by Jordana Choucair | Jul 27, 2022 | Health IT
The House Rules Committee advanced legislation that would extend major flexibilities for telehealth reimbursement through 2024. The Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID-19 Act would ensure waivers to telehealth regulations for originating site and geographic requirements...
by Jordana Choucair | Jul 21, 2022 | Health IT
Apple published a report outlining its contributions to “science-based technology” and health care. The 60-page report states that the company is increasing access to health data, which is helping patients and providers share medical information and support clinical...
by Jordana Choucair | Jul 21, 2022 | Health IT
The Department of Justice (DOJ) charged 36 defendants with using telehealth to defraud Medicare. Allegedly, the defendants engaged conducted $1.2 billion in medical fraud, with much of that coming from phony telehealth claims for unnecessary genetic tests and medical...
by Jordana Choucair | Jul 19, 2022 | Health IT
Tech developer Fold Health launched an interoperable digital health tech stack for primary care. The company offers a comprehensive, customizable operating system that can be laid on top of existing EHRs or platforms. The entrepreneurs built the initial...
by Jordana Choucair | Jul 11, 2022 | Health IT
Signify Health announced it will exit the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Bundled Payments for Care Improvement-Advanced (BPCI-A) model, citing that the agency’s new retrospective trend calculations reduce the opportunity for savings. The...
by Jordana Choucair | Jun 17, 2022 | Health IT
A new report found that tracking tool installed on some hospital websites has been gathering patients’ protected health information and sharing it with Facebook. The Meta Pixel tracker sent the data to Facebook in exchange for analytics about the ads that the...
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