HIT News Round Up: The Fate of COVID-Era Telehealth Policies; Tackling the Next Public Health Emergency; and Telehealth Expands in Alabama
Welcome to the Health Information Technology Weekly News Round Up from RosettaHealth. Each week, we will provide you with a summary of all the actionable news that hospitals, HIT vendors, ACOs, and population health providers need to be smart and effective when it comes to HIT and health information exchange.
EHR Association Explains TEFCA Benefits
In this recent Health Data Management guest article, Stephanie Jamison, from the EHR Association, explains how TEFCA’s launch advances healthcare connectivity and access to public healthcare.
Congress Likely to Kick the Can on COVID-Era Telehealth Policies
Federal lawmakers face a year-end deadline to solidify or scuttle an array of COVID-era payment changes for telehealth services that include allowing people to stay in their homes to see a doctor or therapist. According to KFF, lawmakers will likely delay any action.
4 Priorities for Tackling The Next Public Health Emergency
In wake of COVID-19’s four-year anniversary, the AMA and other organizations have made a renewed commitment to prepare for the next public health emergency through coordination, always-on emergency preparedness, real-time detection of disease, and exchange of actionable data.
7 Ways Telehealth is Reshaping Medicine for the Better
Here’s the AMA’s take on how physicians and health care organizations are using telehealth in innovative ways that amount to wins for patients, their families and the nation.
Intermountain Healthcare CDIO Shares Advice for Evaluating and Selecting Vendors
Intermountain Healthcare Chief Digital and Information Officer Craig Richardville stresses three tenets when it comes to evaluating and selecting vendors, which are simplicity, alignment and risk sharing, in this Healthcare IT News article.
Federal Grant to Help Alabama Expand Telehealth Access to Additional 37,000 Alabamians
The Alabama Department of Mental Health had been awarded a $118,000 federal grant to expand telehealth services to the state’s rural communities, an expansion that’s estimated to impact more than 37,000 Alabamians.
Manifest MedEx Joins NCQA’s Digital Content Services Early Adopter Program
Manifest MedEx recently announced that it will participate in the NCQA Digital Content Services Early Adopter Program to advance digitized quality measurement initiatives and help shape NCQA’s framework and approach.
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