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3 Ways to Achieve HIPAA-Compliant Communication for Behavioral Health

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Ram Krishnan, CEO at Valant Communicating with patients – in a compliant manner – is essential for behavioral health practices. All practices must comply with HIPAA, as well as the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The first step is using a HIPAA-compliant telehealth solution.

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Nudging Patients to Use EHRs: Moving Toward a Tipping Point for Consumer Health IT

Health Populi

patients were offered online access to their health records by providers or insurers, and one-half of them accessed the EHR at least once in the last year. One in four of those offered online EHR access looked at them more than 3 times. So why don’t patients use online health records yet? Half of U.S.

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How Healthcare Communication Platforms Can Harness Generative AI in a HIPAA-Compliant Way

Healthcare IT Today

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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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

Healthcare IT Today

But in a time when our industry is facing high staff overtime and burnout, there’s simply no way that we can be aware of everything happening in health IT. What should be trending right now in health IT? So what trend isn’t being talked about enough? The following is what they had to share with us. advertising platforms).

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Progressive Therapeutics allays telehealth security concerns with EHR integration

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Staff would have to juggle multiple windows between the EHR and the video call; it wasn't a smooth operation. Nor was it HIPAA-compliant, a major concern. Progressive Therapeutics found vendor Azalea Health, which offered a proposal for an EHR solution that came fully integrated with telehealth. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare Cybersecurity – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. For example, HHS is proposing to update the HIPAA Security Rule in 2024 to strengthen requirements for HIPAA regulated entities to safeguard electronic health information from cybersecurity threats.

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Where Does it Hurt? Specialty Physician Shares Three Ways to Improve EHR Charting

Healthcare IT Today

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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