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Bonus Features – October 20, 2024 – Clinicians spend 28 hours per week on admin tasks, 80% of adults 18-24 willing to use generative AI in healthcare, plus 22 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

Reports A Deloitte report found 94% of consumers are willing to participate in virtual health visits – but half of health systems offer the same or fewer virtual visit options compared to 2022. That said, 82% of executives said they’d expand virtual visit offerings if reimbursement was on par with in-person care.

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Digital Health to the Rescue – Improving Access to Specialized Care: A Discussion with Viveka Rydell-Anderson

Healthcare Law Blog

Improving Access to Specialized Care The digital revolution has made significant inroads into specialized healthcare services, which generally include care that is traditionally provided by specialists and is more difficult to access than primary care – for instance, mental health support, elder care, and certain diagnostic services, among others.

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Digital Capabilities & Emerging Tech Hold The Keys to Surviving Healthcare’s “Silver Tsunami”

HIT Consultant

Smarter, not harder Although still a nascent field, healthcare AI may also hold the key to meeting the growing demands for elder care as well as the challenges of maintaining supply in the face of staffing shortages. According to a 2022 meta-analysis of PubMed research, clinicians spend as much as 4.5

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Spotting Financial Fraud & Exploitation of the Elderly

AIHC

As of August 2023, losses from tech support scams were up 40% during the same period in 2022, according to a recent FBI public service announcement. As of August 2023, losses have already exceeded those in 2022 by 40%. Phantom hacker” scams are an evolution of tech support scams, a type of cybercrime.

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Telehealth and RPM – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

With the market downturns we’ve seen in 2022, that trend will shift. And the payer community sees remote patient monitoring as a critical component of SUD care. Elder care takes center stage and brings challenges: Coined the “gray tsunami,” approximately 10,000 people per day cross the Medicare eligible threshold.

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President Biden Signs End-of-Year Legislation Including Telehealth, Medicare & Medicaid, Mental Health, Pandemic Preparedness, and Other Health Care Provisions

C&M Health Law

The Act also did not provide the Department of Labor enforcement authority (which was requested in its 2022 Report to Congress) to issue civil monetary penalties against health plans that it finds are noncompliant with the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA). FY 2023 HHS Funding Levels The Act provides a total of $120.7

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

Penn Medicine buys Montgomeryville site for $7.5M of Health Won’t Release Details R.I. physicians group partners with Calif. health tech company Lifespan considering $300M bond issue for construction projects R.I.