Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2020

The organization also uses a custom-developed, HIPAA-compliant photo-sharing platform. "In the first six business days of April 2020, Children’s Colorado providers completed more than 5,000 telehealth visits. March-June 2020, total visits, 60,444. Number of providers trained and completing telemedicine visits, 1,993.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 26, 2021

In early 2020, when the pandemic changed the medical center's in-person workflows overnight, the facility needed a quick and easy-to-use telehealth solution that allowed staff to continue to see established patients during lockdowns. Gerald Champion opted to go with the telehealth technology of its EHR vendor. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The clinic was notified about a year and a half ago that its current EHR vendor was no longer going to support the application, and that its current hardware components were expiring. Charles Health System, the Bend clinic installed an Epic EHR. It went live on Epic on January 23, 2020. Through a partnership with local St.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Pew collaborated with Public Opinion Strategies and Hart Research to conduct a survey in June and July 2020 among 1,213 U.S. Still, over 50% of consumers ages 56 to 74 would like to download their EHR data. This is particularly concerning when personal health data is downloaded to an app that may fall out of the protection of HIPAA.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2022

For some historical context, the authors (all affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania [medical school or Wharton (business school)] start with HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act which served up privacy protections based on the health information technology of the time. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

The Pew team surveyed 1,213 adults ages 18 and over in June and July 2020, interviewing in English and Spanish. As digital health industry stakeholders will be convening at the 2021 annual HIMSS conference in Las Vegas and digitally, this report is well-timed to give us a level-set on just “where” U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 15, 2023

THE PROBLEM Prior to 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic, there were federal and state policies in place that discouraged FQHCs like Ryan Health from adopting telehealth services due to payment restrictions. "Our first choice was to have a secure integrated solution with our EHR," Ajmal said.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Pew collaborated with Public Opinion Strategies and Hart Research to conduct a survey in June and July 2020 among 1,213 U.S. Still, over 50% of consumers ages 56 to 74 would like to download their EHR data. This is particularly concerning when personal health data is downloaded to an app that may fall out of the protection of HIPAA.

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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. ” The only HIPAA-compliant vendor Upstate had immediate access to and currently was using was WebEx.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2022

We are taking lessons learned and building them into our new Amwell platform with full integration with our Cerner EHR in 2022." But the vendor, according to Meyer, lacked the ability to bulk onboard providers quickly back in March 2020. "We launched WebEx on March 23, 2020, and telephone care a few days later," he said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

" "Coupled with seamless EHR integration and clarity on reimbursement methodology, our new telemedicine infrastructure will push Sun River to thoughtfully consider patient experience in the development of a resilient yet flexible model of care. As a standalone, HIPAA-compliant telemedicine platform, Doxy.me "Doxy.me

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 12, 2023

Founded within the innovation department at Boston Children’s Hospital and spun out in 2020, Dock addressed an internal need to better collaborate between the clinical and administrative halves of care delivery. “We

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Redox

JUNE 15, 2023

Conversely, there is limited demand to implement event-driven write-backs to EHRS (e.g. send information from a lab test back to an EHR”) as there are well-functioning implementations for this using HL7v2. For example, there is healthy demand to implement FHIR-based queries (e.g.,

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AMD Telemedicine

MARCH 2, 2023

When the global health crisis swept across the world in 2020, it forced companies across the industry to utilize digital platforms and technology in order to connect with potential buyers. In addition, healthcare companies are bound to HIPAA and various other industry-specific regulations.

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GlobalMed

JANUARY 5, 2021

As we look back at 2020, we can clearly see that telehealth adoption and use exploded. Cybercrime has been on the rise in healthcare and introducing video tools that aren’t secure or even HIPAA compliant has opened a door to attacks. Evidence-based care. We talk about this a lot. Collaboration across the continuum of care.

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GlobalMed

MAY 19, 2020

This could include documenting directly in the EHR or using a telehealth platform that integrates with your EHR to get the optimized benefits of telemedicine technologies but still keep patient records up-to-date. Do I Need a Secure, HIPAA Compliant Solution? was first posted on May 19, 2020 at 7:55 am.

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Digital Health Today

APRIL 19, 2021

In the first half of 2020, the number of cybersecurity breaches in healthcare has doubled. To protect patient data companies can choose HIPAA-compliant telehealth solutions that are suitable for the workflow, such as through the current EHR vendor. Remote work during COVID-19 made cybersecurity one of the top priorities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The majority of virtual care services at NCHS have been delivered through its proprietary, encrypted HIPAA-compliant telehealth app – which came in handy when COVID-19 began slamming the United States. The rapid scaling of telehealth services did pose hurdles, namely around connectivity and accessibility, said the NCHS team.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, healthcare provider organizations across the country began implementing telehealth technologies and services en masse. From that point forward, all health systems will need to have a HIPAA-compliant solution at the ready. Telemedicine finally made it to the mainstream.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JUNE 5, 2023

As part of my advisory position on SHIFT Shift (formerly Protecting Privacy to Promote Interoperability PP2PI) was founded in 2018 and formalized in 2020 with a mission to advance safe, equitable, and patient-empowered sharing of health information. So I now end up reviewing and commenting on very targeted sections. Why do I express this?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 6, 2022

" Before the pandemic hit in March 2020, El Camino had moved in the direction of telehealth, but virtual care was still a tool the hospital did not yet have. We selected Amwell as our telehealth vendor and planned to initiate implementation during the first quarter of 2020." " Then COVID-19 hit.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020 and everything shut down, it became imperative for healthcare provider organizations to adopt telemedicine to deliver care. In early 2021, Zoom had done a great job highlighting the security measures they had taken to ensure HIPAA compliance for health system clients. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

As healthcare systems and providers modernize (or build) their technology stacks, it will be more important than ever to prioritize privacy and to understand new regulations at the state level, from HIPAA, and from the FTC. The No Surprises Act was signed into law in 2020 and took effect last year.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The healthcare industry experiences more data breaches than any other industry, with over 700 reported breaches in 2020 alone. Examples of effective healthcare cybersecurity solutions include: EHR encryption and access controls to protect electronic health records.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 2024

For example, HHS is proposing to update the HIPAA Security Rule in 2024 to strengthen requirements for HIPAA regulated entities to safeguard electronic health information from cybersecurity threats. The HIPAA Security Rule was drafted in 2003 and has not been substantively updated since that time.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The provider organization made the switch-over from in-person care to telemedicine at the onset of COVID nearly instantaneously, literally between a Friday and Monday in March 2020. "At present, it is not integrated with our current Epic EHR system. Click here to read the special report. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 16, 2019

It is HIPAA-compliant and works efficiently, Brockhaus said. ”On the provider’s side, they have dual monitors so they can see the patient via video conference on one screen and have their EHR pulled up on the other. We currently use Evident as our EHR vendor, but plan to move to Epic in 2020. ” RESULTS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2020

Purchasing devices and platforms due to pricing was a concern, and HIPAA-compliant platforms and cybersecurity [were concerns] for PHI/patient safety." In 2017, AccessHealth set goals that were modeled after the Department of Health and Human Service’s Healthy People 2020 Program. " Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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American Well

JULY 13, 2020

Congratulations to the winners of the 2020 Amwell Client Awards! By 2020, IU Health had launched on-demand virtual psychiatry assessments in the ED and a virtual peer recovery program, going live in 14 hospitals in less than 100 days. The company had nearly 47,000 telehealth registrations by end of May 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Rather, a single application programming interface connection would integrate OTTO with our EHR, practice management and patient portal, creating a streamlined user experience,” Yu explained. “OTTO uses HIPAA-compliant encryption, so the patient data is secure and confidential,” Yu said.

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GlobalMed

APRIL 7, 2020

We want EHR interoperability. Can telemedicine integrate with my EHR? Your solution should be HIPAA compliant and ideally hosted in a HITRUST-certified environment. Telemedicine 101: Answering Your Questions was first posted on April 7, 2020 at 2:15 pm. Is there a long learning curve?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2022

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. Cloud-based information storage, including the ability for later offloading to EHRs, HIEs and other systems. HIPAA Compliant. Survey and consent tools.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 22, 2020

"But that model does not work in 2020, because where would staff set it up?" " Staff had to figure out, fast, how to integrate this new model of care in a HIPAA-compliant model. " Integrating telehealth into the EHR. " remarked Dr. Jignesh Y. "A community space, like a bank or a parking lot?

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Visit , www.nelsonadvisors.co.uk , 2013 to 2020: Google Glass V1 Revolutionising Healthcare Almost all of the technology incorporated into Google Glass, (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, cameras, voice activation etc.) is already available on smartphones today.

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Redox

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Telehealth companies will need to become chronic care management companies, rent access to networks of physicians, and/or create a consumer-facing brand to differentiate beyond the simple functionality of providing a HIPAA-compliant video offering. Of course we all want solutions we can customize to meet each of our quirks.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Cedars-Sinai uses Sopris Assistant to record, summarize, approve and place the patient care note into the EHR. Gartner predicts by 2020, 30% of searches will be voice activated. Several organizations are anxiously awaiting for HIPAA compliant voice devices. Her nurse immediately receives a secure text message to respond.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 19, 2021

"This was the key, as we have tried to launch clunky apps in the past through various EHRs that failed miserably with secondary to poor user experience." " In fact, one of the biggest struggles with EHR-based portals is adoption, and the best only get into the 60-75% range, he added. " he continued.

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