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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

Disclosing protected health information (PHI) can cause serious harm to a patient’s safety, personal life, and state of mind. That is why it is essential to adopt a HIPAA compliant telehealth program when offering virtual care services. Under HIPAA, there can be steep penalties for breaches involving PHI.

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A New Health Literacy Pillar: Personal Data Stewardship

Health Populi

The growing use of APIs in health information technology innovation for patient care has been a boon to speeding development placed in the hands of providers and patients. The goals were to identify risks and vulnerabilities and to develop recommendations for protecting health consumers’ personal health information.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The goal was – and still is – preventing costly duplicate healthcare expenses and taking better, more informed care of patients. “The HIE technology was both HIPAA- and ePHI privacy-compliant. A patient’s health information is presented to users as data types categorized in an organized fashion.”

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The prominent issues telehealth must tackle when the pandemic passes

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Healthcare IT News interviewed Mulcare to dig into the reversion to pre-pandemic regulations, the ethics of telemedicine across state lines, what telehealth technologies can do to increase access, and more. How will physicians and patients approach telemedicine care across state lines ethically?

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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. State documents define rules for collecting, storing, processing, and transmitting medical information. AWS solutions require software compatible with HIPAA standards. Currently, ChatGPT does not meet HIPAA standards.

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Mount Sinai-linked computer pads keep patients at home during COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

But of course, patients continue to have healthcare needs that do require doctor visits. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. The software is multilingual. We have prior experience with it. Lack of connectivity? We provide broadband allowance.” ” MARKETPLACE.