BHM Healthcare Solutions

DECEMBER 13, 2022

A Peer-to-Peer Review is a conversation between two healthcare professionals, usually licensed doctors, over the phone discussing a patient’s case. Insurers, usually the reviewer or Medical Director, request P2P calls before determinations because they want additional information or details from the primary care doctor.

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Primary Care 52

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

This followed late-year 2020 activity, including the $10 million in funding for tech training company GetSetUp and the $18 million of funding for Papa from Comcast Ventures to combat social isolation in older adults and launch tech-enabled health offering called Papa Health. category tags: computers, internet and social networking.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

It could be especially valuable for patients with long-standing medical issues who don't have a primary care doctor, or are uninsured. The ER doctor sends an email note via telehealth to the parents' home and later does a Zoom session to show huge X-ray files. Some people need internet training wheels. and 10 p.m.,

Telehealth 186

Telehealth eHealth Primary Care Connected Health 186

Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 2, 2020

Following the most recent no-visitors rules, it’s easy to imagine the accelerated ramp up in order to accommodate anxious families and also to support the use of telehealth for residents who cannot go anywhere and cannot be visited by doctors either. category tags: Telehealth-mHealth-Voice Health , senior living , social isolation , SNF.

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Remote care Telehealth mHealth Nursing 141

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 19, 2020

Consider the scenario noted here which sounds helpful: “a patient with diabetes wouldn’t have to postpone a regular follow-up visit with the doctor to keep safe — he or she could do it via Skype.” Your healthcare provider isn’t running any training today. Will this reimbursement extend past the current crisis? So someone (you?)

HIPAA 145

HIPAA Telehealth mHealth Medicare 145

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

More training? And we have never seen a world in which the ‘connections’ to everything -- services, shopping, learning about new products, listening to music, meeting people, talking to a doctor -- are all made through an alphabet soup of technology, delivered from almost monopoly-like tech firms from Amazon to Zoom. . Free Internet?

Telehealth 140

Telehealth 140

Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The original Lifeline business was a pioneer of this market segment, building up a business that included doctor-referral, a senior-aware trained call center and multiple channel partners, including the home security segment. category tags: PERS , Mobile PERS , wearables, smart watch , fall prevention, fall detection.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Does that fear imply lack of training? And have we mentioned online banking , accessing Social Security information , buying savings bonds – oh, and then there's healthcare access, including finding a doctor or benefiting from telehealth services? . Why isn’t technology training of seniors required to be delivered by professionals?

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Telehealth 98

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 22, 2018

The insights quoted here could be generalized, not just to Skilled Nursing Facilities, but to all types of care delivery – and are particularly notable in the context of last week’s New York Times article: " How Tech Can Turn Doctors into Clerical Workers.” That would enable the LPN to spend more time with the patient.".

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Nursing 63

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Now health organizations and providers are moving forward with voice-enabled interfaces to everything from hospital rooms, appointment scheduling, doctors note-taking, prescription requests, and even discharge instructions. In 2019, Voice First represented a category of technologies like smart speakers and voice assistants.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

When he spoke at an optometrists’ conference, he couldn’t interest the doctors in making their web sites more accessible to vision-impaired visitors. A trained technician or nurse is also always present and can enter the Cube to help the patient, if requested to do so. The tools are doing better, though.

Health IT 95

Health IT HIPAA Telehealth Nursing 95

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In Medical Economics’ 2022 annual survey , providers said increased competition is now one of their top challenges, namely because today’s patients are increasingly willing, for reasons of convenience, to switch doctors. Organizations that fully-automate their phone system reduce average handle time by 50% and reduce training time by 75%.

Telehealth 66

Telehealth EHR Patient Experience HIPAA 66

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Does that fear imply lack of training? And have we mentioned online banking , accessing Social Security information , buying savings bonds – oh, and then there's healthcare access, including finding a doctor or benefiting from telehealth services? . Why isn’t technology training of seniors required to be delivered by professionals?

Telehealth 72

Telehealth 72

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

A doctor can help determine the type and stage of dementia and whether it is likely to be Alzheimer’s disease or some other type. Centers trained in dementia care. category tags: dementia care, cognitive decline. They should consider persuading their loved one to get an evaluation from a professional. Ageless Innovations.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 25, 2018

The Age Wave study, as do many journalists, combines home care (non-skilled, or ‘companion’) with home health care ( higher level of training and certification and refers to all as 'home health care.' . category tags: Family caregivers , Home Care , tech-enabled home care , home health care.

Digital Health 82

Digital Health 82

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

“A new provider would show up for training, and IT would still be building out their workstations in our command hub,” he remembered. ” Third, there is much less of a buffer when a patient or a doctor is running late. “Doctors’ offices can be stressful places for patients,” she said.

Telehealth 164

Telehealth Telemedicine Mental health Primary Care 164

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 19, 2021

Paul Szotek of the Indiana Hernia Center in Carmel, Indiana, has some very strong feelings about what he calls the loss of the doctor-patient relationship. As the employed model has grown, physicians have increasingly lost autonomy to deliver care to their patients in a manner that optimizes the doctor-patient relationship, he said.

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Telehealth Private practice EHR healthcare technology 162

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2021

" According to a similar survey in 2013, where healthcare consumers (1,547) were pooled from around the world, 74% of them were comfortable with virtual doctor visits. Loss of productivity is hugely minimized since the patients do not have to take a half-day or a whole day off work just to attend a doctor's appointment.

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Telehealth HIPAA Public Health Telemedicine 210

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2020

With integration of a healthcare system also comes the challenge of overcoming the old-school healthcare siloes where there exists a boundary between healthcare specialties, and doctors and nurses just to name a few.

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Leadership Nursing Telehealth 166

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2020

By then, thorny questions about privacy, personalization, and patient-doctor voice communication will be closer to resolution. Perhaps doctors will no longer save notes for evening if they can enter them by speaking during or just after the appointment. Possibility of a healthcare trained voice agent.

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Interoperability mHealth HIPAA Digital Health 87

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Any abnormal responses or vital stats are tagged and reported to: a healthcare organization partnering with the employer, a clinician on the employer’s staff, or a human resources professional, for a referral to a COVID-19 testing site to confirm an infection and prevent spreading the virus in the workplace. iRhythm Technologies.

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Connected Health Telehealth Pharmaceuticals EHR 183