Bill of Health

APRIL 4, 2025

Published April 4, 2025 Author James Lytle Share Share on LinkedIn Share on X Share on Facebook Share on Reddit Concerns over ultra-processed foods (UPFs) and their responsibility for rising rates of chronic disease and obesity have been highlighted in the medical literature and in the popular press. Monica Castro, et al.

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Medisys Compliance

JANUARY 23, 2025

Telehealth has revolutionized mental health care by making it more accessible to patients regardless of their geographic location. As we step into 2025, mental health providers must stay informed about evolving telehealth billing regulations to ensure compliance and optimize reimbursement. 90846 and 90847: Family psychotherapy.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2025

Read more… Promoting Health Record Sharing Both Past and Future. John Lynn caught up with Jay Nakashima at eHealth Exchange about the vital role information exchange plays in supporting public health. Read more… 2025 Health IT Predictions: Staffing Shortages and Burnout.

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Medisys Compliance

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Running a behavioral health practice is demanding, and understanding 2025 behavioral health billing changes might feel like another burden. As we look towards 2025, there are some potential shifts on the horizon that could affect how you bill, get paid, and even how you structure your day-to-day work.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

The 2025 list was published today. Compare these with the top 10 safety concerns for 2025. The post The Top Patient Safety Risks in 2025 Are Mostly About the “Human OS” – Reading ECRI’s Annual Report appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2025

Read more… The Sequoia Project’s Healthcare Interoperability Roadmap for 2025. Read more… 2025 Health IT Predictions: Wearable Devices and Mobile Applications. Read more… 2025 Predictions: Patient-Centered Care. How will value-based care, behavioral health, and SDoH drive better care delivery?

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This strategic acquisition underscores Health Commons Project’s commitment to expanding its impact by improving data interoperability, enhancing care coordination, and promoting public health across Washington. “Our shared mission of using health data to improve patient outcomes will be more achievable than ever.”

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 8, 2024

News ECRI’s list of 2025 health technology hazards is out , with the risk associated with AI topping the list. Sales Volunteers of America chose Dimagi as the digital partner for its Public Health AmeriCorps Community Health Worker program.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

15, 2025, the U.S. Published February 5, 2025 Author Jessica Samuels Share Share on LinkedIn Share on X Share on Bluesky Share on Facebook Its time to stock up on maraschino cherriesRed Dye No. 15, 2025, the U.S. About the author Jessica Samuels is a third-year dual degree law and public health student (J.D./MPH

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

By focusing on person-centered, inclusive design as the first of its federal health information technology principles, ASTP says the plan seeks to "strengthen individual's ability to securely access and use their own health information to take greater control over their own health.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

2026) hails from small-town Indiana and worked for three years as a research fellow at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) before attending law school. 2025) is Assistant Professor at Brown University’s Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and a master’s candidate at Harvard Medical School’s Center for Bioethics.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Thanks to the publication Retail TouchPoints and the author of the story, Adan Blair, for covering this project. The story has lit a lot of lightbulb inspirations for me in thinking through the role housing plays in human health and well-being, and also to inform my upcoming CES 2025 panel on Health at Home: Where Health Meets Smart Living.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2025

Health and Human Services announced they extended the pandemic-era virtual prescribing of controlled substances a third time. The most recent extension of COVID-19 flexibilities for prescribing runs through 2025. Email: afox@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

by Jessica Samuels For 100 years, food fortification , the practice of deliberately increasing the content of vitamins and minerals in a food, has been essential to combating public health crises. Public Health Service recommended that all women of reproductive age get 400 micrograms (mcg) of folic acid per day.

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Jane Sarashon

APRIL 14, 2025

.” I’d further argue that with this hard-headed approach that I endorse, we add in our softer hearts and empathy as health care and related public policies are put to various tests in the coming weeks and months. The post U.S.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 13, 2025

Artificial Intelligence When Clinical Trials Meet Patents: Finding Balance in Law Transparency rules in clinical trials attempt to strike a balancebetween ensuring essential safety and efficacy data reaches the public, and preservingtruly proprietary informationthat fosters innovation.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2025

On July 1, TEFCA expanded to support public health, and there are standard operating procedures now for health care operations. Yeager describes the growth of TEFCA as exponential, pointing out that it rose from 1 million records in July to 3 million in October.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In contrast, the Maternal and Child Health Stillbirth Prevention Act of 2024 — a health care law that was successfully enacted this term — was sponsored by 21 senators and 63 representatives. This will exacerbate OB/GYN shortages in rural and marginalized communities and drive community health centers out of business.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2025

Luke’s Health System Assistant Director-Clinical Information Systems – NYC Health + Hospitals EpicCare Ambulatory EHR – Analyst – ChristianaCare Clinic Director – MercyOne Chief Financial Officer – CFO – Clay County Medical Center EHR Application Analyst – Prime Healthcare System Analyst Epic OpTime – (..)

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The statewide expansion of virtualKIDS, which is part of the current NSW government's commitment to delivering 25 urgent care services by mid-2025, is now expected to support at least 500 NSW children and their families each month.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Compared to 2024, more healthcare financial professionals expect their margins to increase in 2025 (36%) than those who expect margins to decrease (14%), according to the latest data from Strata Decision Technology. Prior authorization technology vendor careviso announced a strategic alliance with XiFin , an RCM vendor.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 14, 2025

Published March 14, 2025 Author Rebekah Ninan Share Share on LinkedIn Share on X Share on Bluesky Share on Facebook Between Feb. 19-26, shares for the telehealth company Hims & Hers Health, Inc. The end of shortage poses meaningful concerns for public health. 2025) is a student fellow with the Petrie-Flom Center.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 31, 2025

The announcement was made on day one of Arab Health 2025. Rhapsody and M42: Advancing Healthcare Interoperability with Microsoft Azure Rhapsody is a digital health enablement platform company specializing in healthcare integration, identity management, and clinical terminology solutions.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 28, 2023

The building is targeted to be launched in 2025 with 200 beds. Enterprise Taxonomy: Population and Public Health Coordinated care Patient safety Digital Health Care Quality Care Technology

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Bill of Health

MARCH 20, 2025

Published March 20, 2025 Author Spencer Andrews Share Share on LinkedIn Share on X Share on Bluesky Share on Facebook Its time to fill your bracket and brush up on your ball-knowledge: March Madness is here. His background in neuroscience inspired him to dig deeper into the societal impacts of addiction and mental illness in the U.S.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 9, 2024

On its end, the Chinese government is targeting a 7% annual growth in R&D expenditure, giving a particular emphasis on AI, as part of its latest Five Year Plan (2021-2025). THE LARGER CONTEXT As of 2021, nearly 60 billion yuan ($9 billion) were invested in smart medicine in China.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 13, 2024

A survey from the Peterson Health Technology Institute found 86% of providers plan to maintain or increase their level of digital health spending in 2025. Half said cost savings were the main priority for investment.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 19, 2025

HIMSS25 Europe From 10–12 June 2025, healthcare leaders will gather in Paris to learn, connect, and explore ideas to improve healthcare. The conference covers European legislation, workforce trends, women’s health, digital transformation, AI implementations and more. See our coverage on this page.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 9, 2022

Pharma giant AstraZeneca has announced a commitment to join the World Economic Forum (WEF) EDISON Alliance , a public-private partnership that aims to improve the lives of one billion people through digital inclusion by 2025.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 29, 2024

Making the self-service telehealth kiosks available to rural residents will also empower them to take control of their health, raising health literacy and preventing them from developing non-communicable diseases. Enterprise Taxonomy: Population and Public Health Rural and underserved communities Telehealth Care Patient Access

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 14, 2025

It's April 2025 and healthcare still waits for a permanent solution from the government for telemedicine and Medicare – which tends to drive what Medicaid and private insurers do. Dr. Ateev Mehrotra is chair of the department of health services, policy and practice at Brown University School of Public Health.

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Jane Sarashon

JANUARY 7, 2025

Sleep, or lack thereof, is a public health challenge around the world whatever your postal code or demographic profile. Can technology help us bridge the sleep deprivation gap, or is technology destined to ruin our mind-body-spirit health? There’s more. “Hotels have long promised guests a good nights rest.

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Jane Sarashon

MARCH 3, 2025

As HIMSS 2025, the largest annual conference on health information and innovation meets up in Las Vegas this week, we can peek into what’s on the organization’s CEO’s mind leading up to the meeting in this conversation between Hal Wolf, CEO of HIMSS, and Gil Bashe, Managing Director of FINN Partners.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 28, 2022

A few years ago, a Bill of Health post titled Jelly Beans, Booze, and B-Vitamins proposed fortifying cheap wines, hard liquors, and malt liquors with thiamine (vitamin B1). The post suggested this as a public health measure to prevent Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome (WKS) in the homeless alcoholic population.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Breast cancer screening programs are an important public health intervention, and initiatives like the BCAM may prompt eligible women to attend their screening appointments. However, uptake of screening only adds to the growing backlog of unread breast imaging scans, which was compounded further by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 29, 2024

WHY IT MATTERS Without an extension or legislative change to the 2025 Physician Fee Schedule when it expires at the close of 2024, telehealth would essentially downshift to limited coverage of services to certain rural areas and specific physical locations, the organizations said. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Key Takeaways Driving Data Standardization through USCDI+ NCQA is actively working with federal agencies like the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy ( ASTP/ONC ) to advance US Core Data for Interoperability ( USCDI ) and its expanded versions like USCDI+, which include data sets for quality, public health, and maternal health.

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