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Why You Shouldn’t Aim for EHR Interoperability With Telemedicine Software

AMD Telemedicine

For many, the most obvious solution has been to rely on a third-party vendor to provide telehealth services and then work to make that service interoperable with existing electronic health records (EHR). Research has shown that telemedicine interoperability often results in a fragmented, redundant, and costly mess.

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From Zoom to full EHR-integrated telemedicine on $245,000

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Over the course of a weekend, staff created a workflow through HIPAA-compliant Zoom so that providers could carry out appointments via videoconferencing. ” To support staff and patients, the health center began reviewing a telemedicine application called Otto that could integrate with its NextGen EHR. MARKETPLACE.

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Why telehealth is more than just a pandemic trend

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The COVID-19 pandemic brought telemedicine technology and services to a mainstream audience – like it or not. As it turned out, studies have shown that a great many patients and providers like the flexibility that telemedicine affords. What role has telemedicine grown to play during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic?

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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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New HIE hook-up, telemedicine transform care at LA clinic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

“The HIE technology was both HIPAA- and ePHI privacy-compliant. “The LANES technology extracts, aggregates, normalizes and categorizes relevant medical record data collected from different EHR systems such as eClinicalWorks, Cerner and Epic, to name a few,” Aguilar explained. ” ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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Healthy Data Management: How IT Assists Healthcare Institutions

Healthcare IT Today

This became possible thanks to electronic health records, telemedicine, and cloud solutions. In Europe, this is GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), in America, it’s HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). Unlike EMRs, requests for access to EHR records can be made by other medical centers.

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Telehealth working ‘beyond our wildest dreams’ at Chicago’s Rush

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It also does not require the patient to download anything extra, and they can be on any mobile device and most browsers to connect to telemedicine visits. “This was essential for the ability to scale our telemedicine platform. “This was essential for the ability to scale our telemedicine platform.”