Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Clinicians create a virtual mental health appointment using Zoom's secure, HIPAA-compliant video technology, share that link with the patient and launch the online meeting directly from the Osmind patient app. "As clinicians, we have a professional obligation to only use telehealth platforms that are HIPAA-compliant," she added.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 1, 2021

As the dust settles on 2020, it’s become clear that this was an unbelievably bad year for healthcare ransomware attacks. In fact, it was a year that cost organizations $20.8 billion in ransomware expenses, according to a new estimate. Worse, there is no future relief in sight.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 31, 2020

Community-healthcare-systems vendor CPSI has launched TalkWithYourDoc.com, designed to be an effective alternative to face-to-face medical visits for patients and doctors amidst the COVID-19 crisis. The goal is to enable safe and comprehensive virtual medical visits between patients and healthcare providers. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2021

Targeted cyberattacks against the healthcare industry continue to rise. A 2021 report from HIPAA Journal showed that U.S. healthcare institutions had 616 data breaches of 500+ records in 2020—with a total of 28,756,445 total healthcare records being exposed. At the same […].

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 30, 2019

As we head into 2020, I reached out to a number of people in Health Information Management (HIM) and Health Information Technology (HIT) to hear their thoughts on these hot topics: Social Determinants of Health (SDoH), Privacy and Security of Health Information, Medical Coding Standards, and Patient Matching.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Making Machine Learning Work With HIPAA. Andy Oram chatted with Abhi Sharma at Loyal about what it takes to make HIPAA-compliant chatbots.

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Redox

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

On Wednesday November 18, 2020 at 2pm ET, Redox will present our inaugural Redox Quarterly where we discuss how we Grow Through Change in the face of this past year and into the year to come. The post COVID SNAPSHOT: What will be the lasting impact of the pandemic on healthcare IT? Browse our topic list and register here. .

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

"In the beginning of the pandemic, we also used FaceTime and Duo under the HIPAA waiver," East recalled. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. It uses GrandPads and iPads for hardware.

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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. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2022

"Operationalizing this took a significant effort, and as MCHS closed facilities due to the pandemic starting on March 16, 2020, teams from across MCHS stopped work on other projects to launch telehealth services to meet our needs for COVID-19." " MCHS anticipates a similar volume in 2021 to what it saw in 2020.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

But I believe that the ATA’s careful brick-laying, their forging of bonds with policy-makers and health care leaders, their patient education, made it easier for providers to adopt telemedicine quickly in the Spring of 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic required it. HIPAA was last revised in 2013.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 30, 2024

While COVID-19 sparked many challenges for healthcare providers across the USA, it highlighted technology’s essential role in patient communication and engagement. In fact, in 2020, research found that just under half of the US population used tech to communicate with their healthcare providers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 30, 2020

It went live on Epic on January 23, 2020. “In mid-March 2020, it became quite apparent that VIM was going to need to pause in-person visits to the Bend clinic,” said Jennifer Fuller, RN, clinic nurse manager at Volunteers in Medicine’s Clinic of the Cascades. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2022

In 2020, the Federal Communication Commission's telehealth grant program awarded Decatur County Memorial Hospital in Greensburg, Indiana, $698,603 for remote patient monitoring equipment, a patient telehealth platform, network upgrades, tablets and mobile hotspots. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2020

The "Evaluating Disparities and Outcomes of Telehealth During the COVID-19 Emergency Act of 2020" would require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a study within a year of the end of the emergency period summarizing healthcare utilization patterns during the coronavirus. Is this the new norm?"

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This was in addition to a massive acceleration of digital transformation, including a thousand-fold surge in telehealth visits from veterans from March through June 2020. Still, "the fragmentation of the healthcare industry on the supply side and the demand side is the biggest challenge we all face," said Micky Tripathi, U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 26, 2020

Bridge evaluated a few HIPAA-compliant telehealth programs and Zoom’s was determined the best and most cost-effective for the agency’s purposes. “Fortunately, HIPAA-compliant Zoom proved to be very simple to operate from both ends,” Robeck remarked. MARKETPLACE. To read this special report, click here.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 29, 2023

According to the IBM “Cost of a data breach 2022” report , the cost of a breach in the healthcare industry went up 42% since 2020. For the 12th year in a row, healthcare had the highest average data breach cost of any industry. The average cost of a healthcare data breach in 2022 jumped $1 million to a record high of $10.1

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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. " Prior to March 2020, only a few providers or employees were connecting remotely. Click here to read the special report.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

For healthcare providers, telehealth presents an opportunity to address patient care needs, improve the customer experience and reduce costs. Telehealth providers saw a rapid rise in the need for remote services with the initial spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

” The only HIPAA-compliant vendor Upstate had immediate access to and currently was using was WebEx. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions. Also, WebEx facilitated HIPAA-compliant video chats with more than two attendees. MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 12, 2021

"The most important result we have achieved is we have been able to meaningfully and effectively remain connected to our patients since March 2020 using telehealth solutions." "Both vendors are HIPAA-compliant and work with healthcare providers nationally. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

While there were certainly many clinicians performing telemedicine before COVID-19 struck in early 2020, the pandemic foisted telehealth on countless numbers of additional physicians and nurses, forcing them to get up to speed and feel comfortable with the technology. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. The HIPAA Security Rule was drafted in 2003 and has not been substantively updated since that time. the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, ISO 27001/27002, SOC2, etc.)

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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. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 29, 2022

"Utilizing a Chromebook and HIPAA-compliant communications platform such as Zoom or Google Meets, team members can reach a Hackensack Meridian Health psychiatrist who can diagnose, prescribe and provide recommendations on next steps for patients. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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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. He sat down with Healthcare IT News to discuss how telehealth and RPM can work together, the role analytics plays with RPM and the future of RPM.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 6, 2018

In essence, blockchain could help reshape healthcare interoperability by serving as a next-generation middleware that couples health data with decentralized, distributed, and immutable qualities, according to a new report by IDC Health Insights. Source : [link]

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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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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." Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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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. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2022

In January 2020, the organization launched a remote patient monitoring pilot, working with vendor Health Recovery Solutions to monitor CHF patients after discharge from the hospital. Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions. Executive Mental Health used the following technology to meet the challenge of providing mental healthcare during the pandemic: Apple iPad series 7 with 9.8-inch Are the devices/software HIPAA-compliant? MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2020

COVID-19 arrived in Maine on March 12, 2020. Over the course of a weekend, staff created a workflow through HIPAA-compliant Zoom so that providers could carry out appointments via videoconferencing. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 2, 2020

“OTTO uses HIPAA-compliant encryption, so the patient data is secure and confidential,” Yu said. Healthcare IT News has compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions. Data for October 2020 shows a no-show rate of less than 5% for telehealth visits. " Lionel Yu, Garfield Health Center.

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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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Healthcare IT News sat down with Baird to discuss the company's unique brand of telehealth and how she and her team have developed the technology for a winning endeavor. To receive medical care from licensed healthcare professionals, patients must provide personal data such as their medical history. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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