Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

We reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community with the question – how is the integration of digital health tools, telemedicine, and mobile health applications contributing to the enhancement of population health management, and what challenges exist in ensuring equitable access to these technologies across diverse communities?

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 27, 2025

Healthcare systems implementing secure, user-friendly solutions report improvements in staff satisfaction, patient experience, and operational efficiency. Operations can measure time saved in patient registration and equipment tracking. Healthcare leaders no longer need to choose between security and efficiency.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2023

"We are returning towards pre-COVID-19 financials, and the organizations struggling before the pandemic are in the same predicament now," Chou wrote for Healthcare IT News in February. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Email: afox@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2020

The pandemic presented a variety of problems when it came to continuing patient care during quarantine. The practice needed a reliable system that would enable seamless patient scheduling, HIPAA-compliant video conferencing and billing, Miller said. “This feature really mimics the patient experience of being in the office.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

" The challenge was to provide those who seek care from the organization with the best digital patient experience – one that was intuitive and integrated, and valued their health information, he added. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

“This acceleration also was made available by the opportunities to be reimbursed for telemedicine-related services and relaxed CMS guidelines that waived penalties for HIPAA violations against healthcare providers that serve patients in good faith through everyday communications technologies.” MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 15, 2022

Meanwhile, the company says expanded HIPAA compliance in Salesforce Maps can help home patient care providers to plan their visits, optimize their schedules and review patient data. population being managed for chronic diseases, RPM is an innovation that can reduce healthcare costs with more timely and efficient care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

Metadata from medical images and medical devices can be read alongside clinical information, yielding more powerful results when a provider or researcher searches and queries patient information, Microsoft said. Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare aims to enhance patient experiences and health team collaboration.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

Liz Fobare is vice president of product management at Kareo, a vendor of cloud-based clinical and practice management software for independent healthcare practices and billing companies. From here, telehealth will evolve to strengthen patient-provider engagement. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 16, 2024

This was a violation of HIPAA, but the doctors on both sides of the communication recognized it as crucial to patient care. With Backline, such transmissions can still continue, but they can be done in a HIPAA-compliant manner that doesn’t put the doctor or organization at risk. Tell us what you think.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

It is not easy to ask if a person is experience food insecurity or is currently unhoused. Healthcare IT Today caught up with Bobbi Weber, VP of Product Marketing & Customer Success at QliqSOFT , a company that provides HIPAA-compliant, real-time communication between doctors, nurses, caregivers and patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 4, 2024

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Patient Experience Insights From the Qualtrics X4 Conference. Read more… Healthcare IT Today Podcast : Patient Experience Insights.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Healthcare IT News spoke with Ford to discuss what it is about cancer care that lends itself well to telemedicine, how integrating electronic-reported outcomes with the electronic health record helps the whole virtual oncology effort, and much more. Communication between patient and clinician is critical during this journey.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

However, if a healthcare organization doesn’t combine data across these systems, they can’t achieve the optimal patient experience that’s needed to create a welcoming digital front door.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 6, 2022

"Once the visit was ready to take place, patients would be taken to a two-way video screen where they could talk with a provider through a secure, HIPAA-compliant connection," she continued. Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

So what are these key skills and qualifications and how have they evolved with advancements in healthcare technology ? We reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community for their thoughts and the following is what they had to say. HIPAA), and healthcare data and interoperability standards (Ex.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 2, 2020

"These exciting expansions to our telehealth capacity will help with GHC’s goal to deliver care to our low-income patients in the most efficient, high-quality, convenient and effective ways." “OTTO uses HIPAA-compliant encryption, so the patient data is secure and confidential,” Yu said. MARKETPLACE.

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NiftyHMS

JANUARY 28, 2025

This software helps healthcare practices manage patient records, appointments, billing, and moreall in one platform. Its designed to save time and improve the overall patient experience. Ayurvedic Clinics : Manage Patient Information : Keep organized records of patient treatments, progress, and herbal prescriptions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

" "Coupled with seamless EHR integration and clarity on reimbursement methodology, our new telemedicine infrastructure will push Sun River to thoughtfully consider patient experience in the development of a resilient yet flexible model of care." As a standalone, HIPAA-compliant telemedicine platform, Doxy.me

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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. "If the pandemic has taught us anything, it's that we, as healthcare providers, need to up our games in terms of the patient experience," Merok advised.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 27, 2023

Coming together under the Verisma brand, the combined company provides faster turnaround times through automation, expanded services to manage compliance requirements, and advanced tools to improve patient experience. ScanSTAT is a proud partner to some of the industry’s best electronic health record (EHR) systems.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 17, 2020

advocated for two particular policy changes to be made permanent: the originating site rule, allowing physicians to be reimbursed for telehealth appointments wherever a patient is located, including a patient's home, and the expansion of Medicare- and Medicaid-reimbursable telehealth services. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.,

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The following is a guest article by Steven Dubner, Vice President of Product Management at Nordis Technologies No matter how exemplary the clinical care, overall patient experience and satisfaction often hinge on the last interactions with providers—billing and payments.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2024

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Our first of recent several questions for the Healthcare IT Today focused on a thorny issue. Finally, we posed this question at ViVE earlier this year.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 30, 2024

We reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community to get their insights on what will happen in the coming year and boy did they deliver. Financing solutions also enhance the patient experience, offering increasingly accessible, personalized, and manageable repayment options that improve satisfaction and payment adherence.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2025

LLMs can assist in managing appointment requests and cancellations, streamlining communication between patients and providers. By automating these interactions, healthcare facilities reduce administrative strain and improve the patient experience with quicker response times.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2022

"Early intervention by RNs on staff have resulted in avoiding readmissions through timely medication adjustments, identifying a pacemaker's dead battery, discovering a patient's need to be on hypertension medication, and more." Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

Funding to Accelerate Reach of Solutions, Already on Pace to Impact One Million Patient Lives in 2023 Vital , a leading artificial intelligence (AI)-driven digital health company improving the patient experience, today announced that it has raised $24.7

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 19, 2023

Although widely used in many other industries, its adoption is just beginning to take off in healthcare. In fact, as healthcare leaders increasingly prioritize patient access , chat’s success in other businesses has spurred the rapid onboarding of chat solutions to help address healthcare-specific engagement and accessibility challenges.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

AI helps geographically dispersed medical teams (and personnel working in the same building or campus) access patient medical data. When used correctly — with the proper safety precautions in place — AI becomes more than a tool with its ability to augment and support human judgment to enhance the patient experience within healthcare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The majority of virtual care services at NCHS have been delivered through its proprietary, encrypted HIPAA-compliant telehealth app – which came in handy when COVID-19 began slamming the United States. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 5, 2023

Language access plans (LAP) provide organizations with a roadmap to ensure access and connection that alleviate these disparities and improve patient experience. Healthcare organizations can improve efficiencies and optimize the patient experience by incorporating the latest tools and technologies into their LAPs.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 26, 2025

Providers handle sensitive patient information, making adherence to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) essential. Additionally, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has reinforced requirements for transparency in patient data management, emphasizing the need for secure storage and sharing of medical records.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 22, 2021

I’ve been impressed with everything that the various organizations within HHS have done to try and help healthcare organizations deal with the pandemic. OCR has done a lot around HIPAA including the enforcement discretion around HIPAA penalties associated with telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2021

"Our new platform had to be HIPAA secure in a technical sense, but we also had to think about the unique challenges of ensuring privacy on the patient's end when family members or other people could be nearby. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. " Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Healthcare IT News interviewed Laura Mrazik, manager of telehealth at MaineGeneral Health, to discuss best uses and best practices with Zoom so others can learn from MaineGeneral's lessons. In early 2021, Zoom had done a great job highlighting the security measures they had taken to ensure HIPAA compliance for health system clients.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Optimize Health Data Sharing to Enhance the Patient Experience. Read more… Achieve HIPAA-Compliant Communication for Behavioral Health.

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