Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2020

The practice needed a reliable system that would enable seamless patient scheduling, HIPAA-compliant video conferencing and billing, Miller said. But then his EHR vendor, athenahealth, recently launched athenaTelehealth. The pandemic presented a variety of problems when it came to continuing patient care during quarantine.

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

"Having this kind of tool built into the clinicians' workflow by being embedded within the EHR is another level of convenience that is becoming table stakes at this stage." These tools aim to minimize clinician burden, reduce their time spent within the EHR, and answer patients after hours. In October 2022, Providence St.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 19, 2021

"They also offer a cloud-based, HIPAA-compliant platform that integrates with our EHR," she continued. " Brandy Armstrong, RN, CarDon & Associates. "All telehealth-generated documentation includes a wet signature that imports from their platform into our system of record. ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2020

The organization also uses a custom-developed, HIPAA-compliant photo-sharing platform. Children’s Hospital’s telemedicine platform vendor has been Vidyo, and the platform was integrated with the organization’s Epic electronic health record.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 27, 2023

HIPAA includes a requirement for MINIMUM NECESSARY ACCESS. Everyone knows that HIPAA requires patient information to be kept private and not shared with friends, family members, or anyone else without the patient’s authorization. HIPAA requires that computer activity logs be reviewed to identify unauthorized or inappropriate access.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Over the course of a weekend, staff created a workflow through HIPAA-compliant Zoom so that providers could carry out appointments via videoconferencing. “Using Zoom, we were able to conduct HIPAA-compliant telehealth appointments during the first months of the pandemic,” said Ann Tucker, CEO of Portland Community Health Center.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The first graphic shown here illustrates the authors’ view on the digital evolution of HaH from delivery of care (migrating from in-person to fully virtual), telecomms (from telephone to embedded HIPAA-compliant video conferencing), and remote monitoring, moving from patient-reported data of vital signs to wearable sensors.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 8, 2020

Thanks to insurance companies’ and the governor’s direction, telehealth visits were allowed, which prompted Riad to explore options using the athenaOne Mobile EHR app. ” The EHR has a feature that connects FaceTime through the patient’s chart. If it continues, it’s a huge benefit.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 30, 2020

Usually, HIPAA violations are part of the background noise of the healthcare business, and few are so large that they prove catastrophic for the entity involved. In the following case, however, a health system has incurred a fine that can’t be taken lightly.

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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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 2, 2020

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. “OTTO uses HIPAA-compliant encryption, so the patient data is secure and confidential,” Yu said.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

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. More younger people would be interested in downloading personal health records compared with older people.

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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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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

While more Americans appear to support data sharing between their physicians, and greater access to data for their own use, it’s concerning that only 36% of patients told the Pew that their providers’ EHRs let them access their own records electronically through an app or online patient portal. As with other aspects of U.S.

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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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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2019

Today in America, electronic health records (EHRs) are implemented in most physician offices and virtually all hospitals. Just last month, Amazon announced HIPAA-compliant privacy bundled into Alexa skills with Atrium Health, Boston Children’s Hospital, CIGNA, ExpressScripts, Livongo, and Swedish Health Connect.

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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

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

"Quickly, Yosi Health engineers were able to leverage our existing EHR integration into a new integration with a HIPAA-compliant telemedicine platform," he continued.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Healthcare providers should adopt a proactive cybersecurity stance, ensuring both patient trust and compliance with industry standards like HIPAA and HITRUST, said George Pappas, CEO of Intraprise Health, a cybersecurity company recently acquired by Health Catalyst. HITRUST is another important framework that goes beyond HIPAA and NIST 2.0.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Microsoft also announced the Microsoft Teams electronic health record connector, which will allow clinicians and patients to launch a telehealth visit or virtual consult directly from their EHR system. Epic will be the first EHR system to integrate with Teams in this way. WHY IT MATTERS.

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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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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The health consumer conundrum on trust and “my” health/care data in our current world is that so much health-related data isn’t covered by HIPAA or in the medical claim or EHR. In the U.S.,

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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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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2022

My Health Concierge contains embedded healthcare workflows, including triggered events and write-back capabilities to major EHRs. "The flow of patient information needs to be completely secure and HIPAA-compliant in order to ensure that doctors can give the best recommendations and provide the best care.

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Digital Health Global

MAY 1, 2024

Healthie is HIPAA Compliant and SOC-2 Certified. As the only foundationally HIPAA-compliant and HITRUST-certified work management platform purpose-built for healthcare, Dock serves as the administrative hub for The Other Half Of Healthcare providing a layer of accountability across the industry.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2022

For some historical context, the authors (all affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania [medical school or Wharton (business school)] start with HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act which served up privacy protections based on the health information technology of the time. In the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 15, 2020

As mentioned previously, we’re taking part on the Virtual AHIMA conference this week. Exploring how things work in the virtual world, we tried something new today and did a text based chat interview with Rita Bowen, VP of Privacy, Compliance and HIM Policy from MRO. In this wide ranging text interview, we talked with Rita […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Tight Epic EHR integration imperative. “ExtendedCare offered Grady a HIPAA-compliant, cloud-based platform that allowed us to rapidly scale video visits at a pace we were comfortable with,” Hilburn explained. Glenn Hilburn, RN, vice president of information technology at Grady Health System.

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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

OCTOBER 13, 2020

But they were three separate systems that did not integrate with the EHR platform. “The telehealth solution allows for us to schedule initial intake or reoccurring appointments with residents who already exist in our EHR system,” he added. ” All three systems worked. No additional staff interaction is required.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

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. More younger people would be interested in downloading personal health records compared with older people.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The following is a guest article by Pukar Hamal, Founder and CEO at SecurityPal While Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have made managing data easier, they’ve also become a prime target for cybercriminals. million, almost double the average across other sectors.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 21, 2020

According to the company's website, the software integrates into a provider's electronic health record, allowing for electronic, HIPAA-compliant patient reports to be transferred into an EHR system. BioTelemetry says it monitors 1.2 million patients a year, with 40,000 sensors shipped each month.

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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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