Patient Engagement
The document describes the government's hopes for how technology goals should be prioritized over the next five years – with an emphasis on patients' access to their health data.
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A new report from the Center for Health Information and Analysis examines the readmission patterns for patients discharged from Massachusetts acute care hospitals.
The updated interim final rule, meant to offer providers and developers more flexibility as they respond to COVID-19, also pushes out health IT certification requirements.
The hospital invested in the technology with an eye toward starting with urgent care and mammography. Suddenly, COVID-19 testing was the focus. Today, use of self-scheduling has grown beyond pre-pandemic levels.
Such a regulation would assist providers with implementing medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder in the longer term.
A new report from Booz Allen Hamilton predicts that the explosion in virtual care offerings will change the way bad actors target health data.
Nonprofit leaders hope that researchers will be able to use the platform to share and access currently siloed patient information.
Sheri Liebl, executive director of revenue cycle at CentraCare Health, says the healthcare system improved point of service collections by 25% by giving patients options.