2019, Healthcare IT, HIPAA and Telemedicine

Telemedicine eases work-life balance for solo practitioner, adds revenue stream

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Seeking a way to achieve a better work life-balance, Jensen decided to explore practicing telemedicine. With the goal of spending more time with his family in Lakeside, he adopted the telemedicine app in the summer of 2019. Scott Jensen, Jensen Family Medicine. ” MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Cerebral Admits HIPAA Breach, Reports Leak of Data On 3.1 Million Users

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2023

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. According to the letter, Cerebral has been using such technology since it began doing business on October 12, 2019.

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Here's how smaller practices can prepare for continuing telehealth demands

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2020

The hurdles to implementing telemedicine programs among smaller practices are fourfold, said Nate Lacktman, chair of the national telemedicine and digital health industry team at Foley and Lardner. For smaller practices looking to prepare for ongoing telemedicine needs, Lacktman says there are opportunities to think creatively.

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AccessHealth uses telemedicine to boost mental health visits by 10% during COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2020

COVID-19 spurred Houston-based AccessHealth to quickly scale up its telemedicine offerings, just as it did with most other health systems nationwide. Purchasing devices and platforms due to pricing was a concern, and HIPAA-compliant platforms and cybersecurity [were concerns] for PHI/patient safety." THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE.

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Amazon Clinic may delay its nationwide telehealth launch

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 27, 2023

They said customers who decline HIPAA consent on the website are prevented from completing their patient registration with Amazon Clinic and are redirected to a third-party provider information page. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Email: afox@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Upstate Medical University decreases no-shows by 59% with telehealth, which patients love

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, very few clinical areas at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, had established telemedicine programs, and there was little synergy among them and the organization’s Epic enterprise EHR. There also was much uncertainty around reimbursement and regulations regarding telemedicine.

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How athenaTelehealth boosted one hospital's patient and provider satisfaction

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 26, 2021

In 2019, Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center in Alamogordo, New Mexico, started looking at telehealth options to provide its patients with an on-demand virtual care service with a focus on urgent care-type needs. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. THE PROBLEM.

Telehealth

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Epic EHR-linked telehealth skyrockets at Children’s Colorado

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2020

Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora developed an active and growing telemedicine program over the past eight years. Before COVID-19, almost all specialties were using telemedicine in some aspect of their practice. The organization also uses a custom-developed, HIPAA-compliant photo-sharing platform. THE PROBLEM.

Telehealth

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Asynchronous video telemedicine helps TB patients, saves costs in Guam

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2019

To help overcome the challenges it faced with directly observed therapy, the Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services turned to a healthcare technology from emocha Mobile Health. "They have access to two-way, HIPAA-secure messaging to communicate with their healthcare provider. " MARKETPLACE.

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Telehealth helps reduce depression in youth, Texas consortium finds

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 22, 2023

In spring 2021, emergency department visits for suspected suicide attempts were nearly 51% higher for adolescent girls compared with the same time period in 2019. right now have no mental healthcare providers at all. " MARKETPLACE There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Teladoc accuses Amwell of patent infringement

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

As the COVID-19 crisis has rocketed, the longevity – and potential profitability – of telemedicine back into the public sphere, Teladoc and Amwell have carved out large sectors of the virtual care market. In response to requests for comment, Amwell directed Healthcare IT News to its remarks in the filing. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Bonus Features – July 31, 2022 – House passes bill to extend telehealth flexibility to 2024, only 60% of practices hit their 2021 revenue goal, and more

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Samitivej launches multi-service “Virtual Hospital” app in Thailand

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 14, 2019

Medicine Delivery – medication will be delivered to patients with absolute data security as Samitivej adheres to the data protection standards mandated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Samitivej Virtual Hospital will be available from April 1, 2019, with services on offer 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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Telehealth helps Mayo Clinic neonatologists better treat newborns in emergencies

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

” These challenges prompted Mayo Clinic to develop a tele-neonatology program that allows neonatologists to establish a real-time audio/video telemedicine connection with care teams in community hospitals during these high-risk, low-frequency neonatal emergencies. ” PROPOSAL. " Dr. Jennifer Fang, Mayo Clinic. respectively.”

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Marshfield Clinic boosts patient-provider satisfaction and provider efficiency with telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2022

In 2019, MCHS completed 15,000 patient encounters via telehealth and an additional 60,000 tele-pharmacy consults. For that reason, MCHS launched with a HIPAA/HITECH-compliant platform it already had in place, WebEx. There is a wide variety of vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Telehealth EHR HIPAA Healthcare IT

For El Camino Hospital, the pandemic was a springboard into broad virtual care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 6, 2022

In 2019, when the organization launched a selection process for a telehealth vendor, Muro said it was difficult to talk with executives about why the hospital needed a virtual care platform. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Telehealth Patient Experience Primary Care HIPAA

?Utilizing Technology to Expand Language Access

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 5, 2023

To better connect with their community and ensure equitable access, healthcare organizations are shifting to a more human-focused, patient-centered care approach. As of 2019, almost 68 million people in the United States spoke a language other than English at home.

Patient Experience

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mHealth Guide to HIMSS19

mHealth Insight

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Next week (11-15 February 2019) in Orlando (USA) 45,000 delegates will attend the world’s biggest Healthcare IT Conference and Exhibition and we’ll be there for meetings and to learn about and share mHealth innovations with readers of the mHealth Insight blog. Cardinal Analytx (USA/Booth 888-33).

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One physician's perspective on why patients prefer telehealth visits

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2021

Dr. Archie Adams Sometime in 2019, I was multi-tasking and racing between exam rooms amid a controlled chaos that defines an average day in my busy clinic. My organization's leaders assumed at first that face-to-face interaction was the preferred healthcare experience, and that telehealth visits dehumanized the medical encounter.

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Telehealth HIPAA Public Health Telemedicine

How one mental health provider is using its own telehealth spinoff to boost virtual care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The IT vendors that Harbor used to provide telehealth services include IDSolutions, which provided a HIPAA-compliant video platform (Vidyo), and Streamline Healthcare Solutions, which provided Harbor’s web-based electronic health record, SmartCare. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. ” PROPOSAL.

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Bonus Features – December 18, 2022 – Half of Americans avoiding hospitals due to staffing shortages, 62% of patients don’t trust health plan info when searching for providers, and much more

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

HIE

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

They provide health measures of patients and transmit them back to providers – or in some cases are reported back to providers – to facilitate healthcare decisions from afar. The platform also is designed for direct-to-patient telemedicine. Here you will find concise descriptions of the companies and their products.

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Top 45 Healthcare Blogs for 2019

eVisit

JULY 8, 2019

Healthcare IT News. Published by HIMSS Media, this is a reliable, daily updated source for all your healthcare IT news, whether you're looking for the most recent updates on meaningful use rules, tips for implementing your EMR successfully, or are wondering how to leverage patient data to provide better care. Total HIPAA Compliance.

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Telemedicine eases work-life balance for solo practitioner, adds revenue stream

Cerebral Admits HIPAA Breach, Reports Leak of Data On 3.1 Million Users

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Here's how smaller practices can prepare for continuing telehealth demands

AccessHealth uses telemedicine to boost mental health visits by 10% during COVID-19

Amazon Clinic may delay its nationwide telehealth launch

Upstate Medical University decreases no-shows by 59% with telehealth, which patients love

How athenaTelehealth boosted one hospital's patient and provider satisfaction

Epic EHR-linked telehealth skyrockets at Children’s Colorado

Asynchronous video telemedicine helps TB patients, saves costs in Guam

Telehealth helps reduce depression in youth, Texas consortium finds

Teladoc accuses Amwell of patent infringement

Bonus Features – July 31, 2022 – House passes bill to extend telehealth flexibility to 2024, only 60% of practices hit their 2021 revenue goal, and more

Samitivej launches multi-service “Virtual Hospital” app in Thailand

Telehealth helps Mayo Clinic neonatologists better treat newborns in emergencies

Marshfield Clinic boosts patient-provider satisfaction and provider efficiency with telehealth

For El Camino Hospital, the pandemic was a springboard into broad virtual care

?Utilizing Technology to Expand Language Access

mHealth Guide to HIMSS19

One physician's perspective on why patients prefer telehealth visits

How one mental health provider is using its own telehealth spinoff to boost virtual care

Bonus Features – December 18, 2022 – Half of Americans avoiding hospitals due to staffing shortages, 62% of patients don’t trust health plan info when searching for providers, and much more

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