Health Populi

MAY 29, 2018

But there’s a data stewardship role that’s crucial when an organization takes in peoples’ personal information: 81% of health executives agree that organizations aren’t prepared to deal with societal and liability issues that AI-based decisions may raise. How to be responsible, equitable, transparent as a good AI citizen?

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Continue Education Journal

JUNE 12, 2019

Telehealth and Telemedicine Definition. We often hear telehealth and telemedicine used interchangeably, so let’s set the record straight – telehealth is the umbrella term that refers to medical services that healthcare practitioners provide to patients from a distance. Telehealth in 2019.

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Iris Telehealth

AUGUST 1, 2022

In our last two posts, we talked about how to identify your telehealth grant funding needs and provided an overview of the four main types of grant funding sources. Now that you’re equipped with the correct information, your organization can begin a more informed search for telehealth grant funding opportunities.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 4, 2023

According to a recent study by MarkUp and STAT, 49 out of 50 telehealth platforms share sensitive data in ways that may harm healthcare clients and patients. Shared information can include detailed descriptions of health issues, names, street addresses, email addresses, diagnoses, or prescription information.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

At Columbia, South Carolina-based Prisma Health, "we’re on a journey pursuing aspects of digital health," said Dr. Mark Wess, the health system's vice president and chief health information executive. "The asynchronous virtual visit for primary care is one of those." in room W414D.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 2, 2023

DeBakey Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and chief of health policy, quality and informatics program at the Houston VA Center for Innovation in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety. Andrea Bradford, PhD, is a co-investigator. What should clinicians engaging in telemedicine know about this effort?

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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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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Most doctors see the advantages of digital health tools like telehealth, consumers’ access to their health information, and point-of-care workflow solutions, the American Medical Association found in a survey of 1300 physicians, published in September 2022.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 14, 2023

In fact, a recent JAMA Health Forum report indicates that from 2016 to 2021, the annual number of ransomware attacks on the healthcare sector more than doubled. Awareness of an organization’s potential entry points is especially critical with the increased usage of connected medical devices and telehealth services.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

APRIL 20, 2023

The success of several telehealth abortion services has increased access to abortion pills over state and international borders, raising questions that fuel the fire. Multiple telehealth abortion companies have successfully prescribed and delivered abortion pills since 2020 when it was first permitted by the Federal Drug Administration.

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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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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 23, 2023

With Congress providing telehealth waivers as part of its omnibus spending bill at the close of 2022, delaying the "telehealth cliff" for two years, HIMSS says it's now ready to make the case for permanent reimbursement of virtual care.

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Enzyme Health

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Close For Clinicians For Employers Telehealth Jobs Family Medicine General Practice Emergency Medicine Internal Medicine Nurse Practitioners Family Nurse Practitioners Physician Assistants Psychiatry / Mental Health Hospitalist Dont see your specialty? and Wesleyan University about reform and innovation in the health care system.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 30, 2023

About one-half of clinicians’ enterprises are looking to increase automation for patient communication, expand telehealth options to patients, and grow full-time headcount. How to move forward? What do these clinicians’ organizations plan to do to fill in the staffing gaps that drive burnout? BDO asks and answers.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

The 21st Century Cures Act emphasizes patients’ control of personal health information. ONC rules issues in March 2020 called for more patient-facing health tools and apps to bolster health consumer engagement and empowerment. Digital literacy combines with health literacy to bolster patient engagement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Health system IT leaders need to be ready to enable care delivery anywhere, anytime, to any patient. New advances in cloud and telehealth/remote monitoring are forcing the issue. Virtual care. Map route optimization.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

We know that “health information” encompasses much more than data stored in a health plan’s claims system or a pharmacy benefit manager’s computer data base. Health is made as much outside of medical care providers’ sites as it is at home, at work, at play, at school.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Zeev Neuwirth, author of Beyond the Walls: MegaTrends, Movements and Market Disruptors Transforming American Healthcare and Reframing Healthcare , kicked off the 2023 American Health Information Management Association annual conference (AHIMA23) with a heartfelt keynote.

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Iris Telehealth

APRIL 7, 2024

Fortunately, virtual behavioral health services can go a long way toward filling those care gaps. Dr. Tracy Mullare, Medical Director of Outpatient Services, Iris Telehealth These challenges [of the provider shortage] have affected children across the board, and those in rural areas have been particularly affected.

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Iris Telehealth

APRIL 8, 2024

Fortunately, virtual behavioral health services can go a long way toward filling those care gaps. Dr. Tracy Mullare, Medical Director of Outpatient Services, Iris Telehealth These challenges [of the provider shortage] have affected children across the board, and those in rural areas have been particularly affected.

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American Well

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Many of your patients already use telehealth in some sense even if they may not know the word for it. 80% of all Americans use online resources to look up health information and “ cyberchondria ” is already a concern among mental healthcare professionals. Many telehealth providers will already have them on.

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American Well

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Many of your patients already use telehealth in some sense even if they may not know the word for it. 80% of all Americans use online resources to look up health information and “ cyberchondria ” is already a concern among mental healthcare professionals. Many telehealth providers will already have them on.

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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. But, more importantly, know how to implement them in a HIPAA-compliant way to keep patients and their data safe.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 9, 2023

” Unprecedented in telehealth history, the sharing of sensitive health information in early 2023 is poised to shatter provider naivete about working for large-scale business entities entering healthcare. BetterHelp will reportedly be required to pay $7.8 The issue isn’t limited to BetterHelp, though.

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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. This past September, the U.S. And the U.S. Twitter: @kjercich.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Read more: 6 Reasons Remote Patient Monitoring is the Future of Telehealth. How Does it Work? How to Choose the Best Software for Your Needs. The post Remote Patient Monitoring Software: How to Choose the Right Tool for the Provider’s Needs appeared first on DrKumo. Some key factors to consider include: 1.

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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. Such treatment communications may occur orally, in writing, by phone, fax, email, or otherwise.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 29, 2022

News Data is the new oil, but we need to know how to share and use it responsibly This HIMSS22 Asia-Pacific conference speaker believes a framework for responsible sharing of data. By Adam Ang | June 29, 2022.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2024

Note that one of CES 2024 keynote speakers is Elevance Health’s President and CEO Gail Boudreaux. “Elevance Health, a health insurance company?

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in its recently released HTI-1 final rule to take into account how AI can inform clinical decisions. Meanwhile, predictive AI can help providers predict costs and figure out how to deploy scarce resources.

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care innovations

JULY 4, 2018

Telehealth — i.e., the process of digital healthcare delivery — is rapidly transforming many of the fundamental aspects of healthcare, including: Improving communications and strengthening the bond between patients and clinicians. H2: Checklist: Choosing the Right Telehealth Company. Offers a turnkey telehealth solution.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Some patients did not have devices to connect with Mount Sinai, did not know how to use the various connectivity platforms, did not have WiFi connection, or did not have “minutes allocation” for broadband connectivity. But the healthcare organization’s efforts were subject to challenges on the patient side.

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Christina's Considerations

DECEMBER 9, 2021

This guest post from Nightfall (a cloud-native data loss prevention solution) is written for organizations that partner with those in the healthcare industry, but I share this post to help educate consumers. One reason is I often hear "you can.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

AUGUST 10, 2022

This allegedly allowed Facebook to receive Protected Health Information (PHI) of patients, including doctors’ names and medical conditions. All of this information could be linked to the user’s unique IP address. Must-know information about how to protect your telehealth practice from a ransomware attack.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 6, 2022

Adrienne Boissy of Qualtrics talked to Colin about how – and why – healthcare leaders need to address teamwork, empathy and communication to rebuild a trusting relationship with workers and bring joy back to the industry. Read more… How to Ensure Telehealth Improves Patient Care.

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