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Buckle your seat belt. Health care is changing
at warp speed. The Value-Based Care movement and
leaps in technology and Artificial Intelligence
are rapidly generating advances that will
transform the health care environment. These
factors will redefine health care providers and
services, and how consumers access them. How you
respond strategically will determine your
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Regulatory Compliance
Challenges for Payers From HealthEdge survey, in response to question, "What is your organization's biggest challenge to staying compliant with the CMS frequent changes to quality standards and payment rules?" 1. Managing fee schedules: 19% 2. Lack of technology/partners to enable regulatory compliance: 19% 3. Technology/infrastructure that can’t keep up: 16% 4. Lack of in-house government rules experts: 16% 5. Lack of IT staff or resources to make changes: 14% 6. Interoperability mandates: 13% 7. N/A: 3% Source: 2024 HealthEdge Annual Payer Market Report, February 2024 |
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Biden's Cancer Moonshot is expanding: New patient
navigators, insurance coverage More than a half dozen large private health insurance companies have agreed to cover the cost of navigators who guide cancer patients and their families through the confusing array of medical appointments and drug treatments that follow a diagnosis. USA TODAY, March 8, 2024 Absence of AI hospital rules worries nurses For nurse Judy Schmidt, the beeping monitors hooked up to critical patients at the Community Medical Center in Toms River, New Jersey, were just a normal part of the whirlwind of activity in the intensive care unit. But looking back on her work about a decade ago, Schmidt said she realizes those machines were using early versions of artificial intelligence to help analyze and track the patients’ health. Stateline, March 5, 2024 How Nebraska Medicine is bucking nurse turnover After Nebraska Medicine turned to AI, the organization was able to reduce first-year nurse turnover by 47%. Becker's, March 4, 2024 ObamaCare faces key hearing after Texas ruling A federal appeals court is set to hear arguments on the Biden administration’s appeal of a case that threatens the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) promise of free preventive care to more than 150 million people. The Hill, March 3, 2024 What the ransomware attack on Change Healthcare should teach the industry As the disruption caused by the cyberattack at Change Healthcare stretches beyond its tenth day, cybersecurity experts say the incident could spur greater emphasis on enhancing protocols—and greater oversight from the feds. Fierce Healthcare, March 1, 2024 Just 34.5% of reviewed hospitals fully compliant with federally mandated price transparency rule PatientRightsAdvocate.org (PRA) released a new report examining hospital compliance with the Hospital Price Transparency Rule, which went into effect over three years ago requiring all hospitals to publicly post all prices online. PRNewswire, February 29, 2024 Health care quality took a big hit during COVID, Medicare report finds Progress on many key health care quality measures was reversed during the first two years of the pandemic, according to a new comprehensive federal review. Axios, February 29, 2024 AMA Report Outlines Considerations for AI Integration in Healthcare A report published by the American Medical Association (AMA) and Manatt Health outlines the transformational potential and associated risks of augmented intelligence, also known as artificial intelligence (AI), tools in clinical and administrative applications. Health IT Analytics, February 27, 2024 Big jump seen in EHR secure messaging. Is that a good thing? Researchers are just beginning to examine the burgeoning use of EHR-integrated secure messaging in health care settings, and it appears that everyone is using it—but it’s not clear what they’re using it for and what impact it’s having on patient care. AMA, February 27, 2024 Digital health forecast 2024: legal implications of technological, policy, and business developments Digital health has been squarely in the spotlight since the onset of the COVID-19 public health emergency, during which increased adoption of virtual care technology emerged as one of the most important public health ramifications of the pandemic. Heading into 2024, a gradual transition is underway, as the use of digital health tools becomes propelled less by need associated with a global pandemic, but rather by its capacity to increase access to high-quality care while limiting cost and increasing access to care and convenience for patients. Reuters, February 26, 2024 ‘Behind the Times’: Washington Tries to Catch Up With AI’s Use in Health Care Lawmakers and regulators in Washington are starting to puzzle over how to regulate artificial intelligence in health care — and the AI industry thinks there’s a good chance they’ll mess it up. KFF Health News, February 13, 2024 |
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