Tag: COVID-19 pandemic

How AI is Solving Big Challenges During COVID-19

How AI is Solving Big Challenges During COVID-19

Artificial intelligence is changing the way we think about healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic, opening our eyes to new opportunities to use machine learning to draw useful conclusions faster. Before COVID-19, one of the biggest challenges healthcare organizations faced was how to accelerate and scale their application of AI—clinically and operationally. Now, the use cases […]
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CMS Approves Coverage of COVID Antibody Treatment for Medicare Beneficiaries

CMS Approves Coverage of COVID Antibody Treatment for Medicare Beneficiaries

New COVID cases reported daily have more than doubled during recent weeks, since a more modest July surge. As the nation’s COVID-19 pandemic continues to spiral out of control, federal authorities are racing to find ways to mitigate the spread. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced last week that Medicare beneficiaries will […]
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5 Ways Health Systems Can ‘Advance To The New Normal’

  The COVID-19 pandemic created the opportunity for hospitals and health systems to innovate in a short amount of time. Learning how to advance and scale those opportunities will be the key to redesigning the health system of the future, said CommonSpirit Health Senior Vice President and Chief Strategic Innovation Officer Rich Roth, and CommonSpirit […]
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7 Questions About the Future of EHRs

7 Questions About the Future of EHRs

Usability and interoperability are top physician complaints, but will 2021 bring any relief? Physicians often see the EHR as the bane of their professional existence, complaining about awful user interfaces and a lack of interoperability with other systems that forces them to access multiple platforms to get the information they need on one patient. But […]
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New CPT Codes for Multi-Virus Tests Detect COVID-19 and Flu

New CPT Codes for Multi-Virus Tests Detect COVID-19 and Flu

The American Medical Association (AMA) today published an update to the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set that includes new code additions and editorial revisions for reporting medical services sparked by the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The update to the CPT code set was approved by the CPT Editorial Panel, the independent body convened […]
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The Critical Role of Rehab In Covid-19 Recovery

The Critical Role of Rehab In Covid-19 Recovery

  Further, the study underscored that inpatient rehab plays a unique and positive role in treating patients recovering from COVID-19. Discover key strategies hospitals can use to improve outcomes through rehabilitation for patients recovering from COVID-19. Importance of Rehab for Patients Recovering from COVID-19 At least 700,000 Americans recovering from COVID-19 will require inpatient rehabilitative […]
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The Benefits of Automated EHR Data Extraction

The Benefits of Automated EHR Data Extraction

  Physicians have faced a number of key technical challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the inability to send and receive patient data, as well as issues related to electronic health record (EHR) interface and failure to effectively extract EHR data. Interoperability and patient data exchange are critical for physicians, hospitals, health systems and payers alike to minimize the […]
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Take a Consumer-Oriented Approach to Your Billing Cycle

Take a Consumer-Oriented Approach to Your Billing Cycle

The Covid-19 pandemic is transforming how physicians practice medicine and bill for it. Physicians who take a consumer-oriented approach to their billing cycle may adapt the best, says John Behn III, MPA, president of Stroudwater Revenue Cycle Solutions and a principal of Stroudwater Associates, a national healthcare consulting firm based in Portland, Maine. “We’ve seen […]
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