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Optimize rural primary care revenue by closing gaps in care. Use digital outreach for preventive screenings and patient engagement.
Bobbi Weber
The journey of the specialty pharmacy patient is a complex and expensive process, as most any hub services participant knows. It starts when the patient is diagnosed with a life-changing chronic or complicated condition and the pharmacy receives the order for a specialty drug.
Krishna Kurapati
It's a new year and a new presidency, and with that comes great uncertainty as to the future of healthcare in America. Early action has already been taken to ensure the dismantling of Obamacare and replacing it with some to-be-determined solution. The truth of the matter is that the cost of healthcare won't be decreasing anytime soon.
Ben Henson
Prior to the pandemic, telehealth visits ─ delivering patient-provider visits virtually ─ was an afterthought in the care continuum — ill-regarded and little-used beyond patients in rural areas who had few care choices. Virtual visits comprised less than 1% of all outpatient visits. Private insurers generally follow guidelines from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which allowed telehealth in only limited circumstances and paid at 30% below in-office reimbursement rates.
The COVID-19 pandemic has tested the medical community, rewritten society norms, and created countless questions - with few answers. This novel virus has displayed traits of being highly contagious from person to person contact, particularly through respiratory droplets caused by coughing, sneezing, and talking. Due to little knowledge of the disease, the potential for high community spread, and the possibility of best-protecting individuals -- the United States entered a lockdown in March of 2020.
Ben Henson
How to Provide Quality Healthcare Without Masks or Barriers The COVID-19 pandemic has many more healthcare providers and their patients continuing to embrace telehealth services. This enables the treatment of many more patients while…
Ben Henson
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused healthcare institutions to make immediate changes to how patient care is handled. While telehealth is not brand new technology, its widespread use is unfamiliar to many Americans. The need for telehealth services during this time has been spurred by the influx in pressure on the healthcare system’s capacity, but also the high-rate of contagion that follows the virus.
Ben Henson
Improving patient engagement in healthcare requires overcoming barriers like app downloads and poor user experience. By adopting staff-to-patient texting and proactive chatbot interactions, providers can enhance patient involvement and overcome the limitations of traditional patient portals. Personalized communication, simplified access, and convenient engagement methods help build stronger provider-patient relationships and achieve higher adoption rates, ultimately benefiting healthcare organizations and patients alike.
Krishna Kurapati
Cyber security attacks wreaked havoc on the healthcare industry last year. According to a recent article by Healthcare IT News, more than 40 million patient records were compromised by data breaches in 2021. As we move forward into a new year, many healthcare leaders wonder what to expect next. To find out more, we spoke with Krishna Kurapati, the founder and CEO of QliqSOFT.
At qliqSOFT we are always engaging in an open dialogue with industry experts and customers to discover new ways in which qliqCONNECT can help providers send secure communications in an increasingly unsecured world. To better get an idea of some current trends, we recently polled members in a HIMSS group LinkedIn discussion to discuss the essential “wish list” of health IT experts.
Krishna Kurapati
ver the last two years, healthcare organizations have had to rapidly adopt digital technologies to adapt to fluctuating changes brought on by the pandemic. Unfortunately, even though many of these solutions provided excellent results in the short term, many organizations are struggling to integrate these solutions successfully as long-term strategies.
EVV, also known as electronic visit verification is a technology system that provides digital proof of caregiver presence and service(s). EVV communication is not a brand new idea, as many individual states and agencies have been actively using the technology for years. However, EVV has come into the spotlight over the past several years due to the legislative passage of the 21st Century Cures Act in 2016.
Ben Henson