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Chronic care management remains a hot topic in the healthcare industry and more providers are showing interest in implementing CCM into their practice. Why does it continue to be important in the 2021 healthcare marketplace as well? CCM determines the quality of care offered to patients who are trying to manage their chronic illness at their best. Here is all about chronic management services and how it benefits for your practice.

The COVID-19 era made the patients and healthcare providers realize the importance of health data access and seamless exchange of data between providers, patients, and payers. Even though the health data is readily available, there is a big question of whether they reach the people’s hands in a meaningful manner. So here the participation of health IT vendors, providers, and payers is more important for quality healthcare delivery. In this article, we discussed the role of FHIR in 2021 healthcare delivery and how CapMinds will help you in FHIR implementation.

CapMinds partnered with the University of Maryland on the U.S Federal Government Grant Program to implement integrated telehealth through community-based clinics specialized in behavioral & mental health in and around Maryland, Virginia.

The healthcare industry ranked on the top in the list of worst-hit sectors due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ranging from individual practitioners to large medical practices, healthcare providers are betting on telemedicine and RPA services as a permanent solution to the current situation.

With the drastic shift to value-based care, patients are expecting more advanced healthcare facilities and quality care. With this in mind, healthcare providers are focussing on delivering personalized and coordinated care. In this article, we explain how optimizing care coordination solutions will help healthcare organizations to achieve financial outcomes.

When wearables are first introduced in the healthcare market – the devices are very simpler and used for tracking workouts and fitness geeks. Even though many of the existing wearables in the healthcare market has been reached decades ago, there are some difficulties with the equipment (hard to use or intrusive). But today due to advanced cloud, AI and IOT technological development, the wearable is built with sensors and multiple functions are revolutionary in personalized medicine.

Value-based healthcare models are specifically designed to drive health outcomes. As the healthcare industry started moving towards the new way of delivering care, many healthcare professionals and physicians are left wondering how important is value-based care in 2021. In this article, we discuss how digital platforms are transforming value-based healthcare.

Today the healthcare industry’s started realizing the value of interoperability and leveraging the advanced technologies to improve processes like patient access to health records, prior authorization, patient engagement solutions, and remote patient monitoring to create interoperability solutions.

Streamlining the prior authorization process could be a game-changing factor in healthcare 2021 which ultimately transforms the overall patient outcomes.  Based on the survey conducted by American Medical Association with 1000 physicians, nearly 64% of physicians reported they face long wait times (one business day) for payers to decide on prior authorization which negatively impacts the patient outcomes.

At the point when COVID-19 started to advance the nation over, the healthcare pioneers worried about the challenges with EHR and interoperability functions. However, to adapt to the unknowns of COVID-19, the health IT experts and vendors are worked together to rapidly streamline both EHR and health IT systems. In this article, we discussed the most popular FHIR, interoperability, and healthcare blogs of CapMinds.

The healthcare world is ever-changing and fighting against the pandemic COVID-19. Today, physicians and healthcare providers are presented with numerous ways to connect with their patients digitally. One of the hot topics in the health industry is ‘virtual healthcare’. It helps those who lack mobility, have limited access to transportation, or live in remote areas. Here is all about how virtual healthcare benefits patients, healthcare providers, and employees.

The spread of COVID-19 featured the significance of SDOH data collection making it an important factor to be considered immediately for providers and researchers.  Integrating social determinants of health (SDOH) data into the EHR helps healthcare providers and professionals gain insight into COVID-19.

As the COVID-19 has affected the whole world, the demand for virtual care and easy to use medical applications are started increasing day by day. As we discussed in our previous blog about how FHIR simplifies healthcare application development, here is all about FHIR API – why it is better when compared to other APIs.

Continuity of care has always been an important thing to general practice as they are adapting the needs to meet the modern-day patients. So, in today’s healthcare marketplace, most healthcare organizations are focused more on improving the continuity of care to minimize unnecessary procedures, readmission, and transfers. In this article, we discussed briefly continuity of care and its importance for healthcare practices.                                                                                                           

As the majority of today’s healthcare organizations formalizing compliance programs, the need for accurate medical coding audits is very clear. Regular coding audits provide numerous benefits like maintaining the highest compliance standards and saving a significant amount of money and time.  It also equips healthcare organizations with the knowledge to improve coding policies and procedures. If you are failing to evaluate the coding procedures of your organization, then, it’s time to know about the importance and benefits of conducting coding audits.

In today’s technological world, healthcare organizations have a lot of choices to make when developing solutions with regards to interoperability, technology stacks, HIPAA compliance, integration, and data management. Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is an innovative technology in the healthcare industry today.

Improving clinical workflow may be a challenging task for today’s healthcare providers, particularly when industry regulations such as HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) are considered. But there are many opportunities to help practice in improving their workflow.

Everyone knows that remote patient monitoring has been gradually taking the world by storm and this technology has helped healthcare providers completely transform their industries. Thankfully, experts have found that the scope for applying remote patient monitoring systems in the healthcare industry, in particular, is substantially more significant than what one may have previously imagined.

In today’s healthcare world, physicians and healthcare professionals are facing huge challenges in taking care of their patients in a better way and in maintaining the healthcare facilities in the best way. Apart from this, the major burden for administrative staff depends on the time-consuming billing tasks and inefficient applications for data collection and management.

Clinical decision support systems have seen a rapid revolution in the healthcare industry today. They are now commonly administered through electronic medical records and other computerized clinical workflows, which have been facilitated by increasing global adoption of electronic medical records with advanced capabilities. In this article, we explained the basics and benefits of a clinical decision support system.