By Travis Schneider – It’s essential to consider how an economic downturn may impact the healthcare industry. Although the ongoing need for medical care means people view healthcare as stable, and though it may experience the impact later than other industries, it is not immune from…
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By Sophia Hurr & Katie Everts – Everybody claims they’re partnering on value-based care (VBC). But our recent conversations with plans and providers revealed that leaders would only consider 20-50% of their contracts to be true partnerships.
By Bronwyn Spira – With its introduction of five new CPT codes for Remote Therapeutic Monitoring (RTM) in 2022, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services made remote care reimbursable, opening the door to broader use and acceptance of at-home care.
By Alena Nikuliak – Healthcare providers can now add remote cardiac monitoring to their repertoire. Recent advances in RCM has offered a new way for providers to manage the health of patients with heart conditions.
By Art Gross – The OCR within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is responsible for enforcing compliance with HIPAA. As part of its mandate, the OCR annually releases a report on data breaches in the healthcare industry. The most recent report, which covers the year 2021, was recently released.
By Zach Norton – Telehealth’s ease of accessibility has contributed extensively to scaling its systems over the past few years. The pandemic fueled this further, creating a requirement for extending the real-time reach of healthcare to remote locations.
By Seth Pazinski, Peter Karras, & Kim Lundberg – A new ONC report to Congress updating progress on the access, exchange, and use of electronic health information is now available. Hundreds of thousands of physician offices, hospitals, and health systems across the U.S. have transitioned from…
By Beth Friedman – RISE National 2023 hosted a record-breaking 1,800 attendees, 130 speakers, and 175 sponsors in Colorado Springs last week. On the verge of significant regulatory and compliance changes, six technology experts share their top takeaways.
By David Burda – Yes, my journalistic skepticism borders on cynicism. But come on already! Nearly 40 percent of hospitals in the U.S. still fail to meet the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ definition of interoperability.