Industry Voices—Telemedicine and long-term implications for HIPAA compliance
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OCTOBER 23, 2020
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American Telemedicine Association Leaps Into Privacy and AI Policies
Healthcare IT Today
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) recently released two sets of principles that highlights its concerns in two prominent computing issues: privacy and AI. Progress on telemedicine proceeded at a snails pace for most of this time. The ATA has addressed telemedicine on many levels and in many forums during its existence.
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2020 Roadmap: Overcoming Telemedicine Barriers
GlobalMed
DECEMBER 16, 2019
If you’re active in the telemedicine world (or just paying attention to it), then you know that virtual care’s benefits aren’t always matched by its adoption rates. The potential to transform healthcare globally is there – but somehow the actual telemedicine deployments aren’t always happening where they can do the most good.
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How to get clinicians more comfortable with delivering telemedicine
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. Please elaborate.
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Consumers’ Embrace of Digital Health Tech Stalls, and Privacy Concerns Prevail – Accenture’s 2020 Research
Health Populi
MARCH 10, 2020
Use of wearable tech nearly halved, from 33% to 18%, between 2018 and 2020. But even trust in the most trusted steward, my doctor, eroded between 2019 and 2020. To the issue of trusting my doctor to keep my information secure, the survey found a decline from 89% trusting my doctor in 2019 to 83% in 2020.
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Taking stock of the sudden evolution of telemedicine
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. Since then, CMS has now expanded coverage for telehealth and telemedicine.
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Grady Health System gets through 2020 with Epic-linked telehealth and RPM
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 18, 2020
Atlanta-based Grady Health System has historically offered some telemedicine services to the community. “ExtendedCare offered Grady a HIPAA-compliant, cloud-based platform that allowed us to rapidly scale video visits at a pace we were comfortable with,” Hilburn explained. ” Big no-show rate reduction.
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Cornell Scott-Hill makes big strides with specialist telemedicine
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center in New Haven, Connecticut, as a community health center, always had faced a range of treatment barriers that made it difficult, if not impossible, for patients to attend in-person appointments pre-COVID – and for which telemedicine would have been a viable alternative. THE PROBLEM.
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Transforming Healthcare Delivery: The Rise of Telemedicine
BHM Healthcare Solutions
JULY 7, 2023
Telemedicine was transforming healthcare landscapes by utilizing technology to provide clinical care remotely. Telemedicine ranges from simple text messaging for medical advice to advanced procedures like remotely controlled surgery. Telemedicine can also lead to better resource allocation and utilization.
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Down in the Delta – Up in Telehealth: MTA 2020
South Central Telehealth Resource Center
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves kicked off the Mississippi Telehealth Association (MTA) 2020 Annual Conference on Monday, February 24 th by describing much of Mississippi living “small town ways” as a blanket description of many state residents. The post Down in the Delta – Up in Telehealth: MTA 2020 appeared first on LearnTelehealth.
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From Zoom to full EHR-integrated telemedicine on $245,000
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. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE.
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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford
Health Populi
MARCH 2, 2021
adults from early September to early October 2020 to gauge peoples’ interest in and utilization of digital health tools and telehealth. But the big growth areas were for live video telemedicine, wearable tech, and digital health tracking. Rock Health and Stanford commissioned an online survey among 7,980 U.S.
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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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Are You Ready for Telemedicine? Three Questions to Ask.
GlobalMed
MAY 19, 2020
As policy limitations are lifted and curiosity about virtual care increases, patients and providers alike are considering telemedicine as a way to receive and give care. Although there are many things you want to consider when looking to develop your own telemedicine program, here are a few starter questions to ask yourself.
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Telemedicine 101: Answering Your Questions
GlobalMed
APRIL 7, 2020
Lately, we’ve been hearing from providers who want to adopt telemedicine but haven’t run a virtual program before. So today we’re answering their most common questions – and hopefully helping those of you out there who are just beginning your telemedicine journey. What’s the difference between telehealth, telemedicine and virtual care?
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iPads for telehealth can help reduce depression in patients
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
"To be able to show an average reduction [in depression] across all clients given that we were having very few in-person sessions speaks volumes for the healing ability of telemedicine." "In the beginning of the pandemic, we also used FaceTime and Duo under the HIPAA waiver," East recalled. " PROPOSAL.
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Osmind EHR integrates Zoom for psychiatry telehealth
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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The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021
Health Populi
JANUARY 11, 2021
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic drove U.S. Parks Associates’ research identified other categories of consumer electronics growth in the 2020 year of the coronavirus, including: Smart home devices, growing to 30% of U.S. broadband households in 2020 from 17% in 2015.
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A New Health Literacy Pillar: Personal Data Stewardship
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 15, 2021
Deloitte presented this graphic for an integrated data and analytics platform supporting remote patient monitoring data feeds in a June 2020 report noting that remote patient monitoring could trigger a multi-channel data tsunami. As a result, most U.S.
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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 COVID-19 is Changing Telemedicine Reimbursement
GlobalMed
MARCH 24, 2020
In late January, we published our forecast on telemedicine reimbursement this year. No industry has been more dramatically disrupted than healthcare – but the pandemic has also illuminated telemedicine in what many are calling an ignition event. Let’s look at the new reimbursement rules of telemedicine.
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Planning for a sustainable virtual care delivery model
AMD Telemedicine
JUNE 28, 2022
This article was originally published in October 2020 but was updated in June 2022. . The publication reported that many practices were using 20 or more different telemedicine services due to physicians and even individual departments adopting various platforms. Virtual Care Is More Than Telemedicine Video Visits.
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Health Care In the COVID-19 Era – PwC Finds Self-Rationing of Care and Meds Especially for Chronic Care
Health Populi
MAY 20, 2020
The findings were published in a May 2020 report , detailing study findings among 2,533 U.S. adults polled in early April 2020. PwC explored how COVID-19 is influencing consumers’ health care behaviors in survey research conducted in early April by the Health Research Institute.
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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.
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Sun River Health shifts 67% of its visits to telehealth
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Prior to implementing the telemedicine technology supported by the FCC program funds, Sun River Health had relatively limited and targeted capacity to support remote visits. Mostly, Sun River Health's telemedicine services met the needs of the HIV, Medically Assisted Treatment patients. THE PROBLEM.
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How athenaTelehealth boosted one hospital's patient and provider satisfaction
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. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.
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The Future of Telehealth Goes Far Beyond Virtual Appointments
AMD Telemedicine
JANUARY 21, 2022
And telehealth upgrades that will improve the overall telemedicine experience for both patients and healthcare organizations can’t come too soon. According to the FAIR Health Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker, telehealth visits rose 3,000% between November 2019 and November 2020. Making healthcare touchpoints more convenient.
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How one grant can enhance care delivery and health education across the board
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.
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5 Tips for Advancing Health System Transformation
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. Is Telehealth the Future of Healthcare?
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Ten In Ten: Manatt’s Healthcare Priorities to 2031
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
Secure health data (updating privacy/HIPAA). Health Populi’s Hot Points: Everyone of Manatt Health’s ten imperatives are spot-on in this moment as we segue from Our Covid Year of 2020 to the Covid Year of 2021. Help our children achieve their potential. Innovate long-term care. Accelerate digital health.
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Telehealth and Cybersecurity: Is Your Crisis Solution Putting You at Risk?
GlobalMed
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Name two dominant influences on 21st-century healthcare and it’s a safe bet that telemedicine and cybersecurity would make the list. Some providers have ignored both trends, dismissing the benefits of telemedicine while underestimating the need for a strong cybersecurity program. More than 41 million?telehealth The answer?
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Marshfield Clinic boosts patient-provider satisfaction and provider efficiency with telehealth
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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Behavioral health clinic uses telehealth to expand its reach to vulnerable patients
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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The Evolution of Patient Communication: Trends and Technologies
Healthcare IT Today
JANUARY 30, 2024
In fact, in 2020, research found that just under half of the US population used tech to communicate with their healthcare providers. Ensure that all touch points comply with HIPAA, especially for those using biometric sensors. So, it’s essential providers have a secure system to manage it.
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For Ryan Health, telehealth seeds planted during the pandemic have flourished
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. All visits were in-person visits.
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At Nicklaus Children's, successful telehealth expansion depends on customer input
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
But as health systems have turned to telemedicine to bridge the gap between in-person services and at-home needs, stakeholders stress the importance of optimizing access for a broad range of patients. Even as nationwide utilization of telemedicine decreased , Terrell says volumes were sustained in 2021.
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Zoom is helping MaineGeneral Health boost its telehealth success
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. But so many organizations had no telemedicine programs, and thus technology, in place. You've had great success in telemedicine using Zoom technology.
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Epic, Zoom and mobile app help at-risk clinic volunteers deliver care from home
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. To read this special report, click here.
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Providing Virtual Care for Older Adults During COVID-19
GlobalMed
APRIL 21, 2020
Telemedicine can bring advanced and faster care to the elderly in several ways. While it’s unlikely that we will entirely go back to the same restrictions prior to COVID-19, it is almost certain that pieces protecting information security, like HIPAA restrictions, will be reinstated quickly. Protecting Seniors with Telemedicine.
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How Hims & Hers built a business entirely centered on telehealth
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
What was the strategy behind incorporating full-blown telemedicine into your business? Telemedicine has always been at the core of Hims & Hers' business. We follow HIPAA guidelines and employ strict access controls. It's the concept that got us off the ground and in front of consumers since the get-go.
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HHS, DOD and vendors partner for critical care via telehealth
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 18, 2022
Over the past few months, the organizations have deployed telemedicine services to support care in at least a half-a-dozen states, including Texas, Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana. 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.
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CIOs plan on refined telehealth, faster deployments, more collaborative tools
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 23, 2021
Among the many insights they've gained over the past year-plus, they discuss the need to secure a place for telemedicine and expand its capabilities, deploy and scale new technologies faster, and embrace Agile processes and collaborative IT. The new importance of telemedicine. " Joe Fisne, Geisinger. "We went ahead.
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Impractical or Inadequate: Is Your Virtual Care Solution Good Enough?
GlobalMed
JANUARY 5, 2021
As we look back at 2020, we can clearly see that telehealth adoption and use exploded. Acting as an ignition event for virtual care, the COVID-19 pandemic has inducted patients and providers alike into the benefits of evidence-based telemedicine. The Power of Data-Driven Telehealth. Evidence-based care. We talk about this a lot.
How Can Telehealth Optimize Your Medical Practice?
Ortholive
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
and founder of the OrthoLive telemedicine platform agreed on a recent MGMA Podcast episode. He says providers are using telemedicine to make their practices more efficient and to increase convenience for their patients. Can telemedicine improve your practice workflows? Michael Greiwe, M.D. Listen to the podcast here:
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