By Hannah Nelson
February 28, 2024 – Regenstrief Institute has issued its semiannual release of LOINC (Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes), which includes updates to support health data exchange for various interoperability use cases.
LOINC is a global…
Value-based care is defined by quality (numerator) over total cost of care (denominator) by the National Academy of Medicine. Houston Methodist Coordinated Care Accountable Care Organization is a Medicare ACO responsible for more than…
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Don Rucker, MD – Chief Strategy Officer, 1upHealth
CMS and Medicare are trying to change the dynamics of American healthcare. No need to rehash the well-known issues but what is new is the change in…
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New Funding Propels Cohere’s Expansion of Intelligent Prior Authorization Platform to Drive Better Payer-Provider Collaboration, Following CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule
Cohere Health, a recognized leader in clinical intelligence and prior authorization automation,…
Less than one-fifth of U.S. adults know the cost of their healthcare products and services prior to receiving them, according to the results of a new Gallup poll. The results were released this month…
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Quality, Safety & Oversight Group sent a memo to state survey agency directors, effective immediately, clarifying HIPAA compliance for texting patient information and hospital orders at critical…
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The National Association of Accountable Care Organizations analyzes Medicare’s claims database to alert the federal government that 450,000 of its beneficiaries were billed for urinary catheters in 2023 versus the usual 50,000 in…
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CMS approves the use of HIPAA-compliant secure texting platforms for sending patient information and patient orders in hospitals and critical access hospitals.
Previous guidance from late 2017 allowed texting patient information if a…
What You Should Know:
– Medical Home Network (MHN), a leader in transforming care in the safety net, announced today its partnership with 64 federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) across seven states. These FQHCs will…
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By Hannah Nelson
February 05, 2024 – The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) have partnered on an initiative that aims to…
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