The costs of hospital readmissions are a major topic of concern in the healthcare industry, impacting a hospital’s quality of care as well as their financial health. As value-based reimbursement models begin to replace fee-for-service, developing a strategy to reduce...
Hospital readmissions continue to be a significant patient-safety issue that plagues the healthcare industry. Despite the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implementation of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) in 2012, the 30-day...
Claims data is created each time a patient covered by an active health insurance plan visits a healthcare provider. After the visit, the provider will submit a summary of services rendered to the patient’s payer for reimbursement, and that information forms part of...
Leading care collaboration network and post‐acute health information platform combines with Audacious Inquiry to further expand network and capabilities in mission to improve patient outcomes MISSISSAUGA, ON. – February 1, 2022 – PointClickCare Technologies, a leading...
On January 18th, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Recognized Coordinating Entity, the Sequoia Project (“RCE”), pushed TEFCA forward in a major way with the release of the initial Common Agreement, QHIN...
Health information exchange (HIE) plays a critical role in the drive towards interoperability in healthcare. HIE evolved as a solution to data silos that emerged among hospital and health systems and the variety of electronic health record software they implemented,...
While the COVID-19 pandemic has been at the forefront of medical and public concern for the past year and a half, the opioid overdose epidemic has continued to quietly take its toll in the United States. In the twelve months leading up to April 2021, over 100,000...
