Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 23, 2023

He noted that previous legislation with funding for broadband, like the 2009 American Recovery and Resiliency Act, defined what needed to be done to access funding. Another priority for members is seeing CMS getting more in lock-step with Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, or TEFCA, and qualified health information networks.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

As I approach my 20-somethingth HIMSS, having been a member of the organization for most of my professional life, I’ll be focusing on the mainstreaming health IT Zeitgeist as I meet with innovators and experts this week in Orlando. I’ll give you four big reasons: The patient is expecting a consumer experience from health care.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Fragmented Healthcare Data is Costly for Patients and Providers Signed into law by President Obama in 2009, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) mandated the adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) across healthcare systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

government introduced the meaningful use program as part of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in 2009, LTPAC organizations – notably nursing homes – and the vulnerable patients they serve have been left behind. Since the U.S.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 9, 2020

Health Informatics (HI) is a relatively new, interdisciplinary field. HI (also called Health Information Systems) uses information technology to organize and analyze health records to improve healthcare outcomes. Tools include medical terminology, information and communication systems, and computer technology.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 16, 2023

A 2019 study documented that 20% of LatinX smartphone users were more likely to use a health app than Caucasians. 2 While mHealth apps may have improved needed care access, some have secretly collected and sold sensitive mental health information to other companies.3 National Academies Press (US), 2009. Sherman, Justin.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Now we’ll see how Real Time responded and look at the new burdens that AI is placing on health care as revealed by the case. One of the key goals of health care reform, going back to HIPAA in 1996 and particularly the HITECH act of 2009, is to allow the free flow of patient data in a secure and privacy-preserving way.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology. After that, you can listen on demand (See podcast information below.)

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology. After that, you can listen on demand (See podcast information below.)

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology. After that, you can listen on demand (See podcast information below.)

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 21, 2021

As modern technology becomes indispensable in health care, the vulnerabilities to cyber-threats continue to increase, compromising the health information and safety of millions of people. Authors: Saira Ghafur, Emilia Grass , Nick R Jennings , Ara Darzi.

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Digital Health Today

JANUARY 28, 2021

A Sponsored Post by Azalea Health. Since the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act was passed in 2009, healthcare has digitized rapidly, with electronic health records (EHRs) now ubiquitous across medical practices – except for within behavioral health.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 10, 2023

Thier Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Chief Health Information and Innovation Officer at Partners Healthcare System in Boston (now Mass General Brigham). He also served as the United States National Coordinator for Health Information Technology from 2009 to 2011.

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care innovations

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Larger companies may be able to more readily take on this financial risk, but the process of a clinical trial is still likely to take years , with no certain outcomes (a 2009 National Academy of Sciences study found that 75 percent of drug research costs are sunk in products that fail to move out of the clinical trial phase).

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Society for Participatory Medicine

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

“Doc Tom” Ferguson (Wikipedia) envisioned health care as an equal partnership between e-patients and health professionals and systems that support them. A true visionary, less than a year after the Mozilla browser arrived he published a pair of slides that showed how “information age healthcare” would turn medicine on its head.

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Meaningful HIT News

MARCH 30, 2017

For those not up on the lingo, “meaningful use” is the standard healthcare providers must meet to qualify for Medicare and Medicaid bonus payments for use of health information technology and/or avoid penalties for not being “meaningful” users of electronic health records.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JUNE 30, 2022

Between January 2008 and June 6, 2009, Pennsylvania healthcare facilities registered 2,685 prescription errors concerning the use of insulin products to the Authority. Glucose control is critical in treating hyperglycemia in both diabetic and nondiabetic patients.

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Digital Health Today

JANUARY 7, 2022

Lisa Fitzpatrick, a physician, medical epidemiologist and founder of Grapevine Health. Grapevine Health creates and delivers trusted and relatable health information to underserved communities, with the goal of empowering people to adopt good habits and take charge of their health. Health literacy.

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Mend

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Disclosing protected health information (PHI) can cause serious harm to a patient’s safety, personal life, and state of mind. The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009. Privacy is one of the most important parts of a patient’s healthcare experience.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 23, 2024

Building resilient healthcare systems: Lessons from the pandemic: The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of strong health information systems, robust data infrastructure, and coordinated global response mechanisms.

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American Well

MARCH 17, 2016

The app shows heart rate, calories burned, cholesterol and other important vital information, as well as results of lab tests, diagnoses and medical examinations. American Well is integrated with Apple Health to allow telehealth physicians to immediately access and track a patient’s health information with just one click.

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American Well

MARCH 17, 2016

The app shows heart rate, calories burned, cholesterol and other important vital information, as well as results of lab tests, diagnoses and medical examinations. American Well is integrated with Apple Health to allow telehealth physicians to immediately access and track a patient’s health information with just one click.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

In the 1996 HIPAA statute (which covered a lot of other ground), Congress gave itself one year to legislate standards for health data privacy and security, and decreed that if it were to fail to meet that deadline, HHS would have to create regulations from whole cloth. The regs were finalized in 2003.) But not a wholesale revision.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

In the 1996 HIPAA statute (which covered a lot of other ground), Congress gave itself one year to legislate standards for health data privacy and security, and decreed that if it were to fail to meet that deadline, HHS would have to create regulations from whole cloth. The regs were finalized in 2003.) But not a wholesale revision.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 3, 2017

Given a Health Information Exchange, or Nationwide Health Information Exchange, there will be a variety of capabilities and use-cases for the hundreds-thousands of various Document Consumers. Keith covered this in a different way back in 2009. Other document types are also possible. Why publish multiple formats?

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 6, 2018

Blockchain's interoperability could underpin data exchange, serving as an alternative to today's health information exchanges (HIEs); essentially, it would act as a mesh network for transmitting secure, near real-time patient data for healthcare providers, pharmacies, insurance payers and clinical researchers, according to IDC.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Embedded in Apple’s Health app, the new feature will bring together medical data from participating hospitals and clinics, as well as from the iPhone itself, giving millions of Americans direct digital control of their own health information for the first time.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Here are some of the evidence: In a 2009 study on the evidence of the Chronic Care Model in the new millennium , it was found that the Chronic Care Model can improve patient care and create better health outcomes. Under this program, care teams can bill for time spent managing patients’ health conditions.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

Had PPS been required to have broader governance – including community-based organizations, health plans, faith-based organizations, Health Information Exchanges, and other nonprofits, we would have had more balanced governance decision-making that would have supported the policy goals of the program more consistently statewide.

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Lloyd Price

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In 2009, in the wake of the financial crisis, the federal government acted to remedy this situation. They took up space, they were difficult to share with other physicians, hospitals, and insurance companies. Patients switching doctors, hospitals, or places of residence could not easily bring their records with them.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Paulo Pinho, vice president & medical director of innovation at Availity Clinical Solutions (formerly Diameter Health ). He reported poor standardization of data coming out ot at test centers, despite the standards for interoperability delineated in the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical (HITECH) Act of 2009.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 27, 2018

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