Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, very few clinical areas at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, had established telemedicine programs, and there was little synergy among them and the organization’s Epic enterprise EHR. ” The only HIPAA-compliant vendor Upstate had immediate access to and currently was using was WebEx.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

I called this out in my 2019 book, HealthConsuming: from health consumer to health citizen. Still, over 50% of consumers ages 56 to 74 would like to download their EHR data. This is particularly concerning when personal health data is downloaded to an app that may fall out of the protection of HIPAA.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

HIPAA, everyone’s favorite scapegoat for all (OK, most) of the ills of the modern healthcare-industrial complex, is perpetually called out as being in dire need of a rewrite. The HIPAA RFI came next. Comments are due February 12, 2019.) Well, that moment has arrived (maybe). The regs were finalized in 2003.)

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

HIPAA, everyone’s favorite scapegoat for all (OK, most) of the ills of the modern healthcare-industrial complex, is perpetually called out as being in dire need of a rewrite. The HIPAA RFI came next. Comments are due February 12, 2019.) Well, that moment has arrived (maybe). The regs were finalized in 2003.)

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

That magic wand would wish for clinicians to ask patients and caregivers about their lives, divining SDoH challenges to include in the full profile of the person in her/his EHR. need a new-and-improved HIPAA or more over-arching new national privacy law like a USGDPR? What does “de-identification” mean in this scenario?

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TheraNest

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Unlike the secure and HIPAA-compliant telehealth video platform provided by TheraNest, Apple’s FaceTime is not HIPAA compliant and therefore should never be used to see clients or complete telehealth sessions. However, even with the bug fixed FaceTime remains a non-HIPAA compliant platform for telehealth sessions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

Microsoft took a step to address health data interoperability with Azure API for FHIR in 2019. Patient Unified Health Scoring is integrated with the Patient Data Platform, which helps customers connect all their end-customer data in a single place while also meeting their HIPAA-compliant responsibilities.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Philips published results from this global study in The Future Health Index 2019 , themed “Transforming healthcare experiences, exploring the impact of digital health technology on healthcare professionals and patients.” Think of APIs as tunnels into the clinical data warehouses that have been created by EHRs.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 4, 2019

From a sheer quantity standpoint, the plethora of devices from Amazon (claiming sales of 100 million gadgets at the end of 2018, plus a dozen new ones introduced for the 2019 holiday sales period) captures the stampede nature of the market. Amazon’s release of HIPAA compliance tools has made personalizing the interaction feasible.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

But we know that doctors hate interacting with EHRs and that voice assistants will migrate further into the health ecosystem, the experiment phase will come to an end, and voice interactions will support personalized information exchange – your HIPAA-compliant answer to ‘when is my next appointment, for what and with whom?’

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2022

In 2019, MCHS completed 15,000 patient encounters via telehealth and an additional 60,000 tele-pharmacy consults. We are taking lessons learned and building them into our new Amwell platform with full integration with our Cerner EHR in 2022." " Chris Meyer, Marshfield Clinic Health System.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 6, 2022

In 2019, when the organization launched a selection process for a telehealth vendor, Muro said it was difficult to talk with executives about why the hospital needed a virtual care platform. "But it also adds a higher level of intensity to meeting patients' needs in a more immediate way and with the best solutions available."

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Mend

APRIL 13, 2022

A 2019 study of one million patients revealed shocking data about missed appointments. Using data from EHR, the University of Missouri completed a study to identify which patients are missing appointments. If your patient is likely to be a no-show, our Attendance Predictor offers HIPAA-compliant telehealth options.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

” Launched in 2019 and co-founded by Aaron Patzer and Emergency Medicine Physician Dr. Justin Schrager, Vital is a leader in the acute care patient experience with over 100 hospitals and 31 health systems nationwide. Vital has revolutionized the patient journey much like Mint.com did for personal financial management.”

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Digital Health Global

JULY 12, 2023

By transforming complex, fragmented health care data into simple, beautiful digital experiences, we’ve been able to achieve the type of growth and impact I’ve dreamed of since we founded Vital in 2019. Vital improves patient satisfaction, keeps patients in-network and generates additional revenue for health systems.

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Digital Health Global

MARCH 23, 2023

” Launched in 2019 and co-founded by Aaron Patzer and Emergency Medicine Physician Dr. Justin Schrager, Vital is a leader in the acute care patient experience with over 100 hospitals and 31 health systems nationwide. Vital has revolutionized the patient journey much like Mint.com did for personal financial management.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In 2019, Fitbit unveiled a more data-driven personal health subscription service for consumers that, among other features, generates personal reports that a user can download and share with their physician, nutritionist or personal trainer.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2024

For example, in 2019, online appointment scheduling was still unavailable at many health systems. Culturally, while virtually every physician practice, hospital, or health system has an EHR system, many continue to use fax machines – a 1980s technology – to share sensitive information between intuitions.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2022

An ONC blog post described how the tool works: Developers answer questions about the type of health data the app will collect, the intended use of the app, and the type of entity developing the app to determine whether the app is subject to HIPAA, the information blocking rule, or other federal laws.

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American Well

JULY 13, 2020

With more than 1,000 providers utilizing its Express Care Online platform in 2019 alone, Cleveland Clinic’s commitment to integrating telehealth into the way it delivers care has served as an example for health systems across the country. Clinical Impact. Cleveland Clinic. Cleveland Clinic continues to be a model of provider engagement.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Outcomes4Me found that more than half of healthcare organizations are non-compliant with HIPAA and don’t honor individuals’ right to access their health records. PEP Health showed that patient experience scores are on the rise for hospitals in Texas , with Stars Ratings steadily increasing since 2019.

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Redox

JANUARY 12, 2021

Patient preferences are changing 1 11% choose to use telehealth in 2019 76% express interest in telehealth going forward Telehealth now accounts for 50-175x the number of pre-COVID visits. Every day, Redox processes millions of messages and thousands of HL7 feeds and EHR vendor API calls. Redox is a veritable workhorse.

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Mend

DECEMBER 7, 2020

billion in 2019 and is expected to reach $123 billion by the end of 2030. 2) HIPAA Privacy and Security. The same goes for whether or not it can be integrated with the institution’s EMR or EHR, imaging infrastructure, and lab systems running atop the enterprise-wide security infrastructure with single sign-on.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

AUGUST 28, 2024

The lack of standardization across different devices can lead to data integration issues with existing Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems. 2019) published in JAMIA Open. Data Accuracy and Integration Issues Another critical challenge identified in studies published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine (Hailu et al.,

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mHealth Insight

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Next week (11-15 February 2019) in Orlando (USA) 45,000 delegates will attend the world’s biggest Healthcare IT Conference and Exhibition and we’ll be there for meetings and to learn about and share mHealth innovations with readers of the mHealth Insight blog.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2020

The organization also uses a custom-developed, HIPAA-compliant photo-sharing platform. That’s roughly equal to the number of telehealth visits that had been completed for all of 2019." “That’s roughly equal to the number of telehealth visits that had been completed for all of 2019. " John F.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 21, 2020

The vast majority of hospitals and health systems – 88 percent – have invested in or plan to invest in remote patient monitoring technologies as part of their transition to a value-based care model, according to a 2019 Spyglass Consulting report. "It is all these waves that will combine in a perfect storm for RPM in 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The IT vendors that Harbor used to provide telehealth services include IDSolutions, which provided a HIPAA-compliant video platform (Vidyo), and Streamline Healthcare Solutions, which provided Harbor’s web-based electronic health record, SmartCare. ” PROPOSAL. This prevented double-booking of the ‘Tele Patient Rooms.’“

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2020

Purchasing devices and platforms due to pricing was a concern, and HIPAA-compliant platforms and cybersecurity [were concerns] for PHI/patient safety." "With an increased capacity, internet bandwidth was a concern in the areas of workflow and patient access. The Hemoglobin A1C measure is an important aspect to the quality program.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

DrKumo ensures secure, HIPAA-compliant data transmission and offers an easy-to-use interface for both patients and providers. CPT codes 99487 and 99489 are used for complex Chronic Care Management (CCM) services. Learn more about DrKumo’s chronic care management.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 5, 2024

million deaths in 2019. Healthcare organizations must adhere to strict regulatory guidelines, such as HIPAA compliance, to safeguard patients’ sensitive health information transmitted through remote monitoring systems.

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HIStalk Weekender

MAY 10, 2019

The Practice Fusion unit of Allscripts is served a criminal grand jury subpoena related to EHR certification and anti-kickback statute issues. Astria Health blames its EHR conversion and contracted RCM vendor for its Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Grahame Grieve is named the winner of the 2019 Glaser Award. Best Reader Comments.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

The health care section of Mary Meeker’s 334-page annual report, Internet Trends 2019 , comprises 24 of those pages (270 through 293). While we read a broad range of industry analysts’ reports using these nouns, their definitions vary so broadly as to be, by 2019, fairly meaningless in terms of how they quantify these markets.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

The tea leaves have been brewing here at THINK-Health as we prepared our 2019 forecast at the convergence of consumers, health, and technology. voters through 2019, and on the Presidential debate stages for both Democrats and Republicans leading up to the parties’ nominees for 2020.

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