By Julieta Ducasa – Not a lot of positives have come out of the coronavirus pandemic. But telehealth has emerged as a bright spot, both for healthcare organizations and the communities they serve.
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By Angela Jordan – The Transitional Care Management codes (99495, 99496) introduced in 2013 allow providers to report and capture reimbursement for the work involved with providing continuity of care to patients discharged from a hospital or other qualified stay, back into their community setting.
By Dan L. Dodson – The value of working from home was finally demonstrated on a global scale in 2020. The ability to adapt to a remote model has been key to employee health during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, dispersed workplaces have also presented new cybersecurity challenges within the healthcare industry.
By Art Gross – In 2019, the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced an initiative that they would make it a priority to enforce an individual’s right to access their health records in a timely manner and at a reasonable cost. This falls under the HIPAA Privacy Rule.
By Emad Rizk MD – COVID-19 exposed many weaknesses in our healthcare system and exacerbated fraud, waste and abuse. As the federal government waived restrictions around various reimbursements for Medicare patients as well as encouraged plans to be more…
By William Hersh MD – I am pleased to announce the publication of the 4th edition of my book, Information Retrieval: A Biomedical & Health Perspective. Published by Springer, the book updates the content, methods, results, and research in the use of search systems for knowledge-based biomedical and health information.
Week 2: October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, follow the conversation and do your part #BeCyberSmart. Follow us this month as we engage our health IT community in cybersecurity awareness and check out these experts discuss Week 2 theme, securing devices at home and work.
New On Demand Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist: With guest Dr. Jake Reder, PhD the CEO of CeldaraMedical – an innovation incubator and accelerator focused on transforming academic innovations into medicines that cure the world’s most challenging diseases.
By Pamela J. Gallagher – In 2019, emergency departments across the U.S. saw an average of 2.1 million patients per week, according to the CDC. Over the past several decades, healthcare organizations have invested large amounts of money, time, and effort to study the trend of…