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Category: Healthcare Industry News
Integrated care opens new doors to mental health, addiction care
Date: December 13th, 2019Source: STATTopics: Care Coordination, Behavioral HealthBut that divide is beginning to erode, thanks to a movement called integrated mental health care. Integrated care places mental health clinicians side by side with physical health clinicians in other specialties, like primary care and oncology.
Read MoreImproved Provider Coordination Can Reduce Health Care Costs
Date: December 9th, 2019Source: PEW Charitable TrustsTopics: EHRs, API, TEFCAElectronic health records (EHRs) could improve care by making clinical data easily accessible to all of a patient’s providers. That would improve the quality of treatment while also saving time and money
Read More5 Reasons Why A Single, Integrated EHR Will Not Solve Interoperability
Date: December 6th, 2019Source: HIT ConsultantTopics: InteroperabilityThe EHR market has some big players, particularly in the hospital market. So, expanding use of Epic or Cerner within a hospital system makes sense from an IT and change management perspective. But among physician practices of 1-3 doctors, 14.40% use Epic, 10.56% use eCW, and after that, market share drops to single digits.
Read MoreStatewide Network For Clinical Data Sharing Reduces Healthcare Costs By An Estimated $160-195 Million Annually
Date: November 12th, 2019Source: PR NewswireTopics: HIE, Care Summaries, Duplicate TestingIf even just current participants used the system's full capabilities, nearly $1 billion could be saved each year in costs associated with duplicate testing, avoidable hospitalizations and readmissions, and preventable emergency department visits.
Read MoreRecognizing Technical Challenges to Healthcare Interoperability
Date: November 11th, 2019Source: mHealth IntelligenceTopics: HIE, Interoperability...interoperability barriers can be broken down into three categories: business disincentives, operational barriers, and technical challenges.
Read MoreOvercoming barriers to value-based care adoption requires wise use of technology
Date: November 11th, 2019Source: Healthcare FinanceTopics: HIE, Value-Based Care, Care SummariesUsing the power of data to tweak processes and squeeze the maximum amount of reimbursement possible is a must in today's environment.
Read MoreCMS Issues Final Physician Fee Schedule and Quality Payment Program Rule
Date: November 8th, 2019Source: AAMCTopics: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), Quality Payment Program (QPP)The rule finalizes significant changes to evaluation and management (E/M) coding, payment, and documentation policies. This rule will update payment rates and policies for services provided by physicians and other clinicians to Medicare beneficiaries in 2020.
Read MoreTrends for HIEs in 2020
Date: November 7th, 2019Source: Health Data AnswersTopics: HIE, Value-Based Care, Social Determinants of HealthAs we approach the end of the year, I see the following dominating the headlines for HIEs in 2020:
Read MoreHow Interoperability Drives Care Coordination Over Care Continuum
Date: November 6th, 2019Source: EHR IntelligenceTopics: HIE, EHRs, Interoperability, Long-Term CareInteroperability enables care coordination to deliver a patient’s health data from multiple providers and specialists. With patients attending different hospitals and specialists, the need for interoperability between multiple providers is key. Coordinated care reduces healthcare costs by eliminating repetitive tests and procedures.
Read MoreNew CMS rules cut red tape, mandate discharge planning
Date: October 1st, 2019Source: Modern HealthcareTopics: HIE, Long-Term Care, Home Health, Discharge PlanningThe CMS on Wednesday released final rules that cut some of the regulatory mandates for Medicare and Medicaid providers, but discharge planning requirements for hospitals, critical access hospitals and home health agencies.
Read MoreDuring natural disasters, HIEs on the front lines of addressing fragmentation in healthcare
Date: October 1st, 2019Source: Fierce HealthcareTopics: HIE, Emergency Services, Disaster PreparednessThese disasters shine a spotlight on the importance and value of being able to access patient records—including both clinical and claims data—in real time. And these disasters highlight the role health information exchanges (HIEs) can and must play in connecting all facets of care, from first responders to clinicians to patients and families in search of their loved ones.
Read MoreSDoH: Poised to Care for the Complete Patient
Date: September 26th, 2019Source: Population Health MagazineTopics: Social Determinants of HealthAs a medical community we have begun to lean on population health to help us understand that relationship and even predict the progression of disease states based off a combination of social determinants, clinical information, and family history.
Read MoreBlockchain Technology Is Already Improving Lives At 22 Hospitals
Date: September 23rd, 2019Source: ForbesTopics: BlockchainThe promise of blockchain technology couldn’t be greater than in the healthcare sector.
Read MoreWidespread Support for Adopting Tools Needed to Tap Potential of Electronic Health Records
Date: September 18th, 2019Source: PEW TrustsTopics: Interoperability, APIApplication programming interfaces (APIs) already allow services, such as travel and personal finance websites and smartphone applications, to organize and display information from multiple sources. If broadly used in health care, APIs based on common standards could also sync data across EHR systems and feed that information into apps that let patients share their medical records with caregivers or alert clinicians to best practices for treatment.
Read MoreHospice Margins Could Soar Under Primary Care First
Date: September 17th, 2019Source: Hospice NewsTopics: Value-Based Care, Long-Term Care, HospiceHospice providers that participate in the Primary Care First initiative’s Seriously Ill Population Model could see gross margins in excess of 20% to 25%, according to experts in health care payment models.
Read MoreNew Proposed Rules on Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Data Would Address Care Coordination and Law Enforcement Challenges
Date: August 28th, 2019Source: LexBlogTopics: Behavioral Health, 42 CFR Part 2The proposed Part 2 updates could have significant impacts on how health care providers, researchers, and health technology companies protect and share SUD information with each other.
Read MoreHospitals treat patients without admitting them, to avoid penalties
Date: August 22nd, 2019Source: ReutersTopics: Hospital ReadmissionsHospitals appear to be treating Medicare patients in emergency departments (EDs) and observation areas to avoid readmissions and the financial penalties associated with them, according to a new U.S. study.
Read MoreFirst Survey of the Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative (SHIEC) Shows Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) Provide Critical National Infrastructure
Date: August 19th, 2019Source: SHIECTopics: HIE, Interoperability, Notifications92 percent of the U.S. population is served by HIEs in survey results released by SHIEC at the start of 5th Annual National Conference in National Harbor, Maryland August 19-21, 2019
Read MoreAmbulatory Practices Ahead of the Curve with Precision Medicine
Date: August 16th, 2019Source: Healthcare InnovationTopics: Precision MedicineInterestingly, ambulatory groups are among the leaders in adopting precision medicine, overtaking many larger organizations and academic centers, especially in pharmacogenomics (PGx).
Read MoreHow Health Data Standards Support Healthcare Interoperability
Date: August 16th, 2019Source: EHR IntelligenceTopics: HIE, EHRs, Interoperability, Care Summaries, Direct MessagingAdopting health data standards in a consistent and comprehensive manner will be key to enabling meaningful healthcare interoperability.
Read MoreLawmakers hoping to overhaul privacy rules for substance-use disorders
Date: August 14th, 2019Source: Modern HealthcareTopics: Behavioral Health, opioids, 42 CFR Part 2Hospitals badly want Congress to waive the statute known as 42 CFR Part 2 and its dictates that only substance-use disorder, or SUD, patients themselves can decide who sees their medical history. They argue that given the stakes with widespread opioid addiction, it's risky to ban doctors from sharing medical histories when appropriate.
Read MoreTransitions Between Acute Care and Post-Acute Care Providers Still Manual, Survey Finds
Date: August 14th, 2019Source: Healthcare InnovationTopics: HIE, Care Coordination, Long-Term Care, Transitions of CareJust 2 percent of acute care and LTPAC providers are only using IT-driven strategies to coordinate patient care and transfer data, the data showed
Read MoreBest Practices to Develop a Social Determinants of Health Strategy
Date: August 1st, 2019Source: HealthIT AnalyticsTopics: Social Determinants of HealthA discussion with members of Humana’s Bold Goal team identified best practices for building a successful social determinants of health strategy.
Read MoreUsing Risk Scores, Stratification for Population Health Management
Date: July 29th, 2019Source: Health IT AnalyticsTopics: Value-Based Care, Accountable Care, risk managementRisk scores and risk stratification techniques are foundational for any successful population health management program. What are some of the considerations for developing this data?
Read MoreSuccessful Medicare ACOs engage physicians, patients, federal report finds
Date: July 24th, 2019Source: Modern HealthcareTopics: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Accountable CareThese high-performers that have both reduced Medicare spending while still providing high-quality healthcare have a few things in common. They all work with doctors to increase their awareness of what medical services cost, while also encouraging patients — particularly those with costly chronic conditions — to get involved in their own healthcare.
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