Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 18, 2025

Keragon , an AI-powered HIPAA-compliant automation platform for healthcare, has raised $7.5 The round was led by Upfront Ventures, with early investors – Afore Capital, Focal, and 25m Health, doubling down on their initial investments. million in an oversubscribed seed funding round. Plus, their support is next-level.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

COVID-19 has created another health crisis in this country – a massive increase in depression and other mental health issues associated with being isolated. Further, the opioid crisis has worsened with an increase in addiction. THE PROBLEM.

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2019

The supply side of digital health tools and tech is growing at a hockey-stick pace. There are mobile apps and remote health monitors, digital therapeutics and wearable tech from head-to-toe. Today in America, electronic health records (EHRs) are implemented in most physician offices and virtually all hospitals.

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TheraNest

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

We’ve got some ideas to share. Meeting the Increasing Demand It’s not new news that the global burden of mental health is rising, with millions of people seeking help for various conditions. Mental and behavioral health practices must be scalable to accommodate this increasing demand.

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TheraNest

MAY 27, 2021

Every solo therapy practice is different and so is every EHR. In a saturated market of Electronic Health Record technology, it is incredibly important to be able to distinguish which tools will be able to help you and which ones will slow you down. What makes an EHR best for solo therapy practices?

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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 Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Behavioral health screening vendor Mental Health Technologies joined AdvancedMD’s marketplace. Lone Star Family Health Center selected athenaOne for EHR, RCM, and patient engagement. Beacon Health System chose Xsolis to streamline medical necessity reviews using generative AI.

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Mend

MARCH 25, 2025

Patient satisfaction is a cornerstone of quality health care especially in mental and behavioral health. After all, the sensitive nature of mental health conditions requires a great deal of trust and engagement between you and your clients.

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TheraNest

AUGUST 26, 2024

In an increasingly digital healthcare landscape, mental health practices recognize the need to implement Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems to improve operational efficiency, enhance patient care, and streamline administrative processes. This can free a lot for time for you and your staff.

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TheraNest

AUGUST 4, 2019

How to Select the Best Mental Health Practice Software for Your Practice. Choosing mental health software for electronic health records (EHR) can be tricky. As of 2015, certain mental health practices (mostly psychiatrists’ offices) had to begin meaningfully using EHR to be eligible for incentive payments.

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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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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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TheraNest

MARCH 9, 2025

Your EHR will be your primary tool , and as such, it should be user-friendly , secure, and designed for mental health professionals. Key Upgrades to Consider: A Cloud-Based EHR System Manage notes , scheduling, billing, and telehealth all in one place. Outside of your EHR, you need to have a modern online presence.

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TheraNest

MAY 27, 2024

Ensure you have a reliable and secure internet connection, a HIPAA-compliant teleconferencing platform, a flexible EHR , and devices like tablets or laptops. If you can, use an EHR with integrated telehealth like TheraNest. Your EHR should allow you to take credit card payments. Get comfortable with your tech.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2024

They address gaps in patient information accessibility and make a holistic view of their medical history, including mental health and social determinants of health information, available at the point of care. Importantly, they align with patient privacy guidelines, often integrating directly with existing systems.

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Mend

AUGUST 22, 2023

Discover the best practices for collecting mental health intake forms in 2023. Mental health intake forms furnish essential information for providers and care teams. Care teams use mental health intake forms to obtain a patient’s medical history, current symptoms, and other pertinent data in order to deliver patient care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 4, 2021

With this in mind, in working with its doctors, it noticed that patients' mental health issues increasingly were negatively impacting their health status. "When it came to referrals for behavioral health services, both our PCPs and their patients were extremely frustrated. In fact, they'll worsen.

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TheraNest

MARCH 6, 2024

Mental health is a critical aspect of our overall well-being. As awareness and acceptance of mental health issues grow, the demand for specialized practices is increasing. Operating a mental health practice entails providing essential services and addressing the costs and challenges that come with it.

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TheraNest

APRIL 29, 2024

In our digital age, telehealth has become an invaluable tool for mental and behavioral health providers to reach and support a larger population of individuals in need. Telehealth is a great way to reach clients beyond your physical borders and can even help you find people in mental health deserts.

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TheraNest

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Centralizing your client records in a digital space, like an EHR, gives you one-stop access to all your client information. The right EHR provides a single hub for all client information, including session notes , treatment plans, assessments, and correspondence, and also ensures data security and HIPAA compliance.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 10, 2021

. “At Zoom, we’ve developed trust in all 3 areas,” Ron told me, pointing to Zoom’s ease of use and dependability, experience in working in lower bandwidth environments, and integration with EHRs like Epic with a growing portfolio of use cases.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 28, 2023

They also discussed the all-important topic of EHR integration. Read more… Addressing the Social Determinants of Mental Health. There are many ties between mental health and SDoH such as food insecurity, unemployment, and access to transportation.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2024

Elie Toubiana at ScribeMD talked to John Lynn about shallow, deep, and white-label integrations of ambient clinical voice and EHRs. Read more… Fast EHR and ERP Deployments at St. Read more… Integrated EHRs: A Game Changer for Healthcare. Real-world data vendor Atropos Health raised $33 million in Series B funding.

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TheraNest

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The Bad AI Isn’t Compliant You’re no doubt well-aware of how complicated it can be to stay compliant in the field of mental and behavioral health. They’re definitely not HIPAA-compliant and cannot be trusted with client information. Taking shortcuts is tempting, but mental and behavioral health may not be the place to do it.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

We’ll be brainstorming the current state of SDoH adoption in health care delivery, what’s preventing further adoption, and what we would do with a magic wand to promote a full health care ecosystem embrace of SDoH. need a new-and-improved HIPAA or more over-arching new national privacy law like a USGDPR?

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

To help shed a light on these topics, we reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community to see what health IT trends they believe deserve more attention. Privacy features for HIPAA compliance would mean means and features that allow organizations to exclude PHI from data collection or redact the PHI to make it anonymized.

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Mend

APRIL 13, 2022

Unfortunately, that’s part of owning a medical or mental health care practice. Patient attendance benefits both your bottom line and their health. Using data from EHR, the University of Missouri completed a study to identify which patients are missing appointments. Believe it or not, there is. Easy Access to Scheduling.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

AUGUST 17, 2024

Telehealth, in particular, allows patients to receive medical consultations, follow-ups, and mental health services from the comfort of their homes. According to the Rural Health Information Hub , telehealth services can reduce transportation issues and improve the quality, safety, and effectiveness of rural healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The EHR Association called for greater flexibility in the data completeness threshold and additional criteria to enhance patient matching accuracy, while MGMA called for a positive update to the Medicare conversion factor amid high inflation. Eastern Kentucky’s Cumberland River Behavioral Health chose Accelecom fiber technology.

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TheraNest

MAY 17, 2022

Whether it’s staying up to date on professional development or learning to use new technology, we’ve compiled some free resources for mental and behavioral health providers. Mental Health Literacy The CDC outlines these three free university courses about communication, learning and teaching mental health literacy.

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Mend

MARCH 1, 2022

Whether you are treating physical or mental health concerns, selecting the right one can be an overwhelming task. Valuable EHR and PMS integration. Your patients deserve more than non-HIPAA-compliant video conferencing platforms like Skype and FaceTime. . • Reliable. Easy to use. But not all are created equal.

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TheraNest

MARCH 6, 2020

This is an ideal situation for both you and your clients, because you will avoid gaps in your schedule and your clients will benefit from your mental health services! . TheraNest provides a top-notch telehealth video platform that is easy to use and HIPAA-compliant. TheraNest’s Telehealth Solution.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 1, 2023

Read more… Learning From Consolidating EHRs and Achieving HIMSS Stage 7. In the latest CIO Podcast, LCMC Health’s Tanya Townsend told John about the health system’s EHR consolidation as part of its effort to get to HIMSS Stage 7 for the EMR Adoption Model. Million Users.

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TheraNest

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Preventing Unauthorized Disclosure: Cyberattacks can lead to unauthorized disclosure of patient information, which can be devastating to the reputation of a mental health practice, not to mention the effect on the clients, who share vulnerable moments because they believe the conversations are confidential.

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TheraNest

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Preventing Unauthorized Disclosure: Cyberattacks can lead to unauthorized disclosure of patient information, which can be devastating to the reputation of a mental health practice, not to mention the effect on the clients, who share vulnerable moments because they believe the conversations are confidential.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2023

Sharing of Data in a Patient Portal Most patients are familiar with HIPAA and of course, expect data to be kept securely in accordance with HIPAA requirements. All clinicians should be equally concerned with patient portal usability as well as the usability of the charting system when choosing an EHR system.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

"Patients residing in relatively remote areas who previously didn't have easy access to a local medical or behavioral health provider now can receive regularly scheduled treatment services at home," said Dr. Ece Tek, chief medical officer, mental health and addiction services at Cornell Scott-Hill.

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