Telemedicine News & Updates 8-23-2016
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The Beginners Quick Start Guide to Text Messaging Patients
By Kaitlyn Houseman – Text messaging is fully integrated into millions of people’s lives and is a convenient, less obtrusive alternative to the phone call. Many physicians wonder how to incorporate text message communication into their practices.
7 Ways to Plug High Deductible Health Plan Revenue Leaks
By Paul Fox – According to a recent report, three out of four employers now offer high deductible health insurance plans, up from just over two out of four five years ago.
Infographics: Healthcare, Science, and the Marketplace
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Building on Premium Stabilization for the Future
By Kevin Counihan – The Affordable Care Act, the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit, and a number of states’ insurance plans include reinsurance programs as a way to promote stable, affordable health coverage.
Medicare’s Readmission Penalties Hit New High
By Jordan Rau – The federal government’s readmission penalties on hospitals will reach a new high as Medicare withholds more than half a billion dollars in payments over the next year.
Using Healthcare Data to Distinguish Your Practice From Your Competitors
By Jeremy Guttman – Journalist Fareed Zakaria is certain that those who prevail in tomorrow’s health care arena are the ones who figure out how to use the troves of data at their fingertips to distinguish themselves from competitors. “[W]hat you do with that data will probably be the key differentiator going forward,” Zakaria explains .
Provider Networks and Patient Choice: Improving Outcomes
By Cheri Bankston – Under the Conditions of Participation for Discharge Planning, hospitals must determine the appropriate level of care and provide a list of home health agencies or SNFs to patients as options of care.
“What we need is more regulation . . .”
By David Harlow – We are awash in digital health data. And we are awash in multiple regulatory schemas designed to protect privacy, security and appropriate access to all this data. Some data is “traditional” health care data governed by the familiar patchwork of federal and state statutes and regulations (rhymes with “HIPAA”).