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What the groups want from Congress is action that would avert the entire 4.5% reduction to Medicare payment rates.

<p>Dr. Tom Milam, chief medical officer at Iris Telehealth, sees hospitals using virtual care to meet the increasing demand for behavioral health – and help with the shortage of psychiatrists.</p>

The physician organization is strongly urging Congress to stop the 4.5% payment cut scheduled for January 1, 2023.

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The increase holds true even after accounting for patients being sicker and requiring more complex and intensive care.

The clinical workforce must be cyber aware, and the cybersecurity team must become clinically aware, experts say.

<p style="text-align:start; margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:15.546667098999023px"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal"><span style="white-space:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">Greg Miller, chief growth officer at health IT vendor Lumeon, says that manual methods for coordinating and verifying points in a patient's clinical journey cause provider burnout.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p>

The value proposition is making sure everyone is using the same process for cyber risk quantification.

Efficiencies introduced in these policies would save physician practices and hospitals more than $15B over a 10-year period, CMS says.

<p>Dr. Dhesi Raja, vice chair of the Board of Advisory at HIMSS APAC, says it is important for the region's hospitals to envision the goal for AI in healthcare and adopt systemic changes enabling population health management.</p> <p> </p>