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How athenahealth’s EHR FaceTime feature is helping a solo practice during COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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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Wright Center codevelops a telehealth-EHR combo to expand care options

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

So that model does not work, because that is really just remote patient care. " For example, in rural or less populated regions, too often there is a scarcity of specialists and subspecialists available to patients. " Staff had to figure out, fast, how to integrate this new model of care in a HIPAA-compliant model.

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Zoom is helping MaineGeneral Health boost its telehealth success

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In early 2021, Zoom had done a great job highlighting the security measures they had taken to ensure HIPAA compliance for health system clients. We then made the business case to pilot switching existing services over to Zoom, including all primary care practices. It has now been one year since primary care switched to Zoom.

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The Ins and Outs of Healthcare Communication Platforms

Healthcare IT Today

One example of leveraging AI as a tool to integrate new information sources could be by integrating natural language processing to both recognize audio, visual, and written communications and provide additional context or patient information from their EHR in real-time.

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Cornell Scott-Hill makes big strides with specialist telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"If we are able to reach the patient by phone, we can, in real time, convert a scheduled in-person visit to a telemedicine visit to avoid prolonged gaps in care." Cornell Scott-Hill's clinical leadership and IT collaborated to identify viable, HIPAA-compliant platforms that were rapidly rolled out across the health center.

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Costs, Consumerism, Cyber and Care, Everywhere – The 2019 Health Populi TrendCast

Health Populi

An example of legislation newly-crafted to hit the House floor in January 2019 comes from Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) in the form of the Affordable Drug Manufacturing Act. This list, and other names we’ll see creating on-ramps to primary care and self-care to the consumer, will expand in 2019.

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Prelude to Health 2.0 2019: Thinking Consumers At the Center of Digital Health Transformation

Health Populi

As EY’s framework illustrates here in the Venn diagram, these many health and wellbeing touch-points leverage various technologies and services: maturing EHRs and acute care, as well as emerging tech like AI, blockchain, and biometrics. 2019 will feature examples of all of these technologies and services. .”