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Reviewing the Top Medical Technology of 2018

Electronic Health Reporter

Technological innovations are helping medical experts advance and improve the healthcare industry. Through technology and science, medical researchers are creating innovations that are improving, expanding and transforming the healthcare industry. This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter.

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Billing “Incident to” in Inpatient Facilities

Legal Eye on Medical Assisting

I recently received the following question: In researching the use of medical assistants in the Medicare Chronic Care Management (CCM) program, I came across your excellent talk in 2018 on YouTube. …

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Physician Pay Increased, Productivity Remained Stagnant in 2018, AMGA Survey Finds

Electronic Health Reporter

Data from AMGA’s 2019 Medical Group Compensation and Productivity Survey shows physician compensation increased in 2018, while changes in work relative value unit (wRVU) productivity remained low. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Productivity […].

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Addressing Patient Health Information In-Security at HIMSS 2018

Health Populi

Privacy and cybersecurity ranked the second highest priority to hospitals and healthcare providers polled in HIMSS 2018 Healthcare Leadership Survey. In January 2018, over 400,000 patient records were breached. The second bar chart shows records breached by month from August 2017 through January 2018.

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Retail Health Ends 2018 With Big Plans for 2019

Health Populi

As the CVS + Aetna merger crosses its last regulatory hurdle at the close of 2018, we enter 2019 facing a fast-growing and -morphing retail health landscape. Another grocery, Giant Eagle, is moving its pharmacies further into medical services through an agreement to channel DarioHealth’s Digital Diabetes Education and Rewards Program.

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How to Make Healthcare More Intelligent and Trustworthy: Accenture’s Digital Health Tech Vision 2018

Health Populi

“Do no harm” has been the professional and ethical mantra of physicians since the Hippocratic Oath was first uttered by medical students. Finally, the Internet of Thinking rounds out Accenture’s five themes in the 2018 Health Tech Vision. Accenture’s vision this year is built on five pillars: Citizen AI. Extended Reality.

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Wearable, Shareable, Virtual: The Demands of the Digital Health Consumer in 2018

Health Populi

This week at the 2018 annual HIMSS conference, telehealth is playing a mainstream role in discussions about right-sizing and right-placing healthcare. The evidence for telehealth’s tipping point is rooted in new research published today by Accenture on Patients + Doctors + Machines, Accentures’ 2018 Consumer Survey on Digital Health.