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HIPAA Waiver Offers Physicians Opportunity To Engage Patients In New Ways, But Documentation Is Key

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The HIPAA waiver issued for telemedicine during COVID-19 is a game-changer for physicians now that CMS says virtual visits are reimbursable. And now, telehealth is emerging as an effective and sustainable solution for precaution, prevention, […].

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Why You Need to Switch to HIPAA Compliant Telehealth, NOW

Mend

That is why it is essential to adopt a HIPAA compliant telehealth program when offering virtual care services. Keeping PHI secure is the main goal of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). HIPAA protects patients by limiting who can access PHI, when they can access it, and how they use it.

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As Demand for Virtual Patient-Provider Connections Surges, Updox Customers Conduct More than 45,000 Telemedicine Sessions Per Day

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Updox, a telehealth platform, experienced a significant spike in demand throughout March, onboarding more than 10,000 new customer users to its HIPAA-compliant telehealth solution in just two weeks. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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How Hims & Hers built a business entirely centered on telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

One of the big keys to the company's success has been telehealth. Melissa Baird, COO at Hims & Hers, leads a team of engineers that designed a telehealth experience that engages and connects patient care across its service lines, especially for stigmatized conditions. You are responsible for engineering at the company.

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How Can Telehealth Optimize Your Medical Practice?

Ortholive

One of the biggest shifts in care delivery that we’ve seen so far is the increasing emphasis on telehealth service lines to reach patients, literally, where they live. MGMA says 97% of their medical practice members have expanded their existing or opened a new telehealth service line. Can telemedicine improve your practice workflows?

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2020 Roadmap: Overcoming Telemedicine Barriers

GlobalMed

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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Planning for a sustainable virtual care delivery model

AMD Telemedicine

This article was originally published in October 2020 but was updated in June 2022. . Healthcare providers have been steadily increasing their use of telehealth over the past decade, but the COVID-19 pandemic served as a catalyst for the rapid adoption of this technology, and it’s here to stay.