Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2020

The HHS Office for Civil Rights announced on Tuesday that during the coronavirus pandemic it will use discretion when enforcing HIPAA-compliance for telehealth communications tools. WHY IT MATTERS. and Google G Suite Hangouts Meet. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 7, 2020

The 128-page update to AMA's Digital Health Implementation Playbook Series comes as telehealth adoption is increasing by leaps amid the coronavirus pandemic. As the coronavirus crisis has unfolded across the U.S., WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND. Meanwhile, the array of telehealth vendors is bigger than ever.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2020

whose household income has been impacted by the coronavirus, the most likely reason is that the worker’s hours had been reduced, reported by 39%. McKinsey’s analysis points out an important difference or “layer of complexity” in the coronavirus-era economy: the severe threat to consumers’ health and safety.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 5, 2021

The rollout of GTHE will be done through Solve.Care’s partnership with Healthlink Technologies based in Maharashtra; the latter will ensure regulatory compliance and verification of doctors. On Monday, India registered 103,558 coronavirus infections, an all-time high daily record , bringing its total to 12.6 WHY IT MATTERS.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The most common deal type these activities took were, first and foremost, strategic partnerships (for 78% of the 268 arrangements assessed) followed by investments (for 19% of the deals), and only 2.6% which were acquisitions.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Across the world, the impact of ethnicity and race, poverty and income inequality as well as job security, shaped how one person fared against the coronavirus compared with another who bore greater risks to the social determinants of health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2020

As the coronavirus pandemic swelled throughout the country, many healthcare providers found themselves abruptly pivoting – sometimes in a matter of days – to virtual care. While larger health systems had the infrastructure in place to do so, many smaller practices struggled to keep up.

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Digital Health Global

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Food and Drug Administration’s current Enforcement Policy for Digital Health Devices for Treating Psychiatric Disorders During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Public Health Emergency. EndeavorOTC is available under the U.S. EndeavorOTC has not been cleared or authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for any indications.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2020

"Similarly, HHS and CMS should maintain the authority to add or remove eligible telehealth services – as supported by data and demonstrated to be safe, effective, and clinically appropriate – through a predictable regulatory process that gives patients and providers transparency and clarity," according to the letter.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2020

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, regulatory, reimbursement and technological changes have all helped trigger a massive and rapid expansion of telehealth accessibility. " Overall, Smith said, the coronavirus pandemic presents a number of opportunities to make telehealth accessible and financially viable in the long term.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 24, 2020

IT leaders pointed out the speed with which available tools had been ramped up, often in innovative ways, in response to floods of coronavirus patients. " People of color, for example, have been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus, at sometimes staggering rates.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2020

Six telemedicine solutions have been approved for use in the UAE by the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA), it has been announced. The UAE has recently been ramping up its use of various technologies to assist in the battle against the novel coronavirus, COVID-19.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 23, 2020

" As telehealth use has surged in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, health systems have turned to conversational agents such as chatbots to do just that. In the healthcare industry, he said, the potential for a virtual agent to support a patient seeking services through basic triaging is "pretty obvious."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Over the years, while digital technology was quickly advancing, telehealth had a relatively low adoption rate due to poor reimbursement rates and regulatory challenges when it came to patient privacy and HIPAA compliance. These may be technologies used from the home or that a doctor uses to improve or support healthcare services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 28, 2020

Even as it pursues big pre-COVID-19 strategic goals – not least its major electronic health record transition from Cerner to Epic , which was announced in February – Atrium's attention has of course more recently been focused on an array of initiatives meant to combat the coronavirus crisis.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2021

Flexibilities enabled under the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act and the CARES Act "have allowed clinicians across the country to scale delivery and provide all Americans – many for the first time – access to high-quality virtual care," the groups wrote," the groups said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 27, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the daily lives and workflows of healthcare providers across the globe. ” The combination of Whole Life staff and the support of athenahealth and its provider community helps the clinic gain ground on beating the challenges created from the coronavirus, she added. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 1, 2020

Several of the concerns outlined in a report released last year , such as infrastructure issues and patient-specific challenges, remain despite pro-telehealth regulatory and licensing changes in recent months. Even before the pandemic swept the country, safety-net providers were facing obstacles to implementing telehealth adoption.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2021

health policy and regulatory leaders. “We will not be success [in overcoming the coronavirus] unless we deal with other countries in a collaborative way.” “We don’t un-learn,” Dr. Amy Abernethy asserte d as she shared her pandemic perspectives on a panel with 2 other former U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 10, 2020

Within days of the coronavirus pandemic emerging in the U.S., But privacy, security, pricing, and regulatory challenges must be ironed out if telehealth is to scale everywhere it needs to be to benefit U.S. health care providers set up virtual care arrangements to convene with patients. health citizens and their providers.

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Digital Health Global

AUGUST 10, 2023

Food and Drug Administration’s current Enforcement Policy for Digital Health Devices for Treating Psychiatric Disorders During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Public Health Emergency. EndeavorOTC is available under the U.S. EndeavorOTC has not been cleared or authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its indications.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis triggered an enormous boom in the use of virtual care, aided by federal regulatory flexibilities. "In 2021, we’ll continue to see significant improvements in healthcare technologies that will advance patient care, especially as it relates to the coronavirus pandemic. WHY IT MATTERS. "Large U.S.

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InTouch Health

APRIL 10, 2020

Demand for telehealth services has been on the rise for decades, but the coronavirus outbreak has dramatically increased usage rates around the United States. The coronavirus pandemic will likely accelerate telehealth adoption rates across the U.S. and beyond. Keeping the General Public Safe. Around 74% of patients in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2020

Smith and Cassidy have been at the forefront of several conversations regarding healthcare during the coronavirus pandemic. "We need to look at the layers of regulatory hurdles put in place to make it more difficult to use telehealth," she said. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 19, 2020

"I've heard stories of individuals dealing with mental health or substance use disorder challenges who are preferring to access care through telehealth" for reasons unrelated to the coronavirus, she said – such as difficulty with executive function or travel to appointments.

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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Food and Drug Administration’s current Enforcement Policy for Digital Health Devices for Treating Psychiatric Disorders During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Public Health Emergency. EndeavorOTC is available under the U.S. EndeavorOTC has not been cleared or authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for any indications.

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Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Food and Drug Administration’s current Enforcement Policy for Digital Health Devices for Treating Psychiatric Disorders During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Public Health Emergency. EndeavorOTC is available under the U.S. EndeavorOTC has not been cleared or authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its indications.

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Digital Health Today

APRIL 14, 2020

He and the team at propeller health worked tirelessly over the years to develop the technology, business models, regulatory approvals and evidence to drive adoption of their product. . I was also interested to see if they’ve observed any changes in behavior by their users in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

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GlobalMed

APRIL 14, 2020

In recent years, before we faced the reality of the novel coronavirus, Mercer noted that the US would need to hire 2.3 These issues along with long shifts, regulatory challenges, holidays spent away from families, and the pressure of making life-and-death decisions made healthcare a field that was already flawed and difficult to navigate.

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GlobalMed

JUNE 9, 2020

Prior to COVID-19 the regulatory environment made it difficult for providers to adopt a robust telehealth strategy. In Europe, the coronavirus caught an inefficient public health system off guard and countries worldwide are worried about their systems collapsing. COVID-19 has Brought Changes to Healthcare. The Harvard T.H.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 23, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic has further added to the challenge of transparency and patient life-flows for medical cost management which can erode trust and an engaging patient-provider relationship. .” Another talked about the concept of “patient-centered billing.” health citizens.

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TheraNest

MARCH 18, 2020

In an effort to increase access to remote medical services during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has recently announced that they will exercise enforcement discretion and will not impose penalties for noncompliance with the regulatory requirements of HIPAA Rules against covered health care providers in connection (..)

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New Age Healthcare

MAY 11, 2020

This raises red-flags and serious questions on the local authorities and regulatory bodies who have also threatened to cancel the operating license of hospitals and clinics, if they turn away any non-Covid patient. These are dangerous signs which are being ignored.

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Digital Health Global

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Food and Drug Administration’s current Enforcement Policy for Digital Health Devices for Treating Psychiatric Disorders During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Public Health Emergency. EndeavorOTC is available under the U.S. EndeavorOTC has not been cleared or authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for any indications.

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GlobalMed

APRIL 13, 2020

Provider community needs virtual technology, clinical guidance and proven implementation strategies to combat coronavirus. Prior to COVID-19, reimbursement and regulatory policies for telemedicine were barriers that slowed telehealth adoption. SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. Barthelemy, Founder and CEO of GlobalMed.

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ACA Times

APRIL 21, 2021

Originally, under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, employers could only qualify for the credit for 2020 with a cap of $5,000 per Employee Retention Credit. To learn more about the Employee Retention Credit, download our ERC Regulatory Update to see if your business is eligible.

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New Age Healthcare

MAY 11, 2020

This raises red-flags and serious questions on the local authorities and regulatory bodies who have also threatened to cancel the operating license of hospitals and clinics, if they turn away any non-Covid patient. These are dangerous signs which are being ignored.

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