Today, most remote patient monitoring services are billed under four Current Procedural Terminology codes. These codes can be split into two categories to help understand their uses. There are two RPM device monitoring codes – 99453 and 99454 – and two timed RPM management service codes – 99457 and 99458. CPT 99453 covers the time

The ongoing impact of the February 21 Change Healthcare cyberattack and subsequent system outage threatens the sustainability of physician practices across the country, possibly resulting in closures, which could destabilize patient care in some areas, according to informal survey findings from the American Medical Association. Practices of 10 physicians or less – the bulk of

Private healthcare group IHH Healthcare has moved several on-premise database systems of its hospitals across Malaysia and Singapore to the cloud. IHH Singapore’s core application workloads, including the electronic medical record (EMR), enterprise data warehouse, and laboratory information systems (LIS), have been migrated to Oracle Exadata Database Service on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.  Meanwhile, IHH

The shift toward value-based reimbursement demands that hospitals and health systems take a more thoughtful approach to population health management. That requires the development of robust analytics strategies to track care quality and help patients manage their chronic conditions. To achieve this, provider organizations should embrace an enterprise-wide approach that focuses on integrating key data

The U.S. is considered one of the most dangerous high-income countries in the world in which to give birth. Meanwhile, there’s a shortage of OB-GYNs, leaving more than 2.2 million women of childbearing age living in so-called maternity care deserts with limited obstetric care. THE PROBLEM The “fourth trimester,” or postpartum time-period, is often a

In an online survey of 100 practicing physicians who work in a large U.S. hospital or health system and use clinical decision support tools, four in five providers – 81% – agreed that generative artificial intelligence can improve care team interactions with patients. The doctors surveyed by Wolter Kluwer also indicated high standards for selecting

A new statistical analysis of 90 distinct hospital websites, drawn from a nationally representative sample of 100 community hospitals, finds that those providers – when they had privacy policies available for consumption – were inadequate in how they accurately disclosed the use of third-party tracking technologies to consumers. In addition to comparing details about third-party

The charge nurse is responsible for creating daily nurse/patient assignments, which are informed by the location of the patient within a unit and the clinical judgment of the charge nurse. THE PROBLEM Assignments typically do not incorporate objective assessment of workload or patient acuity. As a result, nurses could be responsible for several high-acuity patients

Two years ago, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs’ Riyadh-based hospital, King Abdulaziz Medical City, became the first in the world to reach Stage 7 in four different HIMSS models. (It’s recently become a pioneer with some impressive work to reach Stage 6 on another model.) Its advanced use of health

Healthcare is the industry that’s most likely to self-assess as having “very mature security,” according to a new cyber readiness report from Kroll. But it’s also one of the most-breached sectors – topping the list in 2022 and coming in second this past year. That discrepancy can be traced to many factors – not least