of patients' conditions and prevent readmissions.

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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. What You Should Know: – The U.S.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 30, 2024

Healthcare practitioners are always looking for ways to use emerging technologies to transform their work, and today one of the top technologies available to revolutionize the healthcare space is Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR).

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The report found the healthcare system's reliance on incorrect, outdated or incomplete utilization data may not accurately reflect the underlying health risks and needs of disadvantaged populations and communities, resulting in a serious misallocation of healthcare resources. What is the thrust of your new report?

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NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The healthcare industry continues to fight the COVID-19 pandemic with innovation and grit. They erected field hospitals in parking lots and converted nonclinical spaces into auxiliary ICUs to provide care to sick patients. Physicians turned to virtual visits to continue providing care. Investing in patient-centric care.

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APRIL 29, 2024

But it's not just the big names generating ways to solve the challenge of silos in healthcare: One startup on the West Coast has found a way to get health tests into patients' hands – wherever they are – in under an hour. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 25, 2023

What You Should Know: – GE HealthCare launches CardioVisio for Atrial Fibrillation (AFib), a digital tool designed to assist clinicians in visualizing longitudinal data relevant for disease progression from multiple data sources, and driving evidence based clinical decision support directed by up-to-date AFib guidelines.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 24, 2022

Healthcare workflow technology company Braidio has partnered with health IT vendor BlueSemi with the aim of creating a preventive home-health and telehealth ecosystem. My Health Concierge contains embedded healthcare workflows, including triggered events and write-back capabilities to major EHRs. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 26, 2024

Syed Ali, Founder and CEO of EZO The sector that is perhaps the most critical candidate for digital transformation is the healthcare sector – the US healthcare system wastes approximately $1 trillion a year and most of it is due to administrative complexity leading to a wastage in medical supplies and equipment.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 10, 2024

Ohioans are experiencing a historic shortage of behavioral healthcare resources. But population health management tools from Alera Health will help the Ohio Behavioral Health Providers Network better integrate mental health care. Like many in the U.S.,

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Healthcare Leadership Council

JUNE 2, 2023

In an earlier post, we provided a snapshot of some of the actions Healthcare Leadership Council (HLC) members in the biopharmaceutical sector are taking to advance equity within our healthcare system and eliminate health disparities. This is a priority for HLC and its membership from all sectors of American healthcare.

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Briggs Healthcare

JANUARY 11, 2024

Nirsevimab (Beyfortus, Sanofi and AstraZeneca) is a long-acting monoclonal antibody immunization recommended for preventing RSV-associated lower respiratory tract disease in young children. Infants and children recommended to receive nirsevimab should be immunized as quickly as possible.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 24, 2022

What You Should Know: – Podimetrics raises $45M to help at-risk providers and health plans prevent diabetic amputations in high-risk patients. In addition, these medically complex patients are often among the costliest patients within a healthcare system. One Step Closer to Healthier Feet.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 15, 2024

Ascension, a healthcare provider with 140 hospitals across 19 states, recently suffered a cyberattack that disrupted multiple critical systems. Another significant breach occurred earlier in February, impacting Change Healthcare and affecting hundreds of hospitals and facilities worldwide.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 22, 2024

However, with 79% of all reported data breaches during the first 10 months of 2020 targeting the healthcare sector and recent spotlights on infrastructure security following the Change Healthcare attack , IT leaders in healthcare need to stay ahead of the unique security challenges their industry faces. Evaluating risk.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 7, 2023

If you aren’t already, pretend you’re the owner of a successful specialty healthcare practice. Or maybe you’re an administrator for a large regional healthcare system. As patients reaped its benefits, they demanded more digital touchpoints – allowing digital healthcare to emerge as an industry of its own.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 13, 2023

Pat Hurley, VP and General Manager, Americas at Acronis The protected health information (PHI) entrusted to healthcare providers is more valuable than credit card numbers to cyber criminals. Healthcare organizations are spending less on technology than those in other sectors. Lean IT staff. Fragmented security architecture.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 15, 2024

Located in the heart of Buffalo, ECMC is an anchor institution in Buffalo's historic East Side community with more than 100 years of providing quality healthcare that specializes in treating patients disproportionately impacted by SDOH and chronic disease complications. "50% of U.S. "58.2%

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 16, 2023

Online suicide prevention tool for farmers goes live A new website was launched to provide well-being support and suicide prevention resources to farmers. The Well-being Index app is one of the three health and wellbeing initiatives being implemented by Canberra Health Services to promote staff well-being and prevent burnout.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Those standards include requirements to provide notice to patients about how PHI may be used and disclosed by the organization, the requirement to obtain valid authorization for certain types of uses and disclosures, and the requirement to obtain certain assurances before disclosing PHI to vendors.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

With a chronic shortage of mental healthcare providers in rural areas, there is a significant lack of access to this much-needed care for those who reside there. In addition, research shows rural Americans are less likely to receive mental healthcare because of the stigma, Booth added. How did this problem develop?

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