Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 9, 2021

As a result, the opportunities that exist for health IT companies are massive. billion globally from 2020 through October 2021. To get an idea of what this future may hold, Healthcare IT News interviewed Sebastian Seiguer, CEO of the Johns Hopkins-backed health IT company emocha Health.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 15, 2023

FHKC is a state-created entity that offers health and dental insurance to children in Florida between the ages of 5 and 18. FHKC receives Medicaid funds and state funds for providing health insurance programs for children in Florida.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 15, 2022

Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics , in 2020, only 18% of disabled people were employed, compared to 62% of nondisabled. Similarly, our health care system is a significant barrier to employment because most private health insurance companies do not cover critical supports for disabled people, such as personal assistant services.

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2020

The median charge for hospitalizing a patient with COVID-19 ranged from $34,662 for people 23 to 30, and $45,683 for people between 51 and 60 years of age, according to FAIR Health’s research brief, Key Characteristics of COVID-19 Patients published July 14th, 2020. privately-insured people.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 20, 2024

DUOS: Revolutionizing Aging with AI-Driven Solutions for Health and Financial Well-Being Founded in 2020, DUOS is a digital health innovator redefining the future of aging through its SaaS platform and strategic activation campaigns.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

households entered 2020 in the best financial shape they’d been in years, based on new Census data released earlier this week. Census Bureau found that the level of health insurance enrollment fell by 1 million people in 2019 , with about 30 million Americans not covered by health insurance. However, the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Currently, less than 2% of the health insurance population requiring specialty drugs is responsible for 51% of drug spending. The cost of specialty drugs in the US is spiraling out of control, increasing 12% from 2020 to 2021 alone, with no sign of slowing down due to the increase of cell and gene therapies expected to come to market.

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Compliance Now

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Late in the afternoon on December 23, 2022, the Administration issued Affordable Care Act FAQ #56 , and in doing so gave a little holiday gift to all group health plans nationwide.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2019

In 2020, large employers will be “doubling down” efforts to control health care costs. Key strategies will include deploying more telehealth and virtual health care services, Centers of Excellence for high-cost conditions, and getting more personal in communicating and engaging through platforms.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

“Two intersecting and interdependent systems comprise democracy in the United States,” Eileen Salinsky, Program Advisor with Grantmakers in Health, wrote in a compelling essay in April 2022. Most Americans don’t feel the government cares about them, nor do most feel protected by U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 29, 2020

The latter has translated into doctors’ medical practices seeing less traffic/visits , and thus, less patient revenue, significantly impacting some PCPs’ and specialists’ businesses in the first quarter of 2020 and will do so well into the second quarter and beyond. In the COVID-19 era in the U.S.,

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 7, 2023

A review was conducted of all files on the compromised systems and confirmed they contained information such as names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, driver’s license numbers, Social Security numbers, and health insurance information.

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

In 2020, CES featured several hundred digital health exhibitors and a growing array of Internet of Things-connected devices adjacent to health and wellness, with representation from beyond “pure” wearable health tech ranging from FDA-cleared blood pressure watches from Omron to health insurer Humana in the exhibit hall.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 21, 2022

Per estimates from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), over 106,000 Americans are currently awaiting this life-saving medical treatment. Further, the burden of this shortage falls unequally: in 2020, while approximately 48% of white patients in need of transplants received an organ, only 27% of Black patients secured one.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The Telehealth Improvement for Kids’ Essential Services, or TIKES, Act of 2020 would require the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to issue guidance to states about how to increase access to telehealth under Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 15, 2023

Centene acquired Apixio in December 2020. Apixio improves administrative, clinical and financial outcomes for some of the nation’s leading health plans and provider groups using its proprietary clinical data curation and artificial intelligence engine.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 16, 2022

San Diego Family Care, a Californian provider of medical, dental, & mental health services, has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit filed by patients affected by a data breach in 2020. The security breach occurred in December 2020 at a technology provider and business associate, Netgain Technologies, and involved ransomware.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 8, 2022

The steep incline in unemployment and fears that millions of people would lose their health coverage drove the declaration of the national public health emergency (PHE) on January 31, 2020. In the long run, this causes economic hardship to the state, healthcare providers, and insurers. About Heather Korbulic.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 20, 2024

The global Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) market is expected to reach over $187 billion by 2028, more than four times its worth in 2020—owing in part to improving technology and the rise in remote care during the COVID-19 pandemic. The healthcare market is no exception. About Jessica Rengstorf Jessica Rengstorf Director, U.S

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2020

say their financial health has been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, through job loss, income disruption, or reduced work hours. The 2020 Financial Wellness Census , from Prudential found that one-half of U.S. adults are anxious about their financial future as of May 2020, an increase from 38% in late 2019.

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Compliancy Group

JANUARY 25, 2022

Protected health information (PHI) from more than 45.7 This is the second-largest number of records reported breached on the government site since 2015. The 2015 total included the largest single healthcare data breach on record – health insurer Anthem’s 77.8 Cyber insurance can certainly lessen the blow.”.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2019

As large employers’ annual health care costs for an employee are expected to exceed $15,000 in 2020, companies are focusing in on managing the pharmacy line-item, we learn from the 2020 Large Employers’ Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey from the National Business Group on Health (NBGH).

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In 2020, most Black people, men and women alike, feel it is a bad time to be Black in America. More than twice as many Black men believe that in 2020 compared with 2006. Twice as many White people (15%) than Black people (7%) rated “government/politics/election-related” concerns as the third-ranking worry.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

in early 2020 hasn’t translated into individual American’s optimism for their own family budgets. Note how health insurance, in particular, swelled as a component of family budgets more than housing, transportation, and college education. That is, government spending. could barely be covered by median household income.

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Kaiser Health News

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The patrol is a federally funded program that helps seniors untangle insurance problems. CMS has also received complaints about sales information that could be construed as coming from the government and pressure tactics to get seniors to enroll, she noted.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 7, 2023

With the rising costs of providing healthcare, it’s essential that physician offices stay on top of their contracts with payers, such as insurance companies and government agencies. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average inflation rate from 2010 to 2020 was approximately 1.5% between May 2020 and May 2021.

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C&M Health Law

APRIL 19, 2022

Now that the Tri-agencies have drawn back the curtains to reveal some of the inner workings of their developing Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) comparative analysis enforcement efforts, the question is: What’s next? Insufficient Guidance. The result of that limited guidance was predictable. Anticipated Rulemaking.

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Compliance Now

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Beginning January 1, 2023, dependents can start qualifying for government subsidized health insurance if they are not offered affordable coverage through an employer-sponsored plan, even if the coverage offered to their parent or spouse (who is the employee) is affordable for that employee.

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Compliance Now

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Beginning January 1, 2023, dependents can start qualifying for government subsidized health insurance if they are not offered affordable coverage through an employer-sponsored plan, even if the coverage offered to their parent or spouse (who is the employee) is affordable for that employee.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 31, 2021

And not only that, but the price of ransomware payments is also increasing, even as the federal government tries to the crackdown. Whether it’s hospitals, health insurance companies, vaccine trials, the pharmaceutical industry, and so on – seemingly no aspect hasn’t been targeted. . Coordination and education. An ongoing effort.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

” For this report, PwC’s Health Research Institute surveyed 2,511 American consumers, 128 health plan executives, 153 healthcare provider organization executives, and 124 pharmaceutical and life sciences executives in August and September 2020.

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The second chart illustrates growth rates by payer type and by the type of health care good or service, between 2022-23. The fastest-growth spending by payer was for private health insurance, increasing by 11.5% Federal government — and Coronavirus Act funding bolstering the health economy. the previous year.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 9, 2023

Bryan Smith, Chief Technology Officer, RiskLens In 2020, the Dental Care Alliance (DCA) experienced a significant cyberattack on its systems, which lasted approximately an entire month. The incident The cyberattack on the DCA was launched between Sept. 18 and Oct.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

government and calls for better oversight , the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced in early February that it would investigate overbilling by those plans. In 2020 and 2021, doctors, nurses, and other staff risked their lives hourly to treat patients who had COVID-19, often without knowing who had it.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2020

In America, earning lower or middle incomes is a risk factor for having trouble accessing health care and/or paying for it. has health insurance coverage, the third chart tells us. The survey was conducted in July and August 2019 among 1,885 U.S. adults 18 or older. Higher-income, 16%. Top 1% income, 10%.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

They are likely to stay there,” asserts “ The smartphone will see you now ,” an article in the March 7th 2020 issue of The Economist. I’d seen ATA’s initial statement on the coronavirus published on March 3 2020, so I knew Ann was on this issue. Congressional leadership on February 28 2020.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

“Most Americans clearly recognize the potential benefits that improved health IT can offer, and they want this transformation of the health care system to continue,” the Pew Charitable Trusts research concludes in Most Americans Want to Share and Access More Digital Health Data. Patients in the U.S.

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