NursesNOW Roundup May 2021
Looking to keep your finger on the pulse of the nursing industry? Check out this month’s top nursing news stories from around the globe.
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Health IT Business News – May 27, 2021
Business news from Fortified Health Security, MobileSmith Health, Atlantic.net, OODA Health, MRO Corp, Trusted Health, FDB, Rainbow Health, Experity, Carrot Health, LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Bright.md, Greenway Health, Cynerio, Kyruus, HealthSparq, BMC Protect, Noteworth and more.
Forget Planning for Tomorrow: How Analytics, AI and ML Can Streamline Revenue Cycle Management Today
By Brian Robertson – A vortex of trends threatening health system finances have made using advanced analytics including artificial intelligence and machine learning, to streamline the revenue management cycle, both necessary and inevitable.
Sorting out AI, ML, DL, and NLP
This is our ongoing reporting on how AI is being integrated into healthcare technology. We are seeking out the thought leaders and innovations that are moving the needle forward which include PhysIQ Inc., Intermountain Healthcare, UTHealth, Rush University, AdventHealth, Sema4, AR Medical Technologies, Sensyne Health, Tempus, Clarius Mobile Health, DataRobot, Biobeat, & more.
Physicians Call on Congress to Address Prior Authorization Reform
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, physicians reported being bedeviled by unnecessary, bureaucratic obstacles that the health insurance industry pledged to reduce three years ago. The data highlights the urgent need for new bipartisan legislation introduced last week in the House, the Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act.
Will U.S. Healthcare Have The Same Success Rate With Chronic Kidney Disease As Native American Indians?
By Eric Tran MS & Donald Voltz MD – For years, hypertension has dominated the healthcare field, afflicting 45 percent of all adult Americans, inducing a number of lethal complications in patients across the country. Another disease that has gained renown in the world of healthcare is diabetes, afflicting 10.5 percent of the U.S. population with its own complications.
SAMHSA Block Grants to Address Addiction, Mental Health Crisis
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is distributing $3 billion in American Rescue Plan funding — the largest aggregate amount of funding to date for its mental health and substance use block grant programs.
Where Should Your Compliance Priorities Be in 2021?
By Devin Partida – If you work in the health care industry, now is an excellent time to start ironing out your compliance priorities for the rest of 2021. Here are five areas worth focusing on as the year progresses.
What’s Happening at the ONC – 05-24-21
Supporting the adoption of health IT and the promotion of nationwide health information exchange to improve health care, here is what is happening at the ONC, including two Advancing SDOH Interoperability webinars, sunsetting the Interoperability Roadmap, launching Health Interoperability Outcomes 2030 & more.