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Leveraging the power of digital transformation to enhance patient care and healthcare providers’ performance

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Clínica Alemana Osorno, located in southern Chile, has introduced digital communication workflows that leverage connected care. Digital workflows are helping the clinic create a better patient experience, enhance workforce efficiency and increase access to care across its 46 medical specialties and four facilities.

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Cybercriminals seek to take advantage of rapid telehealth scale-up

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A new report from Booz Allen Hamilton notes that telehealth security is a patient-safety issue, considering the potentially catastrophic risks that come with service disruptions and device failures. "Cybersecurity isn’t always a priority when it comes to healthcare, but it should be. WHY IT MATTERS. "Large U.S.

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Bonus Features – July 16, 2023 – 95% of patients are concerned about data breaches affecting their medical records, 81% incorrectly assume PHI collected by digital health apps is protected under HIPAA

Healthcare IT Today

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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Telehealth Visits Can Improve Revenue, But They’re No Cornucopia

Healthcare IT Today

But at least one type of value-based care is getting reimbursed: digital monitoring for behavioral care. Medicare created new codes to cover remote patient monitoring in January 2020, according to Anderson and Null. As Hartsfield says, “Patient engagement strategies have never been more critical.”

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A guide to telehealth vendors in the age of COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

During the consultation, the provider can use integrated digital medical devices to capture vitals, images and other health data that is then stored as part of the patient’s health record. This ensures valuable health data is not lost, as could happen with a video-only telemedicine service.

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Hospitals across the nation are using connected health and RPM to great effect during the pandemic. To help healthcare CIOs, CMOs and other leaders find connected health devices and RPM technologies, Healthcare IT News has compiled this comprehensive listing of vendors.