Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 31, 2022

The proposed Telehealth Benefit Expansion for Workers Act would enable job creators to offer standalone telehealth service programs – not unlike dental and vision plans – in addition to existing health insurance plans. There's been no shortage of telehealth-related activity on Capitol Hill this past year.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In early March, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of skilled nursing facilities restricted access to residents. “With regard to patient care, Executive Mental Health primarily provides mental health care to skilled nursing facility residents, and that care was abruptly cut off,” said Dr. Ari D. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2020

The size, scope and rapidity of new telehealth and remote patient-monitoring rollouts since the onset of the coronavirus crisis has been remarkable. But if telehealth is relatively easy to roll out and scale up, keeping the massive amounts of structured and unstructured data it generates is something more of a challenge.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2020

The organization also uses a custom-developed, HIPAA-compliant photo-sharing platform. ” Phase One was mobilization, ramping up telehealth services quickly to meet patient and family needs. “Fred” Thomas, director of telehealth services at Children’s Hospital Colorado. " John F.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 12, 2021

At Philadelphia's Albert Einstein Medical Center, whose health system serves a large geographical area and offers complex quaternary care, telehealth has been an innovative solution to several care delivery problems. These can be categorized in three areas: patient/staff safety, communication and logistics. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 17, 2020

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, federal policymakers have enacted 31 changes to enable greater access to telehealth. "Today we have the opportunity to consider how we can deploy telehealth to expand access to healthcare for everyone," said Sen. " Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn. HELP Committee Chairman Sen.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Lighthouse Telehealth is a subsidiary of Harbor, formed in 2018 to meet the growing demand for telehealth. "Rather than just a telephonic intervention, the clinician was able to visibly assess the patient using our Vidyo telehealth platform and could see that the patient had relapsed and was at serious risk of overdose."

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Finally, doctors are trusted data stewards for patients — something we’ve appreciated since the advent of HIPAA. for trust/honesty as nurses, doctors, and pharmacists). for trust/honesty as nurses, doctors, and pharmacists). identifying the top 3 occupations in the U.S. identifying the top 3 occupations in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

” The only HIPAA-compliant vendor Upstate had immediate access to and currently was using was WebEx. ” One of the big goals of telehealth was to preserve PPE, which was successful with the use of an auto-answer feature using FaceTime on iPads. Also, WebEx facilitated HIPAA-compliant video chats with more than two attendees.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ( HIPAA ) is a federal law that safeguards sensitive patient health information (PHI) from being disclosed. Up to now, HIPAA-compliant data security and generative AI haven’t gone hand-in-hand as AI is trained on large datasets centrally and often by third parties.

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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.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

A natural complement to traditional telehealth, electronic-reported outcomes elevate at-home care by providing specificity and context to symptoms that allow clinicians to take precise action. What elements of cancer care can physicians and nurses tend to with telemedicine along the cancer care journey?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 31, 2020

Before the pandemic struck earlier this year, Central Kansas Mental Health Center in Salina, Kansas, had a small telehealth setup that started out of necessity over a lack of doctors available in its rural area. Central Kansas Mental Health Center’s telehealth setup was all done in-house by its IT staff. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 11, 2019

So the center decided to launch a telemedicine program, with the help of MediSprout, a telehealth technology vendor. Specifically, MediSprout's V2MD, a HIPAA-compliant video conferencing technology for telemedicine visits. MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. " RESULTS. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2022

MCHS had multiple telehealth platforms prior to COVID-19. MCHS has offered telehealth services for almost 25 years, which prepared the organization to respond to COVID-19. Prior to COVID-19, MCHS offered 45 of its more than 90 specialties via telehealth in its clinical facilities. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2022

In June 2020, Avel and ViTel Net, a telehealth technology company, were awarded funds as a team to compete in the NETCCN project, provided by the U.S. HIPAA Compliant. Telehealth has proven to be a vital resource to clinical care teams during disaster scenarios, including the COVID-19 pandemic. Survey and consent tools.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Portland Community had not provided telehealth appointments prior to March. To address this problem, the health center started using telehealth. Over the course of a weekend, staff created a workflow through HIPAA-compliant Zoom so that providers could carry out appointments via videoconferencing.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 22, 2023

They include a primary care access program that facilitates consults for primary care physicians; a school-based telehealth access program for direct intervention for students; and more. In 2019, the Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium (TCMHCC) received funding for five different statewide behavioral health programs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Telehealth continues to grow as a crucial part of patient care, especially when supporting patients who live in remote areas and senior citizens. Research firm Frost & Sullivan forecasts a sevenfold growth in telehealth by 2025 – a five-year compound annual growth rate of 38%.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 15, 2023

Adding to the growing number of recent FTC investigations about data being shared by telehealth platforms for profit, Cerebral reportedly notified 3.1 The question posed in that title about possible HIPAA infractions was unanswered until now with Cerebral. HIPAA investigations don’t occur in a vacuum.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Six in ten people are open to health and wellness services via virtual channels, over half like the idea of remote monitoring linking with at-home devices, and 1 in 2 people would be open to routine appointments through telehealth. Overall, 75% of consumers trust medical doctors, and 69% trust nurse practitioners and physician assistants.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 3, 2023

Logistics and operations addresses information processing, sharing, analyzing, and management — requiring interoperability and data liquidity, along with “nutritious” AI underpinning the analyses to ensure health equity-by-design.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Molly and I then segued into how the health system incumbent players — hospitals, plans, clinicians, and life science companies — can (and should be) part of the telehealth ecosystem and solutions to deliver care, everywhere.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 30, 2020

“In mid-March 2020, it became quite apparent that VIM was going to need to pause in-person visits to the Bend clinic,” said Jennifer Fuller, RN, clinic nurse manager at Volunteers in Medicine’s Clinic of the Cascades. With InfoStructure technology the nurses were able to use a mobile app called SNAPmobile.

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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The program brings two-way virtual care communications to the hospital bedside to increase nurse assistance, improve patient safety, and advance care model innovation within the regional health system. The virtual nursing program is the latest step in a series of digital health innovation programs at Mary Washington Healthcare.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Many personal information flows don’t fall under the HIPAA umbrella if the company isn’t a business associate. This gets to transparency, regarding how these companies communicate privacy policies to users; and, for health care, this speaks to patients’ concerns about their healthcare privacy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2022

In 2020, the Federal Communication Commission's telehealth grant program awarded Decatur County Memorial Hospital in Greensburg, Indiana, $698,603 for remote patient monitoring equipment, a patient telehealth platform, network upgrades, tablets and mobile hotspots. Accessible healthcare and health education.

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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. "In the month of April, our patient visits were 20% telehealth, 80% in-person. " Nursing and ancillary staff. "It equipped us to become the destination site.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 29, 2022

"Utilizing a Chromebook and HIPAA-compliant communications platform such as Zoom or Google Meets, team members can reach a Hackensack Meridian Health psychiatrist who can diagnose, prescribe and provide recommendations on next steps for patients. FCC funds for telehealth.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

AUGUST 30, 2022

Although telehealth has made healthcare more accessible, increased accessibility comes with unique challenges. While healthcare professionals already have to follow HIPAA rules and regulations, telehealth increases the risk of online security issues. Security Concerns in Behavioral and Telehealth Services.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 10, 2021

In preparing for our virtual meeting, I found that Ron had been trained as a nurse, and was a young pioneer working with the Maine telemedicine network 25 years ago. Zoom had already been a telehealth partner to many healthcare systems and organizations before COVID-19.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Remote monitoring, the Internet of Things (both medical and via a smart home), wearables, and telehealth/virtual care channels will enable that care, anywhere, in this AHA/EY vision. But will HIPAA protect American patients in this world of AI, Big Data velocity and volume, and persistent social check-ins? This week, Health 2.0

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 29, 2023

According to the US Department of Human Services (HHS), healthcare professionals can share HIPAA-protected health information (HIPAA PHI) with one another without written content in several circumstances. This article will give several examples of the circumstances under which HIPAA PHI can be shared, and review reasonable safeguards.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

JANUARY 12, 2021

As we enter the new year we are seeing numerous payor telehealth policy changes, and therefore we have made several updates to the Virtual Visit Billing Guides for Arkansas, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Extended current telehealth flexibilities until further notice. Current telehealth flexibilities expire December 31 st , 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 15, 2024

This system seamlessly integrates wearable devices and a mobile app into a HIPAA-compliant platform. " Remote patient monitoring , telehealth, care management with nurse interventions and behavioral intention screening have been individually recommended as techniques for effectively managing hypertension.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2022

Remote patient monitoring allows patients to monitor their blood pressure, weight, oxygen saturation, symptoms and medication adherence in real time at home with a dedicated registered nurse who actively outreaches to patients as needed. Because of this, it hired a full-time employee to monitor the patient panel. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2021

The computerized physician order entry triggers a message to an enterprise master patient index, which then sends an automated message to telehealth and remote patient monitoring vendor Vivify Health's system to enroll the patient. Vivify then adds a service level for the postpartum hypertension program in the patient medical record.

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