Mend

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Disclosing protected health information (PHI) can cause serious harm to a patient’s safety, personal life, and state of mind. That is why it is essential to adopt a HIPAA compliant telehealth program when offering virtual care services. Under HIPAA, there can be steep penalties for breaches involving PHI.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 7, 2023

If you, as a behavioral health professional, violate the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), you must follow certain obligations and procedures to rectify the situation. Below then, is a suggested list of steps for a practitioner who wonders, “What Happens if you violate HIPAA?”

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2023

Its leaders found that the tracking technology used to mine user data had disclosed information to third parties and subcontractors. Cerebral’s investigation concluded that the data might be considered protected health information and that it had failed to make sure that these third parties met HIPAA requirements for protecting PHI.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Over the last almost two years, healthcare has seen organizations rely on technology and the cloud to get accurate, trusted information to patients and direct them to the appropriate resources and care at scale. Healthcare IT News interviewed Dr. Illing to talk about telehealth, the cloud, machine learning, advanced analytics and much more.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 13, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS Cerebral is a consumer-facing telehealth platform providing mental and behavioral health services for patients with or without insurance. The unauthorized patient data disclosures may have also included appointment information, treatment notes, and insurance particulars for those that subscribed to the service.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The legal action is one of what is likely to be an increasing number of fines issued to telehealth companies profiting from sharing consumers’ health data with advertisers, among other infractions. Under its health Breach Notification, the FTC took enforcement action, imposing a $1.5 Misrepresented its HIPAA Compliance.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The growing use of APIs in health information technology innovation for patient care has been a boon to speeding development placed in the hands of providers and patients. The goals were to identify risks and vulnerabilities and to develop recommendations for protecting health consumers’ personal health information.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 16, 2020

Care collaboration technology vendor TigerConnect has debuted TigerTouch, a text message-oriented, audio/visual telehealth system designed to help health systems manage COVID-19 cases. Healthcare IT News has compiled a listing of telemedicine vendors in the age of COVID-19, a resource for health IT leaders. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Guillaume de Zwirek, CEO of Well Health, told Healthcare IT News that he believes the best strategy is to "meet patients where they are." " "I don't think healthcare really understands what true patient engagement is," said de Zwirek, whose company offers patient communication tools.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The legislation, which is supported by several industry representatives including athenahealth, Epic, IBM and Teladoc Health, would establish a commission tasked with providing recommendations to Congress about updates to health information privacy laws. "HIPAA must be updated for the modern day. And the U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Seeking health information online along with researching other patients’ perspectives on doctors are now as common as booking dinner reservations and reading restaurant reviews, based on Rock Health’s latest health consumer survey, Beyond Wellness for the Healthy: Digital Health Consumer Adoption 2018.

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care innovations

JUNE 6, 2018

Discussing the accessibility (or lack thereof) patients have to their electronic medical records (EMR), the report also reveals some important underlying factors that have left many facilities unable to deal with both the transition to EMR and compliance with HIPAA. Improving Compliance with HIPAA: The Telehealth Option.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 2023

The article is written to illustrate the practical identification and utilization of LEP services in telehealth. Telehealth Implications of LEP When working through telehealth to access new communities, providers and their employers can face ethical dilemmas when working with people who demonstrate limited English proficiency.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

Rock Health and Stanford commissioned an online survey among 7,980 U.S. adults from early September to early October 2020 to gauge peoples’ interest in and utilization of digital health tools and telehealth. But the big growth areas were for live video telemedicine, wearable tech, and digital health tracking.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2022

Since 1993, Avel has developed innovative service lines, ranging from emergency and pharmacy to ICU and school health, to ensure everyone has access to care when and where they need it. 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.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The first graphic shown here illustrates the authors’ view on the digital evolution of HaH from delivery of care (migrating from in-person to fully virtual), telecomms (from telephone to embedded HIPAA-compliant video conferencing), and remote monitoring, moving from patient-reported data of vital signs to wearable sensors.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 8, 2023

This article reviews Gen Z’s mental health statistics, explores the role of telehealth in addressing Generation Z’s mental health crisis, and offers suggestions for psychotherapists who wish to develop services to help address this urgent need.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

AUGUST 10, 2022

Jane Doe, a patient at UCSF Medical Center and Dignity Health Medical Foundation, has filed a lawsuit against Facebook’s parent company in relation to its health data privacy practices. According to a report co-published by STAT and The Markup, the company used Meta Pixel, a tracking tool, to extract health data from hospital websites.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

House of Representatives passed by a 416-12 vote the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2021 , which would extend the telehealth flexibilities put in place during the public health emergency until the end of 2024. Partnerships. On average, patients can connect to a provider within eight seconds.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 21, 2020

According to the company's website, the software integrates into a provider's electronic health record, allowing for electronic, HIPAA-compliant patient reports to be transferred into an EHR system. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Twitter: @kjercich. Email: kjercich@himss.org.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 8, 2023

This article reviews Gen Z’s mental health statistics, explores the role of telehealth in addressing Generation Z’s mental health crisis, and offers suggestions for psychotherapists who wish to develop services to help address this urgent need.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In 2019, few health care providers have adopted voice assistants into their workflows. The report calls out one big barrier to early adoption especially among hospitals and physicians: concerns about privacy and HIPAA compliance.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2023

The following month, the Journal reported that Froedtert Health posted a loss of $43.5 eVisit purchases Bluestream Health's telehealth eVisit announced it has acquired Bluestream Health to add digital front doors and other tools to its telemedicine platform. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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GlobalMed

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The black market price tag of stolen protected health information (PHI) can go for $60 a record, compared to roughly $1 for a credit card or social security number. But the Covid-19 pandemic has forced nearly everyone in healthcare to reckon with both, thanks to two dynamics: The rapid adoption of telehealth solutions.

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TheraNest

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Compliance ensures that you’re delivering quality care, protecting client information, and meeting legal requirements. Therapists can struggle with compliance in various areas, ranging from HIPAA to telehealth or advertising. If you use telehealth, make sure your video conferencing solution is safe and HIPAA-compliant!

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MAY 1, 2023

Adding fuel to the recent firestorm surrounding the report of the top 50 telehealth startups’ alleged sharing of sensitive patient data with large marketing companies, a new study has raised similar marketing practices in 98.6% percent of these hospitals routinely sent sensitive health information to third parties.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

APRIL 19, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released another announcement about its BetterHelp investigation of privacy practices, outlining six recommendations for owners of telehealth services. “Personal information” may be “health information” simply due to the nature of the product or service.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 22, 2022

When it comes to healthcare and patient monitoring, there are more tools available, and they have gotten a lot easier to use. In this article, we will provide some tips for choosing the right RPM tool for your clinic or hospital. Read more: 6 Reasons Remote Patient Monitoring is the Future of Telehealth. How Does it Work?

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Xealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

The digital side door encompasses various online touchpoints – from websites and patient portals to mobile apps and telehealth services. Provide a Seamless Online Experience Provide intuitive website navigation, fast and efficient appointment booking, and access to telehealth options.

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InTouch Health

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Helping Communities in Need Access Telehealth Services. As we move further into 2020, the benefits of telehealth are well known. Health systems that use telehealth can take on more new patients, improve patient outcomes, and reduce the overall cost of care by reducing hospital readmission rates and the average patient length of stay.

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Health Populi

APRIL 11, 2019

I anticipated we’d see a lot of tools and techs to support patients seeking support for accessing and paying for more affordable care. Furthermore, data can be scraped for all kinds of purposes, outside of the context of health care in which patients and health consumers originally share their data.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 26, 2022

Historically, these solutions were delivered as separate tools that companies were forced to integrate, or build in-house, which is timely and expensive. Healthie’s scalable platform supports digital health companies’ rapid growth while also improving the patient experience and overall health outcomes. About Healthie.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Using Wearable Devices In Telehealth. Modern technology companies are also exploring the benefits of wearable health monitoring devices for health-conscious users. Do Healthcare Wearable Devices Involve Telehealth? To properly transmit images with PHI would be to use a HIPAA-compliant texting service or EHR.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2018

Digital health innovations will play big roles in supporting that consumer health experience for most health providers: 58% prioritize offering digital tool and information for consumer engagement, and 56% of providers look to develop a range of virtual/telehealth access points.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MAY 1, 2023

Adding fuel to the recent firestorm surrounding the report of the top 50 telehealth startups’ alleged sharing of sensitive patient data with large marketing companies, a new study has raised similar marketing practices in 98.6% percent of these hospitals routinely sent sensitive health information to third parties.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 2023

Adding fuel to the recent firestorm surrounding the report of the top 50 telehealth startups’ alleged sharing of sensitive patient data with large marketing companies, a new study has raised similar marketing practices in 98.6% percent of these hospitals routinely sent sensitive health information to third parties.

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