Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

AI is becoming an essential tool in healthcare and is being leveraged to create new efficiencies this includes better documentation, streamlined data extraction, and predictive modeling that contribute to enhanced clinical efficiencies and higher-quality care. However, a strong foundation is crucial before leveraging such innovations.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 18, 2021

(Fun Friday’s HIPAA vs. HIPPA chart reminded me of an oldie-but-goodie article I wrote years ago to help you always spell HIPAA correctly. And I hate it when I type EHR to abbreviate Electronic Health Records and it always autocorrects to HER, which I have also seen in published articles and even federal documents.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

When the sector is set to face shortages of between 37,800 and 124,000 physicians by 2034, generative AI could alleviate administrative work, such as summarizing patient calls and managing electronic health records (EHRs), to allow medical staff to focus on improving patient care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2020

Based on Twilio’s Programmable Video API, the service will give healthcare professionals the ability to launch video visits with patients and to update clinical documentation and review patient histories within Epic EHR workflows. Kaiser Permanente already uses the company to optimize patient communications.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 2, 2020

“No dual documentation was required. Rather, a single application programming interface connection would integrate OTTO with our EHR, practice management and patient portal, creating a streamlined user experience,” Yu explained. " Lionel Yu, Garfield Health Center.

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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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TheraNest

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

For many practices, these bottlenecks include administrative processes like lengthy documentation or inefficient billing. That’s why incorporating a scalable EHR solution like TheraNest is vital for growth, efficiency, and client care. TheraNest is an EHR designed specifically for mental and behavioral health practices.

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Digital Health Global

AUGUST 9, 2023

This HIPAA-eligible service is set to empower healthcare software providers by leveraging speech recognition and generative AI to revolutionize clinical documentation, enabling clinicians to save time on these tasks and enhance patient care.

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TheraNest

MAY 27, 2021

Every solo therapy practice is different and so is every EHR. EHRs have the power to streamline efficiency, increase productivity, improve the client experience and so much more. EHRs have the power to streamline efficiency, increase productivity, improve the client experience and so much more. Billing Tools.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 26, 2021

"With new guidance and workflows in place, Gerald Champion needed a user-friendly telehealth platform that seamlessly synced with our EHR, athenaOne. "Additionally, patient privacy is of the utmost importance to Gerald Champion, so we knew our team needed a HIPAA-compliant solution for our providers and patient population."

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 30, 2022

It’s also well known that many physicians remain disappointed with the charting and clinical documentation capabilities of hospital and specialty EHRs. According to KLAS Research’s Arch Collaborative, physicians want three basic things from their EHRs: strong user mastery, a sense of ownership and system personalization.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 22, 2020

" Staff had to figure out, fast, how to integrate this new model of care in a HIPAA-compliant model. " Integrating telehealth into the EHR. First up with the funding, in order to support the high volume of telemedicine requests, the organization needed a system that integrated directly into the EHR, Sheth said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 21, 2020

Azalea Health is a health IT vendor that offers an EHR and telehealth tech, and is offering clients free telehealth services for one year to fight the pandemic. "Another draw toward this telehealth solution was its HIPAA compliance," she added. At that point, adopting this telehealth solution became the obvious answer."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The clinic was notified about a year and a half ago that its current EHR vendor was no longer going to support the application, and that its current hardware components were expiring. Charles Health System, the Bend clinic installed an Epic EHR. Charles Health System, the Bend clinic already had remote access capability to the EHR.

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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

(Nasdaq: VSEE), a leader in comprehensive digital health services and customized telehealth workflow streams, announces its $340K contract with a major EAP provider to build an integrated AI-enabled electronic health records (EHR) and virtual care delivery platform. billion at a CAGR of 14.8% between 2024 and 2029.

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Lloyd Price

MARCH 3, 2025

Simultaneously, OCR scans a handwritten referral note or lab result on the desk, extracting key data like blood pressure readings.Generative AI then synthesises this, voice and text into a structured EHR entry, drafts a treatment plan, flags potential drug interactions, and even generates a patient-friendly summary in seconds.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Partnerships AI documentation and coding vendor Ambience Healthcare joined athenahealth’s Marketplace Program. Lone Star Family Health Center selected athenaOne for EHR, RCM, and patient engagement. Company New Patient experience vendor Tendo updated its PCI, SOC 2 Type 2, and HIPAA certifications.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

“There was only one practical option: Rapid implementation of HIPAA-compliant telemedicine workflows,” Truesdell said. If there is a video visit coming up and the patient has joined, a medical assistant jumps on to gather normal rooming documentation and greet the patient. All providers can join the visit the same way.

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TheraNest

AUGUST 19, 2019

Your clients need to feel a certain level of trust to benefit from your services, and a good part of this trust comes from knowing that the information they give you is safe and HIPAA compliant. . If any of these communications contain client information, then they should be secure and HIPAA compliant. But what does this mean exactly?

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 30, 2025

There may be a temptation to focus primarily on evaluating high-profile areas, like the EHR, but the reality is that any point of failure can result in disruption. When the inevitable disruption occurs, having well-documented and regularly rehearsed plans will enable you to respond and recover. and results.

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Health Intersections

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In fact, the report explicitly notes that no vulnerabilities were found or are documented in the EHR FHIR implementations themselves. But on the HIPAA side… a big deal. And over 60% of the tested apps and APIs had flaws that enabled unauthorized access to data outside of the authorized users’ scope.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

By contrast, there are HIPAA-compliant ways to use texting to convey information to patients. "Additional complexities around new documentation, specific follow-up vaccination windows, and an influx of people that are new patients could overwhelm current intake and scheduling processes," said Johnsen.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

“The Caregility technology offered a HIPAA-compliant, two-way, audio/video solution,” said Tracey Kopenhaver, RN, eICU and cardiac ICU operations manager at Geisinger. “We also were able to assist with little things like documentation that required two nurses, so that only one bedside nurse needed to go into the room.

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AMD Telemedicine

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

For many, the most obvious solution has been to rely on a third-party vendor to provide telehealth services and then work to make that service interoperable with existing electronic health records (EHR). Our solution can be set up to directly push and pull data from your EHR and export encounter reports for your records.

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TheraNest

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Your documentation is a mess Everyone deals with occasional to-do pileups, but if you constantly have a backlog despite your best efforts, your process likely needs an overhaul. Plus, setting up an online client portal gives your clients the freedom to manage their own schedules, access important documents, and handle payments with ease.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2021

"Our program uses a comprehensive and coordinated approach of clinical operations, EHR integration, mobile technology, best-practices algorithms and population health monitoring to address this key contributor to maternal morbidity and mortality." " These differences are particularly notable in the postpartum period, she added.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Enhanced Data Insights: By analysing large amounts of data, Care Studio can identify patterns and trends that may not be apparent in traditional EHRs. AI-Powered Tools: AI-powered features can automate routine tasks, such as data entry and documentation, freeing up clinicians' time to focus on patient care.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 14, 2024

Subsequent statements and social media posts, summarized nicely here by Brendan Keeler, indicate the shut-off occurred in response to Particle Health users requesting data without having a legitimate Treatment use case as defined by HIPAA. EHR vendor ModMed and Medtronic are partnering to enhance the documentation of polyp detection.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

"We also created mobile bedside video carts that allowed physicians to speak to patients virtually from a safe distance and document their symptoms in Epic's MyChart." " Dr. Paul Testa, NYU Langone Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Diana Sonbay-Benli, VP & Chief Product Officer, Cognizant TriZetto Healthcare Products at Cognizant Since the advent of HIPAA, almost a career’s duration ago, we’ve focused on the safeguarding of data. HIPAA/HITECH rules have been utilized in sharing data between various entities.

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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. A digression: As the health wonks and policy nerds reading this are already aware, HIPAA is a horse of a different color.

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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. A digression: As the health wonks and policy nerds reading this are already aware, HIPAA is a horse of a different color.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2021

"There was a complete lack of integration with existing clinical workflows and the EHR, which meant that these visits were disconnected from the established health IT environment," he said. "Because we traditionally used telehealth so rarely, there was no standard way to conduct and document the visits.

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19 Labs

JULY 8, 2024

This collaboration adds the ability to streamline how schools send and collect consent forms and other documents to the GALE platform. During the COVID-19 pandemic, WellCheck pivoted to utilize its cloud-based, HIPAA-compliant platform for wellness screenings.

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TheraNest

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Recent technology advancements, like EHRs, have produced numerous benefits for both providers and clients, including faster intake, accessing documents and bills through the client portal, and enhanced collaboration among healthcare professionals. For therapists, secure messaging goes beyond HIPAA compliance.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The following is a guest article by Mitchell Perry, VP Compliance & Security at Access In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare IT in US healthcare frameworks, integrating electronic health records (EHRs) has become a cornerstone for providers.

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TheraNest

JULY 31, 2024

The Benefits of Using the Wiley Treatment Planner Wiley Treatment Planner is specifically designed to save therapists time and improve client care by providing a quick and easy way to create treatment plans without compromising on the quality of documentation. Here’s more information about using AI for mental health documentation.

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